Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/95

• vocabulary, argot, biographical dictionary, cant, chemical dictionary, desk dictionary, dialect dictionary, dictionary, dictionary of quotations, electronics dictionary, etymological dictionary, foreign-language dictionary, gazetteer, general dictionary, geological dictionary, gibberish, gloss, glossary, gobbledygook, gradus, jargon, language, lexicon, lexis, lingo, mumbo jumbo, nomenclator, onomasticon, palaver, patois, patter, phrase book, phraseology, polyglot dictionary, promptorium, rhyming dictionary, scatology, science dictionary, slang, slang dictionary, specialized dictionary, stock of words, synonym dictionary, synonymy, taboo language, terminology, thesaurus, treasury of words, unabridged dictionary, verbal, verbiage, vernacular, vocabular, vulgar language, word list, wordage, wordbook, wordhoard, words

• vocal, alto, articulate, articulated, baritone, bass, bravura, choral, choric, coloratura, dramatic, eloquent, enunciated, expressed, expressive, falsetto, fluent, free, free-spoken, heroic, hymnal, intonated, lingual, linguistic, liturgical, lyric, nuncupative, operatic, oral, outspoken, parol, pronounced, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, round, sacred, said, singing, smooth-spoken, sonant, soprano, sounded, speech, spoken, stentorian, tenor, treble, unwritten, uttered, venting, verbal, viva voce, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, voicing, vowel, vowellike

• vocalist, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, choir member, choirboy, chorister, chorus girl, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, diva, dramatic soprano, heroic tenor, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, melodist, mezzo-soprano, nightingale, opera singer, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, soloist, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor, thrush, torch singer, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

• vocalization, articulation, attack, bel canto, bravura, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, delivery, diction, enunciation, folk singing, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, mouth, mouthing, operatic singing, phonation, pronunciation, scat, scat singing, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, sounding, speaking, speech, tonic sol-fa, utterance, verbalization, vocal music, voice, voicing, warbling, yodel, yodeling

• vocalize, anthem, articulate, ballad, breathe, carol, chant, chatty, chime, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, croon, deliver, descant, disclose, do-re-mi, emit, enunciate, express, fling off, formulate, garrulous, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, hum, hung, hymn, impart, intonate, intone, let out, lilt, lip, loquacious, minstrel, out with, phonate, phrase, pipe, pour forth, present, pronounce, psalm, put forth, put in words, quaver, raise, roulade, say, serenade, set forth, shake, silver-tongued, sing, sing in chorus, slick, smooth, sol-fa, solmizate, sound, talk, talkative, tell, throw off, tremolo, trill, troll, tune, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, utter, verbalize, voice, voluble, warble, well, whisper, whistle, windy, word, yodel

• vocation, ambition, apostleship, area, art, aspiration, bag, basis, business, call, calling, care of souls, career, career building, careerism, cause, consideration, craft, cup of tea, employment, field, forte, game, goal, ground, guiding light, guiding star, handicraft, holy orders, ideal, inspiration, intention, job, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, lodestar, long suit, main interest, mainspring, manner, matter, metier, mission, motive, mystery, number, occupation, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate, pet subject, practice, priesthood, priestship, principle, profession, pursuit, rabbinate, racket, reason, sacred calling, sake, score, source, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, spring, strong point, style, technicality, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, thing, trade, type, ulterior motive, walk, walk of life, way, weakness, work

• vociferate, bellow out, call out, clamor, cry, cry out, holler, holler out, hollo, make an outcry, make an uproar, outcry, pipe up, raise a clamor, shout, shout out, shrill, sing out, yell, yell out

• vociferous, bawling, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, crying, loudmouthed, mafficking, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rip-roaring, rowdy, screaming, shouting, strepitant, strepitous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

• vogue, a la mode, acceptance, acclaim, bon ton, celebrity, character, chic, convention, craze, cry, currency, custom, eclat, fad, fame, famousness, fashion, fashionableness, favor, figure, furore, glory, haute couture, high fashion, in the mode, kudos, last word, latest thing, look, mode, modish, name, notoriety, notoriousness, popularity, preference, prevailing taste, prevalence, proper thing, publicity, rage, reclame, recognition, renown, report, reputation, repute, soigne, soignee, stream of fashion, style, stylish, stylishness, swim, taste, the bubble reputation, trend, voguish

• voice, Australian ballot, Hare system, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, OK, acceptance, accompaniment, active, active voice, adherence, admiration, agency, agent, air, allophone, alto, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approbation, approval, aria singer, articulate, articulation, aspiration, assert, assimilation, atone, attune, aye, ballot, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, bilabial, blessing, blues singer, bourdon, breathe, bring up, burden, cacuminal, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, canvass, canvassing, caroler, casting vote, cerebral, chance, chanter, chantress, check, chest voice, chime, chord, chorus, coloratura, coloratura soprano, come out with, comic bass, communicate, consonant, continuant, continuo, contralto, convey, countenance, countertenor, counting heads, crooner, cumulative voting, deciding vote, decision, declare, deep bass, deliver, dental, descant, diphthong, disclose, dissimilation, diva, division, dramatic soprano, drone, drone bass, emit, endorsement, enfranchisement, enunciate, epenthetic vowel, esteem, explosive, express, expression, fagot vote, falsetto, favor, favorable vote, figured bass, fling off, formulate, forum, franchise, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glide, glottal, glottalization, graveyard vote, ground bass, guttural, hand vote, head voice, herald, heroic tenor, hymner, impart, improvisator, instrument, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lead singer, let out, lieder singer, line, lingual, linguistic act, lip, liquid, list system, locution, make known, manner of articulation, manner of speaking, medio-passive, medium, melodist, mezzo-soprano, middle, middle voice, mode of expression, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mouthpiece, mute, nasal, nay, no, nod, nontransferable vote, occlusive, official spokesman, opera singer, option, organ, out with, palatal, parasitic vowel, parol, parole, part, participation, passive, passive voice, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phonate, phonation, phone, phoneme, phrase, plain chant, plain song, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plosive, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, pour forth, preferential voting, present, prick song, prima donna, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, pronounce, proportional representation, prothetic vowel, proxy, psalm singer, publication, put, put forth, put in tune, put in words, raise, rapporteur, record vote, recount, referendum, reflexive, reporter, representation, representative, respect, retroflex, reveal, right to vote, rising vote, rock-and-roll singer, sanction, say, say-so, seal of approval, secret ballot, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sequence of phonemes, set forth, share, show of hands, singer, single vote, singstress, snap vote, sonant, songbird, songster, songstress, sonority, soprano, sound, speaker, speaking, speech, speech act, speech sound, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, stamp of approval, statement, stop, straw vote, string, suffrage, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, talk, tell, tenor, the spoken word, thorough bass, throw off, timbre, tone, tone down, tone of voice, tone up, tongue, torch singer, transferable vote, transition sound, treble, triphthong, tune, tune up, turn, undersong, utter, utterance, utterance string, vehicle, velar, vent, verbalize, viva voce, vocable, vocalic, vocalist, vocalize, vocalizer, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, vocoid, voice part, voice qualifier, voice quality, voice vote, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vote, voting, voting right, vowel, warbler, way of saying, whisper, word, word of mouth, words, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea vote, yeas and nays, yes, yodeler

• voiced, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulate, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, enunciated, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, linguistic, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, pronounced, retroflex, rounded, said, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, unwritten, uttered, velar, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic, vocalized, vocoid, voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• voiceless, accented, alveolar, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, bad, bare, barytone, bereft, bilabial, breathless, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, denuded, deprived, destitute, dissimilated, dorsal, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, empty, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, inarticulate, innocent, intonated, invalid, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, mum, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, null and void, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, scant, semivowel, short, shy, soft, sonant, speechless, stopped, stressed, stricken dumb, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tongue-tied, tongueless, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wordless

• void, abandon, abbreviate, abnegate, abolish, abridge, abrogate, absence, abysm, abyss, acreage, annihilate, annul, area, arroyo, bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank, blankness, bleached, blot out, blow, blow out, blue-pencil, bootless, bowdlerize, box canyon, breach, breadth, break, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, ca-ca, cancel, cancel out, canyon, cavity, censor, chap, characterless, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clean out, clean slate, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come to nothing, continuum, coulee, couloir, counterbalance, countermand, counterorder, crack, cranny, crap, crevasse, crevice, cross out, cut, cwm, defecate, defile, delete, dell, denuded of, deplete, deprivation, deprived of, deserted, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, dike, dimension, disannul, discharge, disembogue, dissolve, ditch, do away with, donga, drain, draw, dung, edit, edit out, eject, eliminate, emit, emptiness, empty, empty of, empty out, empty space, erase, evacuate, excavation, excrete, exhaust, existless, expanse, expansion, expel, expunge, expurgate, extension, extent, fault, featureless, field, fissure, flaw, flow, flume, for want of, forlorn of, fracture, frustrate, furrow, futile, galactic space, gap, gape, gash, give off, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, idle, in default of, in want of, inane, inanity, incision, ineffective, ineffectual, infinite space, inoperative, insipid, interstellar space, invalid, invalidate, joint, kill, kloof, lacking, leak, make void, measure, minus, missing, moat, needing, negate, negation, negativate, negative, negativeness, negativity, neutralize, niche, nihility, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonexistent, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, notch, nothing, nothingness, null, null and void, nullah, nullify, nullity, number two, offset, omit, opening, out of, out of pocket, outer space, override, overrule, pass, passage, place, pointless, pour, proportion, purge, put aside, quash, ravine, recall, recant, remove, renege, rent, repeal, repealed, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, revoked, rift, rime, rub out, rupture, scant of, scissure, scour out, seam, set aside, shit, short, short of, shy, shy of, slit, slot, space, spatial extension, sphere, split, spread, stool, strike, strike off, strike out, stultify, superficial extension, surface, suspend, sweep out, tabula rasa, take a shit, throw out, thwart, tract, trench, unactuality, unavailing, unblessed with, unclog, undo, unexisting, unfilled, unfoul, unoccupied, unpossessed of, unreality, unrelieved, unused, unutilized, urinate, useless, vacancy, vacant, vacantness, vacate, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain, valley, vent, vitiate, void of, volume, wadi, waive, wanting, white, with nothing inside, withdraw, without, without being, without content, write off

• voidance, BM, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, bloody flux, bowel movement, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, catharsis, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, countermand, counterorder, crap, defeasance, defecation, dejection, depletion, diarrhea, discharging cargo, drainage, draining, dysentery, egress, elimination, emptying, evacuation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, flux, invalidation, lientery, loose bowels, movement, nullification, off-loading, purgation, purge, recall, recantation, removal, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, runs, setting aside, shit, shits, stool, suspension, trots, turistas, unloading, vacation, vacatur, venting, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

• volatile, adrift, afloat, agitable, airy, alternating, amorphous, birdbrained, birdwitted, bouncy, brittle, bubbly, buoyant, capricious, changeable, changeful, charged, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, dizzy, downy, dying, eccentric, edgy, effervescent, ephemeral, erratic, eruptive, ethereal, evanescent, evaporable, evaporative, expansive, explosive, faddish, fading, fast and loose, featherbrained, feathery, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flippant, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fluffy, fly-by-night, flying, foamy, fragile, frail, freakish, frivolous, frothy, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, gossamery, hair-trigger, impermanent, impetuous, imponderous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, leger, light, light as air, light-minded, lighter than vanity, lubricious, mazy, mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, mousse, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, protean, quicksilver, rambling, resilient, restless, roving, scatterbrained, sensitive, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skittery, skittish, souffle, spasmodic, spineless, startlish, superficial, temperamental, temporal, temporary, tense, ticklish, toying, transient, transitive, transitory, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unfixed, unheavy, unpredictable, unprofound, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, vaporable, vaporescent, vaporizable, vaporizing, variable, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatilizable, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weightless, whimsical, wishy-washy, yeasty

• volatility, airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty-headedness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, ethereality, evanescence, evaporability, faddishness, faddism, fickleness, finitude, fleetingness, flightiness, flippancy, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, fugacity, gentleness, giddiness, gossameriness, impermanence, impermanency, inconstancy, instability, lack of depth, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, mercuriality, mercurialness, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, skittishness, softness, sprightliness, superficiality, tenderness, thinness, thoughtlessness, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, undependability, unheaviness, unpredictability, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, vaporability, vaporizability, variability, weightlessness, witlessness, yeastiness

• volatilize, aerate, aerify, atomize, attenuate, blow off, carbonate, cast forth, chlorinate, clear away, dilute, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, distill, drive away, emit, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, hydrogenate, oxygenate, perfume, reek, send out, smoke, spray, steam, sublimate, sublime, thin, thin out, vaporize

• volcanic, agitable, bursting, combustible, detonating, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive, fierce, fiery, fulminating, furious, hasty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, impetuous, inflammable, irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nervous, passionate, peppery, perturbable, prickly, quick, quick-tempered, sensitive, short-tempered, simmering, skittish, spunky, startlish, stormy, tempestuous, tornadic, touchy, vehement, violent, wild

• volcano, belch, burst, cascade, debouchment, dissiliency, eructation, eruption, flare-up, gush, jet, outbreak, outburst, rapids, rush, spate, spew, spurt, torrent, volcan

• volition, alternativity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option, command, conation, conatus, decision, desire, determination, discretion, disposition, election, fancy, first choice, free choice, free will, inclination, intention, liking, lust, mind, objective, option, passion, pick, pleasure, preference, preoption, resolution, selection, sexual desire, the pick, velleity, will, will power, wish

• volley, antiaircraft barrage, arrow, arrowhead, badinage, bang, bantering, barb, bark, barrage, blast, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bombardment, bowshot, box barrage, broadside, bullet, burst, cannon, cannonade, cannonry, chested arrow, cloth yard shaft, crack, creeping barrage, crossfire, dart, deluge, detonation, discharge, drumfire, ejection, emergency barrage, enfilade, exchange, explosion, flight, flood, fulmination, fusillade, give and take, gun, gunfire, gunshot, hail, interaction, inundation, mortar barrage, normal barrage, outbreak, outpouring, pop, potshot, quarrel, reciprocity, reed, salvo, shaft, shot, shower, spray, standing barrage, stoneshot, storm, tattoo, to-and-fro, torrent, volleying

• volplane, acrobatics, aerobatics, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, balloon, banking, be airborne, chandelle, crabbing, cruise, dive, diving, drift, ferry, fishtailing, flit, fly, glide, hop, hover, hydroplane, jet, navigate, nose dive, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rolling, sail, sailplane, seaplane, sideslip, soar, spiral, stall, stunting, tactical maneuvers, take the air, take wing, wing, zoom

• volte face, about-face, about-turn, afterthoughts, alchemy, assimilation, assumption, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backup, becoming, better thoughts, change, change of mind, change-over, conversion, flip, flip-flop, growth, lapse, mature judgment, naturalization, passage, progress, re-formation, reconversion, reduction, resolution, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, shift, swingaround, switch, switch-over, tergiversating, tergiversation, transformation, transit, transition, turnabout, turnaround, turning into

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

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

• volume, abundance, accommodation, acreage, acres, aggregate, amount, amplitude, area, armful, article, back number, bagful, bags, barrelful, barrels, basketful, best seller, bigness, binful, body, book, bottleful, bound book, bowlful, breadth, bulk, burden, bushel, caliber, capacity, capful, caseful, chapter, classic, clause, collection, coloring book, column, content, continuum, copiousness, copy, cordage, countlessness, coverage, crescendo, definitive work, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, edition, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, fascicle, field, flood, folio, fullness, galactic space, gauge, girth, great work, greatness, handful, hardback, height, impression, infinite space, installment, intensity, interstellar space, issue, juvenile, juvenile book, kettleful, lapful, largeness, length, library, library edition, limit, limp-cover book, livraison, load, loudishness, loudness, magnitude, magnum opus, mass, measure, measurement, mountain, mouthful, much, multitude, nonbook, notebook, nothingness, novel, number, numerousness, object, ocean, oceans, opus, opuscule, opusculum, outer space, paperback, paragraph, part, passage, peck, phrase, picture book, playbook, plenitude, plenty, pocket book, poundage, prayer book, printing, production, profusion, proportion, proportions, psalmbook, psalter, publication, quantities, quantity, radius, range, reach, room, scale, school edition, scope, sea, section, serial, series, set, size, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, sonority, sonorousness, space, spate, spatial extension, sphere, spread, standard work, storybook, stowage, sum total, superabundance, superficial extension, superfluity, supply, surface, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling, title, tome, tonnage, tons, tract, trade book, trade edition, verse, void, width, work, world, worlds, writing

• voluminous, Gargantuan, ample, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, big, billowing, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious, cavernous, colossal, commodious, comprehensive, copious, cosmic, deep, enormous, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-reaching, galactic, generous, gigantic, great, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, king-size, large, legion, loose, mammoth, massive, massy, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, outsize, overgrown, oversized, populous, prodigious, roomy, several, sizable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, substantial, sundry, titanic, tremendous, various, vast, weighty, wide, widespread

• voluntarily, advisedly, by choice, by design, calculatedly, consciously, contemplatedly, deliberately, designedly, electively, freely, gratis, gratuitously, in cold blood, independently, intentionally, knowingly, meditatedly, on purpose, optionally, pointedly, premeditatedly, purposefully, purposely, purposively, spontaneously, willfully, willingly, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose, without coercion, wittingly

• voluntary muscle, adductor, beef, beefiness, biceps, brawn, brawniness, buccinator, elasticity, gemellus, gluteus maximus, heftiness, huskiness, infraspinatus, intercostal, involuntary muscle, latissimus dorsi, levator, masseter, mentalis, muscle, muscularity, musculature, mylohyoid, nasalis, oblique, occipitalis, omohyoid, pectineus, pectoralis, peroneus, physique, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, sphincter, tensor, thew, thewiness, thews, tone, trapezius, triceps

• voluntary, Vorspiel, advised, aimed, aimed at, alternative, arbitrary, autonomous, avant-propos, breakthrough, calculated, chosen, conative, concert overture, conscious, considered, contemplated, curtain raiser, deliberate, deliberated, descant, designed, discretional, discretionary, disjunctive, dramatic overture, elected, elective, envisaged, envisioned, exordium, foreword, free, free will, front matter, frontispiece, gratuitous, independent, innovation, intended, intentional, introduction, knowing, leap, meant, meditated, nonmandatory, of design, offered, operatic overture, optional, overture, planned, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premeditated, premise, presupposition, proem, proffered, projected, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, proposed, protasis, purposed, purposeful, purposive, self-acting, self-active, self-determined, self-determining, spontaneous, studied, teleological, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, vamp, verse, volitional, volunteer, willful, willing, witting

• volunteer, arbitrary, autonomous, autonomousness, autonomy, come forward, discretional, discretionary, do independently, do voluntarily, elective, free, free will, gratuitous, gratuitousness, independence, independent, need no prodding, nonmandatory, offered, optional, proffered, self-acting, self-action, self-active, self-activity, self-determination, self-determined, self-determining, spontaneity, spontaneous, spontaneousness, step forward, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, unforcedness, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntary, voluntaryism, volunteer militia, volunteer navy, volunteering, willful

• voluptuous, Cyrenaic, abandoned, alluring, amorous, appealing, appetitive, attractive, beautiful, bent on pleasure, bewitching, built, busty, buxom, captivating, carnal, charming, curvaceous, delicious, delightful, desirable, dissipated, dissolute, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, epicurean, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, excessive, exquisite, eye-filling, fascinating, fetching, fleshly, gamic, gorgeous, heart-robbing, hedonistic, heterosexual, indulgent, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, libidinal, lovely, luscious, lush, luxurious, luxury-loving, nuptial, oversexed, pleasure-bent, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, potent, prepossessing, procreative, ravishing, seductive, self-indulgent, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, shapely, straight, sybaritic, sybaritical, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling, titillative, unchaste, undersexed, venereal, voluptuary, wanton, well-built, well-proportioned, well-stacked, winning, winsome, witching

• volute, anfractuous, cirrus, cochlear, cochleate, coil, corkscrew, corkscrewy, curl, curlicue, evolute, gyre, helical, helicoid, helix, involute, kink, ringlet, roll, screw, screw-shaped, scroll, scrolled, spiral, spiroid, swirl, tendril, turbinal, turbinate, twirl, twist, verticillate, voluted, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl, whorled

• vomit, barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, belch, blow open, blow out, break out, bring up, burst forth, burst out, cascade, cast, cat, choke on, chuck up, discharge, disgorge, disgorgement, drain, drain out, egest, egesta, egestion, eject, emetic, empty, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, feed the fish, feel disgust, find vent, flow, flow out, gag, gagging, gush, gush out, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, hurl forth, jet, keck, nausea, nauseant, outflow, outpour, play, pour, pour out, puke, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, run out, shoot, sick up, sicken at, sluice out, spew, spew out, spit, spout, spout out, spray, spritz, spurt, spurtle, spy, squirt, surge, throw up, upchuck, vomit forth, vomit out, vomiting, vomition, vomitive, well, well out

• vomiting, abscess, ague, airsickness, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, barf, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, car sickness, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, disgorgement, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, egesta, egestion, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, gagging, growth, heaves, heaving, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, mal de mer, marasmus, motion sickness, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, puke, qualm, qualmishness, queasiness, rash, regurgitation, rheum, sclerosis, seasickness, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spew, squeamishness, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, upset stomach, vertigo, vomit, vomition, wasting

• vomitory, avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, door, egress, ejaculative, ejective, emetic, emunctory, eructative, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expulsive, extrusive, flatulent, floodgate, flume, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, sally port, sluice, spiracle, spout, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitive, way out, weir

• vomity, bad, barfy, brackish, bum, cheesy, cloying, crappy, creepy, crummy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gloppy, godawful, goshawful, grim, gunky, hairy, high, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, stinky, vile, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky

• voodoo, Jonah, alchemy, amulet, bad influence, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchery, cantrip, charm, conjurer, curse, demonize, diabolize, divination, enchant, enchanter, enchantment, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, exorciser, exorcist, fetish, fetishism, fylfot, gammadion, glamour, good-luck charm, gramarye, hex, hoodoo, ill wind, incantational, incantatory, jinx, juju, jujuism, love charm, lucky bean, lucky piece, madstone, mage, magian, magic, magus, malevolent influence, malocchio, mascot, medicine man, mumbo jumbo, mundunugu, natural magic, necromancer, necromancy, necromantic, numinous, obeah, obeah doctor, obsess, overlook, periapt, philter, phylactery, possess, rune, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, shaman, shamanic, shamanism, shamanist, shamanistic, sorcerer, sorcerous, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sudarium, swastika, sympathetic magic, talisman, talismanic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgic, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, unspeller, vampirism, veronica, voodooism, voodooist, voodooistic, wanga, wangateur, warlock, weird, whammy, white magic, witch, witch doctor, witch master, witch-finder, witchcraft, witchery, witchlike, witchman, witchwork, witchy, wizard, wizardlike, wizardly, wizardry

• voodooism, alchemy, bewitchery, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, rune, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voodoo, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry

• voracious, Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, ardent, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog-hungry, eager, earnest, edacious, empty, enormous, enthusiastic, esurient, famished, famishing, fasting, fervent, fervid, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, passionate, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, prodigious, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, satiating, sating, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing, surfeiting, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, wolfing, wolfish, zealous

• voracity, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, edacity, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness, itching palm, lust, omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence, piggishness, polyphagia, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, sordidness, swinish gluttony, swinishness, voraciousness, wolfishness

