Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/79

• snare, abstract, allure, allurement, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, birdlime, bola, bongo drum, boost, borrow, capture, catch, catch out, catch up, charm, chicane, chicanery, cobweb, come-on, conga, cop, crib, deception, decoy, decoy duck, defraud, dragnet, drawcard, drawing card, drum, drumhead, drumskin, drumstick, embezzle, embrangle, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarement, ensnarl, entangle, enticement, entoil, entrap, entrapment, enweb, extort, filch, fishhook, fly, foul, gill net, gin, ground bait, harpoon, hook, hook in, inveigle, inveiglement, involve, jazz stick, jig, kettle, kettledrum, land, lariat, lasso, lift, lime, lure, make off with, membranophone, mesh, meshes, nail, net, nip, noose, palm, pilfer, pinch, plug, poach, pound net, purloin, purse seine, rope, run away with, rustle, sack, scrounge, seduce, seducement, seine, seize, shoplift, side drum, snag, snare drum, snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, spear, spinner, spread the toils, springe, squid, steal, swindle, swipe, tabor, taboret, tabret, take, tam-tam, tambourine, tangle, tangle up with, tempt, temptation, tenor drum, thieve, timbrel, timpani, toils, tom-tom, trammel, trap, trawl, trip, troll-drum, tymp stick, tympan, tympanon, tympanum, walk off with, war drum, wind, wobbler

• snarl up, ball up, bollix, bollix up, bugger, bugger up, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, embrangle, entangle, foul up, fumble, garble, gum up, hash up, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, mess up, mix up, muck up, muddle, perplex, pi, play hell with, play hob with, queer, ramify, ravel, riffle, scramble, screw up, shuffle, sink, snafu, snarl, tangle, tumble

• snarl, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, allure, altercation, argument, ataxia, bait the hook, ball up, bark, bawl, belch, bellow, bicker, birdlime, blare, blat, blood feud, blubber, boom, brawl, bray, breathe, broil, burden, burr, buzz, cackle, can of worms, catch, catch out, caw, chant, chaos, chirp, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clash, clutter, color, complex, complexity, complicate, complication, confound, confuse, contention, controversy, coo, cramp, craunch, cripple, croak, crow, crump, crunch, cumber, decoy, difficulty, dilemma, disarray, disorder, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drawl, embarrass, embrangle, embroilment, encumber, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entanglement, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, enweb, exclaim, fetter, feud, fight, fix, fliting, flush, flute, foul up, fracas, frown, fuss, gasp, gin, glare, glower, gnarl, grimace, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hiss, hobble, hook, hook in, howl, huddle, imbroglio, impede, implicate, intricacy, intricateness, inveigle, involve, jam, jangle, jar, jungle, keen, kink, knot, labyrinth, lame, lilt, lime, logomachy, look daggers, louse up, lower, lumber, lure, mantle, maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix up, moan, morass, moue, mow, muck up, muddle, mumble, murmur, mutter, net, noose, open quarrel, pant, perplex, pickle, pipe, polemic, pout, predicament, press down, problem, quandary, quarrel, ramify, rasp, ravel, redden, rictus, roar, rumble, saddle with, scowl, scramble, scranch, scrape, scratch, scream, screech, screw up, scrunch, shackle, sharp words, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, skein, slanging match, snafu, snag, snake pit, snap, snare, snarl up, sniggle, snore, snort, sob, sough, spat, spit, spread the toils, squabble, squall, squawk, squeal, strife, swarm, tangle, tangled skein, thunder, tiff, tight spot, toil, topsy-turviness, trammel, trap, trip, trumpet, tussle, twang, twist, vendetta, wail, warble, web, webwork, weigh down, wheels within wheels, whine, whisper, whistle, wilderness, wind, words, wrangle, wry face, wry mouth, yap, yawp, yell, yelp

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

• snatch, abduce, abduct, abduction, abstract, and, annex, apprehension, appropriate, arrest, arrestation, badger, bag, bit, blackmail, bob, boost, borrow, butt, capture, carry away, carry off, catch, catching, chip, chunk, clasp, clip, clipping, clutch, collaring, collop, cop, coup, crib, crimp, crumb, cut, cutting, defraud, deliver, desire, dollop, dragnet, embezzle, end, exact, extort, filch, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, force from, forcible seizure, fragment, get, gob, gobbet, grab, grab at, grabbing, grapple, grasp, hitch, hold, hold for ransom, hook, hunk, impress, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jump at, kidnap, kidnapping, lay hold of, levy blackmail, lift, lump, make off with, modicum, moiety, morsel, nab, nabbing, nail, nip, nip up, palm, paring, particle, picking up, piece, pilfer, pinch, pluck, poach, power grab, prehension, pry loose from, purloin, rasher, remove, rend, rend from, rescue, rip, rip from, run away with, running in, rustle, sample, save, scoop, scrap, screw, scrounge, segment, seize, seizure, seizure of power, shake down, shanghai, shard, shaving, shiver, shoplift, shred, skyjack, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snake, snap up, snare, snatch at, snatch from, snatching, snip, snippet, snitch, specimen, spirit away, splinter, squeeze, start, steal, stitch, stump, sudden pull, swindle, swipe, take, take hold of, taking in, taking into custody, tatter, tear from, thieve, throttle, tweak, twitch, walk off with, whip up, win, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, yank, yerk

• snazzy, brave, bravura, braw, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, daring, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, exhibitionistic, exquisite, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, jaunty, jazzy, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, rakish, recherche, ritzy, sharp, showy, sleek, smart, smug, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spruce, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed

• sneak in, affiliate, affiliate with, associate, barge in, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, charge in, combine, come between, come into, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enlist, enroll, enter, entrench, foist in, get into, go into, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, join, join up, league with, obtrude, press in, push in, put on, put upon, rush in, sign on, sign up, slink in, slip in, smash in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, take out membership, take up membership, team up with, team with, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, work in, worm in

• sneak preview, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

• sneak, arrant coward, blackguard, caitiff, clandestine, couch, covert, cower, craven, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cur, dastard, devil, fink, furtive, glide, go on tiptoe, grass, grovel, gumshoe, heel, hole-and-corner, hush-hush, inch, inch along, informer, knave, lay wait, lie in wait, louse, lurk, nark, nightwalk, pad, poltroon, precious rascal, prowl, pussyfoot, quail, rapscallion, rascal, recreant, reptile, rogue, run, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, scrabble, scramble, shadow, shirk, shithead, shyster, sidle, skulk, skunk, slide, slink, slip, slither, sly, smuggle, snake, sneaker, snitch, snook, spalpeen, stalk, steal, steal along, stealthy, stoolie, surreptitious, tippytoe, tiptoe, toad, undercover, villain, weasel, worm, worm along

• sneaking, all fours, back-door, backstairs, clandestine, covert, cowering, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cringing, deep-rooted, deep-seated, devious, doggo, duplicitous, feline, furtive, guileful, gumshoeing, gut, hidden, hidden out, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, indirect, inherent, innate, intuitive, lingering, lurking, nagging, niggling, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, persistent, private, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, quailing, quiet, scrabble, scramble, secret, shifty, sidling, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, snaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy, suppressed, surreptitious, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, undeclared, under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, undivulged, unexpressed, unobtrusive, unrevealed, unvoiced, waiting concealed, worming, worrisome, worrying

• sneaky, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, back-door, backstairs, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clandestine, clever, collusive, covert, covinous, cowering, crafty, cringing, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, privy, quailing, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skulking, slick, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaking, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vulpine, wary, wily

• sneer, barrack, be above, be contemptuous of, care nothing for, chaff, contemn, contempt, cut, cut at, cut direct, deride, derision, despise, dig at, disdain, disparage, disprize, disregard, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, grin, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, humiliation, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jest, knock, laugh at, leer, look down upon, misprize, mock, mockery, pooh, pooh-pooh, put down, quip, rail at, rally, rank low, rank out, rebuff, repulse, revile, ridicule, sardonic grin, scoff, scorn, scornful laugh, scout, set at naught, slam, slap at, slight, smile, smirk, sneer at, sneering, sneeze at, snicker, sniff, sniff at, snigger, snort, snort at, snub, spurn, spurning, swipe, taunt, the cold shoulder, the go-by, think nothing of, twit, underrate

• sneering, arrogant, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive, derisory, disdainful, exclusive, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, haughty, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, scornful, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, snickering, sniffy, sniggering, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snorting, snotty, supercilious, taunting, teasing, toploftical, toplofty, twitting, withering

• sneeze at, abandon, be above, be contemptuous of, brush aside, brush off, care nothing for, contemn, deride, despise, disdain, dismiss, disparage, disprize, drop the subject, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, forget, forget about it, forget it, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, insult, lay aside, let it go, let slip, look down upon, misprize, push aside, put aside, put down, rank low, ridicule, scorn, set aside, set at naught, shrug off, sneer at, sniff at, snort at, think nothing of, thrust aside, turn away from

• sneeze, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, buzz, cough, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, respire, rhonchus, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneer, sneeze at, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• snicker at, deride, grin at, hold in derision, laugh at, laugh to scorn, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, pan, pillory, point at, poke fun at, put one on, rag, razz, ride, ridicule, roast, smile at, snigger at

• snicker, Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, fleer, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, jeer at, laugh, laugh at, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, leer, mock, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, sardonic grin, scorn, scornful laugh, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, smirk, sneer, snigger, sniggle, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• sniff out, be warm, burn, follow, follow a clue, follow up, get wind of, hunt down, nose, nose out, run down, run to earth, scent, shadow, smell, smell out, sniff, stalk, tail, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail

• sniff, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspirate, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, be warm, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, burn, buzz, cough, cut, cut direct, disregard, draw in, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, feeling, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, get wind of, gulp, hack, hiccup, hint, hiss, hissing, huff, humiliation, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inhalement, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nose, nose out, odor, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, rebuff, repulse, respiration, respire, rhonchus, scent, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slight, slurp, smell, smell of, smell out, sneer, sneeze, sneezing, sniff at, sniff out, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snub, snuff, snuff in, snuffle, spirit, spit, splutter, spurn, spurning, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suck, suck in, sucking, suckle, suction, suggestion, suspiration, swish, the cold shoulder, the go-by, wheeze, whiff, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• sniffle, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspirate, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, buzz, cough, draw in, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inhalement, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, respire, rhonchus, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slurp, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuff in, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suck, suck in, sucking, suckle, suction, suspiration, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• sniffles, Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, asbestosis, asthma, atypical pneumonia, bituminosis, black lung, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, catarrh, chalicosis, chronic bronchitis, cold, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, coryza, croup, croupous pneumonia, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, emphysema, empyema, epidemic pleurodynia, fibrinous pneumonia, flu, grippe, hay fever, influenza, la grippe, laryngitis, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, lung cancer, lung fever, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, quinsy, rheum, siderosis, silicosis, sore throat, swine flu, the sniffles, the snuffles, tonsilitis, virus pneumonia, wet pleurisy, whooping cough

• sniffy, arrogant, asthmatic, breathing, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, errhine, exclusive, expiratory, haughty, heaving, high-hat, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, panting, patronizing, pneumonic, priggish, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, scornful, sneering, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snoring, snorting, snotty, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, wheezing, wheezy, withering

• snifter, draft, dram, drench, drink, drop, gargle, guzzle, jigger, jolt, libation, nip, peg, potation, potion, pull, round, round of drinks, shot, sip, slug, snort, spot, suck, sup, swig, swill, tot, wet

• snigger, Homeric laughter, be in stitches, belly laugh, boff, boffola, break up, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, fit of laughter, fleer, gales of laughter, giggle, go into convulsions, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, leer, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, peal of laughter, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, sardonic grin, scornful laugh, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, smirk, sneer, snicker, snort, split, split with laughter, tee-hee, titter, yuck, yuk-yuk

• sniggle, allure, bag, bait, bait the hook, birdlime, bola, catch, catch out, chortle, chuckle, cobweb, decoy, dragnet, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, fishhook, fly, foul, giggle, gill net, gin, ground bait, guffaw, harpoon, hee-haw, hook, hook in, inveigle, jig, land, lariat, lasso, lime, lure, mesh, meshes, nail, net, noose, plug, pound net, purse seine, rope, sack, seine, snag, snare, snarl, snicker, spear, spinner, spread the toils, springe, squid, take, tangle, tangle up with, titter, toils, trap, trawl, trip, wind, wobbler

• snip, amputate, ax, bakehead, bantam, banty, bisect, bit, black gang, boilerman, breeze, bungs, butcher, butt, button, cabin boy, carve, chip, chips, chit, chop, chunk, cinch, cleave, clip, clipping, collop, commissary steward, complement, crop, crumb, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutting, deckhand, deckie, dichotomize, diminutive, dissever, dock, dollop, dot, drop, droplet, end, excise, featherweight, fingerling, fireman, fissure, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gash, gnat, gob, gobbet, grain, gun loader, gunner, hack, halve, hand, hew, hospital steward, hunk, hussy, incise, incision, iota, jade, jigsaw, jot, lance, landing signalman, lightweight, lop, lump, mail orderly, malapert, microbe, microorganism, midge, mini, minikin, minim, minnow, minny, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mote, mouse, navigator, nick, nip, nubbin, oiler, pare, paring, particle, patch, peewee, picnic, pie, piece, pinhead, pinpoint, pipe, point, pony, prune, purser, pushover, radio operator, rasher, remnant, rend, rive, roustabout, runt, saucebox, saw, scissor, scissors, scoop, scrap, sever, shard, shaving, shears, shiver, shred, shrimp, slash, slice, slip, slit, sliver, slut, small fry, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snippet, snips, sparks, speck, splinter, split, steward, stewardess, stitch, stoker, stump, sunder, tag, tatter, tear, tit, tittle, torpedoman, vanishing point, wart, watch, whittle, wisp, yeoman

• snipe, aim at, attack, barrage, blast, blitz, bombard, cannon, cannonade, carp at, charge, cock, commence firing, criticize, deride, detonate, discharge, drop, eject, enfilade, fell, fire, fire a volley, fire at, fire off, fire upon, fusillade, gun, gun for, hit, knock, let fly, let off, load, mortar, open fire, open up on, pan, pelt, pepper, pick off, pistol, plug, pop at, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, rake, rap, riddle, shell, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slam, snipe at, strafe, strike, take a potshot, take aim at, torpedo, zero in on

• sniper, Nimrod, Zouave, archer, artilleryman, bersagliere, bowman, cannoneer, carabineer, chasseur, crack shot, dead shot, deadeye, dogface, doughfoot, expert rifleman, foot soldier, footslogger, fusileer, good shot, grenadier, grunt, gun, gunman, gunner, hunter, infantryman, light infantryman, marksman, markswoman, musketeer, paddlefoot, rifle, rifleman, sharpshooter, shooter, shot, targetshooter, toxophilite, trapshooter

• snippet, bantam, banty, bit, butt, button, chip, chit, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, diminutive, dollop, dot, drop, droplet, end, featherweight, fingerling, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gob, gobbet, grain, hunk, iota, jot, lightweight, lump, microbe, microorganism, midge, mini, minikin, minim, minnow, minny, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mote, mouse, nip, nubbin, paring, particle, patch, peewee, piece, pinhead, pinpoint, point, pony, rasher, runt, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, shrimp, slice, slip, sliver, small fry, smithereen, snack, snatch, snick, snip, speck, splinter, stitch, stump, tag, tatter, tit, tittle, vanishing point, wart, wisp

• snippy, abrupt, aggressive, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, brusque, cavalier, churlish, condescending, crusty, curt, gruff, harsh, high-hat, patronizing, priggish, rough, severe, sharp, short, sniffy, snippety, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, surly, truculent

• snitch, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, beak, bear witness against, beezer, betray, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blow the whistle, boost, borrow, canary, conk, cop, crib, defraud, delator, embezzle, extort, filch, fink, hook, inform against, inform on, informer, lift, make off with, narc, nark, nick, nip, palm, peach, peacher, pecker, pilfer, pimp, pinch, poach, purloin, rat, run away with, rustle, schnozzle, scrounge, sell out, shoplift, sing, smeller, snare, snatch, snitch on, snitcher, snout, spy, squeak, squeal, squealer, steal, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, swindle, swipe, take, talebearer, tattle, tattler, tattletale, tell on, telltale, testify against, thieve, tipster, turn informer, walk off with, whistle-blower

• snivel, bawl, be hypocritical, blandish, blubber, boohoo, break down, burst into tears, cant, cry, dissolve in tears, drop a tear, give lip service, give mouth honor, greet, mewl, mouth, play the hypocrite, pule, reek of piety, render lip service, shed tears, sniffle, snuffle, sob, soft-soap, sweet-talk, weep, whimper, whine

• sniveler, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, canter, canting hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, formalist, hypocrite, lip server, lip worshiper, pharisee, pietist, pious fraud, poser, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, snuffler, spiritual humbug, whited sepulcher

• sniveling, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, abject, affected, backscratching, bawling, beggarly, blubbering, bootlicking, canting, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, cry, crying, dissolved in tears, false, fawning, fit of crying, flattering, flood of tears, footlicking, good cry, goody, goody-goody, greet, groveling, hangdog, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, in tears, ingratiating, insincere, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, mealymouthed, melting mood, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, overflowing eyes, parasitic, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, prostrate, ready to cry, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, sobbing, sponging, sycophantic, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused

• snob, Brahmin, bootlicker, cold-shoulder, cut, egghead, elitist, hanger-on, high-hat, highbrow, lickspittle, mandarin, name-dropper, ostracize, prig, snoot, snot, snub, sycophant, toady, tufthunter

• snobbery, affectation, clannishness, cliquishness, conceit, condescension, contemptuousness, disdain, disdainfulness, egotism, exclusiveness, haughtiness, hauteur, inflatedness, loftiness, lordliness, narcissism, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretension, pretentiousness, priggishness, priggism, selectiveness, selectivity, selectness, self-admiration, self-importance, smugness, sniffiness, snobbiness, snobbishness, snobbism, snootiness, snottiness, superciliousness, tufthunting, uppishness, vainness, vanity

• snobbish, affected, aloof, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, egotistical, elect, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, haughty, high and mighty, high-flown, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, inadmissible, insecure, insular, lofty, lordly, narrow, parochial, patronizing, pompous, potty, preclusive, prescriptive, pretentious, preventive, priggish, prohibitive, putting on airs, remote, restrictive, ritzy, scornful, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, self-important, self-satisfied, separative, smug, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobby, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uncertain, unconfident, unsure, uppish, uppity, vain, withering, xenophobic

• snoop, Paul Pry, Paul-Pry, Peeping Tom, audient, auditor, backseat driver, busybody, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool with, gossip, hearer, hearkener, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, intermeddle, intermeddler, intrude, intruder, kibitz, kibitzer, listener, meddle, meddle with, meddler, mess with, monkey with, mouse, nose, nose around, nosy Parker, overhearer, peek, peep, peeper, peer, poke, pragmatist, prier, private detective, private eye, private investigator, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, rubberneck, rubbernecker, scopophiliac, shamus, sightseer, snook, snooper, spy, stare, tamper with, voyeur, yenta

• snoot, antlia, beak, beezer, bill, bugle, conk, high-hat, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, proboscis, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller, snitch, snot, snout, trunk

• snootful, 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, skinful, supersaturation, surfeit

• snooty, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, exclusive, haughty, high-hat, patronizing, potty, priggish, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering

• snore, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, belch, blare, blat, blow, bray, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clash, cough, craunch, croak, crump, crunch, doze, drowse, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, grind, groan, growl, grumble, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, jangle, jar, lisp, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nap, oversleep, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, rasp, respiration, respire, rhonchus, saw logs, saw wood, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sleep, sleep soundly, slumber, snark, snarl, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, swish, take a nap, twang, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• snoring, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, effervescent, errhine, exhalation, expiration, expiratory, exsufflation, fizzling, gasp, gulp, hack, heaving, hiccup, hissing, huffing, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, inspiratory, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nasal, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, panting, pneumonic, puff, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiration, respiratory, rhinal, scuba, sibilant, sigh, sissing, sizzling, sneeze, sneezy, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snore, snorting, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutation, sternutatory, stertor, stertorous, suspiration, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, wind

• snorkel, Aqua-Lung, Foamite, acid, adjutage, air cylinder, aquascope, automatic sprinkler, bathyscaphe, bathysphere, benthoscope, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, catheter, deck gun, deluge set, diving bell, diving boat, diving chamber, diving goggles, diving helmet, diving hood, diving mask, diving suit, drainpipe, efflux tube, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, flue pipe, foam, foam extinguisher, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hook-and-ladder, hose, hosepipe, ladder pipe, nipple, organ pipe, periscope, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, pumper, reed, reed pipe, scuba, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, soda, soil pipe, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, submarine, super-pumper, swim fins, tap, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, waste pipe, water, water cannon, water pipe, wet blanket, wet suit

