Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/72

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

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

• Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, Aides, Aidoneus, Astraea, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dike, Dis, Dis pater, Erebus, Hades, Hel, Jupiter Fidius, Justice, Justitia, Kore, Loki, Minos, Nemesis, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Pontius Pilate, Proserpina, Proserpine, Satan, Solomon, Themis, blindfolded Justice

• rhapsodic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, blissful, bucolic, bursting with happiness, carried away, delighted, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, ecstatic, effusive, elate, elated, elegiac, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthusiastic, entranced, epic, euphoric, exalted, exultant, flushed, freaked out, heroic, high, idyllic, imparadised, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, intoxicated, jubilant, mock-heroic, narrative, on cloud nine, orgasmic, overjoyed, overjoyful, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, possessed, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodical, runic, sapphic, sent, skaldic, thrilled, transported

• rhapsodical, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, bursting with happiness, carried away, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, ecstatic, elate, elated, elegiac, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, epic, exalted, exultant, flushed, freaked out, heroic, high, idyllic, imparadised, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, jubilant, mock-heroic, narrative, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, possessed, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, sent, skaldic, transported

• rhapsodist, Don Quixote, Meistersinger, Parnassian, Quixote, addict, arch-poet, ballad maker, ballad singer, balladeer, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, bug, collector, daydreamer, demon, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, eager beaver, elegist, energumen, enthusiast, epic poet, escapist, faddist, fanatic, fiend, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, freak, gleeman, great one for, hobbyist, hound, idealist, idyllist, imagist, infatuate, jongleur, laureate, librettist, lotus-eater, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, nut, occasional poet, odist, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, prophet, pursuer, rhapsode, romancer, romantic, romanticist, satirist, scop, seer, serenader, skald, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, sucker for, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vers libriste, vers-librist, visionary, wait, wandering minstrel, wishful thinker, zealot

• rhapsodize, acclaim, be enthusiastic, bubble over, carry on over, drool, effervesce, enthuse, extol, go on over, gush, gush over, idealize, make much of, praise, quixotize, rave, rave about, rhapsody, romance, romanticize, take on over, utopianize

• rhapsody, classic, classical music, concert music, concertino, concerto, concerto grosso, drool, fustian, heaven, highfalutin, lexiphanicism, longhair music, rant, rapture, rave, rhapsodize, rhetoric, rodomontade, semiclassical music, seventh heaven, sinfonietta, symphonia, symphonic music, symphonic ode, symphony, tone poem, transport

• rhetoric, Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction, effective style, elocution, eloquence, eloquent tongue, exaggeration, expression, expression of ideas, expressiveness, facundity, fashion, feeling for words, felicitousness, felicity, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, forensics, form of speech, formulation, fulsomeness, fustian, garishness, gasconade, gaudiness, gift of expression, gift of gab, glibness, grace of expression, grammar, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, graphicness, high-flown diction, highfalutin, homiletics, hot air, idiom, inflatedness, inflation, language, lecturing, lexiphanicism, literary style, locution, loftiness, long-windedness, luridness, magniloquence, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, meaningfulness, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, mode, mode of expression, oratory, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, parlance, peculiarity, personal style, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, platform oratory, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prolixity, prose run mad, public speaking, puffery, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rant, rhapsody, rhetoricalness, rodomontade, sensationalism, sense of language, sententiousness, sesquipedality, showiness, silver tongue, slickness, smoothness, speaking, speech, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stiltedness, strain, stump speaking, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, talk, tall talk, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, tortuosity, tortuousness, trick, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, vein, verbiage, verbosity, vividness, way, windiness, wordage, wordcraft, wordiness, wording

• rhetorical, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, articulate, artificial, aureate, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, contrived, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, expressive, extravagant, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, fluent, for effect, forensic, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, glib, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, imposing, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, linguistic, lofty, long-winded, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, poetic, pompous, pretentious, prolix, purple, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, sonorous, stilted, stylistic, swelling, swollen, tall, tortuous, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unanswerable, vocal, voluble, windy, wordy

• rhetorician, Cicero, Demosthenes, Gongorist, Marinist, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, elocutionist, euphuist, fine writer, mannerist, master of style, orator, pedant, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, platform orator, public speaker, rhetor, soapbox orator, soapboxer, spellbinder, stump orator, stylist, teacher of rhetoric, wordspinner

• rheum, Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, abscess, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, ague, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, apnea, asbestosis, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, atypical pneumonia, autacoid, backache, bile, bituminosis, black lung, bleeding, blennorhea, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, cachexia, cachexy, catarrh, chalicosis, chalone, chill, chills, chronic bronchitis, chyle, cold, colic, collapsed lung, colostrum, common cold, coniosis, constipation, convulsion, coryza, coughing, croup, croupous pneumonia, cyanosis, diarrhea, digestive secretion, discharge, dizziness, double pneumonia, dropsy, dry pleurisy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, emphysema, empyema, endocrine, epidemic pleurodynia, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fibrinous pneumonia, flu, flux, gall, gastric juice, gleet, grippe, growth, hay fever, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hormone, humor, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ichor, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, influenza, insomnia, intestinal juice, itching, jaundice, la grippe, labored breathing, lachryma, lactation, laryngitis, leukorrhea, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, low blood pressure, lumbago, lung cancer, lung fever, lymph, marasmus, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, pancreatic juice, paralysis, peccant humor, pharyngitis, phlegm, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, prostatic fluid, pruritus, purulence, pus, quinsy, rash, saliva, salivary secretion, sanies, sclerosis, seizure, semen, serous fluid, serum, shock, siderosis, silicosis, skin eruption, sneezing, snot, sore, sore throat, spasm, sperm, suppuration, sweat, swine flu, tabes, tachycardia, tear, teardrop, tears, the sniffles, the snuffles, the whites, thyroxin, tonsilitis, tumor, upset stomach, urine, vertigo, virus pneumonia, vomiting, wasting, wet pleurisy, whooping cough

• rheumatic fever, 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, measles, 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, 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

• rheumatic, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, cancerous, case, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, spastic, sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian

• rheumatism, adenoiditis, adrenitis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, blennorrhagic arthritis, brain fever, bronchitis, bunion, bursitis, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, cystitis, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fibroid inflammation, focal inflammation, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, laryngitis, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, penitis, pericarditis, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, reactive inflammation, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, spastic colon, specific inflammation, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, syphilitic arthritis, tennis elbow, testitis, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, vertebral arthritis, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis, wryneck

• rheumy, bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, excretory, humoral, ichorous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, watering, watery

• rhinestone, anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, fob, gem, jewel, locket, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet

• rhomboid, bend, bias, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diagonal, diced, foursquare, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, oblong, orthogonal, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhombic, scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, transverse, trapezohedral, trapezoid, virgule

• rhubarb, Bedlam let loose, Irish potato, Kraut, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, aubergine, barney, beans, bedlam, beef, bicker, bickering, blast, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, cabbage, casuistry, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, contention, controversy, defense, din, discord, disputation, dispute, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, eggplant, falling-out, flap, flyting, fracas, free-for-all, greens, hassle, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, knock-down-and-drag-out, legumes, litigation, logomachy, loud noise, love apple, mad apple, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, paper war, passage of arms, pieplant, polemic, polemics, potato, potherbs, produce, racket, rattle, roar, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run-in, scrap, set-to, shindy, shivaree, spud, tater, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tomato, tumult, uproar, vegetables, verbal engagement, war of words, white potato, wrangling

• rhyme, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, alba, alliterate, alliteration, anacreontic, assonance, assonate, balada, ballad, ballade, beat, blank verse, bucolic, cadence, cadency, canso, cap verses, chanson, check, chime, clerihew, clink, cohere, common sense, comport, conform, consist, consonance, consort, correspond, crambo, dingdong, dirge, dithyramb, double rhyme, dovetail, drone, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eye rhyme, georgic, ghazel, haiku, harping, humdrum, idyll, intelligence, jingle, jingle-jangle, limerick, logic, lyric, madrigal, meaning, measure, meter, monody, monotone, monotony, musical thought, narrative poem, near rhyme, nursery rhyme, ode, organization, palinode, paronomasia, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pitter-patter, poem, poesy, poetry, prothalamium, pun, rationale, rationality, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, rime, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, scan, sestina, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, soundness, stale repetition, structure, swing, tail rhyme, tanka, tedium, tenso, tenzone, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, trot, troubadour poem, unnecessary repetition, unrhymed poetry, verse, verselet, versicle, versification, villanelle, virelay, wisdom

• rhyming, alliteral, alliterating, alliterative, assonant, assonantal, belabored, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, dingdong, harping, humdrum, jingle-jangle, jingling, jog-trot, labored, monotone, monotonous, punning, rhymed, singsong, tedious

• rhythm, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, alternation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arrhythmia, arsis, bacchius, balance, beat, beating, beauty, cadence, cadency, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, concinnity, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, downbeat, drumming, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, equilibrium, euphony, feminine caesura, flutter, foot, harmony, heartbeat, heartthrob, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, jingle, level of stress, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, measuredness, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, mora, movement, number, numbers, order, orderedness, oscillation, paeon, palpitation, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, pitapat, pitter-patter, primary stress, proceleusmatic, proportion, prosodics, prosody, pulsation, pulse, pyrrhic, quantity, rat-a-tat, rataplan, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, seasonality, secondary stress, spondee, sprung rhythm, staccato, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, sweetness, swing, symmetry, syzygy, tempo, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, throb, throbbing, time, timing, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, upbeat, weak stress

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

• rhythmic, alternate, antispastic, beating, cadenced, cadent, circling, cyclic, dactylic, epochal, even, every other, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, palpitant, periodical, pitapat, prosodic, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, regular, rhythmical, rotary, scanning, seasonal, serial, spondaic, staccato, steady, throbbing, trochaic, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling

• rhythmical, alternate, antispastic, beating, cadenced, cadent, circling, cyclic, dactylic, epochal, even, every other, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, palpitant, periodical, pitapat, prosodic, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, scanning, seasonal, serial, spondaic, staccato, steady, throbbing, trochaic, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling

• rialto, agora, auto show, bazaar, boat show, campo, commercial complex, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market, forum, market, market cross, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, piazza, place, plaza, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, square, staple, street market, trade fair

• rib, Chateaubriand, banter, better half, bilge, blade roast, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, breast, brisket, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chaff, chine, chuck, chuck roast, clod, clump, cold cuts, common-law wife, concubine, condyle, convex, dowel, ear, feme, feme covert, filet mignon, flange, flank, flap, fool, fun, gall, gnarl, goodwife, goody, handle, haze, helpmate, helpmeet, hill, hump, hunch, jape, jest, jive, jog, joggle, joke, jolly, josh, kid, knob, knot, knuckle, knur, knurl, lady, lip, loin, loop, lump, married woman, matron, mole, mountain, needle, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, old lady, old woman, papilloma, peg, plate, plate piece, pot roast, put on, rack, rag, rally, razz, rib roast, ribs, ride, ridge, ring, roast, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, shank, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, sirloin, spine, squaw, stud, style, tab, tease, tenderloin, tubercle, tubercule, twit, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, wedded wife, welt, wife, woman

• ribald, Babbitt, Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abusive, arriviste, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, calumniatory, calumnious, churl, clown, coarse, comminatory, contumelious, crass, crude, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, devil, dirty, dysphemistic, earthy, enfant terrible, epicier, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulminatory, fulsome, gaudy, gross, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, imprecatory, impure, ithyphallic, lewd, looby, loud, lout, low fellow, lurid, maledictory, meretricious, mischief, mucker, nasty, nouveau riche, obscene, offensive, parvenu, peasant, pornographic, profane, rapscallion, rascal, raunchy, raw, risque, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, salacious, scalawag, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, slyboots, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, upstart, vile, vituperative, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

• ribaldry, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, bad language, bawdiness, bawdry, billingsgate, blue language, blue movie, coarseness, colorful language, crassness, crudeness, crudity, cursing, cussing, dirt, dirtiness, dirty language, dirty movie, dirty talk, dissoluteness, dysphemism, earthiness, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, evil speaking, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, filthy language, foul language, foulness, gaudiness, grossness, iconolagny, immodesty, indecency, indelicacy, lasciviousness, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, loudness, lubricity, lustfulness, meretriciousness, nastiness, naughtiness, obscenity, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, profane swearing, profanity, raciness, rakishness, rankness, rascality, rawness, roughness, rudeness, salaciousness, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sexploitation, shamelessness, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile language, vileness, vulgar language, vulgarity, wantonness

• ribbed, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, crimped, cut, dadoed, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, pleated, rabbeted, rifled, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, wrinkled

• ribbon, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, adhesive tape, arch, atomic beam, atomic ray, band, bandage, bandeau, barrow, batten, bead, beam, beam of light, bejewel, belt, beribbon, bespangle, blue ribbon, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, cellophane tape, cenotaph, cloth tape, column, cordon, cordon bleu, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, decoration, decoration of honor, diamond, dolmen, engrave, fascia, feather, figure, filigree, fillet, flag, flounce, flower, footstone, friction tape, gamma ray, garland, garter, gem, girdle, gleam, gold star, grand cordon, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, illuminate, infrared ray, inscription, invisible radiation, jewel, lath, leam, ligula, ligule, list, marker, masking tape, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, order, ornament, paint, patch, pencil, photon, pillar, plank, plaque, plastic tape, plume, prize, pyramid, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, red ribbon, reliquary, remembrance, riband, ribband, ribbon of light, rostral column, shaft, shred, shrine, slat, slip, solar rays, spangle, spill, spline, star, stela, stone, strake, strap, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, strip, stripe, strop, stupa, tablet, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, testimonial, ticker tape, tinsel, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy, ultraviolet ray, violet ray, wreathe

• riboflavin, adermin, aneurin, antiberi-beri factor, ascorbic acid, axerophthol, biotin, carotene, cholecalciferol, choline, cobalamin, cryptoxanthin, cyanocobalamin, ergocalciferol, folic acid, hepatoflavin, inositol, lactoflavin, menadione, naphthoquinone, niacin, nicotinic acid, ovoflavin, pyridoxine, tocopherol, vitamin, vitamin B, vitamin Bc, vitamin D, vitamin G, vitamin H, vitamin K, vitamin M

• rich man, Daddy Warbucks, billionaire, bloated plutocrat, capitalist, fat cat, individualist, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, millionaire, moneybags, moneyed man, multimillionaire, nabob, parvenu, plutocrat, richling, rugged individualist, warm man, wealthy man

• rich, abounding, abounding in riches, absurd, abundant, achingly sweet, adipose, affluent, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, all-sufficing, ambrosial, ample, amusing, aplenty, appealing, arabesque, ariose, arioso, aromatic, baroque, beyond price, big-rich, bizarre, blooming, blubbery, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, bursting, bursting out, busy, buttery, butyraceous, canorous, cantabile, catchy, chichi, chrismal, chrismatory, cloying, colorful, colory, comfortable, comical, copious, costly, creamy, creative, dark, dear, dear-bought, deep, deep-colored, delicious, diffuse, disgustingly rich, droll, dulcet, easy, eccentric, effuse, elaborate, elegant, epidemic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exciting, exhaustless, exotic, expensive, exquisite, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fattening, fatty, fecund, fertile, fine, fine-toned, flamboyant, flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavory, florid, flourishing, flowery, flush, fragrant, frightfully rich, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, fruity, full, full-bodied, full-flavored, funny, fussy, galore, gay, gay-colored, generous, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good as gold, gorgeous, greasy, heavy, high, high-colored, high-priced, high-wrought, hilarious, honeyed, humorous, in clover, in funds, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, incongruous, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inestimable, inexhaustible, intense, interesting, invaluable, inviting, juicy, labored, lardaceous, lardy, laughable, lavish, liberal, lively, loaded, ludicrous, luscious, lush, lustrous, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, mawkish, maximal, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, moneyed, moresque, mouth-watering, much, mucoid, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nonsensical, not affordable, numerous, nutty, of great cost, of great price, oily, oleaginous, oleic, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, outlandish, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing, overlabored, oversweet, overworked, overwrought, palatial, picturesque, piquant, plangent, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plutocracy, potent, precious, pregnant, premium, preposterous, pretty-pretty, prevailing, prevalent, priceless, pricey, prodigal, productive, profitable, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, prosperous, provided for, provocative, provoking, pulsing, pungent, quaint, quizzical, racy, rampant, readable, redolent, replete, resonant, resonating, rich as Croesus, rich-colored, rich-flavored, ridiculous, rife, riotous, risible, rococo, rolling, rolling in money, running over, saccharine, sapid, savory, screaming, sebaceous, seminal, sickly-sweet, significant, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, sleek, slick, slippery, smooth, soapy, songful, songlike, sonorous, spicy, splendid, steep, stiff, stimulating, strong, succulent, suety, sumptuous, superabundant, superb, swarming, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tallowy, tantalizing, teeming, the haves, the rich, the wealthy, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thriving, throbbing, tickling, titillating, top, tunable, tuneful, uberous, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, unpayable, valuable, vibrant, vibrating, vivid, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, whimsical, wholesale, witty, worthy

• riches, abundance, affluence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, fortune, gold, handsome fortune, high income, high tax bracket, independence, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, material wealth, means, money, money to burn, moneybags, opulence, opulency, pelf, plenty, possessions, property, prosperity, prosperousness, resources, richness, six-figure income, substance, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness, worth

• rick, abundance, accumulation, amassment, anthill, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backlog, bank, bank up, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, budget, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, cock, collection, commissariat, commissary, conservatory, cornucopia, crate, crib, cumulation, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, drift, dump, dune, embankment, exchequer, glory hole, godown, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, hill, hoard, hold, hutch, inventory, larder, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mass, material, materials, materiel, molehill, mound, mow, munitions, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, pyramid, rack, rations, repertoire, repertory, repository, reservoir, ruck, shelf, shock, snowdrift, stack, stack room, stack up, stock, stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stores, supplies, supply base, supply depot, supply on hand, tank, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, turn, twist, unsteady, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar, wrench

• rickets, Lombardy leprosy, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia, chlorosis, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, goiter, greensickness, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, maidism, malnutrition, night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra, pernicious anemia, protein deficiency, rachitis, scurvy, struma, vitamin deficiency, xerophthalmia

• rickety, adrift, afloat, allergic, anemic, anile, apoplectic, arthritic, bagging, baggy, bandy, bandy-legged, bilious, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, broken-down, cancerous, chlorotic, clear, club-footed, colicky, consumptive, crabbed, dangling, debilitated, decrepit, defaced, deformed, dilapidated, disfigured, doddered, doddering, doddery, drooping, dropsical, dwarfed, dyspeptic, easy, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, feeble, flapping, flatfooted, flimsy, floating, fossilized, frail, free, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, grotesque, hanging, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, in disrepair, infirm, knock-kneed, laryngitic, lax, leprous, loose, luetic, malarial, malformed, malignant, marred, measly, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, mutilated, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, out of shape, palsied, papery-skinned, paralytic, phthisic, pigeon-toed, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, precarious, pug-nosed, rachitic, ramshackle, ravaged with age, relaxed, rheumatic, ricketish, rocky, run to seed, rusty, scorbutic, scrofulous, senile, shaky, shriveled, simous, slack, sloppy, snub-nosed, spidery, spindly, streaming, stricken in years, stumpy, swaybacked, tabetic, tabid, talipedic, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, truncated, tubercular, tuberculous, tumbledown, tumorigenic, tumorous, unanchored, unbound, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unsecure, unsteady, unstuck, untied, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly

• ricochet, backfire, backlash, backlashing, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, contrecoup, dap, fly back, graze, have repercussions, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, skim, skip, snap back, spring, spring back

• rictus, bob, bobble, bounce, bump, didder, dither, falter, grimace, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, moue, mow, pout, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shock, shudder, snarl, tic, tremble, tremor, twitch, twitter, wobble, wry face, wry mouth

• rid, abandon, abjure, abolish, abstract, assassinate, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, cede, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, cut off, cut out, cut short, deep-six, deport, discard, disgorge, dispel, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, do away with, do without, drop, dump, eighty-six, eject, elide, eliminate, end, eradicate, escape, exile, expatriate, expel, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fling off, forgo, forswear, free, get along without, get clear of, get free of, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give up, have done with, jettison, jilt, kill, kiss good-bye, liberate, liquidate, lose, make a sacrifice, make away with, murder, nip, outlaw, part with, pick out, purge, put paid to, quitclaim, recant, reject, release, relinquish, remove, render up, renounce, resign, retract, root out, root up, sacrifice, shake off, shoo, slaughter, slough, spare, strike off, strike out, surrender, swear off, take off, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, to, toss overboard, unburden, uproot, vacate, waive, weed out, yield

• riddance, abandonment, abjuration, break, breakout, cession, clearance, deliverance, delivery, deportation, detachment, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, disposal, disposition, dumping, ejection, elimination, emergence, eradication, escape, escapism, evasion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extrication, flight, forgoing, forswearing, freeing, getaway, getting rid of, giving up, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jettison, junking, leak, leakage, letting go, liberation, liquidation, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, outlet, prisonbreak, purge, recantation, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, rescue, resignation, retraction, sacrifice, scrapping, setting-free, severance, surrender, suspension, swearing off, vent, withdrawal, yielding

• riddle, Chinese puzzle, anagram, answer, arabesque, assort, auger, babble, baffle, bafflement, basketry, basketwork, be Greek to, be beyond one, be too deep, beat one, bewilderment, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blow to pieces, blow up, bolt, bolter, bore, bother, bottom, brain, brand, bring down, broach, burn to death, cancellation, categorize, chalk, chalk up, charade, charge, check, check off, cicatrize, clarifier, classify, clear up, cock, colander, collate, confoundment, confusion, conundrum, cordon, cordon off, countersink, crack, cradle, cribble, cribriformity, cribrosity, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cull out, cut down, cut to pieces, dapple, dark horse, dash, deal a deathblow, debug, decipher, decode, define, delimit, demarcate, detonate, dilemma, discharge, discolor, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disentangle, disintegrate, disturbance, divide, divine, do, dope, dope out, dot, drill, drop, eject, embarrassment, empierce, engrave, enigma, escape one, explain, fathom, fell, figure out, filigree, fill, filter, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fire, fire off, fix, fleck, frag, freckle, fret, fretwork, frontier, frontiers of knowledge, gash, get, get right, ghettoize, gibber, gin, gore, gouge, gouge out, gradate, grade, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, group, guess, guess right, gun, gun down, gun for, hachure, hatch, hatching, have it, hit, hit it, hole, honeycomb, impale, impress, imprint, incinerate, infect, infest, insulate, interlacement, interpret, intertexture, intertwinement, isolate, jam, jugulate, keep apart, keep aside, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lance, lapidate, lattice, latticework, lay aside, lay low, let fly, let off, line, lixiviator, load, logogriph, lose one, make a mark, make out, mark, mark off, mark out, matter of ignorance, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mottle, mystery, mystification, n, need explanation, needle, net, netting, network, nick, nonplus, not make sense, not penetrate, notch, open the lock, pass comprehension, pelt, pencil, penetrate, pepper, percolator, perforate, permeate, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, pervade, pick off, pick out, pickle, pierce, pink, pistol, plexure, plexus, plight, plug, plumb, point, poleax, porosity, porousness, poser, pot, pother, potshoot, potshot, predicament, prick, prime, print, problem, psych, psych out, punch, punctuate, puncture, purifier, put aside, puzzle, puzzle out, puzzlement, quandary, quarantine, question, raddle, rank, ravel, ravel out, ream, ream out, rebus, refiner, refinery, resolve, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, rocker, run through, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, screen, screening, seal, sealed book, seam, seclude, segregate, separate, set apart, set aside, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, sieve, sievelikeness, sift, sifter, silence, size, skewer, snipe, solve, sort, sort out, sorter, speak in tongues, spear, speck, speckle, spike, spit, splotch, sponge, spot, spread, stab, stab to death, stain, stamp, stew, stick, stigmatize, stone, stone to death, strainer, streak, striate, strike, strike dead, stripe, subordinate, take a potshot, talk double Dutch, tap, tattoo, terra incognita, texture, the incalculable, the strange, the unfamiliar, the unknowable, the unknown, thrash, thresh, tick, tick off, tissue, torpedo, trace, tracery, transfix, transpierce, trellis, trelliswork, trepan, trephine, unassuredness, underline, underscore, undo, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, upset, vaporize, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, why, wicker, wickerwork, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine, work, work out, x, z

• ride out, be safe, be unflappable, come through, get home free, hold fast, hold out, hold up, keep safe, make heavy weather, not budge, outride, pull through, remain firm, ride, ride it out, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stay put, stick it out, tide over, weather, weather the storm