• vortex, Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, cirrus, coil, commotion, condensation trail, contrail, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, curl, curlicue, disturbance, dizzy round, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, exhaust, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, involute, kink, maelstrom, pell-mell, perturbation, pirouette, pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, ringlet, roll, round, ruffle, scramble, screw, scroll, spasm, spin, spiral, spout, spurt, stew, stir, stream, surge, sweat, swirl, swirling, tendril, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twist, unquiet, uproar, vapor trail, volute, volution, wake, wash, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl, yeastiness

• vortical, affluent, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, confluent, coursing, cyclonic, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, gulfy, gushing, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, mazy, meandering, pouring, profluent, racing, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, serpentine, sluggish, streaming, surging, surgy, swirly, tidal, tornadic, trochilic, vertiginous, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly

• votary, Christian, God-fearing man, Maecenas, abettor, accepter, addict, adherent, admirer, adorer, advocate, aficionado, amateur, angel, apologist, appendage, aspirant, aspirer, attendant, backer, beadsman, believer, booster, buff, candidate, catechumen, cavaliere servente, celebrant, champion, chapelgoer, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, collector, communicant, congregation, convert, courtier, coveter, creature, daily communicant, dangler, defender, dependence, dependent, desirer, devotee, devotionalist, dilettante, disciple, dummy, encourager, endorser, evangelist, exponent, fan, fanatic, fancier, favorer, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, freak, friend at court, gillie, good Christian, goon, groupie, habitue, hanger-on, hankerer, henchman, homme de cour, hopeful, hound, idolater, idolizer, jackal, lackey, lover, mainstay, maintainer, man, minion, myrmidon, neophyte, paranymph, parasite, partisan, patron, petitioner, pietist, prayer, promoter, proselyte, protagonist, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, receiver, reliance, religionist, revivalist, rooter, saint, satellite, second, seconder, sectary, shadow, sider, solicitant, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stooge, successor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, support, supporter, sustainer, sycophant, sympathizer, tagtail, tail, theist, thug, trainbearer, truster, upholder, venerator, wanter, ward heeler, well-wisher, wisher, worshiper, yearner, zealot

• vote, Australian ballot, Hare system, OK, PR, absentee voting, acceptance, adherence, admiration, approbation, approval, aye, back, back up, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, blessing, canvass, canvassing, card voting, cast a ballot, casting vote, chip in, choose, cloture, colonization, committee consideration, contribute, countenance, counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting, debate, deciding vote, deliberation, desire, divide, division, elect, election fraud, elector, endorse, endorsement, enfranchisement, enter into, esteem, fagot vote, favor, favorable vote, female suffrage, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, floating, franchise, go into, graveyard vote, hand vote, have suffrage, help decide, household franchise, introduction, join, join in, list system, logrolling, make the scene, manhood suffrage, nay, no, nontransferable vote, opinion, opt, partake, partake of, participate, participate in, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll, polling, preference, preferential system, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, pull an oar, record vote, referendum, repeating, representation, respect, right to vote, rising vote, roll call, sanction, say, seal of approval, second reading, secret ballot, show of hands, single system, single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district, sit in, sit in on, snap vote, stamp of approval, steamroller methods, straw vote, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettism, suffragism, suffragist, support, tabling, take part in, talkathon, the vote, third reading, ticket, transferable vote, universal suffrage, viva voce, voice, voice vote, voter, voting, voting machine, voting right, woman-suffragist, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea vote, yeas and nays, yes

• voting, Australian ballot, Hare system, PR, absentee voting, association, aye, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, canvass, canvassing, card voting, casting vote, cochairmanship, colonization, complicity, condominium, contribution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, election fraud, enfranchisement, engagement, fagot vote, floating, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, having a part, involvement, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, list system, nay, no, nontransferable vote, partaking, participation, partnership, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential system, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, record vote, referendum, repeating, representation, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, sharing, show of hands, single system, single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district, snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting machine, voting right, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

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

• votive offering, alms, alms fee, burnt offering, charity, collection, contribution, dole, donation, donative, drink offering, ex voto offering, handout, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, libation, mactation, oblation, offering, offertory, peace offering, piacular offering, pittance, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, subscription, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, tithe, whole offering

• vouch, acknowledge, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allege, and candle, announcement, annunciation, assert under oath, assertion, asseverate, asseveration, assure, attest, aver, averment, avouch, avouchment, avow, avowal, back up, bear witness, book, certify, conclusion, confirm, corroborate, countersign, creed, declaration, depone, depose, dictum, disclose, endorse, enunciation, give evidence, guarantee, ipse dixit, kiss the book, make a promise, manifesto, pledge, plight, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, promise, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, prove, say, say-so, saying, sponsor, stance, stand, statement, substantiate, support, swear, swear by bell, swear the truth, swear to, swear to God, swear to goodness, testify, troth, underwrite, uphold, utterance, verify, vouch for, vow, warrant, witness, word

• vouched for, affirmed, alleged, announced, asserted, asseverated, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, certified, declared, deposed, enunciated, manifestoed, pledged, predicated, professed, pronounced, stated, sworn, sworn to, vouched, vowed, warranted

• voucher, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, acknowledgment, acquittance, advocacy, advocating, advocation, affidavit, attestant, attestation, attestator, attester, authority, authorization, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of health, blank check, bystander, canceled check, certificate, certificate of character, certificate of deposit, certificate of proficiency, certification, certified check, character, character reference, check, checkbook, cheque, cojuror, commercial paper, compurgator, credential, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deponent, deposition, diploma, discharge, draft, due bill, earwitness, exchequer bill, eyewitness, informant, informer, letter of credit, letter of introduction, money order, navicert, negotiable instrument, notarized statement, note, note of hand, paper, passerby, patronage, postal order, promissory note, quittance, receipt, receipt in full, recommend, recommendation, reference, release, sheepskin, sight bill, sight draft, spectator, swearer, sworn statement, testamur, testifier, testimonial, ticket, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, visa, vise, warrant, warranty, witness

• vouchsafe, OK, accord, administer, admit, afford, allot, allow, award, bestow, bestow on, communicate, condescend, confer, consent, deal, deal out, deign, descend, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, extend, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, leave, let, let have, lower oneself, make possible, mete, mete out, offer, okay, permit, pour, present, proffer, rain, release, render, say the word, serve, shell out, shower, slip, snow, stoop, suffer, supply, tender, yield

• vow, Bible oath, affirm, and candle, assert, assert under oath, asseverate, assurance, assure, attest, avouch, avouchment, avow, book, certify, confess, countersign, covenant, declare, depone, depose, express the belief, extrajudicial oath, faith, guarantee, ironclad oath, judicial oath, kiss the book, loyalty oath, make a promise, oath, oath of allegiance, oath of office, official oath, parole, pledge, plight, profess, promise, solemn declaration, solemn oath, state, swan, swear, swear by bell, swear the truth, swear to, swear to God, swear to goodness, test oath, testify, troth, underwrite, vouch, warrant, warranty, word, word of honor

• vowel, accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, 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, 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, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocal, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowellike, weak, wide

• voyage, boat, campaign, canoe, carry sail, circuit, circumnavigate, coast, course, cover, cross, crossing, cruise, do, excursion, expedition, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go by ship, go on safari, go on shipboard, go over, go overseas, go to sea, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, leg, make a journey, make a passage, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, measure, motorboat, navigate, ocean trip, outing, overpass, package tour, pass over, pass through, passage, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, ply, progress, range, range over, range the world, reconnoiter, round trip, row, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sally, scour, scour the country, scout, scull, sea trip, seafare, shakedown cruise, shoot, sight-see, stalk, steam, steamboat, sweep, take a trip, take a voyage, take the road, tour, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, trek, trip, turn, wayfare, yacht

• voyager, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

• voyeur, Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, bugger, busybody, coprophiliac, eavesdropper, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fetishist, gossip, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, masochist, narcissist, necrophiliac, nosy Parker, nymphomaniac, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, peeper, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, rapist, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sadist, satyr, scopophiliac, scotophiliac, sightseer, snoop, snooper, sodomist, sodomite, transvestite, yenta, zoophiliac

• voyeurism, active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, coprophilia, curiosity, curious mind, curiousness, exhibitionism, fetishism, ghoulishness, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incest, incestuousness, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, interest, itch for knowledge, lesbianism, lively interest, masochism, meddlesomeness, mental acquisitiveness, morbid curiosity, narcissism, necrophilia, nosiness, officiousness, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, prurience, prurient interest, prying, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scopophilia, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, thirst for knowledge, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, zooerastia, zoophilia

• VP, archon, chancellor, chief executive, chief executive officer, dean, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, magistrate, management, managing director, officer, official, prefect, president, prexy, provost, secretary, the administration, treasurer, vice-chancellor, vice-president, warden

• Vulcan, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Wayland, Zeus, farrier, forger, metalworker, smith

• vulcanize, blaze, blister, brand, burn, burn in, burn off, cast, cauterize, char, coal, crack, cupel, elasticize, flame, found, oxidate, oxidize, parch, pyrolyze, rubber, rubberize, scorch, sear, singe, solder, swinge, torrefy, vesicate, weld

• vulgar language, argot, bad language, billingsgate, blue language, cant, colorful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, gibberish, gobbledygook, jargon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, obscenity, patois, patter, phraseology, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, slang, strong language, swearing, taboo language, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vernacular, vile language, vocabulary

• vulgar, Doric, average, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, baseborn, below the salt, blatant, blue, boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, broad, cacophonous, caddish, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, cockney, colloquial, colorful, common, commonplace, conversational, crass, crude, demeaning, dirty, disadvantaged, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, everyday, extravagant, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flash, flaunting, frank, garish, gauche, gaudy, general, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, gutter, harsh, homely, homespun, household, humble, idiomatic, ignoble, ill-bred, improper, impure, in bad taste, in the shade, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, insensitive, junior, lascivious, less, lesser, lewd, licentious, loathsome, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-class, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowly, lurid, lustful, mean, meretricious, minor, modest, nasty, naughty, nonclerical, obscene, obtrusive, off color, offensive, ordinary, ostentatious, outlandish, plain, plebeian, popular, pornographic, profane, rank, raunchy, raw, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, rough, rude, salacious, scatological, screaming, second rank, second string, secondary, sensational, servile, shabby-genteel, shameless, smutty, spectacular, spoken, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, tactless, tasteless, tawdry, third rank, third string, third-estate, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, underprivileged, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfitting, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unladylike, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, unsolicitous, unsuitable, untasteful, vernacular, vile, vulgate, wild

• vulgarian, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, churl, clown, epicier, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, upstart, vulgarist, yokel

• vulgarism, Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heaviness, high camp, ill-balanced sentences, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, kitsch, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, localism, low camp, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slang, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, taboo word, tastelessness, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, unfittingness, ungracefulness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vernacularism, vulgar taste, vulgarity, vulgarness

• vulgarity, Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy, dysphemism, earthiness, failure, fewness, filthiness, foulness, frankness, gaucherie, gracelessness, gross behavior, grossness, harshness, heaviness, humbleness, ignobility, ill breeding, ill manners, ill-balanced sentences, imperfection, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, inadequacy, incivility, incompetence, inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, insensitivity, insufficiency, inurbanity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lack of refinement, leadenness, lewdness, littleness, loutishness, maladroitness, mannerlessness, meanness, mediocrity, obscenity, offensiveness, pettiness, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, raciness, rankness, rawness, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shabbiness, slipshod construction, smallness, spiciness, stiltedness, subnormality, tactlessness, tastelessness, tawdriness, triviality, turgidity, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsolicitousness, unsophistication, unwieldiness, vileness, vulgarism

• vulgarize, adulterate, alloy, canker, cheapen, clarify, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, elucidate, explain, explicate, get across, get over, infect, make clear, make it clear, misuse, pervert, poison, pollute, popularize, prostitute, put across, put over, ravage, ravish, simplify, spell out, taint, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, warp

• vulnerability, ad lib, assailability, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, chink, crackability, crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, delicacy, disqualification, exposure, extemporaneousness, fissility, flimsiness, fracturableness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, friability, heel of Achilles, improvisation, incapability, incompetence, lacerability, lack of preparation, liability, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, openness, penetrability, planlessness, pregnability, soft spot, susceptibility, susceptivity, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vincibility, vulnerable point, weak link, weak point, weakness

• vulnerable, aidless, answerable for, apt to, assailable, attackable, beatable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, capable of, conquerable, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, defenseless, delicate, dependent on, exposed to, expugnable, fatherless, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, friendless, guideless, helpless, in danger of, incident to, lacerable, leaderless, liable to, likely to, motherless, naked to, obliged to, open to, penetrable, pregnable, prone to, ready for, responsible for, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, standing to, subject to, surmountable, susceptive to, unfriended, unprotected, untenable, vincible, weak, within range of

• vulpine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, canine, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, doggy, feline, foxlike, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lupine, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, wary, wily, wolfish

• vulture, blackmailer, bloodsucker, extortionist, filch, harpy, heist, hook, leech, lift, pinch, predator, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, shakedown artist, shark, snitch, swipe, vampire

• vulva, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, beard, breasts, cervix, clitoris, cod, cods, cullions, family jewels, female organs, genitalia, genitals, gonads, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, meat, nuts, nymphae, ovary, penis, phallus, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, spermary, testes, testicles, uterus, vagina, womb, yoni

• vying, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, clashing, collision, competing, competition, competitive, conflict, contrariety, contrariness, cross-purposes, cutthroat, cutthroat competition, disaccord, dissension, emulation, emulous, enmity, fractiousness, friction, gamesmanship, hostility, in competition, in rivalry, inimicalness, jockeying, lifemanship, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, repugnance, rival, rivaling, rivalry, uncooperativeness

• wacky, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, demented, deranged, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, harebrained, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, peculiar, potty, preposterous, queer, quirky, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wet, whimsical, witless

• wad, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim, bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump, compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal, ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal, good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk, inlay, interline, jam, jam-pack, jillion, lade, large sum, lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack, packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful, power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring, sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks, stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum, tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight, whole slew

• wadding, bush, bushing, doubling, doublure, facing, filler, filling, gasket, gland, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, liner, lining, packing, padding, stopping, stuffing, tampon, wainscot

• waddle, amble, andante, barge, bowl along, bundle, claudicate, claudication, clump, crawl, creep, dead march, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, funeral march, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go slow, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, laze, leisurely gait, limp, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, mince, mincing steps, mosey, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, poke, poke along, prance, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trudge, velocity, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along

• wade into, ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, enter on, enter upon, fall on, fall to, fall upon, gang up on, get busy, get cracking, get going, get with it, go at, go for, go to it, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, hop to it, jump, jump to it, land on, launch into, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, light into, mug, pitch in, pitch into, plunge into, pounce upon, pound, sail into, set about, set at, set on, set to, set to work, set upon, start in, strike, surprise, swoop down on, tackle, take on, take the offensive, turn to, undertake

• wade through, bone, con, contemplate, dig, drill, drudge, elucubrate, examine, fag, go over, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, lucubrate, moil, peg, peg away, peruse, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plunge into, pore over, pound away, practice, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, slog, study, swot, toil, travail, vet, work away

• wadi, abysm, abyss, adolescent stream, aqueduct, arroyo, beck, bed, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, bourn, box canyon, braided stream, branch, breach, break, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, canyon, cavity, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, crick, culvert, cut, cwm, dale, defile, dell, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flowing stream, flume, fluviation, fracture, fresh, freshet, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incision, intervale, irrigation ditch, joint, kill, kloof, lazy stream, leak, lunar rill, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moat, moving road, navigable river, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, race, racing stream, ravine, rent, rift, rime, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, rupture, scissure, seam, sike, slit, slot, sluice, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, split, strath, stream, stream action, stream bed, streamlet, streamway, subterranean river, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, vale, valley, void, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks

• wading, Australian crawl, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, natation, sidestroke, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming

• wafer, Brussels biscuit, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Melba toast, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, biscuit, bread, bread and wine, coat, coating, collop, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, covering, cracker, cut, deal, disk, elements, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, graham cracker, gruel, hardtack, impanation, intinction, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, leaf, loaf, membrane, mere shadow, pane, panel, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, pilot biscuit, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pretzel, rail, rake, rasher, real presence, rusk, safety glass, saltine, scum, sea biscuit, shadow, shaving, sheet, ship biscuit, sinker, skeleton, skin, slab, slat, slice, slip, soda cracker, soup, splinter, streak, subpanation, table, tablet, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, vein, veneer, zwieback

• waffle, babble, back and fill, blab, blabber, blather, blether, blintz, buckwheat cake, bull, bullshit, chat, chatter, cheese blintz, clack, clatter, crepe, dither, dodge, drivel, drool, duck, equivocate, evade, flapcake, flapjack, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, griddlecake, gush, haver, hem and haw, hot cake, hum and haw, jabber, jaw, mince the truth, mince words, natter, palacsinta, palaver, palter, pancake, parry, patter, piffle, pour forth, prate, prattle, prevaricate, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, sidestep, spout, spout off, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, tergiversate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, vapor, weasel, yak, yakkety-yak

• waft, air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, bear, bear up, bearing, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, breath, breath of air, breeze, breeze up, brew, buoy, buoy up, capful of wind, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, come up, conduct, convey, conveyance, drayage, expressage, ferriage, flatus, float, float high, fly, freight, freightage, freshen, gather, haulage, hauling, hold up, huff, lift, lighterage, lug, lugging, manhandle, pack, packing, pipe up, portage, porterage, puff, puff of air, puff of wind, rage, railway express, ride high, set in, shipment, shipping, squall, stir of air, storm, sustain, take, telpherage, tote, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, upbear, uphold, uplift, upraise, waftage, wagonage, whiff, whiffet, whiffle, whisk, wing

• wag, bad boy, banana, beat, bob, bobble, booger, brandish, buffoon, bugger, burlesquer, card, careen, caricaturist, clown, coggle, comedian, comic, cutup, dangle, devil, droll, elf, enfant terrible, epigrammatist, farceur, flap, flaunt, float, flourish, fluctuate, flutter, fly, funmaker, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, humorist, imp, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, kidder, knave, lampooner, lash, librate, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lurch, madcap, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, nutate, oscillate, parodist, pendulate, pitch, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, punner, punster, quipster, rapscallion, rascal, reel, reparteeist, resonate, rock, rogue, roll, rowdy, ruffian, satirist, scamp, scapegrace, shake, show-off, squirm, swag, sway, swing, swinging, switch, take, toss, twist and turn, twitch, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, waggle, wagwit, wave, waver, wield, wiggle, wigwag, wisecracker, wit, witling, wobble, wriggle, writhe, zany

• wage earner, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman

• wage war, battle, box, brawl, broil, carry on hostilities, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust, duel, engage in hostilities, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, jostle, joust, make war, mix it up, quarrel, rassle, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scuffle, shed blood, skirmish, spar, spill blood, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, tussle, war, wrestle

• wage, base pay, carry on, compensation, conduct, dismissal wage, do, earnings, employ, engage in, escalator clause, escalator plan, exercise, financial remuneration, follow, go in for, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, practice, prosecute, purchasing power, pursue, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, specialize in, tackle, take on, take to, take up, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, undertake, use, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, work at

• wager, adventure, ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, blind bargain, book, borderline case, call, chance, chance it, chunk, contingency, cover, double contingency, fade, gamble, gamble on, game, guess, handbook, hazard, lay, lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, open question, parlay, pass, piece of guesswork, play, play against, plunge, pot, punt, put on, question, rely on fortune, risk, run a chance, run the risk, see, set, set at hazard, shot, sight-unseen transaction, stake, stand pat, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, tempt fortune, toss-up, touch and go, trust to chance, try the chance, undecided issue, venture

• waggery, crack, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, drollery, elfishness, flippancy, foolishness, frivolity, gag, high spirits, impishness, jape, jest, levity, merriment, mischief, mischievousness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, quip, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, sportiveness, trickery, trickiness, waggishness, wisecrack, witticism, yak, youthful spirits

• waggish, antic, arch, capersome, comic, comical, devilish, droll, elfish, elvish, facetious, foolish, frolicsome, full of mischief, funny, gamesome, high-spirited, humorous, impish, jocose, jocular, knavish, laughable, ludicrous, mischief-loving, mischievous, pert, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, roguish, rompish, saucy, scampish, scapegrace, sportful, sportive, trickish, tricksy, tricky, witty

• waggle, beat, bob, bobble, careen, coggle, dangle, fluctuate, flutter, lash, librate, lurch, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, reel, resonate, rock, roll, shake, squirm, swag, sway, swing, swinging, switch, toss, twist and turn, vacillate, vibrate, waddle, wag, wave, waver, wiggle, wobble, wriggle, writhe

• wagon, Black Maria, Conestoga wagon, barge, boat, bus, caravan, carryall, cart, coach, covered wagon, cruiser, dray, ferry, float, haul, haywagon, lighter, paddy wagon, patrol car, patrol wagon, police van, prairie schooner, prowl car, raft, ship, sled, sledge, squad car, truck, van, waggon, wain, wheelbarrow

• wagoner, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, Jehu, bearer, bheesty, bullwhacker, busboy, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, caddie, cameleer, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, cartman, charioteer, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, cupbearer, drayman, driver, elephant driver, express, expressman, freighter, gharry-wallah, gun bearer, hack, hackman, hacky, harness racer, hauler, homing pigeon, letter carrier, litter-bearer, mahout, mule skinner, muleteer, porter, redcap, reinsman, shield-bearer, skinner, skycap, stage coachman, stevedore, stretcher-bearer, teamster, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, truckman, vetturino, voiturier, wagonman, water boy, water carrier, whip

• waif, Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard, dogie, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, foundling, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, jetsam, junk, lagan, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, losel, mudlark, orphan, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, refuse, reject, rounder, rubbish, ski bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, trash, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waifs and strays, wastrel

• wail, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, boohoo, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, chant, chirp, coo, creak, crow, cry, cry out, dolorous tirade, drawl, exclaim, flute, fuss, gasp, give tongue, give voice, groan, growl, grunt, hiss, howl, jeremiad, keen, kick, lament, lilt, low, make an outcry, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, outcry, pant, pipe, plaint, planctus, pule, quest, repine, roar, rumble, screak, scream, screech, shriek, shrill, sibilate, sigh, sing, skirl, skreigh, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sough, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, thunder, tirade, troat, trumpet, twang, ululate, ululation, wail of woe, warble, weep, whicker, whimper, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yowl

• wailing, acute, argute, bawling, bemoaning, bewailing, blatant, creaky, crying, ear-piercing, grieving, howling, in mourning, keen, keening, lamentation, lamenting, lowing, moaning, mourning, mugient, penetrating, piercing, piping, puling, reedy, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sorrow, sorrowing, squeaking, squeaky, thin, ululant, ululation, whining, whistling

• wainscot, base, baseboard, basement, bush, bushing, ceil, chassis, dado, doubling, doublure, face, facing, feather, fill, filler, filling, foot, footing, foundation, frame, fur, inlay, inlayer, insole, interline, interlineation, keel, line, liner, lining, load, mopboard, nadir, pack, packing, pad, padding, shoemold, sole, stuff, stuffing, toe, wad, wadding

• waist, blouse, bodice, center, core, corsage, diameter, diaphragm, dickey, equator, heart, interior, kernel, linen, mean, median, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, nucleus, shift, shirt, thick, thick of things, waistline, zone