• snort, Homeric laughter, assibilate, assibilation, bark, bawl, be above, be contemptuous of, be in stitches, bellow, belly laugh, beverage, blare, blat, blow, blubber, boff, boffola, boom, bray, break up, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, bumper, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, buzz, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, care nothing for, chant, chirp, chortle, chuckle, contemn, convulsion, coo, cough, crow, cut, cut direct, deride, despise, disdain, disparage, disprize, disregard, draft, dram, drawl, drench, drink, drop, dump on, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exclaim, exhale, exhaust, expel, expire, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fit of laughter, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleer, flute, frication, frictional rustling, gales of laughter, gargle, gasp, giggle, go into convulsions, growl, grunt, gruntle, guffaw, gulp, guzzle, ha-ha, hack, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hiccup, hilarity, hiss, hissing, ho-ho, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, horselaugh, huff, humiliation, hush, hushing, inhale, inspire, insult, jigger, jolt, keen, lap, laugh, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, leer, libation, lilt, lisp, look down upon, misprize, mumble, murmur, mutter, nearly die laughing, nip, oink, outburst of laughter, pant, peal of laughter, peg, pipe, portion, potation, potion, puff, pull, put down, quaff, rank low, rebuff, repulse, respire, rhonchus, ridicule, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, round, round of drinks, rumble, sardonic grin, scorn, scornful laugh, scream, screech, set at naught, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shot, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, sing, sip, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slight, slug, slurp, smirk, snap, snarl, sneer, sneer at, sneeze, sneeze at, sneezing, snicker, sniff, sniff at, sniffle, snifter, snigger, snore, snort at, snub, snuff, snuffle, sob, spit, split, split with laughter, splutter, spot, spurn, spurning, sputter, squall, squash, squawk, squeal, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suck, sup, swig, swill, swish, tee-hee, the cold shoulder, the go-by, think nothing of, thunder, titter, tot, trumpet, twang, wail, warble, wet, wheeze, whine, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yuck, yuk-yuk, zip

• snot, bugger, carrion, chyle, colostrum, corruption, creep, crumb, cur, dandruff, decay, discharge, dog, excrement, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, gleet, high-hat, humor, ichor, knave, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, louse, lowlife, lymph, matter, mess, milk, muck, mucor, mucus, obscenity, ordure, peccant humor, phlegm, pig, prick, puke, purulence, pus, putrid matter, rat, reptile, rheum, rogue, rot, saliva, sanies, scoundrel, scum, scurf, scuz, serous fluid, serum, shit, shithead, skunk, slime, smut, snake, snoot, sod, sordes, stinkard, stinker, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, toad, turd, urine, wretch

• snotty, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, exclusive, haughty, high-hat, muciferous, mucific, mucinous, mucoid, mucous, muculent, patronizing, pituitous, priggish, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering

• snout, antlia, beak, beezer, bib nozzle, bill, bugle, conk, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, pressure nozzle, proboscis, rhinarium, rose, rosehead, rostrum, schnozzle, shower head, smeller, snitch, snoot, spray nozzle, sprinkler head, trunk

• snow job, allurement, bamboozlement, befooling, blandishment, bluffing, cajolement, cajolery, calculated deception, circumvention, coaxing, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, engagement, enlistment, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, exhortation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, hoodwinking, hortation, illusion, inducement, jawboning, kidding, lobbying, mirage, outwitting, overreaching, persuasion, phantasm, preaching, preachment, putting on, sales talk, salesmanship, self-deception, selling, soft soap, solicitation, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, suasion, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindling, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, wheedling, willful misconception, wishful thinking, working on

• snow under, blank, bulldoze, clobber, cream, defeat utterly, frost, hail, ice, ice over, ice up, overbear, overwhelm, paste, schmear, shellac, shut out, skunk, sleet, smear, snow, snow in, steamroller, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop

• snow, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, accord, administer, afford, alabaster, allot, allow, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, avalanche, award, bamboozle, beguile, bestow, bestow on, betray, black spot, blizzard, bloom, blooping, bluff, cajole, chalk, cheat on, circumvent, cocaine, coke, communicate, confer, conjure, crystal, deal, deal out, deceive, definition, delude, dextroamphetamine sulfate, diddle, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, double-cross, driven snow, dupe, extend, flake, flare, fleece, flour, flurry, foam, football, forestall, fork out, fringe area, frost, gammon, get around, ghost, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, granular snow, granulation, grid, gull, hail, hand out, hard shadow, heap, heart, help to, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, ice, ice over, ice up, igloo, image, impart, issue, ivory, jolly bean, juggle, lavish, let down, let have, lily, maggot, mantle of snow, mete, mete out, methamphetamine hydrochloride, milk, mock, mogul, multiple image, noise, offer, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, paper, pearl, pep pill, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pigeon, play one false, pour, present, proffer, purple heart, put something over, rain, render, rolling, scanning pattern, scintillation, serve, shading, sheet, shell out, shower, silver, sleet, slip, slosh, slush, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow in, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow under, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, speed, stimulant, string along, swan, take in, tender, trick, two-time, upper, vouchsafe, wet snow, yield

• snowball, accrue, accumulate, accumulation, acervation, advance, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, appreciate, augment, avalanche, ball, balloon, bead, blizzard, bloat, boom, breed, broaden, build, bulk, chunk, congeries, conglobation, conglobulate, conglomerate, conglomeration, crescendo, crystal, cumulation, develop, dilate, distend, driven snow, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, flake, flurry, gain, gain strength, gathering, get ahead, globe, glomeration, go up, gob, granular snow, greaten, grow, hunk, igloo, increase, intensify, lump, mantle of snow, mass, mogul, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, puff up, rise, run up, shoot up, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, sphere, spherify, spread, stockpile, strengthen, stretch, swell, tumefy, upsurge, wad, wax, wet snow, widen

• snowbank, avalanche, blizzard, crystal, driven snow, flake, flurry, granular snow, igloo, mantle of snow, mogul, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, wet snow

• snowbird, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, pothead, speed freak, tripper, user

• snowcapped, nival, niveous, snow-bearded, snow-blanketed, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-crested, snow-drifted, snow-driven, snow-encircled, snow-feathered, snow-hung, snow-laden, snow-lined, snow-loaded, snow-mantled, snow-sprinkled, snow-still, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snowlike, snowy

• snowdrift, anthill, avalanche, bank, blizzard, cock, crystal, drift, driven snow, dune, embankment, flake, flurry, granular snow, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, igloo, mantle of snow, mogul, molehill, mound, mow, pile, pyramid, rick, slosh, slush, 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, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, stack, wet snow

• snowfall, avalanche, blizzard, crystal, driven snow, flake, flurry, granular snow, igloo, mantle of snow, mogul, slosh, slush, 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, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, wet snow

• snowflake, avalanche, blizzard, crystal, driven snow, flake, flurry, granular snow, igloo, mantle of snow, mogul, slosh, slush, 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, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, wet snow

• snowman, avalanche, blizzard, bust, carving, crystal, doll, dolly, driven snow, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, flake, flurry, gingerbread man, granular snow, igloo, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, mantle of snow, marionette, model, mogul, monument, portrait bust, puppet, scarecrow, sculpture, slosh, slush, 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, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, statuary, statue, statuette, wax figure, waxwork, wet snow, wood carving

• snowstorm, avalanche, black spot, blizzard, bloom, blooping, crystal, cyclone, definition, dirty weather, driven snow, flake, flare, flurry, foul weather, fringe area, ghost, granular snow, granulation, grid, hard shadow, hurricane, igloo, image, line squall, mantle of snow, mogul, multiple image, noise, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, rain, rainstorm, rolling, rough weather, scanning pattern, scintillation, shading, slosh, slush, 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, squall, storm, stormy weather, tempest, tempestuous rage, thunderstorm, tornado, typhoon, wet snow, windstorm

• snowy, argent, argentine, blotless, canescent, chalky, chaste, clean, cleanly, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, immaculate, innocent, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, nival, niveous, platinum, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, sexually innocent, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-bearded, snow-blanketed, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-crested, snow-drifted, snow-driven, snow-encircled, snow-feathered, snow-hung, snow-laden, snow-lined, snow-loaded, snow-mantled, snow-sprinkled, snow-still, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snow-white, snowlike, spotless, stainless, swan-white, taintless, unblemished, unblotted, uncorrupt, undefiled, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, virtuous, white, white as snow

• snub nosed, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, blocky, bowlegged, chubby, chunky, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dumpy, dwarfed, fat, flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, podgy, pudgy, pug, pug-nosed, pugged, rachitic, retrousse, rickety, simous, squat, squattish, squatty, stocky, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, thickset, truncated, tubby, turned-up

• snub, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted, arrest, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, bob, bobbed, boil down, bottle up, bridle, brush off, brush-off, capsule, capsulize, capsulized, cast out, chase, chase away, chase off, check, clip, clipped, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, compress, compressed, condense, condensed, constrain, contain, contract, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, crop, cropped, curb, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut direct, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, deport, detain, digested, disfellowship, dismiss, dismissal, disregard, dock, docked, dompt, drive away, drive back, elide, elided, elliptic, enjoin, epitomize, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, fend off, foreshorten, fugitate, govern, guard, high-hat, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold up, humiliation, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep off, keep under control, lay under restraint, meddle, mow, mowed, mown, nip, nipped, not receive, oppose, ostracize, outlaw, pack off, poll, pollard, polled, prohibit, proscribe, prune, pruned, pull, pull in, push back, put back, put down, reap, reaped, rebuff, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refusal, refuse, refuse to receive, rein, rein in, relegate, repel, repress, repulse, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, rusticate, scotch, send away, send down, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, set back, shave, shaved, shear, sheared, short-cut, shorten, shortened, slacken, slight, slow down, sneer, sniff, snob, snort, snubbed, spurn, spurning, straiten, stunt, sum up, summarize, suppress, swank, synopsize, take in, telescope, the cold shoulder, the go-by, thrust back, thrust out, transport, trim, trimmed, truncate, turn away from, turn back, upstage, ward off, withhold

• snuff out, blow out, cash in, check out, choke, conk, croak, damp, die, douse, drop, extinguish, kick in, kick off, out, pass out, pop off, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, silence, slack, smother, snuff, squash, squelch, stamp out, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, trample out, trample underfoot

• snuff, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspirate, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, blow, blow out, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, buzz, choke, cough, damp, douse, draw in, dudgeon, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, extinguish, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inhalement, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, miff, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nose, out, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, pinch of snuff, pique, puff, put out, quench, rappee, resentment, respiration, respire, rhonchus, scent, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slack, slurp, smell, smell of, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snoose, snore, snoring, snort, snuff bottle, snuff in, snuff mill, snuff out, snuffbox, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, stamp out, sternutation, stertor, stifle, suck, suck in, sucking, suckle, suction, suspiration, swish, umbrage, wheeze, whiff, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• snuffle, Aqua-Lung, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, artificial respiration, aspirate, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, be hypocritical, blandish, blow, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, buzz, cant, cough, draw in, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, false piety, falseness, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, give lip service, give mouth honor, goody-goodiness, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, hypocrisy, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inhalement, insincerity, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, mealymouthedness, mouth, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mummery, nose, oiliness, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, play the hypocrite, puff, reek of piety, religionism, religiosity, render lip service, respiration, respire, rhonchus, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, scent, scuba, self-righteousness, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slurp, smell, smell of, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snivel, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuff in, soft-soap, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, suck, suck in, sucking, suckle, suction, suspiration, sweet-talk, swish, twang, unction, unctuousness, wheeze, whiff, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

• snuffy, asthmatic, breathing, chewing, dingy, dirty, dusty, errhine, expiratory, grimy, grubby, grungy, heaving, huffing, inspiratory, messy, miry, muddy, nasal, nicotinic, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, scruffy, slovenly, smirchy, smoking, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, sooty, sternutatory, stertorous, tobacco, tobaccolike, tobaccoy, untidy, wheezing, wheezy

• snug, airtight, airworthy, anal, autistic, bashful, bold, brief, brusque, burrow, casual, cheerful, chipper, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, comfortable, comfy, commodious, compact, concise, contented, convenient, cosy, cozy, croodle, cuddle, curt, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, dinky, dissociable, dumb, dustproof, dusttight, easeful, easy, economical of words, fast, firm, fit for sea, friendly, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, homelike, homely, homey, homish, incompatible, indisposed to talk, insociable, intimate, laconic, lightproof, lighttight, lived-in, luxurious, mopey, mopish, morose, mum, mute, neat, nestle, nongregarious, nuzzle, oilproof, oiltight, orderly, peaceful, plain, quiet, rainproof, raintight, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, sea-kindly, sealed, seaworthy, self-contained, self-sufficient, sheltered, shipshape, short, shut fast, silent, simple, sleek, slick, smart, smokeproof, smoketight, snug down, snug up, socially incompatible, soft, sparing of words, speechless, spick-and-span, spruce, staunch, stiff, stormproof, stormtight, sullen, taciturn, tender, terse, tidy, tight, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, trig, trim, tuck in, unclubbable, uncluttered, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unloquacious, unpretending, unsociable, unsocial, untalkative, warm, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, well-cared-for, well-groomed, well-to-do, windproof, windtight, word-bound, wordless

• snuggery, alcove, bay, blockhouse, box, bungalow, cabin, carrel, chalet, corner, cot, cote, cottage, cove, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, lodge, log cabin, love nest, niche, nook, oriel, pied-a-terre, recess, roomlet

• so called, affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, avowed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, claimed, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled, honorific, hypocoristic, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, in name only, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative, ostensible, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pretexted, professed, pseudo, purported, put-on, quasi, queer, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, soi-disant, specious, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be

• so far, after a fashion, already, appreciably, as yet, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, by this time, comparatively, detectably, earlier, fairly, heretofore, hereunto, hitherto, in a manner, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, leastwise, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, pro tanto, purely, relatively, simply, somewhat, still, then as previously, thus far, till now, to a degree, to date, to some degree, to this day, tolerably, until now, until this time, up to now, visibly, yet

• so so, average, betwixt and between, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fairishly, fairly, indifferent, indifferently, insipid, lackluster, mediocre, mediocrely, medium, middling, middling well, middlingly, moderate, moderately, modest, modestly, namby-pamby, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, passable, passably, rather, respectable, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, tedious, tolerable, tolerably, vapid, wishy-washy

• so, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, accordingly, accurately, ad eundem, after this fashion, almighty, along these lines, as, as all creation, as all get-out, as long as, as well, at what price, awful, awfully, beaucoup, by what mode, by what name, ceteris paribus, consequently, considerable, considerably, correctly, correspondingly, either, equally, equivalently, ergo, evenly, ever so, ever so much, exceedingly, exceptionally, extremely, faultlessly, flawlessly, for, galore, greatly, hence, highly, how, identically, in consideration of, in contemplation of, in great measure, in kind, in like manner, in order to, in such wise, in that way, in this way, in what way, indifferently, just, just like that, just right, just so, largely, like, like so, like that, like this, likewise, mightily, mighty, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, only too, parlous, perfectly, plenty, powerful, powerfully, precisely, pretty, pretty much, properly, proportionately, quite, real, really, right, rightly, sic, similarly, so as, so as to, so long as, so that, so very much, straight, suchlike, terribly, terrifically, then, thereupon, this way, this-a-way, thus, thus and so, thus and thus, thusly, thuswise, to, to the skies, very, very much, whacking, whopping, without distinction

• soak in, absorb, adsorb, assimilate, be glimpsed, blot, blot up, chemisorb, chemosorb, come through, dawn on, digest, drink, drink in, drink up, engross, filter in, get across, get over, imbibe, infiltrate, ingest, leak in, osmose, penetrate, percolate in, percolate into, register, seep in, sink in, slurp up, soak up, sorb, sponge, swill up, take in, take up

• soak up, absorb, adsorb, air-dry, anhydrate, assimilate, bake, blot, blot up, brush, burn, chemisorb, chemosorb, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, digest, drain, drink, drink in, drink up, dry, engross, evaporate, exsiccate, filter in, fire, imbibe, infiltrate, ingest, insolate, kiln, lap, lap up, lick, mummify, osmose, parch, percolate in, rub, scorch, sear, seep in, shrivel, slurp, slurp up, smoke, soak in, sorb, sponge, sponge up, sun, sun-dry, swab, swill up, take in, take up, thirst, torrefy, towel, weazen, wipe, wither, wizen

• soak, absorb, alcoholic, assimilate, bang, bash, bat, bathe, belt, bender, bib, bibber, biff, bleed, bleed white, bonk, booze, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, bust, busy, choke, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, concentrate, congest, crack, cram, crowd, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, decoct, deluge, dip, dipsomaniac, distill, douche, douse, dowse, drain the cup, dram, draw, drench, drenching, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, drinker, drouk, drown, drunk, drunkard, ducking, dunking, elbow bender, engross, essentialize, exploit, express, fetch, fetch a blow, fleece, flush, follow strong drink, gargle, ginhound, glut, gluttonize, gorge, gouge, grog, guzzle, guzzler, hit, hit a clip, hold up, hooch hound, imbibe, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerse, impregnate, impregnation, inebriate, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, jab, jag, jam, jam-pack, knock, knock back, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lap, lap up, lave, leach, leaching, learn, let have it, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, melt down, nip, occupy, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overlade, overload, overprice, overstuff, overtax, overweight, pack, paste, penetrate, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pervade, plunk, poke, press out, profiteer, pulping, punch, quaff, refine, render, rinse, rum hound, rummy, satiate, saturate, saturation, screw, seethe, seething, sip, skin, slam, slog, slug, smack, smite, snap, soak up, soakage, soaker, soaking, sock, sodden, sop, sopping, sot, souse, sousing, sponge, sponge up, steep, steeping, stew, stick, sting, strike, strike at, stuff, submerge, sup, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swat, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, swindle, swipe, take in, tank up, tear, thump, thwack, tipple, tippler, tope, toper, toss down, toss off, victimize, wallop, wash, waterlog, wet, whack, wham, whop, wino, wring, wring out, yerk

• soaked, SRO, afflicted, awash, bathed, bent, bloated, boiled, bombed, boozy, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, canned, capacity, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, congested, cram-full, crammed, crocked, crocko, crowded, deluged, dipped, distended, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, elevated, engulfed, farci, filled, filled to overflowing, flooded, flush, fried, fuddled, full, full to bursting, glutted, gorged, half-seas over, high, hyperemic, illuminated, immersed, in spate, inundated, jam-packed, jammed, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, macerated, muzzy, oiled, oozing, organized, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, permeated, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, plenary, plethoric, polluted, potted, raddled, ready to burst, replete, round, running over, satiated, saturated, seeping, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, squiffy, standing room only, steeped, stewed, stinko, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swacked, swamped, swollen, tanked, tight, topful, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet

• soaker, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, big drunk, boozehound, boozer, brash, burst of rain, carouser, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, cloudburst, deluge, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drinker, drunk, drunkard, flood, gushing rain, guzzler, hard drinker, heavy drinker, heavy rain, imbiber, inebriate, lovepot, lush, oenophilist, pathological drinker, plash, pot companion, pour, problem drinker, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, reveler, scud, serious drinker, shikker, soak, soaking rain, social drinker, sot, spate, spout, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, torrent of rain, tosspot, wassailer, waterspout, winebibber

• soaking, absorbent, adsorbent, assimilative, awash, bathed, bibulous, blotting, brewing, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, concentration, dampening, decoction, deluged, digestive, dipped, distillation, dousing, dowsing, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, endosmotic, engulfed, exosmotic, expression, flooded, humectant, imbibitory, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, marination, moistening, oozing, osmotic, overflowed, penetration, percolation, permeated, permeation, pervasion, pressing, pulping, rendering, rendition, resorbent, saturated, saturating, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sorbent, souse, soused, sousing, spongeous, spongy, squeezing, steeped, steeping, streaming, submerged, submersed, suffusion, swamped, thirsty, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet

• soap opera, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bathos, bleeding heart, bomb, broadcast, broadcast drama, burlesque show, canned show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, cloyingness, comedy drama, commercial, commercial program, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, electrical transcription, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, goo, happening, hearts-and-flowers, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, masque, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, mush, mushiness, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, network show, newscast, nostalgia, nostomania, opera, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, radio fare, radiobroadcast, rebroadcast, rerun, review, revue, romanticism, sensational play, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap, sob story, sociodrama, sound effects, spectacle, sportscast, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, sustainer, sweetness and light, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, taped program, tearjerker, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• soap, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, abstergent, adulation, amole, antimasque, audience success, ballet, baptize, bar soap, bath, bath soap, bathe, blandishment, blarney, bomb, broadcast drama, brown soap, bunkum, burlesque show, butter, butter up, cajolement, cajolery, cathartic, charade, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, cliff hanger, closet drama, cold cream, comedy drama, compliment, cream, critical success, daytime serial, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, dialogue, diuretic, documentary drama, douche, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, emetic, enema, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, eyewash, failure, fair words, fawning, flattery, flop, flush, flush out, gargle, gasser, get around, giveaway, grease, happening, hit, hit show, holystone, honey, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, improvisational drama, incense, irrigate, jolly, kid along, lather, launder, lave, lay it on, legitimate drama, lotion, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, mop, mop up, morality, morality play, mouthwash, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nauseant, oil, opera, overdo it, pageant, palaver, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, play up to, playlet, powdered soap, praise, pretty lies, problem play, psychodrama, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, sensational play, serial, shampoo, show, shower, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, sluice, sluice out, soap opera, sociodrama, soft soap, soft-soap, soften up, solvent, spectacle, sponge, stage play, stage show, straight drama, string along, stroke, success, suspense drama, swab, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, synthetic detergent, syringe, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, toivel, tooth powder, toothpaste, total theater, tub, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wash, wash out, wash up, wheedling, word-of-mouth success, work