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

• ride to hounds, beat, chase, course, dog, drive, falcon, flush, follow the hounds, fowl, go hunting, gun, hawk, hound, hunt, hunt down, jack, jacklight, prowl after, run, shikar, shoot, sport, stalk, start, still-hunt, track, trail

• ride, Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger, bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil, beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag, bump off, burn up, bus, catch a train, chaff, chauffeur, cheat, chivy, cycle, deceive, defraud, delude, deride, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, dominate, drift, drive, entrain, exasperate, excursion, exercise, expedition, fash, float, foot, get, ghost, glide, go by rail, grin at, gripe, gull, harass, harry, hassle, haze, heckle, hector, hold in derision, hound, humbug, imbricate, intimidate, irk, irritate, jape, jaunt, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, journey, joyride, kid, lap, laugh at, laugh to scorn, lean on, lie, lie athwart, lie on, lift, make a train, make fun of, make game of, make heavy weather, make merry with, miff, molest, motor, motorcycle, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outing, outride, overlie, override, pan, pedal, peeve, perch, persecute, pester, pick on, pickup, pillory, pique, plague, plow the deep, pluck the beard, point at, poke fun at, pother, provoke, put on, put one on, rag, rally, razz, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on, rib, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, ride out, ride the sea, ridicule, rile, roast, roil, ruffle, run, sail, scud, shingle, shoot, sit in, sit on, skim, slip, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, spin, stand on, straddle, stride, swindle, take, take a joyride, take in, taxi, tease, terrorize, torment, torture, tour, trick, trip, try the patience, turn, tweak the nose, twit, tyrannize, vex, walk the waters, wash, weather, weather the storm, wheel, whirl, worry

• rider, addendum, affix, allonge, appendix, bidet, bill, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, calendar, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalier, cavalry horse, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, clause, coda, codicil, commentary, companion bills amendment, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, draft horse, dragnet clause, dray horse, driving horse, enacting clause, enclitic, envoi, epilogue, equestrian, equestrienne, escalator clause, fill horse, filler, gaucho, gigster, hack, hackney, hold-up bill, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, hunter, infix, interlineation, interpolation, jockey, joker, jument, knight, lead, leader, marginalia, motion, mount, mounted policeman, note, omnibus bill, pack horse, palfrey, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, postboy, postilion, postscript, prefix, privileged question, proclitic, proviso, puncher, question, remount, riding horse, road horse, roadster, roughrider, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, saving clause, scholia, shaft horse, stalking-horse, steeplechaser, suffix, sumpter, sumpter horse, supplement, tail, thill horse, thiller, trick rider, vaquero, wheeler, wheelhorse, workhorse

• ridge, acme, apex, apogee, arete, back, bean, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, cap, chase, chine, climax, cloud nine, clump, cocker, cockle, col, comb, condyle, convex, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crest, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crown, crumple, culmen, culmination, dome, dorsal region, dorsum, dowel, ear, edge, emboss, esker, extreme limit, extremity, flange, flap, fold, furrow, gall, gnarl, handle, head, headpiece, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hill, hogback, horseback, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, kame, knit, knob, knot, knur, knurl, limit, line, lip, loin, loop, lump, maximum, meridian, mole, mountain, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, nevus, no place higher, noddle, noggin, noodle, noon, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, pate, peak, peg, pinnacle, pitch, plica, point, pole, poll, pucker, purse, raise, rib, rimple, ring, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, rumple, saddle, saddleback, sconce, seventh heaven, shirr, shoulder, sky, spine, spire, strip, stud, style, summit, tab, tip, tip-top, top, tubercle, tubercule, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, verruca, vertex, very top, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, wimple, wrinkle, zenith

• ridicule, airs, arrogance, badinage, banter, barrack, be above, be contemptuous of, be disrespectful, be merry with, be overfamiliar with, brashness, brassiness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, burlesque, care nothing for, caricature, chaff, cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, crack a joke, crack wise, dare, denigrate, denigration, deprecate, deprecation, depreciate, depreciation, deride, deriding, derision, despise, despite, discommend, discommendation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disesteem, dishonor, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, disprize, disrespect, disrespectfulness, disvaluation, disvalue, dump on, exchange, exclusiveness, face of brass, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fleer at, flippancy, flout, fooling, fooling around, freshness, fun, get fresh, get smart, gibe, gibe at, gibing, give-and-take, good-natured banter, grin at, guy, harmless teasing, hauteur, have a nerve, have the cheek, have the gall, haze, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in derision, impertinence, impudence, insolence, insult, irreverence, jape, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jest, jibe, jive, joke, josh, joshing, kid, kid around, kidding, kidding around, lack of respect, lampoon, laugh at, laugh to scorn, look down upon, lout, make a funny, make bold, make free with, make fun, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, mimic, misprize, mock, mockery, mocking, not respect, pan, parody, persiflage, pillory, play on words, pleasantry, point at, poke fun at, presume, pun, put down, put one on, quip, quiz, rag, raillery, rally, rallying, rank low, razz, razzing, rib, ribbing, ride, roast, rudeness, scintillate, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scornfulness, scout, send up, set at naught, show disrespect for, smile at, sneer, sneer at, sneeze at, snicker at, sniff at, sniffiness, snigger at, snobbishness, snootiness, snort at, snottiness, sovereign contempt, sparkle, sport, superciliousness, take a liberty, take liberties, take liberties with, taunt, taunting, tease, think nothing of, toploftiness, travesty, treat with disrespect, trifle with, twit, utter a mot, wisecrack

• ridiculing, abusive, aweless, back-biting, bantering, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, booing, calumniatory, calumnious, catcalling, catty, censorious, chaffing, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, jeering, joshing, judgmental, kidding, leering, libelous, minimizing, mocking, objurgatory, panning, pejorative, priggish, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, roasting, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting, vilifying, vituperative

• ridiculous, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amusing, antic, barred, beyond belief, bizarre, closed-out, cockamamie, comic, comical, contrary to reason, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, droll, dubious, dubitable, eccentric, excluded, extravagant, fantastic, farcical, foolish, funny, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe, high-flown, hilarious, hopeless, humorous, implausible, impossible, improper, inane, inconceivable, incongruous, incredible, indecent, indelicate, insane, laughable, logically impossible, ludicrous, malodorous, mirthful, monstrous, nonsensical, not deserving belief, not possible, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish, outrageous, outre, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passing belief, poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, problematic, prohibited, quaint, queer, questionable, quizzical, rich, risible, rough, ruled-out, screaming, self-contradictory, silly, staggering belief, stupid, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbecoming, unbelievable, unconvincing, undecorous, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unseemly, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weird, whimsical, wild, witty, zany

• riding, Kreis, anchorage, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, automobiling, bailiwick, bicycling, biking, bishopric, borough, busing, canton, charivari, chuck, city, commune, congressional district, constablewick, county, cycling, departement, diocese, district, driving, duchy, electoral district, electorate, equitation, government, hamlet, harborage, haven, horseback riding, horsemanship, hundred, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan area, motorcycling, motoring, oblast, okrug, parish, pedaling, port, precinct, principality, province, region, roads, roadstead, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, territory, town, township, village, wapentake, ward

• rife, abounding, abundant, affluent, afloat, alive with, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, average, bandied about, besetting, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bruited about, bursting, common, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, current, diffuse, dominant, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, full, galore, generous, going about, going around, in circulation, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, in the air, in the news, inexhaustible, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, made public, many, maximal, much, normal, numerous, opulent, ordinary, overflowing, packed, pandemic, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, popular, populous, predominant, predominating, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, rampant, regnant, reigning, replete, reported, rich, riotous, routine, ruling, rumored, running, running over, standard, stereotyped, studded, superabundant, swarming, talked about, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, usual, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, whispered, whispered about, wholesale, widespread

• riffle, ball up, billow, bollix up, bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, chute, cockle, comb, comber, confound, confuse, dimple, dirty water, eagre, foul up, fret, fumble, garble, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, jumble, lift, lop, mix up, muck up, muddle, peak, pi, play hob with, popple, rapid, rapids, riff, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, sault, scend, scramble, screw up, sea, send, shoot, shuffle, snafu, snarl up, surf, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trough, tsunami, tumble, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps

• riffraff, bilge, bilgewater, canaille, carrion, cattle, chaff, clamjamfry, debris, dishwater, ditchwater, dregs, dregs of society, dust, garbage, junk, kelter, litter, lumber, masses, mob, offal, offscourings, offscum, proletariat, raff, ragtag and bobtail, refuse, rubbish, rubble, scrap, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shoddy, slop, slops, slough, sordes, swill, swinish multitude, trash, truck, unwashed, vermin, waste

• rifle, Amazon, Zouave, air serviceman, automatic, bersagliere, blowgun, blowpipe, brave, burglarize, burgle, canal, canalize, cannon fodder, carabineer, carve, chamfer, channel, chasseur, chisel, comb, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, depredate, despoil, dike, ditch, dogface, doughfoot, engrave, expert rifleman, fighting man, firearm, flamethrower, fleece, flute, food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, forage, foray, freeboot, furrow, fusileer, gash, gat, go through, goffer, gouge, grenadier, groove, grunt, gully, gun, gut, halberdier, handgun, heater, hoplite, incise, infantryman, knock off, knock over, legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot, man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer, navy man, paddlefoot, peashooter, piece, pikeman, pillage, pistol, pleat, plow, plunder, prey on, rabbet, raid, rake, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, repeater, revolver, rifleman, rob, rod, rummage, rut, sack, sawed-off shotgun, score, scour, scratch, search, search high heaven, serviceman, shake, shake down, sharpshooter, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, slit, sniper, soldier, spearman, spoil, spoliate, stick up, streak, striate, sweep, toss, trench, trough, turn inside out, turn upside down, warrior, warrioress, wrinkle

• rifleman, Amazon, Nimrod, Zouave, air serviceman, archer, artilleryman, bersagliere, bowman, brave, cannon fodder, cannoneer, carabineer, chasseur, crack shot, dead shot, deadeye, dogface, doughfoot, expert rifleman, fighting man, food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, fusileer, good shot, grenadier, grunt, gun, gunman, gunner, halberdier, hoplite, hunter, infantryman, legionary, light infantryman, man-at-arms, marksman, markswoman, military man, musketeer, navy man, paddlefoot, pikeman, rifle, serviceman, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, sniper, soldier, spearman, targetshooter, toxophilite, trapshooter, warrior, warrioress

• rift, abysm, abyss, alienation, arroyo, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, box canyon, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broach, bug, bulla, burst, canyon, catch, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, cicatrix, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, comedo, conflict, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, crater, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut open, cwm, defacement, defect, defection, deficiency, defile, deformation, deformity, dehiscent, dell, difference, dike, disaffection, disagreement, disfavor, disfiguration, disfigurement, dispart, disruption, distance, distortion, disunion, disunity, ditch, divaricate, divergence, divide, dividedness, division, donga, draw, drawback, estrangement, excavation, failing, failure, falling-out, fault, faute, fissure, fissured, fissury, flaw, flume, fly open, foible, fracture, frailty, freckle, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hemangioma, hiatus, hickey, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, incise, incision, infirmity, interruption, interval, joint, keloid, kink, kloof, lay open, leak, lentigo, little problem, milium, moat, mole, needle scar, nevus, notch, nullah, ope, open, open rupture, open up, opening, part, pass, passage, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, problem, pustule, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, rupture, scab, scale, scar, schism, scissure, scratch, seam, sebaceous cyst, separate, separation, shortcoming, slash, slice, slit, slot, snag, something missing, splinter, split, spread, spread out, spring open, strawberry mark, sty, swing open, taint, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, track, trench, twist, valley, verruca, vesicle, void, vulnerable place, wadi, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

• rig, Dalai Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, accouter, accouterments, adulterate, angle, antic, apparatus, appliances, appoint, appointments, appurtenances, ardri, arm, armament, ballet skirt, bamboozle, bey, bib and tucker, brew, buskin, cabal, cacique, caesar, cap and bells, caparison, caper, cham, chicane, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, conveniences, cook, cook up, costume, countermine, counterplot, czar, disguise, doctor, dress, duffel, engineer, equip, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fake, finagle, finesse, fit, fit out, fit up, fittings, fix, fixtures, flimflam, fool, four-in-hand, frame, frame up, frock, frolic, furnish, furnishings, furniture, gear, getup, guise, gull, habit, harness, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, heel, hoax, hoodwink, impedimenta, installations, intrigue, juggle, kaid, khan, kit, lark, lay a plot, livery, load, machinate, machinery, man, maneuver, manipulate, masquerade, materiel, mikado, monkeyshine, motley, munition, munitions, negus, operate, outfit, pack, pack the deal, padishah, pair, paraphernalia, pendragon, pharaoh, plan, plant, plot, plumbing, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, premeditate, preorder, prepare, randem, retouch, rig out, rig up, rigging, ropework, roping, running rigging, sachem, sagamore, salt, scheme, service, serving, set up, setout, sew up, shah, sheikh, shenanigan, shines, shogun, sock, sophisticate, span, spike, spike team, stack, stack the cards, staff, standing rigging, stock-in-trade, suit, tackle, tackling, tamper with, tandem, team, tenno, things, three-up, tights, trappings, trick, trousseau, turn out, turnout, tutu, tycoon, unicorn, uniform, utensils, wangle, wardrobe, whipping

• rigamarole, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling

• rigged out, appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dressed, endued, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hooded, invested, liveried, mantled, pantalooned, raimented, robed, shod, shoed, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented

• rigged, accoutered, armed, catered, cooked, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, decked, doctored, endowed, engineered, equipped, fitted, fitted out, fixed, furnished, gaff-rigged, heeled, in the bag, invested, juggled, lateen-rigged, manipulated, on ice, outfitted, packed, planned, plotted, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, prepared, provided, purveyed, put-up, schemed, set-up, stacked, supplied, trimmed, with

• rigging, accouterments, advocate, alpenstock, anchor chain, anchor rode, apparatus, apparel, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, arm, armament, artifice, athletic supporter, attire, back, backbone, backing, backropes, bandeau, bear raid, bearer, becket, block, boltrope, bow fast, bowline, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brail, brassiere, breast fast, bull raid, buntline, buttress, cabal, cane, carrier, cervix, clothing, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, conveniences, cordage, cording, corner, corner in, corset, counterplot, covin, crook, crossjack brace, crutch, deadeye, deep-laid plot, downhaul, dress, duds, duffel, earing, engineering, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fast, finagling, finesse, fittings, fixtures, flying jib martingale, flying jib stay, footropes, fore-skysail brace, fore-skysail lift, fore-topgallant shroud, fore-topgallant stay, fore-topmast backstay, fore-topsail lift, foreganger, foreroyal backstay, foreroyal lift, forerunner, forestay, foretack, foundation garment, frame-up, fulcrum, furnishings, furniture, game, gasket, gear, girdle, grab rope, guess-rope, guess-warp, guest rope, gunter, guy, guywire, halyard, harbor gasket, hawser, head fast, impedimenta, installations, intrigue, jock, jockstrap, kit, lanyard, lee sheet, lee tack, lifeline, lift, little game, machination, machinery, main brace, main-skysail brace, main-trysail vang, mainsheet, mainstay, maintainer, maneuvering, manipulation, martingale, mast, materiel, messenger, mizzen stay, mizzen-royal lift, mizzen-royal stay, mizzen-skysail brace, mizzen-skysail lift, mizzen-skysail stay, mizzen-topgallant lift, mizzen-topgallant stay, mizzen-topmast stay, mizzen-topsail lift, monopoly, munition, munitions, neck, outfit, outhaul, painter, paraphernalia, pennant hoist, plant, plot, plotting, plumbing, port tack, preventer backstay, prop, raid, raiment, ratline, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rig, ropes, ropework, roping, running rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, sea gasket, service, serving, sheet, shoulder, shroud, span, spanker peak halyard, spanker sheet, spine, spring, sprit, staff, standing rigging, starboard tack, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, stirrup, stock-in-trade, stratagem, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, tack, tackle, tackling, things, togs, trick, underplot, upholder, utensils, walking stick, wash sale, washing, weather sheet, web of intrigue, whipping, whisker jumper, wire-pulling

• right and left, abroad, all about, all round, aside, askance, askant, asquint, broadly, broadside, broadside on, crabwise, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, extensively, far and near, far and wide, glancingly, infinitely, laterad, laterally, on all hands, on all sides, on every side, on its side, on the beam, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling, vastly, widely

• right away, PDQ, all at once, all together, apace, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, decisively, directly, expeditiously, forthwith, immediately, in a hurry, in no time, instanter, instantly, now, on the instant, on the spot, per saltum, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, right now, right off, simultaneously, smartly, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, swiftly, then and there, this minute, this very minute, uno saltu, with all speed, without delay, without further delay

• right hand man, alter ego, assistant, confidant, employee, fidus Achates, girl Friday, helper, hired hand, hired man, hireling, inferior, junior, man Friday, mercenary, myrmidon, pensioner, right hand, second self, secondary, servant, strong right hand, subordinate, underling, understrapper, worker

• right hand, Epistle side, alter ego, clockwise, confidant, conservative, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, fidus Achates, girl Friday, man, man Friday, off, positive, reactionary, recto, right, right field, right side, right wing, right-hand man, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, second self, starboard, starboard tack, strong right hand

• right mind, balance, contact with reality, healthy mind, lucid interval, lucidity, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, normalcy, normality, normalness, rationality, reason, reasonableness, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, senses, sober senses, sobriety, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, wholesomeness

• right minded, Christian, angelic, appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, blameless, clean, creditable, decent, erect, estimable, ethical, expediency, fair, fitness, full of integrity, godly, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, meetness, moral, noble, order, principled, propriety, pure, reputable, respectable, right, righteous, saintlike, saintly, seraphic, spotless, stainless, sterling, straight, suitability, suitableness, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

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

• right wing, Bircher, Bourbon, Epistle side, Tory, backward, bitter-ender, clockwise, conservatist, conservative, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, extreme right-winger, fogyish, fundamentalist, hard hat, imperialist, monarchist, nonprogressive, off, old liner, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, preservative, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, recto, right, right field, right hand, right of center, right side, right-hand, right-winger, right-wingish, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, tory, ultraconservative, unprogressive

• right winger, Bircher, Bourbon, Epistle side, Tory, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, decanal side, diehard, extreme right-winger, fogy, hard hat, imperialist, laudator temporis acti, monarchist, mossback, old fogy, old school, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, recto, right, right field, right hand, right side, right wing, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, stick-in-the-mud, ultraconservative

• right, Bill of Rights, Bircher, Bourbon, Christian, Declaration of Right, Epistle side, Magna Carta, Magna Charta, OK, Petition of Right, Roger, Tory, a propos, absolute, absolute interest, absolute power, absolutely, absoluteness, absolutism, acceptable, accepted, accommodate, accord, according to Hoyle, accuracy, accurate, accurately, acknowledged, acknowledgment, ad rem, adapt, adapted, adequate, adjust, adjust to, admitted, advantageous, advantageously, advisable, all right, all there, almighty, alright, alrighty, amen, amend, appanage, applicable, apposite, appropriate, appropriately, approved, appurtenance, apropos, apt, aptly, aright, arrange, arrowlike, as is proper, as is right, as you say, assimilate, assuredly, astarboard, at once, attention to fact, attune, auspicious, authentic, authoritative, authority, avenge, awfully, aye, balanced, bang, basis, becoming, befitting, being done, beneficial, benefit, birthright, bitter-ender, blameless, bona fide, bunkum, by all means, by right, by rights, call, canonical, capitally, care for truth, cause, certainly, civil, civil liberties, civil rights, claim, clean, clearheaded, clearminded, clockwise, cognizance, comely, comeuppance, comme il faut, common, compensate, competence, competency, complete, compos mentis, condign, condignly, conditioned, conformable, congruous, conjugal right, conscientious, conservatist, conservative, constituted authority, constitutional rights, contingent interest, convenient, conventional, coordinate, correct, correctitude, correctly, correctness, credit, creditable, crediting, customary, cut to, da, de rigueur, dead, dead ahead, dead right, dead straight, decanal side, decent, decorous, defensibility, defensible, definitely, delegated authority, delicacy, demand, deserts, deserved, deserving, desirable, dexter, dextrad, dextral, dextrally, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die, die-hard, diehard, direct, directly, divine right, done, dovetailing, droit, drumhead justice, due, due north, dueness, duly, easement, emend, equalize, equitable, equitable interest, equitableness, equity, erect, estate, estimable, ethical, evangelical, even, evenhanded, evenhandedness, exact, exactitude, exactly, exactness, exceedingly, excellently, expedient, expressly, extreme right-winger, face, fact, factual, faculty, fair, fair and square, fairly, fairness, faithful, faithfully, faithfulness, famously, faultless, faultlessness, favorable, favorably, feasible, felicitous, fidelity, fine, finely, fineness, firm, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, fittingly, fix, flat, flawless, flawlessness, flush, fogyish, formal, forthright, forthwith, foundation, freedom, front, fructuous, full, full of integrity, fundamentalist, gear to, geared, genteel, genuine, give satisfaction, give-and-take, good, good enough, good reason, goodness, ground, grounds, hale, happy, hard hat, harmonize, healthy, healthy-minded, hear, high-minded, high-mindedness, high-principled, highly respectable, holding, homologate, homologize, honest, honestly, honesty, honorable, honorableness, horizontal, human rights, immaculate, immediately, imperialist, in a beeline, in a line, in all conscience, in all respects, in every respect, in line with, in reason, inalienable right, indeed, indeedy, indirect authority, indubitable, inequity, inherent authority, injustice, instantly, integrity, interest, inviolate, ipsissimis verbis, irreproachable, irretrievably, irrevocably, it is that, ja, jus divinum, just, just right, just so, justice, justifiability, justifiable, justifiableness, justification, justified, justly, justness, kerplunk, key to, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lawful, lawful authority, lawfulness, legal, legal authority, legal rights, legality, legitimacy, letter-perfect, level, liberty, license, licit, likely, limitation, lineal, linear, literal, literalism, literality, literally, literalness, literatim, lucid, mais oui, make all square, make good, make plumb, make right, make uniform, make up for, manly, material basis, mathematical precision, measure, measure for measure, meet, meet and right, meetness, mend, mentally sound, merit, merited, meshing, meticulous, meticulousness, mightily, mighty, monarchist, moral, morality, most assuredly, natural right, natural rights, naturally, naturellement, nemesis, nice, nicely, niceness, nicety, nobility, noble, normal, normative, of course, of sound mind, of the faith, off, okay, old liner, on the button, on the right, only, only too, open, opportune, opportunely, option, order, orthodox, orthodoxical, oui, out-and-out, overhaul, part, pat, patch, pay reparations, percentage, perfect, perfection, perfectly, perquisite, plain, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, poetic justice, point-blank, politic, positively, power, powerful, powerfully, precise, precisely, preciseness, precision, preferable, preferred, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, pretext, pretty, principal, principled, privilege, profitable, profitably, promising, promptly, pronto, proper, proper claim, properly, properness, property right, propitious, proportion, propriety, pure, put, put and call, put in order, put in shape, put in tune, put right, put straight, put to rights, qualified, quickly, quite, radical right, rather, rational, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, real, really, reason, reasonable, received, recognition, recognized, recommendable, recompense, reconcile, recondition, reconstruct, rectify, rectilineal, rectilinear, rectitude, recto, redress, reduce to order, refinement, regality, regulate, relevant, remedy, remunerate, repair, repay, reputable, requisite, requite, respectable, retributive justice, revamp, revenge, right and proper, right as rain, right away, right field, right hand, right of entry, right off, right side, right wing, right you are, right-hand, right-minded, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, righteous, rightful, rightful authority, rightfully, rightfulness, rightist, rightly, rightness, righto, rights, rightward, rightwardly, rightwards, rigidity, rigidly, rigor, rigorous, rigorously, rigorousness, royal prerogative, royalist, royally, rude justice, ruler-straight, sane, sane-minded, satisfactorily, satisfactory, scales of justice, scriptural, scrupulous, seasonable, seemly, sensible, sensibly, set, set in order, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, settle, settlement, severity, sharp, sheer, similarize, simon-pure, smack, smack-dab, smooth, so, social Darwinist, sort out, sortable, sound, sound-minded, spang, speedily, splendidly, spotless, spread, square, squarely, stainless, stake, standard, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, stark, sterling, stock option, straddle, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up-and-down, straightaway, straighten out, straighten up, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, strap, strategic, streamlined, strict, strict settlement, strictly, strictness, strip, substance, subtlety, sufficient, suitable, suitably, suited, suiting, summary justice, sure, sure thing, sure-enough, surely, swiftly, sync, synchronize, tailor, tailored, terribly, terrifically, textual, textualism, that is so, the letter, the say, the say-so, thorough, thoroughgoing, timely, title, to be desired, to be fair, to be sure, to the letter, to the point, to the purpose, to the right, together, tolerable, tory, traditional, traditionalistic, trim to, true, true up, true-blue, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truly, trust, truth, truthful, tune, ultraconservative, unalienable rights, unalloyed, unbending, unbent, unblemished, unbowed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncurved, undefiled, undeflected, undeviating, undeviatingly, undistorted, undoubted, unerringly, unexceptional, unimpeachable, uninterrupted, unmitigated, unrelievedly, unsnarl, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unswerving, unswervingly, untarnished, unturned, unveeringly, upper, upright, uprighteous, uprightness, upstanding, urbane, use, useful, utter, valid, vamp, veracious, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, veritable, vertical, very, very well, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority, vindicate, virtue, virtuous, virtuousness, warrant, warrantability, warrantable, warranted, warrantedness, well, well and good, well-timed, what is owing, what is right, whip into shape, whole, wholesome, why yes, wise, without delay, without hesitation, word by word, word for word, worthwhile, worthy, yea, yeah, yeomanly, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree, you are right, you said it, you speak truly