• waistband, baldric, band, bandolier, bellyband, belt, breechclout, cestus, cincture, cummerbund, dhoti, diaper, fascia, girdle, girt, girth, loincloth, loinguard, moocha, napkins, sash, waist belt, waistcloth

• waistline, center, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, heart, interior, kernel, mean, median, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, nucleus, thick, thick of things, waist, zone

• wait on, abide, accompany, administer to, associate, associate with, assort with, attend, attend on, await, band together, bide, care for, cater to, chaperon, chore, combine, companion, conduct, confederate, consociate, consort with, convoy, couple with, dance attendance upon, do for, do service, do service to, drudge, escort, esquire, fetch and carry, flock together, go along with, go with, guard, guide, hang around with, help, herd together, keep company with, lackey, lead, look after, maid, mark time, marshal, minister to, mother, nurse, pander to, pay attentions to, run with, serve, shepherd, sit up for, squire, stay up for, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take care of, take out, tend, toady to, truckle to, upon, usher, valet, wait, wait for, wait up for, watch, watch and wait, work for

• wait, abide, administer to, afterthought, attend, attend on, await, ballad singer, balladeer, bard, be patient, bear with composure, bide, bide the issue, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, care for, carry on, carry through, chore, dally, dance attendance upon, dawdle, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, dillydally, do for, do service to, double take, dragging, drudge, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, forbear, gleeman, halt, hang about, hang around, hang-up, help, hindrance, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, holdup, interim, jam, jongleur, lackey, lag, lagging, linger, logjam, loiter, look after, maid, mark time, minister to, minnesinger, minstrel, moratorium, obstruction, pander to, paperasserie, pause, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, remain, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, rhapsode, rhapsodist, scop, serenader, serve, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, stay, stay of execution, stay up, stay up for, stick, stick around, stop, stoppage, street singer, strolling minstrel, suspension, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take care of, take time, tarry, tend, tie-up, time lag, troubadour, trovatore, upon, valet, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait it out, wait on, wait up for, wandering minstrel, watch, watch and wait, work for

• waiting game, a wise passiveness, acceptance, contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, indulgence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, self-control, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stoicism, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting it out, watching and waiting

• waiting, about to be, agape, agog, all agog, already in sight, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxiety, apprehension, approaching, at hand, attendant, attending, awaiting, brewing, certain, cliff-hanging, close, close at hand, coming, confident, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dread, eager, expectant, expectant waiting, expecting, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, forthcoming, future, gaping, gathering, going to happen, helping, hopeful, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in anticipation, in danger imminent, in expectation, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, lingering, looking for, looking forward to, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, menial, ministering, near, near at hand, nearing, not surprised, on the horizon, optimistic, overhanging, pessimism, prepared, preparing, ready, sanguine, servile, serving, servitorial, sure, suspense, tarriance, tarrying, that will be, threatening, to come, uncertainty, unsurprised, upcoming, waiting for, watching for

• waive, abandon, abdicate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, abstain, acknowledge defeat, adjourn, admit, admit exceptions, allow, allow for, annul, brush aside, cancel, cease, cede, chuck, chuck out, come off, concede, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, contemn, continue, contradict, countermand, counterorder, cry quits, cut out, decline, defer, delay, deny, desist, desist from, despise, disannul, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discontinue, discount, disdain, disgorge, dismiss, disown, dispense with, dispose of, disregard, disuse, do away with, do without, drag out, drop, dump, except, exclude, extend, forbear, forgo, forswear, get along without, get rid of, give away, give over, give up, grant, hand over, hang fire, hang up, have done with, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, ignore, invalidate, keep back, keep in hand, kiss good-bye, lay aside, lay by, lay down, lay over, leave, leave off, let alone, let go, lift temporarily, make a sacrifice, make allowance for, make void, nol-pros, not pursue with, not touch, not use, nullify, override, overrule, part with, pass by, pass up, pigeonhole, postpone, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, provide for, push aside, put aside, put behind one, put off, put on ice, quit, quitclaim, rebuff, recall, recant, recess, refrain, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, relax, relax the condition, relinquish, render up, renege, renounce, repeal, repel, repudiate, repulse, rescind, reserve, resign, retract, reverse, revoke, sacrifice, save, scout, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, shove away, sleep on, spare, spurn, stand over, stave off, stay, stop, stretch out, surrender, suspend, swear off, table, take a recess, take account of, take into account, take into consideration, throw away, throw out, throw up, turn away, turn out, turn up, vacate, void, withdraw, write off, yield

• waived, abandoned, abjured, ceded, dispensed with, disposed of, extra, forgone, forsworn, fresh, held back, held in reserve, held out, in abeyance, in hand, mint, new, original, pristine, put aside, put by, recanted, released, relinquished, renounced, reserve, retracted, sacrificed, saved, spare, stored, surrendered, suspended, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, yielded

• waiver, OK, abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, admission, allowance, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, cessation, cession, charter, circumscription, cold storage, concession, consent, countermand, counterorder, deed of release, defeasance, desistance, discontinuance, dispensation, dropping out, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, forbearance, forswearing, grain of salt, grant, handing over, hedge, hedging, invalidation, leave, liberty, license, limitation, mental reservation, modification, nonexercise, nullification, okay, patent, permission, permission to enter, qualification, quitclaim, recall, recantation, release, relinquishment, renege, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reservation, resignation, restriction, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, salvo, setting aside, special case, special permission, special treatment, specialness, specification, surrender, suspension, ticket, ticket of admission, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, vouchsafement, waiving, withdrawal, withdrawing, write-off, yielding

• wake up, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, blow the coals, blow up, break the spell, burst the bubble, call forth, call up, come alive, correct, debunk, disabuse, disappoint, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, enkindle, enlighten, enrage, excite, expose, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get up, heat, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, key up, kindle, knock up, lather up, let down easy, let in on, light the fuse, light up, madden, move, overexcite, pique, prick the bubble, put straight, raise, raise up, rouse, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, set right, set straight, shake up, show up, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, tell the truth, turn on, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, unspell, wake, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, work into, work up

• wake, affair, afterclap, aftercrop, aftereffect, afterglow, aftergrowth, afterimage, aftermath, afterpart, afterpiece, aftertaste, alertness, all-night vigil, annoy, arise, arouse, at home, awake, awaken, backwash, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, burial service, call forth, call up, challenge, come alive, condensation trail, consciousness, contrail, course, deathwatch, dirge, enkindle, enrage, eulogy, excite, exequies, exhaust, extreme unction, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, freshen, funeral oration, funeral rites, gathering, get up, get-together, heat, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, key up, kindle, knock up, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, lather up, levee, lidless vigil, light the fuse, light up, line, madden, matinee, move, obsequies, overexcite, path, piste, queue, rally, reception, renew, requiem, requiem mass, restlessness, reunion, roll out, rouse, salon, scent, sentience, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shake up, signs, sleeplessness, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree, spoor, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stream, summon up, tab, tag, tail, tailpiece, tossing and turning, traces, track, trail, trailer, train, turn on, vapor trail, viaticum, vigil, vortex, wake up, wakefulness, waken, warm, warm the blood, wash, whet, whip up, work into, work up

• wakeful, agile, alert, alive, attentive, awake, bright, insomniac, insomnious, keen, nimble, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, prompt, qui vive, quick, ready, restless, sharp, sleepless, slumberless, smart, unblinking, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, wide-awake

• wale, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gathering, gnarl, grain, granular texture, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, indentation, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knub, knur, knurl, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, nap, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, protuberance, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shag, shoulder, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, structure, stud, sty, style, suppuration, surface, surface texture, swelling, tab, texture, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, warp, wart, weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whelp, whitehead, whitlow, woof, wound

• walk of life, art, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, craft, game, handicraft, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, metier, mission, mystery, number, occupation, practice, profession, pursuit, racket, specialization, specialty, trade, vocation, walk, work

• walk off with, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, breeze, carry by storm, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin, romp home, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, take by storm, thieve, walk over, waltz off with, win going away, win hands down

• walk on, actor, antagonist, antihero, bit, bit part, bit player, cast, character, cue, extra, fat part, feeder, figurant, figurante, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, mute, part, person, personage, piece, protagonist, role, side, soubrette, spear-carrier, stand-in, standby, straight part, substitute, supe, super, supernumerary, support, supporting actor, supporting cast, supporting character, supporting role, title role, understudy, villain, walking gentleman, walking part

• walk out, apostatize, betray, bolt, bow out, boycott, break away, call a strike, call it quits, close down, close shop, defect, depart, desert, egress, exit, get out, go on strike, go out, hold out, knock off, lay off, let down, lock out, make an exit, march out, pass out, picket, pull out, rat, revolt, run out, run out on, secede, secure, sell out, shut down, shut it down, shut up shop, sit down, slow down, stick out, strike

• walk over, beat down, break, breeze, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, carry by storm, castrate, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, daunt, despotize, domineer, domineer over, enslave, grind, grind down, henpeck, intimidate, keep down, keep under, lord it over, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, romp home, subjugate, suppress, take by storm, terrorize, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk off with, waltz off with, weigh heavy on, win going away, win hands down

• walk, Le Mans, agora, air lane, air race, airing, alameda, ambit, amble, ambulate, amphitheater, andante, ankle, area, arena, art, athletic field, auditorium, automobile race, background, bailiwick, bear garden, beat, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, bicycle race, boardwalk, boat race, border, borderland, bowl, boxing ring, bridle path, bull ring, business, calling, campus, canvas, career, career building, careerism, catwalk, champaign, circle, circuit, circumambulate, circus, claudicate, claudication, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, constitutional, contest of speed, course, craft, crawl, creep, cross-country race, cycle, dash, dead march, demesne, department, derby, discipline, dog race, dogtrot, domain, dominion, drag, drag along, drag out, drag race, droop, endurance race, esplanade, fastwalk, field, flight path, floor, flounce, foot, foot it, foot pavement, footpace, footpath, footrace, footway, forced march, forum, full circle, funeral march, gait, gallop, game, garden path, go dead slow, go slow, groove, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, handicraft, heat, hemisphere, hike, hiking trail, hippodrome, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoof it, hurdle race, idle, inch, inch along, itinerary, jaunt, jaywalk, jog, jog on, jog trot, jog-trot, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, lap, laze, leg, leg it, leisurely gait, lifework, limp, line, line of business, line of work, lists, locale, lock step, loop, lumber, lumbering pace, lurch, mall, marathon, marathon race, march, marketplace, mat, match race, metier, milieu, mince, mincing steps, mission, mosey, motorcycle race, mush, mystery, number, obstacle race, occupation, open forum, orb, orbit, pace, pad, paddle, palaestra, pale, parade, parade ground, path, pathway, pedestrianize, perambulate, peripatetic journey, peripateticate, peripateticism, piaffer, pit, place, platform, plod, poke, poke along, potato race, practice, prado, prance, precinct, primrose path, prize ring, profession, promenade, province, public square, public walk, purlieu, pursuit, race, rack, racket, ramble, range, realm, regatta, relay, relay race, revolution, ring, road, road race, roll, round, round trip, rounds, route, run, runway, rut, sack race, saunter, scene, scene of action, scenery, schlep, scuttle, sea lane, setting, shamble, shortcut, shuffle, shuffle along, sidewalk, sidle, single-foot, site, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, specialization, specialty, speedway race, sphere, sprint, sprint race, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stagger, stagger along, stalk, step, stock-car race, stretch, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, stump it, subdiscipline, swagger, swing, terrain, territory, theater, three-legged race, tilting ground, tiltyard, toddle, toddle along, torch race, totter, totter along, tour, towing path, towpath, track, track race, trade, trade route, trail, traipse, traject, trajectory, trajet, tramp, tread, troop, trot, trottoir, trudge, turn, velocity, vocation, waddle, walk of life, walking tour, walkway, work, worm, worm along, wrestling ring, yacht race

• walkaway, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, ascendancy, cakewalk, championship, conquest, easy victory, grand slam, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, mastery, moral victory, picnic, pushover, romp, rout, runaway victory, subdual, subduing, success, total victory, triumph, victory, walkover, win, winning, winning streak

• walker, ambulator, baby buggy, baby carriage, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, gocart, hiker, hitchhiker, hoofer, infantryman, jaywalker, marcher, paddlefoot, pedestrian, perambulator, peripatetic, pram, stroller, trailsman, tramper, walkist

• walking papers, cashiering, conge, deposal, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, drumming out, firing, forced separation, furloughing, layoff, pink slip, removal, retirement, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, ticket

• walking stick, Malacca cane, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, baton, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corset, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, crutch, crutch-stick, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, handstaff, jock, jockstrap, lituus, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, pastoral staff, paterissa, prop, quarterstaff, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shillelagh, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, swagger stick, swanking stick, upholder

• walking, ambling, ambulant, ambulation, ambulative, ambulatory, backpacking, circuit-riding, expeditionary, footing, footing it, footwork, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, going on foot, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hoofing, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, legwork, locomotive, lumbering, marching, moving, mundivagant, on tour, passing, pedestrian, pedestrianism, perambulating, perambulation, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, progressing, sauntering, staggering, strolling, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, touring, touristic, touristy, tramping, traveling, treading, trekking, trudging, waddling, wayfaring

• walkout, abandonment, apostasy, arrest, bell, betrayal, bolt, boycott, boycottage, breakaway, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, decampment, defection, departure, dereliction, deserter, desertion, egress, end, endgame, ending, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, final whistle, flight, full stop, getaway, going, grinding halt, gun, halt, hegira, job action, leaving, lockout, outlaw strike, parting, passing, ratting, removal, retirement, retreat, revolt, rulebook slowdown, schism, secession, sick-in, sit-down, sit-down strike, slowdown, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, sympathy strike, tie-up, turnout, wildcat strike, withdrawal, work stoppage

• walkway, alameda, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path, catwalk, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, garden path, groove, hiking trail, mall, parade, path, pathway, prado, promenade, public walk, run, runway, rut, sidewalk, towing path, towpath, track, trail, trottoir, walk

• wall in, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, board, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, brick, cage, chamber, check, clapboard, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crib, detain, encage, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, face, fence in, glass, glaze, hedge in, hem in, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lath, leaguer, mew, mew up, paper, pen, pen in, pen up, plank, pocket, pound, quarantine, rail in, restrain, restrict, revet, seal up, shackle, shake, sheathe, shingle, shrine, shut in, shut up, slate, stable, stone, surround, thatch, tile, veneer, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard, wrap, yard, yard up

• Wall Street, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Dow-Jones Industrial Average, Lombard Street, board, bourse, commodity exchange, competitive market, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, financial district, long market, market index, open market, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, spotty market, steady market, stiff market, stock exchange, stock market, stock price index, stock ticker, strong market, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, the Street, the market, third market, ticker, ticker market, ticker tape, top-heavy market, unsteady market, weak market, wheat pit

• wall, arch dam, arm, armor, armor-plate, backstop, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barbed wire, barrage, barricade, barrier, battle, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, block, blockade, bluff, boom, boundary, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulkhead in, bulwark, bumper, cage, castellate, cliff, cloison, close in, cofferdam, collision mat, contravallation, coop, corral, crag, crenellate, cushion, dam, defense, diaphragm, dig in, dike, dissepiment, ditch, divide, dividing line, dividing wall, division, earthwork, embankment, embattle, entrench, envelop, escarpment, face, fence, fence off, fences, fender, fortify, garrison, gate, gravity dam, groin, hedge, hedgerow, hem, hoarding, hydraulic-fill dam, immure, interseptum, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, man, man the garrison, mat, midriff, midsection, milldam, mine, moat, mole, mound, pad, pale, paling, palisade, palisades, panel, parapet, paries, partition, party wall, picket, portcullis, precipice, property line, rail, railing, rampart, retaining wall, roadblock, rock-fill dam, scar, scarp, seawall, separate, separation, septulum, septum, set apart, shock pad, shutter dam, steep, stockade, stone wall, stop, trellis, vallation, vallum, wall off, weir, wicket dam, work, zigzag fence

• walled, armored, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cased, ceiled, cloaked, cloistered, closed-in, clouded, coated, confined, cooped, coped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, covered, covert, cowled, cramped, cribbed, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enclosed, enveloped, enwrapped, fenced, filmed, floored, hedged, hemmed, hooded, housed, immured, imprisoned, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, mewed, muffled, mural, obscured, occulted, packaged, paled, parietal, partitioned, paved, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, roofed-in, screened, scummed, septal, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, shut-in, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled-in, wrapped

• walleye, amaurosis, blepharitis, bug-eyes, cast, cataract, choroiditis, cockeyes, conjunctivitis, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, cross-eyes, defective vision, detached retina, esotropia, exotropia, eye defect, glaucoma, goggle eyes, gutta serena, heterotropia, iritis, keratitis, optic neuritis, pink eye, popeyes, retinoblastoma, saucer eyes, squinch, squint, squint eyes, strabismus, sty, swivel eyes, trachoma, upward strabismus, uveitis, walleyes

• wallop, bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, biff, birch, blast, blunder, bonk, boot, bop, buffet, bump, cane, careen, career, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock, collision, cowhide, crack, crash, cudgel, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dress down, drub, falter, fetch, fetch a blow, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, flounce, flounder, fustigate, give a dressing-down, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hide, hit, hit a clip, horsewhip, jab, jar, jolt, kick, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, labor, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, leather, let have it, lick, lurch, maul, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, percussion, pistol-whip, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, plunk, poke, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, rap, rawhide, reel, rock, roll, scourge, seethe, shellac, shock, slam, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spank, stagger, strap, strike, strike at, stripe, struggle, stumble, swat, sway, swing, swinge, swipe, switch, tan, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thump, thwack, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trim, trounce, truncheon, tumble, wallow, welt, welter, whack, whale, wham, whip, whop, yerk

• walloping, banging, bumping, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, hiding, immense, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mammoth, monster, paddling, prodigious, slapping, spanking, tanning, thumping, thundering, whacking, whaling, whopping

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

• wallow, appreciate, baby, bask, baygall, be promiscuous, bend, blunder, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, careen, career, chase women, commit adultery, cower, cringe, crouch, cuddle, debauch, delight, dissipate, everglade, falter, fen, fenland, flounce, flounder, fornicate, get down, glade, grovel, heave, hobbyhorse, hog wallow, holm, humor, hunch, hunch down, indulge, labor, lurch, luxuriate, make heavy weather, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, nestle, pamper, peat bog, philander, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, quagmire, quicksand, rake, rear, reel, relish, revel, rock, roll, rollick, salt marsh, scend, scrouch down, seethe, sleep around, slob land, slough, snuggle, sough, spoil, squat, stagger, stoop, struggle, stumble, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, sway, swing, taiga, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tumble, volutation, wallop, wamble, wanton, wash, welter, whore, womanize, yaw

• wallpaper, board, brick, clapboard, face, glass, glaze, lath, paper, plank, revet, shake, sheathe, shingle, slate, stone, thatch, tile, veneer, wall in, wall up, weatherboard

• Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, reverie, stargazing, study, trance, woolgathering

• wamble, amble, barge, bowl along, bundle, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clump, crank, drag, flounce, foot, footslog, go around, go round, gyrate, gyre, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, jog, jolt, jump, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pirouette, pivot, plod, prance, rack, revolve, roll, rotate, round, sashay, saunter, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spin, stagger, stalk, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, swivel, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trip, trudge, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, twist, waddle, wheel, wiggle, wind, wobble

• wampum, anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, blunt, boodle, bracelet, brass, bread, breastpin, brooch, bucks, cabbage, cash, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, chips, circle, coin, coronet, cowrie, crown, currency, diadem, dinero, dough, earring, fob, gelt, gem, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, jack, jewel, kale, legal tender, locket, lucre, mazuma, moolah, mopus, necklace, nose ring, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, rhino, ring, roanoke, rocks, sewan, shekels, simoleons, spondulics, stickpin, stone, sugar, the needful, tiara, tin, torque, wristband, wristlet

• wan, achromatic, achromic, anemic, apathetic, ashen, ashy, benumbed, blanch, blanched, blase, bleach, bleach out, bleached, bled white, bloodless, blue, bored, cadaverous, change color, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadened, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, debilitated, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dopey, dormant, doughy, drab, drawn, droopy, drugged, dull, eerie, emasculate, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, fade out, faded, faint, fallow, flat, forceless, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, grow pale, gruesome, haggard, heavy, hebetudinous, hollow-eyed, hueless, hypochromic, impotent, inanimate, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, invertebrate, jaded, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, livid, lose color, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mat, mealy, moribund, mortuary, muddy, neutral, numb, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, phlegmatic, pooped, ravaged, sallow, sated, sickly, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somber, somnolent, spineless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tallow-faced, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, toneless, torpid, turn pale, turn white, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, vegetable, vegetative, washed-out, waxen, weak, weary, weary-looking, weird, whey-faced, white, whiten, world-weary, worn

• wand, Tarnkappe, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, baton, blazonry, brassard, button, caduceus, cap and gown, cap of darkness, chain, chain of office, class ring, cockade, collar, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, decoration, divining rod, doodlebug, dowser, dowsing, dowsing rod, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, fasces, fern seed, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, gavel, hammer and sickle, heraldry, insignia, lapel pin, livery, mace, magic belt, magic carpet, magic ring, magic spectacles, magic wand, mantle, markings, medal, merrythought, mortarboard, old school tie, pin, portfolio, regalia, ring, rod, rod of office, rose, scepter, school ring, seven-league boots, shamrock, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, swastika, tartan, thistle, tie, truncheon, uniform, verge, wand of office, water witch, water witching, wish-bringer, wish-giver, wishbone, wishing bone, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, witching, witching stick

• wander, amble, babble, bat, bat around, be absent, be in error, be insane, be mistaken, be wrong, boom, bum, circumambulate, count ties, daydream, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, diverge, dote, dream, drift, drivel, drool, err, excurse, fall into error, fantasy, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, get sidetracked, go about, go adrift, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go the rounds, go woolgathering, go wrong, have a demon, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, lapse, maunder, meander, misbelieve, miscalculate, mooch, moon, muse, nomadize, peregrinate, pererrate, pipe-dream, project, prowl, rage, ramble, range, rant, rave, roam, roll, rove, run about, run amok, run mad, saunter, serve Mammon, slaver, slip, slip up, slobber, snake, stargaze, straggle, stray, stroll, stumble, trail, traipse, tramp, trip, turn aside, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wayfare, wind

• wanderer, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Earth, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Pluto, Saturn, Uitlander, Ulysses, Uranus, Venus, alien, asteroid, barbarian, bird of passage, deracine, displaced person, drifter, emigre, exile, floater, foreign devil, foreigner, gad, gadabout, go-about, gringo, inferior planet, itinerant, major planet, minor planet, mover, outlander, outlaw, outsider, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, planet, planetoid, rambler, refugee, roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, secondary planet, solar system, straggler, stranger, stroller, strolling player, superior planet, terrestrial planet, the Wandering Jew, tramontane, troubadour, ultramontane, visitant, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