• soapbox, balcony, catafalque, dais, declaim, emplacement, estrade, floor, gallery, harangue, heliport, hustings, landing, landing pad, landing stage, launching pad, mouth, perorate, platform, podium, pulpit, rant, rave, rostrum, stage, step terrace, stump, terrace, tribunal, tribune

• soapy, adipose, adulatory, barmy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cajoling, chrismal, chrismatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, disarming, fair-spoken, fat, fatty, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, foam-flecked, foamy, frothy, fulsome, glib, greasy, gushing, heady, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, lardaceous, lardy, lathery, mealymouthed, mucoid, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sebaceous, sleek, slick, slimy, slippery, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soft-soaping, soft-spoken, spumose, spumous, spumy, suave, suave-spoken, suddy, sudsy, suety, sycophantic, tallowy, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, wheedling, yeasty

• soar, advance, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, arise, ascend, aspire, back, back up, balloon, be airborne, become airborne, budge, bulk, bulk large, buss the clouds, change, change place, circle, claw skyward, climb, cruise, descend, drift, ebb, escalate, exceed, ferry, flit, float, flow, fly, fly aloft, gain altitude, get over, glide, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, hang, hop, hover, hydroplane, increase, jet, kite, leave the ground, lift, loom, loom large, mount, move, move over, navigate, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, plane, plunge, poise, progress, rear, regress, retrogress, rise, rise above, rocket, rotate, run, sail, sailplane, seaplane, shift, shoot, shoot up, sink, spin, spire, stand on tiptoe, stand out, stir, stream, subside, take off, take the air, take wing, tower, tower above, transcend, travel, up, uprear, uprise, volplane, wane, whirl, wing, zoom

• soaring, Brownian movement, Olympian, advance, aerial, aeronautics, air service, airline, airy, altitudinous, anabasis, angular motion, ascending, ascension, ascent, aspiring, astronautics, august, aviation, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, ballooning, blind flying, career, clamber, climb, climbing, cloud-seeding, colossal, commercial aviation, contact flying, course, cruising, current, descending, descent, distinguished, dominating, down-trending, downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing, elevated, elevation, eminent, escalade, ethereal, exalted, famous, flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion, fountain, general aviation, gliding, glorious, godlike, going, gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, haughty, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, increase, jet, jump, lauded, leap, levitation, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, monumental, mount, mounting, noble, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, passage, passing, pilotage, plunging, progress, progressive, prominent, radial motion, random motion, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, renowned, retrogression, retrogressive, rise, rising, rocketing up, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sailing, sailplaning, saltation, set, shooting up, sideward, sideward motion, sinking, skyscraping, spiring, spout, spring, spurt, steep, sternway, stream, streaming, sublime, subsiding, superb, superlative, supernal, surge, takeoff, taking off, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, traject, trajet, trend, up-trending, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, uplifted, upping, upreared, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, vault, winging, zooming

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

• sob story, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sweetness and light, tearjerker

• sob, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boohoo, boom, bray, break down, breathe, burst into tears, buzz, cackle, chant, chirp, coo, crow, cry, dissolve in tears, dolorous tirade, drawl, drone, drop a tear, exclaim, flute, gabble, gasp, gibber, greet, groan, growl, grunt, hiss, howl, jabber, jeremiad, keen, lament, lilt, maunder, moan, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, outcry, pant, pipe, plaint, planctus, roar, rumble, scream, screech, shed tears, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snivel, snort, sough, speak incoherently, splutter, sputter, squall, squawk, squeal, susurrate, thunder, tirade, trumpet, twang, ululation, wail, wail of woe, warble, weep, whimper, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yowl

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

• sobbing, bawling, blubbering, cry, crying, dissolved in tears, fit of crying, flood of tears, good cry, greet, in tears, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, melting mood, moaning, overflowing eyes, ready to cry, sigh, sighing, sniveling, soughing, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whimpering, whining, with eyes suffused

• sober, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abstaining, abstentious, abstinent, acier, aristocratic, ascetic, ashen, ashy, august, austere, awe-inspiring, balanced, bald, bare, blackish, bland, calm, candid, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, cogitative, cognitive, cold sober, collected, colorless, common, commonplace, commonsense, composed, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, constrained, contemplating, contemplative, continent, controlled, cool, coolheaded, courtly, creamy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, decorous, deliberating, deliberative, delicate, demure, detoxify, dignified, dingy, direct, disciplined, dismal, dispassionate, dove-colored, dove-gray, down-to-earth, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusk, dusky, dusty, earnest, eggshell, eschewing, excogitating, fatal, fateful, flat, forbearing, forgoing, formal, formidable, frank, frowning, frugal, funereal, gentle, glaucescent, glaucous, gloss, grand, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, heavy, homely, homespun, ideative, imperturbable, imposing, inhibited, introspective, iridescent, iron-gray, judicious, kingly, lead-gray, leaden, lean, level-headed, levelheaded, light, livid, logical, long-faced, lordly, low-key, magisterial, majestic, matter-of-fact, measured, meditating, meditative, mellow, mental, mild, mild as milk, moderate, mother-of-pearl, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, museful, musing, nacreous, natural, neat, neutral, nigrescent, no-nonsense, noble, noetic, nonviolent, opalescent, open, pacifistic, pale, pastel, patinaed, peaceable, peaceful, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pensive, philosophical, placid, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pondering, portentous, practical, pragmatic, prehensive, princely, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, prudent, pure, queenly, quiet, rational, realistic, reasonable, recover, reflecting, reflective, refraining, regal, repressed, reserved, restrained, royal, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, rustic, sad, sane, sedate, self-controlled, self-disciplined, self-possessed, semigloss, sensible, serene, serious, severe, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober-minded, sobersided, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solemn, somber, sombrous, sound, spare, sparing, speculative, staid, stark, stately, statuesque, steady, steel-gray, steely, stinting, stone-colored, stone-faced, straight-faced, straightforward, subdued, subtle, swart, swarthy, sweet, tame, taupe, teetotal, temperate, tender, thinking, thought, thoughtful, together, tranquil, unadorned, unaffected, undrunk, undrunken, unexcited, unflustered, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninebriate, uninebrious, unintoxicated, unperturbed, unpoetical, unruffled, unsmiling, untipsy, unvarnished, venerable, weighty, well-balanced, wistful, worthy

• soberly, calmly, composedly, conservatively, coolly, decorously, demurely, dispassionately, earnestly, equably, evenly, formally, grandly, gravely, grimly, imposingly, in balance, in moderation, in reason, judiciously, loftily, magisterially, majestically, moderately, nobly, prudently, regally, restrainedly, royally, sedately, serenely, seriously, sober-mindedly, sobersidedly, solemnly, somberly, soothingly, staidly, stately, steadily, subduedly, temperately, thoughtfully, tranquilly, venerably, with dignity, within bounds, within compass, within reason, worthily

• sobriety, abnegation, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, augustness, balance, blackishness, calm, calmness, common sense, conservatism, constraint, contact with reality, continence, control, cool, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, courtliness, darkishness, darkness, darksomeness, decorousness, demureness, denial, dignifiedness, dignity, dispassion, due sense of, duskiness, duskness, earnestness, evenness, forbearance, formality, frugality, funereality, gentleness, golden mean, good sense, grandeur, graveness, gravity, grimness, happy medium, healthy mind, horse sense, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, kingliness, lenity, level head, levelheadedness, loftiness, long face, lordliness, lucid interval, lucidity, majesty, meden agan, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutrality, nobility, nonviolence, normalcy, normality, normalness, nothing in excess, pacifism, plain sense, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, pride of bearing, pride of place, princeliness, proud bearing, prudence, rationality, reason, reasonableness, regality, renouncement, renunciation, repose, restraint, right mind, sadness, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, sedateness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, sense, senses, sensibleness, serenity, seriousness, sober senses, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, solemnity, solemnness, somberness, sophrosyne, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, stability, staidness, stateliness, steadiness, straight face, swarth, swarthiness, swartness, teetotalism, temperance, temperateness, thoughtfulness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, venerability, via media, weightiness, wholesomeness, worthiness

• sociability, Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, approachability, big mouth, candor, casualness, common touch, communicativeness, congeniality, conversableness, cordiality, correct deportment, courtesy, discourtesy, ease, easiness, easygoingness, effusion, effusiveness, etiquette, extroversion, familiarity, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, folksiness, frankness, freeness, friendliness, friendship, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, good behavior, good citizenship, good manners, graciousness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, homeliness, homeyness, informality, informalness, irregularity, kindness, long-windedness, loose tongue, looseness, loquaciousness, loquacity, love, misbehavior, naturalness, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, offhandedness, openness, outgoingness, outspokenness, peaceableness, plainness, plainspokenness, poor behavior, prolixity, relaxedness, sanctioned behavior, simplicity, slush, spate of words, talkativeness, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, unhostility, unpretentiousness, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unsecretiveness, unsuppression, untaciturnity, verbosity, volubility, well-affectedness, windiness

• sociable, Bohemian, accessible, affable, agreeable, all jaw, amiable, amicable, approachable, associational, brotherly, candid, casual, chatty, chummy, civil, close, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, coalitional, communal, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, congenial, conversable, conversational, convivial, cordial, cosy, courteous, degage, demonstrative, easy, easygoing, effusive, expansive, extroverted, familiar, favorable, fit for society, flip, fluent, folksy, fond of society, frank, fraternal, free, free and easy, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendlike, friendly, gabby, garrulous, gassy, genial, glib, good-natured, gossipy, gracious, gregarious, gushy, hail-fellow-well-met, harmonious, haymish, homely, homey, hospitable, informal, intimate, irregular, kind, long-winded, loose, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, neighborlike, neighborly, newsy, offhand, offhanded, open, organizational, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, peaceable, plain, pleasant, prolix, relaxed, self-revealing, self-revelatory, simpatico, simple, sisterly, smooth, social, social-minded, society, sympathique, talkative, talky, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, unhampered, unhostile, unofficial, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsocial, unstudied, unsuppressed, urbane, verbose, voluble, warm, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, windy

• social class, ashram, association, body, caste, clan, class, colony, commonwealth, commune, community, economic class, endogamous group, extended family, family, gens, kinship group, moiety, nuclear family, order, phratria, phratry, phyle, settlement, social circle, society, subcaste, totem

• social climbing, ambition, ambitious, ambitiousness, aspiring, careerism, careerist, careeristic, climbing, high-flying, high-reaching, lofty ambition, magnanimity, on the make, power-hunger, power-hungry, sky-aspiring, status-seeking, vaulting ambition

• social convention, bon ton, conformity, consuetude, convention, custom, established way, etiquette, fashion, folkway, manner, manners, mores, observance, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, ritual, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, time-honored practice, tradition, usage, use, way, what is done, wont, wonting

• social grace, affability, amenities, amiability, civilities, civility, clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, comity, communicativeness, companionability, compatibility, congeniality, convention, courtesy, courtliness, decencies, decorum, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, familiarity, fondness for society, formalities, friendliness, geniality, good form, good manners, gregariousness, hospitality, intimacy, manners, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, proprieties, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, rules of conduct, sociability, sociableness, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage, sociality, urbanity

• social intercourse, ESP, answer, collegiality, commerce, communication, communion, community, congress, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, dealing, dealings, exchange, fellowship, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, linguistic intercourse, message, reply, response, social activity, social relations, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, talking, telepathy, touch, traffic, truck, two-way communication

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

• social science, academic discipline, academic specialty, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, applied science, area, arena, art, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, comportment, concern, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, department of knowledge, deportment, discipline, doing, doings, domain, field, field of inquiry, field of study, folkway, gestures, goings-on, guise, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, natural science, observable behavior, ology, pattern, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, province, pure science, science, specialty, sphere, study, style, tactics, technicology, technics, technology, tone, way, way of life, ways

• social security, ADC, Medicaid, Medicare, accident insurance, actuary, annuity, assurance, aviation insurance, bail bond, bond, business life insurance, casualty insurance, certificate of insurance, court bond, cradle-to-grave security, credit insurance, credit life insurance, deductible, endowment insurance, family maintenance policy, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, flood insurance, fraternal insurance, government insurance, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, health insurance, industrial life insurance, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, interinsurance, liability insurance, license bond, limited payment insurance, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, marine insurance, mutual company, ocean marine insurance, old-age assistance, permit bond, policy, public assistance, relief, robbery insurance, sickness insurance, social insurance, social welfare, socialized medicine, state medicine, stock company, term insurance, theft insurance, underwriter, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, welfare, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare statism, welfarism, womb-to-tomb security

• social, affable, affair, amiable, amusing, associated, associational, at home, civic, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, coalitional, collective, collectivistic, common, communal, communicative, communistic, community, commutual, companionable, companionate, compatible, congenial, conjoint, convivial, cooperative, cordial, cosmopolitan, courteous, entertaining, fit for society, fond of society, friendly, gathering, general, genial, get-together, gracious, gregarious, group, hospitable, in common, international, joint, levee, matinee, mutual, national, organizational, pleasant, pleasurable, popular, public, reception, reciprocal, reunion, salon, sexual, sociable, social affair, social gathering, social-minded, socialistic, societal, society, soiree, state, supranational, urbane, venereal, wake

• socialism, Fabian socialism, Fabianism, Marxian socialism, Marxism, Nazism, Saint-Simonism, centralism, collective farm, collective ownership, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, constitutionalism, cooperation, cooperative society, democracy, democratism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, governmentalism, guild socialism, imperialism, kibbutz, kolkhoz, monarchism, national socialism, nationalization, neofascism, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, phalansterism, pluralism, political principles, profit sharing, public ownership, republicanism, royalism, sharecropping, state ownership, state socialism, statism, town meeting, utopian socialism

• Socialist Party, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Know-Nothing Party, Labour Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Tory Party, Whig Party, camp, city hall, faction, machine, major party, minor party, multiple party system, one-party system, opposition party, party, party in power, political machine, political party, splinter party, third party, two-party system

• socialistic, Fabian, Fourieristic, Saint-Simonian, associated, collective, collectivistic, common, communal, communistic, commutual, conjoint, cooperative, general, in common, joint, mutual, phalansterian, popular, public, reciprocal, social, socialist, societal

• socialite, Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, dandy, deb, debutante, fashion plate, fashionable, fop, man-about-town, mondain, mondaine, subdeb, subdebutante, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter

• socialize, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, annex, associate, attach, better, boost, bring forward, civilize, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, confiscate, democratize, distrain, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, expropriate, fatten, favor, forward, foster, fraternize, garnish, get out, get together, go out, go straight, impound, impress, improve, improve upon, lard, levy, lift, make an improvement, meliorate, mend, mingle, mix, nationalize, nurture, politicize, press, promote, raise, refine upon, reform, replevin, replevy, republicanize, sequester, sequestrate, straighten out, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift

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

• society, Bund, Everyman, John Doe, Public, Rochdale cooperative, Vanity Fair, academy, acculturation, affiliation, alliance, ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, associational, axis, band, bash, beau monde, beautiful people, belt, best people, biff, bloc, body, body politic, bop, box, branch, brethren, brotherhood, buffet, bust, cafe society, camaraderie, carriage trade, caste, chop, church, churchgoers, circle, citizenry, civilization, clan, class, clout, club, coalition, coalitional, college, colony, combination, combine, common man, common market, commonwealth, communal, commune, communion, community, community at large, companionship, company, complex, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, confrerie, congregation, consociation, consortship, constituency, consumer cooperative, cooperation, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, council, country club, cream of society, credit union, cultural community, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, customs union, denomination, division, drawing room, dwellers, economic class, economic community, elite, endogamous group, estate, ethnic group, ethos, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, extended family, faction, family, fashionable society, federation, fellowship, flock, fold, folk, folks, folkways, fraternal order, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, friendship, gang, general public, gens, gentry, good society, group, grouping, guild, habitancy, haut monde, high life, high society, in-crowd, inhabitants, institute, intercourse, jet set, jeunesse doree, key trait, kinship group, laity, laymen, league, linguistic community, machine, mankind, masses, membership, men, minyan, mob, moiety, monde, mores, nation, nationality, nonclerics, nonordained persons, nuclear family, offshoot, order, organization, organizational, parish, parishioners, partaking, participation, partnership, party, paste, people, people at large, people in general, people of fashion, persons, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, polite society, political machine, polity, populace, population, public, punch, race, religious order, right people, ring, salon, schism, school, secret society, sect, sectarism, seculars, segment, settlement, sharing, sheep, sisterhood, slap, smack, smart set, smash, sociable, social, social class, social register, societe, sock, sodality, sorority, speech community, state, stock, strain, subcaste, system, the Four Hundred, the public, thwack, totem, trait, trait-complex, union, upper classes, upper crust, uppercut, variety, version, way of life, welt, whack, whole people, world, world of fashion, you and me

• sock, ballet skirt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, bladder, blow, bonk, bonnet, boot, breech, buskin, cap, cap and bells, chop, clap, clip, cloak, clobber, clout, clump, coat, coif, coldcock, costume, coxcomb, crack, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, disguise, drub, drubbing, drumming, fetch, fetch a blow, frock, fusillade, getup, gown, hat, hit, hit a clip, hood, hose, hosiery, jab, jacket, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, mantle, masquerade, motley, outfit, paste, pelt, plunk, poke, pound, punch, rap, rig, shirt, shoe, slam, slapstick, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, socks, sough, stocking, stockings, strike, strike at, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tattoo, thump, thwack, tights, tutu, wallop, whack, wham, whop, yerk

• sockdolager, KO, clincher, conclusive argument, crusher, death stroke, deathblow, end-all, ender, final stroke, finisher, finishing stroke, floorer, kayo, kayo punch, knockdown argument, knockout, knockout blow, last dab, quietus, settler, stopper

• socket, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, armpit, basin, bowl, cavity, concave, concavity, crater, crypt, cup, depression, dip, fold, follicle, funnel chest, hole, hollow, hollow shell, lacuna, pit, pocket, punch bowl, scoop, shell, sink, sinus, trough, vug

• Socratic, Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, pre-Socratic

• sod, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, bugger, clay, clod, crust, cur, dirt, divot, dog, dry land, dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, greensward, ground, land, landholdings, lithosphere, louse, marginal land, marl, mold, puke, real estate, real property, region, regolith, scum, skunk, snake, soil, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sward, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, turf, woodland, wretch

• soda, Foamite, acid, alcoholic drink, automatic sprinkler, beverage, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, deck gun, deluge set, drink, drinkable, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, foam, foam extinguisher, frosted, frosted shake, hook-and-ladder, ladder pipe, liquid, liquor, malt, pop, potable, potation, pumper, shake, snorkel, soda pop, soda water, soft drink, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, tonic, water, water cannon, wet blanket

• sodden, addled, awash, bathe, bathed, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brew, crapulent, crapulous, deluged, dipped, dizzy, douche, drench, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drouk, drowned, drunk, drunken, engulfed, fallen, far-gone, flooded, flush, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, imbrue, imbue, immersed, impregnate, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infiltrate, infuse, inject, intoxicated, inundated, jolly, lave, leach, lixiviate, macerate, macerated, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, not done, oozing, overflowed, percolate, permeate, permeated, rare, reeling, rinse, saignant, saturate, saturated, seeping, seethe, shikker, soak, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, soggy, sop, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, sotted, souse, soused, steep, steeped, submerged, submersed, swamped, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, undercooked, underdone, wash, waterlog, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet

• sodomist, bugger, coprophiliac, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fetishist, masochist, narcissist, necrophiliac, nymphomaniac, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, rapist, sadist, satyr, scotophiliac, sodomite, transvestite, voyeur, zoophiliac

• sofa, bed, bedstead, bunk, chesterfield, couch, davenport, day bed, divan, doss, gurney, kip, litter, lounge, love seat, ottoman, settee, settle, spoonholder, squab, stretcher, studio couch, tete-a-tete, the hay, the sack

• soft cover, best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, definitive work, folio, great work, hardback, juvenile, juvenile book, limp-cover book, magnum opus, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paperback, picture book, playbook, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, serial, sketchbook, songbook, standard work, storybook, title, tome, trade book, volume, work, writing

• soft pedal, allow for, baffle, choke, choke off, color, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, deafen, diminish, dull, dumbfound, ease, extenuate, gag, gloss over, hush, hush-hush, ignore, lessen, make allowance for, mince, mitigate, muffle, mute, muzzle, palliate, play down, put to silence, quiet, quieten, shush, shut down on, silence, slur over, soften, squash, squelch, stifle, still, stop, strike dumb, subdue, throttle, tone down, varnish, whitewash

• soft sell, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, direct-mail selling, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, wholesaling

• soft soap, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, adulation, advocate, allurement, be hypocritical, blandish, blandishment, blandness, blarney, bunkum, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolement, cajolery, call on, call upon, cant, coax, coaxing, compliment, conning, empty gesture, engagement, enlistment, exhort, exhortation, eyewash, fair words, false piety, fawning, flattery, fulsomeness, get around, give lip service, give mouth honor, glibness, grease, high-pressure, honey, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, importune, incense, inducement, insist, insist upon, jawbone, jawboning, jolly, kid along, lay it on, lip service, lobby, lobbying, mealymouthedness, mouth, mouthing, mummery, nag, oil, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, overdo it, palaver, persuasion, pharisaism, play the hypocrite, play up to, plead with, praise, preaching, preachment, press, pressure, pretty lies, push, recommend, reek of piety, religiosity, render lip service, sales talk, salesmanship, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, selling, smoothness, smugness, snivel, snow job, snuffle, snuffling, soap, soft words, soften up, solicitation, string along, stroke, suasion, suaveness, suavity, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sweet-talk, sycophancy, tokenism, unctuousness, urge, wheedle, wheedling, work on, working on

