Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/78

• six of one and half a dozen of the other, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, alike, choicelessness, coequal, coextensive, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, congruent, correspondent, corresponding, coterminous, dead heat, deadlock, draw, equal, equivalent, even break, fair shake, indiscernible, indiscrimination, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, interchangeable, knotted score, neck-and-neck race, no choice, only choice, photo finish, stalemate, standard, standoff, stereotyped, synonymous, the same, tie, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, without distinction

• six shooter, AA gun, BAR, BB gun, Big Bertha, Bren, Bren gun, Garand, Garand rifle, Gatling gun, Lewis gun, Long Tom, Thompson submachine gun, Y-gun, air gun, antiaircraft gun, antitank gun, antitank rifle, arquebus, atom gun, atomic cannon, atomic gun, automatic, automatic pistol, bazooka, blowgun, blowpipe, blunderbuss, bolt-action rifle, bombard, breechloader, brown Bess, bulldog, burp gun, caliver, cane gun, cannon, carbine, carronade, chassepot, culverin, dart gun, escopeta, falconet, field gun, fieldpiece, firearm, firelock, flamethrower, flintlock, forty-five, forty-four, fowling piece, fusil, gat, gun, hackbut, handgun, harpoon gun, harquebus, heater, hedgehog, horse pistol, howitzer, machine gun, machine pistol, matchlock, mortar, mountain gun, musket, musketoon, muzzle-loader, needle gun, peashooter, pedrero, petronel, piece, pistol, pom-pom, popgun, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, semiautomatic, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, skysweeper, submachine gun, swivel, thirty-thirty, thirty-two, wind-gun, zip gun

• sixth sense, ESP, a priori knowledge, anticipation, buddhi, chromesthesia, clairsentience, clairvoyance, color hearing, direct apprehension, extrasensory perception, five senses, foresight, hearing, immediate cognition, insight, inspiration, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, lucidity, phonism, photism, precognition, premonition, psychometry, receptor, satori, second sight, second-sightedness, sense organ, senses, sensillum, sensorium, sensory organ, sight, smell, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, synesthesia, taste, touch, unmediated perception

• sixth, consecutive intervals, decimalization, decimation, degree, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, fifth, fourth, half step, halftone, hexad, hexadic, hexagonal, hexahedral, hexamerous, hexangular, hexapartite, hexastyle, hexatomic, hexavalent, interval, less semitone, melodic interval, note, octave, parallel octaves, quinquepartition, quinquesection, second, semitone, senary, seventh, sexennial, sextipartite, sextipartition, sextuple, sixfold, step, tenth, third, tithe, tone, unison interval, whole step

• sizable, Gargantuan, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, big, boundless, bulky, bumper, colossal, considerable, cosmic, enormous, extensive, galactic, gigantic, good, goodly, grand, great, healthy, hefty, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, large-scale, major, mammoth, man-sized, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, numerous, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, respectable, sensible, smart, spacious, stupendous, substantial, tall, tidy, titanic, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty

• size up, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, autopsy, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canvass, check, check a parameter, check out, check over, check up on, compute, contemplate, dial, divide, estimate, evaluate, examine, eye, fathom, gauge, give an examination, give the eye, give the once-over, go over, graduate, hard look, inspect, leer, leer at, look at, look over, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, monitor, observe, ogle, ogle at, overhaul, overlook, pace, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, plumb, pore, pore over, postmortem, prize, probe, quantify, quantize, rate, review, run over, scan, scrutinize, set an examination, size, sound, span, step, study, survey, take a long, take a reading, take stock of, take the measure, triangulate, valuate, value, vet, weigh

• size, adjust, albumen, amplitude, appraise, appreciate, area, assay, assess, assort, autopsy, batter, bigness, body, bolt, bonnyclabber, breadth, bulk, butter, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canvass, categorize, check, check a parameter, check out, check over, check up on, clabber, classify, collate, compute, cornstarch, cream, crown, curd, dial, dimension, dimensions, divide, dough, duodecimo, egg white, eighteenmo, enlarge, enormousness, estimate, evaluate, examine, expanse, extension, extent, fathom, folio, gauge, gaum, gel, gelatin, give an examination, glair, glop, glue, gluten, go over, goo, gook, goop, gradate, grade, graduate, greatness, group, gruel, gumbo, gunk, height, hugeness, immensity, imperial, inspect, jam, jell, jelly, judge, largeness, length, loblolly, look at, look over, magnitude, mass, match, measure, measurement, medium, mensurate, mete, meter, molasses, monitor, mucilage, mucus, observe, octavo, octodecimo, overhaul, overlook, pace, pap, pass over, pass under review, paste, peer at, peruse, plumb, pore over, porridge, postmortem, prize, probe, proportion, proportions, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, quantify, quantize, quarto, range, rank, rate, review, riddle, rob, royal, run over, scan, scope, screen, scrutinize, semifluid, semiliquid, separate, set an examination, sextodecimo, sieve, sift, sixteenmo, size up, sort, sort out, sound, soup, span, spread, starch, step, sticky mess, stretch, study, subordinate, super, survey, syrup, take a reading, take stock of, take the measure, treacle, triangulate, twelvemo, valuate, value, vastness, volume, weigh, weight, width

• sizzle, assibilate, assibilation, ball the jack, barrel, be livid, be pissed, bluster, boil, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, browned off, brush, burn, buzz, carry on, chafe, clip, cut along, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, fret, frication, frictional rustling, fume, go fast, go on, have a conniption, highball, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, make knots, nip, outstrip the wind, pissed off, pour it on, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, rhonchus, rip, scorch, sear, seethe, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmer, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzling, skim, smoke, smolder, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, speed, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, stew, storm, storm along, sweep, swish, take on, tear, tear along, throw a fit, thunder along, wheeze, whish, whisk, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zing, zip, zoom

• sizzler, Jehu, battery, bells, bones, broiler, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, flier, gamelan, glockenspiel, goer, gong, handbells, hell-driver, horse racer, hot day, hummer, hustler, idiophone, jockey, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, racer, rattle, rattlebones, roaster, runner, scorcher, snappers, speed demon, speeder, stepper, summer day, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, turfman, vibes, vibraphone, xylophone

• sizzling, assibilation, baking, boiling, broiling, burning, buzz, clack, click, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitation, decrepitation, effervescence, effervescent, effervescing, fiery, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, het up, hiss, hissing, hot, hush, hushing, lisp, red-hot, rhonchus, scalding, scorching, seething, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilant, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmering, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, smoldering, snap, snapping, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, spit, spitting, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, torrid, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, white-hot, whiz, whoosh, zip

• skate, Reptilia, bloke, boy, buck, chap, coast, fellow, flit, flow, fly, gent, gentleman, glide, glissade, guy, ice skates, ice-skate, man, roller skates, roller-skate, sail, sideslip, skateboard, skates, ski, skid, skim, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, snowshoes, sweep, toboggan

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

• skedaddle, abscond, absquatulate, back out, beat a retreat, begone, boggle, bolt, career, chicken, chicken out, clear out, cut and run, cut out, dart, dash, decamp, depart, desert, desert under fire, dog it, elope, falter, fight shy, flee, fling, fly, fugitate, funk, funk out, get cold feet, go AWOL, haste, hasten, hie, hightail, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, jib, jump, jump a mile, jump bail, kite, lam, levant, lose courage, make haste, make off, panic, post, powder, race, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scram, scramble, screw, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, show the heels, shy, skip, skip out, slip the cable, split, stampede, start, start aside, startle, step on it, take French leave, take a powder, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, tear, turn tail, vamoose

• skein, animal fiber, artificial fiber, bevy, capillament, charm, cilium, cirrus, cloud, cobweb, covey, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flight, flock, gaggle, gossamer, hair, hank, hive, jungle, knot, labyrinth, mesh, morass, murmuration, plague, snarl, spring, strand, suture, swarm, tangle, tendril, thread, threadlet, watch, web

• skeletal, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, corpselike, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, haggard, hollow-eyed, jejune, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, marantic, marasmic, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, skeleton, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weazeny, withered, wizened, wraithlike

• skeleton, abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, adumbrate, anatomy, appendicular skeleton, ashes, axial skeleton, backing, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, bearing, block out, blueprint, body, bones, brief, broomstick, brouillon, bushing, cadaver, cadre, capsule, carcass, carrion, cartoon, case, casement, casing, chalk, chart, chassis, clay, clothes pole, compend, condensation, condensed version, configuration, conspectus, contour, copy, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, delineation, design, diagram, digest, doorframe, draft, drawing, dry bones, dust, earth, ebauche, elevation, embalmed corpse, epitome, esquisse, exoskeleton, fabric, features, figuration, figure, food for worms, frame, framework, framing, gestalt, graph, ground plan, gruel, head, house plan, hulk, ichnography, infrastructure, lanky, late lamented, lath, lattice, latticework, lineaments, lines, main features, mere shadow, mere wreck, mortal remains, mount, mounting, mummification, mummy, nervous wreck, organic remains, outline, overview, pandect, paper, pattern, picture frame, plot, precis, profile, projection, rail, rake, rattlebones, rattletrap, relics, relief, reliquiae, remains, review, rough, rubric, ruin, ruins, sash, setting, shadow, shapes, shaving, shell, shortened version, silhouette, skeletal, sketch, slat, slim, slip, soup, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, splinter, stack of bones, stiff, stilt, streak, survey, syllabus, synopsis, table, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, tournure, twiggy, underframe, vein, wafer, walking skeleton, window case, window frame, working drawing, wreck

• skeptical, Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, cynical, dicey, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, dissenting, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, equivocal, erratic, fickle, freethinking, from Missouri, guarded, hard of belief, hesitant, hesitating, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, incalculable, inconvincible, incredulous, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, questioning, scrupulous, shy, shy of belief, skeptic, suspecting, suspicious, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuadable, unpersuaded, unpersuasible, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, untrusting, unverifiable, unwilling to accept, variable, wary, wavering, whimsical

• skepticism, Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, apprehension, caution, cautiousness, concern, diffidence, disinclination to believe, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, guardedness, half-belief, incertitude, inconvincibility, incredulity, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, qualm, qualmishness, question, resistiveness to belief, scoffing, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, suspicion, suspiciousness, total skepticism, tough-mindedness, uncertainty, unconvincibility, uncredulousness, unpersuadability, unpersuasibility, wariness, wonder

• sketch, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridge, abridgment, abstract, act, act as foil, adumbrate, afterpiece, antimasque, appear, article, audience success, ballet, barnstorm, bit, black and white, block in, block out, blueprint, bomb, brief, bring to life, broadcast drama, brouillon, burlesque show, cameo, capsule, capsulize, cartoon, catalog, cataloging, causerie, chalk, chalk out, character, character sketch, characterization, characterize, charade, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart, chaser, chiaroscuro, cliff hanger, closet drama, color, come out, comedy drama, compend, condensation, condense, condensed version, conspectus, copy, crayon, critical success, crosshatch, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, dash off, daub, daytime serial, delineate, delineation, depict, depiction, descant, describe, description, design, detail, details, develop, diagram, dialogue, digest, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, divertimento, divertissement, documentary drama, doodle, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, draw, drawing, duodrama, duologue, ebauche, elevation, emote, emotionalize, epic theater, epilogue, epitome, esquisse, essay, etude, evocation, evoke, examination, excursus, exode, exodus, experimental theater, exposition, expository scene, express, extravaganza, failure, feature, figure, finale, first approach, flop, gasser, get top billing, give words to, giveaway, graph, graphic account, ground plan, happening, hatch, head, hit, hit show, hoke act, homily, house plan, ichnography, image, imagery, impression, improvisational drama, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, introductory study, itemization, lay, lay off, lay out, legitimate drama, limn, limning, line, line drawing, lucubration, map, map out, mark off, mark out, masque, melodrama, memoir, mime, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monograph, monologue, morality, morality play, morceau, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, note, number, nutshell, opera, outline, overview, pageant, paint, paint a picture, pandect, panel show, pantomime, paper, paragraph, particularization, pastel, pastoral, pastoral drama, patter, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, perform, photograph, picture, picturize, piece, play, play the lead, playact, playlet, plot, plot out, portrait, portraiture, portray, portrayal, precis, preliminary study, problem play, profile, projection, prolegomenon, prologue, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, register, render, rendering, rendition, represent, representation, research paper, review, revue, rough, rough copy, rough draft, rough in, rough out, rough outline, routine, rubric, scene, scratch, screed, scumble, sensational play, serial, set forth, set out, shade, shorten, shortened version, show, shtick, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sitcom, situation comedy, skeleton, sketch out, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, song and dance, special article, specification, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stand-up comedy act, star, steal the show, stencil, stooge, straight drama, striptease, study, success, summarize, survey, suspense drama, syllabus, synopsis, synopsize, table, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, term paper, theater of cruelty, theme, thesis, thumbnail sketch, tint, topical outline, total theater, trace, tracing, tract, tractate, tread the boards, treatise, treatment, troupe, turn, upstage, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, vignette, vivid description, word painting, word-of-mouth success, work, working drawing, write

• sketchbook, air brush, art paper, best seller, book, bound book, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, chalk, charcoal, classic, coloring book, crayon, definitive work, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, fixative, folio, great work, ground, hardback, juvenile, juvenile book, lay figure, limp-cover book, magnum opus, maulstick, medium, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paperback, pastel, pencil, picture book, pigments, playbook, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, scratchboard, serial, siccative, sketchpad, soft-cover, songbook, spatula, spray gun, standard work, storybook, stump, title, tome, trade book, varnish, volume, work, writing

• sketchy, adulterated, arrested, blemished, callow, crude, cursory, damaged, defective, deficient, depthless, embryonic, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, found wanting, fuzzy, hasty, hurried, hypoplastic, ill-defined, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, indistinct, inexact, infant, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, missing, mixed, needing, not perfect, off, part, partial, patchy, perfunctory, rough, rough-hewn, scant, scanty, scrappy, shallow, short, shy, skimpy, superficial, uncritical, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, unsound, unthorough, vague, wanting

• skew, aberrancy, aberration, agee, agee-jawed, angle, angle off, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, bear off, bend, bent, bias, branching off, catawampous, catawamptious, circuitousness, cockeyed, corner, crook, crooked, curve, declination, deflect, deflected, deflective, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diffract, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, digression, dip, disbalance, discursion, disequilibrate, disparate, disperse, dispersed, disproportionate, distort, distorted, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, edge, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flectional, flexed, go crabwise, go sideways, goggle, hairpin, ill-matched, ill-sorted, inadequate, indirection, inflective, insufficient, irregular, lateral, lateralize, look asquint, lurch, make leeway, mismatched, oblique, obliquity, odd, out of proportion, overbalance, pererration, pull, rambling, refract, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scatter, scattered, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sideslip, sidestep, sidle, skew-jawed, skewed, skid, slant, slaunchways, slide, slip, slue, squinch, squint, squint the eye, squinting, straying, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, throw off balance, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unequal, uneven, upset, variation, veer, wamper-jawed, wandering, warp, wry, yaw, yaw-ways, zigzag

• skewed, agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, deflected, deflective, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disparate, dispersed, disproportionate, distorted, flectional, flexed, ill-matched, ill-sorted, inadequate, inflective, insufficient, irregular, mismatched, odd, out of proportion, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scattered, skew, skew-jawed, slaunchways, squinting, unequal, uneven, wamper-jawed, wry, yaw-ways

• skewer, articulate, auger, batten, batten down, bite, bolt, bore, broach, buckle, butt, button, clasp, cleat, clip, countersink, dovetail, drill, empierce, fix, gore, gouge, gouge out, hasp, hinge, hitch, hole, honeycomb, hook, impale, jam, joint, lance, latch, lock, miter, mortise, nail, needle, peg, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pin, pink, prick, punch, puncture, rabbet, ream, ream out, riddle, rivet, run through, scarf, screw, sew, snap, spear, spike, spit, stab, staple, stick, stitch, tack, tap, toggle, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, wedge, zipper

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

• skid row, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, bowery, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, midtown, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, slum, slums, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, uptown, urban blight

• skid, avalanche, bank, coast, crab, dip, drop, edge, fall, feather, fishtail, flit, flow, fly, glide, glissade, glissando, go crabwise, go sideways, ice-skate, landslide, landslip, lateral, lateralize, loop, make leeway, nose-dive, plow, plunge, porpoise, pull out, pull up, push down, roll, roller-skate, sail, sheer, sideslip, sidestep, sidle, skate, skateboard, skew, ski, skim, sled, sleigh, slidder, slide, slide down, slip, slippage, slither, slue, slur, snowslide, snowslip, spin, spiral, stunt, subsidence, sweep, toboggan, tumble, undulate, veer, yaw

• skilful, able, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, capable, clever, dexterous, experienced, expert, gifted, masterful, masterly, professional, proficient, qualified, skilled, talented, trained

• skill less, artless, half-assed, inadept, inapt, inattentive, inefficient, inept, inexpert, mediocre, pedestrian, poor, thoughtless, unapt, undeft, undexterous, undextrous, unfacile, unintelligent, unproficient, unskillful

• skill, Mnemosyne, ability, accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, affect memory, anterograde memory, aptitude, art, artistry, ascendancy, atavism, capability, cleverness, collective memory, command, computer memory, craft, cunning, deanship, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, disk memory, drum memory, ease, emotional response, engram, excellence, experience, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, favor, finesse, forte, gift, greatness, handiness, incomparability, information storage, ingenuity, inimitability, kinesthetic memory, knack, know-how, lead, majority, mastership, mastery, mechanics, mechanism, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, method, mind, mneme, one-upmanship, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, proficiency, prowess, quickness, race memory, readiness, recollection, remembrance, right-of-way, science, screen memory, seniority, skillfulness, sleight, souvenir, strength, success, superiority, talent, tape memory, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, transcendence, transcendency, verbal response, virtuosity, visual memory

• skilled, accomplished, adept, adept in, at concert pitch, at home in, career, coached, conversant, crack, crackerjack, expert, expert at, finished, good at, handy at, initiate, initiated, master, master of, masterful, masterly, old, old-time, practical, practiced, prepared, primed, professional, proficient in, seasoned, skilled in, skillful, strong in, technical, trained, up on, versed, versed in, vet, veteran, well up on, well-versed

• skillful, Daedalian, adept, adroit, advantageous, apt, artistic, auspicious, authoritative, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, capital, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, expert, fair, famous, fancy, favorable, fine, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, handy, healthy, helpful, ingenious, kind, laudable, learned, magisterial, master, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, no mean, noble, pleasant, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, profitable, quick, quite some, ready, regal, resourceful, royal, skilled, slick, some, sound, splendid, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-done, well-versed, wicked, workmanlike

• skim, avalanche, ball the jack, barrel, blink, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, browse, brush, brush by, carefully ignore, caress, carom, clip, coast, cold-shoulder, come in contact, contact, cream, cut a corner, cut along, cut corners, dap, dart, dip into, dodge, drift, examine cursorily, fleet, flit, float, flow, fly, fly low, foot, fudge, ghost, give the once-over, glance, glance at, glance over, glance through, glide, glissade, go fast, graze, highball, hit, ice-skate, impinge, kiss, make knots, nip, nudge, osculate, outstrip the wind, page through, pass over, pass over lightly, plow the deep, pour it on, remove, ricochet, ride, ride the sea, rip, roller-skate, rub, run, run over, run through, sail, scamp, scan, scorch, scrape, scratch the surface, scud, separate, shave, shoot, sideslip, sideswipe, sizzle, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip, skip over, skirt, sled, sleigh, slidder, slide, slide down, slight, slip, slip through, slither, slubber over, slur, slur over, soar, speed, squeak by, storm along, sweep, take off, tear, tear along, thumb over, thumb through, thunder along, toboggan, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, touch upon lightly, walk the waters, whisk, whiz, zing, zip, zip through, zoom

• skimp, begrudge, blink, carefully ignore, cold-shoulder, cut a corner, cut corners, dodge, economize, enforce economies, exiguous, famish, fudge, grudge, husband, keep within compass, live upon nothing, make ends meet, manage, pass over, pass over lightly, pinch, pinch pennies, poor, put something aside, save, scamp, scant, scanty, scrape, scrape and save, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, short, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimpy, skip over, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, spare, sparse, starve, stint, touch upon, touch upon lightly

• skimping, Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, culpably negligent, curtailment, cutback, derelict, economic, economization, economizing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, exiguous, forehanded, frugal, frugal to excess, frugality, inadvertent, inattentive, infrequent, labor-saving, laissez-faire, law of parsimony, lax, loose, low growth rate, meager, miserly, money-saving, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, niggardly, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overfrugal, overly permissive, parsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, permissive, piddling, pinching, poor, procrastinating, provident, prudent, prudential, rare, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, relaxed, remiss, retrenchment, saving, scamping, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraping, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimpy, slack, slighting, slim, slowdown, slurring, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, stinting, thin, thrifty, tight, time-saving, too frugal, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unwary, unwasteful, unwatchful

• skimpy, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, deficient, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, failing, frugal, impoverished, inadequate, infrequent, insufficient, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, piddling, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shy, skimp, skimping, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, unnourishing, unnutritious, wanting, watered, watery

• skin deep, ankle-deep, cortical, cursory, cutaneous, depthless, dermal, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, few, footling, furry, hypodermal, hypodermic, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, jejune, knee-deep, light, little, low, meager, miniature, negligible, no great shakes, not deep, on the surface, petty, picayune, picayunish, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, short, skinny, slight, small, subcutaneous, superficial, surface, testaceous, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unprofound

• skin flick, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Rabelaisianism, Technicolor, Western, X-rated movie, animated cartoon, bawdiness, bawdry, black-and-white film, blue movie, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, feature, fescenninity, film, filth, filthiness, flick, flicker, foulness, horror picture, horse opera, iconolagny, lewdness, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, nastiness, newsreel, nudie, obscenity, offensiveness, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic art, pornographic film, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, preview, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scurrility, sexploitation, short, silent, silent film, smut, smuttiness, sneak preview, soft-core pornography, spaghetti Western, stag film, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film, vileness

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

• skin, C, C-note, G, G-note, IUD, ablate, abrade, abrase, acne, acne vulgaris, bag, bark, barrel, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beeline, best, bill, birth control device, blame, bleed, bleed white, blemish, bloody, bone, border, bran, break, buck, bucket, bullet, burn, capsule, cartwheel, case, casing, censure, cent, century, chafe, chaff, cheapskate, cheat, check, chip, circumference, clad, claw, clip, clobber, coat, coating, collop, con man, condemn, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, copper, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, cover, covering, crack, craze, crust, cursoriness, cut, cut off, deal, decorticate, defeat, defoliate, defrauder, denounce, denude, denunciate, deplume, derma, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, despoil, destroy, diaphragm, diddler, dime, disk, dismember, displume, divest, do in, dollar, dollar bill, double-dealer, drain, draw and quarter, drub, dry, eczema, elephantiasis, enamel, envelope, epicarp, epidermis, epithelioma, erase, erode, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, excoriate, exhaust, exploit, exterior, exteriority, external, facade, face, facet, facing, fell, feuille, fifty cents, file, film, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fix, flap, flay, fleece, fleet, flimflammer, foil, fold, four bits, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fringe, frogskin, front, fur, gall, gash, gloss, gnaw, gnaw away, gouge, grand, grate, graze, grind, gyp, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, haste, hasten, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hide, highball, hives, hold up, hors de combat, hull, hundred-dollar bill, hurt, husk, hustle, impetigo, impoverish, incise, incrustation, injure, integument, intrauterine device, iron man, itch, jacket, jungle rot, knock, lacerate, lacquer, lambaste, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lather, leaf, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lick, lineaments, lupus, lupus vulgaris, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, membrane, mere scratch, miliaria, milk, mill, mutilate, nickel, niggard, no depth, no water, oral contraceptive, outclass, outdo, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outfight, outgeneral, outline, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, outside, overcharge, overlay, overprice, overtax, paint, palea, pane, panel, pare, patina, peel, peeling, pellicle, pelt, pemphigus, penny, periphery, pessary, phellum, pick clean, pick to pieces, pierce, pinprick, plait, plank, plate, plating, pluck, ply, plywood, pod, prickly heat, profiteer, prophylactic, pruigo, pruritus, psora, pull apart, pull off, puncture, put, quarter, rap, rasher, rasp, raze, red cent, rend, reprehend, reprobate, revetment, rind, ringworm, rip, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubber, ruin, run, rupture, safety glass, savage, sawbuck, scabies, scald, scale, scalp, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, screw, scrooge, scrub, scuff, scum, settle, shallowness, sharper, shear, sheath, sheathing, sheet, shell, shingles, shoaliness, shred, shuck, side, siding, silver dollar, skin alive, skin cancer, skinflint, slab, slash, slat, slice, slightness, slit, slough, smacker, soak, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, sprain, stab, stick, stiff, sting, strain, strip, strip bare, suck dry, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surcharge, surface, swindle, table, tablet, take apart, take the cake, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, tetter, the pill, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, thrash, tightwad, top, traumatize, trim, triumph, triumph over, triviality, trounce, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, undo, varnish, veneer, victimize, wafer, wear, wear away, whip, win, worst, wound, wrench, yard

• skinful, bellyful, bumper, capacity, charge, complement, cram, crush, engorgement, fill, full house, full measure, fullness, glut, jam up, lading, load, more than enough, mouthful, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, saturatedness, saturation, saturation point, snootful, supersaturation, surfeit

• skinned, all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted

• skinny, angular, bony, cortical, cutaneous, dermal, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, emaciated, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, furry, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, half-starved, hypodermal, hypodermic, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skeletal, skin-deep, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, subcutaneous, testaceous, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weedy