• right-about-face, about-face, about-turn, afterthoughts, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backup, better thoughts, change of mind, do an about-face, face about, flip, flip-flop, mature judgment, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, right-about, second thoughts, swingaround, tergiversating, tergiversation, turnabout, turnaround, volte-face

• right-of-way, Autobahn, US highway, accomplishment, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, ascendancy, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, deanship, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, excellence, expressway, favor, freeway, gravel road, greatness, highroad, highway, highways and byways, incomparability, inimitability, interstate highway, lane, lead, local road, main drag, main road, majority, mews, motorway, one-upmanship, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, primary highway, priority, private road, privilege, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, seniority, skill, speedway, state highway, street, success, superhighway, superiority, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, transcendence, transcendency, turnpike, virtuosity, wynd

• righteous, Christendom, Christian, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, according to Hoyle, angelic, appropriate, apt, blameless, clean, condign, correct, creditable, decent, decorous, due, erect, estimable, ethical, exemplary, fair, fit, fitting, full of integrity, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, guiltless, heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, holy, holy-minded, honest, honorable, immaculate, inculpable, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, just, justifiable, justified, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, moralistic, nice, noble, normal, normative, otherworldly, principled, proper, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, reputable, respectable, right, right and proper, right-minded, rightful, saintlike, saintly, seemly, self-righteous, seraphic, spiritual, spiritual-minded, spotless, stainless, sterling, straight, suitable, the believing, the chosen, the elect, the faithful, the good, the righteous, the saved, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, unblamable, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unearthly, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, unworldly, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

• righteousness, Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, angelicalness, appropriateness, assured probity, beauty of holiness, blamelessness, character, cleanness, correctitude, correctness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, erectness, estimableness, fairness, fear of God, fitness, fittingness, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, good character, goodness, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, moral excellence, moral rectitude, moral strength, morale, morality, niceness, nobility, normality, normativeness, odor of sanctity, otherworldliness, principles, probity, properness, proprieties, propriety, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, rectitude, reputability, respectability, right conduct, rightness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, sanctitude, sanctity, seemliness, seraphicalness, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, stainlessness, suitability, unearthliness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, unworldliness, uprightness, upstandingness, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

• rightful, according to Hoyle, actionable, applicable, appropriate, apt, authentic, authorized, balanced, becoming, befitting, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, competent, condign, constitutional, correct, de jure, decent, decorous, defensible, deserved, dinkum, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, fitting, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, impartial, inartificial, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, level, licit, lifelike, literal, meet, meet and right, merited, natural, naturalistic, nice, normal, normative, original, proper, pure, real, realistic, requisite, right, right and proper, righteous, sanctioned, seemly, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, statutory, sterling, suitable, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warrantable, warranted, within the law, word-for-word

• rightfully, appropriately, as is proper, as is right, by right, by rights, condignly, correctly, deservedly, disinterestedly, dispassionately, duly, equally, equitably, evenly, fair, fairly, fittingly, impartially, impersonally, in all conscience, in reason, inequity, injustice, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, meetly, properly, right, rightly, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, without distinction

• rightist, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, bitter-ender, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, diehard, extreme right-winger, fogy, fundamentalist, hard hat, imperialist, laudator temporis acti, monarchist, mossback, old fogy, old liner, old school, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, tory, ultraconservative

• rightly, accurately, advantageously, advisably, appropriately, as is proper, as is right, by right, by rights, condignly, congruously, conveniently, correctly, decently, decorously, deservedly, desirably, disinterestedly, dispassionately, duly, equally, equitably, evenly, expediently, fair, fairly, faultlessly, feasibly, fitly, fittingly, flawlessly, impartially, impersonally, in all conscience, in reason, inequity, injustice, just right, just so, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, meetly, nicely, opportunely, perfectly, practically, properly, right, rightfully, seasonably, sic, so, sortably, straight, suitably, to advantage, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, without distinction

• rightness, absoluteness, accuracy, attention to fact, care for truth, correctness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, flawlessness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, perfection, preciseness, precision, refinement, right, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter

• rightward, anticlockwise, astarboard, clockwise, counterclockwise, dexter, dextrad, dextrally, earthward, heavenward, homeward, landward, leeward, leftward, on the right, right, rightwardly, rightwards, seaward, starboard, to the right, widdershins, windward

• rigid, abiding, accurate, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, attentive, austere, buckram, careful, cast-iron, changeless, close, conscientious, constant, continuing, correct, critical, delicate, demanding, detailed, determined, direct, dogged, dour, draconian, durable, enduring, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fixed, flinty, frozen, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, hard, hard and fast, hard-core, hard-line, harsh, headstrong, hidebound, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in buckram, inelastic, inerrable, inerrant, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, infrangible, intact, intransigent, inviolate, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irremovable, lasting, literal, made of iron, mathematical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, mulish, muscle-bound, narrow, nice, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, painstaking, particular, pat, permanent, perpetual, persevering, persistent, pigheaded, pinpoint, pokerlike, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prim, procrustean, punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, quiescent, ramrodlike, refined, relentless, religious, religiously exact, remaining, renitent, resolute, resolved, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rodlike, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, set, severe, single-minded, solid, sound, square, stable, standpat, starch, starched, starchy, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steely, stern, stiff, stiff as buckram, stilted, stout, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, strong, stubborn, sturdy, subtle, sustained, taut, tenacious, tense, thorough, tight, torpid, tough, unadaptable, unaffected, unalterable, unaltered, unbending, unbreakable, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncompliant, uncompromising, undestroyed, undeviating, unerring, unfading, unfailing, unflexible, ungiving, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unqualified, unrelaxed, unrelenting, unshifting, unswerving, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, virgate

• rigidity, abidingness, absoluteness, accuracy, adamantness, attention to fact, care for truth, changelessness, concentration, constancy, correctness, delicacy, dourness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, exactitude, exactness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flawlessness, flintiness, frozenness, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardening, hardness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implacability, impliability, inelasticity, inertia, inexorability, inextricability, inflexibility, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, irreconcilability, irremovability, lastingness, literalism, literality, literalness, long standing, loyalty, mathematical precision, meticulousness, niceness, nicety, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, perfection, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, preciseness, precisianism, precision, purism, puritanism, quiescence, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, settledness, severity, solidity, stability, standing, starchiness, stasis, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, subtlety, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, textualism, the letter, tightness, torpor, toughness, trueness, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unmovability, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vis inertiae

• rigidly, abidingly, absolutely, adamantly, always, changelessly, dead, definitely, directly, dourly, enduringly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, firmly, grimly, hardly, immovably, immutably, implacably, impliably, in all respects, in every respect, inexorably, inflexibly, intransigently, invariably, ipsissimis verbis, ironhandedly, irreconcilably, just, lastingly, literally, literatim, obdurately, permanently, perpetually, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, primly, relentlessly, right, rigorously, square, squarely, statically, steadfastly, sternly, stiffly, stiltedly, straight, strictly, to the letter, unalterably, unbendingly, unchangeably, unchangingly, uncompromisingly, undeviatingly, unerringly, unregenerately, unrelentingly, unwaveringly, unyieldingly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word

• rigmarole, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rodomontade, rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling

• rigor, Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence, abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, algidity, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, animality, annoyance, arduousness, asceticism, asperity, astringency, atrocity, attention to detail, attention to fact, austerity, barbarity, bite, bitterness, bleakness, blight, bloodlust, bothersomeness, briskness, brutality, bummer, burdensomeness, care, care for truth, causticity, chill, chilliness, circumstantiality, cold, coldness, complexity, complication, conscientiousness, cool, coolness, coolth, correctness, crispness, criticality, criticalness, cross, cryogenics, cryology, curse, decrease in temperature, delicacy, destructiveness, detail, difficulties, difficultness, difficulty, downer, edge, eremitism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, extremity, faithfulness, fasting, faultlessness, ferociousness, fidelity, fierceness, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, firmness, flagellation, flawlessness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, fundamentalism, furiousness, fussiness, gelidity, grip, hairiness, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harshness, iciness, impetuosity, impliability, inclemency, inexorability, inflexibility, inhospitableness, inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, intricacy, irritation, keenness, laboriousness, literalism, literality, literalness, low temperature, maceration, malignity, mathematical precision, mendicantism, mercilessness, meticulousness, mindlessness, minuteness, monachism, monasticism, mordacity, mordancy, mortification, murderousness, niceness, nicety, nip, nippiness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection, pitilessness, plight, poignancy, point, preciseness, precisianism, precision, predicament, pressure, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanism, rawness, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigorism, rigorousness, roughness, ruggedness, savagery, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sea of troubles, self-denial, self-mortification, severity, sharp air, sharpness, starchiness, sternness, stiffness, sting, strenuousness, stress, stress of life, strictness, stridency, stringency, stubbornness, subtlety, tartness, tautness, teeth, tenseness, tension, tensity, terrorism, textualism, the letter, tightness, toilsomeness, toughness, trenchancy, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, ungentleness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vale of tears, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vicissitude, violence, virulence, visitation, voluntary poverty

• rigorous, Herculean, Siberian, abstruse, accurate, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, adamant, adamantine, adverse, algid, antagonistic, arctic, arduous, ascetic, astringent, attentive, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, brutal, burdensome, cast-iron, caustic, close, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, complex, conflicting, conscientious, constant, contrary, correct, counter, counteractive, crisp, critical, cutting, delicate, demanding, detailed, detrimental, difficile, difficult, direct, double-edged, dour, draconian, drastic, edged, escharotic, even, exact, exacting, excessive, exigent, exorbitant, express, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, faithful, fierce, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, flinty, formidable, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, fundamentalist, furious, fussy, gelid, glacial, great, grim, hairy, hard, hard-core, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, harsh, hibernal, hidebound, hiemal, hostile, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immoderate, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in opposition, incisive, inclement, inelastic, inerrable, inerrant, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, inimical, intemperate, intense, intransigent, intricate, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, jawbreaking, keen, knotted, knotty, laborious, mathematical, mean, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, miserable, mordacious, mordant, muscle-bound, narrow, nice, nipping, nippy, no picnic, not easy, numbing, obdurate, obstinate, onerous, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, orthodox, outrageous, particular, penetrating, piercing, pinching, pinpoint, poignant, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, procrustean, proper, punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, raw, refined, relentless, religious, religiously exact, right, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged, scathing, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, set with thorns, severe, sharp, sinister, sleety, slushy, snappy, spiny, splitting, square, stabbing, steely, steep, stern, stiff, stinging, stone-cold, straightlaced, straitlaced, strenuous, stressful, strict, strident, stringent, stubborn, subtle, subzero, supercooled, tart, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, trenchant, tricky, troublesome, troublous, trying, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unconscionable, undeviating, unerring, unfavorable, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, untoward, unyielding, uphill, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent, vitriolic, wicked, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, wretched

• rigorously, absolutely, accurately, adamantly, all to pieces, badly, conscientiously, dead, definitely, directly, dourly, even, exactingly, exactly, expressly, exquisitely, faithfully, fiercely, firmly, furiously, fussily, grimly, hardly, harshly, immovably, immutably, implacably, impliably, in all respects, in detail, in every respect, inexorably, inflexibly, intransigently, ipsissimis verbis, ironhandedly, irreconcilably, just, like blazes, like fury, like mad, literally, literatim, madly, meticulously, minutely, nicely, obdurately, painfully, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, relentlessly, right, rigidly, roughly, scrupulously, severely, square, squarely, sternly, stiffly, straight, strictly, to the letter, unalterably, unbendingly, unchangeably, uncompromisingly, undeviatingly, unerringly, unregenerately, unrelentingly, unyieldingly, vehemently, venomously, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, violently, virulently, wildly, with a vengeance, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision, word by word, word for word

• rile, aggravate, agitate, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, beat, beat up, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, churn, churn up, convulse, devil, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, distemper, disturb, dog, embitter, exasperate, excite, exercise, fash, ferment, flurry, fret, get, grate, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, huff, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, miff, molest, mud, muddle, muddy, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, paddle, peeve, persecute, perturb, perturbate, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, put out, rankle, ride, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, rumple, set up, shake, shake up, stir, stir the blood, stir up, swirl, tease, torment, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry

• riled, aggravated, angered, angry, annoyed, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, cross, disturbed, exasperated, galled, griped, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, irked, irritated, livid, mad, miffed, nettled, peeved, piqued, pissed, pissed-off, provoked, resentful, riled up, roiled, ruffled, sore, ticked off, troubled, vexed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

• rim, adjoin, balloon tire, bank, befringe, belted bias tire, belted radial tire, bias tire, bind, board, border, bordure, bound, brim, brink, brow, coast, edge, enframe, featheredge, felly, flange, frame, fringe, hem, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, ledge, limb, limbus, line, lip, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, nonskid tire, outline, perimeter, periphery, pneumatic tire, purfle, purl, radial tire, ragged edge, retread, retreaded tire, safety tire, selvage, set off, shore, side, sideline, skirt, snow tire, studded tire, tire, trim, tubeless tire, verge, white sidewall tire, winter tire

• rime, Jack Frost, abysm, abyss, arroyo, black frost, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crust, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, encrust, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, frost, frost line, frost smoke, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hoar, hoarfrost, hole, incision, joint, killing frost, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime frost, rupture, scissure, seam, sharp frost, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, white frost

• rimple, cocker, cockle, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, fold, furrow, knit, knot, plica, pucker, purse, ridge, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, rumple, screw, scrunch, shirr, wimple, wrinkle

• rind, Leatherette, Leatheroid, bark, border, bran, capsule, case, chaff, circumference, coat, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, covering, crust, cursoriness, cuticle, dermis, envelope, epicarp, epidermis, exterior, exteriority, external, facade, face, facet, fell, fleece, flesh, fringe, front, fur, furring, gloss, hide, hull, husk, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, leather, leather paper, lineaments, mere scratch, no depth, no water, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outside, palea, peel, peeling, pelt, peltry, periphery, phellum, pinprick, pod, rawhide, scratch, shallowness, sheath, shell, shoaliness, shuck, skin, skins, slightness, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surface, tegument, top, triviality, vair, veneer

• ring in, accomplish, achieve, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, blow in, bob up, bring up, broach, change, change for, check in, check off, check out, christen, clock in, clock out, come, come in, come to, come to hand, commute, compound for, dub in, establish, exchange, fetch, fetch up at, find, float, found, gain, get in, get there, get to, give place to, hit, hit town, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, launch, lift up, make, make do with, make it, make way for, offer in exchange, pop up, pull in, punch in, punch out, punch the clock, put up with, raise, reach, redeem, ring out, roll in, set agoing, set on foot, set up, shift with, show up, sign in, start going, start up, substitute, switch, take in exchange, time in, time out, turn on, turn up, usher in

• ring, Bund, Chinese boxing, DDD, Kekule formula, O, Rochdale cooperative, affiliation, agora, alliance, amphitheater, anklet, annular muscle, annulet, annulus, anthelion, antisun, arena, areola, armlet, armory, assemblage, association, athletic field, atomic cluster, auditorium, aura, aureole, awake the dead, axis, background, badge, badge of office, badges, band, bandeau, bangle, baton, beads, bear garden, bearing, begird, bell, belt, belt in, benzene ring, bijou, bilge, bind, blain, blast, blast the ear, blazonry, bleb, blister, blob, bloc, body, bong, boom, border, boss, bout, bow, bowl, boxing, boxing match, boxing ring, bracelet, branched chain, brassard, breastpin, brooch, brotherhood, bubble, bulb, bulge, bull ring, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, busy signal, button, buzz, cabal, cadre, cahot, call, call up, camarilla, camp, campus, canvas, cap and gown, cartel, cell, cestus, chain, chain of office, change ringing, chaplet, charm, charmed circle, chatelaine, chime, chiming, chine, chink, cincture, cingulum, circle, circlet, circuit, circumference, circus, clan, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, class ring, clink, clinking, clique, close fighting, closed chain, closed circle, clump, coalition, cockade, cockpit, coliseum, collar, collarband, college, colosseum, combination, combine, common market, compass, compound radical, condyle, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, convex, cooperative, cooperative society, corona, coronet, corps, coterie, council, countersun, course, crash, credit union, crescendo, crew, crook, crosier, cross, crowd, crown, cuff, customs union, cycle, deafen, decoration, diadem, dial, dial tone, din, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, direct distance dialing, discus, disk, dong, donging, dowel, dress, eagle, ear, earring, echo, echoing, ecliptic, economic community, elite, elite group, emblems, embrace, encincture, encircle, enclosure, encompass, engird, ensigns, ensphere, envelop, equator, eternal return, eye, eyelet, faction, fairy ring, fasces, fascia, federation, field, fighting, figurehead, fill the air, fillet, finger ring, fisticuffs, flange, flap, fleur-de-lis, floor, fob, forum, fraternity, free trade area, gall, gang, garland, gem, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a ring, gland, glory, gnarl, gong, great circle, grommet, ground, group, grouping, guild, gym, gymnasium, hall, halo, hammer and sickle, handle, hang up, hem, heraldry, heterocycle, hill, hippodrome, hold the phone, homocycle, hoop, hump, hunch, infighting, ingroup, inner circle, insignia, jangle, jangling, jewel, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, jog, joggle, junta, junto, keys, knell, knelling, knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lapel pin, lasso, lattice, league, lip, listen in, lists, livery, local call, locale, locket, logical circle, long distance, long-distance call, loop, looplet, lump, lunar corona, lunar halo, mace, machine, magic circle, make a call, mantle, marketplace, markings, mat, medal, milieu, miter, mob, mobile call, mock moon, mock sun, mole, molecule, mountain, neckband, necklace, nevus, nimbus, noose, nose ring, nub, nubbin, nubble, old school tie, open forum, orbit, organization, outfit, pack, palaestra, pallium, papilloma, parade ground, paraselene, parhelic circle, parhelion, partnership, party, pastoral staff, peal, peal ringing, pealing, peg, person-to-person call, phone, phone call, pin, pit, place, platform, political machine, precinct, precious stone, prize ring, prizefight, prizefighting, public square, pugilism, purlieu, quoit, radical, radius, rainbow, range, rattle the windows, red hat, regalia, rend the air, rend the ears, resonate, resonating, resound, reverberate, reverberating, reverberation, rhinestone, rib, ridge, ring changes, ring off, ring up, ringing, ringlet, rink, rise, rock the sky, rondelle, rose, round, roundel, roundlet, saucer, savate, scene, scene of action, scenery, school ring, secret society, set, setting, shadowboxing, shamrock, shoulder, side chain, sigillography, simple radical, sisterhood, site, skull and crossbones, society, solar corona, solar halo, sorority, sound, sound a knell, sounding, space-lattice, spar, sphere, sphincter, sphragistics, spine, split the eardrums, split the ears, squared circle, stadium, staff, stage, stage set, stage setting, staple, startle the echoes, station-to-station call, stickpin, stone, straight chain, stud, stun, style, sun dog, surge, surround, swastika, swell, tab, tartan, team, telephone, telephone call, terrain, the clinches, the fights, the ring, theater, thistle, thunder, tiara, tie, tilting ground, tiltyard, tin, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, toll call, tolling, torque, triple crown, tubercle, tubercule, twine around, uniform, union, verge, verruca, vesicle, vicious circle, wale, walk, wampum, wand, wart, washer, we-group, welt, wheel, wreath, wreathe, wreathe around, wrestling ring, wristband, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• ringed, begirt, belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined, encinctured, encircled, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, set, specific, stated, surrounded, zoned

• ringer, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, change, changeling, charlatan, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, faker, fill-in, fourflusher, fraud, ghost, ghostwriter, humbug, imitation, impersonator, impostor, locum tenens, makeshift, malingerer, metaphor, metonymy, mountebank, next best thing, personnel, phony, picture, pinch hitter, portrait, poser, poseur, pretender, proxy, quack, quacksalver, quackster, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, saltimbanco, second string, secondary, sham, shammer, sign, simulacrum, spares, spit, spitting image, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent

• ringing, booming, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, consonant, deafening, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, peal, peal ringing, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ring, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunderous, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling, tonitruant, tonitruous, vibrant, window-rattling

• ringleader, Mahdi, agent provocateur, agitator, agitprop, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, boss, cacique, catalyst, charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, conductor, coryphaeus, demagogue, duce, exciter, file leader, firebrand, fomenter, forerunner, fugleman, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, inspired leader, instigator, keynoter, leader, leader of men, man higher up, messiah, mischief-maker, pacemaker, pacesetter, policy maker, precentor, provocateur, provoker, rabble-rouser, rouser, sachem, seditionary, seditionist, standard-bearer, symphonic conductor, torchbearer, troublemaker, urger

• ringlet, annulet, circlet, cirrus, coil, corkscrew, crimp, curl, curlicue, evolute, eye, eyelet, frizz, frizzle, grommet, gyre, helix, involute, kink, lock, ponytail, roll, roundlet, screw, scroll, spiral, swirl, tendril, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl

• ringmaster, MC, acrobat, aerialist, auteur, ballyhoo man, bareback rider, barker, callboy, circus artist, clown, costume designer, costumer, costumier, director, emcee, equestrian director, equilibrist, exhibitor, flier, high-wire artist, impresario, juggler, lion tamer, makeup man, master of ceremonies, playreader, producer, prompter, scenewright, set designer, showman, slack-rope artist, snake charmer, spieler, stage director, stage manager, sword swallower, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, tightrope walker, trapeze artist, tumbler, usher, usherer, usherette

• ringside, Texas tower, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, bridge, conning tower, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, lighthouse, lookout, loophole, observation post, observatory, outlook, overlook, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, ringside seat, sighthole, top gallery, tower, watchtower

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

• rink, archery ground, athletic field, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, billiard parlor, bowling alley, bowling green, course, court, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, diamond, fairway, field, football field, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, gridiron, gym, gymnasium, ice rink, infield, links, outfield, oval, playground, playing field, playroom, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, putting green, racecourse, racket court, skating rink, soccer field, squash court, stretch, tennis court, track, turf

• rinse, ablution, abstergent, baptize, bath, bathe, bathing, brew, cathartic, clean, cleaner, cleaning, cleaning agent, cleaning out, cleaning solvent, cleanse, cleanser, cleansing, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, douche, douching, drench, drenching, drouk, dye, elution, elutriation, emetic, enema, flood, flush, flush out, flushing, flushing out, gargle, highlight, holystone, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, irrigate, irrigation, lather, lathering, launder, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, leach, lixiviate, lotion, macerate, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, mouthwash, nauseant, percolate, permeate, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse out, rinsing, ritually immerse, saturate, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, scrubbing, scrubbing up, seethe, shampoo, shower, sluice, sluice out, soak, soap, soaping, sodden, solvent, sop, souse, sponge, sponging, steep, swab, swabbing, synthetic detergent, syringe, tint, toivel, tooth powder, toothpaste, touch up, tub, wash, wash out, wash up, washing, washing up, washout, washup, waterlog, wiping up

• rinsing, ablution, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, bones, chaff, cleaning out, culm, dampening, damping, deadwood, deluge, dewing, dishwater, douche, douching, draff, dregs, drowning, dust, elution, elutriation, enema, filings, flooding, flush, flushing, flushing out, garbage, gash, hogwash, hosing, hosing down, humidification, husks, immersion, inundation, irrigation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, leavings, lees, moistening, mopping, mopping up, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, rinse, scouring, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, scum, shampoo, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, soaping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponging, spraying, sprinkling, stubble, submersion, swabbing, swashing, sweepings, swill, tares, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, watering, weeds, wetting, wiping up