• soft spoken, articulate, bland, buttery, disarming, eloquent, fair-spoken, fine-spoken, free-speaking, free-spoken, fulsome, glib, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, loud-speaking, loud-spoken, oily, oily-tongued, outspoken, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, soft-speaking, speaking, suave, suave-spoken, talkative, talking, true-speaking, unctuous, well-spoken

• soft spot, a thing for, affinity, aptitude, aptness, assailability, bent, bias, cast, chink, conatus, conduciveness, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness, exposed nerve, feeling for, fondness, heel of Achilles, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, loophole, nerve ending, penchant, penetrability, predilection, predisposition, pregnability, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, raw, raw nerve, readiness, sensitivity to, sore point, sore spot, susceptibility, taste, tendency, tender spot, the quick, tropism, turn, twist, vincibility, vulnerability, vulnerable point, warp, weak link, weak point, weakness, willingness

• soft, Mickey Mouse, accented, accepting, adoring, affectionate, afraid, alveolar, anemic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, asthenic, at peace, baccate, back, balmy, barely audible, barytone, bathetic, beery, benign, bilabial, bland, bleeding, bloodless, blurred, blurry, borderline, broad, cacuminal, calm, careless, casual, central, cerebral, charitable, checked, chicken, chickenhearted, clear, clement, close, cloying, comfortable, comfy, commiserative, commodious, compassionate, complaisant, compressible, concordant, condolent, conjugal, consonant, consonantal, contented, continuant, convenient, cottony, coward, cowardly, cowed, cozy, creamy, cullible, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, daft, dainty, daunted, debilitated, deceivable, declining, decrescendo, deferential, delicate, deludable, demonstrative, dental, depressed, devoted, diffused, dim, dirty, dismayed, dissimilated, distant, docile, dorsal, doughy, downy, drooping, droopy, dull, dupable, easeful, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, effeminate, effete, effortless, eggshell, emotionable, etiolated, exploitable, facile, faint, faint-voiced, fainthearted, faintish, faithful, fatuous, fearful, feathery, feeble, feebleminded, filial, fine, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleecy, fleshy, flexible, flexile, flexuous, floppy, fluffy, foggy, fond, foolable, foolish, forbearant, forbearing, forceless, forgiving, formless, frail, friendly, front, funking, funky, furry, fuzzy, gentle, glib, glide, gloss, glossal, glottal, gone, gone to seed, gooey, green, gullible, gushing, gutless, guttural, halcyon, half-heard, hard, harmless, heavy, henhearted, high, hoaxable, homelike, homely, homey, hoodwinkable, human, humane, humbugable, husbandly, idyllic, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, impressionable, indifferent, indistinct, indulgent, infirm, ingenuous, intimidated, intonated, iridescent, judicious, kind, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, languid, languishing, languorous, lateral, lax, lazy, lenient, liberal, light, lily-livered, limber, limp, lingual, liquid, listless, lived-in, loose, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, low, low-key, lustless, luxurious, macerated, malleable, marrowless, masticated, maternal, matte, maudlin, mawkish, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, mellowy, melodious, melting, merciful, mid, mild, mild as milk, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, miry, moderate, mollified, monophthongal, mother-of-pearl, mousy, mucky, muddy, muliebrous, murmured, mushy, muted, nacreous, naive, namby-pamby, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negligent, nerveless, nonalcoholic, nonintoxicating, nonresistive, nonrigid, nonviolent, nostalgic, nostomanic, nothing to it, occlusive, off, old-womanish, on the downgrade, oozy, opalescent, open, opulent, orderly, out of condition, out of shape, out of training, overindulgent, overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, overtimid, overtimorous, oxytone, pacific, pacifistic, painless, palatal, palatalized, pale, pampered, panic-prone, panicky, pappy, parental, passible, pastel, pastoral, pasty, paternal, patient, patinaed, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, pearly, permissive, persuadable, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, piping, pitch, pitched, pithless, pithy, pitying, plain, plashy, plastic, pleasant, pliable, pliant, plush, plushy, pooped, posh, posttonic, powerless, prissy, prudent, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, puny, quaggy, questionable, quiet, rabbity, receptive, relaxed, relaxing, remiss, reposeful, responsive, restful, retroflex, rich, ritzy, romantic, roomy, rounded, rubbery, run to seed, rusty, ruthful, sad, sapless, satiny, scarcely heard, seduceable, semigloss, semivowel, sensible, sensitive, sentimental, sentimentalized, serene, silken, silky, silly, simple, simple as ABC, sinewless, sissified, sissy, sissyish, slabby, slack, sleek, slipping, slipshod, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slow, sludgy, slushy, smooth, snug, sober, soft as putty, soft-colored, soft-hued, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softened, softhearted, somber, sonant, soothing, spineless, splashy, spongy, sposhy, springlike, squashy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, sticky, stiff, stopped, straightforward, strengthless, stressed, strong, subaudible, subdued, submissive, subtle, succulent, summery, supple, surd, susceptible, swanky, sweet, syllabic, sympathetic, sympathizing, tame, tear-jerking, teary, temperate, tender, tenderhearted, tense, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, tolerant, tonal, tonic, tranquil, turbid, twangy, unaccented, unburdensome, unclear, uncomplicated, undemanding, understanding, unhardened, uninebriating, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unprofitable, unrestrained, unrounded, unsophisticated, unstressed, unstrung, untroubled, uxorious, velar, velvety, victimizable, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warm, warmhearted, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-voiced, weakhearted, weakly, whisper-soft, whispered, white-livered, wide, wifely, witless, womanish, woolly, workable, yellow, yielding

• soften up, abate, affect, attenuate, beleaguer, bend, beset, besiege, bias, blarney, blockade, blunt, butter, butter up, color, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, dispose, dull, ease, encircle, encompass, enervate, enfeeble, envelop, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fluff, gentle, get around, gruel, harass, harry, honey, incline, induce, influence, invest, jolly, kid along, knead, laxate, lay it on, lay low, lay siege to, lead, limber, limber up, loosen, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mitigate, mollify, move, oil, overdo it, persuade, play up to, plump, predispose, prompt, pulp, rattle, reduce, relax, sap, shake, shake up, smash, soap, soft-soap, soften, squash, string along, stroke, subdue, supple, surround, sway, tenderize, tinge, tone, tone down, tune down, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken, wear down, weigh with, work

• soften, abate, absorb the shock, adjust to, affect, agree, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assent, assuage, attemper, baffle, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, blur, box in, break the fall, castrate, chasten, circumscribe, color, come home to, concur, condition, consent, constrain, control, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, deafen, decry, defocus, demasculinize, devaluate, devalue, dim, diminish, downplay, dull, ease, ease matters, ease up, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, extenuate, film, fluff, fog, foment, geld, gentle, give in, give relief, give way, gloss over, go deep, go through one, grieve, hedge, hedge about, ignore, keep within bounds, knead, laxate, lay, leaven, lenify, lessen, let up, lighten, limber, limber up, limit, loosen, lose resolution, lower, lull, make allowance for, mark down, mash, massage, mellow, melt, melt the heart, milden, mince, mist, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, move, muffle, mute, narrow, neutralize, numb, obtund, offset, pad, pale, palliate, penetrate, pierce, play down, plump, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, pulp, qualify, quell, quiet, quieten, reach, reduce, reduce the temperature, regulate by, relax, relieve, restrain, restrict, sadden, salve, season, set conditions, set limits, shake up, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, sissify, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smart, smash, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften the blow, soften up, soothe, squash, stifle, still, sting, stir, stop, stupe, subdue, succumb, supple, suppress, surrender, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down, touch, touch a chord, tune down, turn down, underplay, underrate, undervalue, varnish, weaken, whitewash, womanize, write down, write off, yield

• softened, abject, apologetic, bated, chastened, complaisant, conditioned, constrained, contrite, controlled, creamy, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, delicate, dull, dulled, easy, eggshell, flat, gentle, gloss, hedged, hedged about, humble, humbled, hushed, in control, in hand, iridescent, leavened, light, limited, low-key, mellow, mellowy, melted, mild, mitigated, modified, modulated, mollified, mother-of-pearl, muffled, muted, nacreous, nonresistive, nonrigid, opalescent, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, qualified, quelled, quiet, repentant, restrained, restricted, sad, seasoned, semigloss, sheepish, simple, smothered, sober, soft, soft as putty, soft-colored, soft-hued, somber, sordo, stable, stifled, subdued, subtle, sweet, tempered, tender, touched, whisper-soft

• softening, abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, allowance, altering, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, attenuation, attrition, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, bounding, calming, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, color, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decontamination, demulcent, demulsion, devitalization, dilution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, effemination, emollient, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuating, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, extenuatory, falling-off, fatigue, gilding, gloss, hushing, inanition, languishment, laxation, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, limitative, limiting, loosening, lulling, mellowing, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulation, modulatory, mollification, mollifying, numbing, pacification, padding, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, purgative, qualification, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, relaxation, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, restricting, restrictive, salving, slackening, softening-up, soothing, subduement, subduing, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, varnish, weakening, whitewash, whitewashing

• softhearted, Christian, Christlike, Christly, affectionate, benign, benignant, bleeding, brotherly, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, decent, delicate, emotionable, forbearant, fraternal, gentle, good, gracious, human, humane, impressionable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, lenient, loving, melting, merciful, nice, passible, pitying, receptive, responsive, ruthful, sensible, sensitive, soft, susceptible, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted

• softly, a la sourdine, compliantly, delicately, dimly, easily, faintly, feebly, gently, hushedly, low, pianissimo, piano, sordamente, sordo, subduedly, submissively, tenderly, weakly

• softness, acceptance, adynamia, airiness, anemia, ascent, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, chicken-liveredness, chickenheartedness, clemency, clementness, commodiousness, compassion, convenience, cowardice, cowardliness, coziness, cullibility, cushioniness, daintiness, debilitation, debility, deceivability, decrescendo, delicacy, dimness, doughiness, down, downiness, dullness, dupability, easiness, easygoingness, ethereality, etiolation, faintheart, faintheartedness, faintness, fatigue, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, flabbiness, flaccidity, flatness, fleshiness, floatability, fluff, fluffiness, foaminess, fondness, forbearance, forbearing, forcelessness, friendliness, frothiness, fuzz, fuzziness, gentleness, gossameriness, greenness, gullibility, henheartedness, hoaxability, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality, humaneness, humanity, impotence, impotency, imprecision, impuissance, indifference, indistinctness, infirmity, ingenuousness, lack of weight, languishment, languor, lassitude, laxity, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, levitation, levity, lightness, lily-liveredness, listlessness, looseness, loosening, lowness, luxuriousness, mashiness, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, milksopism, milksoppiness, milksoppishness, moderateness, mushiness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, negligence, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pastel, pastel color, pastiness, patience, peace, peacefulness, peach fuzz, permissiveness, persuadability, pigeonheartedness, pithiness, pity, power vacuum, powerlessness, prostration, pubescence, pulpiness, pulpousness, refinement, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, reposefulness, restfulness, roominess, satin, satininess, seduceability, silk, silkiness, simpleness, simplicity, slackness, sloppiness, sluggishness, smoothness, snugness, soft color, softheartedness, sponginess, squashiness, strengthlessness, subaudibility, subduedness, subtle color, succulence, tender feeling, tenderheartedness, tenderness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, tolerance, unclearness, unheaviness, unmanfulness, unmanliness, unrestraint, unsophistication, velvet, velvetiness, volatility, warm heart, warmheartedness, warmness, weak-mindedness, weakheartedness, weakliness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, yeastiness, yellowness

• softwood, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, beam, billet, board, boarding, bushlike, bushy, citrous, clapboard, coniferous, cord, cordwood, deal, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, driftwood, evergreen, firewood, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, nondeciduous, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, piny, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shrubby, shrublike, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, treelike, two-by-four, weatherboard, wood

• softy, Milquetoast, baby, big baby, chicken, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, sissy, softling, sop, weak sister, weakling

• soggy, awash, bathed, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded, immersed, inundated, macerated, mucky, muggy, oozing, overflowed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, sticky, submerged, submersed, sultry, swamped, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

• soigne, a la mode, braw, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressed up, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, exquisite, genteel, gussied up, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, in the mode, jaunty, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, recherche, ritzy, sharp, sleek, slicked up, smart, smug, snazzy, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, vogue, voguish, well turned-out, well-dressed, well-groomed

• soil science, cosmical geology, dynamic geology, geodesy, geodetics, geodynamics, geognosy, geographics, geography, geological chemistry, geological engineering, geology, geomorphogeny, geomorphology, geophysics, geoscopy, geotectonic geology, historical geology, hydrogeology, mineralogy, mining geology, paleontological geology, pedology, physical geography, physical geology, physiographic geology, physiography, soil mechanics, stratigraphic geology, stratigraphy

• soil, abuse, acres, adobe, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, area, attaint, bedaub, befoul, begrime, belt, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betray, black, blacken, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, bole, brand, call names, censure, china clay, clay, clod, confines, contaminate, continental shelf, corridor, corrupt, country, crust, darken, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, department, despoil, dirt, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, district, division, drabble, draggle, dregs, dry land, dust, earth, engage in personalities, environs, excrement, expose, expose to infamy, filth, force, foul, freehold, gibbet, glebe, grassland, ground, gumbo, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, heartland, hinterland, humus, kaolin, land, landholdings, lead astray, lithosphere, loam, loess, marginal land, mark, marl, mess, milieu, mire, mislead, mold, motherland, muck, muckrake, mucky, mud, muddy, murk, nasty, neighborhood, offshore rights, part, parts, pillory, place, pollute, porcelain clay, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, rape, ravage, ravish, real estate, real property, red clay, refuse, region, regolith, reprimand, revile, ruin, salient, sand, scorch, sear, section, seduce, silt, singe, slubber, sludge, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smooch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, sod, soilage, soilure, space, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, three-mile limit, throw mud at, till, topsoil, turf, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, vilify, violate, vitiate, waste matter, woodland, zone

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

• soiree, affair, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, ball, brawl, caucus, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, dance, date, diet, eisteddfod, evening, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, housewarming, levee, matinee, meet, meeting, panel, party, plenum, prom, quorum, rally, reception, rendezvous, reunion, salon, seance, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, symposium, synod, turnout, wake

• sojourn, abide, holiday, lay over, layover, linger, rest, sojournment, stay, stay over, stayover, stop, stop over, stop-off, stopover, tarriance, tarry, vacation, visit

• sojourner, addressee, artist-in-residence, denizen, dweller, habitant, house detective, incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, live-in maid, locum tenens, occupant, occupier, passer, passerby, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, temporary lodger, tenant, transient, transient guest

• sol fa, anthem, ballad, bel canto, bobization, bravura, carol, chant, chirp, chirrup, choir, choral singing, chorus, coloratura, croon, crooning, descant, do, do-re-mi, fa, fixed-do system, folk singing, hum, humming, hymn, intonate, intonation, intone, la, lilt, lyricism, mi, minstrel, operatic singing, pipe, psalm, quaver, re, roulade, scat, scat singing, serenade, shake, sing, sing in chorus, singing, sol, sol-fa exercise, sol-fa syllables, solfeggio, solmizate, solmization, song, tonic sol-fa, tremolo, trill, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, vocal music, vocalization, vocalize, warble, warbling, whistle, yodel, yodeling

• solace, aid and comfort, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, amuse, amusement, assuage, assurance, assure, balm, bear up, beguile, buck up, cheer, cheer up, comfort, condole, condole with, condolence, consolation, console, convulse, delight, diversion, divert, divertisement, divertissement, ease, easement, encourage, encouragement, enjoyment, enliven, entertain, entertainment, exhilarate, fracture one, give comfort, hearten, help, kill, knock dead, loosen up, mirth, mitigate, passe-temps, pastime, pleasure, put at ease, raise a laugh, raise a smile, reassurance, reassure, recreate, recreation, refresh, regale, regalement, relax, relaxation, relief, relieve, set at ease, shred of comfort, slay, solacement, soothe, succor, support, sympathize with, sympathy, tickle, titillate, upraise, wow

• solar plexus, afferent neuron, autonomic nervous system, axon, brain, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, craniosacral nervous system, dendrite, effector organ, efferent neuron, ganglion, gray matter, internuncial neuron, medullary sheath, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, neuron, peripheral nervous system, plexus, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, spinal cord, synapse, thoracolumbar nervous system, white matter

• solar rays, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, atomic beam, atomic ray, beam, beam of light, gamma ray, gleam, infrared ray, invisible radiation, leam, patch, pencil, photon, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, ribbon, ribbon of light, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, ultraviolet ray, violet ray

• solar system, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planet, planetoid, secondary planet, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer

• solar, Cynthian, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, galactic, heavenly, heliacal, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, meteoric, meteoritic, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, sidereal, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, terrestrial, uranic, zodiacal

• solarium, best room, drawing room, foreroom, front room, gallery, lanai, living room, parlor, patio, piazza, porch, salon, saloon, sitting room, sleeping porch, stoop, sun parlor, sun porch, sunroom, veranda

• sold on, assured, believing, certain, charmed, comfortable, confident, content, contented, convinced, cozy, delighted, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, easy, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, faithful, favorably impressed with, fideistic, glad, gladsome, gratified, impressed with, in clover, intrigued, persuaded, pietistic, pious, pistic, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, positive, satisfied, secure, sure, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting

• solder, accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, band, bind, blaze, blister, bond, bracket, brand, braze, bridge, bridge over, burn, burn in, burn off, carve, cast, cauterize, cement, chain, char, chase, chisel, clap together, coal, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, couple, cover, crack, cupel, cut, embrace, encompass, engrave, flame, found, fuse, gather, glue, grave, gum, include, insculpture, join, knot, lay together, league, link, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, merge, mobilize, model, mold, oxidate, oxidize, pair, parch, paste, piece together, put together, pyrolyze, roll into one, scorch, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, sear, singe, span, splice, stick together, swinge, take in, tape, tie, torrefy, unify, unite, vesicate, vulcanize, weld, yoke

• soldier, Amazon, GI, Tommy Atkins, aggressive, air serviceman, ant, army ant, bear arms, black ant, bold, brave, cannon fodder, carpenter ant, carry arms, clock watcher, combative, condottiere, continue, courageous, dauntless, do active duty, do duty, dodge, dog it, dogface, doughboy, doughfoot, drive, drudge, duck, duck duty, emmet, endure, enlisted man, eye-servant, fearless, fighter, fighting man, fire ant, food for powder, free lance, get out of, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, grind, guerrilla, halberdier, hoplite, house ant, infantryman, intrepid, keep at, keep going, keep on, legionary, malinger, malingerer, man-at-arms, martial, mercenary, militant, military man, navy man, not pull fair, old soldier, partisan, persevere, persist, pikeman, pismire, pugnacious, queen, recruit, red ant, rifle, rifleman, serve, serviceman, shirk, shirker, shoulder a gun, shoulder arms, skulk, skulker, slack, slacker, slave ant, slide out of, slip out of, sneak out of, soldier of fortune, soldierly, spearman, stalwart, supporter, swaddy, sweat, tax dodger, termite, trooper, truant, unafraid, valiant, valorous, warlike, warrior, warrioress, wear the uniform, welsh, welsher, worker

• soldiery, armed force, armed service, army, array, career soldiers, fighting machine, forces, ground forces, ground troops, host, legions, military establishment, occupation force, paratroops, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, ski troops, standing army, storm troops, the line, the military, troops

• sole, a certain, absolute, alone, an, any, any one, arch, atomic, azygous, bachelorlike, base, baseboard, basement, celibate, chassis, clubfoot, dado, digit, dog, either, exclusive, extremity, fetlock, first and last, foot, footing, forefoot, forepaw, foundation, frame, harefoot, heel, hoof, husbandless, impair, individual, indivisible, instep, integral, irreducible, keel, lone, maiden, maidenly, monadic, monistic, mopboard, nadir, odd, old-maidish, one, one and only, only, only-begotten, pad, particular, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, personal, pes, pied, pug, separate, shoemold, simple, single, singular, solid, solitary, solo, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, splayfoot, spouseless, toe, tootsy, trotter, unanalyzable, underneath, underside, undivided, unexampled, ungula, uniform, unique, unitary, unmarried, unpaired, unrepeatable, unrepeated, unshared, unwed, unwedded, virgin, virginal, wainscot, whole

• solecism, Irish bull, anachronism, anacoluthon, antiphrasis, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, barbarism, begging the question, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, breach, break, bull, bungle, catachresis, circular argument, claptrap, corruption, crowd-pleasing argument, empty words, error, fallacy, fault, faux pas, flub, fluff, folk etymology, formal fallacy, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, grammatical error, hypercorrection, hyperform, hysteron proteron, impropriety, incongruity, inconsistency, indecorum, indiscretion, infelicity, insincere argument, lapse, logical fallacy, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, misconstruction, mispronunciation, missaying, mistake, misusage, moonshine, non sequitur, paralogism, petitio principii, philosophism, pseudosyllogism, slip, sophism, sophistry, spoonerism, stupidity, ungrammaticism, verbal fallacy, vernacularism, violation, vulgarism, weak point