• wandering, Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, abnormal, adrift, afebrile delirium, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aimless, aimlessness, alternating, ambulant, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, babbling, bend, bereft of reason, bias, brainsick, brainstorm, branching off, broken, bumming, by the way, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, circuitous, circuitousness, circumforaneous, corner, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, crook, curve, daft, declination, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, deluded, demented, departing, departure, deprived of reason, deranged, desultoriness, desultory, detour, deviable, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, different, digression, digressive, digressiveness, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discursion, discursive, discursiveness, disjunct, disordered, disoriented, dispersed, disproportionate, distracted, distrait, distraught, divagation, divagatory, divarication, divergence, divergent, diversion, dizzy, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentric, episodic, errant, errantry, erratic, excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, formless, frantic, freakish, frivolous, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gratuitous, guttering, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hairpin, hallucinated, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, hoboism, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inchoate, incoherence, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, indirection, indiscriminate, infirm, insane, intermittent, intermitting, irrational, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, itineracy, itinerancy, jerky, labyrinthine, landloping, lightheaded, lingual delirium, loco, loose, lunatic, lurching, mad, maddened, manic, maundering, mazed, mazy, meandering, meaningless, mental, mentally deficient, mercurial, meshuggah, migrational, migratory, misshapen, moody, moon-struck, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, not all there, not right, obliquity, odd, of unsound mind, off, orderless, out-of-the-way, patchy, perambulatory, peregrination, pererration, planetary, planless, promiscuous, psycho, queer, ramble, rambling, random, ranging, ranting, raving, reasonless, restless, roam, roaming, rough, rove, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, serpentine, shapeless, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty, shuffling, sick, skew, slant, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, straggling, straggly, strange, stray, straying, strolling, subnormal, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, systemless, tack, tetched, touched, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twist, twisting, unaccountable, unarranged, unbalanced, uncertain, unclassified, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unfixed, ungraded, unhinged, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsane, unsettled, unsorted, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, vague, variable, variation, veer, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wanderlust, wanton, warp, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, wild, winding, wishy-washy, witless, wobbling, wobbly, yaw, zigzag

• wanderlust, Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, discursion, divagation, drifting, errantry, flitting, gadding, hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, nomadism, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, straying, traipsing, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, wandering, wayfaring

• wane, abate, ablate, advance, age, ascend, back, back up, bate, be eaten away, beat, budge, calm, calm down, catabasis, cease, cessation, change, change place, cheat the undertaker, circle, climb, collapse, comedown, consume, consume away, corrode, crash, crumble, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrescendo, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, deliquesce, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descend, descent, deterioration, devolution, die, die away, die down, diminish, diminuendo, dive, dodder, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drift away, drop, drop off, dwindle, dwindling, dying, dying down, ease off, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, erode, fade, fade away, fading, fail, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, fall away, fall off, fall short, falling-off, flow, full stop, get along, get on, get over, go, go around, go away, go down, go downhill, go off, go round, go sideways, grow old, gyrate, halt, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, involution, languish, lapse, lash, lessen, let up, lock, loss of tone, lull, melt away, moderate, molder, mount, move, move away, move off, move over, pacify, plummet, plunge, progress, pull away, quiesce, quiet, quieten, reach the depths, recede, regress, regression, relent, remission, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogress, retrogression, rise, rotate, run, run down, run low, sag, shake, shift, shrink, shrivel, sink, slacken, slide, slip, slippage, slowdown, slump, soar, soothe, spin, stand, stand off, standstill, stillstand, stir, stop, stream, subside, subsidence, switch, tail off, totter, touch bottom, tranquilize, travel, turn gray, turn white, wag, waggle, waning, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, whirl, widen the distance, withdraw, wither, wizen, wrinkle

• wangle, angle, argue into, arouse, brew, bring forth, bring out, bring over, bring round, bring to light, bring to reason, cabal, call forth, call out, call up, captivate, charm, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, convince, cook up, countermine, counterplot, deduce, derive, drag out, draw forth, draw out, draw over, educe, elicit, engineer, evoke, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, gain, gain over, gerrymander, get from, get out of, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hook, hook in, induce, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, obtain, operate, outtalk, persuade, play games, plot, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, procure, pull strings, rig, rouse, scheme, secure, sell, sell one on, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, sway, talk into, talk over, wangle into, wangle out of, wear down, win, win over, winkle out, worm out, worm out of

• waning, aging, at rest, calm, cloistered, coming apart, contractive, cool, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, deliquescent, deteriorating, diminishing, diminuendo, disintegrating, doting, draining, drooping, dwindling, dying, ebbing, effete, even-tenored, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, getting on, going to pieces, growing old, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, languishing, lessening, marcescent, moldering, on the wane, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pining, placid, quiescent, quiet, receding, reductive, regressive, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retiring, retreating, retrograde, retrogressive, secluded, senescent, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tabetic, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

• want, absence, ache to, adulteration, aim at, ardor, arrearage, ask, awayness, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, be desirous of, be dying to, be found wanting, be hurting for, be in want, be indicated, be inferior, be insufficient, be pinched, be poor, become, befit, beggarliness, beggary, behoove, blank, break, burn to, call for, choose, choose to, claim, clamor for, collapse, come short, concupiscence, covet, crave, cry for, cry out for, curiosity, dearly love to, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, demand, demand for, deprivation, desiderate, desideration, desideratum, desire, destitution, discontinuity, drive, drought, eagerness, empty purse, erroneousness, essential, essentials, exact, exigency, exiguousness, fail, fail of, fall away, fall short, fall shy, fallibility, famine, fancy, fantasy, faultiness, favor, follow, gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, have designs on, have nothing on, have occasion for, hiatus, homelessness, hope, horme, immaturity, impairment, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, indigence, indispensable, inexactitude, inexactness, insufficiency, intellectual curiosity, interval, itch to, kick the beam, lack, lacuna, lag, libido, like, like to, long to, lose ground, love, love to, lust, lust after, lust for learning, meagerness, mediocrity, mendicancy, mind, miss, missing link, moneylessness, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessitousness, necessity, need, need for, need to, neediness, neverness, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, not answer, not approach, not come near, not compare, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not qualify, not stretch, not suffice, nowhereness, occasion, omission, ought, outage, passion, patchiness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, play second fiddle, pleasure, pleasure principle, poorness, prefer, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, privation, rank under, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, run short, run short of, scantiness, serve, sexual desire, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, should, sketchiness, skimpiness, slump, starvation, starve, stop short, subserve, subtraction, take doing, take to, the necessary, the needful, thirst for knowledge, ullage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, urge, want doing, want to, wantage, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, wish to, wish to goodness, wish very much, would fain do

• wanted, called for, coveted, desired, essential, hoped-for, in demand, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, longed-for, necessary, needed, needful, popular, prerequisite, required, requisite, unforgoable, vital, wished-for

• wanting, absconded, absent, adulterated, appetitive, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bereft of, blemished, callow, cut off, damaged, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded, denuded of, departed, deprived of, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, destitute of, devoid of, disappeared, divested, eager, embryonic, empty of, erroneous, failing, fallible, fate, faulty, for want of, forlorn of, found wanting, gone, half-assed, hoping, hormic, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, inferior, insufficient, lacking, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, makeshift, mediocre, minus, missing, mixed, needing, no longer present, nonattendant, nonexistent, not enough, not found, not perfect, not present, off, omitted, optative, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, parted from, partial, patchy, robbed of, sans, scant, scant of, scanty, scarce, scrappy, shorn of, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, stripped of, subtracted, taken away, tempted, too little, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unpossessed of, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, vanished, void of, wishing

• wanton, Adamic, Casanova, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lothario, Paphian, abandoned, accident-prone, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, backsliding, bad woman, baggage, bat, baton, be promiscuous, bill and coo, billy club, bitch, bludgeon, breakneck, broad, capricious, careless, carnal, carouse, celebrate, chambering, changeable, changeful, chase women, chippy, clitoromaniac, club, cocotte, commit adultery, contrary, coo, copulate, cranky, crotchety, cut loose, cyprian, dally, debauch, debauchee, desperate, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care, dissipate, dizzy, drab, easy, easy lay, easy woman, eccentric, erratic, erring, fallen, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleshly, flickering, flighty, flirt, flitting, floozy, fluctuating, fool, fornicate, frail, frail sister, freakish, furious, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, giddy, go-go, gratuitous, grisette, grovel, harebrained, harridan, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hell around, hotheaded, humorsome, hurried, hussy, hysteromaniac, immoderate, impetuous, impulsive, impure, inconsistent, inconstant, incontinent, indecisive, indulgent, infirm, intemperate, irregular, irrepressible, irresolute, irresponsible, jade, jezebel, jollify, jolly, kinky, lady-killer, lapsed, lark, lax, lead, let go, let loose, let off steam, libertine, licentious, light, live hard, lollygag, loose, loose woman, loose-moraled, lover-boy, mace, mad, maggoty, make love, make merry, make out, make whoopee, malevolent, malicious, mazy, mercurial, moody, motiveless, neck, nonrestrictive, notional, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, of easy virtue, of loose morals, out of control, out of hand, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, peccable, permissive, perverse, pet, petulant, philander, philanderer, pickup, pig, plunge into dissipation, postlapsarian, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prodigal, profligate, promiscuous, prostitute, quean, quirky, raise hell, rake, rakehell, rambling, rampant, recidivist, recidivistic, reckless, reinless, restless, revel, riotous, rip, roister, roue, rounder, roving, run riot, scatterbrained, see life, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shillelagh, shuffling, skirt chaser, skylark, slack, slap-bang, slapdash, slattern, sleep around, slut, smooch, spasmodic, spineless, spiteful, spoon, spree, step out, strumpet, sweet-talk, swing, swinger, tart, temperamental, toy, tramp, trifle, trollop, trull, truncheon, unaccountable, unangelic, unasked, unbridled, uncalled-for, uncertain, unchaste, unchecked, unclean, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unforced, ungodly, ungood, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreined, unreliable, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrighteous, unruly, unsaintly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unvirtuous, uteromaniac, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, virtueless, volatile, walking phallus, wallow, wandering, war club, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, wench, whimsical, whisper sweet nothings, whoop it up, whore, whorish, wild, wishy-washy, wolf, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer

• war cry, Angelus, Angelus bell, alarm, alarum, bark, battle cry, bawl, bellow, bid to combat, birdcall, bugle call, call, call to arms, call-up, catchword, caterwaul, challenge, cheer, clarion, clarion call, conscription, cry, dare, defi, defy, double dare, exhortation, gage, gage of battle, gauntlet, glove, go for broke, gung ho, halloo, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, last post, levy, mobilization, moose call, motto, muster, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, reveille, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, slogan, squall, squeal, summons, taps, trumpet call, war whoop, watchword, whistle, whoop, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yo-ho, yowl

• war horse, Houyhnhnm, Tammany man, beldam, brood mare, campaigner, charger, colt, courser, critter, crone, dame, dobbin, dowager, entire, entire horse, equine, filly, foal, frump, gelding, grandam, grandmother, granny, hag, horse, machine politician, mare, mount, nag, old battle-ax, old campaigner, old dame, old girl, old granny, old hand, old lady, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old soldier, old trot, old wife, old woman, old-timer, party boss, party chieftain, party leader, pol, political hack, political leader, politician, prancer, professional politician, reform politician, reformer, salt, seasoned veteran, shellback, stallion, steed, stud, studhorse, tarpan, top horse, trooper, trot, vet, veteran, wheelhorse, wild horse, witch

• war paint, Sunday best, base, bravery, clown white, cold cream, compact, cosmetics, drugstore complexion, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, face, foundation, foundation cream, frippery, full dress, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, lip rouge, lipstick, makeup, mascara, mudpack, nail polish, paint, powder, powder puff, puff, regalia, rouge, talcum, talcum powder, vanishing cream, vanity case

• war, American Revolution, Ares, Athena, Balkan Wars, Bellona, Boer War, Civil War, Crimean War, Crusades, Enyo, Franco-Prussian War, French Revolution, Gallic Wars, Greco-Persian Wars, Indian Wars, Indochina War, Kilkenny cats, Korean War, Mars, Mexican War, Minerva, Napoleonic Wars, Odin, Peloponnesian Wars, Persian Wars, Punic Wars, Russian Revolution, Russo-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War, Six Day War, Southeast Asian War, Tiu, Tyr, Vietnam War, Woden, World War I, Wotan, all-out war, altercation, appeal to arms, argument, armed combat, armed conflict, arms, art of war, attack, attempt, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, box, brawl, broil, campaign, carry on hostilities, cat-and-dog life, challenge, chivalry, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, crusade, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, drive, duel, endeavor, engage, engage in hostilities, enmity, essay, exchange blows, expedition, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fighting, generalship, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, holy war, hostilities, hostility, hot war, jihad, jostle, joust, knighthood, la guerre, litigation, logomachy, make war, might of arms, military operations, mix it up, open hostilities, open war, oppugn, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rassle, resort to arms, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scrapping, scuffle, shed blood, shooting war, skirmish, spar, spill blood, squabbling, state of war, strife, strive, struggle, take on, the sword, thrust and parry, tilt, total war, tourney, tug, tussle, wage war, war of words, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime, words, wrangling, wrestle

• warble, air, anthem, ballad, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, carol, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, croon, crow, cuckoo, descant, diapason, do-re-mi, drawl, drum, exclaim, flute, gabble, gaggle, gasp, gobble, growl, grunt, guggle, hiss, honk, hoo, hoot, hum, hymn, intonate, intone, keen, lay, lilt, measure, melodia, minstrel, mumble, murmur, mutter, pant, peep, pip, pipe, psalm, quack, quaver, roar, roll, roulade, rumble, scold, scream, screech, serenade, shake, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, squall, squawk, squeal, strain, thunder, tremolo, trill, troll, trumpet, tune, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, vocalize, wail, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel

• warbler, 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, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, tenor, thrush, torch singer, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, wading bird, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl, yodeler

• warbling, bel canto, bravura, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, folk singing, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, operatic singing, scat, scat singing, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, tonic sol-fa, vocal music, vocalization, yodel, yodeling

• ward heeler, Conservative, Democrat, Labourite, Republican, Tory, Whig, adherent, appendage, attendant, buff, cavaliere servente, courtier, dangler, dependent, disciple, fan, flunky, follower, following, hanger-on, hatchet man, heeler, henchman, homme de cour, loyalist, man, parasite, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, public, pursuer, pursuivant, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, retainer, satellite, sectary, servant, shadow, stalwart, stooge, successor, supporter, tagtail, tail, trainbearer, votary, wheelhorse

• ward off, about the bush, anticipate, avert, bar, beat around, beat back, beat off, beg the question, block, brush off, chase, chase away, chase off, check, counter, cut, debar, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismiss, dodge, drive away, drive back, duck, equivocate, estop, exclude, fence, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, hedge, help, hem and haw, hinder, hold at bay, hold off, keep at bay, keep from, keep off, obstruct, obviate, pack off, parry, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pull away, pull back, push back, pussyfoot, put back, put off, rebuff, rebut, recoil, refuse, repel, repulse, rule out, save, send away, send off, send packing, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, snub, spurn, stave off, step aside, stop, swerve, thrust back, turn aside, turn back

• ward, Kreis, VA hospital, X ray, acropolis, administration, aegis, archbishopric, archdiocese, armament, armor, arrondissement, asylum, auspices, avert, avoidance reaction, bailiwick, balk, base hospital, bastion, beachhead, bishopric, block, blockhouse, blood bank, borough, bridgehead, bunker, canton, care, castle, charge, charity ward, check, citadel, city, client, clinic, close borough, commune, community hospital, congressional district, constablewick, consultation room, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, county, cure, custodianship, custody, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deflect, delivery room, departement, dependent, deter, deterrent capacity, diocese, dispensary, district, divert, donjon, duchy, ego defenses, election district, electoral district, electorate, emergency, encumbrance, escape mechanism, evacuation hospital, examining room, fasthold, fastness, fend, fever ward, field hospital, foil, forestall, fort, fortress, frustrate, garrison, garrison house, general hospital, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, governance, government, guard, guardianship, guarding, guidance, halt, hamlet, hands, hold, home, hospital, hospital room, hundred, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care, interrupt, isolation, jurisdiction, keep, keeping, labor room, laboratory, lookout, magistracy, maison de sante, management, martello, martello tower, maternity ward, mental hospital, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, mote, motte, negative taxis, nursery, nursing home, oblast, obviate, okrug, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, oversight, parish, parry, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peel, peel tower, pensionary, pensioner, pharmacy, picket, pillbox, pocket borough, policlinic, polyclinic, post, precinct, preclude, preventive custody, principality, prison ward, private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, protection, protective custody, protectorship, protege, province, psychological defenses, public charge, public hospital, rath, recovery room, region, resistance, rest home, riding, rotten borough, rule out, safe district, safe hands, safeguard, safehold, safekeeping, sanatorium, security, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, semi-private room, sentinel, sentry, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, silk-stocking district, single-member district, soke, special hospital, stake, state, station hospital, stave off, stay, stewardship, strong point, stronghold, stymie, surgery, surgical hospital, swing district, teaching hospital, territory, the defensive, therapy, thwart, tower, tower of strength, town, township, treatment room, trust, turn, turn aside, tutelage, veterans hospital, village, voluntary hospital, wapentake, wardenship, wardship, watch, watch and ward, watchman, well-baby clinic, wing

• warden, air warden, alderman, archon, attendant, bailie, bull, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, caretaker, castellan, cerberus, chancellor, chief executive, chief executive officer, city councilman, city father, city manager, commandant, commissar, commissioner, concierge, conservator, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, curator, custodian, custos, dean, doorkeeper, doorman, elder, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, gaoler, gatekeeper, governor, guard, guardian, guardian angel, headman, induna, jailer, janitor, keeper, legislator, lifeguard, lifesaver, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, management, managing director, mayor, minister, minister of state, next friend, officer, official, ostiary, porter, portreeve, prefect, president, prexy, principal keeper, prison guard, prochein ami, provost, ranger, receptionist, reeve, screw, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, shepherd, steward, supervisor, syndic, the administration, treasurer, turnkey, undersecretary, usher, vice-chancellor, vice-president, warder, watchdog

• warder, advance guard, air warden, armed guard, attendant, bank guard, bull, caretaker, castellan, coast guard, commandant, conservator, cordon, cordon sanitaire, curator, custodian, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, gaoler, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, governor, guard, guarder, guardian, guardian angel, guardsman, inlying picket, jailer, janitor, keeper, lifeguard, lifesaver, next friend, outguard, outpost, picket, principal keeper, prison guard, prochein ami, ranger, rear guard, screw, security guard, shepherd, steward, train guard, turnkey, van, vanguard, warden

• wardrobe, accouterments, caparison, cloakroom, closet, clothes closet, dressing room, fitting room, furnishings, getup, harness, linen closet, livery, outfit, rig, things, trappings, trousseau, turnout

• wardship, administration, auspices, care, charge, clientage, clientship, cure, custodianship, custody, dependence, dependency, disability, disablement, disqualification, governance, government, guardianship, guidance, hands, imbecility, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, ineptitude, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, jurisdiction, keeping, legal incapacity, management, ministry, minority, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, protectorship, safe hands, stewardship, tutelage, unfitness, ward, wardenship, watch and ward, wing

• ware, alive, apprehensive, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, au courant, awake, catalog goods, cognizant, commodities, commodity, conscious, consumer goods, consumer items, conversant, drug, effects, feature, goods, goods for sale, inventory, item, job lot, knowing, lead item, leader, line, line of goods, loss leader, mail-order goods, merchandise, product, seconds, sensible, sideline, special, standard article, staple, staple item, staples, stock, stock-in-trade, vendible, vendibles, wares

• warehouse, accommodate, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bestow, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, boutique, box, bundle away, bunker, buttery, cache, cargo dock, cellar, chain store, chest, closet, co-op, coffer, concession, conservatory, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, crate, crib, cupboard, department store, deposit, depository, depot, dime store, discount house, discount store, dock, drawer, dump, emporium, establishment, exchequer, file, five-and-ten, general store, glory hole, godown, guard, hold, house, hutch, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, library, locker, lodge, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mail-order house, market, mart, pack, pack away, post, protect, put away, rack, repertory, reposit, repository, reservoir, retail store, rick, salon, salt away, salt down, shelf, shelter, shop, stack, stack room, stash, stock room, storage, store, store away, storehouse, storeroom, stow, stow away, stow down, supermarket, supply base, supply depot, tank, trading post, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, variety shop, variety store, vat, vault, wareroom, wholesale house, wine cellar

• warfare, Kilkenny cats, altercation, argument, bickering, cat-and-dog life, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, emulation, enmity, fighting, hostility, litigation, logomachy, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rivalry, scrapping, squabbling, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, war, war of words, words, wrangling

• warlike, aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, soldierlike, soldierly, striving, struggling, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warmongering, warring

• warlock, Comus, Faust, charmer, conjurer, diabolist, diviner, dowser, enchanter, mage, magus, miracle-worker, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, voodooist, water witch, wizard

• warlord, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, tyrant, usurper

• warm up, arrangement, basic training, break in, briefing, bring back, bring to, call back, chafe, charge, clearing the decks, cock, cook, electric-heat, equipment, familiarization, fire, fire up, fixing, foment, foundation, gas-heat, get going, get in there, get off, get ready, get set, get squared away, get under way, get up steam, groundwork, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, limber up, load, make a beginning, make a move, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mobilization, mull, overheat, planning, prearrangement, preheat, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, prime, processing, propaedeutic, provision, readying, reanimate, recall to life, recharge, recook, recruit, refresh, regenerate, reheat, reheat the ashes, reinspire, rejuvenate, rekindle, relight, renew, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, revivify, rewarm, set, set a course, shoulder arms, spadework, start up, steam, steam up, stir the embers, stoke up, strip for action, superheat, tepefy, training, treatment, trial, tryout, warm, warm over, whet the knife, wind, wind up

• warm, Christian, Christlike, Christly, Titian, Titian-red, abandoned, ablaze, abounding in riches, affable, affectionate, affluent, afire, amiable, animate, annoy, approaching, approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, arouse, awake, awaken, benign, benignant, big-rich, blood-hot, blood-warm, blow the coals, blow up, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky, brotherly, buggy, bugs, burning, burning with excitement, calid, call forth, call up, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, chafe, cheek-by-jowl, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chromatic, close, cold, colorific, coloring, comfortable, comfy, committed, commodious, compassionate, contented, convenient, cook, cool, cordial, cozy, crimson, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, damask, decent, dedicated, delirious, detectable, determinable, devoted, devout, dichromatic, discernible, disclosable, discoverable, disgustingly rich, drunk, dynamize, earnest, easeful, easy, electric-heat, electrify, emphatic, energize, enkindle, enliven, enrage, enthusiastic, equatorial, excite, excited, exciting, exhilarate, exposable, exuberant, faithful, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fat, febrile, feed the fire, ferruginous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, findable, fire, fire up, fire-red, flame, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flush, flushed, foment, fraternal, frenzy, friendly, frightfully rich, galvanize, gas-heat, generous, genial, glowing, good, gracious, gules, gung ho, hand-in-hand, harmonious, hearten, heartfelt, hearty, heat, heated, hectic, henna, het up, homelike, homely, homey, hospitable, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-blooded, hot-water-heat, human, humane, impassion, impassioned, in earnest, in funds, in rut, in the money, incarmined, incarnadine, incense, incite, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inflame, inflamed, infrared, infuriate, intense, intent, intent on, intimate, intoxicated, invigorate, iron-red, jazz up, keen, key up, kind, kindhearted, kindle, kindly, kindly-disposed, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lather up, liberal, light the fuse, light up, lipstick, lived-in, lively, liven, loaded, lobster-red, loving, loyal, luke, lukewarm, lurid, luxurious, madden, madder, made of money, many-colored, maroon, matching, medley, mild, miniate, moneyed, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, move, mull, near, near the mark, nearing, nearish, neighborly, nice, nigh, nighish, nutty, on fire, oofy, open, openhearted, opulent, outgoing, overexcite, overheat, parti-colored, passionate, peaceful, pep up, perfervid, perk up, pigmentary, polychromatic, port-wine, preheat, prismatic, propinque, prosperous, provided for, provoking, proximal, proximate, puce, quicken, rainbow, receptive, recook, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-ink, red-looking, redden, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reheat, relaxing, reposeful, resolute, responsive, restful, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, room-temperature, roomy, rouge, rouse, rubicund, rubify, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, seething, serious, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, sexually excited, side-by-side, sincere, snap up, snug, soft, softhearted, spectral, spirited, spottable, stammel, steam, steam up, steaming, steamy, stimulate, stimulating, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirring, stoke up, subtropical, summery, summon up, sunny, sunshiny, superheat, sympathetic, sympathizing, temperate, tender, tenderhearted, tepefy, tepid, thermal, thermic, tile-red, tinctorial, tingent, toasty, toning, tropical, turn on, unfrozen, unrestrained, urgent, variegated, vehement, vermilion, vicinal, vigorous, vinaceous, vitalize, wake, wake up, waken, wallowing in wealth, warm as toast, warm over, warm the blood, warm up, warmhearted, warmish, wealthy, welcoming, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, whip up, white-hot, wholehearted, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, work into, work up, zealous, zip up