• riot, abundance, ado, affluence, affray, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, anarchism, anarchy, arise, assault, attack, avalanche, barbarize, batter, battering, battle, belly laugh, best seller, big hit, blue story, bonanza, bother, bountifulness, bountiousness, box, brawl, brilliant success, broil, brouhaha, brutalize, bud, bumper crop, burgeon, burn, burst forth, butcher, butchery, carouse, carry on, civil disorder, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, comedian, comedienne, commotion, contend, contest, copiousness, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut and thrust, cut loose, destroy, dirty joke, dirty story, disorderliness, disruption, distemper, disturbance, do, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, double entendre, duel, dustup, embroilment, emeute, ethnic joke, exchange blows, extravagance, exuberance, fad, fence, fertility, feud, fight, fight a duel, flood, flourish, flow, foison, foofaraw, forcible seizure, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frolic, full measure, fullness, fun, funny story, fuss, gag, gas, gasser, gemmate, general uprising, generosity, generousness, germinate, give and take, give satisfaction, go berserk, go on, good one, good story, grapple, grapple with, great abundance, great plenty, great success, grow, grow rank, gush, hammer, hassle, hell, helter-skelter, hit, howl, howler, hubbub, imbroglio, insurge, insurgence, insurgency, insurrect, insurrection, jacquerie, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, jostle, joust, killing, knock-down-and-drag-out, landslide, laugh, lavishness, lawlessness, lay waste, laying waste, leaf, leaf out, leave, levee en masse, liberality, liberalness, loot, looting, lots, luxuriance, luxuriate, make a commotion, make an ado, make trouble, massacre, maul, maximum, melee, meteoric success, misrule, mix it up, momentary success, more than enough, mount the barricades, much, mug, mutineer, mutiny, myriad, myriads, numerousness, obstreperousness, onslaught, opulence, opulency, outbreak, outburst, outpouring, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overthrow, pandemonium, panic, peasant revolt, pell-mell, pillage, pillaging, play, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, point, pother, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, putsch, quantities, quarrel, racket, rage, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rassle, rave, rebel, rebellion, reluct, reluctate, repleteness, repletion, resounding triumph, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, rib tickler, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rioting, riotousness, rise, rise up, rising, roar, roaring success, roil, roister, root, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruin, rumpus, run a tilt, run amok, run riot, run wild, sack, sacking, savage, scads, scramble, scream, scrimmage, scuffle, sensation, shindy, shoot, shoot up, shower, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, skirmish, slaughter, smash, smash hit, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spar, spate, sport, spree, sprout, sprout up, stir, storm, story, stream, strife, strike, strike root, strive, struggle, substantiality, substantialness, subvert, superabundance, take root, tear, tear around, teemingness, terrorize, thrust and parry, tilt, to-do, tourney, triumph, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, tussle, unrest, unruliness, uprising, uproar, upspear, upsprout, vandalize, vegetate, violate, violation, violence, visual joke, wage war, war, wassail, wealth, wheeze, wow, wreck, wrestle, yarn

• rioter, agitator, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, enforcer, extremist, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, frondeur, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, jouster, knight, malcontent, maverick, militant, mutineer, nonconformist, plug-ugly, quarreler, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, subversive, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, traitor, tussler, wrangler

• rioting, assault, attack, battering, butchery, disorderliness, forcible seizure, killing, laying waste, looting, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillaging, rape, riot, sacking, slaughter, sowing with salt, unruliness, violation

• riotous, abandoned, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, boisterous, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brawling, breakaway, chaotic, copious, debauched, dense, diffuse, disordered, disorderly, dissipated, dissolute, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, extreme, extremistic, exuberant, factious, fat, fertile, flourishing, flush, free-living, full, galore, generous, go-go, gross, heavy, high-living, immoderate, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible, insurgent, insurrectionary, intemperate, irrepressible, jungled, jungly, lavish, lawless, lax, liberal, licentious, loose, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, mutineering, mutinous, noisy, nonrestrictive, numerous, obstreperous, opulent, out of control, out of hand, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgrown, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, overrun, permissive, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethoric, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, pullulating, rambunctious, rampant, rank, rebel, rebellious, reinless, replete, revolutional, revolutionary, rich, rife, robustious, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rumbustious, running over, seditionary, seditious, subversive, superabundant, swarming, teeming, terrorist, thick, traitorous, treasonable, tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unweeded, uproarious, violent, wanton, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wild

• rip off, burglary, caper, cheat, clinquant, commit robbery, counterfeit, deception, dummy, fake, fakement, filch, flam, forgery, frame-up, fraud, grab, heist, hijack, hoax, hold up, humbug, imitation, impostor, job, junk, knock over, lift, mock, mug, paste, phony, pinch, pinchbeck, put-on, put-up job, rob, robbery, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, spoof, steal, stick up, swindle, theft, tinsel, whited sepulcher

• rip out, avulse, cut out, deracinate, dig out, dig up, disentangle, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, get out, gouge out, grub up, mine, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, root out, root up, spit, splutter, take out, tear out, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest out

• rip roaring, anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, frantic, frenzied, furious, hellish, infuriate, insensate, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ravening, raving, rowdy, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, tempestuous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferous, wild

• rip, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, abrade, abrasion, agonize, badger, ball the jack, bark, barrel, blackmail, blemish, bloody, boom, bowl along, breach, break, breakage, breeze, breeze along, broach, brush, burn, burst, chafe, check, chink, chip, claw, cleave, cleft, clip, concussion, convulse, crack, crackle, craze, crevasse, crucify, cut, cut along, cut open, debauchee, defoliate, denude, direct tide, dismember, dispart, divaricate, divide, draw and quarter, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, exact, excruciate, extort, fissure, flash burn, flay, fleet, flit, flood, flood tide, flow, flux, flux and reflux, fly, fly low, fly open, foot, force from, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full tide, gall, gallant, gap, gash, gay deceiver, gay dog, go fast, harrow, high tide, high water, highball, hurt, impale, incise, incision, injure, injury, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lady-killer, lancinate, lay open, lesion, levy blackmail, libertine, lover-boy, low tide, low water, lunar tide, macerate, maim, make knots, make mincemeat of, mangle, martyr, martyrize, maul, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, neap, neap tide, nip, ope, open, open up, opposite tide, outstrip the wind, part, peel, philanderer, pick to pieces, pierce, pour it on, profligate, pry loose from, pull apart, puncture, punish, rack, rake, rakehell, refluence, reflux, rend, rend from, rent, rift, rip from, riptide, rive, roue, rounder, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, second-degree burn, separate, shake down, shred, sizzle, skim, skin, skirt chaser, slash, slice, slit, snatch from, solar tide, sore, speed, splinter, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, spring tide, squeeze, stab, stab wound, stick, storm along, strain, strip, sweep, swing open, swinger, take apart, tap, tear, tear along, tear apart, tear from, tear open, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, thalassometer, third-degree burn, throw open, thunder along, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize, walking phallus, wanton, whisk, whiz, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, zing, zip, zoom

• ripe, accomplished, adult, age, aged, all ready, all set, appropriate, apt, archetypical, armed, armed and ready, auspicious, befitting, blase, booted and spurred, briefed, classic, coached, cocked, complete, consummate, convenient, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dependable, develop, developed, eager, enthusiastic, entire, equipped, exemplary, expedient, experienced, expert, familiarized, favorable, felicitous, finished, fit, fitting, fortunate, full, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, fully developed, global, good and ready, groomed, grow, grow up, grown, grown-up, happy, ideal, in arms, in battle array, in full bloom, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, intact, knowing, loaded, loaded for bear, lucky, marriageable, masterful, masterly, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, meet, mellow, mellowed, mobilized, model, not born yesterday, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, on the mark, opportune, overdue, perfected, planned, polished, practiced, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, proficient, proper, propitious, provided, providential, psyched up, qualified, quintessential, ready, ready for anything, refined, reliable, right, ripen, ripened, sagacious, sage, seasonable, seasoned, set, solid, sophisticated, sortable, suitable, tempered, timely, total, tried, tried and true, unabbreviated, uncut, undiminished, unexpurgated, up in arms, veteran, vigilant, virtuosic, well-prepared, well-timed, whole, wise, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• ripen, advance, age, alter into, attain majority, be converted into, bear fruit, beautify, become, better, bloom, blossom, blow, bring to maturity, change into, come of age, come round to, come to fruition, come to maturity, complete, crown, culminate, cultivate, develop, do to perfection, elaborate, embellish, enhance, evolute, evolve, evolve into, fall into, fester, finish, fledge, flourish, flower, grow, grow up, heighten, improve, intensify, lapse into, leave the nest, matter, maturate, mature, mellow, melt into, open into, pass into, perfect, polish, progress, rankle, reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, refine, ripe, ripen into, run, run into, season, settle down, settle into, shift into, suppurate, temper, toga virilis, turn into, turn to, wax, weep

• ripened, adult, archetypical, blase, classic, consummate, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, developed, exemplary, experienced, expert, finished, full-blown, fully developed, knowing, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, mellow, model, not born yesterday, old, perfected, polished, practiced, proficient, quintessential, refined, ripe, sagacious, seasoned, sophisticated, tried, tried and true, veteran, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• riposte, acknowledge, acknowledgment, advocate, allege in support, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, aphorism, apothegm, argue for, argument, assert, back answer, back talk, backchat, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, champion, come back, come back at, comeback, conceit, contend for, counter, counterstatement, crack, defend, defense, demurrer, denial, echo, epigram, espouse, evasive reply, exception, facetiae, flash back, flash of wit, flight of wit, gibe, give acknowledgment, give answer, happy thought, maintain, make a plea, mot, nasty crack, objection, persiflage, play of wit, plea, plead for, pleading, pleasantry, quip, quips and cranks, react, reaction, ready reply, rebut, rebuttal, receipt, reecho, refutation, refute, rejoin, rejoinder, repartee, replication, reply, repost, rescript, rescription, respond, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, reverberate, reverberation, sally, say, say in defense, say in reply, scintillation, shoot back, short answer, smart crack, smart saying, snap back, snappy comeback, speak for, speak up for, special demurrer, special pleading, stand up for, statement of defense, stick up for, stroke of wit, support, sustain, take the bait, talk back, turn of thought, uphold, urge reasons for, wisecrack, witticism, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

• ripping, OK, abscission, ace-high, amputation, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, butchering, chopping, claim, cleavage, cool, corking, crackerjack, cutting, dandy, delicious, demand, dichotomy, divine, ducky, enucleation, exaction, excellent, excision, exciting, extortion, fab, fine, fine and dandy, fission, gear, glorious, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, just dandy, keen, laceration, marvy, mean, mutilation, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, rending, resection, rum, scission, scrumptious, section, sensational, severance, slap-up, slashing, slicing, smashing, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splitting, stirring, stunning, super, surgery, swell, tearing, terrific, thrilling, tough, wizard, wonderful, wrench, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring, wringing

• ripple, agitate, agitation, babble, beat, beat up, billow, bore, breakers, broken ground, broken water, bubble, burble, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, churn, churn up, chute, cocker, cockle, comb, comber, convulse, corduroy, corduroy road, corrugate, corrugation, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, dimple, dirty water, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, eagre, excite, ferment, flurry, flutter, fret, furrow, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gravity wave, ground swell, guggle, gurgle, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hint, horripilation, knit, knot, lap, lift, lop, paddle, peak, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, plash, popple, pucker, purl, purse, rapid, rapids, ridge, riff, riffle, rile, rimple, ripple of applause, ripple of laughter, rise, rivel, roil, roll, roller, rough, rough water, roughen, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, sandpaper, sault, scend, sea, send, shake, shake up, shirr, shoot, slosh, soupcon, splash, stir, stir up, suggestion, surf, surge, swash, swell, swirl, swish, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trill, trouble, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, upset, wash, washboard, water wave, wave, wavelet, whip, whip up, whisk, white horses, whitecaps, wimple, work up, wrinkle

• rippled, cockled, cockly, corrugate, corrugated, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, furrowed, knitted, knotted, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rucked, rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, wrinkled, wrinkly

• ripply, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, grainy, granulated, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled

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

• rise above, accept, beat, best, bestraddle, bestride, bulk, bulk large, clear, command, condone, countenance, defeat, dominate, exceed, grin and abide, let go by, let pass, look down upon, loom, loom large, obey, outsoar, outstrip, outtop, overarch, overcome, overlook, overshadow, overtop, prevail over, rear, shrug, shrug it off, soar, stand out, submit to, surmount, top, tower, tower above, tower over, transcend, triumph over, yield to

• rise, Great Leap Forward, Olympian heights, abruptness, access, accession, acclivity, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accrue, accrue from, accruement, accumulate, accumulation, achieve success, acme, action and reaction, activate, addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights, aggrandizement, agitate, amelioration, amendment, amplification, anabasis, answer, apex, apparition, appear, appearance, appearing, appreciate, appreciation, arise, arise from, arising, arrive, ascend, ascension, ascent, augmentation, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, avatar, awake, awake the dead, awaken, back, back up, balloon, ballooning, bank, be a success, be begotten, be born, be contingent on, be due to, be equal to, be incarnated, be poised, become, become manifest, become visible, begin, beginning, bettering, betterment, billow, blast, blast the ear, bloat, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bore, bounceback, break, break out, break through, breakers, breakthrough, breed, bring about, bring into being, bring out, bristle, broaden, broadening, bud from, budge, buildup, buoy up, burst forth, buss the clouds, cant, careen, cast up, cause, change, change place, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, circle, clamber, climb, climbing, cock up, comb, comber, come, come alive, come forth, come forward, come from, come in sight, come into being, come into existence, come on, come out, come out of, come through, come to, come to be, come to hand, come to life, come to light, come up, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, commence, commencement, conception, crash, crescendo, crop out, crop up, curl upwards, cut a swath, dash, deafen, decline, depend on, derivation, derive from, descend, descend from, develop, development, developmental change, din, dip, dirty water, disclosure, dizzy heights, drop, eagre, ebb, ebb and flow, echo, edema, elaboration, elevate, elevation, emanate from, emerge, emerge from, emergence, eminence, encourage, engender, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enrichment, ensue from, enter, epiphany, erect, erupt, escalade, escalate, ether, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaltation, expansion, explication, exposure, extension, fade in, fall, fall away, fall off, fill the air, flight, float, flood, flow, flow from, flowering, fly, follow from, foment, forthcoming, fountain, furtherance, gain, gain strength, generate, genesis, germinate from, get ahead, get on, get over, get there, get to be, get up, give rise to, go, go around, go downhill, go far, go places, go round, go sideways, go up, go uphill, goad, grade, gradient, gradual change, graduation, grass roots, gravity wave, greatening, greet the day, ground swell, grow, grow from, grow out of, grow up, growth, gush, gyrate, gyring up, hang on, happen, have it made, have origin, head, headway, heave, heave in sight, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell, heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, highland, hike, hill, hillock, hinge on, hit the deck, hoick, hoist, hold up, impassion, improvement, incarnation, inception, incite, incline, increase, increment, inflame, inflation, instigate, insurge, insurrect, intensify, irrupt, issuance, issue, issue forth, issue from, jerk up, jet, jump, jump up, keel, knighting, knock up, knoll, lean, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, lift up, list, live again, lob, loft, look forth, loom, lop, make a breakthrough, make a success, make good, make headway, make it, make the grade, make the scene, manifestation, materialization, materialize, materializing, maturation, meet, melioration, mend, mending, motivate, mount, mount the barricades, mounting, move, move over, multiplication, multiply, mutineer, mutiny, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, occur, occurrence, opening, origin, original, originate, originate in, origination, outcrop, overthrow, passing, pay raise, peak, peal, peep out, perk up, pickup, pile out, pitch, plunge, popple, precipitousness, predictable response, preferment, presentation, press, proceed from, produce, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferate, proliferation, prominence, promotion, prosper, provenience, provoke, push, quicken, radical, radix, raise, raise up, rake, ramp, rattle the windows, reaction, realization, reanimate, rear, rear up, rebel, recovery, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, regress, reluct, reluctate, rend the air, rend the ears, reply, resound, respond to, respondence, response, restoration, resurge, resuscitate, retreat, retroaction, retrogress, return, return to life, revelation, reverberation, revival, revive, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, revulsion, riffle, ring, riot, ripening, ripple, rise again, rise and fall, rise up, rising, rising ground, rock the sky, rocketing up, roll, roll out, roller, root, rotate, rough water, run, run riot, run up, saltation, scend, sea, see the light, send, set up, shake up, shelve, shift, shoot up, shooting up, show, show up, showing, showing forth, sidle, sink, sit bolt upright, sit up, sky, slant, slope, smash, snowball, snowballing, soar, soaring, source, spin, spiral, spire, split the eardrums, split the ears, spout, spread, spring, spring from, spring up, sprout from, spurt, stand on tiptoe, stand up, start, startle the echoes, steep, steepness, stem, stem from, stick up, stimulate, stir, stir up, stock, straighten up, stratosphere, stream, stream forth, strengthen, strike, strike the eye, stun, subside, subvert, succeed, succumb to, surf, surge, swag, swallow, swarm up, sway, sweep up, swell, swelling, take, take birth, take flight, take off, take place, take rise, take wing, take-off, takeoff, taking off, taproot, theophany, thrive, throw up, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tilt, tip, toss, tower, travel, trough, tsunami, tumescence, turn on, turn out, turn up, undulate, undulation, unfolding, unfoldment, unthinking response, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrading, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, uphoist, uphold, upland, upleap, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upspring, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility, upwind, vantage ground, vantage point, vault, vertical height, verticalness, wake up, waken, wane, water wave, wave, wavelet, wax, waxing, whirl, white horses, whitecaps, widen, widening, zenith, zooming

• risibility, Homeric laughter, belly laugh, boff, boffola, burst of laughter, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, funny bone, gales of laughter, giggle, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laughing, laughter, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, roar of laughter, sense of humor, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• risible, absurd, amusing, bizarre, buxom, comic, comical, droll, eccentric, farcical, frivolous, funny, gleeful, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughable, laughter-loving, ludicrous, merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, priceless, quaint, quizzical, rejoicing, rich, ridiculous, screaming, whimsical, witty

• rising, Brownian movement, abruptness, abscess, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, advance, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, aposteme, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, avatar, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, career, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, civil disorder, clamber, climb, climbing, cold sore, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, corn, course, current, cyst, descending, descent, dilatation, dilation, disclosure, distension, down-trending, downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing, edema, elevation, emergence, emeute, epiphany, escalade, eschar, exposure, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forthcoming, forward motion, fountain, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, general uprising, going, gradient, gumboil, gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, hemorrhoids, in the ascendant, incarnation, increase, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, intumescence, issuance, jacquerie, jet, jump, kibe, leap, leaping, lesion, levee en masse, levitation, lump, manifestation, materialization, materializing, mount, mounting, mutiny, oblique motion, occurrence, ongoing, onrush, opening, outbreak, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, passage, passing, peasant revolt, petechia, piles, pimple, plunging, pock, polyp, precipitousness, presentation, progress, progressive, pustule, putsch, radial motion, rampant, random motion, realization, rearing, rebellion, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, retrogression, retrogressive, revelation, revolt, revolution, riot, rise, rising ground, rocketing up, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, saltation, saltatory, scab, scandent, scansorial, sebaceous cyst, set, shooting up, showing, showing forth, sideward, sideward motion, sinking, skyrocketing, soaring, soft chancre, sore, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, steepness, sternway, stigma, stream, streaming, sty, subsiding, suppuration, surge, swell, swelling, swollenness, takeoff, taking off, theophany, traject, trajet, trend, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, ulcer, ulceration, unfolding, unfoldment, up-trending, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, upwith, vault, vertical height, verticalness, wale, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound, zooming

• risk, accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, admit of, adventitiousness, adventure, be liable, be subjected to, beard, bet, bid fair to, brave, break, breakers ahead, buy in, buy into, calculated risk, cardhouse, casualness, cause for alarm, chance, chance it, compromise, confront, court destruction, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, dare, defy, defy danger, destiny, desultoriness, emergency, encounter, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, exposure, face, face up to, fate, financier, flier, flukiness, forget the odds, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, gamble on, gamble with, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, house of cards, how they fall, imperil, imperilment, incur danger, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, invest, invest in, investment, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, law of averages, lay open, lay out money, liability, liableness, lie under, lot, luck, make an investment, make book, meet, menace, moira, openness, opportunity, pass, peril, perilousness, pinch, place, play, play with fire, plight, plow back into, plunge, precariousness, predicament, predict, prime investment, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, prognosticate, put, put in danger, put in jeopardy, quicksand, random sample, reinvest, rely on fortune, riskiness, rocks ahead, run a chance, run of luck, run the chance, run the risk, serendipity, set at hazard, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, sink, sink money in, slipperiness, speculate, speculation, speculativeness, stand a chance, stand fair to, stand to gain, stand to lose, statistical probability, storm clouds, strait, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, tempt Providence, tempt fortune, the breaks, theory of probability, thin ice, threat, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, trust to chance, try the chance, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, venture, wager, whatever comes

• riskiness, chanciness, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, doubtfulness, dubiousness, hazard, hazardousness, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, peril, perilousness, precariousness, risk, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, sword of Damocles, ticklish business, ticklishness, totteriness, touchiness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unhealthiness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness

• risky, accidental, adventitious, adventurous, aleatory, blue, broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, destinal, desultory, dicey, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, full of risk, hairy, hazardous, iffy, incidental, indeterminate, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, off-color, on thin ice, perilous, precarious, provisional, racy, riskful, risque, salty, scabrous, sensitive, shady, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, speculative, spicy, suggestive, temporary, tentative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, uncaused, uncertain, undependable, undetermined, unexpected, unfaithworthy, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for, unpredictable, unreliable, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, venturesome, venturous, wicked, wildcat

• risque, Rabelaisian, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, broad, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, daring, denunciatory, dirty, dysphemistic, epithetic, erotic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, foul, fulminatory, gross, imprecatory, improper, indecent, indecorous, maledictory, obscene, off color, off-color, profane, purple, racy, raw, ribald, risky, salacious, salty, scabrous, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sexy, shady, spicy, suggestive, unrefined, vile, vituperative, wicked

• ritardando, a poco, adagietto, adagio, allargando, allegretto, allegro, andante, andantino, calando, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, forte, fortissimo, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, lento, marcando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, ritenuto, scherzando, scherzo, spiccato, staccato, stretto

• rite of passage, baccalaureate service, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, commencement, convocation, empty formality, exercise, exercises, formal, formality, function, graduation, graduation exercises, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, liturgy, mummery, observance, office, performance, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, ritual, service, solemnity, solemnization

• rite, amenities, anniversaries, baccalaureate service, celebrating, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremony, civilities, commemoration, commencement, convocation, custom, dignities, dressing ship, duty, elegancies, empty formality, exercise, exercises, fanfare, fanfaronade, festivity, flourish of trumpets, form, form of worship, formal, formalities, formality, formula, formulary, function, gentilities, graces, graduation, graduation exercises, holiday, holy rite, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, jubilee, liturgy, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, mode of worship, mummery, mystery, observance, occasion, office, order of worship, ordinance, ovation, performance, practice, prescribed form, procedure, rejoicing, religious ceremony, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite de passage, rite of passage, rites, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, rituals, routine, sacrament, sacramental, salute, salvo, service, solemn observance, solemnity, solemnization, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, toast, tribute, triumph

• ritual, High-Church, Sefer Torah, Torah, Torah scroll, Virginal, amenities, automatic, baccalaureate service, baptismal, bon ton, breviary, buckram, canon, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremonious, ceremoniousness, ceremony, church book, civilities, commencement, conformity, consuetude, convention, conventional, convocation, custom, customary, decorous, dignities, dignity, duty, elegancies, empty formality, established way, etiquette, eucharistic, euchologion, euchology, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, farse, fashion, folkway, form, form of worship, formal, formalities, formality, formalization, formula, formular, formulary, function, gentilities, graces, graduation, graduation exercises, gravity, habitual, hieratic, holy rite, impersonality, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, lectionary, litany, liturgic, liturgistic, liturgy, machzor, manner, manners, manual, missal, mode of worship, mores, mummery, mystery, observance, office, order of worship, ordinal, ordinance, paschal, performance, perfunctory, pomp, pomposity, pompous, pontifical, practice, praxis, prayer book, prescribed, prescribed form, prescription, primness, procedural, proper thing, protocol, religious ceremony, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, rites, ritual observance, rituale, ritualistic, rituality, rituals, routine, rubric, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacramental, sacramentarian, service, service book, siddur, social convention, solemn, solemnity, solemnization, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, starchiness, stately, stiffness, stiltedness, stylization, time-honored practice, tradition, usage, use, usual, way, weight, well-mannered, what is done, wont, wonting