• solely, alone, barely, but, entirely, exclusively, integrally, irreducibly, just, merely, only, plainly, purely, simply, simply and solely, singly, totally, unanalyzably, undividedly, wholly

• solemn, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, arid, aristocratic, august, awe-inspiring, awed, awesome, awestricken, awestruck, barren, believing, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, celebrating, celebrative, ceremonial, ceremonious, characterless, cold, colorless, commemorating, commemorative, conventional, courtly, cultish, cultist, cultistic, dark, dead, decorous, deifying, demure, devoted, devotional, devout, dignified, dismal, divine, draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dutiful, earnest, ecclesiastical, effete, elephantine, elevated, empty, etiolated, fade, faithful, fatal, fateful, flat, flatulent, formal, formidable, frowning, full, funebrial, funereal, gassy, gloomy, glum, grand, grandiloquent, grave, gray, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hallowed, heavy, hero-worshiping, hieratic, ho-hum, hollow, holy, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, important, imposing, impressive, in awe, in the dust, inane, inexcitable, inflated, insipid, inspiring, jejune, kingly, leaden, lifeless, liturgic, liturgical, lofty, long-faced, lordly, low-spirited, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, memorial, mirthless, moderate, momentous, morbid, morose, moving, no-nonsense, noble, on bended knee, ostentatious, overwhelming, pale, pallid, pedestrian, pietistic, pious, plenary, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, portentous, prayerful, precative, precatory, princely, prostrate before, queenly, regal, religious, reserved, reverent, reverential, ritual, ritualistic, royal, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacred, saturnine, sedate, self-important, serious, slow, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, somber, sombrous, spiritless, staid, stately, statuesque, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, sublime, superficial, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, swollen, taciturn, tasteless, tedious, temperate, theistic, thoughtful, triste, tumid, turgid, unlively, unsmiling, vapid, venerable, venerational, venerative, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty, well-mannered, wooden, worshipful, worshiping, worthy

• solemnity, aridity, augustness, baccalaureate service, barrenness, bleakness, bloodlessness, buckram, celebration, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, circumstance, colorlessness, commencement, consequence, convocation, courtliness, darkness, deadness, dignifiedness, dignity, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, duty, earnestness, effeteness, elevation, emptiness, empty formality, etiolation, exercise, exercises, extrinsicality, flatness, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formalization, formula, formulary, function, gloom, gloominess, graduation, graduation exercises, grandeur, gravity, grimness, heaviness, heraldry, hollowness, holy rite, impersonality, importance, impressiveness, inanity, inaugural, inauguration, inexcitability, initiation, insipidity, insipidness, institution, jejunity, kingliness, leadenness, lifelessness, liturgy, loftiness, lordliness, lowness of spirit, majesty, mode of worship, moderation, momentousness, mummery, mystery, no joke, no laughing matter, nobility, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, paleness, pallor, performance, pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, practice, prescribed form, pride, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, religious ceremony, reserve, rigidness, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, sacrament, sacramental, sedateness, seriousness, service, slowness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnization, solemnness, somberness, spiritlessness, staidness, starchiness, state, stateliness, sterility, stiffness, stiltedness, stodginess, stuffiness, stylization, sublimity, superficiality, taciturnity, tastelessness, tediousness, temperance, uninterestingness, unliveliness, vapidity, vapidness, venerability, wearifulness, wearisomeness, weight, weightiness, woodenness, worthiness

• solemnize, administer Communion, attend Communion, attend Mass, beat the drum, blow the trumpet, celebrate, celebrate Mass, commemorate, communicate, conventionalize, dignify, dress ship, fire a salute, formalize, freer, hallow, hold jubilee, honor, jubilate, jubilize, keep, maffick, make merry, mark, memorialize, observe, receive the Sacrament, ritualize, signalize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, stylize, venerate

• solemnly, bleakly, ceremoniously, decorously, demurely, dismally, drearily, earnestly, formally, funereally, gloomily, grandly, gravely, grimly, heavily, imposingly, in due form, in set form, loftily, magisterially, majestically, nobly, pro forma, regally, ritualistically, ritually, royally, sadly, sedately, seriously, sober-mindedly, soberly, sobersidedly, somberly, sombrously, staidly, stately, thoughtfully, venerably, with dignity, worthily

• solicit, accost, address, angle for, appeal to, apply, approach, ask, ask for, beg, beseech, bespeak, bid for, call, call on, call upon, canvass, challenge, claim, court, crave, demand, desire, drum, entice, entreat, exact, fish for, go, hustle, implore, importune, look for, lure, make a pass, make advances, make an overture, overture, pander to, petition, pop the question, postulate, pray, proposition, refer, request, require, requisition, resort, seek, sue, sue for, supplicate, throw a pass, turn, woo

• solicitation, addresses, all-out campaign, allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, campaign, campaign button, campaign commitments, campaign contribution, campaign fund, canvass, coaxing, conning, courting, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, grass-roots campaign, hard-hitting campaign, harlotry, hortation, hurrah campaign, inducement, jawboning, lobbying, media campaign, pandering, persuasion, pimping, preaching, preachment, prostitution, sales talk, salesmanship, selling, snow job, soft soap, soliciting, streetwalking, stump excursion, stumping tour, suasion, suit, sweet talk, wheedling, whistle-stop campaign, whoredom, whoremastery, whoremonging, wooing, working on

• solicitor, advocate, agent, amicus curiae, applicant, aspirant, attorney, attorney-at-law, ballyhoo man, ballyhooer, barker, barrister, barrister-at-law, bidder, candidate, canvasser, claimant, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, deputy, friend at court, intercessor, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, mouthpiece, petitioner, pitchman, pleader, postulant, proctor, procurator, sea lawyer, seeker, self-styled lawyer, solicitant, spieler, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, tout, touter

• solicitous, accommodating, accommodative, affable, agitated, agreeable, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, ardent, athirst, attentive, avid, bothered, careful, caring, cautious, circumspect, civil, complaisant, concerned, considerate, courteous, curious, deferential, delicate, desirous, disquieted, disturbed, eager, earnest, fair, fearful, foreboding, graceful, gracious, heedful, helpful, impatient, in a pucker, in a stew, indulgent, keen, lenient, loving, mindful, mindful of others, misgiving, nervous, obliging, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed, polite, raring, regardful, respectful, strained, suspenseful, tactful, tender, tense, thirsty, thoughtful, tolerant, troubled, uneasy, urbane, worried, zealous

• solicitude, TLC, accommodatingness, affability, agitation, agreeableness, alarm, all-overs, amenity, angst, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, attention, attentiveness, calculation, cankerworm of care, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, circumspectness, civility, comity, complaisance, compunction, concern, concernment, considerateness, consideration, courteousness, courtesy, deference, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, delicacy, discretion, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, fear, fearfulness, foreboding, forebodingness, forethought, gingerliness, gracefulness, graciousness, guardedness, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, helpfulness, hesitation, indulgence, inquietude, judiciousness, leniency, loving care, malaise, mindfulness, misgiving, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, obligingness, overanxiety, pawkiness, perturbation, pins and needles, politeness, preparedness, prior consultation, prudence, prudentialness, pucker, qualm, regard, regardfulness, respect, respectfulness, safeness, safety first, scruple, slowness to act, solicitousness, stew, strain, suspense, tact, tactfulness, tender loving care, tension, tentativeness, thoroughness, thought, thoughtfulness, toleration, trouble, uncommunicativeness, unease, uneasiness, unprecipitateness, unquietness, upset, urbanity, vexation, watchfulness, worry, zeal

• solid, OK, a certain, abiding, able to pay, ace-high, adamantine, agreeing, an, any, any one, appreciable, at one, at one with, atomic, authentic, authoritative, bad, balanced, bang-up, binding, blank, block, body, bony, bonzer, boss, bristling, bulky, bully, but good, cake, calculable, carried by acclamation, cement, cemental, changeless, chock-full, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clump, cluster, cogent, compact, compacted, complete, compressed, concentrated, concordant, concrete, concretion, concurrent, condensed, congested, conglomerate, conglomeration, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consolidated, constant, continuing, continuous, convincing, cool, corking, corneous, crackerjack, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, cubic, dandy, decent, delicious, dense, dependable, developed, diamondlike, downright, ducky, durable, dure, dynamic, effective, either, enduring, entire, estimable, exclusive, fab, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiducial, fine and dandy, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firmly, fixed, flintlike, flinty, forceful, frozen, full, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, gear, genuine, global, gluey, good, good for, granitelike, granitic, great, groovy, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, hardly, heavy, homogeneous, honest-to-God, horny, hot, hunky-dory, immobile, immutable, impenetrable, impermeable, imperturbable, in agreement, in equilibrium, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, individual, indivisible, infrangible, intact, integral, intensive, invincible, inviolate, iron-hard, ironlike, irreducible, irrefutable, jam-packed, jam-up, jammed, just, just dandy, keen, knot, lapideous, lasting, law-abiding, lawful, legal, legitimate, like-minded, lithoid, lithoidal, logical, lone, lump, made of iron, marble, marblelike, marvy, mass, massive, material, mature, matured, mean, mighty, monadic, monistic, neat, nifty, nobby, node, nonporous, obdurate, of a piece, of one accord, of one mind, okay, one, osseous, out of sight, packed, palpable, peachy, peachy-keen, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persuasive, ponderable, populous, potent, powerful, predictable, provable, proved, pure, quiescent, rational, real, reasonable, regular, reliable, remaining, resistant, resistive, rigid, ripe, ripping, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rum, satisfactory, satisfying, scrumptious, secure, self-consistent, sensible, serried, simple, single, singular, slap-up, smashing, sober, sole, solid body, solidly, solitary, solvent, something else, sound, spiffing, spiffy, stable, stalwart, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, stout, straight, strong, stunning, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sufficient, sure, surefire, sustained, swarming, swell, tangible, teeming, telling, thick, thick-growing, thickset, thorough, three-dimensional, through-and-through, torpid, total, tough, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, unabbreviated, unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered, unanalyzable, unanimous, unbreakable, unbroken, unchallenged, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncontested, uncontradicted, uncontroverted, uncut, undestroyed, undiminished, undivided, unexpurgated, unfading, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unindebted, uninterrupted, unique, unitary, unmixed, unopposed, unrelieved, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaky, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, upright, upstanding, valid, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, whole, with one consent, with one voice, without nerves, wizard, worthy

• solidarity, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, cohesion, cohesiveness, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combination, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism, community, community of interest, community of interests, compatibility, completeness, complicity, comprehensiveness, comradeship, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, congeniality, cooperation, cooperativeness, correspondence, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, entireness, entirety, esprit, esprit de corps, exhaustiveness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, firmness, fixity, frictionlessness, fusion, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, inclusiveness, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularity, peace, pervasiveness, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, purity, quartet, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, selfsameness, septet, sextet, sharing, simplicity, single-mindedness, singleness, singleness of purpose, singularity, sodality, solidification, solidity, symbiosis, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, thoroughness, togetherness, totality, trio, triumvirate, troika, ubiquity, unanimity, understanding, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, united action, unity, universality, univocity, wholeness

• solidification, Anschluss, abbreviation, accretion, addition, adherence, adhesion, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, arteriosclerosis, assimilation, association, astriction, astringency, atherosclerosis, blend, blending, bottleneck, cabal, calcification, callusing, cartel, case hardening, centralization, cervix, circumscription, cling, clinging, clotting, clumping, clustering, coagulation, coalescence, coalition, coarctation, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, combination, combine, combo, compactedness, compaction, composition, compression, compressure, concentration, concretion, condensation, confederacy, confederation, congealment, congelation, congeries, conglobation, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cornification, crystallization, curtailment, decrease, densification, diminuendo, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, firming, fossilization, fusion, granulation, hardening, hookup, hornification, hourglass, hourglass figure, identity, inclusion, incorporation, individuality, indivisibility, induration, inseparability, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, isthmus, junction, junta, knitting, lapidification, league, lithification, marriage, meld, melding, merger, narrow place, narrowing, neck, oneness, organic unity, ossification, package, package deal, particularity, petrifaction, petrification, puckering, purity, pursing, reduction, sclerosis, selfsameness, set, setting, shortening, simplicity, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidity, steeling, sticking, stiffening, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, systole, tempering, tie-up, toughening, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unity, univocity, vitrifaction, vitrification, wasp waist, wedding, wholeness, wrinkling

• solidified, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, knitted, lapidified, nipped, ossified, petrified, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, squeezed, steeled, stiffened, strangled, strangulated, strengthened, toughened, vitrified, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

• solidify, abbreviate, add, adhere, agglomerate, amalgamate, assimilate, blend, body forth, bunch, cake, candy, circumscribe, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, coalesce, coarct, cohere, combine, come together, compact, compound, compress, comprise, concentrate, concrete, concretize, condense, congeal, congest, conglomerate, connect, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cram, cramp, crowd, crystallize, curtail, decrease, densen, densify, draw, draw in, draw together, dry, embody, embrace, encompass, entify, flux, freeze, freeze to, fuse, gel, granulate, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, harden, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, hypostatize, incarnate, include, incorporate, indurate, inspissate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, jam, jell, join, knit, lend substance to, lump together, make one, mass, materialize, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, narrow, persist, press, pucker, pucker up, pull together, purse, put together, ram down, reduce, reembody, reify, roll into one, set, shade into, shorten, squeeze, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, strangle, strangulate, sublime, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take a set, take hold of, thicken, unify, unite, wrinkle

• solidity, abidingness, aplomb, authenticity, authoritativeness, authority, balance, balanced personality, body, calculability, callosity, callousness, changelessness, closeness, cogency, combination, compactness, completeness, comprehensiveness, concreteness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, constancy, cool, credit standing, crowdedness, denseness, density, dependability, durability, durableness, duration, durity, endurance, entireness, entirety, equilibrium, exhaustiveness, faithworthiness, fastness, firmness, fixedness, flintiness, force, frozenness, fusion, gluiness, hardening, hardness, hardness of heart, homeostasis, identity, immobility, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, impenetrability, impermeability, imperturbability, imporosity, inclusiveness, incompressibility, individuality, indivisibility, induration, inertia, inextricability, inflexibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, invincibility, inviolability, irreducibility, irremovability, jammedness, justness, lastingness, long standing, mass, materiality, nerve, obduracy, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, palpability, particularity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, pervasiveness, ponderability, predictability, purity, quiescence, relative density, reliability, resistance, restiveness, rigidity, rootedness, sang-froid, secureness, security, selfsameness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidness, solvency, soundness, specific gravity, spissitude, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, standing, stasis, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, steeliness, stoniness, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility, temper, thickness, thoroughness, torpor, totality, toughness, trustworthiness, ubiquity, unchangeability, unchangingness, undeflectability, undividedness, unerringness, unification, uniformity, unindebtedness, uniqueness, unity, universality, univocity, unmovability, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, unyieldingness, validity, vis inertiae, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, weight, wholeness

• solitary, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, a certain, abandoned, alien, alienated, all alone, alone, aloof, an, anchoress, anchorite, any, any one, apart, ascetic, atomic, bedridden invalid, case, character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, companionless, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, deserted, desolate, detached, distant, eccentric, either, eremite, eremitic, exclusive, fanatic, forsaken, friendless, hermit, hermitess, hermitical, hobo, homebody, homeless, in solitude, individual, indivisible, insociable, insular, integral, invalid, irreducible, isolated, isolationist, kithless, kook, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, maverick, meshuggenah, misanthropic, monadic, monistic, natural, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, offish, one, only, original, out-of-the-way, outcast, outsider, pariah, particular, pillar saint, pillarist, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, recluse, reclusive, remote, removed, reserved, rootless, screwball, secluded, seclusionist, separate, separated, shut-in, simple, single, single-handed, singular, sole, solid, solitaire, solitudinarian, solo, standoffish, stay-at-home, stylite, tramp, type, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unanalyzable, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, uncompanionable, uncouth, undivided, unescorted, unexampled, unfrequented, uniform, unique, unitary, unrepeatable, unseconded, unsocial, unsupported, whole, withdrawn, zealot

• solitude, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, celibacy, confinement, detachment, emptiness, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, moving apart, privacy, quarantine, remoteness, retirement, seclusion, separateness, sequestration, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, splendid isolation, wilderness, withdrawal

• solo, air, airlift, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, aria, aria buffa, aria cantabile, aria da capo, aria da chiesa, aria di bravura, aria di coloratura, aria fugata, aria parlante, arietta, arioso, aside, barnstorm, bravura, cantabile, canto, cantus, choir, claviature, coloratura, companionless, console, control, copilot, descant, detached, drive, echo, eighty-eight, fingerboard, flight, fly, friendless, great, homeless, hop, individual, insular, isolated, ivories, jump, keyboard, keys, kithless, lay, line, lone, lonely, lonesome, manipulate, manual, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, monodrama, monologue, monology, note, organ manual, pedals, peel off, piano keys, pilot, recitative, refrain, removed, rootless, run, separate, separated, single-handed, singular, sole, soliloquy, solitary, solo part, song, soprano part, strain, swell, test flight, treble, trip, tune, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, unescorted, unexampled, unique, unrepeatable, unseconded, unsupported, withdrawn

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

• solution, action, ad hoc measure, adaptation, allegorization, answer, arrangement, artifice, blend, chemical solution, clarification, colliquation, compound, conclusion, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, cracking, decipherment, decoagulation, decoction, decoding, deliquescence, deliquium, demarche, demonstration, demythologization, denouement, device, discovery, dissolution, dissolving, dodge, editing, effort, elucidation, emendation, emulsion, enlightenment, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, expedient, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, finding out, fluid, fluidification, fluidization, fusing, fusion, gimmick, harmonization, illumination, illustration, improvisation, infusion, instrumentation, intonation, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, key, last expedient, last resort, last shift, leach, leachate, leaching, light, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, liquid, lixiviation, lixivium, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, melting, mixing, mixture, modulation, move, orchestration, outcome, percolation, phrasing, pis aller, preparation, rationale, reason, resolution, resort, resource, result, revelation, running, setting, settlement, settling, shake-up, shift, simplification, solubilization, solving, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, suspension, tactic, temporary expedient, thawing, tone painting, transcription, trick, trump, unclotting, unlocking, working hypothesis, working proposition

• solve, account for, allegorize, answer, bottom, break, cipher, clarify, clear up, colliquate, crack, cut, debug, decide, decipher, decoagulate, decoct, decode, deliquesce, demonstrate, demythologize, determine, disentangle, dissolve, divine, do, dope, dope out, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fix, fluidify, fluidize, flux, fuse, get, get right, give reason for, give the meaning, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, hold in solution, illuminate, illustrate, infuse, interpret, leach, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, make clear, make out, make plain, melt, melt down, open the lock, percolate, plumb, popularize, psych, psych out, puzzle out, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, resolve, reveal, riddle, run, settle, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solubilize, sort out, spell out, thaw, thin, throw light upon, unclot, undo, unfold, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, work, work out

• solvent, ablative, able to pay, above water, abstergent, acetone, alcohol, all clear, all straight, anticoagulant, aqua regia, benzine, biodegradable, carbolic acid, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, cathartic, chloroform, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, clear, cold cream, corrosive, cream, cutting, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, dilapidated, diluent, dilutant, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dissolvent, dissolving agent, diuretic, emetic, enema, erosive, ether, flux, free and clear, gasoline, good, good for, holystone, liquefacient, liquefier, lotion, moldering, mouthwash, nauseant, out of debt, phenol, profitable, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, ravaged, reliable, resolutive, resolvent, rinse, ruinous, separative, shampoo, soap, solid, sound, substantial, synthetic detergent, thinner, thinning, tooth powder, toothpaste, turpentine, unindebted, unowing, wash, water, worn

• solving, accomplishment, answer, ascertainment, clearing up, cracking, decipherment, decoding, denouement, determination, disentanglement, end, end result, explanation, finding, finding-out, interpretation, issue, outcome, reason, resolution, resolving, result, riddling, solution, sorting out, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, working, working-out

• soma, anatomy, body, bones, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, figure, flesh, form, frame, hulk, material body, person, physical body, physique, torso, trunk

• somber, Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Quaker-colored, Stygian, acier, apocalyptic, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, baneful, black, blackish, bleak, bodeful, boding, caliginous, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cloudy, creamy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark and gloomy, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, dead, deadened, decorous, delicate, demure, depressing, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, dusty, earnest, eggshell, evil, evil-starred, fateful, flat, foreboding, formal, frowning, funebrial, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, gloss, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, iridescent, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, light, livid, long-faced, lowering, lusterless, mat, mellow, menacing, mother-of-pearl, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, murky, nacreous, nigrescent, no-nonsense, obscure, of evil portent, ominous, opalescent, overcast, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, portending, portentous, quiet, sad, saturnine, sedate, semigloss, serious, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, sinister, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solemn, sombrous, staid, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, stone-faced, stormy, straight-faced, subdued, subtle, swart, swarthy, sweet, taupe, tender, tenebrous, thoughtful, threatening, triste, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unsmiling, untoward, wan, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty

• sombre, black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darkling, darksome, depressed, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dolorous, dreary, dull, dusky, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, grave, grey, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, joyless, leaden, lowering, lugubrious, melancholic, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, murky, overcast, sad, sedate, serious, shadowy, sober, solemn, staid, subfusc, unhappy