• warmed over, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, doubled, duplicated, echoed, electric-heated, fade, familiar, fusty, gas-heated, hackney, hackneyed, heated, het, het up, hot, hot-air-heated, hotted up, moth-eaten, musty, oil-heated, old hat, overheated, plagiarized, platitudinous, quoted, rechauffe, recooked, redoubled, reduplicated, reechoed, regurgitated, reheated, reiterate, reiterated, repeated, reproduced, retold, set, square, stale, steam-heated, stereotyped, stock, superheated, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, twice-told, unoriginal, warmed, warmed up, well-known, well-worn, worn, worn thin

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

• warming, beating, burning, calefacient, calefaction, calefactive, calefactory, cauterant, chafing, cooking, debacle, defeasance, dielectric heating, drubbing, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, licking, oil heating, overthrow, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, rout, shellacking, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction, thrashing, torrefaction

• warmly, agreeably, amiably, amicably, ardently, arm in arm, benignantly, benignly, breathlessly, congenially, cordially, effectively, eloquently, enthusiastically, excitedly, expressively, exuberantly, familiarly, favorably, fervently, fervidly, feverishly, fluently, forcefully, friendliwise, friendly, genially, glibly, glowingly, good, graphically, hand in hand, heart and soul, heartily, heatedly, hotly, humanely, humanly, impassionedly, impressively, in glowing terms, intensely, intimately, keenly, kindheartedly, kindly, meaningfully, nicely, passionately, pleasantly, powerfully, smoothly, softheartedly, spiritedly, strikingly, tellingly, tenderheartedly, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, warmheartedly, well, with open arms, zealously

• warmongering, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warpath

• warmth, abandon, activity, affectionateness, amiability, animal heat, animation, ardency, ardor, benignancy, benignity, blood heat, blush, body heat, bonhomie, brio, briskness, brotherhood, burning, calidity, caloric, coal heat, commitment, committedness, compassion, convected heat, cordiality, dedication, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, earnestness, ecstasy, elan, electric heat, enthusiasm, excitement, faith, faithfulness, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fever, fever heat, fidelity, fieriness, fire, flush, fraternal feeling, friendliness, furor, fury, gas heat, generosity, geniality, glow, goodness, goodness of heart, graciousness, gusto, healthy glow, heart, heart of gold, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heating, hospitableness, hospitality, hot-air heat, hotness, humaneness, humanity, hypothermia, impassionedness, impetuosity, impetus, incalescence, induction heat, intensity, intentness, joie de vivre, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, liberality, life, liveliness, loving kindness, loyalty, lustiness, mettle, molecular heat, neighborliness, niceness, oil heat, open door, openheartedness, passion, passionateness, perkiness, pertness, radiant heat, receptiveness, relish, resolution, robustness, savor, seriousness, sincerity, softheartedness, solar heat, soul, soul of kindness, spirit, spiritedness, steam heat, superheat, superheatedness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, thermal radiation, ultraviolet heat, vehemence, verve, vivacity, warm color, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth of color, warmth of feeling, warmth of heart, zeal, zest, zestfulness

• warn, admonish, advise, alarm, alert, apprehend, apprise, arouse, ask, ask for, be imminent, blackmail, bludgeon, bode, bulldoze, call for, caution, challenge, charge, claim, clamor for, comminate, counsel, croak, cry for, cry havoc, cry out against, cry wolf, daunt, demand, denounce, direct, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, exact, exhort, expostulate, extort, fly storm warnings, forebode, forewarn, frighten, frighten off, give fair warning, give notice, give warning, guide, have a premonition, have a presentiment, impose, incite, indent, induce, inform, intimidate, issue a caveat, issue an ultimatum, kid out of, levy, look black, look threatening, lower, make a demand, menace, move, notify, order, order up, persuade, place an order, portend, preach, preapprehend, prompt, put in requisition, remonstrate, require, requisition, screw, sound the alarm, sound the tocsin, startle, talk out of, tell, threaten, tip, tip off, unpersuade, urge, utter a caveat, utter threats against, warn against

• warning, admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory, advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call, call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue, commination, consultation, consultative, consultatory, contribution, council, counsel, cue, demand, demand for, denunciation, determent, deterrence, deterrent, didactic, direction, directive, draft, drain, duty, empty threat, exaction, exemplary, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulation, expostulative, expostulatory, extortion, extortionate demand, foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, frightening off, guidance, heavy demand, heavy with meaning, hint, hortation, hortative, hortatory, idea, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, imposition, impost, indent, indicative, insistent demand, instruction, instructive, intimidation, intuitive, levy, meaningful, menace, monition, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, nonnegotiable demand, notice, notificational, notifying, office, opinion, order, parley, passing word, pointer, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, promise of harm, proposal, recommendation, recommendatory, remonstrance, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, sententious, significant, steer, suggestion, sword of Damocles, talking out of, tax, taxing, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, tip, tip-off, tribute, ultimatum, whisper

• warp and woof, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, braiding, build, building, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, frame, getup, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, knitting, lacing, make, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, molding, organic structure, organism, organization, pattern, patterning, physique, plaiting, plan, production, setup, shape, shaping, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, tissue, twining, twisting, warpage, weave, weaving, web, weftage, wreathing

• warp, a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, adulterate, affinity, alloy, alter, ameliorate, anamorphism, anamorphosis, animus, aptitude, aptness, asymmetry, bastardize, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, belie, bend, bend to, bent, bias, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, board, boom, bottom out, branching off, break, brutalize, buckle, bulla, burlesque, camouflage, canker, caricature, cast, cast loose, change, character, cheapen, check, checker, chop, chop and change, cicatrix, cicatrize, circuitousness, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, coarsen, color, come about, come around, come round, comedo, conatus, conduce, conduciveness, confound, confuse, constitution, contaminate, contort, contortion, contribute, corner, corrupt, crack, crater, craze, crook, crookedness, crumple, curve, cut loose, debase, debauch, declination, deface, defacement, defect, defile, deflect, deflower, deform, deformation, deformity, degenerate, degrade, delight, demoralize, denature, departure, deprave, desecrate, despoil, deteriorate, detorsion, detour, devalue, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diathesis, diffract, diffuse, digression, discursion, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, disguise, disperse, dispose, disposition, disproportion, distort, distortion, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversify, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, dress up, drift, drifting, eagerness, eccentricity, embellish, embroider, errantry, exaggerate, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, falsify, fault, feeling for, filling, flaw, flop, freckle, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, go, grain, hairpin, haul, haul around, haul down, have a tendency, head, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, hemangioma, hickey, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, improve, inclination, incline, indirection, individualism, infect, irregularity, jaundice, jibe, kedge, keloid, kidney, kink, knot, lay, lay aloft, lead, lean, leaning, lentigo, liability, liking, log, look to, lopsidedness, lurch, make, makeup, mar, mask, meliorate, mental set, mettle, milium, mind, mind-set, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misshape, misstate, misteach, misuse, mitigate, modulate, mold, mole, mutate, nature, needle scar, nevus, obliquity, overdraw, overstate, parody, penchant, pererration, pervert, pick, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, point to, poison, pollute, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, prostitute, pull, pustule, quirk, rambling, ratline down, ravage, ravish, readiness, redound to, refract, revive, rift, scab, scar, scarify, scatter, scratch, screw, sebaceous cyst, sensitivity to, serve, set, set toward, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shoot, show a tendency, skew, slant, slue, soft spot, spar down, split, spring, stamp, strain, strawberry mark, straying, streak, stream the log, stripe, sty, susceptibility, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, taint, take a turn, temper, temperament, tend, tendency, titivate, torsion, tortuosity, torture, track, traverse a yard, travesty, trend, trick out, tropism, turn, turn aside, turn awry, turn into, turn of mind, turn the corner, turning, twist, type, ulcerate, undergo a change, understate, unlash, unsymmetry, variation, varnish, vary, veer, verge, verruca, vesicle, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, wale, wandering, wart, weakness, weal, weft, welt, wen, whitehead, whitewash, willingness, wind, woof, work toward, worsen, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, yaw, zigzag

• warpath, aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering

• warped, abandoned, affected, anamorphous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, asymmetric, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contaminated, contorted, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, debased, debauched, decadent, defaced, defective, deformed, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deviative, disfigured, dissolute, distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, influenced, interested, involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, know-nothing, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made, marred, mock, morally polluted, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, polluted, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, profligate, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, reprobate, rotten, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, steeped in iniquity, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tainted, tendentious, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral, unreal, unsymmetric, vice-corrupted, vitiated, xenophobic

• warrant officer, NCO, acting corporal, acting sergeant, admiral, captain, centurion, chief petty officer, chief warrant officer, color sergeant, commander, commodore, corporal, ensign, first sergeant, fleet admiral, havildar, lance corporal, lance sergeant, lieutenant, lieutenant commander, lieutenant junior grade, master sergeant, mess sergeant, naik, naval officer, navarch, noncom, noncommissioned officer, petty officer, platoon sergeant, rear admiral, sarge, sergeant, sergeant first class, sergeant major, skipper, staff sergeant, technical sergeant, top sergeant, topkick, vice admiral

• warrant, Bible oath, CD, IOU, John Hancock, MO, OK, accept, acceptance, acceptance bill, account for, accredit, acknowledge, acknowledgment, acquittance, admit, affidavit, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, agency, agentship, agree provisionally, allege, allow, amen, and candle, approbation, approval, approve, argue, assent grudgingly, assert, assert under oath, asseverate, assign, assignment, assurance, assure, attest, attestation, authenticate, authentication, authority, authorization, authorize, autograph, aver, avouch, avow, back, back up, bank acceptance, bank check, basis, be sponsor for, bear out, bear witness, bench warrant, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of health, blank check, bolster, bond, book, brevet, building permit, buttress, call, callable securities, canceled check, capias, care, carte blanche, cats and dogs, cause, caveat, certificate, certificate of deposit, certificate of proficiency, certification, certified check, certify, charge, charter, check, checkbook, cheque, circumstantiate, claim, clear, clearance, commercial paper, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, concede, confess, confirm, confirmation, consign, consignment, contend, copyright, corporation securities, corroborate, cosign, countenance, countersecure, countersign, countersignature, credential, cry sour grapes, cure, death warrant, debenture, declare, defend, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, demand bill, demand draft, depone, depose, deposition, deputation, depute, deputize, destigmatize, detach, detail, devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, diploma, discharge, disclose, dispensation, do justice to, document, draft, due bill, earnest, embassy, empower, empowerment, enable, enabling, endorse, endorsement, enfranchise, enfranchisement, ensure, entitle, entitlement, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, errand, exchequer bill, exculpate, executorship, exequatur, explain, express general agreement, express the belief, extrajudicial oath, factorship, favor, fiat, fieri facias, fishing license, foreign securities, fortify, foundation, franchise, freedom, full power, futures contract, give evidence, give in charge, give official sanction, give permission, give power, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, go along with, go-ahead, good reason, government securities, grant, green light, ground, grounds, guarantee, guaranty, habere facias possessionem, hunting license, immunity, imprimatur, indemnity, indulgence, initial, injunction, insurance, insure, interdict, ironclad oath, judicial oath, junior securities, jurisdiction, justify, kiss the book, legalize, legation, legitimize, letter of credit, liberty, license, lieutenancy, listed securities, loyalty oath, make a promise, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, marketable securities, material basis, mission, mittimus, money order, municipal securities, navicert, need, negotiable instrument, negotiable securities, nihil obstat, nisi prius, nod, noncallable securities, not oppose, notarization, notarize, notarized statement, note, note of hand, notice, notification, oath, oath of allegiance, oath of office, office, official oath, okay, outstanding securities, over-the-counter securities, own, paper, pass, pass on, pass upon, patent, pawn, permission, permit, pledge, plenipotentiary power, plight, portfolio, post, postal order, power of attorney, power to act, precept, privilege, probate, process, procuration, profess, prohibitory injunction, promise, promissory note, prove, proxy, purge, purview, quittance, ratification, ratify, rationalize, reason, receipt, receipt in full, recognize, regency, regentship, rehabilitate, reinforce, reinstate, release, require, responsibility, restore, right, rubber stamp, sanction, say amen to, seal, search warrant, second, secure, securities, security, send out, senior securities, sheepskin, short-term note, sight bill, sight draft, sigil, sign, sign and seal, sign for, signature, signet, solemn declaration, solemn oath, special favor, sponsor, stamp, stamp of approval, stand behind, stand up for, state, stipulate, stocks and bonds, strengthen, subject to call, subpoena, subscribe to, subscription, substance, substantiate, summons, support, surety, sustain, swear, swear and affirm, swear by bell, swear to, swear to God, swear to goodness, sworn statement, task, test oath, testamur, testify, testimonial, the nod, ticket, tie, time bill, time draft, token, trade acceptance, transfer, treasury bill, treasury bond, treasury certificate, treasury note, troth, trust, trusteeship, undergird, undersign, underwrite, undigested securities, unregistered securities, uphold, validate, validation, verify, vicarious authority, vindicate, visa, vise, vouch, voucher, vow, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, warranty, witness, word, writ, yield

• warrantable, admissible, allowable, balanced, condonable, defensible, deserved, dispensable, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, fair and square, fit, forgivable, good, inoffensive, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, meet, meet and right, merited, pardonable, permissible, proper, reasonable, remissible, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, square, tenable, unobjectionable, venial, vindicable, warranted

• warranted, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affianced, affirmed, alleged, allowed, announced, approved, ascertained, asserted, asseverated, assured, attested, authenticated, authorized, averred, avouched, avowed, balanced, betrothed, bound, certain, certified, chartered, committed, compromised, conceded, confessed, confirmed, contracted, countersigned, covered, decided, declared, defensible, deposed, deserved, determinate, determined, due, earned, empowered, endorsed, enfranchised, engaged, ensured, entitled, enunciated, equitable, established, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, fixed, franchised, good, granted, guaranteed, in the bag, insured, intended, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, level, licensed, made sure, manifestoed, meet, meet and right, merited, nailed down, notarized, obligated, on ice, open-and-shut, patented, pledged, plighted, predicated, privileged, professed, promised, pronounced, proper, proved, qualified, ratified, received, recognized, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctioned, sealed, secure, secured, set, settled, signed, square, stamped, stated, sure, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tested, tried, underwritten, validated, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warrantable, well-earned, worthy

• warranty, affidavit, assurance, attestation, authority, authorization, avouch, avouchment, bail, bill of health, bond, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, clearance, countenance, credential, deposition, diploma, empowerment, enabling, enfranchisement, entitlement, faith, fiat, guarantee, guaranty, indemnity, insurance, navicert, notarized statement, note, oath, parole, pledge, plight, promise, ratification, sanction, security, sheepskin, solemn declaration, stocks and bonds, surety, sworn statement, testamur, testimonial, ticket, tie, troth, visa, vise, voucher, vow, warrant, witness, word, word of honor

• warren, Augean stables, Hydra, abri, antre, bunker, burrow, cave, cavern, cove, dugout, dump, foxhole, grot, grotto, hole, hotbed, hovel, lair, milk cow, mustard, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, rabbit, rich soil, rookery, seed plot, sewer, slum, stable, sty, subterrane, subway, tenement, the slums, tunnel

• warring, aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat, combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile, hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial, might of arms, militant, militaristic, military, military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war, soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling, the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike, warmaking, warmongering, wartime

• warrior, Amazon, air serviceman, brave, cannon fodder, fighter, fighting man, food for powder, halberdier, hoplite, legionary, man-at-arms, military man, navy man, pikeman, rifle, rifleman, serviceman, soldier, spearman, swaddy, sweat, warrioress

• wart, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, bantam, banty, benign tumor, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boss, bow, brownie, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, check, chine, chit, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, diminutive, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, dwarf, ear, elf, excrescence, fault, featherweight, fingerling, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, fungosity, fungus, gall, gnarl, gnome, growth, handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, homunculus, hump, hunch, intumescence, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lightweight, lip, loop, lump, malignant growth, manikin, metastatic tumor, midge, midget, milium, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mole, morbid growth, mountain, mouse, needle scar, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth, papilloma, peewee, peg, pimple, pip-squeak, pit, pock, pockmark, pony, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, proud flesh, pustule, pygmy, rib, ridge, rift, ring, runt, sarcoma, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, tit, track, tubercle, tubercule, tumor, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wisp

• wartime, all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hostilities, hot war, la guerre, might of arms, military operations, open hostilities, open war, resort to arms, shooting war, state of war, the sword, total war, war, warfare, warmaking, warring

• wary, Argus-eyed, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Pyrrhonic, Scotch, acute, agnostic, all ears, all eyes, arch, artful, astute, aux aguets, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, clever, considerate, crafty, cunning, custodial, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, discreet, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eagle-eyed, feline, foxy, from Missouri, frugal, gingerly, guarded, guileful, hard of belief, hawk-eyed, impervious to persuasion, in doubt, inconvincible, incredulous, ingenious, insidious, inventive, keen-eyed, knowing, leery, lidless, mistrustful, mistrusting, observant, on guard, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eyed, pawky, politic, provident, prudent, questioning, ready, resourceful, safe, saving, scheming, scrupulous, serpentine, sharp, sharp-eyed, shifty, shrewd, shy, shy of belief, skeptical, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, suspecting, suspicious, tactical, thrifty, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, untrusting, unwasteful, unwilling to accept, vigilant, vulpine, watchful, wily, with open eyes

• wash down, bib, booze, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, guzzle, imbibe, pledge, pull, quaff, sip, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, tipple, toast, toss down, toss off

• wash out, achromatize, baptize, bath, bathe, blanch, bleach, bust, cashier, cast, decolor, decolorize, dim, discolor, douche, drain, drain of color, dull, etiolate, fade, fail, flummox, flunk, flunk out, flush, flush out, fume, gargle, holystone, irrigate, jettison, junk, lather, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pale, peroxide, reject, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrap, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shed, shower, slough, sluice, sluice out, soap, sponge, swab, syringe, tarnish, throw away, toivel, tone down, tub, wash, wash up, whiten

• wash, ablution, abstergent, acrylic painting, apply paint, aquarelle, babble, backwash, baptize, bath, bathe, baygall, be consistent, be the case, be true, be truthful, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, brew, brush on paint, bubble, buffalo wallow, burble, calcimine, canvas, cathartic, chromogen, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning out, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, coat, coat of paint, coating, cold cream, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, condensation trail, conform to fact, contrail, cover, cream, dab, daub, dead-color, deep-dye, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, dip, distemper, diuretic, double-dye, douche, douching, drench, drier, drouk, dye, dyestuff, easel-picture, elution, elutriation, emblazon, emetic, enamel, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, enema, engild, everglade, exhaust, exterior paint, face, fast-dye, fen, fenland, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, float, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flush out, flushing, flushing out, fresco, fresco painting, gargle, genre painting, gild, glade, glaze, gloss, gouache, grain, grisaille, ground, guggle, gurgle, hog wallow, hold, hold good, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, holm, holystone, hue, illuminate, illumination, illustration, imbrue, imbue, impasto, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, inject, interior paint, irrigate, irrigation, japan, lacquer, lap, lapping, lather, lathering, launder, laundering, laundry, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, lay on color, leach, lip, lixiviate, lotion, macerate, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, medium, mere, mire, monochrome, moor, moorland, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, morass, moss, mouthwash, mud, mud flat, mural painting, nauseant, oil, oil painting, opaque color, paint, painting, parget, peat bog, percolate, permeate, picturization, pigment, plash, portraiture, poster painting, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, prove out, prove to be, prove true, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, purl, quagmire, quicksand, remain valid, ride, rinse, rinse out, rinsing, ripple, ritually immerse, salt marsh, saturate, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, scrubbing, scrubbing up, seethe, shade, shadow, shampoo, shellac, shower, slob land, slop on paint, slosh, slough, sluice, sluice out, smear, soak, soap, soaping, sodden, solvent, sop, sough, souse, splash, sponge, sponging, stain, stand the test, stand up, steep, stick together, stipple, stream, sump, swab, swabbing, swale, swamp, swampland, swash, swish, synthetic detergent, syringe, taiga, tempera, the brush, thinner, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, toivel, tone, tooth powder, toothpaste, track, transparent color, trill, tub, tubbing, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, vapor trail, varnish, vehicle, vortex, wake, wallow, wash coat, wash drawing, wash out, wash up, washday, washing, washing up, washout, washup, water, waterlog, whitewash, wiping up

• washbasin, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishpan, dishwasher, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub

• washboard, Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, broken ground, broken water, cement, chop, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, corduroy, corduroy road, corrugation, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gravel, horripilation, kerb, kerbstone, lop, macadam, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, ripple, road metal, rough, sandpaper, stone, tarmacadam, tile

• washed out, achromatic, achromic, all in, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bleary, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depleted, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drained, dull, eroded, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, far-gone, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, spent, tallow-faced, toneless, uncolored, used up, wan, waxen, weak, weather-battered, weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted, weathered, weatherworn, whey-faced, white, worn-out

• washed up, SOL, all bets off, all in, all off, all over, all up, at an end, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, bushed, canceled, cleaned up, complete, completed, concluded, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, decided, defunct, deleted, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, done with, drained, ended, exhausted, expunged, extinct, fagged out, fini, finished, finished up, gone, kaput, knocked out, over, perfected, perfective, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, set at rest, settled, shot, spent, terminated, through, through with, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed up, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn-out, wound up, wrapped up, zapped

• washer, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishpan, dishwasher, dishwiper, dry cleaner, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, launderer, laundress, laundryman, laundrywoman, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, pot-walloper, scullery maid, scullion, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washerman, washerwife, washerwoman, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub

• washing machine, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishpan, dishwasher, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub

• washing, ablution, bear raid, bull raid, cleaning out, corner, corner in, douche, douching, elution, elutriation, enema, flush, flushing, flushing out, irrigation, lap, lapping, lathering, laundering, laundry, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, manipulation, monopoly, mopping, mopping up, plash, raid, rigging, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, slosh, soaping, splash, sponge, sponging, swabbing, swash, tubbing, wash, wash sale, washday, washing up, washout, washup, wiping up