• skip over, blink, carefully ignore, cold-shoulder, cut a corner, cut corners, dip into, dodge, examine cursorily, fudge, give the once-over, glance at, page through, pass over, pass over lightly, scamp, scan, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, slight, slip through, slubber over, slur, slur over, thumb through, touch upon, touch upon lightly, zip through

• skip, Highland fling, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, amble, and jump, antic, avoid, avoidance, bail out, barge, beam, beat a retreat, blank, bob, bolt, bounce, bound, bowl along, break away, break jail, break loose, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bundle, caper, capriole, caracole, carol, carom, carry on, cavort, chasm, chirp, chirrup, clap hands, clear, clear out, clog, clop, clump, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut and run, cut capers, cut loose, cut up, dance, dap, decamp, delight, demivolt, depart, desert, disport, disregard, dog it, drag, elope, escape, escape prison, evade, exult, flee, flounce, fly, fly the coop, flying jump, fool around, foot, footfall, footslog, footstep, fox-trot, frisk, frolic, fugitate, galliard, gambado, gambol, gap, gelandesprung, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, glory, glow, go AWOL, go awol, goldbrick, goof off, grand jete, graze, halt, handspring, high jump, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoofbeat, hop, horse around, hurdle, ignore, jete, jig, jog, jolt, joy, jubilate, jump, jump about, jump bail, jump over, jump ship, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, lacuna, lam, laugh, lavolta, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, levant, lilt, limp, long jump, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, make a getaway, make off, malinger, mince, miss, morris, negotiate, omission, omit, overjump, overleap, overlook, oversight, overskip, pace, paddle, pass by, pass over, pass up, peg, piaffe, piaffer, play, play hooky, play truant, plod, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, powder, prance, preterition, pretermit, procrastinate, rack, radiate cheer, ramp, rejoice, revel, ricochet, roll, rollick, romp, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, running broad jump, running high jump, sashay, saunter, saut de basque, scamper, scoot, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shimmy, shirk, show the heels, shuffle, sidle, sing, single-foot, skedaddle, ski jump, skim, skip for joy, skip out, skitter, slack, slink, slip the cable, slip the collar, slither, slog, slouch, smile, sparkle, split, sport, spring, stagger, stalk, stamp, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, steer clear of, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, take French leave, take a powder, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, tap-dance, tittup, toddle, totter, tour jete, traipse, tread, trifle, trip, trudge, turn tail, updive, upleap, upspring, vault, waddle, waltz, wamble, whistle, wiggle, wobble

• skipper, OD, admiral, be responsible for, boatswain, boss, call the signals, captain, carry on, chief, chief engineer, chief mate, chief petty officer, command, commander, commodore, conduct, control, deck officer, direct, engineer, ensign, fleet admiral, govern, handle, head, head up, lead, lead on, leader, lieutenant, lieutenant commander, lieutenant junior grade, make the rules, manage, maneuver, manipulate, master, mastermind, mate, naval officer, navarch, navigating officer, navigator, officer, order, patron, petty officer, pipes, prescribe, pull the strings, quarterback, quartermaster, rear admiral, regulate, run, sailing master, second mate, shipmaster, take command, take the lead, the Old Man, vice admiral, warrant officer, watch officer

• skirmish, action, aerial combat, affray, ambush, armored combat, assault, attack, battle, battle royal, box, brawl, broil, brush, bullfight, clash, clash of arms, close, cockfight, collide, combat, come to blows, conflict, confrontation, contend, contest, cut and thrust, dogfight, duel, embroilment, encounter, engagement, exchange blows, exchange of blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fire fight, fracas, fray, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, house-to-house combat, jostle, joust, melee, mix it up, naval combat, passage of arms, pitched battle, quarrel, rassle, riot, rumble, run a tilt, run-in, running fight, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to, shoving match, showdown, spar, stand-up fight, street fight, strive, struggle, tauromachy, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, tug-of-war, tussle, wage war, war, wrestle

• skirt, Jane, Mother Hubbard, adjoin, babe, baby, ballet skirt, bank, befringe, beg, biddy, bind, bird, bitch, board, border, bordure, bound, boundaries, bounds, bourns, brim, brink, broad, brow, brush, brush by, burke, bypass, caress, cheongsam, chick, chiton, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumscription, circumvent, close the circle, coast, cocktail dress, colleen, come full circle, come in contact, compass, confines, contact, coordinates, crinoline, culottes, cutie, cycle, dame, damoiselle, damsel, define, demoiselle, describe a circle, detour, dirndl, ditch, dodge, doll, double, dress, dresses, duck, edge, edges, elude, encircle, encompass, enframe, escape, evade, featheredge, filly, flange, flank, frail, frame, fringe, fringes, frock, full skirt, gal, get around, get away from, get out of, girdle, girdle the globe, girl, girlie, glance, go about, go around, go round, go the round, gown, grass skirt, graze, gyre, hedge, heifer, hem, hen, hit, hobble skirt, hoyden, ignore, impinge, jeune fille, jill, jumper, junior miss, jupe, kilt, kirtle, kiss, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lass, lassie, ledge, limb, limbus, limitations, limits, line, lip, list, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, make a circuit, mantua, march, marches, marge, margin, marginate, maxiskirt, metes, metes and bounds, microskirt, midiskirt, miniskirt, minx, miss, missy, muu-muu, nudge, nymphet, orbit, osculate, outlines, outskirts, overdress, pale, pannier, parameters, peplum, perimeter, periphery, petticoat, piece, pinafore, purfle, purl, ragged edge, revolve, rim, romp, round, rub, sack, sari, sarong, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scrape, selvage, set off, shake, shake off, shave, sheath, shirtdress, shore, shuffle out of, side, sideline, sidestep, sideswipe, skim, skip, skirting, skirts, slip, slit skirt, spiral, squeak by, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, surround, tea gown, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, touch, trim, tutu, verge, verges, virgin, wench, wheel, young creature, young thing

• skit, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, act, afterpiece, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bit, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, chaser, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, daytime serial, dialogue, divertimento, divertissement, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, epilogue, exode, exodus, experimental theater, expository scene, extravaganza, failure, finale, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, hoke act, improvisational drama, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, legitimate drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, number, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, routine, scene, sensational play, serial, show, shtick, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, song and dance, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stand-up comedy act, straight drama, striptease, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, turn, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• skittish, agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, animated, antic, bashful, capersome, changeable, coltish, combustible, confused, conscious, coquettish, cowardly, coy, delicate, demure, diffident, dizzy, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, empty-headed, eruptive, excitable, explosive, exuberant, faddish, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fickle, flighty, flirtatious, frisky, frivolous, frolicsome, full of beans, gamesome, gay, giddy, goosy, harebrained, hearty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, in fear, inarticulate, inconstant, inflammable, irascible, irresponsible, irritable, itchy, jumpy, light, light-headed, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, mousy, nervous, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, perturbable, playful, prickly, quicksilver, rabbity, rattlebrained, refined, responsive, restive, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scary, scatterbrained, self-conscious, sensitive, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, spirited, sportive, sprightly, stammering, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, toying, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile, vital, vivacious, volatile, volcanic, zestful, zippy

• skulduggery, artifice, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, foul play, machination, pettifoggery, pettifogging, sharp practice, sleight, supercherie, trickery, underhand dealing

• skulk, army, bunch, clock watcher, colony, couch, cower, creep, cringe, crouch, dodge, dog it, drift, drive, drove, duck, duck duty, eye-servant, flock, gam, gang, get out of, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, gumshoe, herd, host, kennel, lay wait, lie in wait, litter, lurk, malinger, malingerer, nightwalk, not pull fair, old soldier, pack, pod, pride, prowl, pussyfoot, quail, school, shadow, shirk, shirker, shoal, skulker, slack, slacker, slide out of, slink, slip, slip out of, sloth, snake, sneak, sneak out of, soldier, stalk, steal, tax dodger, tiptoe, trip, troop, truant, welsh, welsher

• skulking, back-door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering, cringing, doggo, feline, furtive, hidden out, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, lurking, on tiptoe, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quailing, quiet, shifty, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy, surreptitious, under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, waiting concealed

• skull and crossbones, Azrael, Black Death, Death, Grim Reaper, Pale Death, Reaper, angel of death, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, baton, blazonry, brassard, button, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, class ring, cockade, collar, cross, crossbones, danger sign, decoration, dress, eagle, early symptom, emblems, ensigns, falling barometer, fasces, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, gathering clouds, hammer and sickle, heraldry, high sign, insignia, lapel pin, livery, mace, mantle, markings, medal, memento mori, mortarboard, old school tie, omen, pale horse, pale rider, pin, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, regalia, ring, rose, school ring, shamrock, sickle of Death, sigillography, skull, sphragistics, staff, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swastika, symptom, tartan, that fell sergeant, that grim ferryman, thistle, thundercloud, thunderhead, tie, uniform, verge, wand, warning sign, warning signal, white cross, yellow flag, yellow jack

• skull session, assignment, chalk talk, discourse, disquisition, exercise, exposition, harangue, homework, homily, instruction, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, preachment, recital, recitation, sermon, set task, talk, task, teaching

• skull, Azrael, Black Death, Death, Grim Reaper, Pale Death, Reaper, angel of death, brain box, brainpan, cranium, crossbones, epicranium, memento mori, pale horse, pale rider, pericranium, sickle of Death, skull and crossbones, that fell sergeant, that grim ferryman, white cross

• skunk, Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, beat, blank, bulldoze, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, clobber, coon, cream, cur, defeat utterly, dog, drub, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, lambaste, larrup, lick, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pig, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, prick, quill pig, raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, schmear, scum, serpent, shellac, shit, shithead, shut out, smear, snake, snow under, steamroller, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, thrash, toad, turd, varmint, vermin, viper, warning sign, weasel, whelm, whelp, whistle-pig, whitewash, whomp, whop, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril

• sky blue, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, blue, bluish, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, cyanean, dark-blue, deep-blue, light-blue, lightish-blue, livid, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, sapphire, sapphirine, sky-colored, sky-dyed, turquoise

• sky dive, bail out, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, brolly, cannonball, chaplain, churchman, chute, cleric, clerical, clerk, crash dive, dive, divine, drogue chute, drop, ecclesiastic, fall, gainer, harness, header, jackknife, jump, minister, nose dive, nose-dive, pack, padre, parachute, parachute jump, parson, pitch, plop, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, power dive, preacher, running dive, shroud lines, skin-dive, sky dive, sky pilot, sky-dive, sound, stationary dive, stoop, swan dive, swoop, swoop down, take a header, umbrella, vent

• sky, Caelus, Olympian heights, acme, aerial heights, air, apex, apogee, azure, blue sky, brow, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cap, cerulean, climax, cloud nine, cope, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, dizzy heights, edge, elevation, eminence, empyrean, ether, extreme limit, extremity, firmament, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hyaline, lift, lifts, limit, maximum, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, raise, ridge, rise, rising ground, seventh heaven, spire, starry heaven, steep, stratosphere, summit, the blue, the blue serene, tip, tip-top, top, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, uprise, utmost, vantage ground, vantage point, vault, vault of heaven, vertex, very top, welkin, zenith

• skylark, carouse, celebrate, cut loose, debauch, hell around, jollify, jolly, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, make merry, make whoopee, raise hell, revel, roister, see life, spree, step out, wanton, whoop it up

• skylight, afterglow, air glow, bay, bay window, bow window, candescence, casement, casement window, ceiling, eaves, fan window, fanlight, flush, gleam, glint, gloss, glow, grille, housetop, incandescence, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, luster, oriel, overhead, pane, penthouse, picture window, plafond, port, porthole, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, rose window, sheen, shine, shingles, shininess, shining light, slates, sunset glow, tiles, top, transom, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

• skyrocket, advance, ameliorate, amend, bob up, break water, climb, come along, come on, develop, float up, fly up, fountain, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, go ahead, go forward, graduate, grow better, gush, improve, jet, jump up, leap up, look up, make headway, make progress, make strides, meliorate, mend, perk up, pick up, pop up, progress, rocket, shape up, shoot up, show improvement, soar, spring up, spurt, start up, surface, take off, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upstart, vault up, vise

• skyrocketing, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, climbing, cutthroat, exacting, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, gouging, grossly overpriced, immoderate, in the ascendant, inflationary, inordinate, leaping, mounting, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, preposterous, prohibitive, rampant, rearing, rising, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, spiraling, springing, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward, uprising, upsloping, upward, upwith, usurious

• skyscraper, antenna tower, architecture, barbican, belfry, bell tower, building, campanile, casa, cliff dwelling, colossus, column, construct, construction, consulate, country house, country seat, cupola, dacha, deanery, derrick, dome, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, establishment, fabric, farm, farmhouse, fire tower, hall, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, lantern, lighthouse, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, packaged house, pagoda, parsonage, penthouse, pilaster, pile, pillar, pinnacle, pole, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, presidential palace, pylon, pyramid, ranch house, rectory, roof, shaft, sod house, spire, split-level, standpipe, steeple, structure, stupa, superstructure, television mast, tope, tour, tower, town house, turret, vicarage, water tower, windmill tower

• skyward, above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, heavenward, high, high up, in the air, in the clouds, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, straight up, tiptoe, to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, upalong, uphill, uphillward, uplong, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward, uptown, upward, upwards, upwith

• slab, bar, beam, billet, board, boarding, chunk, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, disk, driftwood, feuille, film, firewood, flap, foil, fold, glop, gunk, hardwood, hunk, ingot, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, log, lumber, lump, membrane, mire, muck, ooze, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, planking, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rasher, rod, safety glass, scum, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, skin, slat, slice, slime, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush, softwood, splat, splosh, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, strip, table, tablet, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, wedge, wood

• slabber, dribble, drivel, drool, expectorate, expectoration, foam, froth, hawk, mouth-watering, ptyalism, saliva, salivate, salivation, sialagogue, slaver, slobber, spew, spit, spittle, sputum

• slabby, adhesive, amylaceous, barfy, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, crappy, curdled, dirty, disgusting, doughy, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gloppy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunky, heavy, icky, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miry, mucilaginous, mucky, muddy, nasty, nauseating, odious, oozy, ordurous, pasty, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, ropy, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slimy, slithery, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, turbid, vile, viscid, viscose, viscous, vomity, wormy, yecchy

• slack, Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, Paphian, abandon, abate, abatement, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, backward, bagging, baggy, bate, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, blow out, blowzy, bone-lazy, bones, cadging, careless, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chaff, chambering, chicken, chintzy, choke, circumspect, claudicant, coal dust, comatose, comb, coom, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, culm, culpably negligent, cut, dallying, damp, dangling, dead, deadwood, debilitated, decline, decrease, delay, delaying, deliberate, delinquent, derelict, desensitized, detached, diffuse, dilapidated, dilatory, dillydallying, diminish, diminution, dishwater, disinterested, disjoin, disperse, disregardful, do-nothing, dodge, dog it, doless, dopey, dormant, douse, down, downturn, drabbletailed, draff, draggled, draggletailed, dregs, dronish, drony, drooping, droopy, duck, duck duty, dull, dust, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, easy, easygoing, effete, ergophobic, etiolated, extinguish, faineant, faint, faintish, faltering, feeble, filings, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flapping, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, foul, free, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, garbage, gash, gentle, get out of, give, goldbrick, gone, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, groggy, grubby, gutless, halting, hanging, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbling, hogwash, hopeless, husks, idle, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, in a stupor, in abeyance, in rags, in suspense, inactive, inactivity, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, infirm, informal, insouciant, jump, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, leavings, lees, leisurely, lenient, lessening, let alone, let be, let dangle, let down, let go, let loose, let up, let up on, lethargic, lifeless, light, limber, limp, limping, lingering, listless, logy, loitering, loose, loose-moraled, loosen, looseness, lull, lumbering, lumpen, lustless, malinger, marrowless, messy, miss, mitigate, moderate, mussy, neglect, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nerveless, nonaggressive, nonchalant, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, not pull fair, numb, numbed, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off, off-guard, offal, offscourings, omit, orts, otiose, out, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, parasitic, parings, pass over, pass up, passive, pause, permissive, phlegmatic, pithless, play, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, potsherds, powerless, pretermit, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, promiscuous, put out, quench, ragged, raggedy, rags, raspings, reduction, refuse, regardless, relax, relaxed, release, reluctant, remiss, remit, resigned, rickety, room, rubbery, ruinous, sagging, sapless, sauntering, scamping, scatter, scourings, scraggly, scrap iron, scraps, scrounging, scum, sedentary, seedy, shabby, shaky, shards, shavings, shiftless, shirk, shoddy, shuffling, sinewless, skimping, skip, skulk, slack off, slack up, slacken, slackening, slackness, slag, slake, slatternly, sleeping, slide out of, slighting, slip out of, slipshod, slop, sloppy, slops, slothful, slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-up, sluggish, slumbering, slurring, sluttish, smoldering, smother, snail-paced, snaillike, sneak out of, snuff, snuff out, soft, soldier, soporific, sordid, spineless, spiritless, sponging, spunkless, squalid, staggering, stagnant, stamp out, standing, static, stifle, stoic, streaming, strengthless, strolling, stubble, stupefied, supine, suspended, sweepings, swill, tacky, tame, tares, tattered, tentative, tire, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trifle, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unbend, unbrace, uncaring, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unenterprising, unglue, unguarded, unhardened, unhurried, uninterested, unkempt, unlax, unleash, unneat, unnerved, unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsteady, unstick, unstrain, unstring, unstrung, untidy, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, unwind, waddling, wanton, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wayward, weak, weaken, weakly, weeds, welsh, whorish, withdrawn, work-shy

• slacken, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, arrest, assuage, attemper, attenuate, backpedal, backwater, bank the fire, bate, benumb, block, blunt, bog down, bottle up, brake, chasten, check, clip the wings, come apart, confine, constrain, control, countercheck, curb, cushion, dam up, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, decelerate, degenerate, delay, detain, deteriorate, die down, diffuse, dilute, diminish, disimprove, disintegrate, disjoin, disperse, dissolve into chaos, downplay, drag, draw rein, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, ebb, extenuate, fall, fall back, foment, free, get worse, give relief, grow worse, hang up, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep back, keep in check, keep within bounds, lag, lax, lay, lenify, lessen, let down, let go, let up, let up on, lighten, loose, loosen, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, lull, make late, meddle, mire, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, numb, obstruct, obtund, oppose, pad, palliate, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, reduce, reduce the temperature, reef, regress, rein in, relapse, relax, relent, relieve, remit, repress, resist, restrain, retard, retrograde, retrogress, salve, scatter, scotch, set back, sicken, slack, slack off, slack up, slackening, slake, slip back, slow, slow down, slow up, slow-up, smother, snub, sober, sober down, soften, soothe, stay, stifle, stop, stupe, subdue, subside, suppress, take in sail, tame, temper, throttle down, tone down, tune down, unbend, unbrace, underplay, unglue, unlax, unleash, unstick, unstrain, unstring, untighten, untune, unwind, wane, water down, weaken, worsen

• slackening, abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, check, damping, deadening, debilitation, deceleration, delay, demulsion, detention, devitalization, dilution, diminution, drag, dulcification, dulling, ease-off, ease-up, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling-off, fatigue, flagging, holdup, hushing, inanition, lag, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, setback, slack-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, subduement, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening

• slacker, bungler, clock watcher, disregarder, dodger, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, ignorer, loafer, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, old soldier, procrastinator, shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slinker, sloven, slugabed, sluggard, slut, soldier, spiv, tax dodger, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsher

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

• slake, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, bate, benumb, cloy, cram, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, diminish, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, engorge, feast, feed, fill, fill up, foment, fulfill, give relief, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, lay, lessen, let down, let up, loose, loosen, lull, mitigate, mollify, numb, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pad, pall, palliate, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, quench, reduce, regale, relax, relieve, remit, salve, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, soften, soothe, stuff, stupe, subdue, supersaturate, surfeit, unbend, unbrace, unstrain, unstring

• slam bang, a corps perdu, carelessly, desperately, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like crazy, like mad, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble, recklessly, slap-bang, slapdash, wantonly, wildly

• slam, Parthian shot, adverse criticism, altogether, animadversion, aspersion, attack, back answer, bad notices, bad press, bang, bang into, bar, barrack, barricade, bash, bastinado, bat, batten, batten down, batter, beat, beating, belt, biff, blast, blow, bolt, bonk, boom, bump, bump into, burst, bust, button, button up, cannon, captiousness, carom, carom into, carping, castigate, caustic remark, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chaff, choke, choke off, chop, clap, clash, clear, clip, clobber, close, close up, clout, clump, coldcock, collide, come into collision, comeback, completely, concuss, confront each other, constrict, contain, contract, cover, crack, crack up, crash, crash into, criticism, criticize, crump, crunch, cudgel, cut, cut at, cutting remark, dash, dash into, deal, deal a blow, deck, denigrate, denounce, dig, dig at, ding, dint, disparage, drub, drubbing, drumming, dump, dump on, encounter, entirely, exception, fall foul of, fasten, faultfinding, fetch, fetch a blow, flak, flap, flay, fleer, fling, flop, flout, fold, fold up, foolery, foul, fully, fusillade, gibe, gibing retort, goal, grand slam, hairsplitting, hammer, hit, hit a clip, hit against, hole, hole in one, home run, home thrust, homer, hostile criticism, hurt, hurtle, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impinge, imputation, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jest, key, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock out, latch, leg-pull, let have it, lick, lock, lock out, lock up, mace, meet, mock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, occlude, overcriticalness, padlock, pan, parting shot, paste, pelt, percuss, pestering, pettifogging, pillory, plumb, plunk, poke, pooh, pooh-pooh, potshot, pounce on, pounce upon, pound, priggishness, punch, put down, put-down, put-on, quibble, quibbling, quip, quite, rail at, rally, ram, rank out, rap, reflection, report, reproachfulness, revile, right, rude reproach, run down, run into, scathe, scoff, score, scourge, scout, scurrility, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shoot down, short answer, shut, shut the door, shut up, sideswipe, slam into, slap, slap at, slash, slat, slate, slog, slug, slur, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, sneer, sneer at, snipe at, soak, sock, splat, squeeze shut, strangle, stricture, strike, strike against, strike at, stroke, swap, swat, swing, swipe, taking exception, tap, tattoo, taunt, thump, thwack, touchdown, trichoschistism, twit, verbal thrust, vilify, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whomp, whop, yerk, zip up, zipper

• slander, asperse, assail, attack, backbite, backbiting, backstabbing, barefaced lie, belie, belittlement, bitchiness, blackwash, calumniate, calumniation, calumny, cattiness, character assassination, consummate lie, damage, decry, defamation, defamation of character, defame, denigrate, depreciation, dirt, disparage, disparagement, gossip column, hurt, injure, juicy morsel, libel, malicious gossip, malign, misrepresentation, monstrous lie, muckrake, muckraking, obloquy, out-and-out lie, roorback, scandal, scandalmongering, slur, smear, strumpet, tale, tear down, the big lie, tidbit, traduce, traducement, vilification, vilify, whispering campaign, whopper

• slanderer, Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, caustic critic, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, muckraker, mudslinger, railer, social critic, traducer

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

• slang, Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, argot, babble, barbarism, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, cant, cipher, code, colloquialism, common speech, corruption, cryptogram, double Dutch, garble, gasconade, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hector, illiterate speech, impropriety, intimidate, jargon, jargonal, jargonish, jumble, lingo, localism, mumbo jumbo, noise, out-herod Herod, patois, patter, phraseology, rage, rant, rave, roister, rollick, scatological, scatology, scramble, secret language, slangy, splutter, sputter, storm, substandard language, swagger, swashbuckle, taboo, taboo language, taboo word, vapor, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgarism, vulgate

• slant, Anschauung, aberrancy, aberration, across, action, aim, anagnorisis, angle, angle of vision, angularity, animus, approach, aptitude, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascend, aslant, aslope, aspect, athwart, atilt, atmosphere, attitude, background, bank, basis, belie, bend, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, biaswise, blink, branching off, burlesque, camber, camouflage, cant, canting, careen, careening, caricature, cast, catastrophe, catercorner, catercornered, character, characterization, circuitousness, climb, color, complication, concentrate, configuration, constitution, continuity, contrivance, corner, crook, crossways, crosswise, curve, cut, cut across, cut crosswise, declination, decline, deflection, denouement, departure, descend, design, detour, development, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, diagonal, diagonalize, diathesis, digression, dip, direct, direction, discursion, disguise, disposition, distort, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, dress up, drift, drifting, drop, eccentricity, effect, eidolon, embellish, embroider, episode, errantry, exaggerate, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, eye, fable, facet, fall, fall away, fall off, falling action, falsify, fashion, feature, figure, flash, focus, footing, form, frame of reference, framework, fudge, garble, gestalt, gild, gimmick, glance, glimpse, gloss, gloss over, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, grain, guise, hairpin, half an eye, heel, idea, idiosyncrasy, image, imago, impression, incident, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, incline, inclined, inclining, indirection, individualism, influence, keel, kidney, kittycorner, lean, leaning, leaning tower, light, likeness, line, lineaments, list, listing, local color, look, make, makeup, manner, mask, mental outlook, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, misuse, mold, mood, motif, movement, mythos, nature, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, obliquely, obliquity, one-sidedness, orient, out of plumb, out of square, outlook, overdraw, overstate, parody, partiality, peek, peep, pererration, peripeteia, pervert, phase, phasis, pitch, pitched, place, plan, plot, point, point of view, position, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, quick sight, rake, raking, rambling, ramp, rapid glance, recline, recognition, recumbent, reference, reference system, regard, respect, retreat, rhomboid, rise, rising action, scheme, scratch comma, secondary plot, seeming, semblance, separatrix, set, shape, sheer, shelve, shelving, shelvy, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side, sideling, sidelong, sideways, sidewise, sidle, sight, simulacrum, situation, skew, slant across, slanted, slanting, slantingly, slantways, slantwise, slash, slash across, slaunchways, slope, sloped, sloping, solidus, splay, spoon-feed, squiz, stamp, stand, standpoint, story, strain, straying, streak, stripe, structure, style, subject, subplot, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, system, tack, temper, temperament, tendency, thematic development, theme, thwart, tilt, tilted, tilting, tip, tipped, tipping, tipsy, titivate, tone, topic, torture, total effect, tower of Pisa, train, transverse, travesty, trick out, turn, turn of mind, turning, twist, type, understate, universe, uprise, variation, varnish, veer, view, viewpoint, virgule, wandering, warp, weight, whitewash, wink, wise, wrench, yaw, zigzag