• some, Daedalian, a, about, adept, adroit, all but, almost, an, any, anything, approximately, apt, artistic, as good as, aught, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, certain, circa, clean, clever, composite, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, divers, excellent, expert, fairly, fancy, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, just about, kind of, magisterial, masterful, masterly, measured, moderately, more, more or less, more than one, most, nearly, neat, no mean, not singular, numerous, one, plural, pluralistic, plurative, plus ou moins, politic, practically, professional, proficient, quantified, quantitative, quantitive, quantized, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, skillful, slick, something, somewhat, statesmanlike, stylish, sundry, tactful, the compleat, the complete, various, virtuoso, well-done, well-nigh, workmanlike

• somebody, Adamite, Establishment, VIP, baron, being, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, body, brass, brass hat, cat, celebrity, chap, character, constellation, creature, customer, cynosure, dignitary, dignity, duck, earthling, elder, father, fellow, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, groundling, guy, hand, head, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, homo, hotshot, human, human being, idol, immortal, important person, individual, interests, joker, leader, life, lion, living soul, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man, man of mark, master spirit, mogul, mortal, nabob, name, nose, notability, notable, one, panjandrum, party, person, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, single, social lion, someone, something, soul, star, superstar, tellurian, terran, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worldling, worthy

• somehow, accidentally, after a fashion, anyhow, anyway, anywise, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, by some means, casually, for some reason, fortuitously, in, in some way, incidentally, no matter how, perchance, somehow or other, someway, unpredictably

• someone, Adamite, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earthling, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, homo, human, human being, individual, joker, life, living soul, man, mortal, nose, one, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, soul, tellurian, terran, worldling

• somersault, be lost, capsizal, capsize, culbute, founder, go down, keel, keel over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pitchpole, revolution, scuttle, sink, somerset, spill, subversion, turn over, turn turtle, turnover, upset, upset the boat, upturn

• something else, OK, a mile off, ace-high, amazement, another, astonishing thing, astonishment, autre chose, away off, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, cool, corking, crackerjack, curiosity, dandy, delicious, different story, different thing, ducky, exception, fab, far from it, far other, fine and dandy, gazingstock, gear, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, just dandy, keen, marvel, marvelment, marvy, mean, miracle, neat, nifty, no such thing, nobby, nonesuch, nothing like, okay, other, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen, phenomenon, prodigy, quite a thing, quite another thing, rarity, ripping, rum, scrumptious, sensation, sight, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else again, spectacle, spiffing, spiffy, stunner, stunning, swell, tough, way off, way out, wizard, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

• something, Establishment, VIP, affair, an existence, any, anything, article, artifact, aught, baron, being, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, body, brass, brass hat, celebrity, creature, critter, dignitary, dignity, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, elder, entelechy, entity, eppes, etwas, existence, existent, fairly, father, figure, flumadiddle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, great man, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, important person, individual, interests, jigger, kind of, life, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, material thing, moderately, mogul, monad, more or less, nabob, name, notability, notable, object, organism, panjandrum, person, person of renown, persona, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, pretty, quelque chose, rather, ruling circle, sachem, some, somebody, somewhat, sort of, soul, the great, the top, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, top brass, top people, tycoon, unit, very important person, whatchy, widget, worthy

• sometime, ancient, any time, before long, by and by, bygone, early, erstwhile, eventually, finally, fore, former, immemorial, in due time, late, old, olden, once, one day, one fine day, one fine morning, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, recent, some fine day, some sweet day, someday, somewhen, soon, sooner or later, then, ultimately, whilom, yet

• somewhat, a bit, a little, adequately, after a fashion, any, anything, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, aught, comparatively, considerably, detectably, extremely, fairly, far, in a manner, in a measure, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, insignificantly, kind of, leastwise, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, more or less, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, pretty, pro tanto, purely, quite, rather, relatively, scarcely, significantly, simply, slightly, so far, some, something, sort of, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, to some extent, tolerably, very, visibly

• somnambulism, 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, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, snoozle, somniloquy, somnus, stupor, trance, unconsciousness, winter sleep

• somnolence, acedia, apathy, boredom, doziness, drowsiness, dullness, enervation, ennui, fatigue, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, oscitancy, oscitation, pandiculation, passivity, phlegm, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolency, stretching, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, weariness, world-weariness, yawning

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

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

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

• son, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, child, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, descendant, father, first cousin, foster brother, foster child, frater, grandchild, granddaughter, grandnephew, grandniece, grandson, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, heiress, junior, kid brother, lad, laddie, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, offspring, scion, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son and heir, sonny, stepbrother, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepsister, stepson, stripling, tad, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

• sonant, accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulate, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, soft, sonority, speech sound, spoken, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, viva, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• sonar, astronavigation, bathometry, bathymetry, celestial navigation, chronometer, coastwise navigation, consolan, dead reckoning, depth sounding, echo sounding, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, fix, line of position, loran, oceanography, pilotage, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, radar, radio beacon, radio navigation, sextant, shoran, sofar, sounding, soundings, tables, water

• sonata, Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, arrangement, chamber music, chamber orchestra, composition, descant, electronic music, etude, exercise, harmonization, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, nocturne, opus, orchestration, piece, production, program music, ricercar, score, sonatina, string orchestra, string quartet, study, theme and variations, trio, variation, work

• song and dance man, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

• song and dance, Broadway musical, Singspiel, act, afterpiece, ballad opera, ballet, ballet divertissement, bamboozlement, befooling, bit, bluffing, calculated deception, chaser, chorus show, circumvention, comedy ballet, comic opera, conning, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, dance drama, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, divertimento, divertissement, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, finale, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, grand opera, hallucination, hoke act, hoodwinking, illusion, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, kidding, light opera, lyric drama, minstrel, minstrel show, mirage, music drama, musical, musical comedy, musical stage, musical theater, number, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, outwitting, overreaching, phantasm, pitch, prologue, putting on, routine, scene, self-deception, shtick, sketch, skit, snow job, song-and-dance act, song-play, spoofery, spoofing, stand-up comedy act, striptease, subterfuge, swindling, trickiness, tricking, turn, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking

• song writer, arranger, ballad maker, balladeer, balladist, balladmonger, composer, contrapuntist, ethnomusicologist, harmonist, harmonizer, hymnist, hymnographer, hymnologist, librettist, madrigalist, melodist, melodizer, musicographer, musicologist, orchestrator, scorer, songsmith, symphonist, tone poet, tunesmith

• song, Brautlied, Christmas carol, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Volkslied, ado, air, alba, anacreontic, anthem, aria, art song, aubade, balada, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bel canto, blues, blues song, boat song, bother, bravura, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic, calypso, canso, canticle, canto, cantus, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, cheaply, choral singing, clerihew, coloratura, commotion, croon, croon song, crooning, cry, descant, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, evasion, flap, folk singing, folk song, for a song, fuss, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hum, humming, hymeneal, hymn, idyll, inexpensively, intonation, jingle, lay, lied, lilt, limerick, line, love song, love-lilt, lyric, lyricism, madrigal, matin, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody, musical thought, narrative poem, national anthem, note, number, nursery rhyme, ode, operatic singing, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, performance, piece, poem, poesy, poetry, prevarication, prothalamium, refrain, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, scat, scat singing, serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, singing, sloka, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solo, solo part, sonnet, sonnet sequence, soprano part, strain, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the supreme fiction, theme song, threnody, to-do, tonic sol-fa, torch song, treble, triolet, troubadour poem, tune, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, vocal music, vocalization, war song, warbling, wedding song, yodel, yodeling

• songbird, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, Philomel, alto, aria singer, avifauna, baby bird, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blues singer, bulbul, cage bird, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, chick, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, cuckoo, cygnet, deep bass, diva, diving bird, dove, dramatic soprano, eagle, eaglet, feathered songster, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, heroic tenor, hymner, improvisator, insect-eating bird, lark, lead singer, lieder singer, mavis, melodist, mezzo-soprano, migrant, migratory bird, mockingbird, nestling, nightingale, opera singer, oriole, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, prima donna, psalm singer, ratite, ringdove, rock-and-roll singer, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, singer, singing bird, singstress, song sparrow, songster, songstress, soprano, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, tenor, thrush, torch singer, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl, yodeler

• songbook, arrangement, best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, copy, definitive work, draft, edition, folio, great work, hardback, hymnal, hymnbook, instrumental score, juvenile, juvenile book, libretto, limp-cover book, lute tablature, magnum opus, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, nonbook, notation, notebook, novel, opera, opera score, opus, opuscule, opusculum, orchestral score, paperback, part, piano score, picture book, playbook, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, score, serial, sheet music, short score, sketchbook, soft-cover, songster, standard work, storybook, tablature, text, title, tome, trade book, transcript, transcription, version, vocal score, volume, work, writing, written music

• songster, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, Philomel, alto, aria singer, arrangement, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, bulbul, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, copy, countertenor, crooner, cuckoo, deep bass, diva, draft, dramatic soprano, edition, feathered songster, heroic tenor, hymnal, hymnbook, hymner, improvisator, instrumental score, lark, lead singer, libretto, lieder singer, lute tablature, mavis, melodist, mezzo-soprano, mockingbird, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, nightingale, notation, opera, opera score, opera singer, orchestral score, oriole, part, piano score, prima donna, psalm singer, ringdove, rock-and-roll singer, score, sheet music, short score, singer, singing bird, singstress, song sparrow, songbird, songbook, songstress, soprano, tablature, tenor, text, thrush, torch singer, transcript, transcription, version, vocal score, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, written music, yodeler

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

• sonny, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, child, colt, cub, daughter, descendant, fellow, fledgling, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heiress, hobbledehoy, lad, laddie, manchild, master, muchacho, offspring, pup, puppy, schoolboy, scion, son, son and heir, sonny boy, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, whelp, young man, youth

• sonority, allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bassness, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, crescendo, deepness, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fullness, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hollowness, intensity, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, loudishness, loudness, lowness, manner of articulation, mellowness, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plangency, plosive, prothetic vowel, resonance, retroflex, richness, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonorousness, speech sound, stop, surd, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vibrancy, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volume, vowel

• sonorous, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, booming, canorous, cantabile, catchy, clangorous, clattery, consonant, convoluted, deafening, declamatory, droning, dulcet, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, elevated, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, euphuistic, fine-toned, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flowery, forte, fortissimo, full, fulsome, garish, gaudy, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, honeyed, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lurid, magniloquent, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, meretricious, monotone, monotonic, music-flowing, music-like, musical, noiseful, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pealing, pedantic, piercing, plangent, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pompous, pretentious, pulsing, rackety, resonant, resonating, resounding, rhetorical, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, soniferous, sounded, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stilted, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, tall, throbbing, thunderous, tonal, toneless, tonitruant, tonitruous, tortuous, tunable, tuneful, uproarious, vibrant, vibrating, window-rattling

• soon, after a time, after a while, afterward, afterwards, anon, at bottom, at once, before long, betimes, by and by, by destiny, directly, ere long, eventually, expeditiously, fatally, forthwith, gladly, happily, hastily, hopefully, immediately, imminently, in a jiffy, in a moment, in a second, in a while, in a wink, in aftertime, in due course, in due time, in good time, in short order, in the future, in time, instantly, later, lickety-split, lief, momentarily, on the double, one day, oversoon, posthaste, predictably, premature, presently, previous, probably, promptly, pronto, proximo, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, right away, seasonably, shortly, sooner or later, speedily, straightway, swiftly, timely, tomorrow, tout de suite, ultimately, untimely, willingly, without delay

• sooner, before, beforehand, by choice, by election, by vote, colonial, colonist, colonizer, earlier, first, homesteader, immigrant, in preference, nester, pioneer, planter, precursor, preferably, rather, rather than, settler, sooner than, squatter

• soot, air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, bedarken, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, black, blacken, blackening, blacking, blackwash, blot, blotch, bran, brand, burnt cork, calx, carbon, carbon black, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, cork, cosmic dust, crow, crumb, crumble, darken, denigrate, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, draff, dregs, dross, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, fallout, farina, feces, filings, flour, froth, fume, gas black, grime, grits, groats, grounds, ink, jet, kittens, lampblack, lava, lees, lint, loess, meal, melanize, mire, moraine, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, murk, night, nigrify, offscum, oversmoke, pitch, powder, precipitate, precipitation, pussies, raspings, raven, reek, sawdust, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, shade, shadow, silt, sinter, slag, slime, sloe, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, stove black, sublimate, sullage, tar

• soothe, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, balm, becalm, benumb, calm, calm down, cease, comfort, compose, conciliate, console, cool, cradle, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, defuse, die down, diminish, dulcify, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ebb, even out, foment, gentle, give relief, halt, hush, lay, lay the dust, lessen, lull, mitigate, molder, mollify, numb, pacify, pad, palliate, placate, poultice, pour balm into, pour balm on, pour oil on, propitiate, quell, quiesce, quiet, quieten, reduce, relieve, rest, rock, rock to sleep, salve, settle, slacken, slake, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soften, stabilize, steady, still, stop, stupe, subdue, subside, tranquilize, wane

• soothing, United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calm, calmant, calmative, calming, cathartic, cleansing, comforting, conciliation, conciliatory, cradling, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, depressant, detente, diminishment, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, easing of relations, emollient, falling-off, gentling, hushing, hypnotic, irenic, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lubricant, lubricating, lubricational, lubricative, lulling, mediation, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, mollifying, narcotic, numbing, pacific, pacification, pacificatory, pacifying, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, paregoric, peace-keeping force, peaceful, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, placative, placatory, propitiation, propitiative, propitiatory, purgative, quiet, quietening, quieting, reconciliatory, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, restful, rocking, salving, sedative, serene, slackening, sleep-inducing, soft, softening, somnifacient, somniferous, soothful, soporific, stilling, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing

• soothsay, adumbrate, augur, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate

• soothsayer, Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, vates, weather prophet

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

• sop, Milquetoast, ass, baby, baksheesh, bathe, big baby, boodle, born fool, brew, bribe, bribe money, buffoon, buy, buy off, chicken, clown, crybaby, deluge, doodle, doormat, douche, douse, drench, drouk, drown, dull tool, egregious ass, figure of fun, fix, flush, fool, gratification, gratuity, gutless wonder, have, hush money, ignoramus, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, invertebrate, jackass, jellyfish, lave, leach, lightweight, lixiviate, lubricate, lunatic, macerate, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mooncalf, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, palm oil, pansy, pantywaist, payoff, payola, percolate, perfect fool, permeate, protection, pushover, rinse, sad sack, saturate, schmuck, seethe, sissy, soak, sodden, softhead, softling, softy, souse, square, steep, stupid ass, sugarplum, tamper with, tomfool, wash, waterlog, weak sister, weakling, wet, zany

• sophism, apparent soundness, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, begging the question, casuistry, circular argument, circularity, claptrap, crowd-pleasing argument, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, disingenuousness, distortion, empty words, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, formal fallacy, hysteron proteron, illogicality, insincere argument, insincerity, invalidity, irrationality, jesuitism, jesuitry, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, misapplication, moonshine, mystification, non sequitur, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, paralogism, perversion, petitio principii, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, pseudosyllogism, rationalization, solecism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, spuriousness, subtlety, unsoundness, verbal fallacy, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, weak point

• sophist, Jesuit, casuist, choplogic, cosmologist, dialectician, logicaster, logician, logistician, metaphysician, paralogist, philosophaster, philosophe, philosopher, philosophizer, ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, reasoner, sophister, speculator, syllogist, syllogizer, thinker

• sophistic, baseless, bogus, captious, casuistical, deceptive, fallacious, false, groundless, hypocritical, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, nonrational, reasonless, sham, sophistical, specious, unreasonable, unsound, untenable

• sophistical, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, apparently sound, arch, artful, astute, cagey, canny, casuistic, clever, colorable, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, feline, foxy, guileful, hollow, illusive, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive, jesuitic, knowing, mealymouthed, overrefined, oversubtle, pawky, philosophicojuristic, philosophicoreligious, philosophistic, plausible, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistic, specious, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, tongue in cheek, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncandid, unfrank, unserious, vulpine, wary, wily

• sophisticate, blase, city slicker, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, debase, disenchanted, disillusioned, doctor, knowing, load, man of experience, man-about-town, mondaine, slicker, weight, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• sophisticated, adult, advanced, blase, bored, braw, brittle, byzantine, chic, chichi, civilized, classy, clothes-conscious, complex, complicated, cool, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, cultivated, cultured, cynical, daedal, dainty, dapper, dashing, delicate, disabused, disappointed, discriminating, disenchanted, disillusioned, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elaborate, elegant, enlightened, experienced, exquisite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gordian, graceful, gracile, gracious, hardheaded, hep, hip, hoaxproof, intricate, involved, jaded, jaunty, knotty, knowing, knowledgeable, labyrinthine, mature, matured, mondaine, multifaceted, natty, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, not born yesterday, old, polished, posh, practical, practiced, put straight, realistic, recherche, refined, ripe, ripened, ritzy, robbed of illusion, sagacious, salty, schooled, seasoned, set right, sharp, skeptical, sleek, slick, smart, smooth, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticate, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, suave, subtle, svelte, swank, swanky, swell, tough-minded, tricksy, tried, tried and true, trig, trim, uncharmed, uncullible, undeceivable, undeceived, undeludable, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unseduceable, unsophisticated, unspelled, urbane, veteran, well-bred, well-dressed, well-groomed, wise, with it, world-weary, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• sophistication, accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized taste, civilizedness, complexity, cosmopolitanism, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, disingenuousness, distortion, edification, education, elegance, enlightenment, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, excellence, experience, fallaciousness, fallacy, fastidiousness, finesse, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, illumination, insincerity, instruction, intricacy, jesuitism, jesuitry, knowledge, knowledgeability, learning, liberal education, misapplication, mystification, niceness, nicety, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, past experience, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, poise, polish, practical knowledge, practice, quality, rationalization, refinement, sagacity, savoir faire, seasoning, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, store of knowledge, style, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, tempering, uncullibility, undeceivability, ungullibility, unhoaxability, unseduceability, urbanity, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, worldliness, worldly wisdom

• sophistry, Italian hand, acuteness, aesthetics, ambiguity, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, axiology, bad case, begging the question, cageyness, callidity, canniness, casuistry, circular argument, claptrap, cleverness, college of Laputa, corruption, cosmology, craft, craftiness, crossed fingers, crowd-pleasing argument, cunning, cunningness, deception, deceptiveness, deduction, deductive reasoning, delusion, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, emptiness, empty words, epistemology, equivocation, ethics, fallacy, fine Italian hand, finesse, first philosophy, formal fallacy, foxiness, gamesmanship, gnosiology, guile, hollow mockery, hollowness, hysteron proteron, induction, inductive reasoning, ingeniousness, insidiousness, insincere argument, insincerity, inventiveness, jesuitry, logic, logical fallacy, logical thought, material fallacy, mental philosophy, mere rhetoric, metaphysics, misdirection, misguidance, misinformation, misinstruction, misknowledge, misleading, misteaching, mockery, moonshine, moral philosophy, mystification, non sequitur, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, one-upmanship, ontology, paralogism, perversion, petitio principii, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophism, philosophy, proof, pseudosyllogism, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, readiness, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, solecism, sophism, specious reasoning, speciousness, spuriousness, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, sweet reason, tergiversation, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, tongue in cheek, trickiness, uncandidness, uncandor, unfrankness, value theory, verbal fallacy, wariness, weak point, wiles, wiliness, wit

• sophomoric, amateur, amateurish, autodidactic, bookish, college-bred, collegiate, dabbling, dilettante, dilettantish, graduate, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, immature, learned, postgraduate, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sciolistic, shallow, smattering, studentlike, studious, superficial, undergraduate

• sopor, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, catalepsy, coma, comatoseness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dullness, encephalitis lethargica, heartlessness, hebetude, high, hopelessness, inappetence, indifference, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, nonchalance, numbness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, sedation, shock, sleeping sickness, sloth, sluggishness, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, swoon, thanatosis, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, trance, unconcern, withdrawnness

• soporific, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Laodicean, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Olympian, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, aloof, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anesthetic, anesthetized, anodyne, apathetic, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, benumbed, black stuff, blah, blase, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmant, calmative, calming, cataleptic, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, comatose, deadening, depressant, depressor, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dolly, doped, downer, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, goofball, half asleep, hard stuff, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, heroin, hop, hopeless, horse, hypnotic, in a stupor, indifferent, insouciant, junk, knockout drops, languid, laudanum, lethargic, liquor, listless, lotus, lullaby, mandrake, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nightcap, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed, numbing, opiate, opium, oscitant, out of it, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, passive, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, phlegmatic, pluckless, poppy, purple heart, quietener, quietening, rainbow, red, resigned, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedated, sedative, shit, slack, sleep-bringer, sleep-causing, sleep-compelling, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-inducer, sleep-inducing, sleep-inviting, sleep-producer, sleep-provoking, sleep-swollen, sleeper, sleepful, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleepy, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, smack, snoozy, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stretchy, stupefied, stuporose, stuporous, supine, tar, torpid, tranquilizer, tranquilizing, turps, uncaring, unconcerned, uninterested, white stuff, withdrawn, yawning, yawny, yellow, yellow jacket

• sopping, awash, bathed, brewing, dampening, deluged, dipped, drench, drenched, drenching, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, ducking, dunking, engulfed, flooded, humectant, imbruement, imbuement, immersed, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, inundated, irrigational, irriguous, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, maceration, moistening, oozing, overflowed, percolation, permeated, permeation, pulping, saturated, saturation, seeping, seething, soak, soakage, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping wet, soppy, souse, soused, sousing, steeped, steeping, submerged, submersed, swamped, watering, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, wetting, whelmed, wringing wet