• Washingtonese, Varietyese, Wall Streetese, bunkum, business English, businessese, cinemese, collegese, commercialism, computerese, economese, federalese, gobbledygook, journalese, legalese, medical Greek, medicalese, newspaperese, official jargon, officialese, pedagese, political doubletalk, pussyfooting, shoptalk, societyese, sociologese, stagese, telegraphese

• washout, ablution, airmanship, alluvion, alluvium, also-ran, bankrupt, bollix, bomb, botch, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brief, briefing, bungle, bust, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, cleaning out, collapse, crack-up, crash, debacle, deluge, disaster, douche, douching, dud, dull thud, elution, elutriation, enema, engulfment, failure, false alarm, fiasco, fizzle, flat failure, flight plan, flood, flop, floperoo, flunk, flush, flushing, flushing out, flying lessons, foozle, frost, hash, inundation, irrigation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, lemon, loser, mess, mopping, mopping up, muddle, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, pilot training, pilotship, rinse, rinsing, rundown, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, shipwreck, smash, smashup, soaping, spill, spillage, sponge, sponging, submersion, swabbing, the Deluge, the Flood, total loss, turkey, wash, washing, washing up, washup, whelming, wiping up, wrack, wreck

• washroom, WC, backhouse, bagnio, balneae, balneum, basement, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, baths, caldarium, can, closet, comfort station, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, mikvah, necessary, outhouse, powder room, privy, public baths, rest room, sauna, spa, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, watering place

• washstand, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishpan, dishwasher, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washtub

• wasp waisted, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, insubstantial, knitted, lacy, light, misty, nipped, papery, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, wrinkled

• WASP, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man

• waspish, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, huffish, huffy, impatient, irascible, irritable, malicious, mean, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, sharp, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary

• wassail, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, frolic, guzzle, hell, high jinks, jag, orgy, potation, pub-crawl, revel, revelment, riot, roister, skylarking, soak, spree, symposium, tear, toot, whoopee

• waste away, Sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, age, assimilate, atomize, atrophy, attenuate, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, bleed white, break up, burn up, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cheat the undertaker, come apart, consume, consume away, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, deplete, die, die away, die out, digest, diminish, disappear, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, dodder, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, eat, eat up, ebb, emacerate, emaciate, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exhaust, exit, expend, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, fall short, fall to pieces, finish, finish off, fission, flag, flee, fly, get along, get on, go, go away, gobble, gobble up, grow old, hide, impoverish, ingest, languish, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, let up, lose strength, macerate, melt, melt away, molder, parch, pass, pass away, pass out, peak, perish, pine, pine away, plummet, plunge, preshrink, retire from sight, run down, run low, run to seed, run to waste, sag, sear, shake, shrink, shrivel, sink, sink away, spend, split, squander, subside, suck dry, suffer an eclipse, swallow, swallow up, tail off, thin, totter, turn gray, turn white, use up, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, weaken, wear, wear away, weazen, wilt, wither, wither away, wizen, wrinkle

• waste time, beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, doodle, drag, falter, flag, footle, fribble, fritter away time, goof off, halt, kill time, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lose time, pass the time, piddle, potter, putter, shilly-shally, tarry, trail, trifle

• waste, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abate, ablate, ablation, absorption, acarpous, afterglow, afterimage, arid, assimilation, atrophy, attenuate, attrition, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, balance, barren, barren land, barrens, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, be used up, blast, bloodbath, blot out, blow, blue ruin, blunder away, bones, breakup, bring to ruin, brush, bump off, burning up, bush, butt, butt end, candle ends, carnage, carpe diem, cast away, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, celibate, chaff, childless, condemn, confound, conspicuous consumption, consume, consume away, consumption, corrode, corrosion, croak, crumble, culm, damn, damnation, deadwood, deal destruction, debris, decimate, decimation, decline, decrease, decrement, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, deliquesce, deliquescence, dematerialize, depart, deplete, depletion, depreciate, depreciation, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desert, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detritus, devastate, devastation, devour, die, die away, die out, digestion, diminish, disappear, discharge, dishwater, disintegration, disorganization, dispel, disperse, disruption, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, do in, draff, drain, drained, dregs, dribble away, dried-up, drivel, droop, drop, drop off, dry, dry up, dust, dust bowl, dwindle, eating up, ebb, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, emacerate, emaciate, emaciation, end, engorge, erase, erode, erosion, evanesce, evaporate, evaporation, excrement, excreta, excretes, exhaust, exhausted, exhaustion, exit, expend, expending, expenditure, extravagance, extravagancy, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, fade, fade away, fade out, fag end, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, fallow, filings, finishing, fix, flag, flee, fly, fool away, fossil, fritter, frivol, fruitless, garbage, gash, gaunt, gelded, get, give out, give the business, go, go away, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heath, hecatomb, hide, hinterland, hit, hogwash, holdover, holocaust, howling wilderness, husks, ice, impotent, impoverishment, incinerate, incontinence, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, ingestion, intemperance, issueless, jejune, jungle, junk, karroo, kelter, languish, lavishness, lay in ruins, lay out, lay waste, leached, leakage, leaking purse, leave no trace, leave the scene, leavings, lees, leftovers, lessen, let up, litter, loose purse strings, lose, lose strength, loss, lunar landscape, lunar waste, macerate, marcescence, melt, melt away, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, odds and ends, off, offal, offscourings, orts, outback, overdoing, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overliberality, parch, parings, pass, pass away, pass out, peak, perdition, perish, peter out, pillage, pine, pine away, plummet, plunge, polish off, potsherds, pound-foolishness, preshrink, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, rags, raspings, ravage, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, retire from sight, roach, rub out, rubbish, rubble, ruin, ruinate, ruination, ruins, rummage, rump, run down, run dry, run low, run out, run to seed, run to waste, sack, sag, salt flat, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sear, settle, shadow, shambles, shards, shavings, shipwreck, shrink, shrinkage, shrivel, sine prole, sink, slack, slag, slaughter, slop, slops, spend, spending, spill, spoliate, spoliation, squander, squandering, squandermania, sterile, straw, stubble, stump, subside, sucked dry, suffer an eclipse, survival, swallow up, sweepings, swill, sylvan, tail off, take care of, tares, teemless, thin, throw into disorder, trace, transudate, transudation, trash, uncultivated, undoing, unfertile, unfruitful, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, up-country, upheave, use up, using, using up, vandalism, vandalize, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, vestige, virgin, wane, wastage, waste away, waste matter, wasted, wastefulness, wasteland, wastepaper, wasting away, weaken, wear, wear and tear, wear away, wearing, wearing away, wearing down, weary waste, weazen, weeds, wild, wilderness, wildness, wilds, wilt, wilting, wipe out, wither, wither away, withering, without issue, wizen, woodland, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, zap

• wasted, Sanforized, ablated, acarpous, arid, atrophied, attenuated, ausgespielt, bankrupt, barren, blasted, blighted, brittle, broken, burned-out, burnt up, by the board, cadaverous, celibate, childless, consumed, corky, corpselike, depleted, desert, desiccated, desolate, desolated, destroyed, devastated, devitalized, disabled, dissipated, done for, done in, down the drain, down-and-out, drained, dried-up, dry, eaten up, effete, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, exhausted, expended, fallen, fallow, fatigued, finished, forfeit, forfeited, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gone, gone to pot, gone to waste, haggard, hollow-eyed, impotent, impoverished, in ruins, incapacitated, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, irremediable, irretrievable, issueless, jejune, kaput, leached, long-lost, lost, lost to, marantic, marasmic, meager, menopausal, misspent, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, out the window, overthrown, papery, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, played out, poor, preshrunk, puny, ravaged, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down, sapped, sear, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, sine prole, skeletal, spent, spoiled, squandered, starved, starveling, sterile, sucked dry, tabetic, tabid, teemless, thin, uncultivated, underfed, undernourished, undone, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, used, used up, virgin, waste, wasted away, weakened, weazened, weazeny, wilted, withered, without issue, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, worn-out, wraithlike, wrecked, wrinkled

• wasteful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, dissipative, doomful, easy come, easy go, extravagant, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, incontinent, intemperate, internecine, lavish, nihilist, nihilistic, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spendthrift, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasting, withering

• wasteland, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, back country, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, desert, desolation, dust bowl, forests, frontier, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, karroo, lunar landscape, lunar waste, outback, outpost, salt flat, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, weary waste, wild, wild West, wilderness, wildness, wilds, woodlands, woods

• wasting, Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chill, chills, chronic ill health, colic, coming apart, constipation, consuming, consumption, consumptive, convulsion, coughing, cracking, crumbling, cyanosis, deadly, debilitation, debility, decadent, declining, decrepitude, degenerate, delicacy, delicate health, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, deteriorating, devastating, diarrhea, disastrous, disintegrating, dizziness, doomful, doting, draining, drooping, dropsy, drying, drying up, dwindling, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, ebbing, edema, effete, emaceration, emaciation, enervation, exhaustion, fading, failing, fainting, falling, fatal, fateful, fatigue, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flagging, flux, fragility, fragmenting, frailty, fratricidal, getting on, going to pieces, growing old, growth, healthlessness, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hypotension, icterus, ill health, indigestion, infirmity, inflammation, insomnia, internecine, invalidism, invalidity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, languishing, languishment, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, marcescent, morbidity, morbidness, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nihilist, nihilistic, pain, paralysis, parching, peakedness, pining, poor health, preshrinkage, pruritus, rash, ravaging, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, rheum, ruining, ruinous, sclerosis, searing, seizure, self-destructive, senescent, shock, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, sickliness, sinking, skin eruption, sliding, slipping, slumping, sneezing, sore, spasm, subsiding, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tabes, tabetic, tachycardia, thinning, tumor, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, upset stomach, valetudinarianism, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, vertigo, vomiting, waning, wasteful, weakliness, wilting, withering, worsening

• wastrel, Arab, Bowery bum, bad lot, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, big-time spender, black sheep, blackguard, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, castaway, castoff, derelict, devil, discard, dissipater, dogie, drifter, drunkard, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, foundling, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idler, jetsam, junk, knave, lagan, landloper, lazzarone, lecher, libertine, loafer, losel, lounger, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, mudlark, no-good, orphan, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, prodigal, prodigal son, profligate, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rake, rapscallion, rascal, refuse, reject, rip, rogue, roue, rounder, rubbish, sad case, sad sack, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, ski bum, skid-row bum, spend-all, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, trash, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, waster, wastethrift, worthless fellow, wretch

• watch out for, attend to, baby-sit, calculate on, care for, chaperon, cherish, conserve, count on, forestall, foster, keep watch over, look after, look for, look forward to, look out for, look to, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nurse, nurture, preserve, protege, provide for, reckon on, ride herd on, see after, see to, shepherd, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, watch, watch over

• watch out, and listen, attend to business, be alert, be obsessed with, be vigilant, be watchful, beware, concentrate on, fix on, focus on, give heed, have a care, keep alert, keep in sight, keep in view, keep vigil, keep watch, lie low, look, look about one, look lively, look out, look sharp, mind, miss nothing, never nod, pay attention, pay heed, qui vive, scrutinize, stop, study, take care, take heed, watch

• watch, Argus, Big Ben, Charley, abide, airplane spotter, alarm clock, alarm watch, anchor watch, and listen, animadvert, appear, assister, astronomical clock, atomic clock, attend, attend to, await, baby-sit, bakehead, be at, be present at, be vigilant, be watchful, bevy, bide, bit, black gang, boilerman, box chronometer, bug, bungs, cabin boy, calculate on, calendar clock, calendar watch, care for, case, catch, chaperon, charm, cherish, chips, chronograph, chronometer, chronopher, chronoscope, clepsydra, clock, clock movement, clocks, clockworks, cloud, come to, commissary steward, complement, conserve, count on, covey, cuckoo clock, custodianship, custody, day shift, deckhand, deckie, dekko, dial, digital clock, digital watch, do, dogwatch, eagle eye, electric clock, electronic clock, espial, espionage, examine, eye, eyeball, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, fireman, flight, flock, follow, forestall, forward observer, foster, full time, gaggle, gape, gaze at, gnomon, go to, grandfather clock, graveyard shift, guard, guardedness, guardianship, gun loader, gunner, half time, half-hour glass, half-minute glass, hand, have a looksee, heed, hive, hold in view, horologe, horologium, hospital steward, hourglass, hunter, independent-seconds watch, inspect, invigilation, isochronon, journeyman, keep alert, keep guard, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, keep vigil, keep watch, keep watch over, landing signalman, lobster trick, look, look about one, look after, look at, look for, look forward to, look lively, look on, look out, look out for, look sharp, look to, look upon, looking, lookout, lookout man, mail orderly, make a reconnaissance, marine chronometer, mark, mark time, matronize, metronome, mind, minister to, monitoring, mother, mount guard, murmuration, navigator, never nod, night shift, night watchman, note, notice, nurse, nurture, observance, observation, observe, ogle, oiler, overtime, part time, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peeled eye, peep, picket, plague, play the spy, police, preserve, proctoring, protege, provide for, prudence, purser, put under surveillance, qui vive, radio operator, reckon on, reconnoiter, regard, relay, remark, repeater, respect, ride herd on, roundsman, roustabout, sandglass, scan, scout, scout out, scrutinize, scrutiny, see, see after, see to, sentinel, sentry, sharp eye, shepherd, shift, show up, sit in, sit up for, skein, snip, snips, sparks, split schedule, split shift, spotter, spring, spy, spy out, spy upon, spying, stake out, stand guard, stand sentinel, stay up for, steward, stewardess, stewardship, stint, stoker, stop, sundial, sunrise watch, support, surveillance, swarm, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, swing shift, tab, take care of, take charge of, take in, take note, take notice, telltale, tend, ticker, time, time switch, timekeeper, timepiece, timepieces, timer, torpedoman, tour, tour of duty, tout, trick, turn, turn of work, turn up, turnip, vedette, view, viewing, vigil, vigilance, visit, wait, wait for, wait on, wait up for, ward, wariness, watch and wait, watch and ward, watch out, watch out for, watch over, watcher, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, watchkeeper, watchman, watchworks, weather eye, witness, witnessing, work shift, wristwatch, yeoman

• watchdog, Cerberus, Seeing Eye dog, bandog, bitch, bowwow, canine, cerberus, clanger, custos, dog, fancy dog, guard dog, guardian, guide dog, gyp, keeper, kennel, lap dog, pack of dogs, pooch, pup, puppy, sheep dog, show dog, sled dog, slut, toy dog, warden, whelp, working dog

• watcher, Argus, Charley, TV-viewer, airplane spotter, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, drugstore cowboy, eyewitness, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, forward observer, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, goggler, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, lookout, lookout man, night watchman, observer, ogler, onlooker, patrol, patroller, patrolman, perceiver, percipient, picket, roundsman, scout, seer, sentinel, sentry, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, spotter, televiewer, television-viewer, vedette, video-gazer, viewer, watch, watchkeeper, watchman, witness

• watchful eye, X-ray eye, cover, custodianship, custody, defense, eagle eye, eye, gimlet eye, guard, guardedness, guardianship, invigilation, keen eye, lee, lookout, monitoring, observance, peeled eye, penetrating eye, preservation, proctoring, protection, protective custody, prudence, qui vive, refuge, safekeeping, safety, shade, shadow, sharp eye, shelter, stewardship, surveillance, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

• watchful, Argus-eyed, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aux aguets, aware, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, concentrated, conscious, covering, custodial, defensive, diligent, eagle-eyed, earnest, finical, finicking, finicky, fostering, guarded, guardian, guarding, hawk-eyed, heedful, immunizing, intense, intent, intentive, keen-eyed, lidless, meticulous, mindful, nice, niggling, observant, observing, on guard, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, parental, preventive, prompt, prophylactic, protecting, protective, prudent, quick, ready, regardful, safeguarding, screening, sharp-eyed, sheltering, shielding, sleepless, tutelary, unsleeping, vigilant, wakeful, wary, wide-awake, with open eyes

• watchman, Argus, Charley, airplane spotter, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, forward observer, lookout, lookout man, night watchman, patrol, patroller, patrolman, picket, roundsman, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, vedette, ward, watch, watcher, watchkeeper

• watchtower, Texas tower, beacon, belvedere, bench mark, bleachers, bookmark, bridge, cairn, catstone, conning tower, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, landmark, lighthouse, lightship, lookout, loophole, mark, marker, menhir, milepost, milestone, monument, observation post, observatory, outlook, overlook, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, platform, ringside, ringside seat, seamark, sighthole, top gallery, tower

• watchword, bugle call, byword, call to arms, call-up, catchword, clarion, clarion call, conscription, countersign, device, epigraph, epithet, exhortation, go for broke, gung ho, inscription, levy, mobilization, motto, muster, open sesame, password, phrase, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruitment, secret grip, shibboleth, slogan, tag line, tessera, token, trumpet call, war cry, war whoop, word

• water carrier, Aquarius, Cloudcuckooland, Ganymede, Hebe, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, aqueduct, arroyo, banner cloud, bearer, bed, bheesty, billowy cloud, busboy, caddie, canal, cap cloud, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, cottony cloud, creek bed, culvert, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, cupbearer, curl cloud, donga, drayman, dry bed, express, expressman, fleecy cloud, flume, fractocumulus, freighter, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gun bearer, hauler, headrace, high fog, homing pigeon, irrigation ditch, letter carrier, litter-bearer, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, nullah, porter, race, rain cloud, redcap, river bed, riverway, runnel, scud, shield-bearer, skycap, sluice, snail cloud, spillbox, spillway, squall cloud, stevedore, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, stream bed, streamway, stretcher-bearer, swash, swash channel, tailrace, the Water Bearer, thundercloud, thunderhead, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wadi, wagoner, water boy, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, woolpack

• water closet, WC, backhouse, basement, bathroom, bedpan, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical closet, chemical toilet, closet, comfort station, commode, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, jerry, john, johnny, johnny house, jordan, latrine, lavatory, loo, necessary, outhouse, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, powder room, privy, rest room, stool, throne, thunder mug, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom

• water gate, aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, culvert, dock gate, donga, dry bed, flood-hatch, floodgate, flume, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, head gate, headrace, irrigation ditch, lock, lock gate, nullah, penstock, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, sluice gate, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tide gate, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, weir

• water god, Davy, Davy Jones, Dylan, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, mermaid, merman, sea devil, sea god, seaman, siren

• water hole, artificial lake, bayou lake, cistern, dam, dead water, dike, etang, farm pond, fishpond, freshwater lake, glacial lake, inland sea, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, linn, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reservoir, salina, salt pond, stagnant water, standing water, still water, sump, tank, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water pocket, well

• water sprite, Davy, Davy Jones, Neptune, Nereid, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, fresh-water nymph, kelpie, limniad, man fish, mermaid, merman, naiad, nix, nixie, ocean nymph, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, siren, undine, water god, water spirit

• water vapor, afterdamp, agua, aqua, blackdamp, breath, chokedamp, cloud, damp, drinking water, eau, effluvium, exhalation, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fume, ground water, hard water, head, heavy water, hydrol, hydrometeor, hydrosphere, limewater, malaria, mephitis, miasma, mineral water, puff of smoke, rain, rainwater, reek, salt water, sea water, smoke, smudge, soft water, spring water, steam, vapor, volatile, water, well water, wetting agent, wetting-out agent

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

• water witch, Comus, Faust, conjurer, diabolist, diviner, divining rod, doodlebug, dowser, dowsing, dowsing rod, miracle-worker, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, wand, warlock, water witching, witching, witching stick, wizard

• water, April showers, BO, Davy, Davy Jones, Dylan, Foamite, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Proteus, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, acid, adulterate, agua, air, aqua, aquarelle, asperge, atom, atomic particles, attenuate, automatic sprinkler, baptize, bastardize, beaded brow, beads of sweat, bed, bed down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, beverage, blood, body odor, break, bridle, brush, brute matter, building block, cambric tea, canvas, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, cast the lead, chameleon, chemical element, cloud shapes, cobweb, cold sweat, component, constituent, contaminate, corrupt, curry, currycomb, cut, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, debase, deck gun, deluge set, denaturalize, denature, dew, diaphoresis, dilute, dishwater, doctor, doctor up, douche, drench, drink, drinking water, drool, earth, easel-picture, eau, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, emacerate, emaciate, etherealize, excrete, expand, extinguisher, exudate, exudation, fathom, feed, finger painting, fire, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, foam, foam extinguisher, fodder, fortify, fundamental particle, gentle, give out, gossamer, gouache, groom, ground water, gruel, hair, handle, hard water, harness, head, heavy water, hitch, honest sweat, hook-and-ladder, hose, hose down, house of cards, humect, humectate, humidify, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hydrol, hydrometeor, hydrosphere, hyle, hypostasis, irrigate, juice, kaleidoscope, lace, lactate, ladder pipe, latex, lather, limewater, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, litter, make a sounding, manage, matchwood, material, material world, materiality, matter, mercury, mermaid, merman, micturition, milk, milk and water, mineral water, moisten, molecule, monad, moon, natural world, nature, oil, oil painting, paddle, painting, pee, pee-pee, perspiration, perspiration odor, physical world, piddle, pish, piss, plenum, plumb, plumb the depths, plumb-line, pollute, produce, pumper, quicksilver, rain, rainwater, rarefy, reduce, reed, rolling stone, rope of sand, rub down, saddle, salt water, sand castle, sap, sea devil, sea god, sea water, seaman, secern, secrete, semiliquid, shifting sands, siren, slaver, sling the lead, slobber, slop, slosh, snorkel, soda, soft water, sound, sparge, spatter, spike, spit, spittle, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, spring water, sprinkle, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, stale, steam, streams of sweat, stuff, substance, substratum, subtilize, sudor, sudoresis, super-pumper, swash, sweat, swelter, syringe, take soundings, tame, tamper with, tear, tempera, tend, the four elements, the weather, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, thread, train, unit of being, urea, urination, urine, wash, wash drawing, water cannon, water down, water vapor, weaken, weather vane, weathercock, wee-wee, weep, well water, wet, wet blanket, wet down, wetting agent, wetting-out agent, wheel of fortune, whey, whirligig, yoke

• watercourse, adolescent stream, aqueduct, arroyo, beck, bed, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, channel, conduit, course, creek, creek bed, crick, culvert, donga, dry bed, duct, flowing stream, flume, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, irrigation ditch, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, nullah, race, racing stream, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, sluice, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, stream, stream action, stream bed, streamlet, streamway, subterranean river, swash, swash channel, tailrace, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, waterway, waterworks

• watercraft, aircraft, argosy, bark, boat, bottom, bucket, carriage, carrier, conveyance, craft, hooker, hulk, hull, keel, leviathan, medium of transportation, packet, ship, tub, vehicle, vessel

• watered down, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, attenuated, bated, belittled, boyish, consumed, contracted, curtailed, cut, dead, decreased, deflated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, ethereal, fade, fallen, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly, inane, indifferent, insipid, insubstantial, jejune, lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, mild, milk-and-water, miniaturized, misty, papery, pappy, pulpy, rare, rarefied, reduced, retrenched, sapless, savorless, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smaller, spiceless, stale, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, uncompact, uncompressed, unflavored, unsavory, unsubstantial, vague, vapid, vaporous, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, waterish, watery, weak, weakened, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, worn

• waterfall, Niagara, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse, comedown, crash, debacle, declension, declination, defluxion, descending, descension, descent, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, dropping, eddy, fall, falling, falls, force, gravitation, inclination, linn, nappe, plummeting, pounce, rapids, riffle, sault, shoot, spout, stoop, surge, swoop, vortex, watershoot, whirlpool