• slanted, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, cooked, doctored, garbled, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented, out of plumb, out of square, perverted, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tortured, twisted

• slanting, abstractionism, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, coloring, corruption, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, injustice, leaning, listing, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misdrawing, misinterpretation, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, misuse, nonrealism, out of plumb, out of square, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, straining, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, torturing, twisting, understatement

• slap in the face, affront, aspersion, atrocity, blow, box, brickbat, buffet, casus belli, contempt, contumely, cuff, cut, despite, dump, enormity, flat refusal, flout, flouting, gibe, humiliation, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, mock, mockery, offense, outrage, point-blank refusal, provocation, put-down, raw nerve, rebuff, red rag, repulse, scoff, scurrility, short shrift, slap, smack, sore point, sore spot, summary negative, taunt, tender spot, token punishment, uncomplimentary remark, whack, whomp

• slap on, add, adjoin, affix, agglutinate, annex, append, attach, bedaub, besmear, burden, butter, coat, complicate, conjoin, dab, daub, decorate, enamel, encumber, gild, gloss, glue on, hitch on, infix, join with, lacquer, lay on, ornament, paste on, plus, postfix, prefix, prime, put with, saddle with, slather, smear, smear on, spread on, spread with, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, tar, undercoat, unite with

• slap, Parthian shot, abruptly, altogether, attack, back answer, bang, bash, bat, beat, biff, blip, blow, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst, bust, cast, castigate, caustic remark, censure, chop, chuck, clap, clash, clear, clout, comeback, completely, contumely, crack, crash, criticism, crump, cuff, cut, cutting remark, dash, despite, dig, ding, directly, drub, dump, entirely, exactly, flap, flay, fleer, fling, flop, flout, foolery, fully, gibe, gibing retort, go, hastily, haymaker, hit, hurl, impetuously, impulsively, indignity, insult, jab, jape, jeer, jest, knock, lash, leg-pull, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, mock, of a sudden, on short notice, parting shot, perfectly, plank, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, poke, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, punch, put-down, put-on, quip, quite, rap, rebuff, rebuke, report, reprimand, reproof, right, rude reproach, scathe, scoff, score, scourge, scurrility, sharp, short answer, shot, slam, slap on, slap the face, slash, slat, sling, smack, sock, spank, splash, splat, squarely, stab, stagger, startlingly, straight, strike, stripe, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, swap, swat, swipe, tap, taunt, throw, thrust, thwack, token punishment, toss, try, twit, unawares, unexpectedly, utterly, verbal thrust, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whip, whirl, whomp, whop, without notice, without warning

• slapdash, a corps perdu, accident-prone, aimless, airily, amain, any old way, any which way, anyhow, apace, at once, breakneck, bunglingly, by forced marches, careless, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, cursory, designless, desperate, desperately, desultory, devil-may-care, disregardfully, expeditious, expeditiously, festinate, feverish, feverishly, flying, forgetfully, furious, furiously, hand over fist, haphazard, haphazardly, happen what may, harum-scarum, hastily, hasty, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, hit-or-miss, holus-bolus, hotfoot, hotheaded, hotheadedly, hurried, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediate, immediately, impetuous, impetuously, in passing, inattentively, inconsiderately, indiscriminate, instant, instantly, irregular, last-minute, like crazy, like mad, mad, madly, messily, messy, offhand, offhandedly, on the run, on the spot, once over lightly, overeager, overeagerly, overenthusiastic, overenthusiastically, overzealous, overzealously, passing, pell-mell, perfunctorily, precipitant, precipitantly, precipitate, precipitately, precipitous, precipitously, promiscuous, promiscuously, prompt, promptly, quick, quickly, ramble-scramble, reckless, recklessly, regardlessly, slam-bang, slap-bang, sloppily, sloppy, slovenly, snap, speedily, speedy, spot, superficial, superficially, swift, swiftly, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unthinkingly, unthorough, untidy, unvigilantly, unwarily, urgent, wanton, wantonly, wild, wildly, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste

• slaphappy, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedazzled, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dazed, dazzled, dippy, dopey, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, groggy, haywire, in a daze, just plain nuts, knocked silly, kooky, loony, loopy, mazed, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, punch-drunk, punchy, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, silly, wacky, woozy

• slapstick, Atticism, Thalia, acting, agile wit, arlequinade, black comedy, black humor, bladder, broad, broad comedy, buffoonery, burlesque, burletta, business, camp, campy, cap and bells, caricature, characterization, comedie bouffe, comedie larmoyante, comedie rosse, comedietta, comedy, comedy ballet, comedy of humors, comedy of ideas, comedy of intrigue, comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy relief, comic, comic muse, comic opera, comic relief, comical, coxcomb, dark comedy, domestic comedy, dry wit, esprit, exode, farce, farce comedy, farcical, gag, genteel comedy, ham, hammy acting, harlequinade, high camp, hoke, hokum, humor, impersonation, irony, lampoon, light, light comedy, low camp, low comedy, mime, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mock-heroic, motley, mummery, musical, musical comedy, nimble wit, opera buffa, overacting, pantomiming, parody, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, pleasantry, portrayal, pretty wit, projection, quick wit, raw comedy, ready wit, realistic comedy, representation, romantic comedy, salt, sarcasm, satire, satyr play, savor of wit, sentimental comedy, situation comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick humor, sock, squib, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, subtle wit, taking a role, tragicomedy, tragicomic, travesty, visual humor, wit

• slash, Vandyke, abbreviate, abrade, abrasion, abridge, amputate, assail, attack, ax, band, bar, bark, beat, beat down, bend, bias, bisect, blaze, blemish, blister, bloody, breach, break, breakage, burn, burr, burst, butcher, carve, castigate, catercorner, chafe, cheapen, cheapening, check, chip, chiseling, chop, claw, cleave, cleft, clip, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cross-hatching, curtail, cut, cut across, cut away, cut back, cut crosswise, cut down, cut in two, cut off, cut prices, dash, decline, decrease, deflate, deflation, delineation, demitint, depreciate, depreciation, devaluate, devaluation, diagonal, diagonalize, dichotomize, dissever, dive, dotted line, drop, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, excise, excoriate, fall, fall in price, fissure, flagellate, flail, flash burn, flay, flog, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fustigate, gall, gap, gash, gem-engraving, give way, glass-cutting, glyptic, gouge, graving, hachure, hack, hackle, haggle, hairline, half tint, halve, hatching, hew, horsewhip, hurt, incise, incision, indent, injure, injury, inscript, inscription, jag, jew down, jigsaw, knife, knurl, lacerate, laceration, lambaste, lance, lash, lesion, line, lineation, lining, lower, lowering, machicolate, maim, make mincemeat of, mark down, markdown, marking, maul, mill, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nick, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, pare, picot, pierce, pink, plummet, plummeting, plunge, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prune, puncture, reduce, reduction, rend, rent, retrench, rhomboid, rift, rip, rive, roast, run, rupture, sag, savage, saw, scald, scale, scallop, scar, scarify, scathe, scissor, scorch, score, scoring, scotch, scourge, scrape, scratch, scratch comma, scratching, scuff, second-degree burn, separatrix, serrate, sever, shave, skin, skin alive, slant, slant across, slash across, slashing, slice, slit, slump, snip, solidus, sore, splinter, split, sprain, stab, stab wound, stick, stipple, stippling, strain, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sunder, tear, third-degree burn, thrash, tint, tooling, tooth, transverse, trauma, traumatize, trim, trounce, type-cutting, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, whip, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• slashed, aggravated, best, bottom, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deteriorated, embittered, exacerbated, giveaway, half-price, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, injured, irritated, lacerated, lowest, mangled, marked down, mutilated, reduced, rent, rock-bottom, ruptured, sacrificial, scalded, scorched, shattered, slit, smashed, split, sprung, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• slashing, abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital

• slat, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape, band, bandage, bang, batten, beam, belt, billet, board, boarding, bump, burst, bust, cellophane tape, clap, clapboard, clash, cloth tape, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, crack, crash, crump, cut, deal, disk, driftwood, fascia, feuille, fillet, film, firewood, flap, flop, foil, fold, friction tape, girdle, gruel, hardwood, knock, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, ligula, ligule, list, log, lumber, masking tape, membrane, mere shadow, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, planking, plastic tape, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rail, rake, rap, rasher, report, ribband, ribbon, safety glass, scum, shadow, shake, shaving, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, shred, sideboard, siding, skeleton, skin, slab, slam, slap, slice, slip, smack, softwood, soup, spill, splat, spline, splinter, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, strake, strap, streak, strip, strop, swap, table, tablet, taenia, tap, tape, tape measure, tapeline, three-by-four, thwack, ticker tape, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, vein, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, whack, wham, whap, whomp, whop, wood

• slate, Australian ballot, Indiana ballot, Massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, agenda, ballot, batting order, bill, bill of fare, blanket ballot, blister, blueprint, board, book, brick, budget, calendar, card, carte du jour, castigate, clapboard, crawl, docket, excoriate, face, glass, glaze, lambaste, lath, line up, lineup, list of agenda, long ballot, menu, nonpartisan ballot, office-block ballot, paper, party emblem, party-column ballot, plank, playbill, program, program of operation, programma, prospectus, protocol, proxy, revet, roster, sample ballot, scarify, scathe, schedule, score, scourge, shake, sheathe, shingle, short ballot, split ticket, stone, straight ticket, thatch, ticket, tile, veneer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard

• slather, bedaub, besmear, blow, butter, coat, dab, daub, dissipate, enamel, gamble away, gild, gloss, go through, gobs, hang the expense, heap, lacquer, lavish, lay on, loads, million, oodles, prime, quantities, run through, scatter, seize the day, slap on, smear, smear on, sow broadcast, spread on, spread with, squander, tar, throw away, throw money around, undercoat, wads

• slattern, baggage, bimbo, blowsy, crone, dowdy, drab, draggletailed, fallen woman, frowsy, frump, gammer, hag, harlot, hog, hooker, hussy, hustler, jade, litterbug, loose woman, pig, pro, prostitute, schlep, schlump, slob, sloven, slut, sordid, streetwalker, strumpet, swine, tart, traipse, tramp, trollop, trull, wanton, wench, whore, witch

• slatternly, beat-up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dirty, disheveled, disordered, dowdy, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grubby, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, neglected, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slattern, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy

• slaughter, annihilate, annihilation, assault, attack, bane, barbarize, batter, battering, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, blue ruin, braining, breakup, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchering, butchery, carnage, carry on, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, consumption, cut off, cut short, damnation, dealing death, decimate, decimation, depopulate, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, destruction of life, devastation, disintegration, disorderliness, disorganization, dispatch, dispose of, disruption, dissolution, do away with, end, euthanasia, execution, exterminate, extermination, finish, finish off, flow of blood, forcible seizure, get rid of, go on, gore, hammer, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, lay waste, laying waste, loot, looting, maim, make away with, mangle, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, maul, mercy killing, mug, murder, murder wholesale, mutilate, nip, obstreperousness, occision, onslaught, perdition, pillage, pillaging, poisoning, put paid to, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, rioting, ritual killing, ritual murder, roar, ruin, ruination, sack, sacking, sacrifice, savage, shambles, shooting, slaughtering, slay, slay en masse, slaying, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoliation, stick, stoning, storm, take off, taking of life, tear, tear around, terrorize, to, torture, total, undoing, unruliness, vandalism, vandalize, violate, violation, waste, wipe out, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

• slave driver, Big Brother, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, auditor, autarch, autocrat, boatswain, boss, caesar, chief, commissar, comptroller, controller, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, hard master, head, headman, inspector, martinet, monitor, noncommissioned officer, oligarch, oppressor, overman, overseer, pharaoh, proctor, sirdar, stickler, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, tyrant, usurper, visitor, warlord

• slave, Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, apple-polisher, appliance, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, beast of burden, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, clawback, concubine, contrivance, coolie, courtier, creature, cringer, debt slave, dependent, device, do double duty, dray horse, drudge, dummy, dupe, elucubrate, fag, fawner, feudatory, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, galley slave, go-between, gofer, greasy grind, grind, groveler, grub, hack, handmaid, handmaiden, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, help, hierodule, hit the ball, homager, hustle, implement, inferior, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jackal, kowtower, labor, laborer, lackey, led captain, lever, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, liege subject, lucubrate, mealymouth, mechanism, mediator, medium, menial, midwife, minion, moil, muck, myrmidon, odalisque, organ, overwork, pawn, peon, plaything, plod, plodder, pour it on, puppet, retainer, scratch, scullion, serf, servant, slavey, slog, slogger, spaniel, stooge, subject, subordinate, suck, sweat, swot, sycophant, theow, thrall, timeserver, toad, toady, toil, toiler, tool, toy, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, vehicle, villein, work hard, work late, work overtime, workhorse, yeoman, yes-man

• slaver, adulate, apple-polish, babble, be insane, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, bootlick, cajole, compliment, conceit, cower, cringe, dote, dribble, drivel, drool, expectorate, expectoration, fawn upon, flatter, foam, froth, grovel, have a demon, hawk, kowtow, make fair weather, mouth-watering, nonsense, oil the tongue, palaver, panderer, piffle, pimp, praise, ptyalism, rage, ramble, rant, rave, rubbish, run amok, run mad, saliva, salivate, salivation, sialagogue, slabber, slobber, slobber over, spew, spit, spittle, sputum, toady, truckle, twaddle, wander, water, wheedle

• slavery, abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dirty work, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, fag, fatigue, feudalism, feudality, grind, handiwork, handwork, hard labor, helotism, helotry, indentureship, industry, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, moil, peonage, plugging, rat race, restraint, scut work, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavishness, spadework, strain, stroke, stroke of work, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, sweat, task, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, work, yoke

• slavish, abused, apish, base, browbeaten, difficult, downtrod, downtrodden, emulative, formidable, ground down, heavy, henpecked, imitative, in leading strings, knotty, laborious, mean, menial, miserable, misused, obeisant, obsequious, operose, oppressed, ordered around, overborne, regimented, rough, rugged, servile, spineless, strenuous, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, trampled, tyrannized, uninspired, unmanned, unoriginal, wretched

• slaw, Caesar salad, Jell-O salad, Waldorf salad, ambrosia, aspic, chef salad, cole slaw, combination salad, crab Louis, fruit salad, green salad, herring salad, macaroni salad, potato salad, salad, salade, salmagundi, tossed salad

• slay, amuse, annihilate, assassinate, becharm, beguile, bereave of life, bewitch, bump off, butcher, captivate, carry away, carry off, charm, chloroform, convulse, cool, cut down, cut off, delectate, delight, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, divert, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, down, dust off, enchant, end, enliven, enrapture, enravish, entertain, enthrall, entrance, execute, exhilarate, exterminate, fascinate, finish, finish off, fracture one, freak out, immolate, imparadise, kill, knock dead, knock off, knock out, launch into eternity, lay low, liquidate, loosen up, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravish, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, remove from life, sacrifice, send, solace, starve, take life, take off, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, transport, wow

• slayer, Cain, apache, assassin, assassinator, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cutthroat, desperado, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, garroter, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hatchet man, head-hunter, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, killer, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, murderer, pesticide, poison, poisoner, slaughterer, strangler, thug, torpedo, trigger man

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

• sleazy, base, breakable, brittle, broken-down, cheap, cheap-jack, cheesy, chintzy, cobwebby, common, contemptible, crappy, crumbly, crummy, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, disreputable, down-at-heel, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, fragile, frail, frangible, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, light, lightweight, low-class, low-grade, mean, namby-pamby, paltry, papery, pasteboardy, poor, puny, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, shabby, shattery, shoddy, sissified, slight, slipshod, slummy, sordid, squalid, tacky, tatty, tawdry, tenuous, thin, trashy, unsubstantial, wispy, womanish

• sled, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, barge, blade, boat, bobsleigh, bus, cart, coach, coast, coaster, cutter, dogsled, double-ripper, drag, dray, ferry, flit, float, flow, fly, glide, glissade, haul, ice-skate, jumper, lighter, luge, pung, raft, roller-skate, runner, sail, scoot, ship, sideslip, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, sledge, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, snowmobile, sweep, toboggan, troika, truck, van, wagon, weasel, wheelbarrow

• sledgehammer, bang, baste, batter, beat, buffet, bulldozer, coercive, drub, flail, flap, forcible, hammer, knock, lambaste, larrup, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, spank, steamroller, strong-arm, thrash, thresh, thump, violent, wallop, whip

• sleek, adipose, anal, balmy, blooming, blossoming, blubbery, booming, braw, buff, buffed, burnish, burnished, buttery, butyraceous, chic, chrismal, chrismatory, classy, clear, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, exuberant, fair, fat, fatty, fawning, finish, finished, flourishing, flowering, fruiting, furbish, furbished, genteel, glace, glance, glassy, glaze, glazed, gleaming, glistening, gloss, glossy, going strong, graceful, greasy, halcyon, hypocritical, in full swing, in good case, jaunty, lacquered, lardaceous, lardy, luster, lustrous, mucoid, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, oily, oleaginous, oleic, palmy, perfect, piping, polish, polished, posh, prospering, recherche, refine, rich, ritzy, rosy, round, rub, rubbed, satiny, scour, sebaceous, sharp, shellacked, shine, shining, shiny, shipshape, silken, silky, slick, slick down, slimy, slippery, smarmy, smart, smooth, smug, snazzy, snug, soapy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, specious, spiffy, spruce, streamlined, style-conscious, suave, suety, swank, swanky, swell, tallowy, thriving, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, varnish, varnished, velvety, vigorous, wax, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-groomed

• sleep on, adjourn, continue, defer, delay, drag out, entertain, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold off, hold over, hold up, inquire into, lay aside, lay by, lay over, pigeonhole, postpone, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, see about, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep upon, stand over, stave off, stay, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, take under advisement, take under consideration, think it over, waive

• sleep with, ball, be intimate, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, copulate, couple, cover, diddle, fornicate, frig, have sex, have sexual relations, lay, lie with, make it with, make love, make out, mate, mount, screw, serve, service

• sleep, KO, annihilation, ataraxia, ataraxy, bane, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, biological death, blackout, blanket drill, bye-bye, calmness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, catnap, cessation of life, clinical death, coma, comfort, composure, contemplation, crossing the bar, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, default, demise, departure, disregard, dissolution, doom, doss, doze, dreamland, drop off, drowse, dying, ease, ebb of life, end, end of life, ending, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fail, faint, final summons, finger of death, fitful sleep, forty winks, fust, gloss over, going, going off, grave, grayout, hand of death, hang fire, hibernation, idle, ignore, imperturbability, inactivity, jaws of death, kayo, knell, knockout, land of Nod, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, light sleep, lipothymia, lipothymy, lose sight of, lose track of, loss of life, lucid stillness, making an end, marmoreal repose, nap, neglect, nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nod off, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, overlook, oversleep, parting, pass over, passing, passing away, passing over, peace, peacefulness, perishing, placidity, placidness, pound, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, relax, relaxation, release, repose, rest, restfulness, reward, satori, saw logs, saw wood, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sentence of death, serenity, shades of death, shadow of death, shut-eye, siesta, silence, silken repose, sleep soundly, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, smolder, snooze, snoozle, snore, somatic death, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stagnate, stillness, stupor, summons of death, swoon, syncope, take a nap, take for granted, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unconsciousness, vegetate, winter sleep, wise passiveness

• sleeper, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Pullman, Pullman car, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, baggage car, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, boxcar, caboose, calmative, car, carriage, chair car, chloral hydrate, coach, coal car, codeine, codeine cough syrup, covered waggon, day coach, depressant, depressor, diner, dinghy, dining car, dolly, downer, drawing room, flat, flatcar, gondola, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lie-abed, liquor, local, lotus, luggage van, mail car, mail van, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, palace car, paregoric, parlor car, passenger car, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, railway car, rainbow, red, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeping beauty, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleepwalker, sleepyhead, slugabed, smack, smoker, smoking car, sodium thiopental, somnambulist, somnifacient, somniloquist, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, stockcar, tank, tar, tender, tranquilizer, truck, turps, van, waggon, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• sleepiness, acedia, apathy, boredom, brain fag, debilitation, debility, drowsiness, dullness, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, overstrain, overtiredness, passivity, phlegm, satedness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, stance fatigue, strain, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, world-weariness

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

• sleeping sickness, 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, catalepsy, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, coma, 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, high, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, lethargy, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sedation, septic sore throat, shingles, shock, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sopor, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, stupor, swamp fever, swoon, tetanus, thanatosis, thrush, tinea, trance, 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

• sleeping, abeyant, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, between the lines, breathless, called home, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, covert, croaked, cryptic, dead, dead and gone, dead asleep, death-struck, deceased, deep asleep, defunct, delitescent, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant, dull, esoteric, exanimate, fallen, fast asleep, finished, flaked-out, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory, gone west, goofing off, groggy, heavy, hibernating, hidden, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, incautious, inert, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, martyred, muffled, mystic, napping, no more, nodding, obfuscated, oblivious, obscured, occult, off-guard, out, passed on, passive, phlegmatic, possible, potential, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sedentary, slack, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, sound asleep, stagnant, standing, static, still, stillborn, submerged, suspended, taken away, taken off, tame, torpid, unalert, unaroused, uncautious, unconscious, under the surface, underlying, unguarded, unmanifested, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, veiled, virtual, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions

• sleepless, Argus-eyed, agile, alert, alive, all ears, all eyes, ardent, assiduous, attentive, aux aguets, awake, bright, constant, continuing, custodial, diligent, disturbed, dogged, eagle-eyed, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, guarded, hard, hardworking, hawk-eyed, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, insomniac, insomnious, invincible, keen, keen-eyed, laborious, lasting, lidless, loyal, never idle, never-tiring, nimble, observant, obstinate, on guard, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prompt, prudent, qui vive, quick, rapt, ready, relentless, resolute, restless, sedulous, sharp, sharp-eyed, single-minded, slogging, slumberless, smart, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, tireless, unabating, unblinking, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, weariless, wide-awake, with open eyes, zealous

• sleeplessness, acuity, acuteness, agility, alertness, all-night vigil, attention, attentiveness, brightness, consciousness, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, keenness, lidless vigil, nimbleness, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, quickness, readiness, restlessness, sentience, sharpness, smartness, tossing and turning, vigil, wake, wakefulness

• sleepwalking, amnesia, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, daydreaming, daze, doze, dream state, dreamland, drowse, fitful sleep, fugue, fugue state, hibernation, hypnotic trance, land of Nod, light sleep, night-wandering, nightwalking, noctambulation, noctambulism, noctivagation, repose, reverie, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalk, slumber, slumberland, snoozle, somnambulant, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stupor, trance, unconsciousness, winter sleep

• sleepy, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, beat, benumbed, blase, bored, boring, cataleptic, comatose, dazed, dead, debilitated, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, fatigued, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hypnotic, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded, knocked out, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nodding, numb, opiate, oscitant, out, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pooped, quiet, sated, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, slow, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, stagnant, stagnating, stretchy, stultified, stuporose, stuporous, supine, tired, torpid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary, yawning, yawny

• sleepyhead, dawdle, dawdler, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, procrastinator, sleeper, sleeping beauty, sleepwalker, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, slugabed, sluggard, snail, somnambulist, somniloquist, stick-in-the-mud, tortoise

• sleet, Dry Ice, berg, calf, cryosphere, firn, floe, frazil, frost, frozen water, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, granular snow, ground ice, growler, hail, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice over, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, ice up, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, lolly, neve, nieve penitente, pack ice, serac, shelf ice, slob, sludge, snow, snow ice, snow in, snow under, snowberg

• sleety, Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, slushy, snappy, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

• sleigh bell, bell, chimes, church bell, clapper, cowbell, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, fire bell, gong, gong bell, hand bell, jingle bell, passing bell, sacring bell, sheepbell, telephone bell, tintinnabulum, tongue, triangle

• sleigh, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, blade, coast, flit, flow, fly, glide, glissade, ice-skate, roller-skate, runner, sail, sideslip, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, sled, slide, slip, slither, snowmobile, sweep, toboggan, weasel

• sleight of hand, Prospero, airiness, appearance, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicanery, chouse, conjuration, curve, curve-ball, delusiveness, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, escamotage, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, gambit, gimmick, googly, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, jiggery-pokery, joker, juggle, jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, pass, ploy, prestidigitation, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, seeming, semblance, shift, show, simulacrum, sleight, sleight-of-hand trick, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, wile

• sleight, adroitness, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicane, chicanery, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, covin, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deftness, design, device, dexterity, dexterousness, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, dodgery, expedient, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, foul play, gambit, game, gimmick, googly, grift, hocus-pocus, intrigue, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, little game, machination, maneuver, move, pass, pettifoggery, pettifogging, play, plot, ploy, prowess, racket, readiness, red herring, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, sharp practice, shift, skill, skulduggery, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, supercherie, tactic, trick, trickery, underhand dealing, wile, wily device