• ritualistic, High-Church, baptismal, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, decorous, eucharistic, formal, formular, formulary, hieratic, liturgic, liturgistic, paschal, pompous, ritual, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacramentarian, solemn, stately, well-mannered

• ritzy, Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, braw, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, deluxe, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elaborate, elegant, exquisite, extravagant, fancy, fine, genteel, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, jaunty, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, noble, palatial, plush, posh, princely, proud, recherche, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, spruce, stately, style-conscious, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed

• rival, admit of comparison, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, amount to, antagonist, antagonistic, antagonize, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, approach, attempt, balance, battle, battler, be commensurable, be comparable, beat against, beat up against, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, break even, breast the wave, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, bully, bullyboy, challenge, challenge comparison, clashing, close with, coequal, combat, combatant, come to, come up to, compare, compare to, compare with, compeer, compete, compete with, competing, competition, competitive, competitor, con, conflicting, contend, contend against, contend with, contender, contest, contestant, contradictory, contrary, cope, correspond, correspond to, corrival, counter, counterpart, cross, cutthroat, disaccordant, disputant, dissentient, ditto, draw, duelist, emulate, emulator, emulous, enemy, enforcer, entrant, equal, equipollent, equivalent, even, even off, fellow, fencer, feuder, fight, fight against, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, fractious, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, grapple with, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, in competition, in rivalry, inimical, jockey, join battle with, jouster, keep pace with, knight, knot, labor against, like, match, match up with, mate, measure up, measure up to, meet, militant, militate against, negative, noncooperative, not compare with, obstinate, offer resistance, opponent, oppose, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, opposition, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, outvie, overthwart, parallel, partake of, peer, perverse, player, plug-ugly, quarreler, reach, recalcitrant, refractory, reluct, reluctate, repugnant, resemble, rioter, rivaling, rough, rowdy, ruffian, run abreast, run to, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, stack up with, stem the tide, strive, strive against, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggle, struggle against, struggle with, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, take on, test one another, the field, thug, tie, tilter, touch, tough, try, tussler, twin, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious, vie, vie with, vier, vying, wrangler

• rivaling, a cut above, above, ahead, ascendant, better, capping, chosen, competing, competitive, cutthroat, distinguished, eclipsing, eminent, emulous, exceeding, excellent, excelling, finer, greater, higher, in ascendancy, in competition, in rivalry, in the ascendant, major, marked, of choice, one up on, outstanding, over, rare, rival, super, superior, surpassing, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, upper, vying

• rivalry, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, clashing, collision, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, covetousness, cross-purposes, cutthroat competition, disaccord, discord, dispute, dissension, emulation, enmity, enviousness, envy, feud, fractiousness, friction, gamesmanship, grudging, grudgingness, hostility, inimicalness, invidia, invidiousness, jealousy, jockeying, lifemanship, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, uncooperativeness, vying, warfare

• rive, amputate, ax, bisect, breach, break, broach, butcher, carve, check, chink, chop, cleave, crack, crevasse, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, dichotomize, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, excise, fissure, fly open, fracture, furrow, gap, gash, groove, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, lance, lay open, ope, open, open up, pare, part, prune, rend, rent, rift, rip, rupture, saw, scissor, separate, sever, slash, slice, slit, slot, snip, split, spread, spread out, spring open, sunder, swing open, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, trench, whittle

• river, Niagara, adolescent stream, arroyo, beck, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, cascade, cataract, channel, creek, crick, deluge, estuary, flood, flow, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, pour, quantity, race, racing stream, rill, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spate, spill stream, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, torrent, tributary, wadi, watercourse, waterflood, waterway

• riverhead, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, head, headspring, headstream, headwater, headwaters, mainspring, mine, quarry, source, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, wellspring

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

• rivet, affix, articulate, attach, batten, batten down, bolt, buckle, butt, button, clasp, cleat, clip, concenter, concentrate, dovetail, fix, fixate, focus, hasp, hinge, hitch, hook, jam, joint, latch, lock, miter, mortise, nail, peg, pin, put, rabbet, scarf, screw, sew, skewer, snap, staple, stick, stitch, tack, toggle, wedge, zipper

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

• rivulet, adolescent stream, arroyo, beck, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, channel, creek, crick, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, race, racing stream, river, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spill stream, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, wadi, watercourse, waterway

• RN, LPN, Naval Construction Battalion, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, argosy, armada, charge nurse, coast guard, district nurse, division, escadrille, fleet, flotilla, graduate nurse, licensed practical nurse, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, nurse, nursing sister, practical nurse, private-duty nurse, probationer, probationist, probe, public health nurse, registered nurse, school nurse, scrub nurse, sister, squadron, student nurse, surgical nurse, task force, task group, trained nurse, visiting nurse

• RNA, Altmann theory, DNA, DNA double helix, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, anticodon, biotype, birth, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, codon, deoxyribonucleic acid, determinant, determiner, diathesis, endowment, eugenics, factor, gene, gene complex, gene flow, gene pool, genesiology, genetic code, genetic drift, genetics, genotype, hereditability, hereditary character, heredity, heritability, heritage, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, mRNA, matrocliny, messenger RNA, nucleotide, operator gene, operon, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, recessive character, regulator gene, replication, ribosomal RNA, structural gene, tRNA, transfer RNA

• roach, DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, afterglow, afterimage, antidepressant, ataractic, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends, cat flea, chaff, chigoe, cockroach, crab, debris, detritus, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, dog flea, end, fag end, filings, flea, fossil, gage, ganja, grass, grayback, hallucinogen, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, holdover, husks, jigger, joint, kava, leavings, leftovers, louse, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, mite, morning glory seeds, nit, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, parasite, parings, peyote, pot, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, rags, red bug, reefer, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rubbish, ruins, rump, sand flea, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, stick, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, tea, trace, tranquilizer, vermin, vestige, waste, weed, weevil

• road hog, Sunday driver, backseat driver, bus driver, busman, cabby, cabdriver, careerist, chauffeur, driver, egotist, fortune hunter, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, hit-and-run driver, hog, individualist, jitney driver, joyrider, lone wolf, loner, monopolist, motorist, narcissist, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, speeder, taxidriver, teamster, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, truck driver, trucker, truckman, tufthunter

• road map, Baedeker, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Yellow Pages, aeronautical chart, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, bibliography, business directory, cartographer, cartography, catalog, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, checklist, chorographer, chorography, city directory, classified directory, climatic chart, conic projection, contour line, contour map, cylindrical projection, directory, finding list, general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grid line, guidebook, hachure, handbook, handlist, heliographic chart, hydrographic chart, index, isoline, itinerary, latitude, layer tint, legend, longitude, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, meridian, parallel, phone book, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, political map, polyconic projection, projection, reference book, relief map, representative fraction, roadbook, scale, sinusoidal projection, special map, telephone book, telephone directory, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, topographer, topographic chart, topography, transportation map, weather chart, weather map

• road test, Gedankenexperiment, assay, audition, bench test, bring to test, confirm, cut and try, dry run, essay, experiment, flight test, give a try, give a tryout, have a go, hearing, pilot plan, play around with, practical test, practice, practice upon, prove, put to trial, rehearsal, research, run a sample, sample, shake down, shakedown, shakedown cruise, substantiate, taste, test, test flight, test run, trial run, try, try it on, try out, tryout, validate, verify, workout

• road, Autobahn, US highway, access, air lane, alley, alleyway, anchorage, anchorage ground, approach, approaches, arm, armlet, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, basin, bay, bayou, beat, belt, belt highway, berth, bight, blind alley, boca, boulevard, breakwater, bulkhead, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, chuck, circuit, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, course, court, cove, creek, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, direction, dirt road, dock, dockage, dockyard, drag, drive, driveway, dry dock, embankment, entree, estuary, euripus, expressway, fairway, fjord, flight path, freeway, frith, gravel road, groin, gulf, gut, harbor, harborage, haven, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interstate highway, itinerary, jetty, jutty, kyle, landing, landing place, landing stage, lane, line, local road, loch, main drag, main road, marina, means, method, mews, mole, moorings, motorway, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, orbit, parkway, passage, path, pave, paved road, pier, pike, place, plank road, port, primary highway, primrose path, private road, procedure, protected anchorage, quay, reach, riding, right-of-way, ring road, roadbed, roads, roadstead, roadway, round, route, route nationale, row, royal road, run, sea lane, seaport, seawall, seaway, secondary road, ship route, shipyard, shortcut, slip, sound, speedway, state highway, steamer track, strait, straits, street, superhighway, technique, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, tour, township road, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, turnpike, walk, waterway, way, wharf, wynd

• roadbed, Autobahn, L, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, branch, bypass, byway, cable railway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, cog railway, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, expressway, feeder, feeder line, freeway, gravel road, gravity-operated railway, highroad, highway, highways and byways, horse railway, interstate highway, junction, lane, light railroad, line, local road, main drag, main line, main road, metro, mews, monorail, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, sidetrack, siding, speedway, state highway, street, street railway, streetcar line, subway, superhighway, switchback, terminal, terminus, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, turnpike, underground, wynd

• roadblock, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blank wall, block, blockade, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch, earthwork, embankment, fence, gate, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, moat, mole, mound, parapet, portcullis, rampart, rock-fill dam, seawall, shutter dam, stone wall, stop, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

• roadhouse, amusement park, ballroom, boardinghouse, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, dorm, dormitory, doss house, entertainment industry, fleabag, flophouse, fun-fair, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, juke joint, lodge, lodging house, night spot, nightclub, nitery, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, resort, rooming house, show biz, show business, tavern, theater

• roadway, Autobahn, L, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, branch, bypass, byway, cable railway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, cog railway, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, expressway, feeder, feeder line, freeway, gravel road, gravity-operated railway, highroad, highway, highways and byways, horse railway, interstate highway, junction, lane, light railroad, line, local road, main drag, main line, main road, metro, mews, monorail, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, sidetrack, siding, speedway, state highway, street, street railway, streetcar line, subway, superhighway, switchback, terminal, terminus, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, turnpike, underground, wynd

• roam, amble, bat, bat around, bum, circumambulate, count ties, cruise, dally, dawdle, divagate, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, meander, mooch, mosey, nomadize, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, rove, run about, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, swan, traipse, tramp, travel, vagabond, vagabondize, voyage, walk, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

• roamer, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, bird of passage, drifter, floater, gad, gadabout, go-about, itinerant, mover, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, rambler, rolling stone, rover, runabout, straggler, stroller, strolling player, troubadour, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

• roaming, Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, circumforaneous, discursion, discursive, divagation, divagatory, drifting, errant, errantry, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, ranging, roam, rove, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring

• roan, Titian, adust, auburn, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brazen, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, calico pony, castaneous, chestnut, chestnut-brown, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cupreous, dapple-gray, dun, ferruginous, foxy, gray, grizzle, henna, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, mahogany, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, reddish-brown, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, skewbald, sorrel, sunburned, terra-cotta

• roar, Bedlam let loose, assault, attack, barbarize, bark, batter, battle cry, bawl, bay, be in stitches, be noisy, bedlam, bell, bellow, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, bluster, bobbery, boom, booming, brawl, bray, break up, breathe, brouhaha, brutalize, burn, burst into laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, butcher, buzz, cachinnate, cackle, call, cannonade, carry on, caterwaul, chant, charivari, cheer, chirm, chirp, chortle, chuckle, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, coo, crow, cry, declaim, destroy, din, discord, donnybrook, drawl, drunken brawl, dustup, exclaim, flap, flute, fracas, free-for-all, gasp, giggle, give tongue, give voice, go into convulsions, go on, grimace, groan, growl, growling, grumble, grunt, guffaw, ha-ha, hail, halloo, ham, ham it up, hammer, hee-haw, hee-hee, hell broke loose, hiss, ho-ho, holler, hollo, hoot, horselaugh, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurrah, jangle, keen, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, lay waste, lilt, loot, loud noise, low, maffick, make a noise, make a racket, make an uproar, maul, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mug, mumble, murmur, mutter, nearly die laughing, neigh, nicker, noise, noise and shouting, out, out-herod Herod, outburst, outcry, overact, overdramatize, pandemonium, pant, peal, pillage, pipe, pule, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rallying cry, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rattle, rave, rebound, repercuss, reverberate, rhubarb, riot, roar with laughter, roaring, roll, row, ruckus, ruction, ruin, rumble, rumpus, sack, savage, screak, scream, screech, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shindy, shivaree, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, slaughter, snap, snarl, snarling, snicker, snigger, snort, sob, sough, sow chaos, split, split with laughter, spout, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, storm, tear, tear around, tee-hee, terrorize, throw away, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, titter, troat, trumpet, tumult, twang, ululate, underact, uproar, vandalize, violate, vociferate, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, whoop, whoop it up, wreck, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl, yuk-yuk

• roaring, abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, blaring, booming, cannonading, carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, earsplitting, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, orgasmic, orgiastic, pealing, piercing, possessed, prospering, prosperous, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, robust, rolling, rumbling, running mad, stentorian, stentorious, storming, thrifty, thriving, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, transported, uncontrollable, violent, volleying, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

• roast, Chateaubriand, aspic, assail, attack, bake, baked, banter, barbecue, baste, be in heat, blade roast, blanch, blaze, blister, bloom, boil, boiled, boiled meat, bouilli, braise, braised, breast, brew, brisket, broil, broiled, brown, browned, burn, casserole, castigate, chaff, choke, chuck, chuck roast, civet, clod, coddle, coddled, cold cuts, combust, cook, cooked, course, cover, cross-examine, cross-interrogate, cross-question, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, curried, curry, deride, devil, deviled, dish, do, do to perfection, entree, excoriate, extract information, filet mignon, fire, fired, flame, flame up, flank, flare, flare up, flay, flesh, flicker, flush, forcemeat, fricassee, fricasseed, fried, frizz, frizzle, fry, fustigate, game, gasp, glow, go over, griddle, grill, grilled, grin at, hachis, hash, haze, heat, heated, hold in derision, incandesce, inquisition, jape, jerky, jest, jive, joint, joke, jolly, josh, jugged hare, kid, knuckle, lash, laugh at, laugh to scorn, loin, main dish, make fun of, make game of, make inquisition, make merry with, meat, melt, menue viande, mince, needle, oven-bake, oven-baked, pan, pan-broil, pan-broiled, pant, parboil, parboiled, parch, pemmican, pillory, plate, plate piece, poach, poached, point at, poke fun at, pot roast, prepare, prepare food, pry out, put on, put one on, rack, radiate heat, rag, rally, razz, rib, rib roast, ribs, ride, ridicule, roasted, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, sausage meat, saute, sauteed, scald, scallop, scalloped, scarify, scathe, scorch, score, scrapple, sear, seared, seethe, shank, shimmer with heat, shirr, shirred, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, side dish, simmer, sirloin, skin alive, slash, smile at, smolder, smother, snicker at, snigger at, spark, steam, steamed, stew, stewed, stifle, stir-fry, suffocate, sweat, swelter, tease, tenderloin, third-degree, toast, toasted, trounce, twit, venison, viande

• roaster, Bantam, Cornish hen, banterer, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler, brooder, broody hen, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chaffer, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dindon, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, faisan, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, hot day, jollyer, josher, kidder, oie, partlet, partridge, persifleur, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, quail, ragger, ribber, rooster, scorcher, setting hen, sizzler, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, summer day, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, twitter, volaille, wild duck

• roasting, ardent, ass-reaming, baking, banter, bantering, barbecuing, basting, bawling-out, blistering, boiling, booing, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, catcalling, catering, chaffing, chewing, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, cussing-out, derision, derisive, derisory, domestic science, dressing, dressing-down, ebullient, feverish, fleering, flippancy, flippant, flushed, fooling, frying, going-over, grilling, grinning, hazing, heated, hissing, home economics, hooting, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, jacking-up, jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, like a furnace, like an oven, mockery, mocking, nutrition, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, panning, parching, piping hot, poaching, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, raking-down, rallying, razzing, reaming, reaming-out, red-hot, ribbing, ridicule, ridiculing, sauteing, scalding, scoffing, scorching, searing, seething, setdown, shirring, simmering, sizzling hot, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, smoking hot, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, speaking-to, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, talking-to, taunting, teasing, toasting, torrid, twitting, what-for, white-hot

• rob, bereave, cheat, commit robbery, defraud, despoil, disinherit, dispossess, divest, filch, heist, hijack, hold up, hustle, knock off, knock over, lift, loot, lose, mug, oust, pilfer, pillage, plunder, purloin, ransack, ravage, relieve, rifle, rip off, roll, sack, steal, stick up, strong-arm, swindle, thieve

• robber, bandit, bank robber, body snatcher, booster, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, bushranger, cat burglar, cat man, chicken thief, con man, corsair, cracksman, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, footpad, freebooter, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, highway robber, highwayman, hijacker, holdup man, housebreaker, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, mugger, peculator, petty thief, pickpocket, pilferer, pirate, poacher, privateer, prowler, purloiner, raffles, rifler, road agent, sandbagger, scrounger, second-story man, shoplifter, sneak thief, stealer, stickup man, swindler, thief, train robber, white-collar thief, yegg

• robbery, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary, burgling, caper, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, depredation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, dispossession, divestment, expense, extortion, filch, forfeit, forfeiture, grab, heist, highway robbery, hijack, hijacking, hold-up, holdup, injury, job, larceny, lift, looting, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mugging, perdition, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pillaging, pinch, pinching, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, privation, purse snatching, ransacking, rip-off, robbing, ruin, sack, sacking, sacrifice, spoliation, steal, stealing, stickup, stickup job, stripping, taking away, theft, thievery, thieving, total loss

• robe, afghan, apparel, appurtenances, array, attire, bathrobe, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedeck, bedrape, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, buffalo robe, bundle up, caftan, case, cassock, cloak, clothe, clothes, clothing, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, costume, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, deck, dight, drape, dress, dud, duds, eiderdown, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equipage, finery, fitted sheet, frock, garb, garment, garments, gear, gown, habilitate, habit, housecoat, invest, kimono, lap, lap robe, linen, livery, lounging robe, mantle, muffle up, muu-muu, outfit, panoply, paraphernalia, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, rag, rag out, raiment, regalia, rig, robes, rug, sheathe, sheet, sheeting, shroud, slip, spread, surplice, swaddle, swathe, tire, togs, trappings, uniform, vestment, vestments, vesture, wrap, wrap up, wrapper

• Robin Hood, Autolycus, Barabbas, Bill Sikes, Claude Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Jean Valjean, Jimmy Valentine, John Dillinger, Jonathan Wild, Raffles, Thief of Baghdad, Willie Sutton, almoner, almsgiver, benevolist, do-gooder, humanitarian, philanthropist, power for good, social worker, welfare statist, welfare worker, well-doer

• robotlike, accordant, alike, automatic, balanced, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, equable, equal, even, flat, homogeneous, immutable, invariable, level, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, of a piece, ordered, orderly, persistent, regular, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying

• robust, able-bodied, active, acute, aggressive, animated, athletic, beefy, booming, bouncing, brawny, brisk, doughty, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, fit, flavorful, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, fruity, full of pep, full-blooded, full-bodied, full-strength, go-go, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, healthy, hearty, hefty, husky, impetuous, incisive, intense, iron-hard, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, mettlesome, mighty, muscular, nervy, nutty, obstinate, peppy, potent, powerful, prospering, prosperous, puissant, pungent, red-blooded, rich, roaring, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, sapid, sinewy, smacking, snappy, sound, spanking, spirited, stalwart, staunch, steely, stout, strapping, strenuous, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, take-charge, take-over, thrifty, thriving, tough, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, well-knit, zestful, zesty, zip, zippy

• rock bottom, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, belly, best, bottom, bottom side, bottommost, breech, buttocks, cut, deepest, downside, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, giveaway, ground, grounds, groundwork, half-price, hardpan, lower side, lowest, lowest layer, lowest level, marked down, nether side, nethermost, nethermost level, pavement, principle, radical, reduced, riprap, rudiment, sacrificial, seat, sill, slashed, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, terra firma, underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside, understruction, understructure

• rock garden, Japanese garden, alpine garden, arboretum, bed, bog garden, border, botanical garden, dry garden, flower bed, flower garden, garden, garden spot, grape ranch, grapery, herbarium, hortus siccus, jardin, kitchen garden, market garden, ornamental garden, paradise, pinetum, roof garden, shrubbery, sunken garden, tea garden, truck garden, vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery, vineyard

• rock, Gibraltar, Irish confetti, acid rock, adamant, adamantine, affect, agitate, amaze, appease, astonish, astound, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, bankrupt, bebop, bedrock, blunder, bob, bobble, bola, bolt, bone, boogie-woogie, boomerang, bop, boulder, brick, brickbat, broken-down, calm, calm down, careen, career, cement, champion, coggle, come home to, compose, concert, concrete, cool, countermissile, country rock, cradle, crag, dance music, dances, dangle, daze, defender, destitute, destroyed, diamond, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, dramatico-musical, dulcify, dumbfound, ease, electrify, escarpment, even out, falter, finished, flint, flintlike, flinty, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flurry, fluster, flutter, folk rock, foundation, fuss, gentle, granite, granitelike, granitic, hard rock, heart of oak, heave, hit, hit the mark, hobbyhorse, horse, hot jazz, hush, impress, impress forcibly, in ruins, indigent, instrumental, iron, jar, jazz, jazzy, jive, jolt, labor, librate, lion, lithic, lull, lurch, mainstream jazz, make an impression, make heavy weather, marble, marblelike, missile, mollify, musical suite, nails, nutate, oak, on ice, on the rocks, orchestral, oscillate, outcrop, outcropping, overwhelm, ox, pacify, patron, patroness, pendulate, penniless, perturb, petrified, petrogenic, pillar, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, pour balm into, poverty-stricken, projectile, protector, protectress, quell, quiet, rag, ragtime, rattle, rear, reel, resonate, rest, rhythm-and-blues, rock to sleep, rock-and-roll, rocket, roll, ruffle, ruined, safekeeper, scarp, scend, seethe, shake, shake up, shock, sink in, slaty, smite, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soothe, stabilize, stagger, steady, steel, still, stir, stone, strike, strike hard, strike home, struggle, stumble, stun, stupefy, subdue, suite, suite of dances, surprise, swag, sway, swing, swinging, symphonic, syncopated, syncopated music, syncopation, tell, the new music, thrash about, throw, throw stick, throwing-stick, tor, torpedo, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tower, tower of strength, tranquilize, traumatize, trouble, tumble, unnerve, unsettle, upset, vacillate, vibrate, volutation, waddy, wag, waggle, wallop, wallow, wave, waver, welter, wobble, yaw

• rockbound coast, bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, coral heads, embankment, foreshore, ironbound coast, ledges, lee shore, lido, littoral, pitfall, plage, playa, quicksands, riverside, riviera, rocks, sandbank, sandbar, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shallows, shingle, shoals, shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, undercurrent, undertow, waterfront, waterside

• rockbound, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, dour, firm, fundamentalist, gravelly, hard, harsh, hidebound, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, jagged, jaggy, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, ragged, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stiff, stony, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, wrinkled

• rocker, burin, clarifier, colander, cradle, cribble, die, engraving tool, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, filter, graver, intaglio, lixiviator, metronome, needle, oscillator, pendulum, percolator, point, punch, purifier, refiner, refinery, riddle, rocking chair, rocking stone, scorper, screen, seal, seesaw, shuttle, shuttlecock, sieve, sifter, stamp, strainer, style, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender, vibrator, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine

• rocket power, action and reaction, aeromotor, atomic power, electric power, electropower, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, impulse, jet power, jet propulsion, manpower, nuclear power, piston power, power plant, propulsion, ram-jet propulsion, reaction, reaction propulsion, resojet propulsion, rocket propulsion, solar power, steam power, thermonuclear power, thrust, turbojet propulsion, water power

• rocket propulsion, action and reaction, aeromotor, charge, diesel propulsion, exhaust, fuel, gas propulsion, gasoline propulsion, jet power, jet propulsion, liquid oxygen, plasma-jet propulsion, power plant, propellant, propulsion charge, ram-jet propulsion, reaction, reaction propulsion, resojet propulsion, rocket power, steam propulsion, thrust, turbojet propulsion, wind propulsion