• soprano, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, accompaniment, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, blues singer, bravura, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caroler, chanter, chantress, choral, choric, coloratura, coloratura soprano, comic bass, continuo, contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, descant, diva, dramatic, dramatic soprano, drone, falsetto, figured bass, ground bass, head register, head tone, head voice, heroic, heroic tenor, high, high-pitched, high-sounding, high-toned, hymnal, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, line, liturgical, lyric, male alto, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, operatic, part, plain chant, plain song, prick song, prima donna, psalm singer, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, rock-and-roll singer, sacred, singer, singing, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, tenor, thorough bass, torch singer, treble, undersong, vocal, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, voice part, warbler, yodeler

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

• sorcerer, Comus, Faust, Prospero, Satan worshiper, Satanist, airiness, appearance, charmer, chthonian, conjurer, delusiveness, demon worshiper, demoniast, demonist, demonolater, demonologer, demonologist, demonomist, devil worshiper, diabolist, diviner, dowser, enchanter, enchantress, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, mage, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, magus, medicine man, miracle-worker, necromancer, prestidigitation, seeming, semblance, shaman, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorceress, sorcery, specious appearance, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, voodooist, warlock, water witch, witch, wizard

• sorcerous, cantrip, hoodoo, incantational, incantatory, magian, magic, magical, mystic, necromantic, numinous, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, talismanic, thaumaturgic, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly

• sorcery, Black Mass, Prospero, Satanism, airiness, appearance, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, black magic, chthonian worship, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, delusiveness, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, divination, divining, enchantment, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, incantation, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, mantic, mantology, necromancy, palm-reading, palmistry, prestidigitation, pythonism, seeming, semblance, shamanism, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sortilege, specious appearance, thaumaturgy, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, white magic, witchcraft, witching, wizardry

• sordid, a hog for, abased, abominable, acquisitive, all-devouring, arrant, atrocious, avaricious, avid, awful, base, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowsy, blowzy, bottomless, brutal, careless, chintzy, contemptible, corrupt, coveting, covetous, debased, defiled, degraded, deplorable, derogatory, despicable, deteriorated, detestable, devouring, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, discreditable, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dowdy, down-and-out, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, esurient, execrable, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, grievous, gross, grubby, grudging, hateful, heinous, hoggish, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, impoverished, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, inglorious, insanitary, insatiable, insatiate, lamentable, limitless, loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, mean, mercenary, messy, mingy, miserable, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, monstrous, mucky, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, niggard, niggardly, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, omnivorous, outrageous, overgreedy, parsimonious, penurious, piggish, pinchpenny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, polluted, poor, poverty-stricken, putrid, quenchless, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, rank, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous, schlock, scraggly, scurvy, seamy, seedy, selfish, servile, shabby, shady, shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slakeless, slattern, slatternly, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, sodden, squalid, stingy, swinish, tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, tumbledown, unappeasable, unappeased, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unpraiseworthy, unquenchable, unrespectable, unsanitary, unsated, unsatisfied, unsavory, unsightly, unslakeable, unslaked, untidy, venal, vile, villainous, voracious, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

• sore spot, ache, aching, affront, algesia, blow, casus belli, cramp, cut, distress, dolor, exposed nerve, festering, grief, hurt, inflammation, injury, irritation, lesion, nasty blow, nerve ending, offense, pain, pang, passion, provocation, rankling, raw, raw nerve, red rag, sensitiveness, shock, soft spot, sore, sore point, soreness, spasm, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering, tender spot, tenderness, the quick, throes, wound, wrench

• sore, abrasion, abscess, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, ache, aching, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, agonizing, ague, algesia, algetic, anemia, angered, angry, ankylosis, annoyed, anoxia, antagonistic, antipathetic, apnea, aposteme, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, awkward, backache, bed sore, belligerent, bitter, blain, bleak, bleb, bleeding, blemish, blennorhea, blister, blow, boil, break, browned-off, bruise, bubo, bulla, bunion, burdensome, burn, burning, cachexia, cachexy, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, caustic, chafe, chafed, chancre, chancroid, check, cheerless, chilblain, chill, chills, chip, choleric, clashing, cold sore, colic, colliding, comfortless, concussion, conflicting, constipation, convulsion, coughing, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, critical, cross, cut, cyanosis, damage, danger, delicate, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desperate, despiteful, diarrhea, difficulty, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distress, distressful, distressing, dizziness, dolor, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, embarrassing, embittered, eschar, extreme, fainting, fatigue, felon, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, fibrillation, fierce, fiery, fistula, flash burn, flux, fracture, fray, frazzle, full of hate, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galled, gash, gathering, grief, grievous, growth, gumboil, harrowing, hateful, heavy, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, hostile, hurt, hurtful, hurting, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, incensed, incision, indigestion, indignant, infection, inflamed, inflammation, injury, insomnia, irate, ireful, irked, irritated, irritation, itching, jaundice, joyless, kibe, labored breathing, laceration, lamentable, lesion, livid, low blood pressure, lumbago, mad, malevolent, malicious, malignant, marasmus, mortal wound, mournful, moving, mutilation, nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, onerous, oppressive, pain, painful, pang, papula, papule, paralysis, paronychia, parulis, passion, pathetic, peeved, petechia, piles, pimple, pissed, pissed-off, piteous, pitiable, pock, poignant, polyp, pressing, prickly, pruritus, puncture, pustule, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, rankling, rash, raw, rawness, red, regrettable, rent, repugnant, resentful, resenting, rheum, riled up, rip, rising, rueful, run, rupture, sad, saddening, scab, scald, sclerosis, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, seizure, sensitive, sensitiveness, serious, set against, severe, sharp, shock, skin eruption, slash, smarting, sneezing, soft chancre, sore spot, soreness, sorrowful, spasm, spiteful, splenetic, stab, stab wound, stewing, stigma, stinging, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, tabes, tachycardia, tear, tender, tender spot, tenderness, third-degree burn, thorny, throes, ticked off, ticklish, tingling, touching, touchy, trauma, trouble, troublesome, tubercle, tumor, ulcer, ulceration, uncomfortable, upset, upset stomach, urgent, venomous, vertigo, vexed, virulent, vitriolic, vomiting, wale, wasting, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, woebegone, woeful, worked up, wound, wounds immedicable, wrathful, wrathy, wrench, wretched, wroth, wrought-up

• sorehead, Tartar, bear, bellyacher, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, croaker, crosspatch, dragon, faultfinder, feist, fire-eater, frondeur, fury, griper, grizzly bear, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, hothead, hotspur, kicker, kvetch, malcontent, murmurer, mutterer, querulous person, reactionary, reactionist, rebel, sourpuss, ugly customer, whiner

• sorely, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, hardly, harrowingly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, keenly, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, rancorously, ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully

• soreness, a transient madness, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, algesia, allergy, anaphylaxis, anger, angriness, animosity, animus, asperity, bad blood, bile, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, choler, considerateness, delicacy, empathy, enragement, exquisiteness, festering, feud, fineness, gall, gnashing of teeth, grapes of wrath, hard feelings, heartburning, heat, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, inflammation, infuriation, irateness, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, nervousness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rancor, rankling, responsiveness, saeva indignatio, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, slow burn, sore, sore spot, sourness, spleen, supersensitivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, vendetta, venom, vials of wrath, virulence, vitriol, wrath, wrathfulness

• sorghum, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, blackstrap, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cyclamates, edulcoration, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, maple syrup, molasses, nectar, saccharification, saccharin, sodium cyclamate, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, treacle

• sorority, affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, association, boon companionship, brotherhood, brotherliness, cahoots, chumship, club, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, community of interest, companionship, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, confrerie, consolidation, consortship, copartnership, copartnery, country club, esprit de corps, federation, fellowship, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, guild, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, league, merger, order, partnership, secret society, sisterhood, sisterliness, society, sodality, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union

• sorption, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, chemisorption, chemosorption, digestion, endosmosis, engrossment, exosmosis, infiltration, osmosis, percolation, seepage, sponge, sponging

• sorrel, bay, bayard, beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin, calico pony, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, dapple-gray, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gray, grege, grizzle, hazel, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, roan, seal, seal-brown, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

• sorrow, ache, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad luck, bemoan, bemoaning, bewail, bewailing, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bitterness, bleed, break down, bring to tears, brood over, burden, burden of care, cankerworm of care, care, cares, carking care, contriteness, contrition, cross, crown of thorns, crush, curse, cut up, dejection, deplore, depression, desolate, desolateness, desolation, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, dole, dolor, draw tears, elegize, embitter, encumbrance, fret, gall, gall and wormwood, give sorrow words, grief, grievance, grieve, grieving, groan, hard luck, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, howling, infliction, inundate, keen, keening, knell, lament, lamentation, lamenting, languishment, load, melancholy, misery, misfortune, moan, moaning, mope, mourn, mourning, oppress, oppression, overwhelm, pack of troubles, pain, peck of troubles, pine, pine away, pining, pressure, prostrate, prostration, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regretting, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repine, repining, rue, sadness, sea of troubles, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, sigh, sing the blues, sob, sorriness, sorrowfulness, sorrowing, strain, suffering, take on, thorn, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, ululation, unhappiness, wailing, waters of bitterness, weep over, weight, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness

• sorrowful, Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, blue, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, complaining, crestfallen, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, dreary, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, gloomy, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, hapless, heartsick, howling, in grief, in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, puling, querulous, regretful, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrow-laden, sorrow-stricken, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorry, tearful, touching, troublous, ululant, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful, wretched

• sorry lot, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, degenerate, fallen angel, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, pervert, pimp, profligate, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace, trollop, whore

• sorry, abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base-minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, depressing, despicable, discontented, disgraceful, dismal, full of remorse, gaudy, gimcracky, grim, gutter, heavyhearted, humiliating, humiliative, humorless, ignoble, ill-starred, in bad humor, inadequate, infestive, infra dig, infra indignitatem, joyless, low, low-minded, mean, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, opprobrious, out of humor, out of sorts, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, penitent, penitential, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poor, regretful, remorseful, repentant, repining, rubbishy, rueful, sad, saddened, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorrowful, sorryish, star-crossed, stark, too bad, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unhappy about, unjoyful, unmirthful, unsmiling, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, wistful, worthless, wretched

• sort of, a bit, a little, as it were, extremely, fairly, in a manner, in a measure, in a way, in some measure, kind of, moderately, more or less, pretty, quite, rather, scarcely, slightly, so to speak, some, something, somewhat, to a degree, to some extent, very

• sort out, analyze, answer, appraise, ascertain, assess, assort, assure, bolt, bottom, catalog, categorize, certify, cinch, clarify, class, classify, clear up, clinch, cogitate, collate, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, crack, cull out, debug, decide, decipher, decode, demarcate, demark, determine, differentiate, discriminate, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, dismiss all doubt, distinguish, divide, divine, do, dope, dope out, draw the line, ensure, establish, evaluate, excogitate, explain, factor, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fix, gauge, get, get at, get right, ghettoize, gin, give thought to, gradate, grade, group, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, identify, insulate, insure, interpret, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, make certain, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make sure, make sure of, mark the interface, nail down, open the lock, pick out, plumb, psych, psych out, put aside, puzzle out, quarantine, rank, ravel, ravel out, reason out, reassure, remove all doubt, resolve, riddle, screen, screen out, seclude, see that, see to it, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set at rest, set off, settle, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, size, solve, sort, split hairs, subdivide, subordinate, subtilize, think about, think out, think through, thrash, thrash out, thresh, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, weigh, winnow, work, work out

• sort, adjust, ailing, alphabetize, analyze, appraise, arrange, array, assess, assort, batch, battery, blood, body, body-build, bolt, brand, break down, breed, bulk, cast, catalog, catalogue, categorize, category, character, characteristic, characteristics, characterize, choose, clan, clarify, class, classification, classify, clear up, clutch, codify, collate, color, comb, combine, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, contradistinguish, crasis, cull, decide, demarcate, demark, denomination, describe, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, differentiate, digest, discriminate, disposition, distinguish, divide, draw the line, enlarge, ethos, evaluate, factor, family, feather, fiber, file, form, frame, gauge, genius, genre, genus, gradate, grade, graduate, grain, group, habit, hue, humor, humors, identify, ilk, index, indisposed, individual, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, list, lot, low, make, makeup, manner, mark, mark the interface, match, measure, merge, mold, mould, nature, number, of a sort, of sorts, order, organize, out of sorts, parcel, person, persuasion, phylum, physique, pick, pick out, pigeonhole, place, property, proportion, put straight, quality, race, range, rank, rate, resolve, riddle, screen, screen out, segregate, select, separate, set, set a limit, set apart, set off, set straight, sever, severalize, shape, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, size, solve, somatotype, somewhat, sort of, sort out, species, spirit, split hairs, stamp, stock, straighten out, strain, streak, stripe, style, subdivide, subgenus, subordinate, subspecies, subtilize, suchness, suite, system, systematize, systemize, tabulate, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the like of, the likes of, thing, thrash out, throw, tidy up, tone, tribe, type, under the weather, unwell, variety, vein, way, weigh, winnow

• sorted, aligned, arranged, arrayed, assorted, cataloged, categorized, classified, composed, constituted, disposed, filed, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, hierarchic, indexed, marshaled, methodized, normalized, on file, ordered, orderly, organized, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranged, ranked, rated, regularized, regulated, routinized, standardized, stratified, synchronized, systematized, tabular

• sortie, aggravated assault, aggression, air cover, air raid, air support, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, bombing, breakthrough, charge, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, cover, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, dry run, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, head-on attack, infiltration, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, milk run, mission, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, panzer warfare, push, reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission, run against, run at, rush, sally, scramble, shock tactics, shuttle raid, strafing, strike, training mission, umbrella, unprovoked assault

• sorting, EDP, analysis, analyzing, appraisal, arrangement, assessment, assortment, cataloging, categorization, classification, classifying, codification, collating, computer technology, computer typesetting, computing, culling, data processing, data retrieval, division, electronic data processing, evaluation, factoring, filing, gauging, gradation, grading, grouping, high-speed data handling, identification, indexing, machine computation, pigeonholing, placement, ranging, ranking, rating, reporting, scanning, screening, selection, sifting, sifting out, sorting out, stratification, subdivision, subordination, tabulation, taxonomy, triage, typology, weighing, winnowing

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

• sot, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, big drunk, boozehound, boozer, bullheaded, carouser, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, closed-minded, deaf, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, guzzler, hard drinker, hardheaded, headstrong, heavy drinker, imbiber, inebriate, intractable, lovepot, lush, mulish, oenophilist, pathological drinker, pot companion, problem drinker, reveler, serious drinker, shikker, soak, soaker, social drinker, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, tosspot, wassailer, winebibber

• sottish, Boeotian, addicted to drink, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, bibacious, bibulous, blockish, bovine, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, drinking, drunken, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, given to drink, gross, ineducable, klutzy, lumpish, oafish, opaque, stupid, swilling, thick, tippling, toping, unteachable, winebibbing, wrongheaded

• sotto voce, a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, amabile, amoroso, appassionatamente, appassionato, aside, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, between the teeth, brillante, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, covertly, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, dolce, forte, fortissimo, in a corner, in a whisper, in an aside, in darkness, in hidlings, in secret, in the background, in the dark, lamentabile, leggiero, morendo, nobody the wiser, out of earshot, parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, scherzando, scherzoso, secretly, sordo, spiccato, staccato, stretto, sub rosa, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, under the breath, under the rose, undercover, underground, with bated breath

• sou, Deutschmark, Mark, Reichsmark, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, afghani, anna, bagatelle, baht, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, centavo, centime, conto, curio, dollar, dong, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, florin, folderol, franc, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, guilder, gulden, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, kip, knickknack, knickknackery, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, milreis, minikin, mockery, molehill, peppercorn, peseta, picayune, pie, piece of eight, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistareen, pound, rand, rap, red cent, rial, row of pins, ruble, rupee, rush, shekel, shilling, shit, snap, sneeshing, sol, stiver, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham, won, yen

• soubrette, Roscius, abigail, actor, actress, amah, antagonist, antihero, au pair girl, ayah, bad guy, barnstormer, betweenmaid, biddy, bit, bit part, cast, chambermaid, chaperon, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, companion, cook, cue, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, duenna, fat part, feeder, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, foil, gentlewoman, girl, handmaid, handmaiden, heavy, hero, heroine, hired girl, histrio, histrion, housemaid, ingenue, juvenile, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mummer, nursemaid, pantomime, pantomimist, parlormaid, part, person, personage, piece, playactor, player, protagonist, protean actor, reciter, role, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, side, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straight part, stroller, strolling player, supporting character, supporting role, theatrical, thespian, title role, trouper, tweeny, upstairs maid, utility man, villain, waiting maid, walk-on, walking part, wench

• souffle, airy, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiled eggs, breakers, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, coddled eggs, collar, deviled eggs, downy, dropped eggs, ebullient, effervescent, eggs, ethereal, feathery, fizzy, fluffy, foam, foamy, fried eggs, froth, frothy, gossamery, head, imponderous, lather, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, meringue, mousse, offscum, omelet, poached eggs, puff, puffed, scrambled eggs, scud, scum, sea foam, shirred eggs, soapsuds, souffleed, sparkling, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, spumescent, stinging, stuffed eggs, suds, surf, unheavy, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, volatile, weightless, whipped, white water, yeasty

• soul mate, Antony and Cleopatra, Pelleas and Melisande, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, associate, bill-and-cooers, brother, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, equivalent, fellow, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, lovebirds, mate, near duplicate, obverse, parallel, pendant, picture, reciprocal, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mates, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, turtledoves, twin

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

• soul, Adamite, Geist, Muse, afflatus, an existence, anima, anima humana, animating force, animus, ardency, ardor, article, astral body, atman, axiom, ba, bathmism, beating heart, being, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, body, bones, bosom, breast, breath, breath of life, buddhi, cat, center, center of life, chap, character, conscience, core, creative thought, creativity, creature, critter, customer, daemon, daimonion, deepest recesses, demon, differentiation, differentness, distillate, distillation, distinctiveness, divine afflatus, divine breath, divine spark, duck, dynamism, earthling, ecstasy, ego, egohood, elan vital, elixir, embodiment, emotion, energy, entelechy, entity, esoteric reality, esprit, essence, essence of life, essential, excitement, fabric, feeling, fellow, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, fire of genius, flower, focus, force, force of life, fundamental, furor, fury, genius, gist, gravamen, gross body, groundling, growth force, gusto, guts, guy, hand, head, heart, heart of hearts, heartbeat, heartblood, heartiness, heartstrings, heat, homo, human, human being, human factor, hypostasis, identity, impassionedness, impulse of life, incarnation, individual, individualism, individuality, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner, inner essence, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost being, inside, inspiration, inspiriting force, integer, integrity, intellect, interior, interior man, intern, internal, intrados, inward, item, jiva, jivatma, joker, kama, kernel, khu, life, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, linga sharira, liveliness, living force, living soul, man, manas, manes, marrow, material, matter, meat, medium, mind, module, monad, mortal, nephesh, nerve center, nominalism, nonconformity, nose, noumenon, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, object, one, oneness, organism, particularism, particularity, party, passion, passionateness, penetralia, person, persona, personage, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personification, personship, physical body, pith, pneuma, point, postulate, prana, principle, principle of desire, psyche, purusha, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, reason, recesses, relish, ruach, sap, savor, seat of life, secret heart, secret place, secret places, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, sentiment, shade, shadow, sincerity, single, singleton, singularity, somebody, someone, something, spark of life, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, sthula sharira, stuff, substance, sum and substance, talent, tellurian, terran, the nitty-gritty, the self, thing, true being, true inwardness, typification, uniqueness, unit, vehemence, verve, vis vitae, vis vitalis, viscera, vital center, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, vitality, vitals, vivacity, warmth, warmth of feeling, woman, worldling, zeal

• soulful, affectional, affective, ardent, deep, demonstrative, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, expressive, feeling, fervent, glandular, gut, intense, moving, of soul, overdemonstrative, profound, sincere, visceral, warm

• soulless, abiotic, affectless, anesthetized, arctic, autistic, azoic, blunt, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, dispassionate, drugged, dull, dumb, emotionally dead, emotionless, exanimate, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, heartless, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, inanimate, inanimated, inert, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, insentient, insusceptible, lifeless, mute, nonconscious, nonemotional, nonliving, objective, obtuse, out of touch, passionless, self-absorbed, senseless, spiritless, unaffectionate, unanimated, unconscious, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable

• sound barrier, Mach, Mach number, Mach one, Mach two, air speed, escape velocity, ground speed, knots, shock wave, sonic barrier, sonic boom, sonic speed, sonics, speed of sound, subsonic speed, subsonics, supersonic speed, supersonics, ultrasonics

• sound like, ape, appear, 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, feel, follow, imitate, look, look like, match, mimic, mirror, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, remind one of, resemble, savor of, seem, seem like, seem to be, simulate, smack of, sound, stack up with, suggest, take after

• sound track, backing, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, cartridge, color film, color negative film, dope, dry plate, emulsion, film, frame, microfilm, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, negative, orthochromatic film, pack, panchromatic film, photographic paper, plate, printing paper, roll, sound film, sound-on-film, soundstripe, tripack, vehicle