• slender, Junoesque, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, agreeable, airy, amply endowed, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, becoming, bonny, boyish, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, catchpenny, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, comely, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, curvaceous, curvy, deficient, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, dwarfed, dwarfish, empty, ethereal, exiguous, fair, fat, fatuous, feeble, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, foolish, frail, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, frugal, futile, gauzy, girlish, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, gossamer, graceful, gracile, idle, impoverished, inadequate, inane, incapacious, incommodious, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lacy, lanky, lean, light, likely, limited, lissome, lithe, little, lovely to behold, meager, mean, miserly, misty, narrow, near, negligible, niggardly, nugacious, nugatory, off, otiose, outside, paltry, papery, parsimonious, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, poor, presentable, puny, rare, rarefied, reedy, remote, restricted, scant, scanty, scarce, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, shallow, shapely, shy, sightly, silly, skimp, skimpy, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, spare, sparing, stacked, starvation, statuesque, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, trifling, trim, trite, trivial, twiggy, unlikely, unnourishing, unnutritious, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, wanting, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy

• sleuth, Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Secret Service, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, detective, dick, eye, fed, gumshoe, hawkshaw, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, investigator, narc, operative, plainclothesman, police detective, private detective, private eye, private investigator, revenuer, shamus, snoop, store detective, tec, treasury agent

• slew, batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots, mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot, quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight, slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum, trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp

• slice, allotment, allowance, amputate, apportion, ax, big end, bigger half, bisect, bit, bite, breach, break, breakage, budget, burst, butcher, butt, carve, carve up, chip, chop, chunk, cleave, cleft, clip, clipping, coat, coating, collop, commission, contingent, covering, crack, crumb, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut up, cutting, deal, destiny, dichotomize, disk, dissect, dissever, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, dividend, divvy up, dole, dollop, end, equal share, excise, fate, feuille, film, fissure, flap, foil, fold, fracture, fragment, gap, gash, gob, gobbet, hack, half, halve, halver, helping, hew, hunk, incise, interest, jigsaw, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lance, lap, layer, leaf, lot, lump, measure, meed, membrane, mess, modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, parcel, pare, paring, part, particle, partition, patina, peel, pellicle, percentage, piece, pierce, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, portion, proportion, prune, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, rend, rent, rift, rip, rive, rupture, safety glass, saw, scale, scallop, scissor, scoop, scrap, scum, segment, sever, shard, share, share out, share with, shaving, sheet, shiver, shred, skin, slab, slash, slat, slice the pie, slice up, slicer, slit, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, spatula, splinter, split, split up, stake, stitch, stock, stump, sunder, table, tablet, tatter, tear, veneer, wafer, wedge, whittle

• slick, Byzantine, Ciceronian, Daedalian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Tullian, acute, adept, adipose, adroit, anal, anoint, apt, arch, artful, artfully, articulate, artistic, astute, astutely, authoritative, beeswax, blubbery, bravura, brilliant, buff, buffed, burnish, burnished, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, cagily, calculating, cannily, canny, chrismal, chrismatory, clean, clever, cleverly, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cunningly, cute, daedal, daub, deceitful, deck out, deep, deep-laid, deft, designing, devious, dexterous, dextrous, dinky, diplomatic, doll up, dress, dress up, eloquent, embrocate, excellent, expert, facund, fancy, fat, fatty, felicitous, feline, finish, finished, fix up, foxily, foxy, furbish, furbished, glace, glance, glassy, glaze, glazed, gleaming, glib, glide, glissade, gloss, glossy, glycerolate, good, goodish, graceful, grease, grease the wheels, greased, greasy, guileful, guilefully, gussy up, handy, hep, imaginative, ingenious, insidious, insidiously, inventive, knowing, knowingly, lacquered, lard, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricate, lubricated, lubricious, luster, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meretricious, mucoid, neat, nimble-witted, no mean, oil, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic, on the sly, pawky, perfect, plausible, polish, polished, politic, pomade, professional, proficient, quick, quick-witted, quite some, ready, refine, resourceful, rich, round, rub, rubbed, salve, satiny, scheming, scour, sebaceous, serpentine, shallow, sharp, sharp-witted, shellacked, shiftily, shifty, shine, shining, shiny, shipshape, shrewd, shrewdly, silken, silky, silver, silver-tongued, skillful, sleek, slick down, slick on, sliddery, slip, slipper, slippery, slippy, slither, slithery, sly, slyly, smarmy, smart, smarten up, smear, smooth, smooth the way, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smoothly, smug, snaky, sneaky, snug, soap the ways, soaped, soapy, some, sophistical, specious, spellbinding, spiff, spruce, spruce up, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, suave, subtile, subtilely, subtle, subtlely, suety, superficial, supple, sycophantic, tactful, tactical, tallowy, the compleat, the complete, tidy, tight, trickily, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trig, trim, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, urbane, varnish, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, vulpine, warily, wary, wax, well-cared-for, well-done, well-groomed, well-spoken, wilily, wily, workmanlike

• slicker, abradant, abrasive, bunco artist, bunco steerer, burnish, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cheat, cheater, city slicker, con artist, con man, confidence man, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, crimp, defrauder, diddler, double-dealer, flimflammer, gypper, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, lawn-roller, man of experience, man-about-town, mortgage shark, mountebank, pettifogger, pitchman, polish, roller, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, sleeker, smooth, smoother, sophisticate, spieler, swindler, trickster

• slide back, backslide, fall, fall again into, fall back, fall from grace, have a relapse, lapse, lapse back, recidivate, recur to, regress, relapse, return to, revert, revert to, sink back, slip back, yield again to

• slide trombone, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, clarion, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, double-bell euphonium, euphonium, helicon, horn, hunting horn, key trumpet, lituus, lur, mellophone, ophicleide, orchestral horn, pocket trumpet, post horn, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, sliphorn, sousaphone, tenor tuba, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, valve trombone, valve trumpet

• slide, Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, Xerox, Xerox copy, advance, aerial photograph, aerophone, alabaster, avalanche, be effortless, be painless, bell, billiard table, black-and-white photograph, blowup, blueprint, bolt-hole, bowling alley, bowling green, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, coast, coasting, color photograph, color print, contact printing, continue, crawl, creep, cyanotype, decline, decrease, diapositive, die, dip, double reed, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drift, drop, drop off, ebb, ejection seat, elapse, embouchure, emergency exit, endure, enlargement, escape hatch, expire, fade, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, falloff, fire escape, flat, flit, flow, flow on, flowing, fly, forget, give no trouble, glass, glide, gliding, glissade, glissando, gloss over, glossy, go by, go down, go downhill, go easily, go like clockwork, go off, go on, heliochrome, heliograph, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, hologram, horn, ice, ice-skate, ignore, inflatable slide, ivory, key, landslide, landslip, lantern slide, lapse, last, let slide, level, life buoy, life net, life raft, lifeboat, lifeline, lip, lurk, mahogany, marble, matte, microcopy, microprint, montage, mouse, mouthpiece, move, mug, mug shot, neglect, pass, pass by, pass over, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, photostatic copy, picture, pinup, pipe, plane, portrait, positive, present no difficulties, press on, print, proceed, projection printing, reach the depths, reed, roll, roll on, roller-skate, run, run down, run its course, run on, run out, run smoothly, sag, sail, sailing, sally port, satin, semi-matte, shift, shirk, shot, sideslip, silk, sink, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide down, sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slither, slithering, slump, slur, smooth, snake, snap, snapshot, snowslide, snowslip, spill, steal, still, still photograph, stream, subside, subsidence, sweep, sweeping, telephotograph, tennis court, toboggan, tobogganing, tooter, touch bottom, transparency, tumble, valve, velvet, wane, wind, wind instrument, work well

• sliding scale, base pay, compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes

• sliding, coasting, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, degenerate, deteriorating, disintegrating, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, flagging, flow, flowing, fragmenting, glide, gliding, going to pieces, languishing, marcescent, pining, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, sailing, shriveling, sinking, skating, skiing, skim, sledding, slide, slipping, slither, slithering, slumping, subsiding, sweep, sweeping, tabetic, tobogganing, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

• slight, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adulterated, affront, airy, ankle-deep, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, bantam, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, belittle, blink, blink at, boyish, breakable, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, brittle, carefully ignore, catchpenny, cheap-jack, cobwebby, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, coldness, connive at, contemn, cramped, crumbly, cry down, culpa, culpable negligence, cursory, cut, cut a corner, cut corners, cut dead, cut direct, dainty, debase, decry, default, degrade, delicate, delicately weak, delinquency, depreciate, depthless, dereliction, deride, derogate from, despise, detract from, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminish, diminutive, dinky, disapprove of, disconformity, discount, discredit, disdain, disgrace, dismiss, disparage, disregard, disrespect, dodge, dwarfed, dwarfish, effeminate, empty, epidermal, ethereal, exiguous, fail, failure, fat, fatuous, feeble, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, flout, foolish, forget, fragile, frail, frangible, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, frugal, fudge, futile, gaseous, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, give no heed, give the go-by, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, half-pint, hear nothing, hold in contempt, hold in derision, humiliation, idle, ignore, ill-treatment, impoverished, inadequate, inadvertence, inadvertency, inane, inattention, inconsequential, indifference, indignity, infinitesimal, inobservance, insecure, insignificant, insubstantial, insult, jejune, jerry, jerry-built, knee-deep, knee-high, knock, laches, lacy, laissez-faire, lapse, laugh at, laugh to scorn, laxity, laxness, lean, let pass, light, lightweight, limited, little, look right through, looseness, make light of, make little of, meager, mean, miniature, minimize, minor, minute, miserly, miss, misty, mortify, namby-pamby, narrow, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, negligible, niggardly, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, not attend, not deep, not heed, not listen, not notice, nugacious, off, offend, omission, omit, on the surface, one-horse, otiose, outrage, outside, overlook, overlooking, overpass, oversight, paltry, papery, parsimonious, pass by, pass over, pass over lightly, pass up, pasteboardy, pay no attention, pay no mind, perceptible, permissiveness, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, pocket, pocket-sized, poky, pooh-pooh, poor, poor stewardship, precarious, procrastination, puny, put down, rare, rarefied, rebuff, reedy, reflect discredit upon, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to recognize, remissness, repulse, rickety, run down, scamp, scant, scanty, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, see nothing, set at defiance, shallow, shallow-rooted, shattery, shoal, short, silly, sissified, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, skip, skip over, slackness, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight over, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slubber over, slur, slur over, small, smallish, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spare, sparing, speak ill of, spurn, spurning, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, submit to indignity, subsistence, subtile, subtle, superficial, surface, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, the cold shoulder, the go-by, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, think little of, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tiny, touch upon, touch upon lightly, trace, treat with contempt, trifling, trite, trivial, twiggy, two-by-four, uncompact, uncompressed, unlikely, unnourishing, unnutritious, unobservance, unprofound, unrigorousness, unstable, unsubstantial, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, vaporous, vest-pocket, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, windy, wink at, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish

• slighted, abandoned, deserted, disregarded, half-done, ignored, laid aside, left undone, missed, neglected, omitted, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, undone, unregarded, unsolicited, untended, unwatched

• slightly, a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, ever so little, exiguously, extremely, faintly, fairly, feebly, frugally, hardly, imperfectly, in a measure, in a nutshell, in a way, in miniature, in some measure, in the small, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just a bit, kind of, lightly, little, marginally, meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just, poorly, pretty, punily, quite, rather, scantily, scarcely, small, smally, somewhat, sort of, sparely, sparingly, tant soit peu, to a degree, to some extent, triflingly, very, weakly

• slim pickings, Lenten fare, austerity, exiguity, exiguousness, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, meagerness, meanness, miserliness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, puniness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness, scrimpiness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, smallness, spareness, stinginess, thinness

• slim, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adroit, airy, ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, boyish, broomstick, canny, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, clothes pole, corpse, cunning, delicate, dexterous, diaphanous, diet, diluted, dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, exiguous, fat, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, impoverished, infrequent, ingenious, insubstantial, jejune, lacy, lanky, lean, light, limited, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lose weight, meager, mean, miserly, misty, narrow, negligible, niggardly, off, outside, paltry, papery, parsimonious, piddling, poor, puny, rare, rarefied, rattlebones, reduce, reedy, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shadow, skeleton, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slenderish, slenderize, slight, slight-made, slimmish, slinky, sly, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, spotty, sprinkled, stack of bones, starvation, stilt, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, twiggy, unnourishing, unnutritious, vague, walking skeleton, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

• slime, carrion, clay, corruption, dandruff, decay, excrement, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, glop, gumbo, gunk, mess, mire, muck, mucus, mud, obscenity, ooze, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scum, scurf, scuz, slab, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush, smut, snot, sordes, splosh, squash, swill

• slimy, abject, adhesive, adulatory, amylaceous, barfy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, crappy, creeping, curdled, disgusting, doughy, fair-spoken, fawning, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fine-spoken, flattering, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gloppy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunky, gushing, heavy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, icky, insincere, insinuating, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maggoty, malodorous, mealymouthed, mephitic, mucilaginous, mucky, mucous, mushy, nasty, nauseating, obsequious, odious, oily, oily-tongued, oozy, ordurous, pasty, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, ropy, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, servile, shitty, slabby, slippery, slithery, slobbery, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, sposhy, squashy, squishy, squushy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sycophantic, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, toadying, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, uliginous, unctuous, vile, viscid, viscose, viscous, vomity, wheedling, wormy, yecchy

• sling, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, application, arbalest, ballista, band, bandage, bandaging, belt, binder, bowl, brace, bung, cast, cast at, cataplasm, catapult, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chuck at, chunk, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, curve, dangle, dart, dash, depend, downcurve, dressing, elastic bandage, epithem, fastball, fasten up, fire, fire at, fling, fling at, flip, fork, forward pass, four-tailed bandage, gauze, hang, hang up, heave, heave at, hurl, hurl against, hurl at, hurtle, incurve, jerk, knuckleball, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, let fly at, lint, lob, march, outcurve, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, propel, put, put the shot, put up, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, screwball, serve, service, shoot, shot-put, shy, shy at, sinker, slider, sling at, slingshot, snap, sock, spitball, spitter, splint, sponge, stalk, strap, stupe, support, suspend, tampon, tape, tent, throw, throw at, throw stick, throwing-stick, tilt, toss, toss at, tourniquet, trebuchet, triangular bandage, upcurve, wommera

• slink, amble, barge, bowl along, bundle, clump, contort, corkscrew, couch, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crinkle, crouch, drag, flounce, foot, footslog, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, inch, inch along, intort, jog, jolt, jump, lay wait, lie in wait, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, lurk, meander, mince, nightwalk, pace, pad, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, prowl, pussyfoot, quail, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scallop, scrabble, scramble, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, serpentine, shadow, shamble, shirk, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, skulk, slide, slither, slog, slouch, snake, sneak, sneaker, stagger, stalk, stamp, steal, steal along, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, swirl, tippytoe, tiptoe, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trip, trudge, turn, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, waddle, wamble, weasel, whirl, whorl, wiggle, wind, wobble, worm, worm along, wring

• slinky, airy, attenuate, attenuated, back-door, backstairs, boyish, clandestine, covert, cowering, cringing, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, feline, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, furtive, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty, papery, privy, quailing, quiet, rare, rarefied, shifty, skulking, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinking, sly, small, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

• slip away, bow out, creep out of, depart, disappear, duck out, escape, exit, find a loophole, go on furlough, go on leave, leave the scene, mooch off, shuffle out of, skulk away, slide off, slide out of, slink off, slip off, slip out, slip out of, slip through, slither off, sneak off, sneak out, sneak out of, sneak through, squirm out of, steal away, take leave, worm out of, wriggle out of

• slip back, backslide, cock, degenerate, deteriorate, disimprove, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, get worse, go backwards, go behind, grow worse, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, let down, lose ground, pull back, recede, recidivate, recur to, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverse, revert, revert to, sicken, sink back, slacken, slide back, worsen, yield again to

• slip in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, break in upon, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, drop in, ease in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, foist in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, infuse, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, interfere, interject, interlope, interpose, intervene, introduce, intromit, intrude, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, obtrude, pack in, perfuse, pop in, press in, push in, put in, put on, put upon, rush in, set foot in, set in, slink in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, step in, stick in, storm in, take in, throng in, throw in, thrust in, trench, trespass, tuck in, visit, wedge in, whip in, work in, worm in

• slip of the tongue, balk, bevue, false move, false step, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step

• slip out of, bow out, cast off, creep out of, depart, disappear, dodge, doff, dog it, douse, drop, duck, duck duty, duck out, escape, exit, find a loophole, get out of, go on furlough, go on leave, goldbrick, goof off, leave the scene, malinger, mooch off, not pull fair, put off, remove, shirk, shuffle out of, skulk, skulk away, slack, slide off, slide out of, slink off, slip away, slip off, slip out, slip through, slither off, sneak off, sneak out, sneak out of, sneak through, soldier, squirm out of, steal away, step out of, take leave, take off, throw off, undo, unwrap, welsh, worm out of, wriggle out of

• slip up, blunder, bungle, deviate, err, fall into error, foozle, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, goof, lapse, miscalculate, miss, miss the mark, slip, stray, stumble, trip, wander

• slip, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, accord, adhesive tape, administer, adolescent, advance, afford, afghan, allot, allow, amplitude, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, atrocity, avalanche, avoidance, avoiding reaction, award, babe, baby, backslide, bad job, balk, band, bandage, bantam, banty, basin, batten, be all thumbs, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, belt, berth, bestow, bestow on, bevue, bine, blab, blanket, bloomer, blooper, blue, blueprint, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, blurt out, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, breach, break away, breakout, breakwater, broad, buck-passing, buffalo robe, bulkhead, bull, bulletin board, bumble, bungle, burgeon, butcher, button, camber, card, case, catalog card, cellophane tape, chick, china clay, china stone, chit, circumvention, clay, cloth tape, clothes, clumsy performance, coast, cold-type proof, colleen, color proof, come down, come out with, comfort, comforter, commit a gaffe, communicate, computer proof, confer, continue, contour sheet, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, crash, creep, crime, crime against humanity, cutie, cutting, dame, damoiselle, damsel, deadly sin, deadwood, deal, deal out, decline, defense mechanism, degenerate, delinquency, demoiselle, dereliction, deteriorate, deviate, die, diminutive, dip, disappear, disc, disclose, dish out, dispense, divulge, dock, dockage, dockyard, document, dodge, dole, dole out, doll, donate, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drift, drop, drop off, dry dock, duck, ebb, eiderdown, elapse, elusion, elusiveness, embankment, endure, enormity, enter, equivocation, erode, err, error, escape, etourderie, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, evil, expire, expose, extend, exuviate, fade, fail, failure, fall, fall away, fall into error, fall off, falloff, false move, false step, fascia, fault, faux pas, featherweight, felony, file, filing card, fillet, filly, film, fingerling, fireclay, fitted sheet, flagellum, fledgling, flight, flight path, flit, float, flounder, flow, flow on, flub, fluff, flux, fly, foiling, foot, foozle, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fork, fork out, founder, foundry proof, frail, friction tape, frond, frustration, fumble, gal, galley, galley proof, gaucherie, genocide, get away, get in, getaway, getting around, getting round, ghost, gift, gift with, girdle, girl, girlie, give, give freely, give out, glaze, glide, glissade, glissando, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go by, go down, go downhill, go off, go on, go to pot, go under, go wrong, goof, grant, groin, gruel, guilty act, gumbo, gumshoe, hand out, harbor, harborage, hash, have a comedown, haven, heap, heavy sin, heifer, help to, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, hook, hopeful, hoyden, ice-skate, impart, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, index card, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infant, iniquity, injury, injustice, issue, jetty, jeune fille, jill, jink, junior, junior miss, jutty, juvenal, juvenile, kaolin, lam, landing, landing place, landing stage, landslide, landslip, lap robe, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, lass, lassie, last, lath, lavish, leak, leave, let have, let out, let slip, levee, library catalog, lightweight, ligula, ligule, limb, linen, list, little missy, loose thread, lose, lumber, lurk, mademoiselle, magnetic tape, maid, maiden, make a mistake, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mar, marina, masking tape, mere shadow, mess, mete, mete out, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, minor, minor wrong, mire, miscalculate, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, miss, miss the mark, misstep, missy, mistake, mole, molt, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mortal sin, motion-picture film, mouse, muck, mud, muddle, mudhook, muff, murder, near-miss, neutrality, nonfeasance, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nose-dive, note, nubbin, nymphet, off day, offense, offer, offshoot, omission, ooze, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outrage, outwitting, oversight, page proof, paper, pass, pass by, passing the buck, patchwork quilt, peccadillo, peccancy, peewee, permission, permit, petuntse, phonograph record, piece, pier, pillow slip, pillowcase, plank, plastic tape, plate proof, platter, play havoc with, plow the deep, plummet, pony, porcelain clay, port, pour, present, press on, press proof, prevention, proceed, proffer, progressive proof, proof, proof sheet, protected anchorage, pubescent, pull, pussyfoot, put in, quay, quilt, rail, rain, rake, ramage, ramification, reach the depths, refractory clay, refraining, render, repro proof, reveal, revise, ribband, ribbon, ride, ride the sea, road, roads, roadstead, robe, roll on, roller-skate, romp, rug, run, run down, run its course, run on, run out, runner, runt, sad work, sag, sail, sapling, sarment, scape, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scion, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, scrap, screw up, scud, seaport, seawall, seedling, serve, set, shadow, shaving, sheet, sheeting, shell out, shipyard, shirk, shoot, shower, shred, shrimp, shunning, shunting off, shy, sideslip, sidestep, sidetracking, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sink, skate, skateboard, skeleton, ski, skid, skim, skin effect, skin friction, skirt, skulk, slat, sled, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide, slide down, slime, slink, slip in, slip up, slippage, slipup, slither, sliver, slob, slop, slosh, slough, sludge, slump, slur, slush, small fry, snake, sneak in, snip, snippet, snow, snowslide, snowslip, soften, soup, spear, spill, spline, splinter, spoil, spray, spread, sprig, sprit, sprout, squash, stagger, steal, stolon, stone proof, strake, strap, stray, streak, strip, stripling, strop, stumble, subdeb, subdebutante, subside, subsidence, subteen, subteener, sucker, sweep, swill, switch, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tender, tendril, thallus, the runaround, the slip, throw off, thwarting, ticker tape, tit, toboggan, tomato, tomboy, topple, tort, touch bottom, transgression, trespass, trial impression, trip, tumble, twig, unutterable sin, vandyke, vanish, vein, venial sin, videotape, virgin, walk the waters, wander, wane, wart, wench, wharf, wisp, wrong, wrong step, yield, young creature, young hopeful, young person, young thing, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth, zigzag

• slippage, avalanche, coast, comedown, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, glide, glissade, glissando, involution, landslide, landslip, lapse, loss of tone, regression, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slither, slump, snowslide, snowslip, subsidence, wane

• slippery, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adipose, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, artful, astute, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, calculating, canny, changeable, chiseling, chrismal, chrismatory, clever, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covinous, crafty, criminal, critical, crooked, cunning, cute, dangerous, dark, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, delicate, designing, desultory, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, double, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, elusive, elusory, evasive, faithless, false, falsehearted, fat, fatty, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, glassy, greased, greasy, guileful, hazardous, icy, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, inconstant, indirect, infirm, ingenious, insecure, insidious, insubstantial, inventive, knowing, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricated, lubricious, malingering, mucoid, not kosher, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic, on slippery ground, on thin ice, pawky, perfidious, perilous, politic, precarious, provisional, questionable, ready, reptilian, resourceful, rich, risky, rotten, scheming, sebaceous, serpentine, shady, shaky, shameless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shirking, shrewd, sinister, sleek, slick, sliddery, slimy, slipper, slippy, slithery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, soaped, soapy, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, suety, supple, surreptitious, suspicious, tactical, tallowy, temporary, tentative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unctuous, undependable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfaithworthy, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, unprincipled, unreliable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstraightforward, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, vulpine, wary, wily, without remorse, without shame

• slipping, bad, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, degenerate, despaired of, deteriorating, disintegrating, done for, draining, drooping, dwindling, dying, ebbing, effete, expiring, facing death, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, given up, going, going to pieces, gone to seed, hopeless, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, languishing, low, marcescent, moribund, near death, nonviable, on the downgrade, out of condition, out of shape, out of training, pining, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, run to seed, rusty, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping away, slumping, soft, stiff, subsiding, tabetic, terminal, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

• slipshod, barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling, careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, disheveled, disorganized, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, erroneous, faulty, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, imperfect, impotent, imprecise, improper, in rags, inaccurate, incorrect, indifferent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, lax, lenient, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, neglected, negligent, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slaphappy, slatternly, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, ungrammatic, unkempt, unmeticulous, unneat, unorganized, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, weak

• slipup, balk, bevue, blooper, blunder, boner, bungle, error, false move, false step, fluff, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, miss, misstep, mistake, near-miss, omission, oversight, slip, stumble, trip, wrong step