• rocket, AA target rocket, ABM, ASM, ATS, Asp, Asroc, Atlas, Atlas-Agena, Atlas-Centaur, Bullpup, Cajun, Corporal, Corvus, Crossbow, Dart, Deacon, Delta, Diamant, Dove, Earth insertion, Falcon, Firebee, Genie, Hawk, Holy Moses, Hound Dog, ICBM, Irish confetti, Jupiter, LEM, LM, Lacrosse, Lark, Loki, Loon, Mace, Matador, Navaho, Nike, Nike Ajax, Pershing, Petrel, Polaris, Poseidon, Quail, Ram, Rascal, Redeye, Redstone, Regulus I, Roman candle, SLAM, Saturn, Scout, Sentinel, Sergeant, Shillelagh, Sidewinder, Skybolt, Snark, Spaerobee, Sparrow, Subroc, Super Talos, Talos, Tartar, Terrier, Thor, Thor Able Star, Thor-Agena, Thor-Delta, Tiny Tim, Titan, V-2, Viking, WAC-Corporal, Wagtail, Zuni, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, anchor rocket, antelope, antiaircraft rocket, antiradar rocket, apogee, arrow, atom-rocket, atomic warhead, attitude-control rocket, balefire, ballistic capsule, barrage rocket, bat bomb, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, bird, blinker, blue darter, blue peter, blue streak, bob up, bola, bolt, boomerang, break water, brickbat, buoy, burn, cannonball, capsule, caution light, chemical rocket, climb, countermissile, courser, dart, deep-space ship, demolition rocket, docking, docking maneuver, eagle, electricity, express train, ferry rocket, fin-stabilized rocket, fireworks rocket, flare, flare rocket, flash, float up, fly up, flying tank, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, fountain, fuel ship, gazelle, glance, go light, gong buoy, greased lightning, green light, greyhound, guided missile, gush, hare, heliograph, high sign, high-altitude rocket, homing rocket, incendiary rocket, injection, insertion, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, ion engine, ion rocket, jet, jet plane, jump up, kick, lark, leap up, leer, light, lightning, line-throwing rocket, liquid-fuel rocket, lunar excursion module, lunar module, manned rocket, marker beacon, mercury, missile, module, moon ship, multistage rocket, nod, nuclear warhead, nudge, orbit, parachute flare, parking orbit, payload, perigee, pilot flag, plasma engine, plasma jet, poke, police whistle, pop up, projectile, quarantine flag, quicksilver, radio beacon, ram rocket, red flag, red light, reentry, retro-float light, retro-rocket, rock, rocket engine, rocket motor, rockoon, sailing aid, scared rabbit, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, shoot up, shot, shuttle rocket, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, skylark, skyrocket, smoke rocket, snake, soar, soft landing, solid-fuel rocket, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship, spar buoy, spin-stabilized rocket, spinner, spring up, spurt, start up, stone, stop light, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, supersonic rocket, surface, swallow, take off, the nod, the wink, thermonuclear warhead, thought, throw stick, throwing-stick, thunderbolt, torpedo, torrent, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, trajectory missile, transoceanic rocket, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upstart, vault up, vernier, vernier rocket, waddy, war rocket, warhead, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wind, window rocket, wink, yellow flag, zoom

• rocketry, aerial photography, aeroballistics, aerodynamics, aerogeology, aerography, aerology, aeromechanics, aeromedicine, aerometry, aeronautical meteorology, aerophotography, aerophysics, aeroscopy, aerospace medicine, aerospace research, aerospace science, aerospace technology, aerostatics, archery, artillery, astronautics, aviation technology, avionics, ballistics, bioastronautics, climatology, escape velocity, grand tour, gunnery, hydrostatics, interplanetary travel, kinematics, kinetics, meteorology, missilery, musketry, photometry, pneumatics, science fiction, space flight, space medicine, space travel, space walk, step flight, supersonics, trip to Mars

• rocking horse, agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, sport, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, whim-wham

• rocking, appeasing, calming, careening, cradling, dangling, dreamy, drowsy, gentling, hushing, lulling, lurching, mollifying, pacifying, pitching, quietening, reeling, restful, rolling, soothful, soothing, stilling, swaying, swinging, tossing, tranquilizing

• rocky, adamant, adamantine, ailing, apathetic, arduous, bad, below par, bony, bumpy, callous, cement, cemental, certain, cold, concrete, cool, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, critically ill, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, degage, dense, dependable, detached, determined, diamondlike, difficult, dilapidated, doddering, doubtful, down, dubious, dure, emotionless, faint, faintish, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, firm, flimsy, flintlike, flinty, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, groggy, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, harsh, horny, iffy, ill, impassive, in danger, indifferent, indisposed, insecure, invariable, invariant, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, laid low, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, monolithic, mortally ill, not quite right, obdurate, off-color, osseous, out of sorts, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, questionable, ragged, ramshackle, reliable, resistant, resistive, resolute, ricketish, rickety, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, seedy, serrate, serrated, shaky, shingled, shingly, sick, sick unto death, sickish, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, spidery, spindly, staunch, steadfast, steady, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, sure, taken ill, teetering, teetery, thick-skinned, tottering, tottery, tough, trachytic, treacherous, tumbledown, unbending, uncaring, uncertain, unchanging, uncomfortable, undependable, under the weather, unemotional, unfaltering, unfeeling, unflinching, unhealthy, unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, unsympathetic, untrustworthy, unvarying, unwavering, unwell, unyielding, vacillating, weak, wobbling, wobbly, wrinkled

• rococo, Gothic, arabesque, archaic, baroque, baroqueness, bizarre, brain-born, busy, bygone, chichi, chinoiserie, dated, deformed, dream-built, elaborate, elaborateness, elegance, elegant, extravagant, fanciful, fanciness, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, fineness, flamboyance, flamboyant, florid, floridity, floridness, floweriness, flowery, freak, freakish, frilly, fussy, grotesque, high-wrought, labored, luxuriance, luxuriant, luxurious, luxuriousness, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, moldy, monstrous, moresque, moth-eaten, notional, old hat, ornate, ostentation, ostentatious, outdated, outlandish, overelaborate, overelaborateness, overelegance, overelegant, overlabored, overornamentation, overworked, overwrought, passe, picturesque, preposterous, pretty-pretty, rich, richness, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical, wild

• rod, Maypole, atomic pile, automatic, bar, baton, billet, birch, blowgun, blowpipe, breeder reactor, bricks, caduceus, cane, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, castigation, chain of office, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chastisement, club, coronet, correction, crook, crosier, cross-staff, crown, diadem, discipline, ermine, fasces, fast pile, ferule, firearm, flagstaff, flamethrower, furnace, gat, gavel, great seal, gun, handgun, heater, heterogeneous reactor, homogeneous reactor, ingot, intermediate pile, lattice, mace, mantle, musket, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, orb, paddle, pandybat, peashooter, piece, pile, pistol, plutonium reactor, pole, portfolio, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, privy seal, province, punition, purple, purple pall, radioactive waste, rattan, reactor, reactor pile, regalia, repeater, revolver, rifle, robe of state, rod of empire, rod of office, rods, royal crown, ruler, sawed-off shotgun, scape, scepter, seal, shaft, shooting iron, shotgun, signet, six-gun, six-shooter, slab, slow pile, staff, stalk, stellarator, stem, stick, strip, switch, tiara, tongue, totem pole, triple plume, truncheon, uraeus, uranium reactor, wand, wand of office

• rodent, amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mouselike, mousy, omnivore, primate, quadruped, ratty, reptile, rodential, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin, verminous, vertebrate

• rodeo, assemblage, assembly, burlesque show, call-up, canvass, carnival, census, circus, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, convergence, coochie show, corralling, data-gathering, fantoccini, floor show, galanty show, gathering, girly show, hootchy-kootchy show, ingathering, inventory, junction, juxtaposition, leg show, light show, magic show, mobilization, muster, ombres chinoises, peep show, puppet show, raree-show, rep show, repertory show, roundup, shadow show, sideshow, survey, the big top, variety show, vaudeville show

• rodomontade, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bullying, bustle, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool, fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, flurry, fluster, folderol, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade, gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hectoring, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, intimidation, jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rubbish, side, skimble-skamble, splutter, sputter, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, swashbucklery, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling

• roe, Cape elk, Partlet, Virginia deer, albumen, anguille, antelope, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, caviar, cow, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eel, egg, egg white, eggshell, eland, elk, ewe, ewe lamb, fallow deer, fawn, filly, fish, fish eggs, gazelle, giraffe, glair, gnu, guinea hen, gyp, hart, hartebeest, heifer, hen, hind, jenny, kaama, kipper, kippered salmon, lioness, mare, moose, mule deer, musk deer, nanny, nanny goat, okapi, ovule, peahen, poisson, red deer, red herring, reindeer, roe deer, roebuck, seafood, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, smoked herring, sow, spawn, springbok, stag, tigress, vitellus, vixen, white, wildebeest, yellow, yolk

• roebuck, Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose, mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, springbok, stag, wildebeest

• roentgenograph, ECG, EEG, EKG, X ray, X-ray movie, chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, electrocorticogram, electroencephalogram, electroencephalograph, electromyogram, encephalogram, encephalograph, orthodiagram, photofluorogram, photofluorograph, photogram, pyelogram, radiogram, radiograph, roentgenogram, scotograph, shadowgram, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph

• roentgenotherapy, X-ray dosimetry, X-ray therapy, cobalt therapy, curietherapy, interstitial irradiation therapy, irradiation, irradiation therapy, isotope therapy, radiation therapy, radiotherapeutics, radiotherapy, radium therapy, radiumization, ray therapy, roentgen ray therapy, roentgenization, roentgenometry, roentgentherapy

• Roger, OK, absolutely, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, as you say, assuredly, aye, by all means, certainly, da, exactly, fine, good, good enough, hear, indeed, indeedy, ja, just so, mais oui, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, of course, okay, oui, positively, precisely, quite, rather, really, right, righto, sure, sure thing, surely, to be sure, truly, very well, well and good, why yes, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• rogue, SOB, bad boy, balker, balky horse, bastard, blackguard, blighter, booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, bum, cad, charlatan, cheat, churl, contumacious, creep, crock, cross-grained, crowbait, cur, cutup, dastard, devil, disobedient, dog, elf, enfant terrible, fractious, funmaker, garron, goat, good-for-nothing, hack, headstrong, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, incorrigible, independent, intractable, jade, joker, jokester, jughead, knave, lawless, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, mountebank, nag, pixie, plug, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rampageous, rapscallion, rascal, rat, recalcitrant, refractory, roarer, rosinante, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, self-willed, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, stiff, stinker, strong-willed, swindler, trickster, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpredictable, unrestrained, unruly, villain, wag, wastrel, whistler, wild, wretch

• roguery, baseness, chicanery, degradation, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, elfishness, foolishness, high spirits, impishness, knavery, knavishness, mischief, mischievousness, moral turpitude, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguishness, scampishness, scoundrelism, sportiveness, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy, waggery, waggishness, youthful spirits

• roguish, arch, base, blackguardly, degraded, devilish, elfish, elvish, foolish, full of mischief, high-spirited, impish, infamous, knavish, mischief-loving, mischievous, notorious, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, rascally, recreant, reprobate, scampish, scapegrace, scoundrelly, sportive, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vile, villainous, waggish

• roil, adiaphanousness, aggravate, agitate, agitation, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, be turbulent, beat, beat up, bedevil, beset, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, bristle, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, bustle, carouse, chafe, chivy, churn, churn up, cloudiness, commotion, conturbation, convulse, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut loose, darkness, devil, dimness, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturb, disturbance, dog, ebullition, embitter, embroilment, exasperate, excite, excitement, exercise, fash, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fret, fume, fuss, get, go berserk, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, imperviousness to light, incense, inflame, inquietude, intransparency, irk, irritate, jitters, jumpiness, maelstrom, make a commotion, make an ado, make trouble, malaise, miff, mill, mill around, moil, molest, nag, needle, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nettle, nudzh, obscurity, opacity, opaque, opaqueness, paddle, peeve, persecute, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, rankle, restlessness, ride, rile, riot, ripple, roiledness, roister, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, run amok, run riot, run wild, seethe, seething, set up, shake, shake up, stir, stir the blood, stir up, swirl, tease, to-do, torment, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, try the patience, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbidness, turbulence, turmoil, tweak the nose, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry

• roiled, adiaphanous, aggravated, angry, annoyed, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, cloudy, dark, disturbed, exasperated, galled, griped, grumly, impervious to light, intransparent, irked, irritated, miffed, nettled, obscure, opaque, peeved, piqued, provoked, resentful, riled, roily, ruffled, troubled, turbid, vexed

• roily, adiaphanous, amiss, askew, awry, cloudy, cockeyed, convulsed, dark, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, grumly, haywire, impervious to light, in disorder, intransparent, misplaced, obscure, on the fritz, opaque, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed, roiled, shuffled, turbid, turbulent, unsettled, upset

• roister, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, carouse, celebrate, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut loose, debauch, gasconade, go berserk, hector, hell around, intimidate, jollify, jolly, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, make a commotion, make an ado, make merry, make trouble, make whoopee, out-herod Herod, rage, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, raise hell, rant, rave, revel, riot, roil, rollick, run amok, run riot, run wild, see life, skylark, slang, splutter, spree, sputter, step out, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, vapor, wanton, whoop it up

• roisterous, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, harum-scarum, hectoring, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, noisy, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raving, roistering, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, storming, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tumultuous, wild

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

• role, actor, antagonist, antihero, bit, bit part, capacity, cast, character, condition, cue, duty, end use, fat part, feeder, function, heavy, hero, heroine, immediate purpose, impersonation, ingenue, job, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, office, operation, operational purpose, part, person, personage, piece, place, position, post, protagonist, province, purpose, quality, relation, responsibility, side, situation, soubrette, status, straight part, supporting character, supporting role, task, title role, ultimate purpose, use, villain, walk-on, walking part, work

• roll around, alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, cycle, intermit, oscillate, pulsate, pulse, reappear, recur, reoccur, repeat, return, revolve, rotate, turn, undulate, wheel, wheel around

• roll back, abridge, compress, curtail, curtail expenses, cut, cut back, cut corners, cut down, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, diminish, downgrade, lessen, lower, pare, pare down expenses, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, simplify, slow down, step down, take a reef, take from, tune down

• roll call, agenda, beadroll, cadastre, calendar, catalog, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, cloture, committee consideration, debate, deliberation, division, docket, dramatis personae, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, head count, honor roll, introduction, jury list, jury panel, lineup, logrolling, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, register, returns, roll, roster, rota, schedule, scroll, second reading, steamroller methods, tabling, talkathon, tax roll, third reading, vote

• roll in, accomplish, achieve, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, bed, blow in, bob up, check in, clock in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, fetch, fetch up at, find, flop, gain, get in, get there, get to, hit, hit town, indulge, indulge in, live high, live well, luxuriate in, make, make it, pile in, pop up, pull in, punch in, reach, ring in, show up, sign in, time in, turn in, turn up, wallow in

• roll on, advance, commute, continue, course, cover ground, drift along, elapse, endure, expire, fare, fare forth, fetch, flit, flow, flow on, fly, gang, glide, go, go along, go by, go on, hie, jog on, lapse, last, march on, move, move along, move on, pass, pass by, press on, proceed, progress, roll, rub on, run, run its course, run on, run out, sashay, slide, slip, stream, travel, wayfare, wend

• roll out, affect, arise, betoken, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, embody, enact, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, flaunt, flourish, get up, give sign, give token, greet the day, highlight, hit the deck, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, parade, perform, pile out, present, produce, represent, reveal, rise, set forth, show, show forth, spotlight, token, trot out, turn, turn out, unfold, uprise, vise, wave

• roll up, amass, bale, bind up, bowl, bundle, bundle up, clamp, compress, crush, cumulate, do up, ensphere, furl, garner, hive, lay up, nip, pack, package, parcel, pinch, press, roll, squeeze, stockpile, store up, tie up, tighten, troll, trundle, truss, truss up, tweak, wad up, wrap, wrap up

• roll, Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, account, advance, agenda, align, amble, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, annals, arrive, axial motion, backing, bagel, bale, bank, bankroll, barge, barrage, barrel, bask, bask in, be effortless, be painless, be poised, be reflected, be sent back, beadroll, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beating, bialy, bialystoker, bibliofilm, billow, billowing, bindle, bipack, black-and-white film, blank, blunder, bob, bobble, bole, bolt, boom, booming, bore, bounce back, bouquet, bowl, bowl along, bowling, break, breakers, budget, bun, bundle, bunt, butt, cackle, cadastre, calendar, calender, cannonade, careen, career, carol, cartridge, cask, cast, catalog, catalogue, caw, census, census report, centrifugation, chatter, checklist, checkroll, cheep, chirk, chirograph, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, chronicle, chronicles, chuck, circle, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, cirrus, clack, clover-leaf roll, cluck, clump, coast, cock-a-doodle-doo, coffee cake, coggle, coil, color film, color negative film, column, comb, comber, come along, come in, come on, commute, coo, corkscrew, correspondence, course, cover ground, crab, crap, craps, crash, crescent roll, croak, croissant, cronk, cross bun, crow, cruise, crumpet, cuckoo, curl, curlicue, cycle, cylinder, cylindroid, dangle, dash, deck, delight in, dip, directory, dirty water, disappear, docket, document, documentation, dope, dossier, drag, dramatis personae, drift, drive, droop, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, dry plate, eagre, ebb and flow, echo, echo back, elapse, emulsion, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equalize, evaporate, even, even out, evolute, expire, fagot, falter, fardel, fare, fare forth, fasces, fascine, feather, fell, fetch, file, film, fishtail, flatten, flit, float, flounce, flounder, flow, flow in, fluctuate, flush, flutter, fly, foot, footslog, form, forward, frame, full circle, furl, gabble, gad, gaggle, gain ground, gait, gallivant, gallop, gang, gather head, gather way, gem, get ahead, get along, give no trouble, glide, go, go ahead, go along, go around, go easily, go fast, go forward, go like clockwork, go on, go pitapat, gobble, grade, gravity wave, ground swell, grovel, growl, grumble, guggle, gush, gyrate, gyration, gyre, halt, hard roll, head count, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, helix, hie, hippety-hop, history, hitch, hobble, hobbyhorse, holograph, honk, honor roll, hoo, hoot, hop, hot cross bun, hot-press, impel, index, indulge, indulge in, instrument, inventory, involute, iron, jog, jolt, jump, jury list, jury panel, kaiser roll, kink, labor, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letters, level, level off, librate, lift, limp, lineup, list, listing, lock step, loop, lop, lumber, lunge, lurch, luxuriate, luxuriate in, make good time, make head against, make headway, make heavy weather, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, mangle, memorial, microfilm, mince, mincing steps, money, monochromatic film, mooch, motion-picture film, move, move along, move forward, move on, muffin, muster, muster roll, natural, negative, nick, nose count, nosegay, nutate, official document, onion roll, orbit, order of business, orthochromatic film, oscillate, pace, pack, package, packet, paddle, palpitate, palpitation, panchromatic film, paper, papers, paradiddle, parcel, parchment, part, pass, pass along, pass on, patter, peak, peal, pedal, peep, peg, pendulate, personal file, photographic paper, piaffe, piaffer, piece, pillar, pinwheel roll, pip, pipe, pipe roll, pitapat, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, pitching, pitter-patter, pivoting, plate, plod, plow, plunge, pole, poll, popover, popple, porpoise, portion, posy, pound, pounding, pour in, prance, present no difficulties, press, printing paper, proceed, program, progress, propel, property roll, pull out, pull up, pulsate, pulsation, push, push down, quack, questionnaire, quiver, rack, ramble, range, rase, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, raze, rear, rebound, record, recording, reecho, reel, reeling, register, registry, rejoice in, relic, relish, remains, resonate, resound, return, returns, revel, revel in, reverberate, reverberation, revolution, revolve, ride, riffle, ringlet, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roam, roar, rob, rock, rocking, roll call, roll flat, roll in, roll on, roll out, roll up, roller, rollick, rolling, rolls, roster, rota, rotate, rotation, rotational motion, rough water, rouleau, rove, row, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, rumble, run, run smoothly, sail, sashay, saunter, savor, scend, schedule, scold, scone, screw, scrip, script, scroll, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, sea, seethe, send, send back, shake, shamble, sheaf, shoestring, shot, shove, show up, shroud, shuffle, shunt, sideslip, sidle, sing, single-foot, skid, skip, slate, slide, slink, slip, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, sluice, smash, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, soft roll, somersault, somerset, sound, sound a tattoo, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spatter, spin, spinning, spiral, splatter, split, splutter, spool, spread out, sputter, squawk, staccato, stagger, stalk, stamp, steamroll, steamroller, stem, step, step forward, stomp, straddle, straggle, stray, stream, stride, strip, stroll, strolling gait, struggle, strut, stumble, stump, stunt, surf, surge, swag, swagger, swathe, sway, sweep, sweep along, swell, swing, swinging, swirl, swirling, swiveling, table, take pleasure in, tat-tat, tattoo, tax roll, tendril, thrash about, throb, throbbing, throw, thrum, thrust, thump, thumping, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tittup, toddle, token, tom-tom, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, tossing, totter, trace, traipse, travel, tread, treadle, trill, trip, tripack, troll, trolling, trot, trough, trudge, trundle, trundling, trunk, truss, tsunami, tube, tumble, turbination, turn over, turn up, turning, tweet, twirl, twist, twit, twitter, uncoil, uncurl, undulate, undulation, unfold, unfurl, unroll, unwind, vacillate, vanish, vehicle, velocity, vestige, vibrate, volutation, volute, volution, vortex, wad, waddle, wag, waggle, walk, wallop, wallow, wallow in, wamble, warble, water wave, wave, wavelet, waver, waving, wayfare, welter, wend, wheel, wheeling, whir, whirl, whirling, whistle, white horses, whitecaps, whorl, wiggle, wind up, wobble, work well, wrap up, writ, writing, yaw

• rollback, abatement, agio, allowance, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, bank discount, breakage, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, concession, curtailment, cut, cutback, deduction, depreciation, discount, drawback, kickback, lapse, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, pullback, reaction, rebate, rebatement, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reduction, reentry, refluence, reflux, refund, regress, regression, relapse, retrenchment, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, salvage, setback, setoff, sternway, tare, throwback, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, write-off

• roller skate, coast, flit, flow, fly, glide, glissade, ice-skate, sail, sideslip, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, sweep, toboggan

• roller, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, abradant, abrasive, adhesive tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, barrel, billow, binder, bole, bore, brace, breaker, breakers, burnish, calender, carousel, cask, cast, cataplasm, cheese grater, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, column, comb, comber, comminutor, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, crusher, cylinder, cylindroid, dirty water, disk, dressing, drum, eagre, elastic bandage, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze, granulator, grater, gravity wave, grinder, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, kominuter, lawn-roller, levigator, lift, lint, lop, mangle, masher, merry-go-round, mill, millstone, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, peak, pestle, pillar, pipe, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, polish, popple, poultice, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, riffle, ripple, rise, rock crusher, roll, roller bandage, rolling stone, rotator, rotor, rough water, rouleau, roundabout, rubber bandage, rundle, scend, sea, send, shredder, sleeker, slicker, sling, smooth, smoother, splint, sponge, steamroller, stupe, surf, surge, swell, tampon, tape, tent, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, top, tourniquet, triangular bandage, triturator, trough, trunk, tsunami, tube, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, wheel, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, white horses, whitecaps, windlass, wringer

• rollick, antic, bask, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, caper, caracole, carol, carry on, cavort, chirp, chirrup, clap hands, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, delight, dido, disport, exult, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, gasconade, glory, hector, horse around, indulge, intimidate, joy, jubilate, lark, lilt, luxuriate, out-herod Herod, play, rage, rant, rave, rejoice, revel, roister, roll, romp, sing, skip, skip for joy, slang, splutter, sport, sputter, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, trip, vapor, welter, whistle

• rollicking, animated, antic, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, capersome, cheerful, coltish, exuberant, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, harum-scarum, hearty, hectoring, joyful, joyous, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, lighthearted, lively, noisy, playful, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicksome, rompish, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, skittish, spirited, sportive, sprightly, storming, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tumultuous, vital, vivacious, wild, zestful, zippy

• rolling stock, Amtrak, baggage train, cable railroad, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, el, electric, electric train, elevated, express, express train, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, interurban, lightning express, limited, local, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rattler, shuttle, shuttle train, special, streamliner, subway, train, tube, underground, way train