• waterfowl, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, cage bird, chick, cygnet, diving bird, dove, eagle, eaglet, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, insect-eating bird, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, ratite, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, songbird, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, wading bird, warbler, water bird, wildfowl

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

• watering can, aerosol, aspergil, aspergillum, atomizer, clyster, concentrate sprayer, douche, enema, fountain syringe, mist concentrate sprayer, needle bath, nozzle, shower, shower bath, shower head, sparge, sparger, spray, spray can, sprayer, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkling system, syringe, watercart, watering pot

• watering place, bagnio, balneae, balneum, bar, barroom, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, baths, boozer, cabaret, cafe, caldarium, casino, club, clubhouse, cocktail lounge, discotheque, drinkery, gambling house, gathering place, gin mill, hangout, haunt, health resort, hot spring, lavatory, lounge, meeting place, mikvah, mineral spring, night spot, nitery, pub, public baths, pump house, pump room, purlieu, rallying point, resort, rest room, saloon, sauna, spa, springs, stamping ground, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, supper club, sweat room, tavern, tepidarium, thermae, washroom

• watering, adulteration, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bastardizing, bath, bathing, bedewing, contamination, corruption, cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, deluge, dewing, dilution, doctoring, drenching, drowning, excretory, flooding, fortifying, hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacing, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, laving, moistening, pollution, rheumy, rinsing, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, spermatic, spiking, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swashing, watery, wetting

• waterless, Saharan, anhydrous, arid, athirst, bone-dry, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, high and dry, juiceless, like parchment, moistureless, sandy, sapless, sere, thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unwatered

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

• Waterloo, beating, collapse, conquering, conquest, crash, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, hiding, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, quietus, ruin, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, whipping

• watermark, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark, birthmark, blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, cut, dapple, discoloration, dot, earmark, engraving, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, high-water mark, jot, lentigo, load waterline, macula, mark, marking, mole, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, patch, point, polka dot, prick, puncture, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tidemark, tittle, waterline

• waterproof, airtight, bold, close, compact, dampproof, dripproof, dustproof, dusttight, fast, fireproof, firm, fit for sea, floodproof, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, insulate, leakproof, lightproof, lighttight, moistureproof, oilproof, oiltight, proof, rainproof, raintight, sea-kindly, sealed, seaworthy, seepproof, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, soundproof, staunch, stiff, stormproof, stormtight, tender, tight, water-repellant, watertight, weatherly, weatherproof, windproof, windtight

• waterskiing, Australian crawl, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, diving, dog paddle, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, natation, sidestroke, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, treading water, wading

• waterspout, baguio, beak, brash, burst of rain, cloudburst, cyclone, deluge, downfall, downflow, downpour, downspout, drencher, dust devil, flood, gargoyle, gushing rain, heavy rain, plash, pour, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, rotary storm, sand column, sandspout, scud, soaker, soaking rain, spate, spout, tornado, torrent of rain, twister, typhoon, whirlblast, whirlwind, wind eddy

• watertight, airtight, ballproof, bold, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, close, compact, corrosionproof, dampproof, dripproof, dustproof, dusttight, fast, fire-resisting, fireproof, firm, fit for sea, flameproof, floodproof, foolproof, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, holeproof, impervious to, leakproof, lightproof, lighttight, moistureproof, noiseproof, oilproof, oiltight, proof, proof against, punctureproof, rainproof, raintight, resistant, rustproof, sea-kindly, sealed, seaworthy, seepproof, shatterproof, shellproof, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, soundproof, staunch, stiff, stormproof, stormtight, tender, tight, water-repellant, waterproof, weatherly, weatherproof, windproof, windtight

• waterway, adolescent stream, approaches, aqueduct, arroyo, beck, bed, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, channel, creek, creek bed, crick, culvert, donga, dry bed, fairway, flowing stream, flume, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, irrigation ditch, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, nullah, race, racing stream, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, road, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sea lane, seaway, ship route, sike, sluice, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, steamer track, stream, stream action, stream bed, streamlet, streamway, subterranean river, swash, swash channel, tailrace, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterworks

• waterworks, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, bleachworks, bottling works, brassworks, canal, copperworks, creek bed, culvert, donga, dry bed, dye works, flume, gasworks, glassworks, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, ironworks, irrigation ditch, metalworks, nullah, paper works, printworks, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, saltworks, scrapworks, sluice, soapworks, spillbox, spillway, starchworks, steelworks, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, wireworks, works

• watery, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, airy, anemic, aquatic, aqueous, ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, banal, bland, bloodless, boyish, changeable, dead, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, excretory, exiguous, fade, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, flowing, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly, halfhearted, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, impoverished, inane, indecisive, indifferent, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, insubstantial, irresolute, jejune, juicy, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, lacy, lean, light, limited, liquid, liquidy, meager, mean, mild, milk-and-water, milky, miserly, misty, mushy, namby-pamby, narrow, neutral, niggardly, pallid, paltry, papery, pappy, parsimonious, plashy, poor, pulpy, puny, rare, rarefied, rheumy, runny, salivant, salivary, salivous, sapless, sappy, savorless, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, sloppy, small, spare, sparing, spermatic, spiceless, splashy, stale, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, succulent, svelte, swashy, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unflavored, unnourishing, unnutritious, unsavory, vague, vapid, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watering, waterish, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy

• wattage, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, electric horsepower, electric power, energy, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, hydroelectric power, hydroelectricity, influence, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power load, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, watts, weight

• wattle, arabesque, basketry, basketwork, braid, cancellation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, enlace, entwine, filigree, fret, fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interknit, interlace, interlacement, intertexture, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, loom, loop, mat, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, netting, network, noose, plait, pleach, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, sieve, splice, texture, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, twill, twine, twist, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork, wreathe

• wave, Afro, accost, address, advertise, affect, air, ambages, amplitude, anfractuosity, antinode, barber, be poised, beat, beat the drum, betoken, bicker, billow, blazon forth, bob, bobble, bore, bow, brandish, brandishing, break, breakers, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, careen, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, coggle, coif, coiffure, cold wave, comb, comber, conk, convolution, crash, crest, crinkle, crinkling, curtsy, dance, dangle, dash, de Broglie wave, demonstrate, develop, diffraction, dip, dirty water, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, eagre, ebb and flow, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, emblazon, embody, embrace, enact, evidence, evince, exchange colors, exhibit, expose to view, express, flag, flag down, flap, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, flourishing, fluctuate, flutter, fly, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, give a signal, give sign, give the nod, give token, glance, go pitapat, gravity wave, greeting, ground swell, guided wave, gutter, hail, hail and speak, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, half-mast, hand-clasp, handshake, headdress, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, hello, highlight, hoist a banner, hold up, home permanent, how-do-you-do, hug, illuminate, in phase, incarnate, indicate, interference, intorsion, involution, kick, kiss, leer, librate, lift, light, longitudinal wave, lop, lurch, make a sign, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, meander, meandering, mechanical wave, natural, nod, node, nudge, nutate, oscillate, out of phase, palpitate, parade, peak, pendulate, perform, period, periodic wave, permanent, permanent wave, pitch, pitter-patter, poke, pompadour, popple, present, process, produce, pulse, put forth, put forward, radio wave, raise a cry, ray, reel, reinforcement, represent, resonance, resonance frequency, resonate, reveal, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rivulation, rock, roll, roll out, roller, rough water, salutation, salute, scend, sea, seismic wave, send, set forth, shake, shaking, shingle, shock wave, show, show forth, sign, signal, signalize, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slat, slinkiness, smash, smile, smile of recognition, snakiness, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, sound wave, speak, splutter, sport, spotlight, sputter, surf, surface wave, surge, swag, sway, swell, swing, swinging, throb, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, token, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, toss, touch, transverse wave, trim, trot out, trough, trumpet, trumpet forth, tsunami, turning, twisting, undulate, undulation, unfold, unfurl a flag, vacillate, vaunt, vibrate, wag, waggle, water wave, wave a flag, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wave the hand, wavelength, wavelet, waver, waving, white horses, whitecaps, wield, wigwag, winding, wink, wobble

• wavelength, amplitude, antinode, carrier, carrier wave, crest, de Broglie wave, diffraction, electric wave, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, ground wave, guided wave, hertzian wave, high-frequency wave, in phase, interference, light, long wave, longitudinal wave, low-frequency wave, mechanical wave, microwave, node, out of phase, period, periodic wave, radio wave, ray, reinforcement, resonance, resonance frequency, seismic wave, shock wave, shortwave, sky wave, sound wave, surface wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, trough, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number

• waver, alternate, back and fill, beat, beating, bicker, blench, bob, bobble, boggle, careen, change, coggle, dance, dangle, demur, dither, ebb and flow, equivocate, falter, fight shy of, flap, flick, flicker, flinch, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, go pitapat, go through phases, gutter, halt, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, librate, lurch, make bones about, nutate, oscillate, palpitate, palpitation, palter, pause, pendulate, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, play, pull back, pulse, quail, quiver, recoil, reel, resonate, ring the changes, rock, roll, scruple, seesaw, shake, shift, shilly-shally, shrink, shuffle, shy, shy at, slat, splutter, sputter, stagger, stick at, stickle, strain, swag, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, throb, toss, totter, trim, turn, vacillate, vary, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, wax and wane, whiffle, wince, wobble

• wavering, adrift, aflicker, afloat, agnostic, alternating, alternation, ambiguous, amorphous, bickering, blinking, broken, capricious, capriciousness, careening, catchy, chancy, changeability, changeable, changeableness, changeful, changing, choppiness, choppy, dancing, dappleness, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, dicey, dickey, difference, different, differentiation, disconnected, discontinuous, disorder, disorderly, divaricate, divarication, divergence, divergent, diversification, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubting, eccentric, equivocal, equivocation, erose, erratic, faltering, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuation, fluctuational, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, giddy, guttering, halting, harmonic, harmonic motion, herky-jerky, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconstancy, inconstant, indecision, indecisive, indemonstrable, inequality, infirm, insecure, instability, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irregularity, irresolute, irresolution, irresponsible, jagged, jerkiness, jerky, lambent, libration, libratory, lurching, mazy, mercurial, mercuriality, moody, motley, motleyness, mutability, mutable, nonconformism, nonconformist, nonconformity, nonstandard, nonstandardization, nonuniform, nonuniformity, nutation, nutational, oscillating, oscillation, oscillatory, patchy, pendular, pendulating, pendulation, pendulous, periodic, periodicity, playing, pluralism, pluralistic, polysemous, quivering, quivery, ragged, raggedness, rambling, resonance, resonance frequency, resonant, restless, rootless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, seesawing, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, stroboscopic, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconformism, unconformity, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unevenness, unfixed, unforeseeable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unorthodoxy, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteadiness, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vacillation, vacillatory, vagrant, variability, variable, variation, variegated, variegation, variety, variform, various, variousness, varying, veering, versatility, vibrancy, vibratile, vibratility, vibrating, vibration, vibratory, vicissitude, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• waving, ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation, undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding

• wavy, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bent, billowing, billowy, capricious, changeable, changeful, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, geosynclinal, giddy, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mercurial, moody, rambling, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, restless, rolling, roving, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sinuous, spasmodic, spineless, surgy, tortuous, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

• wax and wane, alternate, back and fill, battledore and shuttlecock, come and go, ebb and flow, flounder, fluctuate, go through phases, hitch and hike, oscillate, pass and repass, pendulate, reciprocate, ride and tie, ring the changes, seesaw, shift, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, to-and-fro, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waver, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble, zigzag

• wax, accrue, accumulate, advance, aluminum oxide, ambergris, anoint, antifriction, appreciate, augment, auto polish, balloon, bear fruit, beeswax, black lead, bloat, bloom, blossom, blubber, boom, boost, breakthrough, breed, breeze, brew, broaden, buff, build, burgeon, burnish, butter, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, cartridge, cassette, cat fit, cerate, ceresin, clay, colcothar, come, come over, conniption, conniption fit, convulsion, corundum, crescendo, crocus, cushion, daub, develop, disc, dough, down, dress, duck fit, eiderdown, electrical transcription, embrocate, emery, emery board, emery paper, enlarge, evolute, evolve, expand, feather bed, feathers, fig wax, file, finish, fit, fit of anger, fit of temper, fleece, floor wax, floss, flourish, flower, flue, fluff, foam, fossil wax, furbish, gain, gain strength, garnet, gather, germinate, get, get ahead, glance, glaze, gloss, glycerin, glycerolate, go, go up, gondang wax, graphite, grease, grease the wheels, grow, grow up, hike, hypertrophy, increase, intensify, kapok, lac wax, lard, lubricant, lubricate, lubricating oil, lubricator, luster, maturate, mature, mellow, mineral wax, mount, mucilage, mucus, multiply, mushroom, nail file, oil, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, ozokerite, paraffin scale, paraffin wax, paroxysm, phonograph record, pillow, plumbago, plush, polish, polishes, pomade, procreate, progress, proliferate, pudding, puff, pullulate, pumice, pumice stone, putty, rage, rasp, record, recording, reproduce, ripen, rise, rottenstone, rouge, rub, rubber, run, run up, salve, sandpaper, satin, scale wax, scour, sealing wax, shine, shoe polish, shoot up, silicon carbide, silicone, silk, silver polish, ski wax, sleek, slick, slick down, slick on, smear, smooth the way, snowball, soap the ways, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strengthen, swansdown, swell, tantrum, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, temper tantrum, thistledown, thrive, tower, transcription, turn, unguent, upgrade, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, upsurge, varnish, vegetable wax, vegetate, velvet, widen, wire recording, wool, zephyr

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

• waxwork, bust, carving, doll, dolly, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, gingerbread man, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, model, monument, portrait bust, puppet, scarecrow, sculpture, snowman, statuary, statue, statuette, wax figure, wood carving

• way out, Bohemian, a la mode, a mile off, advanced, alternative, at the height, at the limit, avant-garde, avenue, away off, beat, blowhole, breakaway, channel, choice, chute, contemporary, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, escape clause, escape hatch, estuary, exhaust, exit, extreme, far from it, far other, far out, fashionable, floodgate, flume, forward-looking, free and easy, fringy, furthest, greatest, heretical, heterodox, hippie, in, informal, kinky, loophole, maverick, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, most, newfashioned, no such thing, not cricket, not done, not kosher, nothing like, now, offbeat, opening, original, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, present-day, present-time, pretext, progressive, quite another thing, radical, sally port, saving clause, sluice, something else, something else again, spiracle, spout, streamlined, tap, too much, twentieth-century, ultra, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, utmost, uttermost, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way of escape, way off, weir

• way, ability, access, ache to, action, actions, activity, acts, address, adit, admission, advance, advancement, advancing, aesthetic distance, affectation, aim, aim at, air, air lock, air space, alley, ambition, ample scope, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, application, apply for, approach, ardor, area, arrangement, art, artery, ask, ask for, asking, attack, automatism, avenue, azimuth, bad habit, bag, be desirous of, be dying to, bearing, beg leave, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bent, bespeak, blank check, blueprint, blueprinting, body-build, bon ton, boulevard, brand, breed, burn to, byway, calculation, call for, capacity, capital, career, carriage, carte blanche, cast, catch, channel, character, characteristic, characteristics, charting, choice, choose, choose to, class, clearance, command, command of language, compass, complexion, comportment, composition, conation, conatus, conception, concupiscence, conduct, conduit, conformity, constituents, constitution, consuetude, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, contrivance, convention, corridor, course, crasis, crave, creature of habit, culture pattern, cup of tea, curiosity, current, custom, dearest wish, dearly love to, decide, decision, decree, deep space, demand, demeanor, deportment, depths of space, desiderate, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, determine, device, devices, dharma, diathesis, direction, direction line, discretion, disposable resources, disposition, distance, ditch, divergence, doing, doings, drag, drift, driftway, drive, duct, eagerness, egress, elbowroom, endurance, enterprise, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, envisagement, established way, ethos, etiquette, exaggeration, exit, expressed desire, expression of ideas, extension, extent, fancy, fantasy, farness, fashion, favor, feel, feeling for words, fiber, field, figuring, file for, folkway, forbidden fruit, force of habit, foresight, forethought, form, form of speech, forte, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, frame, free choice, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, free will, full scope, full swing, funds, furtherance, furthering, game, gangplank, gangway, genius, gestures, glimmering goal, go-ahead, goings-on, golden vision, grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guise, habit, habit pattern, habitude, hall, hang, have designs on, heading, headroom, headway, helmsmanship, highway, hope, horme, hue, humor, humors, idea, ilk, impetration, in, inclination, indent, infinity, inflation, ingress, inlet, intake, intellectual curiosity, intention, itch to, kidney, kind, knack, lane, latitude, lay, layout, leeway, length, lengthening, libido, lie, light-years, like, like to, liking, line, line of direction, line of march, lineup, literary style, lodestone, long rope, long suit, long to, long-range plan, love, love to, lust, lust after, lust for learning, magnet, main interest, maintenance, maintien, make a request, make a requisition, make application, makeup, maneuvering space, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, manners, mapping, march, margin, master plan, means, means of access, method, methodology, methods, metier, mien, mileage, mind, mode, mode of expression, modus, modus vivendi, mold, mores, motions, movements, moves, nature, navigation, need, no holds barred, objective, observable behavior, observance, ongoing, onward course, open space, opening, operations research, order, organization, orientation, parsecs, passage, passageway, passion, path, pattern, peculiarity, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, personal style, perspective, pet subject, petition, physique, piece, piloting, plan, planning, play, pleasure, pleasure principle, plum, point, poise, port, pose, posture, power, practice, praxis, prearrangement, prefer, prescription, presence, prize, procedure, proceeding, program, program of action, progress, progression, progressiveness, prolongation, promotion, proper thing, property, protraction, pursuance, pursuit, put in for, quality, quarter, range, rationalization, reach, recourses, remoteness, repetition, request, requisition, resolution, resolve, resorts, resources, rhetoric, ride, ritual, road, rolling, rolling on, room, room to spare, rope, route, row, run, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scope, sea room, second nature, see fit, sense of language, separation, set, setup, sexual desire, shape, social convention, social science, somatotype, sort, space, span, spare room, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, species, spirit, stamp, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, staying power, steerage, steerageway, steering, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, sternway, stock, straight course, strain, strategic plan, strategy, streak, street, stretch, stride, stripe, strong point, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, suchness, supply, sustained action, sustenance, swing, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, take to, technicality, technique, temper, temperament, temptation, tendency, tenor, the big picture, the grand style, the picture, the plain style, the sublime, thing, think fit, think good, think proper, thirst for knowledge, thoroughfare, time-honored practice, tolerance, tone, touch, track, tradition, travel, trench, trend, trick, trophy, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, turn, type, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, urge, usage, use, variety, vein, velleity, vestibule, vocation, volition, want, want to, wanting, way in, way of life, ways, ways and means, weakness, what is done, wherewith, wherewithal, whistle for, wide berth, will, will and pleasure, will power, wise, wish, wish fulfillment, wish to, wish to goodness, wish very much, wont, wonting, working plan, would fain do

• wayfare, bat around, bum, campaign, commute, count ties, course, cover ground, cruise, divagate, drift, fare, fare forth, fetch, flit, flow, gad, gad about, gallivant, gang, globe-trot, go, go about, go abroad, go along, go on safari, go overseas, go the rounds, hie, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, journey, knock about, knock around, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, meander, mooch, move, move along, move on, nomadize, pass, peregrinate, pererrate, pilgrim, pilgrimage, progress, prowl, ramble, range, range the world, roam, roll, roll on, rove, rubberneck, run, run about, sashay, saunter, sight-see, straggle, stray, stream, stroll, take a trip, take the road, tour, travel, trek, vagabond, vagabondize, voyage, walk the tracks, wander, wend

• wayfarer, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, world-traveler

• wayward, Adamic, Paphian, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, backsliding, balky, cantankerous, capricious, carnal, chambering, changeable, changeful, contrary, cranky, cross-grained, crotchety, desultory, deviable, difficult, disobedient, dizzy, easy, eccentric, erratic, erring, fallen, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleshly, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, frail, freakish, froward, giddy, harebrained, humorsome, impetuous, impulsive, impure, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indisciplined, infirm, irascible, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, lapsed, lawless, lax, light, loose, loose-moraled, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody, motiveless, naughty, nonconforming, notional, obstinate, of easy virtue, of loose morals, ornery, peccable, perverse, petulant, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, quirky, rambling, recidivist, recidivistic, recusant, restive, restless, roving, scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, slack, spasmodic, spineless, stuffy, sulky, sullen, temperamental, transgressive, unaccountable, unangelic, uncertain, unchaste, unclean, uncomplying, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unfixed, ungodly, ungood, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unrighteous, unsaintly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unvirtuous, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, violative, virtueless, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, weak, whimsical, whorish, willful, wishy-washy, wrongheaded

• wayworn, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dusty, enervated, enfeebled, fagged, faint, fainting, fatigued, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frazzled, good and tired, jaded, languid, ready to drop, road-weary, run ragged, run-down, sagging, seedy, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, travel-jaded, travel-sated, travel-stained, travel-weary, travel-worn, unrefreshed, unrestored, way-weary, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, worn, worn-down

• WC, backhouse, basement, bathroom, can, closet, comfort station, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, necessary, outhouse, powder room, privy, rest room, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom, water closet

• weak kneed, abulic, afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, double-minded, faint, fainthearted, faltering, fearful, feeble, feebleminded, frail, funking, funky, henhearted, infirm, intimidated, invertebrate, irresolute, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, pliable, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spineless, timid, timorous, uncertain, unmanly, unmanned, wavering, weak, weak-minded, weak-willed, weakhearted, white-livered, wobbly, yellow

• weak link, assailability, blemish, bug, catch, chink, crack, defect, defection, deficiency, drawback, failing, failure, fault, faute, flaw, foible, frailty, heel of Achilles, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, infirmity, kink, little problem, penetrability, pregnability, problem, rift, shortcoming, snag, soft spot, something missing, taint, vincibility, vulnerability, vulnerable place, vulnerable point, weak point, weakness

• weak minded, abulic, afraid, brainless, cowardly, faint, fainthearted, feeble, feebleminded, foolish, frail, infirm, invertebrate, mindless, nitwitted, pliable, silly, soft, spineless, unwitty, weak, weak-kneed, weak-willed

• weak point, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, assailability, bad case, bad habit, begging the question, besetting sin, blemish, bug, catch, chink, circular argument, claptrap, crack, crowd-pleasing argument, defect, defection, deficiency, drawback, empty words, failing, failure, fallacy, fault, faute, feet of clay, flaw, foible, formal fallacy, frailty, heel of Achilles, hole, hysteron proteron, imperfection, inadequacy, infirmity, insincere argument, kink, little problem, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, moonshine, moral flaw, non sequitur, paralogism, penetrability, petitio principii, philosophism, pregnability, problem, pseudosyllogism, rift, shortcoming, snag, soft spot, solecism, something missing, sophism, sophistry, taint, verbal fallacy, vice, vincibility, vulnerability, vulnerable place, vulnerable point, weak link, weak side, weakness

• weak sister, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, cream puff, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, effeminate, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, goody-goody, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily, lily liver, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, nebbish, nonentity, old woman, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, sissy, softling, softy, sop, weakling, white feather, white liver