• slit, abrade, abysm, abyss, aggravated, amputate, aperture, arroyo, ax, bark, bezel, bisect, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broach, broken, burn, burned, burst, busted, butcher, canal, canaliculate, canaliculated, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chafe, chamfer, chamfered, channel, channeled, chap, chase, chasm, check, checked, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, chisel, chop, claw, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, corrugation, costate, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, craze, crazed, crevasse, crevice, crimp, crimped, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, cwm, dado, dadoed, damaged, defile, dehiscent, dell, deteriorated, dichotomize, dike, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, embittered, engrave, engraved, engraving, exacerbated, excavation, excise, fault, fissure, fissured, fissury, flaw, flume, flute, fluted, fluting, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, furrowed, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gashed, goffer, goffered, gorge, gouge, gouged, groove, grooved, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halve, harmed, hew, hole, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incise, incised, incision, injure, injured, irritated, jigsaw, joint, kloof, knife, lacerate, lacerated, lance, lay open, leak, maim, make mincemeat of, mangled, maul, microgroove, moat, mutilate, mutilated, notch, nullah, ope, open, open up, opening, pare, part, pass, passage, pierce, pleat, pleated, plow, prune, puncture, quartered, rabbet, rabbeted, ragged, ravine, rend, rent, ribbed, rifle, rifled, rifling, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, ruck, run, rupture, ruptured, rut, rutted, rutty, savage, saw, scald, scalded, scale, scissor, scissure, scorch, scorched, score, scored, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratched, scuff, seam, separate, sever, severed, shattered, shredded, skin, slash, slashed, slice, slot, smashed, snip, splinter, splintered, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, sprung, stab, stick, strain, streak, stria, striate, striated, striation, sulcate, sulcated, sulcation, sulcus, sunder, swing open, tap, tattered, tear, tear open, the worse for, throw open, torn, traumatize, trench, trough, troughed, valley, void, wadi, weakened, well-worn groove, whittle, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wrench, wrinkle, wrinkled

• slither, amble, avalanche, barge, bowl along, bundle, clump, coast, coasting, crawl, creep, drag, droop, flit, flounce, flow, flowing, fly, foot, footslog, gait, gallop, glide, gliding, glissade, glissando, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, ice-skate, jog, jolt, jump, landslide, landslip, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, lurk, mince, mincing steps, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, prowl, rack, roll, roller-skate, sail, sailing, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sideslip, sidle, single-foot, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, skip, skitter, slather, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide, slide down, sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slithering, slog, slouch, slowness, snake, sneak, snowslide, snowslip, stagger, stalk, stamp, steal, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, subsidence, swagger, sweep, sweeping, swing, tittup, toboggan, tobogganing, toddle, totter, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, undulate, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm

• slithering, amphibian, anguine, batrachian, coasting, colubriform, crawling, creeping, crocodilian, flow, flowing, froggy, glide, gliding, lizardlike, ophidian, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, sailing, saurian, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, skating, skiing, skim, sledding, slide, sliding, slipping, slither, snakelike, snaky, sweep, sweeping, toadish, tobogganing, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery

• slithery, adhesive, amylaceous, buttery, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, greased, greasy, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lubric, lubricated, lubricious, mucilaginous, oiled, oily, pasty, ropy, slabby, slick, sliddery, slimy, slipper, slippery, slippy, soaped, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous

• sliver, bit, black sheep, blemish, butt, carve, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, dollop, end, flake, foreign body, foreign intruder, fragment, gob, gobbet, haggle, hunk, impurity, intruder, lump, misfit, modicum, moiety, monkey wrench, morceau, morsel, mote, nip, oddball, paring, particle, patch, piece, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shave, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, slip, smithereen, snack, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, stitch, stone, stump, tag, tatter, weed

• slob, Dry Ice, berg, boor, butterfingers, calf, churl, clay, clumsy, cryosphere, drab, dub, duffer, firn, floe, foozler, foul-up, frazil, frozen water, frump, fumble-fist, galoot, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, glop, goof, goofball, goofer, granular snow, ground ice, growler, gumbo, gunk, hick, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, litterbug, lolly, lout, lummox, lump, mire, muck, mud, muff, muffer, neve, nieve penitente, oaf, ooze, pack ice, pig, rube, schlep, schlump, scum, serac, shelf ice, slab, slattern, sleet, slime, slip, slop, sloppy Joe, slosh, sloven, sludge, slush, slut, snow ice, snowberg, splosh, squash, stumblebum, stumblebunny, swill, swine, trollop, yahoo

• slobber over, adulate, be theatrical, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, cajole, compliment, conceit, emote, emotionalize, fawn upon, flatter, gush, ham it up, make a scene, make fair weather, oil the tongue, palaver, praise, sentimentalize, slop over, theatricalize, wheedle

• slobber, asperge, babble, be insane, be stupid, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blather, blither, burble, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dew, dither, dote, douche, dribble, drivel, drool, expectorate, expectoration, flattering tongue, foam, froth, gush, have a demon, hawk, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, insincerity, irrigate, maunder, moisten, mouth-watering, oiliness, paddle, ptyalism, rage, ramble, rant, rave, run amok, run mad, saliva, salivate, salivation, sialagogue, slabber, slaver, slop, slosh, smarm, sparge, spatter, spew, spit, spittle, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, sputum, swash, syringe, that flattering unction, unction, unctuousness, wander, water, wet, wet down

• sloe, atramentous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, ebony, ink-black, inky, jetty, midnight, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe-black, sloe-colored, tar-black, tarry

• slog, amble, bang, barge, bash, bat, belt, biff, bonk, bowl along, bundle, catch, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, drag, drudge, fag, fetch, fetch a blow, flounce, foot, footslog, grind, grub, halt, hammer, hammer away, hippety-hop, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hobble, hop, jab, jog, jolt, jump, keep doggedly at, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, moil, muck, nail, pace, paddle, paste, peg, peg away, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, plunk, poke, pound away, prance, punch, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slam, slave, slink, slither, slog away, slop, slouch, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak, sock, stagger, stalk, stamp, stodge, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, strike at, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swat, swing, swipe, thump, thwack, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, trash, travail, trip, trudge, waddle, wade through, wallop, wamble, whack, wham, whop, wiggle, wobble, work away, yerk

• slogan, bugle call, byword, call to arms, call-up, catch phrase, catchword, clarion, clarion call, cliche, conscription, cry, device, epigraph, epithet, exhortation, expression, fad word, go for broke, gung ho, idiom, inscription, levy, locution, mobilization, motto, muster, pet expression, phrase, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, shibboleth, tag line, trumpet call, vogue word, war cry, war whoop, watchword

• slop, asperge, bathos, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, bilge, bilgewater, bleeding heart, bolt, bones, carrion, cascade, cataract, chaff, chuckhole, clay, cloyingness, cram, culm, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, deadwood, deluge, dew, dishwater, ditchwater, douche, douse, draff, dregs, dust, engulf, filings, flood, garbage, gash, glop, gobble, goo, gumbo, gunk, guzzle, hearts-and-flowers, hog wallow, hogwash, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, husks, ingurgitate, inundate, irrigate, leavings, lees, loblolly, maudlinness, mawkishness, mire, moisten, muck, muckhole, mud, mud puddle, mudhole, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, offal, offscourings, ooze, orts, overbrim, overflow, overrun, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, overwhelm, paddle, pap, parings, plash, potsherds, pour out, pour over, puddle, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, romanticism, rubbish, run over, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slab, slack, slag, slime, slip, slob, slobber, slog, sloppiness, slops, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, soap opera, sob story, sparge, spatter, spill, spill out, spill over, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, sponge, spray, sprinkle, spurtle, squab, squash, stodge, stubble, submerge, swamp, swash, sweep, sweepings, sweetness and light, swill, syringe, tares, tearjerker, toil, trash, trudge, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, water, weeds, wet, wet down, whelm, wolf

• slope, acclivity, angle, angularity, ascend, ascent, bank, bend, bevel, bezel, camber, cant, careen, chute, climb, decline, declivity, deflection, descend, descent, deviation, dip, downgrade, drop, drop off, easy slope, fall, fall away, fall off, fleam, gentle slope, glacis, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, hanging gardens, heel, helicline, hill, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, keel, launching ramp, lean, leaning, leaning tower, list, mount, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, rake, ramp, recline, retreat, rise, scarp, shelve, shelving beach, side, sidle, sink, skew, slant, steep slope, stiff climb, swag, sway, talus, tilt, tip, tower of Pisa, upgrade, uprise

• sloping, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, oblique, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, pitching, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy

• sloppy, all thumbs, amateurish, aquatic, aqueous, awkward, bagging, baggy, barfy, bathetic, beat-up, bedraggled, beery, blowzy, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, boozy, botched, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, canned, careless, chintzy, clownish, cloying, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, dangling, deficient, dilapidated, dirty, disguised, disgusting, disheveled, disordered, disorderly, dowdy, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, drunk, easy, easygoing, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fingers all thumbs, flapping, flyblown, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gloppy, gooey, graceless, grubby, grungy, gunky, gushing, gushy, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hanging, haphazard, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, icky, impotent, imprecise, in rags, indifferent, inebriated, inelegant, informal, lax, left-hand, left-handed, lenient, liquid, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maggoty, maladroit, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mediocre, mephitic, messy, miry, mucky, muddled, muddy, mushy, mussy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseating, negligent, nostalgic, nostomanic, oafish, odious, oozy, ordurous, overindulgent, overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, permissive, pixilated, plashy, plastered, poky, ponderous, poor, promiscuous, puky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rainy, rank, relaxed, remiss, repulsive, rickety, romantic, rotten, ruinous, sappy, scabby, scraggly, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, seedy, sentimental, sentimentalized, shabby, shaky, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slack, slapdash, slatternly, slimy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbering, slobbery, slobby, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, sluttish, sodden, soft, soggy, sopping, soppy, sordid, splashy, sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, stiff, streaming, swashy, tacky, tattered, tear-jerking, teary, turbid, uncouth, unfastidious, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt, unneat, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, unwieldy, vile, vomity, waterish, watery, weak, wet, wormy, yecchy

• slops, barley, bilge, bilgewater, bird seed, bones, bran, carrion, cat food, chaff, chicken feed, chop, corn, culm, deadwood, dishwater, ditchwater, dog food, draff, dregs, dust, eatage, ensilage, feed, filings, fodder, forage, garbage, gash, grain, hay, hogwash, husks, leavings, lees, mash, meal, oats, offal, offscourings, old clothes, orts, parings, pasturage, pasture, pet food, potsherds, provender, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scratch, scratch feed, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, silage, slack, slag, slop, slough, straw, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, tatters, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, wheat

• slosh, asperge, avalanche, babble, bang, bash, bat, bedew, belt, bespatter, besprinkle, biff, blizzard, bolt, bubble, burble, cascade, cataract, catch, churn, clay, clout, crack, cram, crystal, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, deluge, dew, douche, douse, driven snow, engulf, flake, flood, flurry, foam, froth, glop, gobble, granular snow, guggle, gumbo, gunk, gurgle, gush, guzzle, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, igloo, ingurgitate, inundate, irrigate, lap, lapping, mantle of snow, mire, mogul, moisten, muck, mud, nail, ooze, overbrim, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, paddle, plash, pound, pour out, pour over, purl, ripple, roar, run over, rush, scum, shower, slab, slam, slime, slip, slob, slobber, slog, slop, sludge, slush, smack, smite, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, sock, sparge, spatter, spill, spill out, spill over, spindrift, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, sponge, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, squash, submerge, swamp, swash, sweep, swill, swish, syringe, trill, tumble, wallop, wash, washing, water, wet, wet down, wet snow, whack, whelm, whirl, wolf

• sloshy, barfy, crappy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, gloppy, gunky, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, nauseating, odious, oozy, ordurous, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, turbid, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy

• slot, IC analysis, abysm, abyss, aperture, appositive, arroyo, assign, assignment, attribute, attributive, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, complement, construction modifier, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cutting, cwm, deep structure, defile, dell, depression, dike, direct object, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, filler, fissure, fistula, fit, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, form-function unit, fracture, function, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollow out, immediate constituent analysis, incise, incision, indirect object, inlet, interval, job, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, levels, moat, modifier, niche, notch, nullah, object, open, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, phrase structure, place, pore, position, predicate, qualifier, ranks, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rive, rupture, schedule, scissure, seam, shallow structure, slit, slot and filler, space, split, spot, stoma, strata, structure, subject, sulcus, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, throwing open, trench, uncorking, underlying structure, unstopping, vacancy, valley, void, wadi, word arrangement, word order, yawn

• sloth, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Primates, Rodentia, accidia, acedia, aloofness, anger, apathy, army, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice, avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, bunch, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, circumspection, colony, comatoseness, creeping, deadly sin, deliberateness, deliberation, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency, detachment, dilatoriness, disconsolateness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, do-nothingness, drawl, drift, drive, drove, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation, ennui, envy, ergophobia, faineancy, faineantise, fatigue, flock, foot-dragging, forlornness, gam, gang, gluttony, greed, gula, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, herd, hoboism, hopelessness, host, idleness, idling, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, inattentiveness, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, indolence, inertia, inertness, inexcitability, inexertion, insouciance, invidia, ira, jadedness, just being, kennel, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, laggardness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, laze, laziness, lazing, leisureliness, lenitude, lentitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, litter, loafing, lotus-eating, lust, luxuria, mere existence, mere tropism, mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, pack, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pod, pokiness, pride, recklessness, regardlessness, reluctance, remissness, resignation, resignedness, satedness, school, shiftlessness, shoal, skulk, slackness, sleepiness, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spring fever, spunklessness, stagnation, stupefaction, stupor, superbia, supineness, tentativeness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, trip, troop, unanxiousness, unconcern, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, vagrancy, vegetation, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrath

• slothful, ambling, apathetic, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, good-for-nothing, gradual, halting, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, leisurely, lethargic, limping, lumbering, moderate, nonaggressive, parasitic, phlegmatic, pococurante, poking, poky, procrastinative, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unenterprising, unhurried, waddling, work-shy

• slouch, amble, andante, arm, barge, bay, bayou, bend, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bog, boor, botcher, bowl along, bum, bum around, bumbler, bundle, bungler, cave, cave in, claudication, clock watcher, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, clump, cove, crawl, creek, creep, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, dead march, decline, diddler, dillydallier, do nothing, do-nothing, dogtrot, dolittle, dolt, doodler, drag, droop, faineant, fen, flop, flop down, flounce, flump, flump down, foot, footpace, footslog, founder, fumbler, funeral march, gait, gallop, gaum, gawk, gentleman of leisure, give way, go down, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, goof-off, gowk, gulf, halt, hang around, harbor, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hunch, idle, idleness, idler, indolence, jog, jog trot, jolt, jump, klutz, laggard, lapse, laze, laziness, lazy, lazybones, lean, leisurely gait, lie around, limp, lingerer, loaf, loafer, lobster, lock step, loiter about, loiterer, loll, loll around, loller, lollop, lollop around, looby, lop, lotus-eater, lough, lounge, lounge around, lounger, lout, lower, lubber, lumber, lumbering pace, lump, lunge, lurch, malingerer, marsh, marshland, meathead, mince, mincing steps, mire, mooch around, moon, moon around, mope, moper, morass, no slouch, oaf, ox, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, plop, plop down, plump, potterer, prance, putterer, quagmire, rack, roll, sag, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, set, settle, settle down, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, sink, sink down, sit around, skip, slink, slither, slog, slothfulness, slouch around, sloucher, slough, sloven, slow march, slow motion, slowness, slubberer, slug, slugabed, sluggard, sluggishness, slump, slump down, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand around, step, stick-in-the-mud, stomp, stoop, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, submerge, subside, sump, swag, swagger, swampland, swing, time killer, time waster, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, tread, trifler, trip, trollop, trot, trudge, velocity, waddle, waiter on Providence, walk, wamble, wiggle, wilt, wobble, yokel

• slough, abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay, decomposition, deep-six, desquamation, discard, dishwater, dispose of, ditch, ditchwater, dry gangrene, dry rot, dump, eighty-six, eliminate, embarrassing position, embarrassment, everglade, exuviae, exuviate, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, foulness, gangrene, garbage, gas gangrene, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, glade, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, husk, imbroglio, jam, jettison, jilt, junk, loblolly, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mess, mire, mix, moist gangrene, molt, moor, moorland, morass, mortification, moss, muckhole, mud, mud flat, mud puddle, mudhole, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, offal, offscourings, parlous straits, part with, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, pod, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, puddle, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, quagmire, quicksand, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, refuse, reject, remove, riffraff, rot, rottenness, salt marsh, scrap, scrape, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shed, shell, shuck, skin, slip, slob land, slop, slops, sough, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tooth decay, toss overboard, tricky spot, unholy mess, wallow, wash

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

• slow down, abate, allay, alleviate, arrest, assuage, attemper, backpedal, backwater, bank the fire, block, blunt, bog down, boycott, brake, bridle, chasten, check, clip the wings, confine, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, curb, curtail, curtail expenses, cut back, cut corners, cut down, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deadlock, decelerate, decrease, delay, detain, diminish, dompt, downplay, drag, draw rein, dull, ease, ease off, ease up, enjoin, extenuate, go on strike, go out, govern, guard, halt, hang up, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold out, hold up, impede, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, keep within bounds, lag, lay, lay under restraint, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, let up on, lighten, lock out, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, make late, mire, mitigate, moderate, modulate, obstruct, obtund, palliate, pare down expenses, picket, play down, prohibit, pull, pull in, qualify, reduce, reduce the temperature, reef, rein, rein in, relax, restrain, retard, retrench, revolt, roll back, set back, shut it down, sit down, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow up, smother, snub, sober, sober down, soften, stall, stay, stifle, stop, straiten, strike, stymie, subdue, suppress, take a reef, take in sail, tame, temper, throttle down, tone down, tune down, unbend, underplay, unlax, unwind, walk out, weaken, withhold

• slow motion, andante, claudication, crawl, creep, dead march, dogtrot, footpace, funeral march, hobble, jog, jog trot, leisurely gait, limp, lumbering pace, mincing steps, plod, rack, saunter, shamble, shuffle, slouch, slow march, stroll, trudge, waddle, walk

• slow time, Alaska time, Atlantic time, Central time, Eastern time, GMT, Greenwich mean time, Greenwich time, Mountain time, Yukon time, apparent time, civil time, daylight-saving time, double march, double time, double-quick, fast time, goose step, half step, local time, march, mean solar time, mean time, quick march, quick time, quickstep, quickstep march, sidereal time, slow march, solar time, standard time, summer time, time zone, zone time

• slow up, afterthought, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bind, block, blockage, brake, bureaucratic delay, check, clip the wings, curb, decelerate, deceleration, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detain, detention, double take, drag, dragging, draw rein, ease off, ease up, ease-off, ease-up, flagging, halt, hang-up, hindrance, hold back, hold in check, hold up, holdup, impede, interim, jam, keep back, lag, lagging, let down, let up, letdown, letup, logjam, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, minus acceleration, moderate, moratorium, obstruct, obstruction, paperasserie, pause, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reef, rein in, relax, reprieve, respite, retard, retardance, retardation, retardment, set back, setback, slack, slack off, slack up, slack-up, slacken, slackening, slow, slow down, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, suspension, take in sail, throttle down, tie-up, time lag, wait

• slow witted, blunt, blunt-witted, dim, dim-witted, dopey, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, fat-witted, gross-headed, heavy, hebetudinous, obtuse, slow, sluggish, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, wooden

• slow, Boeotian, Micawberish, after time, almost unheard-of, ambling, apathetic, arid, arrest, arrested, averse, back, backpedal, backward, backwater, balking, balky, barren, behind, behind the times, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blocked, blockish, bloodless, blunt, blunt-witted, bone-lazy, bored, boring, bovine, brake, cadging, carefully, cautious, cautiously, characterless, check, circumspect, circumspectly, claudicant, clip the wings, cloddish, cold, colorless, conservative, crawling, crawlingly, creeping, creeping like snail, creepingly, curb, dallying, dawdling, dead, dead-and-alive, debilitated, decelerate, deep into, delay, delayed, delayed-action, delaying, deliberate, deliberately, dense, detain, detained, dilatorily, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinclined, dismal, do-nothing, doless, doltish, dopey, dormant, dragging, draggy, draw rein, drearisome, dreary, dronish, drony, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, dumb, dunch, dusty, ease off, ease up, easily, easy, easygoing, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, ergophobic, etiolated, exanimate, fade, faineant, faltering, falteringly, far on, fat-witted, feebleminded, flagging, flat, foot-dragging, gentle, gently, good-for-nothing, gradual, gross-headed, grudging, half-witted, halting, haltingly, hasteless, heavy, hebetudinous, held up, hesitant, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling, hold back, hold in check, hold up, hollow, humdrum, hung up, idle, idly, imbecile, impede, in a bind, in abeyance, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indisposed, indolent, indolently, inert, inexcitable, infrequent, insipid, jaded, jammed, jejune, keep back, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, late, latish, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, let down, let up, lethargic, lifeless, limited, limping, limpingly, lingering, lingeringly, listless, loath, loitering, loiteringly, lollygagging, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, low-spirited, lumbering, lumpish, measurable, measured, moderate, moderately, monotonous, moratory, moribund, moronic, never on time, nonaggressive, none too soon, not with it, numb, obstruct, obstructed, obtuse, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, out of date, out of it, overdue, pale, pallid, parasitic, pedestrian, perceptible, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, pokily, poking, pokingly, poky, ponderous, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, progressive, quiet, rare, reef, rein in, relax, relaxed, relaxedly, reluctant, reluctantly, remiss, renitent, restive, retard, retarded, rusty, sated, sauntering, scarce, scrounging, seldom met with, seldom seen, set back, shiftless, shuffling, simple, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, sleepy, slothful, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down, slow to, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slowly, sluggish, sluggishly, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, somnolent, soporific, sparse, spiritless, sponging, square, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, stay, steady, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stopped, straggling, strolling, stuffy, stultified, stupid, superficial, supine, take in sail, take it easy, tame, tardily, tardy, tarryingly, tasteless, tedious, tentative, tentatively, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, throttle down, tiresome, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncommon, under easy sail, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, uneventful, unfrequent, unhasty, unhurried, unhurriedly, unimaginative, unintelligent, uninteresting, unique, unlively, unproductive, unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unresponsive, untimely, unusual, unwilling, unzealous, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, wearisome, weary, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation, wooden, work-shy, world-weary

• slowdown, action, afterthought, arrest, bind, block, blockage, boom, bottoming out, boycott, boycottage, bureaucratic delay, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, catabasis, check, cheeseparing, collapse, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, crash, crisis, curtailment, cutback, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrescendo, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, depression, detention, diminuendo, dive, double take, downtrend, downturn, drag, dragging, drop, dwindling, ease-off, ease-up, ebb, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economization, economizing, expanding economy, expansion, fall, falloff, flagging, freeze, growth, halt, hang-up, high growth rate, hindrance, holdup, inactivity, interim, jam, job action, lag, lagging, lapse, letdown, letup, lockout, logjam, low, low growth rate, market expansion, minus acceleration, moratorium, obstruction, outlaw strike, paperasserie, pause, peak, peaking, plunge, prosperity, protest, recession, recovery, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, remission, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, retardment, retreat, retrenchment, revolt, rulebook slowdown, saving, scraping, scrimping, setback, sick-in, sit-down, sit-down strike, skimping, slack, slack-up, slackening, slow-up, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, slump, sparing, stagnation, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence, suspension, sympathy strike, tie-up, time lag, turnout, upturn, wait, walkout, wane, wildcat strike, work stoppage

• slowing down, arrest, arrestation, check, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, deceleration, delay, detention, drag, ease-off, ease-up, flagging, hindrance, holdup, inhibition, injunction, interdict, lag, legal restraint, letdown, letup, minus acceleration, monopoly, obstruction, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, rein, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retardment, retrenchment, self-control, setback, slack-up, slackening, slowdown, slowing, slowup, tariff wall, thought control

• slowly, aridly, barrenly, bit by bit, bloodlessly, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, cautiously, circumspectly, colorlessly, crawlingly, creepingly, degreewise, deliberately, dilatorily, dismally, draggily, drearily, drearisomely, drop by drop, dryly, dully, dustily, easily, effetely, emptily, falteringly, gently, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, haltingly, heavily, hollowly, idly, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, inanely, inch by inch, inchmeal, indolently, insipidly, jejunely, lackadaisically, languidly, languorously, leisurely, lifelessly, limpingly, lingeringly, little by little, loiteringly, moderately, pallidly, ploddingly, pointlessly, pokily, pokingly, ponderously, relaxedly, reluctantly, slow, sluggishly, spiritlessly, step by step, stodgily, stuffily, superficially, tardily, tarryingly, tastelessly, tediously, tentatively, under easy sail, unhurriedly, uninterestingly, vapidly, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation

• slowness, Fabian policy, Micawberism, acedia, afterthought, amble, antipathy, apathy, aridity, asininity, averseness, aversion, backwardness, barrenness, bind, block, blockage, blockishness, bloodlessness, boobishness, boorishness, boredom, bovinity, bureaucratic delay, characterlessness, cloddishness, colorlessness, crassness, crudeness, cursoriness, deadness, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, deliberateness, deliberation, denseness, density, detention, dilatoriness, dim-wittedness, dimness, disagreement, disinclination, dismalness, disobedience, disrelish, dissent, distaste, do-nothingness, dolce far niente, doltishness, double take, drag, dragginess, dragging, dreariness, droop, drowsiness, dryness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, enervation, ennui, ergophobia, etiolation, faineancy, faineantise, fatigue, flatness, flounce, foot-dragging, fractiousness, gait, gallop, grossness, grudging consent, grudgingness, halt, hang-up, hastelessness, heaviness, hebetude, hesitation, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hoboism, hold-off, holdup, hollowness, inactivity, inanimation, inanity, indifference, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indolence, inertia, inexcitability, inexertion, infrequence, infrequency, insipidity, insipidness, interim, intractableness, jadedness, jam, jejunity, jog, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lackadaisicalness, lag, laggardness, lagging, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, laxness, laziness, leadenness, leisureliness, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, limp, listlessness, lock step, logjam, lotus-eating, loutishness, lowness of spirit, lumpishness, lurch, mince, mincing steps, moratorium, mugwump, mutinousness, ninnyism, nolition, oafdom, oafishness, obstinacy, obstruction, obtuseness, occasionalness, opacity, opposition, oscitancy, pace, paddle, paleness, pallor, paperasserie, passivity, pause, perfunctoriness, phlegm, piaffer, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, prance, procrastination, rack, rareness, rarity, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, refractoriness, refusal, relaxedness, reluctance, remissness, renitence, renitency, reprieve, repugnance, resistance, respite, retardance, retardation, roll, satedness, saunter, scarceness, scarcity, scuttle, seldomness, shamble, shiftlessness, shuffle, sidle, simpletonianism, single-foot, slackness, sleepiness, slink, slither, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slow-up, slowdown, sluggishness, solemnity, somnolence, sottishness, sparsity, spiritlessness, spring fever, stagger, stalk, stall, stay, stay of execution, step, sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stolidity, stop, stoppage, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stubbornness, stuffiness, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, superficiality, supineness, suspension, swagger, swing, tastelessness, tediousness, temporization, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, tie-up, time lag, toddle, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, totter, tread, trot, uncommonness, unenthusiasm, unfrequentness, unhastiness, unhurriedness, uninterestingness, uniqueness, unliveliness, unteachability, unusualness, unwillingness, vagrancy, vapidity, vapidness, velocity, waddle, wait, walk, weariness, woodenness, world-weariness, wrongheadedness, yokelism

• slowpoke, dawdle, dawdler, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, procrastinator, sleepyhead, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, tortoise

• sludge, Dry Ice, berg, calf, clay, cryosphere, dregs, firn, floe, frazil, frozen water, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, glop, goo, granular snow, ground ice, growler, gumbo, gunk, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, lolly, mire, muck, mud, neve, nieve penitente, ooze, pack ice, precipitate, residue, scum, serac, shelf ice, silt, slab, sleet, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, slush, snow ice, snowberg, splosh, squash, swill

• sludgy, barfy, crappy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, gloppy, gunky, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, nauseating, odious, oozy, ordurous, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slushy, soft, splashy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, turbid, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy

• slug, Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Intertype, Linotype, Monoplacophora, Monotype, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, baggage check, ball, bang, bar shot, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, bird shot, blast, blow, bonk, buckshot, bullet, bum, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, check, chop, clap, clip, clobber, clock watcher, clout, clump, cold-type typesetting, coldcock, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, counter, coupon, crack, crossbar shot, cut, dallier, dash, dawdle, dawdler, deal, deal a blow, deck, diddler, dig, dillydallier, dint, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, dose, dram, drone, drop, drub, drubbing, drumming, duck shot, dumdum bullet, dummy, em, em quad, en, en quad, expanding bullet, faineant, fetch, fetch a blow, five-em space, foot-dragger, four-em space, furniture, fusillade, galley chase, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, grape, grapeshot, hair space, hat check, hit, hit a clip, hot-metal typesetting, idler, imposition, jab, jolt, justification, justification space, justifying space, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, laggard, langrel shot, layout, lazybones, let have it, lick, lie-abed, line of type, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, manstopping bullet, mope, moper, nip, paste, patent space, pellet, pelt, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plodder, plunk, poke, portion, potterer, pound, procrastinator, punch, putterer, quad, quadrat, quoin, rap, rifle ball, round shot, scrip, setting, shell, shot, shrapnel, slacker, slam, sleepyhead, slog, slouch, sloucher, sloven, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slugabed, sluggard, smack, smash, smite, snail, snap, snifter, snort, soak, sock, space, spaceband, split shot, stick-in-the-mud, strike, strike at, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tag, tattoo, thick space, thin space, thump, thwack, ticket, time killer, time waster, token, tortoise, tot, trifler, typesetting, typesetting machine, waiter on Providence, wallop, whack, wham, whop, yerk

• sluggard, bum, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lazybones, lie-abed, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, shirker, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, slugabed, snail, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence

• sluggish, Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, abeyant, affluent, aloof, ambling, apathetic, backward, benumbed, blah, blase, blunt, blunt-witted, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, confluent, costive, coursing, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dallying, dead, debilitated, decurrent, defluent, delaying, deliberate, desensitized, detached, diffluent, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinterested, dopey, dormant, down, dragging, draggy, droopy, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, easy, easygoing, enervated, exanimate, faltering, fat-witted, flagging, flat, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gradual, groggy, gross-headed, gulfy, gushing, halting, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limping, lingering, listless, logy, loitering, lumbering, lumpish, mazy, meandering, moderate, moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obtuse, off, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, pouring, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, profluent, racing, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, resigned, running, rushing, sated, sauntering, sedentary, serpentine, shuffling, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stiff, stoic, streaming, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, surging, surgy, suspended, tame, tentative, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tidal, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhurried, uninterested, vegetable, vegetative, vortical, waddling, wan, weary, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary

• sluggishness, hebetude, idleness, indolence, laggardness, languidness, languor, lassitude, laze, laziness, lethargy, lifelessness, phlegm, pococurantism, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, stagnation, torpor

• sluice, aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, baptize, bath, bathe, bed, blow out, blowhole, canal, channel, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, creek bed, culvert, debouch, deluge, dip, dock gate, donga, door, douche, douse, drain, drain out, drench, drown, dry bed, duck, dunk, egress, empty, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, find vent, float, flood, flood-hatch, floodgate, flow, flow on, flow out, flume, flush, flush out, gargle, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gush, gush out, gutter, head gate, headchute, headrace, holystone, inundate, irrigate, irrigation ditch, jet, kennel, lather, launder, lave, lock, lock gate, loophole, mop, mop up, nullah, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outflow, outgate, outgo, outlet, outpour, penstock, piscina, pore, port, pour, pour on, pour out, race, rain, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, river bed, riverway, roll, run out, runnel, sally port, scour, scrub, scrub up, scupper, sewer, shampoo, shower, sink, sluice gate, sluice out, soak, soap, sough, spew out, spillbox, spillway, spiracle, sponge, spout, spout out, spurt, stream, stream bed, streamway, submerge, sump, surge, swab, swamp, swash, swash channel, syringe, tailrace, tap, tide gate, toivel, tub, vent, ventage, venthole, vomit forth, vomitory, wadi, wash, wash out, wash up, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, way out, weir, well, well out, whelm

• slum, Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel, inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, red-light district, residential district, rookery, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row, slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight, warren

• slumber, ataraxia, ataraxy, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, calmness, coma, composure, contemplation, dorm, doss, doze, dreamland, drowse, dullness, fitful sleep, fust, hang fire, hebetude, hibernation, idle, imperturbability, land of Nod, languor, lassitude, light sleep, lucid stillness, marmoreal repose, nap, nirvana, oversleep, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, saw logs, saw wood, serenity, shut-eye, silence, silken repose, sleep, sleep soundly, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumberland, smolder, snoozle, snore, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stagnate, stillness, stupor, take a nap, torpidity, torpor, tranquillity, unconsciousness, vegetate, winter sleep, wise passiveness

• slumbering, abeyant, apathetic, asleep, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, dead, dead asleep, deep asleep, dopey, dormant, dull, fast asleep, flaked-out, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, oblivious, out, passive, phlegmatic, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sluggish, smoldering, sound asleep, stagnant, standing, static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unconscious

• slumberland, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, doze, dreamland, drowse, fitful sleep, hibernation, land of Nod, light sleep, repose, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, snoozle, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, unconsciousness, winter sleep

• slumberous, comatose, dopey, dozy, drowsy, heavy, hebetudinous, hypnotic, narcotic, nodding, opiate, sluggish, snoozy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, stupid, torpid

• slummy, battered, beat-up, beaten up, broken-down, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, in ruins, ramshackle, ruined, ruinous, run-down, shabby, slumlike, sordid, squalid, tottery, tumbledown, wretched

• slump, arrear, arrearage, arrears, bad times, be found wanting, bear market, bearish market, beat down, boom, bottoming out, break, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cadence, catabasis, catenary, cave, cave in, cheapen, cheapening, collapse, come short, comedown, cooling off, crash, crisis, cut, cut prices, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, declining market, decrescendo, decurrence, defalcation, default, defectiveness, deficit, deflate, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delinquency, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciate, depreciation, depression, derogation, descend, descent, deterioration, devaluate, devaluation, devolution, die, diminuendo, dip, dive, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, droop, drop, dwindling, dying, ebb, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economic stagnation, effeteness, evil day, expanding economy, expansion, fade, fading, fail, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, fall away, fall in price, fall off, fall short, falling short, falling-off, falloff, flag, flop, flop down, flump, flump down, founder, give way, go down, go downhill, go off, growth, hard times, heavy weather, high growth rate, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, imperfection, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, involution, jew down, keel over, lack, lag, lapse, lose ground, loss of tone, low, lower, lowering, mark down, markdown, market expansion, nose dive, nose-dive, nosedive, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not stretch, not suffice, off market, pare, peak, peaking, pitch, plop, plop down, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prosperity, rainy day, reach the depths, recede, recession, recovery, reduce, reduction, regression, remission, retreat, retreating market, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, run down, run short, sad times, sag, sagging market, set, settle, settle down, shave, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sink, sink down, sinkage, slash, slide, slip, slippage, slouch, slowdown, slump down, smash, soft market, stagnation, stop short, stormy weather, submerge, submergence, subside, subsidence, swag, tailspin, topple, touch bottom, trim, trough, tumble, underage, upturn, wane, want

• slur over, allow for, becloud, befog, blanket, blind, blink, blink at, camouflage, carefully ignore, cloak, cloud, cold-shoulder, color, conceal, cover, cover up, curtain, cut a corner, cut corners, diminish, dip into, discount, disguise, disregard, dissemble, distract attention from, dodge, ease, eclipse, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, examine cursorily, extenuate, fail, forget, fudge, give the once-over, glance at, gloss over, hide, ignore, keep under cover, lessen, make allowance for, mask, mince, mitigate, obfuscate, obscure, occult, omit, overlook, page through, palliate, pass over, pass over lightly, scamp, scan, screen, shade, shroud, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slight, slip through, slubber over, slur, soft-pedal, soften, thumb through, touch upon, touch upon lightly, varnish, veil, whitewash, zip through

• slur, accent, accent mark, affront, asperse, aspersion, attaint, bad-mouth, badge of infamy, bar, bar sinister, baton, bedaub, befoul, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespatter, bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blink, blot, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, calumniate, calumny, cancel, cantando, carefully ignore, cast aspersions on, cast reflections on, censure, champain, character, cold-shoulder, custos, cut a corner, cut corners, darken, daub, defame, defile, demilegato, denigrate, dip into, direct, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit, disparage, disparagement, disregard, dodge, dot, examine cursorily, execution, expose, expose to infamy, expression, expression mark, fermata, fingering, fudge, garble, gibbet, give the once-over, glance at, glissando, gloss over, hang in effigy, hold, ignore, imputation, innuendo, insinuation, insult, intonation, key signature, lead, legato, libel, ligature, lisp, malign, mark, mark of Cain, measure, metronomic mark, mezzo staccato, mumble, music-making, notation, obloquy, odium, onus, page through, parlando, pass over, pass over lightly, pause, performance, personal remark, personality, pianism, pillory, pillorying, pizzicato, point champain, presa, put-down, reflection, rendering, rendition, repercussion, reprimand, reproach, rubato, scamp, scan, scorch, sear, segno, sign, signature, singe, skid, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slam, slander, slidder, slight, slip, slip through, slubber, slubber over, slur over, sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smoke, smudge, smutch, soil, spiccato, spot, staccato, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, stricture, stutter, suggestion, sully, swell, symbol, taint, tarnish, tear down, tempo mark, thumb through, tie, time signature, touch, touch upon, touch upon lightly, traduce, uncomplimentary remark, vilify, vinculum, whispering campaign, zip through

• slurp up, absorb, adsorb, assimilate, blot, blot up, chemisorb, chemosorb, digest, drink, drink in, drink up, engross, filter in, imbibe, infiltrate, osmose, percolate in, seep in, soak in, soak up, sorb, sponge, swill up, take in, take up

• slurp, aspirate, beverage, breathe in, bumper, draft, dram, draw in, drench, drink, drinking, eating, engorgement, engulfment, gulp, gulping, guzzle, imbibition, ingestion, ingurgitation, inhale, inspire, lap, lap up, libation, lick, nip, peg, portion, potation, pull, quaff, sip, slosh, smack, sniff, sniffle, snort, snuff, snuff in, snuffle, soak up, sponge up, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swallow, swallowing, swig, swill, tot, wolf down

• slush, avalanche, bathos, big mouth, bleeding heart, blizzard, candor, clay, cloyingness, communicativeness, conversableness, crystal, driven snow, effusion, effusiveness, flake, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flurry, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, glop, goo, granular snow, gregariousness, gumbo, gunk, gush, gushiness, hearts-and-flowers, igloo, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, mantle of snow, maudlinness, mawkishness, mire, mogul, muck, mud, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, ooze, openness, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, prolixity, romanticism, scum, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slab, slime, slip, slob, slop, sloppiness, slosh, sludge, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, soap opera, sob story, sociability, spate of words, splosh, squash, sweetness and light, swill, talkativeness, tearjerker, verbosity, volubility, wet snow, windiness

• slushy, Siberian, algid, arctic, barfy, bathetic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crappy, crisp, cutting, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, gloppy, gunky, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icky, icy, inclement, keen, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mephitic, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, nasty, nauseating, nipping, nippy, numbing, odious, oozy, ordurous, penetrating, piercing, pinching, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, raw, repulsive, rigorous, romantic, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, severe, sharp, shitty, slabby, sleety, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, snappy, soft, soppy, splashy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, tear-jerking, turbid, vile, vomity, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, wormy, yecchy

• slut, Jezebel, Partlet, bad woman, baggage, bandog, biddy, bitch, bossy, bowwow, broad, brood mare, bungler, canine, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, cow, disregarder, dodger, doe, dog, dowdy, drab, easy lay, easy woman, ewe, ewe lamb, fancy dog, filly, floozy, frail sister, frump, goldbrick, goof-off, grisette, guide dog, guinea hen, gyp, harridan, heifer, hen, hind, hog, hussy, hysteromaniac, idler, ignorer, jade, jenny, jezebel, kennel, lap dog, lioness, litterbug, loose woman, malapert, malingerer, mare, nanny, nanny goat, neglecter, negligent, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pack of dogs, peahen, pickup, pig, pooch, procrastinator, pup, puppy, quean, roe, saucebox, schlep, schlump, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep dog, shirker, show dog, slacker, slattern, sled dog, slob, sloppy Joe, sloven, snip, sow, strumpet, swine, tart, tigress, toy dog, traipse, tramp, trifler, trollop, trull, uteromaniac, vixen, waiter on Providence, wanton, watchdog, wench, whelp, whore, working dog

• sluttish, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling, careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy

• sly, Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, arch, artful, astute, back-door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, clandestine, clever, covert, crafty, creep, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, downy, feline, foxy, furtive, guileful, gumshoe, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lurk, masterful, pawky, politic, predatory, privy, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, shady, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skulk, skulking, slick, slide, slim, slink, slinking, slinky, slippery, smart, smooth, snake, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snook, sophistical, steal, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily

• smack of, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, copy, correspond, counterfeit, evoke, favor, follow, imitate, look like, match, mimic, mirror, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, remind one of, resemble, savor of, seem like, simulate, sound like, stack up with, suggest, take after, taste like, taste of

• smack, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, abruptly, aftertaste, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, aroma, attribute, badge, bang, bang into, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, bitter, black stuff, blip, blow, blow a kiss, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bonk, bop, box, box the ears, brand, buffet, bump, bump into, burst, buss, bust, cachet, calmative, cannon, carom, carom into, cast, character, characteristic, chloral hydrate, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, clump, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coldcock, collide, come into collision, concuss, configuration, confront each other, crack, crack up, crash, crash into, crump, crunch, cuff, cut, dash, dash into, deal, deal a blow, deck, depressant, depressor, differentia, differential, dig, dint, distinctive feature, dolly, downer, drub, drubbing, drumming, earmark, encounter, exactly, fall foul of, feature, fetch, fetch a blow, figure, flap, flavor, flop, flush, foul, full, fusillade, gleam, goofball, gust, hallmark, hard stuff, hastily, heroin, hint, hit, hit a clip, hit against, hop, horse, hurt, hurtle, hypnotic, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impetuously, impinge, impress, impression, index, individualism, infusion, inkling, intimation, jab, junk, kerplunk, keynote, kiss, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knockout drops, lash, laudanum, let have it, lick, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, lineaments, lip, liquor, look, lotus, mannerism, mark, marking, meet, meperidine, methadone, mold, morphia, morphine, narcotic, nature, odor, of a sudden, on short notice, opiate, opium, osculate, osculation, pacifier, pain killer, palate, paregoric, particularity, paste, peck, peculiarity, pelt, pen yan, percuss, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, poke, pop, pound, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, property, punch, purple heart, quality, quietener, quirk, rainbow, rap, red, reek, relish, report, resemble, right, run into, salt, sample, sapidity, sapor, sauce, savor, savoriness, scag, scintilla, seal, seasoning, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shade, shadow, shape, sharp, shit, sideswipe, singularity, sip, slam, slam into, slap, slap the face, slat, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, slog, slug, smack into, smack-dab, smash, smash into, smash up, smattering, smell, smite, smooch, snap, soak, sock, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, soupcon, sour, spang, spank, spark, specialty, spice, splat, sprinkling, square, squarely, stamp, startlingly, stink, stomach, straight, strike, strike against, strike at, stripe, stroke, sudden, suddenly, suggest, suggestion, sup, surprisingly, suspicion, swap, swat, sweet, swing, swipe, taint, tang, tap, tar, taste, taste of, tattoo, tempering, thought, thump, thwack, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, token, token punishment, tongue, tooth, touch, trace, trait, tranquilizer, trick, turps, unawares, unexpectedly, vestige, wallop, welt, whack, wham, whap, whip, white stuff, whomp, whop, without notice, without warning, yellow, yellow jacket, yerk

• smacking, active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, alive, animated, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, dynamic, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, forceful, forcible, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, go-go, hearty, impetuous, incisive, intense, keen, kinetic, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mettlesome, militant, peppy, perky, pert, quicksilver, robust, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

• small chance, bare possibility, dark horse, doubtfulness, dubiousness, equivalent odds, even break, even chance, faint likelihood, fighting chance, gambling chance, good chance, hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, implausibility, improbability, incredibility, little chance, little expectation, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, no chance, odds, off chance, outside chance, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, price, questionableness, remote possibility, short odds, slim chance, square odds, unlikelihood

• small change, bric-a-brac, chaff, change, chicken feed, chickenshit, details, froth, gimcrackery, knickknackery, minutiae, peanuts, petty cash, pin money, pocket money, rubbish, small beer, small potatoes, spending money, trash, trifles, trivia, triviality, trumpery

• small fry, a nobody, a nothing, babyhood, bantam, banty, boyhood, button, childkind, children, chit, cipher, common man, diminutive, dinky, dummy, featherweight, figurehead, fingerling, girlhood, insignificancy, insignificant, jackstraw, kids, lesser, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, little kids, man of straw, mediocrity, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mouse, nebbish, new generation, nobody one knows, nonentity, nubbin, obscurity, peewee, pip-squeak, pony, punk, rising generation, runt, scrub, secondary, shrimp, slip, small, small potato, small potatoes, small-time, snip, snippet, squirt, squit, tit, tots, wart, whiffet, whippersnapper, wisp, young, young blood, young fry, young people, youth

• small hours, alpenglow, aurora, belatedness, crepuscule, dawnlight, eleventh hour, first light, foredawn, glow, half-light, high time, last minute, late hour, lateness, morning twilight, tardiness, the small hours, twilight, unpreparedness, unpunctuality, unreadiness, untimeliness

• small minded, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, parochial, petty, provincial, purblind, shortsighted, small, straitlaced, stuffy, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal

• small potatoes, Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, cipher, common man, dummy, figurehead, fourth-rater, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, middle class, middle order, middle orders, minutiae, nebbish, no prize, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonentity, nothing special, obscurity, pip-squeak, punk, runt, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, small beer, small change, small fry, small potato, squirt, squit, suburbia, third-rater, tinhorn, triviality, whiffet, whippersnapper

• small print, boundary condition, catch, clause, condition, donnee, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, fine print, given, grounds, joker, kicker, limiting condition, obligation, parameter, prerequisite, provision, provisions, proviso, requisite, saving clause, sine qua non, specification, stipulation, string, terms, ultimatum, whereas

• small talk, babble, babbling, backchat, badinage, banter, bavardage, beauty-parlor chitchat, bibble-babble, chatter, chitchat, chitter-chatter, cocktail-party chitchat, idle chat, prattle, prattling, prittle-prattle, repartee, table talk, tea-table talk, tittle-tattle

• small time, dinky, insignificant, jerkwater, lesser, measly, niggling, one-horse, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, poky, punk, puny, secondary, small, small-beer, small-fry, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four

• small, Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace, constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate, depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished, diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous, fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy, footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished, in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune, knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little, little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature, minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest, monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable, not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny, purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted, simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded, small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike, teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished, unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive, uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing, unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound, unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, wretched, young

• smaller, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, fewer, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, not so much, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, watered-down, weakened, worn

• smallness, Lenten fare, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, austerity, authoritarianism, baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, chinchiness, chintziness, closed mind, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas, crumminess, debasement, deficiency, degradation, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness, enormity, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness, hideboundness, homeliness, humbleness, humility, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, infrequency, ingloriousness, innocuousness, insignificance, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, irrelevance, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, little-mindedness, littleness, low priority, lowlihood, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness, mediocrity, meekness, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, miserliness, modesty, monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility, niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, paltriness, parochialism, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, petty mind, picayune, picayunishness, plainness, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, rarity, restrictedness, scabbiness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness, shoddiness, shortness, shortsightedness, shut mind, simpleness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness, stringency, stuffiness, submissiveness, subnormality, teachableness, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, uncatholicity, undersize, ungenerousness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness, unnoteworthiness, unpretentiousness, unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity, wretchedness

• smallpox, 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, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, 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

• smarmy, adulatory, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, fulsome, glassy, glossy, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, mealymouthed, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, polished, slick, slimy, slobbery, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling

• smart aleck, Narcissus, blowhard, boaster, boldface, braggadocio, braggart, brazenface, chutzpanik, egocentric, egoist, egotist, exhibitionist, gasbag, grandstander, hot-air artist, hussy, individualist, know-it-all, malapert, minx, narcissist, narcist, no modest violet, pup, puppy, saucebox, show-off, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, swaggerer, swellhead, upstart, whippersnapper, windbag, wise guy, wise-ass, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wisenheimer

• smart alecky, aggressively self-confident, bantering, biggety, bluff, bold-faced, booing, brash, bumptious, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chesty, chutzpadik, cocky, conceited, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, derisory, disrespectful, facy, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, gally, gratuitous, grinning, hissing, hooting, immodest, impertinent, impudent, jeering, joshing, kidding, know-it-all, leering, malapert, mocking, nervy, obtrusive, overwise, panning, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, procacious, puffed up, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucy, scoffing, self-conceited, self-opinionated, smart, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, stuck-up, swelled-headed, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncalled-for, wise-ass

• smart ass, Gothamite, bantering, biggety, bluff, boldface, booing, brash, brazenface, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chutzpadik, chutzpanik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, derisory, disrespectful, facy, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, gally, gratuitous, grinning, hissing, hooting, hussy, impertinent, impudent, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, malapert, minx, mocking, nervy, panning, pert, pup, puppy, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, rude, sassy, saucebox, saucy, scoffing, smart, smart aleck, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, swaggerer, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncalled-for, upstart, whippersnapper, wise fool, wise guy, wise-ass, wiseacre, wisehead, wiseling, wisenheimer, witling

• smart set, Vanity Fair, aristocracy, beau monde, beautiful people, best people, blue bloods, bon ton, cafe society, carriage trade, cream of society, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, jeunesse doree, monde, people of fashion, polite society, right people, salon, social register, societe, society, the Four Hundred, ton, upper crust, uppercut, world of fashion

• smart, Attic, ache, active, acute, adept, adroit, affect, affliction, agile, agonize, ail, alacritous, alert, alive, all the rage, all the thing, anal, anguish, animated, apt, astute, attentive, au fait, awake, aware, bantering, be resentful, biggety, bite, biting, blanch, blench, bluff, bold, booing, brainy, brash, braw, breezy, bright, brilliant, brisk, burn, burning, burning pain, canny, capable, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chic, chutzpadik, classy, clever, clothes-conscious, cocky, come home to, contemptuous, cosmopolitan, crusty, current, dapper, dashing, derisive, derisory, dexterous, dinky, discerning, dispatchful, disrespectful, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, droll, effective, elegant, energetic, erudite, exclusive, expeditious, exquisite, facetious, facy, fashionable, feel hurt, feel pain, feel resentment, feel sore, feel the pangs, fire, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, funny, gally, genteel, gifted, go deep, go through one, good, gratuitous, grimace, grinning, harm, have a misery, hep, hip, hissing, hooting, humorous, humorsome, hurt, impertinent, impudent, in fashion, in style, in vogue, ingenious, injury, intelligent, jaunty, jeering, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kidding, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, leering, lively, malapert, melt, melt the heart, mocking, mod, modern, modish, mordant, move, natty, neat, nervy, new, newfashioned, nifty, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, nobby, not born yesterday, nurse resentment, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, pain, pang, panning, penetrate, perceptive, percipient, perky, perspicacious, pert, pierce, pinch, poignant, pointed, popular, posh, pound, prevalent, prick, prickle, prompt, pungent, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, rapier-like, razzing, ready, recherche, resent, respectable, ridiculing, right, ritzy, roasting, rude, salt, salty, sassy, saucy, savvy, scintillating, scoffing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shipshape, shoot, shrewd, shrink, sizable, sleek, sleepless, slick, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarting, smirking, smug, snappy, snazzy, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, snug, soften, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sparkling, speedy, spiffy, spirited, sprightly, spruce, spry, stab, steel-trap, stiff, sting, stinging, stir, streetwise, style-conscious, stylish, suffer, suffering, swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, talented, taunting, teasing, thrill, throb, tidy, tight, tingle, tingling, touch, touch a chord, trenchant, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, twinge, twitch, twitting, unblinking, uncalled-for, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, urtication, vigorous, wakeful, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-educated, well-groomed, well-read, well-versed, whimsical, wide-awake, wince, wise-ass, with-it, witty, writhe