• rolling stone, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, April showers, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Proteus, Ulysses, bird of passage, carousel, chameleon, cloud shapes, disk, drifter, floater, gad, gadabout, go-about, itinerant, kaleidoscope, mercury, merry-go-round, moon, mover, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, quicksilver, rambler, roamer, roller, rotator, rotor, roundabout, rover, runabout, rundle, shifting sands, straggler, stroller, strolling player, the weather, top, troubadour, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, water, weather vane, weathercock, wheel, wheel of fortune, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig

• rolling, acrobatics, advance, advancement, advancing, aerobatics, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, banking, billowing, billowy, black spot, bloom, blooping, booming, bowling, cannonading, careening, career, centrifugation, chandelle, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, course, crabbing, dangling, definition, dive, diving, fishtailing, flare, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fringe area, full, full circle, fulminating, furtherance, furthering, ghost, glide, go-ahead, granulation, grid, gyrating, gyration, hard shadow, headway, hilly, image, knobby, lurching, march, mellow, monticuline, mountained, mountainous, multiple image, noise, nose dive, ongoing, onward course, passage, pealing, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pitching, pivoting, plangent, power dive, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, pull-up, pullout, pulsing, pushdown, rain, reeling, resonant, resonating, revolution, revolving, rich, roaring, rocking, roll, rolling on, rotating, rotation, rotational motion, rumbling, scanning pattern, scintillation, shading, sideslip, snow, snowstorm, sonorous, spin, spinning, spiral, stall, stunting, subalpine, surgy, swaying, swinging, swirling, swiveling, tactical maneuvers, throbbing, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, tossing, travel, trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, twirling, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, vibrant, vibrating, volleying, volplane, volutation, volution, wavy, way, wheeling, whir, whirling, zoom

• roly poly, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, blimp, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fatty, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, hippo, hippy, imposing, lump, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potbelly, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rotund, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, swagbelly, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tub, tub of lard, tubby, tun, well-fed

• Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, bomb, buoy, cap, caution light, cherry bomb, cracker, firecracker, flare, flowerpot, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, girandole, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, ladyfinger, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute flare, pilot flag, pinwheel, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, serpent, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, skyrocket, snake, spar buoy, sparkler, squib, stop light, the nod, the wink, torpedo, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• Roman nosed, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed, clawlike, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed, down-curving, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked, hooklike, parrot-nosed, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, unciform, uncinate, unguiform

• roman, Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, comic novel, counter, descender, detective novel, dime novel, dreadful, em, en, epistolary novel, erotic novel, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, groove, historical novel, italic, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, nick, nouvelle, novel, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, penny dreadful, pi, pica, picaresque novel, point, pornographic novel, print, problem novel, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psychological novel, regional novel, river novel, roman a clef, roman-fleuve, sans serif, satirical novel, science-fiction novel, script, sentimental novel, shank, shilling shocker, short story, short-short, shoulder, small cap, small capital, sociological novel, stamp, stem, storiette, stream-of-consciousness novel, thesis novel, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, vignette

• romance, Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adulterous affair, adultery, adventure, adventure story, affair, allegorize, allegory, amor, amour, apologue, apparition, autism, autistic thinking, balderdash, bedtime story, brainchild, brown-nose, bubble, butter up, canard, capriccio, caprice, chimera, color, colorfulness, concoction, court, cuckoldry, dalliance, delirium, dereism, dereistic thinking, detective story, divertissement, dreamery, eidolon, entanglement, epic, eternal triangle, exaggeration, excitement, extravaganza, fable, fabliau, fabrication, fabulize, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasque, fantasy, fascination, fib, fiction, fictionalize, figment, flatter, flight of fancy, flirtation, folk story, folktale, forbidden love, forgery, gest, ghost story, glamor, hallucination, hanky-panky, horse opera, humoresque, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, idealize, idle fancy, idyll, illicit love, illusion, imagery, imagination, imaginative exercise, imaginativeness, imagining, impracticality, infidelity, insubstantial image, intrigue, invention, legend, liaison, love, love affair, love story, maggot, make-believe, medley, melodrama, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, mythology, mythos, narrate, narrative, nonsense, nostalgia, novel, novelize, nursery tale, pander to, parable, phantasm, phantom, play of fancy, potpourri, prevarication, quixotism, quixotize, quixotry, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, relationship, report, retell, rhapsodize, romantic tie, romanticism, romanticize, romanza, science fiction, sentiment, shocker, sick fancy, soft-soap, space fiction, space opera, storify, story, suspense story, tall story, tall tale, tell, tell a story, thick-coming fancies, thriller, triangle, trip, unfaithfulness, unfold a tale, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, utopianize, vapor, vision, visionariness, whim, whimsy, white lie, whodunit, wildest dreams, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, woo, work of fiction

• romancer, Don Quixote, Quixote, anecdotist, daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, fableist, fabler, fabulist, fictionist, idealist, lotus-eater, mythmaker, mythopoet, narrator, novelettist, novelist, prophet, raconteur, reciter, recounter, relator, rhapsodist, romancist, romantic, romanticist, sagaman, seer, short-story writer, spinner of yarns, storier, storyteller, taleteller, teller of tales, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary, wishful thinker, word painter, yarn spinner

• romantic, Don Quixote, Quixote, Utopian, abstract, absurd, adoring, affectionate, airy, allegoric, amorous, aroused, autistic, bathetic, beery, chimerical, cloying, conjugal, crackpot, created, daydreamer, demonstrative, dereistic, devoted, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, emotional, enthusiast, escapist, exotic, extravagant, fabulous, faithful, fancied, fanciful, fantasized, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, filial, fond, fresh, glamorous, gooey, gushing, husbandly, ideal, idealist, idealistic, idealized, idyllic, illusory, imaginary, imagined, impassioned, impractical, in the clouds, invented, languishing, legendary, libidinous, lotus-eater, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, lustful, mad, made-up, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, melting, mushy, mythic, mythical, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, otherworldly, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, parabolic, parental, passionate, paternal, picturesque, poetic, prophet, quixotic, rhapsodist, romancer, romancing, romanesque, romanticist, romanticized, saccharine, sappy, seer, sentimental, sentimentalist, sentimentalized, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, starry-eyed, sticky, storybook, strange, sugary, sweet, tear-jerking, teary, tender, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, uxorious, visionary, wifely, wild, wish-fulfilling, wishful thinker

• romanticism, affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, autism, autistic thinking, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, demonstrativeness, dereism, dereistic thinking, dreamery, ecstasy, enchantment, flight of fancy, goatishness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, horniness, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imaginative exercise, impracticality, lovelornness, lovesickness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, play of fancy, quixotism, quixotry, rapture, romance, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sexiness, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, susceptibility, sweetness and light, tearjerker, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking

• romanticized, airy, allegoric, autistic, dereistic, fabulous, fictional, idealistic, impractical, in the clouds, legendary, mythic, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, otherworldly, parabolic, poetic, quixotic, romancing, romantic, starry-eyed, storybook, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary, wish-fulfilling

• Romeo, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, amorist, amoroso, beau, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, esquire, fellow, flame, gallant, gigolo, inamorato, lady-killer, love-maker, man, necker, old man, paramour, petter, philanderer, seducer, sheik, squire, sugar daddy, swain, young man

• romp, amazon, androgyne, antic, babe, baby, beam, bob, bounce, broad, butch, cakewalk, caper, capriole, caracole, carol, carry on, cavort, chick, chirp, chirrup, clap hands, colleen, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, dance, delight, demoiselle, dido, disport, doll, dyke, exult, filly, flounce, fool around, frail, frisk, frolic, gal, gambado, gambol, girl, girlie, glory, glow, heifer, horse around, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, joy, jubilate, jump about, junior miss, lass, lassie, laugh, lesbian, lilt, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, play, prance, radiate cheer, ramp, rejoice, revel, rollick, rout, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sing, skip, skip for joy, skirt, slip, smile, sparkle, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, trip, virago, virgin, walkaway, walkover, wench, whistle, young creature, young thing

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

• rondelle, O, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disk, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, glory, halo, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, noose, orbit, radius, ring, round, roundel, saucer, sphincter, vicious circle, wheel, wreath

• rood, Agnus Dei, Calvary cross, Christogram, Greek cross, Holy Grail, Host, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Pieta, Russian cross, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, T, X, ankh, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, avellan cross, bambino, beadroll, beads, candle, censer, chaplet, chi, chi-rho, christcross, ciborium, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, cruet, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, eucharistial, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incensory, inverted cross, long cross, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, osculatory, ostensorium, papal cross, paschal candle, pax, pectoral cross, phylacteries, potent cross, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, relics, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, saltire, shofar, sukkah, swastika, tabernacle, tallith, tau, thurible, trefled cross, urceole, veronica, vigil light, voided cross, votive candle

• roof, Dymaxion house, French roof, M roof, White House, abiding place, abode, address, adobe house, ancestral halls, apex, barrack roof, bonnet, building, bulkhead, cantonment, cap, casa, ceil, ceiling, chamber, chimney corner, clerestory, cliff dwelling, coif, consulate, cork, country house, country seat, crash pad, crest, crib, crown, cupola, dacha, deanery, dome, domicile, domus, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, eaves, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, family homestead, farm, farmhouse, fireplace, fireside, foyer, gable roof, geodesic dome, habitation, hall, hat, haven, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, hood, house, houseboat, household, housetop, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, lake dwelling, lantern, living machine, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, manor house, manse, menage, nest, overhead, pad, parsonage, paternal roof, peak, penthouse, place, place to live, plafond, prefabricated house, presidential palace, ranch house, rectory, residence, ridgepole, roof garden, roof in, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, seat, shed roof, shelter, shield, shingles, skylight, skyscraper, slate roof, slates, sod house, split-level, stopper, structure, summit, surface, thatched roof, tiles, tip, toft, top, top floor, top side, topside, topsides, town house, upper side, upside, vertex, vicarage

• roofed, armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped

• roofing, adobe, ashlar, brick, bricks and mortar, ceiling, cement, clinker, concrete, covering materials, eaves, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flooring, housetop, lantern, lath and plaster, masonry, mortar, overhead, pavement, paving, paving material, penthouse, plafond, plasters, prestressed concrete, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, shingles, siding, skylight, slates, stone, tile, tiles, tiling, top, walling

• rooftop, ceiling, clerestory, eaves, housetop, lantern, overhead, penthouse, plafond, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftree, shingles, skylight, slates, surface, tiles, top, top floor, top side, topside, topsides, upper side, upside

• rook, beat, beguile of, bilk, bishop, bleed, bunco, burn, castle, cheat, chessman, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, king, knight, man, milk, mulct, pack the deal, pawn, piece, pigeon, practice fraud upon, queen, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, sweat, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

• rookery, Augean stables, birthplace, breeding place, brooder, cradle, dump, forcing bed, hatchery, hole, hotbed, hovel, incubator, nest, nidus, nursery, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, slum, stable, sty, tenement, the slums, warren

• rookie, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart

• room temperature, aestival, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid, equatorial, genial, luke, lukewarm, mild, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, unfrozen, warm, warm as toast, warmish

• room, a leg up, abide, accommodation, accommodations, air space, allowance, ample scope, apartment, area, bed, berth, billet, blank check, board, bunk, burden, caesura, capacity, carte blanche, cell, chamber, chambers, chance, clear stage, clearance, cohabit, compartment, content, cordage, cubicle, diggings, digs, discontinuity, distance between, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, double space, dwell, dwelling, elbowroom, em space, en space, extent, fair field, fair game, field, flat, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freeboard, full scope, full swing, hair space, half space, hang out, harbor, headroom, hiatus, house, housing, hut, inhabit, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap, leeway, liberty, license, limit, live, living quarters, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, measure, nest, no holds barred, occasion, occupy, office, open space, opening, opportunism, opportunity, perch, place, play, poundage, put up, quantity, quarter, quarters, range, rein, remain, rental, reside, room to spare, rooms, roost, rope, scope, sea room, shelter, single space, sleeping place, space, space between, spare room, squat, stable, stay, stepping-stone, stowage, suite, sway, swing, tenant, tenement, time, time interval, tolerance, tonnage, volume, way, wide berth

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

• roomette, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, boxcar, caboose, car, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, covered waggon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, flat, flatcar, gondola, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, saloon, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, stateroom, stockcar, tank, tender, truck, van, waggon

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

• roommate, 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, messmate, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, 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

• roomy, aerial, aeriform, aery, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, ample, amplitudinous, atmospheric, big, breezy, broad, capacious, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, deep, easeful, easy, ethereal, expansive, exposed, extended, extending, extensive, far-reaching, friendly, full, homelike, homely, homey, infinite, large, light, lived-in, luxurious, open-air, peaceful, pneumatic, relaxing, reposeful, restful, sizeable, snug, soft, spacious, spreading, tropospheric, vast, voluminous, warm, wide, widespread

• roorback, bruit, buzz, canard, character assassination, common talk, cry, dirty politics, flying rumor, grapevine, hearsay, idea afloat, last-minute lie, latrine rumor, muckraking, mudslinging, mudslinging campaign, news stirring, on-dit, political canard, report, rumble, rumor, scuttlebutt, smear campaign, talk, town talk, unconfirmed report, whisper, whispering campaign

• roost, abide, accommodations, anchor, aviary, be seated, berth, billet, billet at, bird cage, birdhouse, bivouac, board, bunk, burrow, camp, cohabit, colonize, columbary, come to anchor, diggings, digs, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dovecote, drop anchor, dwell, ensconce, establish residence, hang out, hive, house, housing, hut, inhabit, keep house, land, light, live, live at, living quarters, locate, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, moor, move, nest, occupy, park, people, perch, pigeon house, pigeon loft, populate, put up, quarter, quarters, relocate, remain, remain seated, reside, room, rooms, roosting place, set, set down, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shelter, sit, sit down, sleeping place, squat, stand, stay, stay at, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, touch down

• rooster, Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy, billy goat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hart, he-goat, hen, hen turkey, partlet, peacock, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, ram, roaster, setting hen, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer, stewing chicken, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether

• root out, abate, abolish, abscind, abstract, amputate, annihilate, avulse, ban, bar, blot out, bob, buck off, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, demolish, deport, depose, deracinate, destroy, dig out, dig up, disentangle, dislodge, dismount, dispose of, dock, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eject, elide, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, ferret out, fish out, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, gouge out, grub up, hunt out, isolate, knock off, liquidate, lop, mine, mutilate, nip, outlaw, pare, peel, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, prune, pry out, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, quarry, rake out, raze, remove, rip out, root up, rule out, scout out, search out, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, spy out, stamp out, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, sweep away, take off, take out, tear out, throw off, throw over, throw overboard, truncate, unearth, unhorse, unplace, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, uproot, weed out, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

• root, IC analysis, accidence, acclaim, affix, affixation, allomorph, ancestors, anchor, antecedents, applaud, base, basis, beat the bushes, bed, bed on, bedrock, beginning, birthplace, boost, bottom, bottom on, bound morpheme, bring to light, bud, build on, bulb, bulbil, burgeon, burrow, burst forth, catch, cause, cheer, cheer on, clap, clap the hands, cognate, commencement, completely, conception, confirm, conjugation, core, corm, cradle, cutting, declension, deep-dye, define, delve, derivation, derivative, descent, destroy, develop, difference of form, dig, dig out, dig up, discover, doublet, drive on, egg on, eliminate, embed, enclitic, encore, encourage, engraft, engrave, entirely, entrench, eponym, eradicate, essentiality, establish, etch, etymon, explore, exterminate, extirpate, family, family tree, fatherland, ferret, find, fix, flourish, footing, forage, forebears, forefathers, formative, found, found on, foundation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, free form, frisk, gemmate, genealogy, genesis, germinate, give a hand, go through, goad on, grass roots, ground, ground on, groundwork, grow, grow rank, hail, hasten on, head, hear it for, heart, heritage, hie on, hound on, house, hunt, hurry on, imbed, immediate constituent analysis, impact, implant, impress, imprint, inception, infix, infixation, inflection, infrastructure, ingrain, inscribe, jam, leaf, leaf out, leave, lineage, lodge, look around, look round, look through, luxuriate, marrow, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, motherland, nose, nose around, origin, original, origination, origins, overgrow, overrun, pack, paradigm, pedigree, pith, plant, poke, poke around, predecessors, prefix, prefixation, primitive, print, proclitic, provenance, provenience, pry, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, quick, quintessence, radical, radically, radicle, radix, ransack, research, rhizome, riot, rise, rock bottom, root and branch, root for, root on, root out, root up, roots, rootstock, rummage, search, search through, seat, set, set in, set on, settle, shoot, shoot up, smell around, soul, source, speed on, spread, sprout, sprout up, spur on, stamp, stem, stereotype, stick, stick fast, stock, strike root, stuff, substance, substratum, suffix, suffixation, support, take root, tap, taproot, theme, thrive, totally, tuber, tubercle, turn up, uncover, undergird, underlie, underpinning, unearth, uproot, upspear, upsprout, urge on, utterly, vegetate, wedge, well, wellhead, whip on, wholly, word-formation

• rooted, acknowledged, admitted, basic, chronic, confirmed, conventional, customary, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, essential, established, etched, fast, firm, firmly established, fixed, folk, fundamental, graven, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implanted, impressed, imprinted, inbred, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, instilled, intrinsic, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, oral, prescriptive, radical, received, recognized, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized, thorough, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, worshipful

• rooter, adherent, admirer, amateur, applauder, appreciator, booster, buff, claqueur, collector, commender, devotee, dilettante, encomiast, eulogist, eulogizer, extoller, fan, fancier, follower, groupie, idolater, idolizer, lauder, panegyrist, plugger, praiser, promoter, puffer, tout, touter, votary, worshiper

• rootlike, botanic, bulbous, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, leguminose, leguminous, plantlike, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy

• rope off, bound, circle in, circumscribe, cordon, cordon off, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, determine, enclose, fix, isolate, lay off, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, quarantine, seal off, seclude, segregate, separate, set the limit, specify, stake out, surround

• rope, Havana, allure, ample scope, anchor, anchor chain, anchor rode, attach, attract, ax, backropes, bag, bait, bait the hook, band, bandage, becket, beheading, belt, belvedere, bend, bind, bind up, blandish, blank check, block, boltrope, bow fast, bowline, box of cigars, brace, braid, brail, breast fast, bridle, bundle, buntline, burning, cable, cajole, capital punishment, carte blanche, catch, chain, cheroot, cigar, cigar box, cigar case, cigar cutter, cigarillo, cinch, clearance, coax, colorado, cord, corona, cross, crossjack brace, crucifixion, deadeye, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, decoy, defenestration, do up, downhaul, draw, draw in, draw on, drop, earing, elbowroom, electric chair, electrocution, enchain, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entice, entrammel, entrap, execution, fast, fasten, fetter, field, flirt, flirt with, flying jib martingale, flying jib stay, footropes, fore-skysail brace, fore-skysail lift, fore-topgallant shroud, fore-topgallant stay, fore-topmast backstay, fore-topsail lift, foreganger, foreroyal backstay, foreroyal lift, forerunner, forestay, foretack, foul, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, full scope, full swing, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gasket, gassing, gibbet, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give the come-on, grab rope, guess-rope, guess-warp, guest rope, guillotine, gunter, guy, gyve, halter, halyard, hamper, handcuff, hanging, harbor gasket, harpoon, hawser, head fast, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hitch, hobble, hog-tie, hook, hopple, hot seat, humidor, inveigle, judicial murder, lace, land, lanyard, lapidation, lash, lasso, latitude, lead on, leash, lee sheet, lee tack, leeway, lethal chamber, lifeline, lift, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, long rope, lure, maiden, main brace, main-skysail brace, main-trysail vang, mainsheet, mainstay, make fast, manacle, maneuvering space, margin, martingale, mesh, messenger, mizzen stay, mizzen-royal lift, mizzen-royal stay, mizzen-skysail brace, mizzen-skysail lift, mizzen-skysail stay, mizzen-topgallant lift, mizzen-topgallant stay, mizzen-topmast stay, mizzen-topsail lift, moor, nail, necktie party, net, no holds barred, noose, offer bait to, open space, outhaul, painter, peg down, pennant hoist, persuade, picket, pin down, pinion, play, poisoning, port tack, preventer backstay, put in irons, range, ratline, restrain, room, rope in, ropes, sack, scaffold, scope, sea gasket, sea room, secure, seduce, shackle, sheet, shooting, shroud, snag, snare, sniggle, space, span, spanker peak halyard, spanker sheet, spear, splice, spring, spun yarn, stake, starboard tack, stay, stinker, stirrup, stogie, stoning, straitjacket, strand, strangling, strangulation, strap, string, suck in, swaddle, swathe, swing, tack, take, tangle, tangle up with, tempt, tendon, tether, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the score, the truth, thong, tie, tie down, tie up, tolerance, trammel, trap, tree, trichinopoly, truss, twine, twist, way, weather sheet, whisker jumper, wide berth, wire, woo, wrap, wrap up, yarn

• ropy, adhesive, amylaceous, below par, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, coriaceous, curdled, deficient, doughy, durable, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filamentous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gossamery, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, heavy, ill, inadequate, indifferent, inferior, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, mediocre, mucilaginous, out of sorts, pasty, poor, poorly, questionable, resistant, rough, sickly, silky, sinewy, sketchy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, stringy, strong, stubborn, substandard, syrupy, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thick, thickened, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, under the weather, unsatisfactory, untiring, unwell, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, wiry

• Rorschach test, Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet-Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein-Sheerer test, IQ, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Oseretsky test, Stanford revision, Stanford-Binet test, Szondi test, TAT, Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale, achievement test, alpha test, apperception test, aptitude test, association test, beta test, controlled association test, free association test, inkblot test, intelligence quotient, intelligence test, interest inventory, mental test, personality test, psychological test, standardized test, thematic apperception test, word association test

• rosary, Agnus Dei, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Holy Grail, Host, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, aid prayer, appeal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, candle, censer, chaplet, ciborium, collect, communion, contemplation, cross, crucifix, cruet, devotions, entreaty, eucharistial, grace, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, impetration, imploration, incensory, intercession, invocation, litany, matzo, meditation, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, obsecration, obtestation, orison, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, pax, petition, phylacteries, prayer, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, relics, rogation, rood, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, shofar, silent prayer, suit, sukkah, supplication, tabernacle, tallith, thanks, thanksgiving, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle

• rose colored, Leibnizian, bright, cheerful, chiliastic, coral, couleur de rose, encouraging, incarnadine, likely, millenarian, millennialistic, optimistic, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pink, pinkish, pinky, primrose, promising, rose, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosy, salmon, sunny, upbeat, utopian

• rose oil, ambergris, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, attar, attar of roses, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, champaca oil, civet, essence, essential oil, extract, fixative, heliotrope, jasmine oil, lavender oil, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, parfum, perfume, perfumery, scent, volatile oil

• rose wine, demi-sec, domestic wine, extra sec, imported wine, light wine, must, new wine, nonvintage wine, pink wine, red wine, sec, smooth wine, sparkling wine, still wine, sweet wine, thin wine, vin, vino, vintage wine, white wine, wine

• rose, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, badge, badge of office, badges, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, bib nozzle, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, brassard, broad arrow, button, cadency mark, canton, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, class ring, coat of arms, cockade, cockatrice, collar, color, coral, coronet, crescent, crest, crimson, cross, cross moline, crown, decoration, device, difference, differencing, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fasces, fess, fess point, field, figurehead, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, flush, fret, fur, fusil, garland, glow, griffin, gules, gyron, hammer and sickle, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heraldry, honor point, impalement, impaling, incarnadine, inescutcheon, insignia, label, lapel pin, lion, livery, lozenge, mace, mantle, mantling, markings, marshaling, martlet, mascle, medal, metal, mortarboard, motto, mullet, nombril point, nose, nozzle, octofoil, old school tie, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pin, pink, pinkish, pinkishness, pinkness, pinky, pressure nozzle, primrose, purpure, quarter, quartering, redden, regalia, ring, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosehead, rosiness, rosy, rouge, sable, salmon, saltire, school ring, scutcheon, shamrock, shield, shower head, sigillography, skull and crossbones, snout, sphragistics, spray nozzle, spread eagle, sprinkler head, staff, subordinary, swastika, tartan, tenne, thistle, tie, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, uniform, vair, verge, vert, wand, wreath, yale

• rosette, Danish pastry, French pastry, baklava, blintz, chocolate eclair, cream puff, dowdy, eclair, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent

• roster, account, agenda, annals, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, budget, cadastre, calendar, card, carte du jour, catalog, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, correspondence, docket, documentation, dramatis personae, head count, history, honor roll, inventory, jury list, jury panel, letters, lineup, list, list of agenda, memorial, menu, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, pipe roll, playbill, poll, program, program of operation, programma, property roll, prospectus, protocol, questionnaire, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, returns, roll, roll call, rolls, rota, schedule, scroll, slate, table, tax roll, token, trace, vestige

• rostrum, ambo, antlia, balcony, beak, beezer, bill, bow, bowsprit, bugle, catafalque, conk, dais, desk, emplacement, estrade, figurehead, floor, forecastle, foredeck, forepeak, gallery, heliport, hustings, jib boom, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, lectern, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, platform, podium, proboscis, prore, prow, pulpit, reading desk, rhinarium, schnozzle, smeller, snoot, snout, soapbox, stage, stand, stem, step terrace, stump, terrace, tribunal, tribune, trunk

• rosy cheeked, blooming, blowzed, blowzy, burnt, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, fresh as April, full-blooded, glowing, green, hectic, pink, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, sunburned, youthful

• rosy, Leibnizian, auspicious, balmy, beaming, blithe, blithesome, blooming, blossoming, blowzed, blowzy, blushing, booming, bright, bright and sunny, burnt, cerise, cheerful, cheery, cherry, chiliastic, clear, coral, couleur de rose, elated, encouraging, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exuberant, fair, fat, favorable, florid, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, fresh, fresh as April, fruiting, full-blooded, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, going strong, green, halcyon, happy, hectic, high, hopeful, in full swing, in good case, in good spirits, in high spirits, incarnadine, irrepressible, laughing, likely, millenarian, millennialistic, of good cheer, optimistic, palmy, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pink, pinkish, pinky, piping, pleasant, primrose, promising, prospering, radiant, red, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, reddish, riant, rose, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, salmon, sanguine, sanguineous, sleek, smiling, sparkling, sunburned, sunny, thriving, upbeat, utopian, vigorous, winsome, youthful

• rot, Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, baloney, bighead, bilge, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blah, blah-blah, blast, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, bop, bosh, break down, break up, broken wind, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cancer, canker, caries, carrion, cattle plague, charbon, corrupt, corruption, crap, crumble, crumble into dust, dandruff, debase, debauch, decay, decline, decompose, decomposition, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, descend, disimprove, disintegrate, distemper, dry rot, excrement, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, filth, flapdoodle, foot-and-mouth disease, foul matter, foulness, fungus, furfur, gangrene, gapes, gas, glanders, go bad, go to pieces, guff, gup, heaves, hog cholera, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hoof-and-mouth disease, hot air, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malarkey, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, mess, mildew, milzbrand, mold, molder, moonshine, mortification, mortify, moth, moth and rust, muck, mucus, must, necrose, necrosis, obscenity, ordure, paratuberculosis, pervert, pest, piffle, pip, poppycock, pseudotuberculosis, pus, putrefaction, putrefy, putresce, putrescence, putrid matter, putridity, putridness, quarter evil, rabies, rancidity, rancidness, rankle, rankness, retrograde, rinderpest, rottenness, rubbish, rust, scabies, scat, scurf, scuz, sheep rot, shit, sink, slime, slough, smut, snot, sordes, sphacelate, sphacelation, sphacelus, splenic fever, spoil, spoilage, staggers, stain, stringhalt, suppurate, swine dysentery, taint, tommyrot, tooth decay, trash, tripe, turn, vitiate, warp, wind, worm, worsen

• rota, account, agenda, annals, beadroll, cadastre, calendar, catalog, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, correspondence, docket, documentation, dramatis personae, head count, history, honor roll, inventory, jury list, jury panel, letters, lineup, list, memorial, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, pipe roll, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, returns, roll, roll call, rolls, roster, scroll, table, tax roll, token, trace, vestige

• rotary, O-shaped, alternate, ambagious, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backhanded, backward, beating, carrefour, circling, circuitous, circular, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cloverleaf, crossing, crosspoint, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, cyclic, cyclonic, descending, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, down-trending, downward, drifting, epochal, even, every other, excursive, flowing, fluent, flying, flyover, going, grade crossing, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, helical, indirect, intercrossing, intermittent, intersection, isochronal, level crossing, meandering, measured, metronomic, mounting, oblique, orbital, oscillatory, out-of-the-way, overcrossing, overpass, passing, periodical, plunging, progressive, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rhythmic, rising, rotational, rotatory, round, roundabout, running, rushing, seasonal, serial, sideward, sinking, soaring, spiral, steady, streaming, swirly, tornadic, traffic circle, trochilic, undercrossing, undulant, undulatory, up-trending, upward, vertiginous, viaduct, vortical, wavelike, wheeling, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly

• rotate, advance, alternate, ascend, back, back up, bandy, be here again, become airborne, budge, change, change place, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clear, climb, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, convert, crank, cycle, descend, ebb, ensue, evert, exchange, flow, fly aloft, follow, get over, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, gyre, interchange, intermit, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, jump off, leave the ground, mount, move, move over, oscillate, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, pronate, pulsate, pulse, reappear, recur, reel, regress, relieve, reoccur, repeat, resupinate, retrogress, return, reverse, revolve, rise, roll, roll around, round, run, screw, shift, sink, soar, spell, spin, stir, stream, subside, succeed, supinate, swap, swing, switch, swivel, take off, take turns, taxi, transpose, travel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn round, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, twirl, twist, undulate, wamble, wane, wheel, wheel around, whirl, wind

• rotation, Indian file, array, arsis, articulation, bank, beat, booster rocket, bout, buzz, catapult, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, coming after, concatenation, connection, consecution, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, cycle, descent, diastole, downbeat, drone, endless belt, endless round, extension, file, filiation, following, gamut, gradation, ground loop, gyration, gyre, hopoff, hum, line, lineage, logical sequence, monotone, nexus, order, order of succession, pendulum, periodicity, plenum, posteriority, postposition, powder train, procession, progression, prolongation, pulse, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, revolution, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, spell, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, swath, systole, takeoff, thesis, thread, tier, train, turn, upbeat, wheel, whirl, windrow

• rotator, carousel, centrifuge, chuck, disk, drill, extractor, fan, governor, gyroscope, impeller, jack, merry-go-round, propeller, reel, roller, rolling pin, rolling stone, rotary drill, rotor, roundabout, rundle, screw, spindle, spinner, spit, spool, teetotum, top, treadmill, turbine, turntable, wheel, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, whorl, windmill

• rote, automatically, commitment to memory, exercise of memory, flashback, grind, groove, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, mechanically, memoir, memorization, memorizing, pace, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, ritual, rote memory, routine, rut, study, treadmill, unthinkingly

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

• rotor, airscrew, carousel, disk, driver, fan, impeller, merry-go-round, paddle wheel, piston, prop, propellant, propeller, propulsor, roller, rolling stone, rotator, roundabout, rundle, screw, screw propeller, top, turbine, twin screws, wheel, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig

• rotten, abandoned, abominable, amiss, amoral, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, bum, cankered, carious, cloying, conscienceless, contaminated, contemptible, corroded, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crooked, crumbling, crumbly, dark, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, deceitful, decomposed, decomposing, decrepit, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, deteriorating, detestable, devious, dire, disagreeable, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, disintegrating, displeasing, dissatisfactory, dissolute, doubtful, dreadful, dubious, egregious, enormous, evasive, evil, fecal, feculent, felonious, festering, fetid, filthy, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, foul, fraudulent, friable, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, gloppy, gone bad, graveolent, grievous, grim, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hideous, high, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, icky, ill, ill-got, ill-gotten, ill-smelling, immoral, indirect, infamous, infirm, iniquitous, insidious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morally polluted, mortified, mouldy, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseated, nauseating, nauseous, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, not kosher, notorious, noxious, obnoxious, odious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, peccant, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, polluted, poor, poorish, profligate, puky, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, questionable, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, ropy, rotten at, rotting, rough, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shifty, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sick, sickening, sinister, slabby, slimy, slippery, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, sour, soured, sphacelated, spoiled, spoilt, sposhy, squalid, stale, steeped in iniquity, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, suspicious, tainted, terrible, too bad, touched, tragic, tricky, turned, ulcerated, unclean, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfirm, unhappy, unhealthy, unpleasant, unprincipled, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unspeakable, unstable, unstraightforward, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unwell, up, venal, vice-corrupted, vile, villainous, vitiated, vomity, warped, weevily, wicked, without remorse, without shame, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

• rotting, bad, cankered, carious, corrupt, decayed, decomposed, festering, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, mortified, necrosed, necrotic, peccant, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rotten, saprobic, saprogenic, saprogenous, saprophilous, saprophytic, septic, sphacelated, spoiled, suppurating, suppurative, ulcerated

• rotund, adipose, arched, beefy, bellied, bellylike, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bowed, brawny, bulging, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, circular, consonant, convex, convexed, corpulent, crummy, deep, distended, dumpy, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gibbose, gibbous, globular, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, humped, imposing, lusty, meaty, mellow, obese, orbicular, orotund, out-bowed, overweight, paunchy, plangent, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roly-poly, round, rounded, rounded out, sonorous, spherical, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vibrant, well-fed

• roue, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, debauchee, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, lady-killer, libertine, lover-boy, philanderer, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, rounder, skirt chaser, swinger, walking phallus, wanton, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer

• rouge, any color, base, carmine, clown white, cold cream, color, compact, cosmetics, crimson, drugstore complexion, erythema, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, floridity, floridness, flush, foundation, foundation cream, glow, greasepaint, gules, hand cream, hand lotion, henna, high color, incarnadine, inflame, lip rouge, lipstick, madder, makeup, mantle, mascara, miniate, mudpack, nail polish, paint, pink, powder, powder puff, puff, red, red race, red-ink, redden, reddishness, redness, rose, rubify, rubor, rubric, ruddle, rufosity, rust, talcum, talcum powder, vanishing cream, vanity case, vermilion, war paint, warm

• rough diamond, acceptable person, capital fellow, crude, diamond, gem, gentleman, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, honest man, jewel, lady, mensch, ore, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, prince, raw material, real man, rich ore, rich vein, right sort, unanalyzed mass, unlicked cub, virgin soil, worthy

• rough draft, acid test, assay, black and white, blank determination, brouillon, cartoon, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, crayon, criterion, crucial test, crucible, delineation, design, determination, diagram, docimasy, doodle, draft, drawing, ebauche, esquisse, essay, feeling out, first draft, graph, kiteflying, line drawing, ordeal, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, probation, proof, rough copy, rough outline, rough sketch, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sounding out, standard, study, test, test case, touchstone, tracing, trial, try, verification, vignette

• rough out, adumbrate, bat out, block in, block out, botch, brief, bungle, carve, cast, chalk out, characterize, chisel, create, cut, dash off, delineate, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, draft, efform, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge up, hew, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, line, mint, model, mold, outline, patch, patch together, patch up, pound out, rough in, roughcast, roughhew, sculpt, sculpture, set, shape, skeleton, sketch, slap up, stamp, tailor, thermoform, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trace, trifle with, whomp up, work

• rough sketch, acid test, assay, blank determination, brouillon, criterion, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, essay, feeling out, first draft, kiteflying, ordeal, probation, proof, rough draft, sounding out, standard, test, test case, touchstone, trial, try, verification

• rough, Babbitt, Herculean, Philistine, Spartan, abrupt, abstruse, abuse, acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, aggressive, agitated, amaroidal, approximate, arduous, arrested, arriviste, asperous, assault, astringent, attack, austere, backward, bad, batter, battler, bearish, beastly, beat up, belabor, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, blade, block out, blueprint, bluff, blunt, blustering, blustery, boisterous, boor, boss, bouncy, bounder, bourgeois, brash, brassy, bravo, brawler, brazen, brief, broken, broken ground, broken water, brokenly, brouillon, bruise, brusque, brutal, brutally, brutishly, bucko, buffet, bully, bullyboy, bumpy, cacophonous, cad, capricious, careening, cartoon, catchy, caustic, cavalier, changeable, changing, chart, choked, chop, choppily, choppy, churl, churlish, clown, coarse, coarse-grained, coarsen, combatant, competitor, complex, contender, contestant, copy, corduroy, corduroy road, corrugated, corrugation, cracked, cragged, craggy, crass, critical, croaking, croaky, cross-grained, crude, cruel, crusty, cursory, curt, cutthroat, cutting, delicate, delineation, demanding, design, desperado, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devil, diagram, different, difficile, difficult, dirty, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, discourteous, disorderly, disputant, disrespectful, divaricate, divergent, diversified, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, double-edged, dour, draft, drastic, drawing, dry, duelist, earthy, ebauche, eccentric, edged, elevation, embryonic, enforcer, epicier, erose, erratic, escharotic, esquisse, exacting, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fencer, feuder, fierce, fighter, fighting cock, figure, firm, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, foggy, foilsman, formidable, formless, furious, gamecock, gaudy, general, gladiator, gnarl, goon, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gorilla, grained, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, graph, grating, great, grim, gritty, gross, ground plan, groundling, gruff, gunman, guttering, guttersnipe, guttural, hairy, halting, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, harsh-sounding, harum-scarum, hasty, hatchet man, hazy, heavy, hell-raiser, hellcat, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hoarse, homespun, hood, hooligan, horripilant, horripilate, horripilation, house plan, husky, ichnography, ill-bred, ill-bred fellow, ill-mannered, ill-treat, ill-use, immethodical, immoderate, imperfect, impolite, improper, impulsive, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, incisive, inclement, incomplete, inconsiderate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, inequal, inexact, inharmonious, injure, intemperate, intense, intermittent, intermitting, intricate, ironbound, irregular, irregularly, irritating, jagged, jaggedly, jarring, jawbreaking, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly, jolting, jolty, jouster, keen, killer, knight, knob, knock about, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, knotted, knotty, laborious, lambaste, lay on, linsey-woolsey, looby, lop, loud, lout, loutish, low fellow, lumpy, lurching, mad dog, malodorous, maltreat, manhandle, mark out, maul, mean, mercurial, meretricious, metallic, militant, mishandle, mistreat, mock-up, molest, mordacious, mordant, motley, mucker, mug, mutable, no picnic, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nose-tickling, not easy, nouveau riche, obscene, operose, outline, outrage, outrageous, oversimple, parvenu, patchy, pattern, peasant, penetrating, piercing, pimple, pimply, piquant, pitted, plot, plug-ugly, pluralistic, pocky, poignant, pommel, pornographic, potholed, profile, projection, proximate, pummel, pungent, punk, quarreler, quick, ragged, raggedly, raging, rambling, rambunctious, rampageous, rank, rasping, raucid, raucous, raw, reductionistic, reductive, ribald, ridiculous, rigorous, rioter, ripple, ripply, rival, roiled, roisterous, rollicking, rotten, rough draft, rough up, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughen, roughhewn, roughly, roughneck, roupy, rowdy, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffian, ruffled, rugged, rutted, rutty, sabreur, sandpaper, savage, savagely, scabrous, scathing, scraggy, scrapper, scrappy, scuffler, set with thorns, severe, shagged, shaggy, shapeless, sharp, short, simplistic, skeleton, sketch, sketchy, smutty, snatchy, snippy, solid, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spiny, splitting, sporadic, spotty, squabbler, squawking, squawky, stabbing, staggering, steep, stern, stertorous, stinging, stormy, strangled, strenuous, strident, stridulous, stringent, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, stud, stunted, surly, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, table, tart, tempestuous, textured, thick, thorny, thrash, throaty, thug, ticklish, tilter, tinny, toilsome, tough, trace, trenchant, tricksy, tricky, truculent, trying, turbulent, tussler, unbecoming, unblown, uncertain, uncivil, uncivilized, uncompleted, unconscionable, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undecorous, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undressed, unequable, unequal, uneven, unevenly, unfair, unfashioned, unfeeling, unfinished, unformed, unfortunate, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungodly, ungracious, unhewn, unjust, unkempt, unlabored, unladylike, unlevel, unlicked, unlucky, unmethodical, unmetrical, unmusical, unorthodox, unpleasant, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical, unseemly, unsettled, unshaped, unsmooth, unsparing, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, uphill, upstart, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vehement, venomous, violent, violently, virulent, vitriolic, vulgar, vulgarian, vulgarist, wallop, wandering, washboard, wavering, wicked, wild, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly, working drawing, wrangler, yahoo, yokel

• roughcast, arrested, backward, bat out, block out, botch, broken, bumpy, bungle, carve, cast, cement, chisel, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, concrete, corrugated, create, cross-grained, crude, cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, efform, embryonic, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge up, grainy, granulated, grout, hew, homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal, irregular, jolty, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, linsey-woolsey, mastic, mint, model, mold, mortar, oversimple, parget, patch, patch together, patch up, pimply, pitted, plaster, pocky, potholed, pound out, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough out, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughhew, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, sculpt, sculpture, set, shagged, shaggy, shape, simplistic, slap up, stamp, stucco, stunted, tailor, textured, thermoform, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, whomp up, wimpled, work

• roughen, agitate, beat, beat up, boss, churn, churn up, coarsen, convulse, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, excite, ferment, flurry, fret, gnarl, grain, granulate, horripilate, knob, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pimple, rile, ripple, roil, rough, rough up, ruffle, rumple, shake, shake up, smooth, stir, stir up, stud, swirl, tooth, trouble, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, work up

• roughhew, bat out, block out, botch, bungle, carve, cast, chisel, create, cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, efform, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge up, hew, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, mint, model, mold, patch, patch together, patch up, pound out, rough out, roughcast, sculpt, sculpture, set, shape, slap up, stamp, tailor, thermoform, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, whomp up, work

• roughhewn, arrested, backward, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, crude, embryonic, grainy, granulated, homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, oversimple, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, simplistic, stunted, textured, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undressed, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, wimpled

• roughhouse, act up, ado, badness, behave ill, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, carry on, commotion, cut up, cut up rough, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, foofaraw, fooling, fracas, free-for-all, frowned-upon behavior, fuss, get into mischief, go on, hassle, hell around, helter-skelter, high jinks, hooliganism, horse around, horseplay, hubbub, impropriety, knock about, maffick, melee, misbehave, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemean, misdemeanor, misdoing, mishandle, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, pell-mell, play the fool, pother, racket, raise Cain, raise hell, raise sand, raise the deuce, raise the devil, raise the roof, rampage, riot, rough up, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruckus, ruction, ruffianism, rumpus, scramble, shindy, skylarking, stir, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar, vandalism, venial sin, vice, whoop it up, wrongdoing

• roughly, about, all but, all in all, all things considered, almost, altogether, approximately, approximatively, around, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as good as, at irregular intervals, at large, at random, austerely, awkwardly, badly, broadly, broadly speaking, brokenly, brutally, by and large, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, chiefly, choppily, clumsily, coarsely, commonly, crassly, crudely, cruelly, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully, for practical purposes, generally, generally speaking, grimly, grossly, haltingly, hardly, harshly, heartlessly, improperly, in general, in round numbers, in snatches, in spots, in the rough, inartistically, inclemently, inconstantly, indecently, indecorously, indelicately, inefficiently, inelegantly, ineptly, inexpertly, inhumanly, intermittently, irregularly, jaggedly, jerkily, just about, lurchingly, mainly, maladroitly, mercilessly, more or less, most, mostly, nearly, nonuniformly, normally, off and on, offensively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, painfully, patchily, pitilessly, practically, predominantly, prevailingly, primitively, raggedly, ribaldly, rigorously, rough, roughly speaking, roundly, routinely, rudely, ruthlessly, savagely, say, severely, spasmodically, speaking generally, sporadically, spottily, sternly, stringently, uncertainly, uncouthly, unevenly, unkindly, unmercifully, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unseemly, unsparingly, unsteadily, unsympathetically, unsystematically, untastefully, usually, variably, violently, vulgarly, well-nigh, whimsically, wobblingly

• roughneck, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois, bruiser, bullyboy, cad, carlish, churl, churlish, cloddish, clown, clownish, epicier, goon, gorilla, groundling, gun, gunsel, guttersnipe, hatchet man, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hooliganish, ill-bred fellow, looby, loobyish, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubberly, lumpish, mucker, mug, mugger, muscle man, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, plug-ugly, punk, raffish, ribald, rodman, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffian, ruffianly, strong-arm man, terror, torpedo, tough, trigger man, ugly customer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel, yokelish

• roughness, CAT, Gothicism, abruptness, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, aerospace, aerosphere, aggressiveness, air hole, air pocket, airspace, animality, arrhythmia, asperity, astringency, atrocity, austerity, bad taste, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bearishness, beastliness, bite, bitingness, bitterness, bloodlust, bluntness, bombasticness, boorishness, brashness, brokenness, brusqueness, brusquerie, brutality, bump, cacology, cacophony, callowness, capriciousness, causticity, ceiling, choppiness, churlishness, clumsiness, coarse-grainedness, coarseness, cracked voice, crassness, crosswind, crudeness, crudity, crustiness, cumbrousness, curtness, cuttingness, destructiveness, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, discord, dryness, dysphemism, earthiness, eccentricity, edge, empty space, erraticness, extremity, favorable wind, ferociousness, fibrillation, fierceness, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, fog, force, front, furiousness, gaudiness, gracelessness, graininess, granularity, granulation, greenness, grimness, grip, grittiness, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, head wind, heaviness, high-pressure area, hoarseness, hole, huskiness, ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity, impetuosity, impropriety, impurity, inclemency, inconcinnity, inconstancy, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inhumanity, intensity, intermittence, ionosphere, irregularity, jerkiness, jetstream, keenness, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, loudness, low-pressure area, malignity, mercilessness, meretriciousness, mindlessness, mordacity, mordancy, murderousness, nastiness, nondevelopment, nonuniformity, obscenity, overcast, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness, piquancy, pitilessness, pocket, poignancy, point, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, pungency, raspiness, raucity, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, rigor, rudeness, savagery, scrapiness, scratchiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, severity, sharpness, shortness, simplism, slipshod construction, soup, sourness, space, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, sternness, stertorousness, stiltedness, sting, stratosphere, stridency, stringency, substratosphere, surliness, tail wind, tartness, tastelessness, teeth, terrorism, the rough, thickness, throatiness, trenchancy, tropopause, troposphere, trough, truculence, turbulence, turgidity, ugliness, uncertainty, uncouthness, uncultivation, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unevenness, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, ungentleness, ungracefulness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unrefinement, unripeness, unseemliness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, unwieldiness, vandalism, variability, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, visibility, visibility zero, vulgarism, vulgarity, whimsicality, wobble

• rouleau, bale, barrel, bindle, bole, bolt, bouquet, budget, bundle, cask, coin, column, crown, cylinder, cylindroid, deck, double eagle, doubloon, drum, ducat, eagle, fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, five-dollar gold piece, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hard money, moidore, napoleon, nosegay, pack, package, packet, parcel, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pillar, pipe, posy, pound sovereign, quiver, roll, roll of coins, roller, sheaf, sovereign, specie, ten-dollar gold piece, trunk, truss, tube, twenty-dollar gold piece

• roulette, bingo, card games, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, fan-tan, hazard, horse racing, keno, lotto, pinball, pitch and toss, policy, rouge et noir, shell game, sweepstake, sweepstakes, the numbers, the numbers game, trente-et-quarante

• round about, about, again, all over, all round, all through, anticlockwise, around, at about, back, backward, by, by way of, circlewise, circuitously, clockwise, close, close about, counterclockwise, deviously, every which way, everywhence, everywhere, everywhither, from every quarter, head over heels, heels over head, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in all directions, in circles, in every quarter, in reverse, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, indirectly, obliquely, on every side, over, passing by, passing through, round, round and round, through, throughout, via, widdershins

• round and round, alternately, anticlockwise, around, back and forth, backward and forward, backwards and forwards, by turns, capriciously, changeably, clockwise, counterclockwise, desultorily, erratically, every other, head over heels, heels over head, hitch and hike, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in and out, in circles, in rotation, in turns, inconstantly, make and break, meanderingly, meandrously, off and on, on and off, reciprocally, ride and tie, round, round about, seesaw, serpentinely, shuttlewise, sinuously, to and fro, tortuously, turn about, twistingly, uncertainly, unsteadfastly, unsteadily, up and down, variably, waveringly, widdershins, windingly

• round out, accomplish, bag, balloon, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bouge, bring to completion, bring to fruition, bug, bulge, button up, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, close out, close up, complete, conclude, cone, crown, culminate, dilate, distend, eke out, end, fill in, fill out, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, fulfill, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, goggle, make good, make up, mature, mop up, perfect, piece out, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, refill, replenish, rotund, round, swell, swell out, terminate, top off, top out, wind up, wrap up

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