• sound truck, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

• sound wave, amplitude, antinode, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, crest, de Broglie wave, diffraction, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, guided wave, in phase, interference, light, longitudinal wave, loudness, mechanical wave, node, noise, out of phase, period, periodic wave, phone, radio wave, ray, reinforcement, resonance, resonance frequency, seismic wave, shock wave, sonance, sound, sound intensity level, sound propagation, speech sound, surface wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, trough, ultrasound, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength

• sound, Christian, able to pay, accepted, adamantine, admissible, advantageous, advertise, all there, announce, annunciate, appear, appear like, appraise, appreciate, approved, arm, armlet, articulate, aspect, assay, assess, astute, auditory range, auspicious, authentic, authoritative, bagpipe, balanced, barometer, bay, bayou, be reflected, be sent back, beep, bell, belt, beneficial, benevolent, bight, binding, bitch, blare, blast, blat, blooming, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, bluster, boca, bon, bonny, boom, bounce back, braw, bray, breathe, broadcast, bueno, bugle, bulky, bunkum, cacophony, calculable, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canonical, canvass, capital, carillon, carrying distance, cast the lead, characteristic, check a parameter, check out, chime, chink, chorus, clang, clangor, clank, clarion, clearheaded, clearminded, clink, cogent, come out with, commendable, commonsense, communicate, complain, complete, compos mentis, compute, conservative, consistent, conventional, convey, cool, coolheaded, correct, cove, credible, creek, cry out, customary, deep, deliver, delve into, dense, dependable, dial, dig into, din, ding, dingdong, disclose, disseminate, dive, divide, dong, doodle, double-tongue, down-to-earth, drop, durable, earreach, earshot, earthy, echo, echo back, effect, elegant, emit, emit a sound, enduring, entire, enunciate, estimable, estimate, estuary, euripus, evaluate, evangelical, examine, excellent, expedient, explore, express, fail-safe, fair, faithful, faithworthy, fall, famous, fast, fathom, favorable, feel, feel out, feeler, fiducial, fife, fine, fiord, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firth, fit, fjord, fling off, flute, fly a kite, formulate, frith, full, gauge, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, go into, gong, good, good for, goodly, graduate, grand, grumble, guaranteed, gulf, gut, hale, hale and hearty, harbor, hard, hardheaded, harmless, healthy, healthy-minded, hearing, heavy, helpful, honk, impart, imperturbable, impression, in equilibrium, in good condition, in good shape, indagate, infrangible, inlet, inquire of, intact, integral, investigate, invincible, invulnerable, jangle, jingle, jinglejangle, judicious, just, justifiable, kind, knell, kyle, lasting, laudable, lawful, legal, legitimate, let out, levelheaded, lip, literal, loch, logical, look, look into, look like, lucid, made of iron, make a noise, make a sound, make a sounding, massive, matter-of-fact, measure, mensurate, mentally sound, mete, meter, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nice, noble, noise, normal, nose-dive, of sound mind, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, out with, pace, parachute, peaceful, peal, peer into, perceptive, percipient, perfect, perspicacious, philosophical, phonate, phrase, pilot balloon, pipe, pitch, plausible, pleasant, plop, plumb, plumb the depths, plumb-line, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, poke into, politic, poll, positivistic, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour forth, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, predictable, present, prize, probe, proclaim, profitable, promulgate, pronounce, proper, prudent, pry into, publish, put forth, put in words, quality, quantify, quantize, question, raise, random sample, range, rate, rational, reach, read, realist, realistic, reasonable, reasoning, rebound, received, reecho, regal, reliable, report, resemble, resonance, resonate, resound, responsible, return, reverberate, reverberation, right, right-minded, rigid, ring, ring changes, riskless, road, roads, roadstead, robust, roll, rosy, royal, ruddy, rugged, rumble, safe, sample, sane, sane-minded, say, scientific, scientistic, scriptural, search into, secular, secure, seem, seem like, seem to be, self-consistent, send back, sensible, set forth, shout out, shriek, sift, signal, size, size up, skillful, skin-dive, sky-dive, sling the lead, sober, sober-minded, solid, solvent, sonance, sound a knell, sound a tattoo, sound like, sound out, sound taps, sound-minded, sound-thinking, sounder, span, speak, splendid, squeal, stable, standard, staunch, steadfast, steady, step, stoop, stout, straight-thinking, strait, straits, straw vote, strong, sturdy, submerge, substantial, sufficient, sure, surefire, survey, swoop, swoop down, take a header, take a reading, take soundings, tell, test, textual, throw off, ting, tingle, tink, tinkle, tintinnabulate, together, toll, tone, tongue, toot, tootle, total, tough, traditional, traditionalistic, trial balloon, triangulate, triple-tongue, true, true-blue, trumpet, trustworthy, trusty, tweedle, unbreakable, unbroken, undamaged, undangerous, undisturbed, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unhazardous, unideal, unidealistic, unimpaired, unindebted, uninjured, uninterrupted, unmarred, unperilous, unprecarious, unqualified, unrisky, unromantic, unscathed, unsentimental, unshakable, untroubled, unwavering, unyielding, useful, utter, valid, valuate, value, verbalize, very good, vibration, vigorous, virtuous, vituperate, vocalize, voice, warranteed, weather vane, weathercock, weigh, weighty, well, well-argued, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, whisper, whistle, whole, wholesome, wind, wind the horn, wise, without nerves, word, yell out

• sounded, articulated, droning, enunciated, lingual, linguistic, monotone, monotonic, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, said, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, speech, spoken, tonal, toneless, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful

• sounder, TelAutography, Teletype, Teletype network, Teletyping, barometer, closed-circuit telegraphy, code, duplex telegraphy, electricity, facsimile telegraph, feeler, interrupter, key, multiplex telegraphy, news ticker, pilot balloon, probe, quadruplex telegraphy, railroad telegraphy, random sample, receiver, sample, sender, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy, sound, stock ticker, straw vote, submarine telegraphy, telegraphics, telegraphy, teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, ticker, transmitter, trial balloon, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy, weather vane, weathercock, wire service

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

• sounding, bathometry, bathymetry, booming, chiming, depth sounding, dinging, droning, echo sounding, echoic, echoing, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, growling, jingling, lingering, monotone, monotonic, oceanography, pealing, persistent, reboant, rebounding, reechoing, repercussive, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, ringing, rumbling, sonar, sonation, soniferous, sonification, sonorous, sounded, soundings, thundering, tingling, tinkling, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, tolling, tonal, toneless, undamped, water

• soundless, abysmal, abyssal, bottomless, cavernous, deep as hell, echoless, fathomless, gaping, hush, hush as death, hushed, inaudible, mousy, noiseless, plumbless, plunging, quiescent, quiet, silent, still, still as death, stilly, subaudible, unarticulated, unfathomable, unfathomed, unhearable, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, whist, without bottom, yawning

• soundness, admissibility, advantageousness, agreeableness, aplomb, auspiciousness, authenticity, authoritativeness, authority, balance, balanced personality, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, body, calculability, canonicalness, canonicity, class, cogency, common sense, completeness, concreteness, constancy, contact with reality, cool, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, credit standing, density, dependability, desert, due sense of, durability, entireness, equilibrium, eupepsia, excellence, expedience, fairness, faithworthiness, fastness, favorableness, fine fettle, fine shape, fine whack, fineness, firmness, first-rateness, force, fullness, glowing health, good condition, good constitution, good digestion, good health, good sense, good shape, good trim, goodliness, goodness, gospel truth, grace, haleness, hardness, healthfulness, healthiness, healthy body, healthy constitution, healthy mind, helpfulness, high feather, homeostasis, horse sense, imperturbability, intactness, integrity, invariability, invincibility, justifiability, justness, kindness, level head, level-headedness, levelheadedness, logic, logicality, logicalness, lucid interval, lucidity, marbles, mass, materiality, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, merit, mind, mint condition, nerve, niceness, normalcy, normality, normalness, orthodoxicalness, orthodoxism, orthodoxness, orthodoxy, palpability, picture of health, plain sense, plausibility, pleasantness, plenitude, ponderability, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, predictability, profitableness, quality, rationality, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reliability, religious truth, rewardingness, right belief, right mind, rightness, robust health, rootedness, rude health, rugged health, sanemindedness, saneness, sang-froid, sanity, secureness, security, sense, senses, sensibleness, skillfulness, sober senses, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, solidity, solvency, sound mind, sound sense, soundness of mind, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, stableness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, superiority, sweet reason, tangibility, temper, the truth, top shape, toughness, traditionalism, trustworthiness, undeflectability, unerringness, uniformity, unindebtedness, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, weight, wholeness, wholesomeness, wit, worth

• soundproof, airtight, ballproof, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, corrosionproof, dampproof, fire-resisting, fireproof, flameproof, foolproof, hermetic, holeproof, impervious to, insulate, leakproof, noiseproof, proof, proof against, punctureproof, resistant, rustproof, shatterproof, shellproof, tight, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof

• soundproofing, acoustic tile, antiknock, baffler, cushion, damp, dampener, damper, gag, hushcloth, muffle, muffler, mute, muzzle, quietener, silence cloth, silencer, soft pedal, sordine, sordino, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing insulation, sourdine

• soup up, accelerate, aggravate, beef up, blow up, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deepen, double, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, intensify, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, ramify, redouble, reinforce, sharpen, step up, strengthen, triple, whet

• soup, CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, albumen, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, box, broth, bump, burgoo, butter, ceiling, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, corner, cornstarch, cream, crosswind, curd, developer, dilemma, dough, egg drop soup, egg white, empty space, favorable wind, fish soup, fix, fixer, fixing bath, fog, front, gaum, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, gumbo, gunk, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, hypo, ionosphere, jam, jell, jelly, jetstream, julienne, lath, loblolly, low-pressure area, matzo ball soup, mere shadow, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mulligatawny, overcast, oxtail soup, pap, paper, paste, pickle, plight, pocket, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, processing solution, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rail, rake, rob, roughness, scrape, semifluid, semiliquid, shadow, shaving, short-stop, short-stop bath, size, skeleton, slat, slip, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, space, splinter, starch, sticky mess, stock, stop bath, stratosphere, streak, substratosphere, syrup, tail wind, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, treacle, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vein, vichyssoise, visibility, visibility zero, wafer, won ton soup

• soupcon, cast, dash, gleam, hint, idea, infusion, inkling, intimation, lick, look, sauce, scintilla, seasoning, shade, shadow, sip, smack, smattering, smell, spark, spice, sprinkling, streak, suggestion, sup, suspicion, taint, taste, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, touch, trace, vestige, whiff

• sour grapes, acid, acidulant, belittling, bread-and-butter pickle, chokecherry, comedown, contempt, crab apple, decrial, depreciation, derogation, detraction, dill pickle, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, faint praise, green apple, indignity, knocking, lemon, lime, lukewarm support, minimizing, pickle, putting down, slighting, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour pickle, sourdough, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt

• sour note, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, sharpness, sourness, stridor, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf

• sour, abrupt, absonant, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acerbity, acescency, acescent, acetify, acid, acidic, acidify, acidity, acidulant, acidulate, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acidulousness, acrid, acrimonious, aftertaste, agent provocateur, aggravate, amaroidal, amplify, annoy, asperous, astringent, atonal, augment, bad, bad-tempered, bilious, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, blown, bread-and-butter pickle, brusque, build up, cacophonous, caustic, chokecherry, choleric, churlish, coarse, crab, crab apple, crabbed, crabby, cracked, cranky, cross, crusty, curdle, curdled, curt, cutting, deepen, deteriorate, diaphonic, dill pickle, disagreeable, disconsonant, discontented, discordant, disenchant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dislikable, displeasing, dissonant, distasteful, dry, dryness, dyspeptic, edgy, embitter, embittered, enhance, enlarge, envenom, escharotic, exacerbate, exasperate, ferment, fermented, flat, flavor, frowy, gamy, gloomy, go bad, go off, gone off, grating, green, green apple, greenness, grouchy, gust, hard, harsh, heat up, heighten, high, hot up, hyperacidity, ill-natured, ill-tempered, immelodious, impatient, increase, inharmonic, inharmonious, intensify, irritate, irritating, jaundiced, keen, lemon, lime, magnify, make acute, make worse, mordant, morose, musicless, nasty, nonmelodious, nose-tickling, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, palate, peeve, peevish, penetrating, petulant, pickle, pickled, piercing, piquant, poignant, provoke, pungency, pungent, rancid, rank, raucous, reechy, relish, rough, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, sec, severe, sharp, sharpen, shrill, smack, snappish, sour as vinegar, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sour-tempered, sourdough, soured, sourish, sourishness, sourness, spoil, spoiled, spoilt, stale, stinging, stomach, strident, strong, subacidity, sullen, sweet, tainted, tang, tart, tartish, tartishness, tartness, taste, terrible, testy, thankless, tongue, tooth, trenchant, tuneless, turn, turn sour, turned, ugly, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unharmonious, uninviting, unlikable, unmelodious, unmusical, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unripe, unripeness, unsavory, unsweet, unsweetened, unsweetness, untasteful, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unwelcome, verjuice, vex, vinegar, vinegariness, vinegarish, vinegarishness, vinegary, vitriolic, worsen, yogurt

• source book, atlas, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, city directory, classified catalog, concordance, cyclopedia, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, encyclopedia, gazetteer, harmony, index, phone book, polyglot, record book, reference book, studbook, telephone book, telephone directory, work of reference

• source, adviser, ambition, announcer, annunciator, antecedent, aspiration, author, authority, authorship, basis, begetter, beginning, birthplace, bonanza, calling, cause, channel, commencement, communicant, communicator, conception, consideration, cornucopia, creator, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, documentation, enlightener, expert witness, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, genesis, goal, gold mine, gossipmonger, grapevine, grass roots, ground, guiding light, guiding star, head, headstream, headwater, headwaters, ideal, inception, informant, information center, information medium, informer, inspiration, intention, interviewee, lode, lodestar, mainspring, matter, mine, monitor, mother, motive, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, originator, outset, parent, paternity, press, principle, provenance, provenience, public relations officer, publisher, quarry, radical, radio, radix, reason, reporter, resource, rise, rising, riverhead, root, roots, rootstock, sake, score, source of supply, spokesman, spring, staple, start, starting, stem, stock, taproot, television, teller, tipster, tout, ulterior motive, vein, vocation, well, wellhead, wellspring, whence, witness

• sourdough, acid, acidulant, bread-and-butter pickle, butty, chokecherry, collier, crab apple, desert rat, dill pickle, driller, gold digger, gold miner, gold panner, green apple, lemon, lime, miner, mineworker, pickle, prospector, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt

• soured, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, augmented, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilious, bilked, bitter, blasted, blighted, blown, chapfallen, choleric, crab, crabbed, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, deliberately provoked, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, dry, dyspeptic, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, foiled, frowy, frustrated, gamy, green, heated up, heightened, high, hotted up, ill done-by, ill-served, increased, intensified, irritated, jaundiced, let down, magnified, off, out of countenance, pickled, provoked, pungent, rancid, rank, reechy, regretful, sec, sorely disappointed, sour, sour as vinegar, sour-tempered, sourish, stale, strong, tainted, tart, tartish, thwarted, turned, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegarish, vinegary, worse, worsened

• souring, acescence, acetification, acidification, acidulation, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fermentation, heightening, increase, intensification, irritation, magnification, provocation, sharpening, worsening

• sourness, Faustianism, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, anger, animosity, animus, asperity, astringence, astringency, atonalism, atonality, bad blood, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitingness, bitter feeling, bitter pill, bitterness, cacophony, causticity, choler, clinker, cold comfort, corrosiveness, cuttingness, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discord, discordance, discordancy, disgruntlement, disharmony, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, divine discontent, edge, envy, feud, flatness, gall, gall and wormwood, hard feelings, harshness, ill blood, ill feeling, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, ill will, inharmoniousness, inharmony, keenness, mordancy, off note, peevishness, petulance, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, querulousness, rancor, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, roughness, severity, sharpness, soreness, sour note, spleen, stridor, sulkiness, tartness, trenchancy, tunelessness, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, untunefulness, vendetta, venom, vexation of spirit, virulence, vitriol, wolf

• sourpuss, bellyacher, brooder, complainer, crab, crank, crosspatch, depressive, gloomy Gus, griper, grouch, grouser, kicker, killjoy, malcontent, melancholiac, melancholic, mope, sorehead, spoilsport, wet blanket

• sousaphone, 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, slide trombone, sliphorn, tenor tuba, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, valve trombone, valve trumpet

• souse, baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial, bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche, douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush, fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching, liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute, pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping, stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear, tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino

• soused, afflicted, awash, bathed, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, elevated, engulfed, flooded, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, high, illuminated, immersed, inundated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, macerated, muzzy, oiled, oozing, organized, overflowed, permeated, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, saturated, seeping, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, squiffy, steeped, stewed, stinko, submerged, submersed, swacked, swamped, tanked, tight, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, wringing wet

• South Pole, Alaska, Antarctic Zone, Antarctica, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, China, Darkest Africa, Frigid Zones, God knows where, Greenland, Iceland, Lower Slobbovia, North Pole, Novaya Zemlya, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodal points, antipodes, antipoints, antipoles, black and white, contraposita, contrapositives, contraries, counterpoles, frontier, godforsaken place, jumping-off place, night and day, nowhere, opposite poles, opposites, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, polar opposites, pole, poles, the Antarctic, the Arctic, the Great Divide, the Hebrides, the South Seas, the Yukon, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, tundra

• south, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, S, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south about, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwardly, southwards, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

• southeast, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, SE, SE by E, SE by S, SSE, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, south-southeast, southbound, southeast by east, southeast by south, southeasterly, southeastern, southeastward, southeastwardly, southeastwards, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

• southerly, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

• southern, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

• southward, S, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastward, half points, lubber line, north, northeast, northward, northwest, occident, orient, quarter points, rhumb, south, south about, southeast, southerly, southwardly, southwards, southwest, sunrise, sunset, west, westward

• southwest, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, SSW, SW, SW by S, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastland, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northland, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, south-southwest, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest by south, southwesterly, southwestern, southwestward, southwestwardly, southwestwards, sunrise, sunset, the Coast, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost, westland, westward, wild West

• souvenir, Mnemosyne, affect memory, anterograde memory, atavism, collective memory, commemoration, computer memory, disk memory, drum memory, emotional response, engram, favor, information storage, keepsake, kinesthetic memory, memento, memento mori, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, memories, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, mind, mneme, race memory, recollection, relic, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, screen memory, skill, tape memory, token, token of remembrance, trophy, verbal response, visual memory

• sovereign, absolute, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, anointed king, arch, ascendant, at the head, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, banner, blue-ribbon, boss, boundless, capital, cardinal, central, champion, changeless, chief, chieftain, classical, coin, commanding, controlling, creating, creative, crown, crowned head, crowning, directing, dominant, double eagle, doubloon, ducat, dynast, dynastic, eagle, emperor, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, fine, first, first-class, five-dollar gold piece, focal, foremost, free-spirited, freewheeling, general, glorious, gold piece, good, governing, grand duke, great, guiding, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hallowed, hard money, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high chief, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, imperator, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, independent, individualistic, infinite, inner-directed, just, king, king-emperor, kinglet, kinglike, kingly, leading, limitless, lord paramount, loving, luminous, magisterial, main, majestic, majesty, making, master, merciful, moidore, monarch, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monarchical, napoleon, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, number one, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, overbearing, overlord, overruling, paramount, permanent, perpetual, petty king, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, plenipotentiary, potentate, pound sovereign, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, primal, primary, prime, prince, prince consort, princelike, princely, principal, purple, queenlike, queenly, radiant, ranking, regal, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, roll of coins, rouleau, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, ruling, sacred, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, separate, shaping, specie, star, stellar, supereminent, supreme, suzerain, ten-dollar gold piece, tetrarch, third-force, third-world, timeless, topflight, twenty-dollar gold piece, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited

• sovereignty, acme, administration, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant, authority, authorization, balance of power, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, caliphate, captainship, chairmanship, championship, civil government, claws, clutches, command, control, convenership, custody, czardom, dictatorship, direction, directorate, directorship, discipline, dispensation, disposition, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, dominium, effectiveness, eminent domain, emperorship, empery, empire, eternity, first place, first prize, foremanship, form of government, generalship, glory, governance, government, governorship, grip, guardianship, hand, hands, headship, hegemony, height, highest, holiness, immutability, imperialism, imperium, independence, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinity, influence, intendancy, internationalism, internationality, iron hand, jurisdiction, kaiserdom, kaisership, kinghood, kingship, land tenure, landholding, landownership, landowning, leadership, light, lordship, majesty, management, managership, masterdom, mastership, mastery, maximum, most, nationalism, nationality, nationhood, ne plus ultra, new high, omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, overlordship, overseership, oversight, ownership, palms, paramountcy, peoplehood, political organization, polity, possessorship, power, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, presidency, primacy, principality, proctorship, proprietary, proprietorship, queenhood, queenship, raj, rajaship, record, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, royalty, rule, say, seigniory, self-determination, self-government, sovereign nationhood, statehood, stewardship, sultanate, sultanship, superintendence, superintendency, superiority, supervision, supervisorship, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, system of government, talons, the crown, the throne, top spot, ubiquity, unity, upper hand, whip hand, zenith