• smarten up, adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fig out, fix up, furbish, garnish, grace, gussy up, ornament, paint, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slick, smarten, spiff, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

• smarts, Vernunft, acuity, acuteness, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, brain, braininess, brains, brightness, brilliance, clear thinking, cleverness, conception, dexterity, discourse of reason, discursive reason, esprit, flair, genius, giftedness, gifts, gray matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intelligence, keen-wittedness, keenness, mens, mental alertness, mental capacity, mentality, mercurial mind, mind, native cleverness, nimble mind, nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, power of reason, psyche, quick parts, quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, ratio, rationality, ready wit, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, savvy, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, smartness, sprightly wit, talent, understanding

• smarty, boldface, brazenface, chutzpanik, hussy, know-it-all, malapert, minx, pup, puppy, saucebox, smart, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty-pants, swaggerer, upstart, whippersnapper, wise guy, wise-ass, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wisenheimer

• smash, Waterloo, abrade, accident, annihilate, appulse, asphyxiate, atomize, bang, bang into, bash, bastinado, bat, be poised, bear market, bearish market, beat, beat down, beating, belt, bend, best seller, biff, big hit, billow, blast, blow, blow down, bonk, boom, bottle up, bray, break, break down, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brecciate, brilliant success, bring down, brunt, bulldoze, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into, burn down, burst, butter, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom, carom into, cast down, casualty, cataclysm, cataplasm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, censor, chew, choke off, chop, chop down, clamp down on, clap, clash, cleave, clip, clobber, clout, clump, collapse, collide, collision, comb, come into collision, comedown, comminute, concuss, concussion, confront each other, conquer, conquering, conquest, contretemps, contriturate, cork, cork up, crack, crack down on, crack up, crack-up, crash, crash into, cropper, crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, cushion, cut, cut down, cut to pieces, damp down, dash, dash into, deathblow, debacle, decimate, declining market, defeat, deflation, demolish, dental pulp, destruction, diffuse, dig, dint, disassemble, disaster, disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, downfall, drown, drub, drubbing, drumming, ease, ebb and flow, encounter, extinguish, fad, failure, fall, fall foul of, fell, fission, flatten, flour, fluff, foul, fragment, fusillade, gag, gas, gasser, gentle, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, great success, grief, grind, grind to powder, hammering, heave, hiding, hit, hit against, hold down, humble, hurt, hurtle, ill hap, impact, impinge, impingement, jab, jar, jolt, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, killing, knead, knock, knock against, knock down, knock over, knockout, lambasting, lathering, laxate, level, levigate, lick, licking, lift, limber, limber up, loosen, macerate, make mincemeat of, mash, massage, master, mastery, masticate, mauling, meet, meeting, mellow, meteoric success, milden, mill, mince, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mollify, momentary success, mow down, mush, muzzle, nasty blow, nose dive, off market, onslaught, overcoming, override, overthrow, overturn, paper pulp, pash, paste, peak, pelf, pelt, percuss, percussion, pestle, pick to pieces, pileup, pith, plaster, plump, plunk, poke, popple, porridge, poultice, pound, pour water on, powder, pratfall, prostrate, pudding, pull down, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulp, pulp lead, pulpify, pulpwood, pulverize, punch, put down, quash, quell, quench, quietus, rag pulp, ramming, rap, rase, raze, reduce, reduce to powder, reduce to rubble, relax, rend, repercussion, repress, resounding triumph, retreating market, rhino, ride down, riot, rise, rise and fall, rive, roaring success, rocks, roll, ruin, run into, sag, sagging market, sauce, scatter, scend, scratch, scrunch, send, sensation, shake up, shard, shatter, shekels, shipwreck, shiver, shock, shred, shut down on, sideswipe, silence, sit down on, sit on, slam, slam into, sledgehammering, slog, slug, slump, smack, smack into, smash hit, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, smashup, smatter, smother, sock, soft market, soften, soften up, splinter, split, sponge, squash, squelch, squish, staggering blow, stanch, steamroller, stifle, strangle, strike, strike against, stroke, stuff, stultify, stumble, stumpy, subdual, subdue, subduing, subjugate, subjugation, successful, suffocate, sugar, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sunder, supple, suppress, surge, swat, swell, swing, swipe, tailspin, take apart, take down, tattoo, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, tenderize, thrashing, throttle, throw down, thrusting, thump, thwack, tone down, toss, total, total loss, tragedy, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, trimming, triturate, triumph, trouncing, tumble, tune down, unbuild, undo, undoing, undulate, unmake, vanquish, vanquishment, wallop, wampum, washout, wave, welt, whack, wham, whipping, white lead, whomp, whop, wood pulp, wow, wrack, wrack up, wreck, yerk

• smashed, afflicted, aggravated, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, broken, burned, burst, busted, canned, checked, chipped, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, conquered, cracked, crazed, crocked, crocko, crushed, cut, damaged, deteriorated, disguised, drunk, elevated, embittered, exacerbated, felled, flattened, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, harmed, high, humbled, hurt, illuminated, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, inebriated, injured, irritated, lacerated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, mangled, mastered, muddled, mutilated, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, put down, quashed, quelled, raddled, reduced, rent, repressed, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, shellacked, skunk-drunk, slashed, slit, smothered, soaked, soused, split, sprung, squashed, squelched, squiffy, stewed, stifled, stinko, subdued, subjugated, suffocated, suppressed, swacked, tanked, the worse for, tight, torn, vanquished, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• smashing, OK, Smyth sewing, abrasion, ace-high, appulse, atomization, attrition, backing, bad, bang-up, beating, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, bonzer, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, boss, brecciation, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bully, bump, but good, cannon, carambole, carom, case, casemaking, casing-in, censorship, clash, collating, collating mark, collision, comminution, concussion, concussive, cool, corking, cover, crack-up, crackdown, crackerjack, crash, crashing, crumbling, crump, crunch, crushing, dandy, delicious, demolishment, demolition, detrition, disassembly, disintegration, dismantlement, ducky, dust cover, dust jacket, encounter, extinguishment, fab, fine and dandy, flattening, folding, footband, fragmentation, gathering, gear, gluing-off, granulation, granulization, grating, great, grinding, groovy, hammering, hard binding, headband, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, impact, impingement, jacket, jam-up, just dandy, keen, leveling, levigation, library binding, lining, lining-up, marvy, mashing, mauling, mean, mechanical binding, meeting, neat, nifty, niggerhead, nobby, okay, onslaught, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, percussion, percussive, perfect binding, plastic binding, pounding, powdering, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, ramming, razing, repression, ripping, rounding, rum, saddle stitching, scrumptious, sewing, shock, shredding, side sewing, sideswipe, signature, slap-up, sledgehammering, slipcase, slipcover, smash, smash-up, smothering, soft binding, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, spiral binding, squashing, squelching, stamping, stapling, stifling, strangling, stunning, subdual, suffocating, suppression, swell, tailband, tearing down, throttling, thrusting, tipping, tough, trimming, trituration, unmaking, whomp, wire stitching, wizard, wrapper, wreckage, wrecking

• smashup, accident, appulse, blow, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, clash, collapse, collision, concussion, contretemps, crack-up, crash, crump, crunch, debacle, disaster, encounter, grief, hammering, ill hap, impact, impingement, mauling, meeting, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, onslaught, percussion, pileup, ramming, shipwreck, shock, sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, staggering blow, thrusting, total loss, tragedy, washout, whomp, wrack, wreck

• smatter, babble, burst, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, few, fragment, gab, gas, handful, jaw, pash, prate, prattle, rive, scattering, shiver, smash, smattering, spatter, spattering, splinter, sprinkling

• smattering, a little learning, amateurism, cast, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dash, dilettantism, dilettantship, few, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, gleam, glimmering, glimpse, half-learning, handful, hint, idea, idling, imperfect knowledge, intimation, jerking off, kidding around, lick, loitering, look, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puttering, scattering, scintilla, sciolism, semi-learning, shade, shadow, shallowness, sip, slight knowledge, smack, smatter, smattering of ignorance, smattering of knowledge, smell, soupcon, spark, spatter, spattering, sprinkling, suggestion, sup, superficiality, surface-scratching, suspicion, taste, thought, tincture, tinge, tinkering, touch, toying, trace, trifling, vague notion

• smear, anoint, apply paint, asperse, aspersion, attack, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, beat, bedaub, bedizen, beeswax, befoul, begild, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blackening, blank, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, brush on paint, bulldoze, butter, calcimine, call names, calumniate, calumny, censure, champain, character assassination, clobber, coat, color, complexion, cover, cream, dab, darken, daub, deep-dye, defamation, defamation of character, defame, defeat utterly, defile, defilement, denigrate, denigration, dip, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit, disparage, disparagement, distemper, double-dye, dress, drub, dye, emblazon, embrocate, enamel, engage in personalities, engild, expose, expose to infamy, eyesore, face, fast-dye, fleck, flick, flyspeck, foil, fresco, frustrate, gibbet, gild, glaze, gloss, glycerolate, grain, grease, grease the wheels, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, hue, illuminate, imbue, imputation, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lambaste, lard, lay on, lay on color, libel, lick, lubricate, macula, maculation, macule, malicious defamation, mark, mark of Cain, muckrake, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling, oil, onus, overbear, overlay, overspread, overwhelm, paint, parget, paste, patch, pigment, pillory, pillorying, plaster, point champain, pomade, prime, reflection, reprimand, reproach, repulse, revile, revilement, rub, salve, scandal, scandalize, schmear, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, shellac, shut out, singe, skunk, slander, slap on, slather, slick, slick on, slop on paint, slubber, slur, smear campaign, smear on, smear word, smirch, smoke, smooth the way, smother, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snow under, soap the ways, soil, soilage, soilure, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, spread, spread on, spread with, stain, steamroller, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, stipple, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, thrash, throw mud at, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, trim, undercoat, unguent, varnish, vilification, vilify, wash, wax, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop, wipe

• smell, apprehend, aroma, be aromatic, be aware of, be conscious of, be redolent of, be sensible of, be warm, bouquet, breath, breathe, breathe in, burn, cast, chromesthesia, color hearing, dash, definite odor, detect, detectable odor, effluvium, emanation, emit a smell, essence, exhalation, exhale, experience, feel, fetidness, fetor, five senses, flavor, follow, follow a clue, follow up, fragrance, fume, funk, get wind of, gleam, hear, hearing, hint, hum, hunt down, idea, incense, inhale, intimation, lick, look, mephitis, nose, nose out, odor, offend the nostrils, olfaction, olfactory sense, perceive, perfume, phonism, photism, receptor, redolence, reek, respond, respond to stimuli, run down, run to earth, savor, scent, scintilla, see, sense, sense of smell, sense organ, senses, sensillum, sensorium, sensory organ, shade, shadow, sight, sip, sixth sense, smack, smattering, smell bad, smell of, smell out, smell to heaven, smell up, smelling, snaffle, sniff, sniff out, snuff, snuffle, soupcon, spark, spice, spoor, sprinkling, stalk, stench, stink, stink out, stink up, strain, subtle odor, suggestion, sup, suspicion, synesthesia, tail, taste, thought, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail, whiff, yield an odor

• smelly, aromatic, bad, bad-smelling, effluvious, fecal, fetid, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorant, odored, odoriferous, odorous, offensive, olid, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, redolent, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, smellful, smelling, smellsome, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, vile

• smelt, carve, chisel, colliquate, convert, cultivate, defrost, extract, flux, fuse, grow, harvest, machine, melt, melt down, mill, mine, process, pump, raise, rear, refine, render, run, thaw, unfreeze

• smelting, architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building, burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation, construction, conversion, cracking, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cremation, cultivation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, devising, distillation, distilling, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, flaming, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, incineration, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, oxidation, oxidization, parching, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pyrolysis, raising, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, shaping, singeing, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication, workmanship

• smidgen, ace, atom, bit, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, ray, scruple, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit

• smile, accost, address, be in heaven, be pleased, beam, bob, bow, bright smile, broad grin, caper, caracole, chirp, chirrup, crack a smile, curtsy, dance, delight, die with delight, ear-to-ear grin, embrace, feel happy, frolic, gambol, gleaming smile, glow, glowing smile, go into raptures, greeting, grin, grinning, hail, hand-clasp, handshake, hello, how-do-you-do, hug, idiotic grin, joy, kiss, laugh, lilt, nod, purr, radiate cheer, romp, salutation, salute, sardonic grin, simper, sing, skip, smile brightly, smile of recognition, smiling, smirk, sparkle, stupid grin, take great satisfaction, toothful grin, tread on air, wave, whistle

• smiling, beam, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, bright smile, broad grin, capering, cheerful, cheery, chirping, dancing, ear-to-ear grin, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, flushed with joy, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleaming smile, glowing, glowing smile, grin, grinning, happy, high, hopeful, idiotic grin, in good spirits, in high spirits, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, purring, radiant, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, sardonic grin, simper, singing, smile, smirk, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, stupid grin, sunny, thrice happy, toothful grin, winsome

• smirch, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bedaub, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blackening, blackwash, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, broad arrow, call names, censure, champain, charcoal, cork, dab, darken, darkening, daub, defile, denigrate, denigration, dinge, dirty, discolor, disparagement, ebonize, engage in personalities, eyesore, fleck, flick, flyspeck, foul, grime, heap dirt upon, imputation, ink, macula, maculation, macule, mark, mark of Cain, melanization, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrification, nigrify, onus, oversmoke, patch, pillorying, point champain, reflection, reprimand, reproach, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shading, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirching, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify

• smirched, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, blotchy, darkened, defiled, dingy, dirtied, dirty, discolored, drabbled, draggled, fouled, foxed, foxy, fuliginous, grimy, impure, indecent, inky, maculate, muddy, murky, smoky, smudged, smudgy, smutty, soiled, sooty, spotted, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous

• smirk, beam, bridle, bright smile, broad grin, crack a smile, ear-to-ear grin, fleer, gleaming smile, glowing smile, grimace, grin, grinning, idiotic grin, leer, mince, mince it, prink, sardonic grin, scornful laugh, simper, smile, smile brightly, smiling, sneer, snicker, snigger, snort, stupid grin, toothful grin

• smirking, bantering, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, booing, capering, catcalling, chaffing, cheerful, chirping, dancing, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippant, flushed with joy, fooling, gay, glad, glowing, grinning, happy, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, joyful, joyous, kidding, laughing, leaping, leering, mocking, panning, purring, quizzical, radiant, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, singing, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smiling, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sparkling, starry-eyed, taunting, teasing, thrice happy, twitting

• smite, affect, agonize, bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, beat, belabor, belt, biff, birch, bonk, buffet, cane, catch, clap, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock, come home to, cowhide, crack, crucify, cudgel, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, ding, drub, excruciate, fetch, fetch a blow, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, harrow, hit, hit a clip, hit the mark, horsewhip, impress, impress forcibly, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, lace, lash, lay on, let have it, make an impression, martyr, paste, pistol-whip, plunk, poke, pommel, pummel, punch, rawhide, rock, scourge, sink in, slam, slog, slosh, slug, smack, snap, soak, sock, spank, strap, strike, strike at, strike hard, strike home, stripe, swat, swinge, swipe, switch, tell, thrash, thump, thwack, torment, torture, traumatize, trounce, truncheon, try, wallop, whack, whale, wham, whip, whop, yerk

• smith, Hephaestus, Vulcan, Wayland, ancestors, anglesmith, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, blacksmith, bladesmith, brightsmith, bronzesmith, builder, conceiver, constructor, coppersmith, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farrier, father, forger, founder, generator, goldsmith, grower, housesmith, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, ironsmith, jawsmith, jokesmith, journeyman, keysmith, locksmith, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, metalworker, mother, organizer, originator, past master, planner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, runesmith, shaper, silversmith, sire, toolsmith, versesmith, wagonsmith, whitesmith, wordsmith, wright

• smithereen, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, dollop, end, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, lump, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, nip, paring, particle, patch, piece, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, snack, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, tag, tatter

• smitten, affected, afflicted, attached to, becharmed, beguiled, beset, bewitched, bothered, burdened, captivated, charmed, crazy about, crushed, devoted to, distressed, enamored, enamored of, enchanted, enraptured, enthralled, far gone on, fascinated, fond of, gaga, gone on, haunted, heartsmitten, hipped on, in love with, infatuate, infatuated, mad about, nuts about, partial to, plagued, smitten with, stricken, struck, struck with, stuck on, sweet on, taken with, troubled, vexed, wedded to, wild about, worried, wrapped up in

• smoke screen, alibi, apology, blind, camouflage, cloak, color, cover, cover story, cover-up, device, disguise, domino, excuse, facade, false colors, false face, false front, feint, front, gloss, guise, handle, incognito, lame excuse, locus standi, mask, masque, masquerade, mummery, ostensible motive, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protective coloration, protestation, public motive, put-off, refuge, screen, semblance, sham, show, stalking-horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, varnish, veil, visor, vizard, vizard mask

• smoke, aerate, aerify, afterdamp, air, air-dry, airy nothing, anhydrate, ash, ashes, atomize, attaint, bake, be livid, be pissed, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, befog, begrime, bemire, bemist, bemud, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, blackdamp, blacken, blackwash, blast-freeze, blot, blotch, blow, blur, bluster, boil, brand, breath, breathe out, brine, browned off, brush, bubble, bucket, bullet, burn, butt, calx, carbon, carbonate, carry on, chafe, chain-smoke, charcoal, chaw, chew, chewing, chlorinate, chokedamp, cinder, clabber up, clinker, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, coal, coke, coom, cork, corn, crow, cure, damp, darken, darken over, daub, dehumidify, dehydrate, denigrate, desiccate, dinge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, discolor, distill, drag, drain, draw, dross, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dust, ebon, ebonize, ebony, effluvium, embalm, emit, encloud, enmist, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides, ephemeris, ether, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, exsiccate, fag, fetid air, fire, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fluidize, fly, fog, fractionate, freeze, freeze-dry, fret, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, give out, give vent to, go on, grime, habitual smoking, hasten, have a conniption, haze, hydrogenate, illusion, inhale, inhale snuff, ink, insolate, irradiate, jerk, jet, kiln, kipper, lava, let out, malaria, marinade, marinate, mark, mayfly, melanize, mephitis, miasma, mire, mist, muck, muck up, muddy, mummify, murk, nicotine addiction, nicotinism, night, nigrify, nubilate, obnubilate, obscure, open the floodgates, open the sluices, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, oxygenate, parch, perfume, phantom, pickle, pissed off, pitch, preservatize, puff, puff of smoke, pull, quick-freeze, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, raven, reek, refrigerate, rub, run, rush, salt, scorch, scoria, sear, season, seethe, send out, shade, shadow, shrivel, simmer, singe, sizzle, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smog, smoke-cure, smokes, smoking, smoking habit, smokings, smolder, smudge, smut, smutch, snows of yesteryear, soak up, soil, soot, speed, spirit, sponge, spray, stain, steam, stew, stigmatize, storm, stuff, sublimate, sublime, sullage, sun, sun-dry, swab, tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, taint, take on, take snuff, tar, tarnish, thin air, throw a fit, throw off, tobaccoism, torrefy, towel, vapor, vaporize, volatile, volatilize, water vapor, weazen, whiz, wipe, wither, wizen, zip

• smoker, Kaffeeklatsch, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, ball, blowout, boxcar, caboose, car, carriage, chair car, chewer, coach, coal car, cocktail party, coffee klatch, costume party, covered waggon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, dinner, dinner party, donation party, drawing room, entertainment, festivity, flat, flatcar, garden party, gondola, hen party, house party, house-raising, housewarming, lawn party, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, palace car, parlor car, party, passenger car, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, shindig, shindy, shower, sleeper, smoking car, smoking room, snuff dipper, snuffer, stag, stag party, stockcar, surprise party, tank, tender, tobacco user, truck, van, waggon

• smoking, ablaze, aeration, aerial, aerification, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, anhydration, ardent, atomization, blast-freezing, blazing, bottling, brining, burning, candent, candescent, canning, chain-smoke, chewing, comburent, conflagrant, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, distillation, drag, dry-curing, drying, embalming, ethereal, etherealization, etherification, evaporation, exhalation, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fluidization, fractionation, freeze-drying, freezing, fumigation, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasification, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, guttering, habitual smoking, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiation, jerking, kindled, live, living, marination, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mummification, nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism, on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pickling, pneumatic, potting, puff, quick-freezing, reeking, reeky, refrigeration, salting, scintillant, scintillating, seasoning, smoke, smoking habit, smoky, smoldering, snuffy, sparking, steaming, steamy, stuffing, sublimation, tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, taxidermy, tinning, tobacco, tobaccoism, tobaccolike, tobaccoy, unextinguished, unquenched, vaporing, vaporish, vaporization, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatilization

• smoky, Quaker-colored, acier, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, airy, ashen, ashy, besmirched, blackened, blotchy, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, darkened, dingy, dirty, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, ethereal, foxed, foxy, fuliginous, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, inky, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mephitic, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, miry, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, murky, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pneumatic, reeking, reeky, sad, scruffy, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoke-gray, smoking, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, soiled, somber, sooty, stained, steaming, steamy, steel-gray, steely, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, stone-colored, tainted, tarnished, taupe, untidy, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory

• smolder, bake, be angry, be excitable, be in heat, be latent, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blaze, bloom, blow a gasket, blow up, bluster, boil, broil, browned off, bubble, burn, burst, carry on, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, choke, churn, combust, come apart, cook, erupt, escape notice, excite easily, explode, ferment, fire up, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash up, flicker, flip, flush, fret, fry, fulminate, fume, fust, gasp, get excited, glow, go into hysterics, go on, hang fire, have a conniption, have a tantrum, hibernate, hit the ceiling, idle, incandesce, lie beneath, lie dormant, lie hid, lie low, lurk, make no sign, moil, pant, parch, pissed off, radiate heat, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, roast, run a temperature, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, sizzle, sleep, slumber, smoke, smother, spark, stagnate, steam, stew, stifle, stir, storm, suffocate, sweat, swelter, take fire, take on, throw a fit, toast, turn a hair, underlie, vegetate

• smoldering, abeyant, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, apathetic, ardent, blazing, boiling, burning, candent, candescent, cataleptic, catatonic, comburent, conflagrant, dead, dopey, dormant, dull, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flat, flickering, foul, fuming, glowing, groggy, guttering, heavy, het up, hot, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in abeyance, in flames, in suspense, inactive, incandescent, inert, inflamed, kindled, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, live, living, logy, on fire, passive, phlegmatic, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, sedentary, seething, simmering, sizzling, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoking, sparking, stagnant, standing, static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unextinguished, unquenched

• smooch, begrime, besoil, bill and coo, blow a kiss, buss, copulate, dally, dirty, foul, grime, kiss, lip, lollygag, make love, make out, neck, osculate, osculation, peck, pet, smack, smirch, smudge, spoon, sweet-talk, tarnish, toy, trifle, wanton, whisper sweet nothings

• smooth sailing, clarity, clear coast, clear road, ease, easiness, easy going, effortlessness, facileness, facility, freedom, highroad, intelligibility, lack of hindrance, plain sailing, plane sailing, royal road, simplicity, smooth road, smoothness, straight sailing, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness

• smooth the way, aid, anoint, be promising, beeswax, bid fair to, clear the way, daub, dress, ease, embrocate, enable, expedite, explain, facilitate, glycerolate, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, hasten, have favorable odds, help along, increase the chances, lard, loose, lubricate, make clear, make fair promise, make more likely, make possible, make probable, make way for, offer the expectation, oil, open the way, open up, pave the way, permit, pomade, prepare the way, probabilize, promise, quicken, remove friction, run interference for, salve, seem likely, show a tendency, simplify, slick, slick on, smear, smooth, soap the ways, speed, stand fair to, unbar, unblock, unclog, unguent, unjam, wax

• smooth tongued, Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Tullian, adulatory, articulate, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, disarming, eloquent, facund, fair-spoken, fawning, felicitous, fine-spoken, flattering, fulsome, glib, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, mealymouthed, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, silver, silver-tongued, slick, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smug, soapy, soft-soaping, soft-spoken, spellbinding, suave, suave-spoken, sycophantic, unctuous, well-spoken, wheedling