• weak, Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, abulic, accented, accessible, achromatic, achromic, afraid, airy, alveolar, amenable, anemic, anile, anthropocentric, anthropological, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, ashen, ashy, assailable, assimilated, asthenic, attackable, attenuate, attenuated, back, backsliding, barely audible, barytone, beatable, bilabial, blear, bleared, bleary, bled white, bloodless, blurred, blurry, boyish, broad, bungling, cacuminal, cadaverous, careless, carnal, central, cerebral, checked, chicken, chickenhearted, chloranemic, close, colorless, confused, conquerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, coward, cowardly, cowed, crabbed, dark, daunted, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, decrepit, decrescendo, delicate, dental, diaphanous, dickey, dilute, diluted, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismayed, dissimilated, distant, doddered, doddering, doddery, dorsal, drooping, droopy, dull, earthy, easy, easygoing, effete, emasculate, enervated, enfeebled, erring, ethereal, etiolated, expugnable, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, fagged, faint, faint-voiced, fainthearted, fainting, faintish, fallen, fallow, fatigued, fearful, featherweight, feeble, feebleminded, feeling faint, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, finite, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, flavorless, fleshly, flimsy, floppy, fluctuant, foggy, footsore, forceless, fossilized, fragile, frail, frazzled, front, funking, funky, fuzzy, gauzy, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, ghastly, girlish, glide, glossal, glottal, gone, good and tired, gossamer, gracile, gray, gruelly, gutless, guttural, haggard, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, hard, hazy, heavy, henhearted, hesitant, high, hominal, homocentric, hueless, human, humanistic, hypochromic, ill-defined, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, impressionable, improbable, impure, inadequate, inane, incompetent, inconceivable, inconclusive, inconspicuous, incredible, indefinite, indifferent, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infirm, influenceable, insecure, insipid, insubstantial, intimidated, intonated, invertebrate, irresolute, jaded, jejune, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, lacy, languid, languorous, lapsed, lax, leaden, lenient, light, lightweight, lily-livered, limber, limp, lingual, liquid, listless, livid, loose, low, low-profile, lurid, lusterless, lustless, malleable, man-centered, marrowless, mat, mealy, merely glimpsed, mid, mild, milk-and-water, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, misty, monophthongal, mortal, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mousy, movable, muddy, mummylike, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negligent, nerveless, neutral, no-account, obscure, occlusive, of easy virtue, of no account, only human, open, open-minded, out of focus, overindulgent, overpermissive, overtimid, overtimorous, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, palsied, panic-prone, panicky, papery, papery-skinned, pappy, pasty, peccable, penetrable, permissive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, pitch, pitched, pithless, plastic, pliable, pliant, pooped, poor, postlapsarian, posttonic, powerless, pregnable, prodigal, pulpy, puny, rabbity, rare, rarefied, ravaged with age, ready to drop, receptive, recidivist, recidivistic, relaxed, remiss, responsive, retroflex, rickety, rootless, rounded, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed, run-down, rusty, sagging, sallow, sapless, savorless, scarcely heard, seedy, semivisible, semivowel, senile, shadowy, shaky, shriveled, sickly, sinewless, sissified, sissy, slack, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slipshod, sloppy, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, sonant, spiceless, spindly, spineless, stale, stopped, strengthless, stressed, stricken in years, strong, suasible, subaudible, subdued, subtle, suggestible, surd, surmountable, susceptible, svelte, swayable, syllabic, sylphlike, tallow-faced, tasteless, tellurian, tense, tenuous, thick, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, throaty, timeworn, timid, timorous, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, tonal, toneless, tonic, tottering, tottery, trimming, twangy, unaccented, unangelic, unauthoritative, unbelievable, uncertain, unchaste, unclean, unclear, uncolored, unconvincing, undefined, undependable, unfit, unflavored, ungodly, ungood, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unplain, unproved, unqualified, unrecognizable, unrefreshed, unreliable, unrestored, unrestrained, unrighteous, unrigorous, unrounded, unsaintly, unsavory, unsound, unstable, unstressed, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsuitable, unsure, unsustained, unvirtuous, vacillating, vague, vapid, velar, vincible, virtueless, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulnerable, wan, wanton, washed-out, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, wavering, waxen, way-weary, wayward, wayworn, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-voiced, weak-willed, weakened, weakhearted, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, whey-faced, whispered, white, white-livered, wide, willowy, wilting, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, withered, without any weight, wizened, wobbly, worn, worn-down, yellow

• weaken, abate, afflict, aggravate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, beat, blunt, break, bugger, burn out, cave in, chasten, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, crumble, cut, damage, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, de-energize, deaden, debilitate, decline, dematerialize, derange, deteriorate, devitalize, dilapidate, dilute, diminish, disable, disedge, disembody, disenable, disintegrate, disorder, do in, do up, downplay, drain, draw the teeth, droop, drop, dull, dwindle, ease, emacerate, emaciate, emasculate, embitter, endamage, enervate, enfeeble, etherealize, eviscerate, exacerbate, exhaust, extenuate, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fall short, fatigue, fizzle out, flag, frazzle, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, gruel, hamstring, harass, harm, hit the skids, honeycomb, hors de combat, hospitalize, hurt, impair, inactivate, incapacitate, indispose, injure, invalid, irritate, jade, keep within bounds, kibosh, knock out, knock up, lame, languish, lay, lay low, lay up, lenify, lessen, lighten, lose strength, maim, make worse, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modulate, obtund, overfatigue, overset, overstrain, overthrow, overtire, overturn, overweary, palliate, paralyze, peak, peg out, peter out, pine, play down, poop, poop out, prostrate, put, put back, queer, queer the works, rarefy, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, remit, repress, restrain, retund, run down, sabotage, sap, sap the foundations, shake, shake up, shrink, sicken, sink, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, spike, spiritualize, stifle, subdue, subtilize, subvert, suppress, tame, temper, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, throw down, throw over, tire, tire out, tire to death, tone down, tucker, tune down, turn, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unfit, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, upend, upset, use up, wane, waste, waste away, water, water down, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear thin, weary, wilt, wind, wing, wither, wither away, worsen, wreck, yield

• weakened, abated, ablated, aggravated, attenuated, ausgespielt, bated, belittled, broken, burned, burned-out, burst, busted, cachectic, checked, chipped, consumed, contracted, cracked, crazed, curtailed, cut, damaged, debilitated, decreased, deflated, deteriorated, devitalized, diminished, disabled, dissipated, drained, drooping, droopy, dropped, effete, embittered, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, exacerbated, exhausted, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, fallen, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frail, frazzled, good and tired, harmed, healthless, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in poor health, in shards, incapacitated, infirm, injured, invalid, irritated, jaded, lacerated, languid, languishing, less, lesser, lower, lowered, mangled, miniaturized, moribund, mutilated, pale, peaked, peaky, played out, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, rent, retrenched, run ragged, run-down, ruptured, sagging, sapped, scalded, scaled-down, scorched, seedy, shattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, sickly, slashed, slit, smaller, smashed, spent, split, sprung, the worse for, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn, unhealthy, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsound, used up, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wasted, watered-down, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, with low resistance, worn, worn-down, worn-out, worse, worse off, worsened

• weakening, abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, attrition, bankruptcy, blunting, breakage, breakdown, collapse, contraction, crack-up, crippling, damage, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, destruction, detriment, devitalization, devitalizing, dilapidation, dilution, diminishment, diminution, disablement, disrepair, draining, dulling, dying, dying off, effemination, encroachment, enervating, enervation, enfeeblement, enfeebling, evisceration, exhausting, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, fatigue, fatiguing, grueling, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, inanition, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, languishment, lessening, letup, loss, lowering, maiming, mayhem, miniaturization, mischief, mitigation, mutilation, reduction, relaxation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sagging, sapping, scaling down, scathe, sickening, simplicity, slackening, softening, spoiling, subtraction, thinning, trying

• weakhearted, afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, henhearted, intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, white-livered, yellow

• weakling, Milquetoast, baby, big baby, blank cartridge, butt, castrato, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, drip, dud, dull tool, eunuch, faintly, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gelding, gutless wonder, impotent, incompetent, invalid, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mark, meek soul, milksop, misfit, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, shrinking violet, sissy, softling, softy, sop, sotto voce, sucker, waverer, weak sister, weakly, white feather, white liver, wobbler

• weakly, a bit, a la sourdine, a little, anemic, asthenic, barely, bloodless, by a hair, by an ace, cachectic, chicken, cowardly, daintily, debilitated, decrepit, delicately, dimly, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminately, effete, enervated, etiolated, ever so little, exhausted, exiguously, failing, faint, faintish, faintly, feeble, feebly, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, fragile, frail, gently, gone, gutless, hardly, healthless, hushedly, imbecile, imperfectly, impotent, in poor health, inappreciably, inconsequentially, infirm, infirmly, insignificantly, insubstantial, invalid, just a bit, languid, languishing, languorous, languorously, lightly, limber, limp, listless, listlessly, little, low, lustless, marrowless, meagerly, minimally, minutely, moribund, negligibly, nerveless, not hardly, only just, pale, peaked, peaky, pianissimo, piano, pithless, pooped, powerless, reduced, reduced in health, rubbery, run-down, sapless, scantily, scarcely, shakily, sickly, sinewless, slack, slightly, soft, softly, sordamente, sordo, spineless, strengthless, strengthlessly, subduedly, tant soit peu, teeteringly, totteringly, triflingly, unhardened, unhealthy, unnerved, unsound, unsoundly, unsteadily, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsubstantially, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak, weakened, with low resistance

• weakness, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, a thing for, abulia, accessibility, admiration, adoration, affection, affinity, agape, airiness, airy texture, amenableness, anemia, aptitude, aptness, ardency, ardor, area, ashiness, assailability, attachment, attenuation, bad habit, bag, bent, besetting sin, bias, bleariness, blemish, bloodlessness, blur, blurriness, bodily love, brain fag, brotherly love, bug, cadaverousness, carelessness, caritas, cast, catch, chance, charity, chicken-liveredness, chickenheartedness, chink, chloranemia, conatus, conduciveness, conjugal love, contingency, cowardice, cowardliness, crack, crush, cullibility, cup of tea, darkness, deadness, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debilitation, debility, deceivability, decrescendo, defect, defection, deficiency, defocus, delicacy, delight, desire, devotion, diaphanousness, diathesis, dilutedness, dilution, dimness, disposition, drawback, dullness, dupability, eagerness, easiness, easygoingness, enervation, enfeeblement, ethereality, eventuality, exiguity, exility, exsanguination, eyestrain, fadedness, failing, failure, faintheart, faintheartedness, faintness, fairness, faithful love, fancy, fatigue, fault, faute, fear, feeblemindedness, feebleness, feeling for, fervor, field, filminess, fineness, flabbiness, flame, flatness, flavorlessness, flaw, flimsiness, fogginess, foible, fondness, forcelessness, forte, frailty, free love, free-lovism, fuzziness, gauziness, gentleness, ghastliness, goneness, gossameriness, gracility, greenness, gullibility, gust, gusto, haggardness, half-visibility, haziness, heart, heart strain, heel of Achilles, henheartedness, hero worship, hoaxability, hole, human equation, human frailty, human weakness, humanity, humanness, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, idolatry, idolism, idolization, imperfection, impotence, impotency, imprecision, impressionability, impuissance, inadequacy, inanity, inclination, indefiniteness, indifference, indistinctness, indistinguishability, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, infatuation, infirmity, influenceability, ingenuousness, insipidity, insipidness, insubstantiality, jadedness, jejuneness, jejunity, kink, laciness, lack of force, lack of influence, lack of magnetism, lack of personality, lack of power, languor, lasciviousness, lassitude, laxity, laxness, leaning, leniency, liability, liableness, libido, lifelessness, lightness, like, likelihood, likeliness, likes, liking, lily-liveredness, line, little problem, lividness, long suit, looseness, loosening, love, lovemaking, low profile, lowness, main interest, malleability, manner, married love, mental fatigue, mental strain, metier, mildness, milksopism, milksoppiness, milksoppishness, mistiness, moral flaw, mortality, movability, muddiness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, negligence, no say, obligation, obscurity, open-mindedness, openness, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, overstrain, overtiredness, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, paperiness, passion, pastiness, penchant, penetrability, permissiveness, persuadability, perviousness, pet subject, physical love, pigeonheartedness, pliability, popular regard, popularity, possibility, power vacuum, powerlessness, predilection, predisposition, pregnability, prejudice, prison pallor, probability, problem, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pursuit, rarity, readiness, receptiveness, regard, relaxation, relaxedness, relish, remissness, responsiveness, rift, sallowness, saplessness, savorlessness, seduceability, semivisibility, sensitivity to, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shadowiness, shine, shortcoming, sickliness, sickly hue, simpleness, simplicity, slackness, sleepiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, sloppiness, snag, soft focus, soft spot, softheartedness, softness, something missing, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, spinelessness, spiritual love, staleness, stance fatigue, strain, strong point, style, subaudibility, subduedness, subtility, suggestibility, susceptibility, swayableness, taint, taste, tastelessness, technicality, tendency, tender feeling, tender passion, tenderheartedness, tenderness, tenuity, thinness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, tiredness, tropism, truelove, turn, twist, type, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, unclearness, uninfluentiality, unmanfulness, unmanliness, unpersuasiveness, unplainness, unrestraint, unsavoriness, unsophistication, uxoriousness, vague appearance, vagueness, vapidity, vice, vincibility, vocation, vulnerability, vulnerable place, vulnerable point, wanness, warm heart, warmheartedness, warp, wateriness, way, weak link, weak point, weak side, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakheartedness, wearifulness, weariness, willingness, wishy-washiness, wispiness, worship, yearning, yellowness

• weal, Easy Street, affluence, bed of roses, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, clover, comedo, comfort, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, ease, easy circumstances, fault, felicity, flaw, fleshpots, freckle, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, hemangioma, hickey, keloid, kink, lap of luxury, lentigo, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prosperity, prosperousness, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, security, split, strawberry mark, sty, success, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, track, twist, upward mobility, velvet, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, wealth, welfare, well-being, welt, wen, whelk, whelp, whitehead

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

• wealth, Easy Street, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, avalanche, bed of roses, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, capital, capital gains, circumstances, cleanup, clear profit, clover, comfort, copiousness, current assets, deferred assets, dividends, earnings, ease, easy circumstances, estate, extravagance, exuberance, felicity, fertility, filthy lucre, fixed assets, fleshpots, flood, flow, foison, fortune, frozen assets, full measure, fullness, funds, gain, gains, generosity, generousness, get, gettings, gleanings, goods, gracious life, gracious living, great abundance, great plenty, gross, gross profit, gush, happiness, hoard, holdings, income, intangible assets, intangibles, interest, killing, landslide, lap of luxury, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, life of ease, liquid assets, loaves and fishes, lots, lucre, luxuriance, luxury, makings, material assets, maximum, mean, means, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, neat profit, net, net assets, net profit, net worth, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, possessions, prevalence, proceeds, prodigality, productiveness, profit, profits, profuseness, profusion, property, prosperity, prosperousness, quantities, quick assets, rake-off, receipts, repleteness, repletion, resources, return, returns, rich harvest, rich vein, riches, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, security, shower, spate, stock, stock-in-trade, store, stream, substance, substantiality, substantialness, success, superabundance, take, take-in, tangible assets, tangibles, teemingness, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvet, weal, welfare, well-being, winnings, worth

• wealthy, abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, big-rich, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable, comfortably situated, copious, diffuse, disgustingly rich, easy, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, frightfully rich, full, galore, generous, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, loaded, luxuriant, luxurious, made of money, many, maximal, moneyed, much, numerous, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prosperous, provided for, rampant, replete, rich, rich as Croesus, rife, riotous, rolling in money, running over, successful, superabundant, teeming, wallowing in wealth, warm, well provided for, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, wholesale

• wean, alien, alienate, blunt, break of, bring over, chill, convince, cool, cure, damp, dampen, deflect, deter, disaccustom, disaffect, discourage, disincline, disinterest, distract, disunify, disunite, divert, evangelize, indispose, persuade, proselyte, proselytize, put off, quench, repel, stop, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, wean from, win over

• weapon, A-weapons, armament, arms, biological weapons, conventional weapons, cutting edge, deadly weapons, edge, edge tool, featheredge, instruments of destruction, knife-edge, missilery, munitions, musketry, nuclear weapons, ordnance, razor-edge, side arms, small arms, thermonuclear weapons, weaponry, weapons

• wear and tear, ablation, atomization, attrition, breakup, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decay, decomposition, decrement, degradation, deliquescence, depletion, dilapidation, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipation, dissolution, erosion, exhaustion, incoherence, loss, ravages of time, resolution, shrinkage, use, waste, wear, weathering

• wear away, abate, ablate, abrade, abrase, absorb, abstract, assimilate, atomize, bark, bate, be all over, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, be no more, become extinct, become void, bite, bleed white, blow over, break, break up, burn up, cave in, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, chafe, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, consume, consume away, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, curtail, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, deplete, depreciate, derogate, detract, die, die away, die out, digest, diminish, disappear, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, disparage, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, droop, drop, drop off, dwindle, eat, eat away, eat up, ebb, erase, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exhaust, exit, expend, expire, extract, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, faint, fall, fall away, fall off, fall to pieces, file, file away, finish, finish off, fission, fizzle out, flag, flee, fly, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, give out, give way, gnaw, gnaw away, go, go away, go downhill, go out, go soft, go to pieces, gobble, gobble up, grate, graze, grind, have it, have its time, hide, hit the skids, impair, impoverish, ingest, languish, lapse, leach, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, let up, melt, melt away, molder, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, perish, peter out, pine, plummet, plunge, poop out, purify, rasp, raze, reduce, refine, remove, retire from sight, retrench, rub away, rub off, rub out, run its course, run low, run out, sag, scour, scrape, scrub, scuff, shorten, shrink, sink, sink away, skin, spend, split, squander, subduct, subside, subtract, suck dry, suffer an eclipse, swallow, swallow up, tail off, take away, take from, tatter, thin, thin out, use up, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, wear thin, weather, weed, wilt, withdraw, yield

• wear down, ablate, abrade, affect, argue into, beat, bend, bias, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, burn out, captivate, charm, color, con, convince, debilitate, dispose, do in, do up, drain, draw over, enervate, erode, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, fray, frazzle, fret, gain, gain over, harass, hook, hook in, incline, induce, influence, jade, knock out, knock up, lead, move, outtalk, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, persuade, poop, poop out, predispose, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, prompt, prostrate, rub off, sell, sell one on, soften up, sway, talk into, talk over, tatter, tinge, tire, tire out, tire to death, tone, tucker, use up, wangle, wangle into, weaken, wear, wear away, wear off, wear on, wear out, wear ragged, weary, weather, weigh with, wilt, win, win over, wind, work

• wear off, ablate, abrade, be all over, be no more, become extinct, become void, blow over, die, die away, erode, expire, fray, frazzle, fret, go out, have it, have its time, lapse, pass, pass away, rub off, run its course, run out, tatter, wear, wear away, wear down, wear out, wear ragged, weather

• wear on, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, burn out, crawl, creep, debilitate, do in, do up, drag, drag along, drag on, enervate, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, frazzle, glut, go on, go on forever, harass, irk, jade, knock out, knock up, linger, linger on, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, poop, poop out, prostrate, satiate, tarry, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, use up, weaken, wear, wear down, wear out, weary, wilt, wind

• wear out, ablate, abrade, beat, bugger, burden, burn out, crush one, debilitate, do in, do up, enervate, erode, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, flog, fray, frazzle, fret, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, hide, jade, knock out, knock up, larrup, lash, obsess, oppress, outwear, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, poop, poop out, prey on, prostrate, rub off, scourge, stripe, tatter, thrash, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, use up, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear on, wear ragged, wear upon one, weary, weather, weigh upon, weight down, whale, wilt, wind

• wear thin, bomb, break, cave in, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, crumble, decline, disintegrate, droop, drop, fade, fail, faint, fall flat, fizzle out, flag, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, hit the skids, languish, peg out, peter out, pine, poop out, sink, weaken, wear away, wilt, yield

• wear well, abide, bide, bloom, burst with health, carry on, continue, continue to be, defeat time, defy time, dwell, endure, enjoy good health, exist, extend, feel fine, feel good, flourish, glow, go on, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, keep fit, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live on, live through, maintain, never feel better, perdure, perennate, persist, prevail, remain, run, run on, stand, stay, stay in shape, stay on, stay young, subsist, survive, sustain, tarry, tide over, wear

• wear, abate, abide, ablate, ablation, about ship, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, act a part, affect, apparel, array, assume, atomization, attire, attrition, back and fill, bark, bate, be dressed in, be eaten away, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bedizenment, bide, box off, break, breakup, bring about, bring round, buffing, burn out, burnishing, cant, cant round, carry on, cast, cast about, chafe, chafing, change course, change the heading, clothes, clothing, come about, consume, consume away, continue, continue to be, corrode, corrosion, costume, counterfeit, crumble, crumbling, debilitate, decay, decline, decomposition, decrease, defeat time, defy time, degradation, deliquesce, deplete, depreciate, detrition, die away, dilapidation, diminish, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipate, dissolution, dive, do a bit, do in, do up, double a point, drag on, drain, dramatize, drapery, dress, dressing, dribble away, drop, drop off, duds, dwell, dwindle, ebb, endure, enervate, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, exhaust, exist, extend, fag, fag out, fake, fall, fall away, fall off, fashion, fatigue, fatigues, feathers, feign, fetch about, fig, file, filing, flag, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, gall, galling, garb, garments, gear, glut, gnaw, gnaw away, go about, go on, go on forever, grate, graze, grazing, grind, grinding, guise, gybe, habiliment, habit, harass, have on, heave round, histrionize, hold, hold on, hold out, incoherence, investiture, investment, irk, jade, jibe, jibe all standing, keep, keep on, knock out, knock up, languish, last, last long, last out, lessen, let up, limation, linen, live, live on, live through, maintain, make out like, melt away, miss stays, overact, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, perdure, perennate, persist, play, play a part, play a scene, playact, plummet, plunge, ply, polishing, poop, poop out, pretend, prevail, prostrate, put about, put back, put on, put on airs, rags, raiment, rasp, rasping, ravages of time, raze, remain, resolution, robes, round a point, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, run, run low, run on, sag, sandblasting, sanding, satiate, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, sham, sheer, shift, shining, shrink, simulate, sink, skin, slew, smoothing, sport, sportswear, squander, stand, stay, stay on, style, subside, subsist, survive, sustain, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, tail off, tarry, tatter, threads, throw about, tide over, tire, tire out, tire to death, togs, toilette, trim, turn, turn back, use, use up, veer, vestment, vesture, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear and tear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear on, wear out, wear ragged, wear ship, wear well, wearing apparel, wearing away, weary, weather, weathering, wilt, wind, yaw

• weariness, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, boredness, boredom, brain fag, bromidic, cachexia, cachexy, cowardice, debilitation, debility, dispiritedness, drowsiness, dry, dryasdust, dull, dullness, dusty, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness, fatigue, fed-upness, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, goneness, heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, impotence, inanimation, indifference, insipid, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, melancholy, mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, overstrain, overtiredness, passivity, phlegm, prostration, satedness, satiation, satiety, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, softness, somnolence, spleen, stance fatigue, strain, strengthlessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, taedium vitae, tedious, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uninteresting, weakliness, weakness, weariful, wearifulness, world-weariness

• wearing apparel, apparel, array, attire, bedizenment, clothes, clothing, costume, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, garb, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habit, investiture, investment, linen, rags, raiment, robes, sportswear, style, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, wear