• smooth, Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mickey Mouse, Tullian, accordant, acomous, acute, adipose, adulatory, agreeable, aid, align, alike, all jaw, allay, ameliorate, appease, arch, arrowlike, artful, articulate, articulated, assimilate to, assuage, astute, at rest, attenuate, attenuated, automatic, balance, balanced, bald, bald-headed, balmy, bare, beardless, believable, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blubbery, buff, burnish, burnished, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, cajoling, calender, calm, calm down, candid, canny, casual, catenated, ceaseless, chatty, chrismal, chrismatory, civilized, clean-shaven, clear, clear the way, clever, cloistered, coarsen, communicative, compose, concatenated, conciliate, concinnate, concinnous, connected, conniving, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, correspondent, courteous, courtierly, courtly, cradle, crafty, credible, cunning, cursive, cushy, cute, cyclical, dab, dainty, damp, dead straight, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, defuse, delicate, depilated, depilous, designing, diplomatic, direct, disarming, disentangle, downy, drag, dress, dub, dulcet, dulcify, dwindling, ease, easy, easy as pie, ebbing, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent, endless, equable, equal, equalize, equilibrize, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, even, even out, even-tenored, expansive, expedite, explain, extend, facile, facilitate, facund, faint, fair-spoken, fat, fatty, fawning, featureless, felicitous, feline, fell, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spoken, finespun, flat, flatly, flatten, flattened, flattering, flip, flowing, fluent, fluffy, flush, foxy, frank, free, fulsome, furbish, fuzzy, gabby, gapless, garrulous, gassy, gauzy, gentle, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glassy, glib, gloss over, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, gossipy, graceful, grade, grain, granulate, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, greasy, gregarious, guileful, gushing, gushy, hairless, halcyon, harmonious, harmonize, harrow, hasten, help along, homaloidal, homogeneous, homogenize, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, horizontal, hush, hushed, immediate, immutable, impassive, in a line, incessant, ingenious, ingratiating, insidious, insincere, insinuating, interminable, invariable, inventive, iron, isolated, joined, jointless, knowing, lardaceous, lardy, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, lay the dust, leiotrichous, lenient, lessen, level, light, lineal, linear, linked, long-winded, loose, loquacious, lubricate, lull, make clear, make uniform, make way for, mangle, mealymouthed, measured, mechanical, mellow, methodic, mild, minimize, mitigate, moldering, mollify, monolithic, monotonous, mow, mucoid, multiloquent, multiloquious, naked, never-ending, newsy, nonchalant, nonstop, normalize, nothing to it, obsequious, of a piece, oil, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, oleic, open, open the way, open up, ordered, orderly, overtalkative, pacific, pacify, painless, palliate, pave, pave the way, pawky, peaceable, peaceful, perennial, perfect, periodic, persistent, persuasive, placate, placid, plain, plane, planish, plaster, plausible, pleasant, pleasing, polish, polished, polite, politic, pour balm into, pour balm on, prepare, prepare the way, press, prime, prolix, propitiate, pubescent, put straight, quell, quicken, quiescent, quiet, rase, raze, ready, rectify, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, reduce, refine, refined, regular, regularize, regulate, remove friction, repetitive, reposeful, reposing, resourceful, rest, restful, resting, rich, right, robotlike, rock, rock to sleep, roll, roll flat, rolled, roughen, round, round-the-clock, royal, rub up, ruler-straight, run interference for, running, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, satin, satiny, scheming, seamless, sebaceous, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, serpentine, serried, set straight, sharp, shave, shaven, sheltered, shifty, shine, shiny, shrewd, silken, silky, silver, silver-tongued, simple, simple as ABC, simplify, sit up, sleek, slick, slimy, slippery, slobbery, sly, smarmy, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, smooth the way, smooth-faced, smooth-running, smooth-shaven, smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, smooth-textured, smooth-tongued, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, smoothly, smug, snaky, sneaky, soap the ways, soapy, sociable, soft, soft-soaping, soft-spoken, soften, soignee, soothe, soothing, sophistical, speed, spellbinding, squashed, squashed flat, stabilize, stable, stand up, standardize, steadfast, steady, stealthy, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, straightforward, strategic, streamlined, suave, suave-spoken, subdue, subsiding, subtile, subtle, suety, supple, sweet, sycophantic, symmetrical, symmetrize, syrupy, systematic, tabloid, tabular, tactical, talkative, talky, tallowy, temper, thin-spun, tonsured, tooth, tranquil, tranquilize, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tripping, trodden, trodden flat, true, twenty-four-hour, unagitated, unbar, unbend, unbending, unbent, unblock, unbowed, unbroken, unburdensome, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unclog, uncluttered, uncomplicated, unconstrained, unctuous, uncurl, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted, undisturbed, undiversified, unending, uneventful, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, uniform, uniformize, uniformly, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unjam, unkink, unmoved, unobstructed, unperturbed, unrelieved, unremitting, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unsnarl, unstirring, unstopped, unswerving, untroubled, untroublesome, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, upright, urbane, velutinous, velvety, verbose, vertical, voluble, vulpine, waning, wary, well-ordered, well-spoken, wheedling, wily, windy, winning, wiredrawn

• smoother, abradant, abrasive, buff, buffer, burnish, calender, chamois, drag, glazer, goose, grader, harrow, iron, lawn-roller, mangle, plane, polish, polisher, press, roller, rolling pin, sander, sleeker, slicker, smooth, steamroller, trowel, wringer

• smoothly, ardently, artfully, astutely, cagily, calmly, cannily, cleverly, cunningly, easily, effectively, effortlessly, eloquently, evenly, expressively, facilely, fervently, flatly, fluently, forcefully, foxily, freely, glibly, glowingly, graphically, guilefully, hands down, impressively, in glowing terms, insidiously, knowingly, lightly, like clockwork, like nothing, meaningfully, no sweat, on easy terms, on the sly, on wheels, passionately, peacefully, placidly, powerfully, quiescently, quietly, readily, regularly, shiftily, shrewdly, simply, slick, slyly, smooth, spiritedly, still, stilly, strikingly, subtilely, subtlely, swimmingly, tellingly, tranquilly, trickily, uniformly, unperturbedly, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, warily, warmly, well, wilily, without difficulty

• smorgasbord, antepast, antipasto, aperitif, appetizer, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canape, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, foretaste, gallimaufry, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash, hash house, hashery, hodgepodge, hot-dog stand, jumble, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, medley, melange, mess hall, mishmash, pastiche, pizzeria, potpourri, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria, whet

• smother, OD, abate, allay, alleviate, asphyxiate, assuage, attemper, bake, bank the fire, be in heat, be killed, beat, black out, blanket, blaze, bloom, blow out, blunt, boil, bottle up, box, broil, burke, burn, case, censor, chasten, check, choke, choke off, clamp down on, clobber, collect, combust, conceal, constrain, control, cook, cool, cork, cork up, cover, cover up, crack down on, crate, crush, damp, damp down, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, diminish, douse, downplay, drown, drub, dull, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, extenuate, extinguish, famish, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fry, gag, garrote, gasp, glow, hide, hold back, hold down, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, incandesce, inhibit, inundate, invest, jump on, keep back, keep down, keep under, keep within bounds, kill, lambaste, lap, lay, lenify, lessen, lick, lighten, mask, mitigate, moderate, modulate, muffle, muzzle, obtund, out, overcome, overwhelm, pack, package, palliate, pant, parch, play down, pour water on, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, radiate heat, reduce, reduce the temperature, rein, repress, restrain, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, sheathe, shellac, shimmer with heat, shower, shroud, shush, shut down on, silence, simmer, simmer down, sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slow down, smash, smear, smolder, snuff, snuff out, sober, sober down, soften, spark, squash, squelch, stamp out, stanch, starve, steam, stew, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, sublimate, suffocate, suppress, surround, sweat, swelter, tame, temper, thrash, throttle, toast, tone down, trample out, trample underfoot, trim, tune down, underplay, weaken, wrap, wrap about, wrap up

• smothered, arcane, bated, cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, dull, dulled, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, latent, muffled, muted, mysterious, occult, quashed, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, smashed, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable

• smudge, afterdamp, ash, ashes, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bedaub, begrime, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, black, black eye, black mark, blackdamp, blacken, blackening, blackwash, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breath, broad arrow, calx, carbon, censure, champain, charcoal, chokedamp, cinder, clinker, cloud, coal, coke, coom, cork, dab, damp, darken, darkening, daub, defile, denigrate, denigration, dinge, dirty, disparagement, dross, ebonize, effluvium, exhalation, eyesore, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, fleck, flick, fluid, flyspeck, foul, fume, grime, imputation, ink, lava, macula, maculation, macule, malaria, mark, mark of Cain, melanization, melanize, mephitis, miasma, murk, nigrification, nigrify, onus, oversmoke, patch, pillorying, plaster, point champain, puff of smoke, reek, reflection, reprimand, reproach, scoria, shade, shading, shadow, slag, slubber, slur, smarm, smear, smirch, smirching, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, steam, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, sullage, sully, taint, tarnish, vapor, volatile, water vapor

• smudgy, besmirched, blotchy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fuliginous, grimy, grubby, grungy, messy, miry, muddy, murky, scruffy, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoky, smothering, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, suffocating, untidy

• smug, Quakerish, Victorian, bland, bovine, braw, buttery, censorious, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, complacent, conceited, consequential, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, deck out, demure, disarming, doll up, dress up, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, fair-spoken, fine-spoken, fulsome, genteel, glib, gussy up, hidebound, holier-than-thou, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, jaunty, mid-Victorian, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, narrow, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, oily, oily-tongued, old-maidish, overconfident, overmodest, overproud, overweening, posh, priggish, prim, primp, prudish, puritanical, recherche, ritzy, sanctimonious, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, sharp, sleek, slick, smart, smarten up, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snazzy, soapy, soft-spoken, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, spruce up, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, style-conscious, suave, suave-spoken, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, unctuous, vain, vainglorious, well-dressed, well-groomed

• smugness, Quakerishness, amour-propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity, butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty, fulsomeness, glibness, hideboundness, honeyed words, incense, mauvaise honte, narcism, narcissism, narrowness, oiliness, overmodesty, overproudness, overweening pride, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-congratulation, self-content, self-contentedness, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smoothness, soft soap, soft words, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, suaveness, suavity, sweet talk, sweet words, unctuousness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• smut, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, air pollution, algae, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, autophyte, bawdiness, bawdry, bean, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bestain, black, blacken, blackening, blackwash, blast, blight, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blue movie, blur, bracken, bran, brand, brown algae, calx, cancer, canker, carbon, carrion, charcoal, cinder, climber, clinker, coal, coke, conferva, confervoid, coom, cork, corruption, cosmic dust, creeper, crow, crumb, crumble, dab, dandruff, darken, darkening, daub, decay, defile, denigrate, denigration, deposition, deposits, diatom, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirtiness, dirty, dirty movie, discolor, draff, dregs, dross, dry rot, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, excrement, eyesore, fallout, farina, feces, fern, fescenninity, filings, filth, filthiness, fleck, flick, flour, flyspeck, foul matter, foulness, froth, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fume, fungus, furfur, gangrene, grapevine, green algae, grime, grits, groats, grounds, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, iconolagny, ink, ivy, jet, kelp, kittens, lava, lees, legume, lentil, lewdness, liana, lichen, lint, liverwort, loess, macula, maculation, macule, mark, meal, melanization, melanize, mess, mildew, mold, moraine, moss, moth, moth and rust, muck, mucus, mud, murk, mushroom, must, nastiness, night, nigrification, nigrify, obscenity, offensiveness, offscum, ordure, oversmoke, parasite, parasitic plant, patch, pea, perthophyte, pest, phytoplankton, pitch, planktonic algae, plant families, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, powder, precipitate, precipitation, puffball, pulse, pus, pussies, putrid matter, raspings, raven, red algae, reek, ribaldry, rockweed, rot, rust, salaciousness, salacity, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sawdust, scoria, scum, scurf, scurrility, scuz, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sediment, settlings, sexploitation, shade, shading, shadow, silt, sinter, skin flick, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, smear, smirch, smirching, smoke, smouch, smudge, smudging, smutch, smutching, smuttiness, snot, soft-core pornography, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, sordes, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stag film, stain, stigma, sublimate, succulent, sullage, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, toadstool, vetch, vileness, vine, worm, wort, wrack

• smutty, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, bawdy, besmirched, blasted, blighted, blotchy, blown, blue, coarse, despoiled, dingy, dirty, dusty, filthy, flyblown, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuliginous, fulsome, fusty, grimy, grubby, grungy, impure, indecent, ithyphallic, lewd, lurid, maggoty, messy, mildewed, miry, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, muddy, murky, musty, nasty, obscene, offensive, pornographic, raunchy, ravaged, ribald, salacious, scatological, scruffy, scurrile, scurrilous, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoking-room, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutted, snuffy, sooty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, untidy, vile, vulgar, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy

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

• snack, bait, bit, bite, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collation, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, dollop, elevenses, end, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, light lunch, light meal, light repast, lump, modicum, moiety, morsel, nibble, nosh, paring, particle, peck, peck at, pick, pick at, piece, rasher, refreshment, refreshments, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, spot of lunch, stitch, stump, tatter, tea

• snafu, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, anarchic, anarchy, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, ball up, balled up, bollix, bollix up, bollixed up, bugger, bugger up, can of worms, chaos, chaotic, complex, confound, confuse, confused, confusion, cook, crab, cramp, crimp, fabulous formless darkness, foul up, foul-up, fouled up, fumble, galley-west, garble, gum, gum up, hash up, hassle, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a mess, jumble, jumbled, jungle, knot, labyrinth, license, louse up, maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, misrule, mix up, mix-up, mixed up, morass, muck up, mucked up, muddle, muddled, perplex, pi, play hell with, play hob with, queer, ravel, riffle, scattered, scramble, screw up, screw-up, screwed up, shuffle, sink, skimble-skamble, snake pit, snarl, snarl up, tangle, tangled skein, topsy-turvy, tumble, upside-down, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness

• snag, baby tooth, bag, bar, bicuspid, blemish, block, blockade, bottleneck, brake, bucktooth, bug, canine, catch, clog, cog, comb, complication, coral heads, cordon, crack, crag, crimp, crown, crux, curb, curtain, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, defect, defection, deficiency, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dogtooth, drag, drawback, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, eyetooth, failing, failure, fang, fault, faute, flaw, foible, fore tooth, foul, frailty, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, hamper, hang-up, harpoon, harrow, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold-up, hole, hook, hurdle, impediment, imperfection, inadequacy, incisor, infirmity, ironbound coast, jag, joker, kink, land, lasso, ledges, lee shore, little problem, mesh, milk tooth, molar, nail, net, noose, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, peak, pecten, peg, permanent tooth, pinch, pitfall, pivot tooth, premolar, problem, projection, quicksands, rake, ratchet, rift, rip, rockbound coast, rocks, rope, rub, sack, sandbank, sandbar, sands, sawtooth, scrivello, shallows, shoals, shortcoming, snaggle, snaggletooth, snare, sniggle, something missing, spear, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, stricture, stumbling block, stumbling stone, taint, take, tangle, tangle up with, tear, tooth, trap, traverse, tush, tusk, undercurrent, undertow, vulnerable place, weak link, weak point, weakness, wisdom tooth

• snaggled, bicuspid, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, dental, dentiform, dentoid, fanged, gravelly, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, molar, odontoid, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, snagged, snaggle-toothed, snaggy, stony, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tusked, wrinkled

• snail, Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, dawdle, dawdler, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard, langouste, lie-abed, limpet, lingerer, littleneck clam, lobster, loiterer, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, plodder, prawn, procrastinator, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, sleepyhead, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, soft-shell crab, steamer, stick-in-the-mud, tortoise, whelk

• snake in the grass, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, abomination, archtraitor, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, betrayer, blight, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, coral heads, corruption, crying evil, damage, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, evil, grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, infection, informer, injury, intrigant, intriguer, ironbound coast, ledges, lee shore, machinator, mischief, outrage, pitfall, plotter, poison, pollution, quicksands, quisling, rat, rockbound coast, rocks, sandbank, sandbar, sands, schemer, serpent, shallows, shoals, snake, the worst, timeserver, toxin, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, undercurrent, undertow, venom, vexation, woe, wrong

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

• snake, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, adder, anaconda, animal, archtraitor, asp, beast, bend, betrayer, blacksnake, blind snake, boa, boa constrictor, bull snake, bushmaster, cobra, cobra de capello, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, constrictor, contort, copperhead, coral snake, corkscrew, cottonmouth, crawl, creep, crinkle, crook, cur, curve, daboia, diamondback, divagate, dog, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, drag, draggle, draw, drift, err, excurse, fer-de-lance, fink, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, garter snake, glide, go adrift, go astray, go on tiptoe, gopher snake, grovel, gumshoe, hale, hamadryad, haul, heave, hitch, hog-nose snake, hook, horned rattlesnake, horned viper, hound, hyena, inch, inch along, informer, insect, intort, intrigant, intriguer, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, king cobra, king snake, krait, lift, loop, lug, lurk, machinator, mamba, meander, milk snake, moccasin, mongrel, nab, nail, nick, nightwalk, nip, ophidian, pad, pererrate, pig, pinch, pine snake, pit viper, plotter, pluck, polecat, prick, prowl, puff adder, pull, pussyfoot, python, quisling, racer, ramble, rat, rat snake, rattler, rattlesnake, reptile, rove, scallop, schemer, scrabble, scramble, screw, scum, sea snake, serpent, serpentine, shirk, shit, shithead, shovel-nose, sidewinder, sidle, skulk, skunk, slidder, slide, slink, slip, slither, snatch, sneak, snitch, spectacled cobra, steal, steal along, straggle, stray, swine, swipe, swirl, take in tow, thunder snake, timeserver, tippytoe, tiptoe, toad, tow, trail, train, traitor, trawl, treasonist, trimmer, troll, tug, turd, turn, turncoat, tweak, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twitch, undulate, urutu, varmint, vermin, viper, wander, water moccasin, water snake, whelp, whirl, whorl, wind, worm, worm along, worm snake, wrench, wring, yank, yerk, zigzag

• snaky, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty, crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive, eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous, foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine, lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian, out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth, snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish, torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• snap back, answer, backfire, backlash, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, come back at, fly back, have repercussions, kick, kick back, lash back, react, rebound, recalcitrate, recoil, repercuss, reply, resile, respond, ricochet, riposte, spring, spring back, take the bait

• snap out of it, bounce back, brace up, brighten up, buck up, cheer up, chirk up, come around, come back, come round, come to, come up smiling, get about, get over, get well, light up, make a comeback, perk up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, revive, survive, take heart, weather the storm

• snap up, abduct, animate, arouse, carry off, dynamize, electrify, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fire, galvanize, hearten, inflame, invigorate, jazz up, kidnap, kindle, liven, pep up, perk up, quicken, rouse, shanghai, stimulate, throttle, vitalize, warm, zip up

• snap, Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, X-ray, Xerox, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abrupt, ad-lib, adaptability, aerial photograph, aggressiveness, alertness, animation, articulate, attack, automatic, awaken, bagatelle, bang, bar, bark, bark at, barricade, bash, bat, batten, batten down, bauble, bawl, beak, bean, bellow, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, bite, bitter weather, black-and-white photograph, blare, blat, bleak weather, blubber, bolt, bolus, bonk, boom, bounce, bounciness, bowl, brass farthing, bray, breach, break, break off, break open, break up, breathe, breeze, briskness, brush, buckle, bunt, buoyance, buoyancy, burst, bust, butt, button, button up, buzz, cackle, calotype, candid photograph, capture, capture on film, cast, casual, catapult, catch, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, cent, champ, chant, chaw, check, cheer up, cheesecake, chew, chip, chirp, choke, choke off, chomp, chronophotograph, chuck, chunk, cinch, clack, clap, clasp, cleat, cleave, click, clip, clobber, close, close up, clout, clump, clutch, cold snap, cold wave, cold weather, coldcock, color, color photograph, color print, come apart, come around, come round, come unstuck, constrict, contain, contemn, contract, coo, cover, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitate, crepitation, crow, cud, curio, cursory, cut, dab, dart, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, decrepitate, decrepitation, defy, depth of winter, deride, diapositive, disdain, disintegrate, dismiss, disregard, dovetail, drawl, drive, easy target, easy thing, elan, elasticity, energy, enterprise, exclaim, exfoliate, expeditious, extemporaneous, extemporized, extensibility, fall to pieces, farce, farthing, fasten, fastening, feather, festinate, fetch, fetch a blow, feverish, fig, fillip, film, fire, fissure, fleabite, flexibility, flick, fling, flip, flirt, flout, flush, flute, flying, fold, fold up, folderol, fork, fracture, freeze, freezing weather, fribble, frippery, frost, frown, furious, gasp, gaud, get, get-up-and-go, gewgaw, gimcrack, ginger, give, give away, give way, glare, glower, gnarl, gnash, gob, grab, grasp, graze, growl, grumble, grunt, gut, guts, hair, halfpenny, haphazard, hard winter, hasp, hasty, heave, heliochrome, heliograph, hill of beans, hinge, hiss, hit, hit a clip, hitch, hook, hotness, hurl, hurried, hurtle, ignore, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, immediate, impromptu, improvised, inadvertent, incautious, indeliberate, initiative, instant, instantaneous, interval, involuntary, jab, jam, jerk, jest, joint, joke, keen, key, kick, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lance, lash out at, last-minute, latch, launch, let fly, let have it, lilt, liveliness, lob, lock, lock out, lock up, look daggers, lower, lug, lunge at, lurch, make off with, makeshift, mantle, microfilm, minikin, miter, mock, mockery, molehill, montage, morsel, mortise, mouthful, mug, mug shot, mumble, munch, murmur, mutter, nail, nibble, nip, nippiness, occlude, on the spot, padlock, pan, pant, part, pass, passing, paste, pat, peck, peg, pelt, pep, pepper, peppercorn, pepperiness, period, perk up, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picayune, pick, picnic, picture, pie, piece of cake, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinup, pipe, piss and vinegar, pitch, pitchfork, pizzazz, pluck, plumb, plunk, poke, poop, pop, portrait, pounce on, pounce upon, precipitate, prompt, punch, push, pushover, put, put the shot, quick, quid, rabbet, raciness, radiograph, rap, rash, raw weather, rebound, recover, red cent, redden, reflex, reflexive, relish, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, revive, rivet, roar, roentgenograph, rough-and-ready, row of pins, rumble, rupture, rush, scale, scarf, scorn, scowl, scream, screech, screw, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, seize, separate, serve, setup, sew, shit, shoot, shot, shriek, shut, shut the door, shut up, shy, sibilate, sigh, sinecure, sing, sitting duck, sizzling, skewer, slam, slap-bang, slapdash, slide, sling, slog, slug, smack, smite, snap at, snappiness, snapping, snapshoot, snapshot, snarl, snatch, snatch at, sneeshing, snip, snort, soak, sob, sock, soft, soft touch, sou, sparkle, speedy, spell, spice, spiciness, spit, spitting, split, spontaneous, sprightliness, spring, spring a leak, springiness, spunk, squall, squawk, squeal, squeeze shut, staple, starch, start, stick, still, still photograph, stitch, strangle, straw, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strike, strike at, subzero weather, sudden, superficial, surprised, swallow, swat, swift, swipe, tack, take a photograph, take away, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, talbotype, tang, tanginess, tap, telephotograph, throw, thrust, thump, thunder, thwack, tickle, tilt, tip, toggle, tone, tonicity, tonus, toss, touch, toy, transparency, trifle, trinket, tripped up, triviality, trumpet, tuppence, twang, twitch, two cents, twopence, unadvised, unarranged, unbegun, uncalculated, unconcocted, unconscious, unconsidered, uncontrived, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, undevised, unhatched, unintended, unintentional, unmade, unmanufactured, unmeditated, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unstudied, unwilled, urgent, vellicate, velvet, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, wail, wake up, wallop, warble, wave, wedge, whack, wham, whim-wham, whine, whisk, whisper, whop, winter, wintry weather, wintry wind, yank, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yerk, zero weather, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip, zip up, zipper

• snapper, Klaxon, blunder, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, bumble, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, cricket, firecracker, horn, lurch, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren, steam whistle, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

• snapping, awfully, clack, click, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitant, crepitation, damned, decrepitation, dreadfully, extremely, hugely, rattling, sizzling, snap, spanking, spitting, whacking, whopping

• snappish, abrupt, acerbic, acid, bearish, bitchy, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, grouchy, gruff, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, mean, moody, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, sharp, short, short-tempered, snappy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, tart, temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, ungracious, waspish

• snappy, Siberian, active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, agile, algid, alive, animated, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, bouncing, bouncy, breakneck, breezy, brisk, brumal, bubbly, burning, chic, chipper, classy, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, curried, cutting, dapper, dashing, disagreeable, double-quick, dynamic, eagle-winged, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, expeditious, express, fashionable, fast, fleet, flying, forceful, forcible, fractious, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, galloping, gelid, glacial, go-go, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hearty, hibernal, hiemal, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, huffy, hustling, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, impetuous, incisive, inclement, intense, keen, kinetic, light of heel, light-footed, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mettlesome, militant, modish, natty, nimble, nimble-footed, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, peppery, peppy, perky, pert, petulant, piercing, pinching, piquant, poignant, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quicksilver, racy, rapid, raspy, raw, ready, reckless, rigorous, robust, running, seasoned, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, smacking, smart, snappish, spanking, speedy, spiced, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stone-cold, strenuous, strong, stylish, subzero, supercooled, swank, swift, swish, take-charge, take-over, tangy, tony, trenchant, trendy, trig, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, winged, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with a kick, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

• snapshot, Telephoto, Wirephoto, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, diapositive, heliochrome, heliograph, montage, mug, mug shot, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, portrait, shot, slide, snap, still, still photograph, telephotograph, transparency