Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/96

• wearisome, Herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black, bleak, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing, draining, drear, drearisome, dreary, effortful, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, funebrial, funereal, galling, gloomy, grave, gray, grim, grueling, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombrous, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tormenting, tough, triste, troublesome, troubling, trying, uphill, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, weary, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny

• weary, apathetic, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, benumbed, black, blase, bleak, blow, bored, break down, burden, burn out, collapse, crack up, crush one, dark, dead, debilitate, debilitated, disgusted, dismal, dispirited, do in, do up, dopey, dormant, drag on, drear, drearisome, dreary, droop, drooping, droopy, drop, drugged, dull, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, exanimate, exhaust, fag, fag out, fagged, faint, fainting, fatigue, fatigued, fed-up, feeling faint, flag, flagging, footsore, frazzle, frazzled, funebrial, funereal, gasp, get tired, give out, gloomy, glut, go on forever, good and tired, grave, gray, grim, grow weary, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, heavy, hebetudinous, inanimate, inert, irk, irked, jade, jaded, knock out, knock up, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless, listless, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moribund, numb, obsess, oppress, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, pant, peter out, phlegmatic, play out, poop, poop out, pooped, prey on, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, ready to drop, run down, run out, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sated, satiate, satiated, saturnine, seedy, sick, sick of, sink, sleepy, slow, sluggish, solemn, somber, sombrous, somnolent, splenetic, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, succumb, supine, tire, tire out, tire to death, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, triste, tucker, unrefreshed, unrestored, use up, vegetable, vegetative, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weaken, weakened, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear upon one, wearied, weariful, wearisome, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, weigh upon, weight down, wheeze, wilt, wilting, wind, world-weary, worn, worn down, worn-down

• wearying, boresome, boring, burdensome, draining, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, harsh, heavy, irksome, killing, onerous, oppressive, overburdensome, punishing, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tyrannous, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weighty, yawny

• weasel word, ambiguity, amphibology, counterword, dodging, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, evasion, fencing, parrying, polysemant, portmanteau word, prevarication, pun, shuffle, squinting construction, suppressio veri, tergiversation, weasel words

• weasel, Argus, Cape polecat, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, ape, avoid, back and fill, bar, bear, blade, blench, blink, cat, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, cringe, dodge, draw back, duck, eagle, equivocate, evade, fade, fall back, ferret, flinch, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hang back, hawk, hedge, hedgehog, hem and haw, hum and haw, jib, lynx, mince the truth, mince words, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, palter, parry, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, prevaricate, pull back, pussyfoot, quail, quill pig, raccoon, recoil, reel back, retreat, runner, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shy, sidestep, skunk, sled, sleigh, slink, sneaker, snowmobile, start aside, start back, swerve, tergiversate, turn aside, waffle, weasel out, whistle-pig, wince, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

• weather eye, X-ray eye, custodianship, custody, eagle eye, gimlet eye, guard, guardedness, guardianship, invigilation, keen eye, lookout, monitoring, observance, peeled eye, penetrating eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive, sea legs, seamanlikeness, seamanliness, seamanship, sharp eye, shipmanship, stewardship, surveillance, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching

• weather map, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, aeronautical chart, air mass, anticyclone, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial globe, chart, chorographer, chorography, climatic chart, cold front, cold sector, conic projection, contour line, contour map, cyclone, cylindrical projection, front, general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, grid line, hachure, heliographic chart, high, high-pressure area, hydrographic chart, index, isobar, isoline, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, latitude, layer tint, legend, longitude, low, low-pressure area, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, meridian, occluded front, parallel, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, polar front, political map, polyconic projection, projection, relief map, representative fraction, road map, scale, sinusoidal projection, special map, squall line, stationary front, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, topographer, topographic chart, topography, transportation map, warm front, weather chart, wind-shift line

• weather the storm, be safe, be unflappable, beat the game, beat the system, bounce back, come around, come back, come round, come through, come to, come up fighting, come up smiling, get about, get home free, get over, get well, hold fast, hold out, hold up, keep safe, live through, make a comeback, make heavy weather, not budge, outride, persevere, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, remain firm, revive, ride, ride it out, ride out, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stay put, stick it out, survive, tide over, triumph, weather, weather out, win out, win through

• weather vane, April showers, Proteus, aerological instrument, anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph, anemoscope, aneroid barometer, aneroidograph, barograph, barometer, barometrograph, chameleon, cloud shapes, cock, feeler, glass, hurricane-hunter aircraft, hygrometer, kaleidoscope, mercury, moon, pilot balloon, probe, quicksilver, radiosonde, random sample, recording barometer, rolling stone, sample, shifting sands, sound, sounder, straw vote, the weather, trial balloon, vacuometer, vane, water, weather balloon, weather instrument, weather satellite, weathercock, weatherglass, wheel of fortune, whirligig, wind cone, wind indicator, wind sock, wind vane, wind-speed indicator

• weather, ablate, abrade, be safe, be unflappable, beat the game, beat the system, bring to, calm weather, climate, clime, cold weather, come through, come up fighting, come up smiling, erode, fair weather, flanking, forces of nature, fray, frazzle, fret, get home free, glancing, good weather, halcyon days, haul, haul off, haul the wind, haul to, haul up, head to windward, heave to, hold fast, hold out, hold up, hot weather, keep safe, lateral, lee, leeward, live through, macroclimate, make heavy weather, microclimate, next-beside, not budge, outride, persevere, rainy weather, remain firm, ride, ride it out, ride out, rub off, sail to windward, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stay put, stick it out, stormy weather, tatter, the elements, tide over, triumph, uphelm, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, weather deck, weather helm, weather out, weather sheet, weather side, weather tack, weather the storm, weather wheel, weatherboard, win out, win through, windiness, windward, windward ebb, windward flood

• weatherboard, beam, billet, board, boarding, brick, clapboard, cord, cordwood, deal, driftwood, face, firewood, glass, glaze, hardwood, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, revet, shake, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, slate, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, thatch, three-by-four, tile, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weather, weather deck, weather helm, weather sheet, weather side, weather tack, weather wheel, windward, windward ebb, windward flood, wood

• weathercock, April showers, Proteus, Vicar of Bray, anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph, anemoscope, barometer, chameleon, cloud shapes, cock, feeler, formalist, kaleidoscope, mercury, moon, pilot balloon, probe, quicksilver, random sample, rolling stone, sample, shifting sands, sound, sounder, straw vote, temporizer, the weather, timepleaser, timeserver, trial balloon, trimmer, vane, water, weather vane, wheel of fortune, whirligig, wind cone, wind indicator, wind sock, wind vane, wind-speed indicator

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

• weave, anatomy, arabesque, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, basketry, basketwork, braid, braiding, build, building, cancellation, careen, cloth, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, drapery, enlace, enlacement, entwine, entwinement, entwining, etoffe, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, feel, felt, filigree, finish, forging, form, format, formation, frame, fret, fretwork, getup, goods, grain, granular texture, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, indentation, interknit, interknitting, interlace, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertie, intertieing, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwist, intertwisting, interweave, interweavement, interweaving, intort, knit, knitting, knub, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, loom, loop, make, makeup, making, manufacture, mat, material, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mold, molding, nap, napery, net, netting, network, noose, nub, organic structure, organism, organization, pattern, patterning, physique, pile, pit, plait, plaiting, plan, pleach, plexure, plexus, pock, production, protuberance, raddle, rag, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, setup, shag, shape, shaping, sieve, silk, splice, stagger, structure, structuring, stuff, surface, surface texture, sway, swing, tectonics, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, twill, twine, twining, twist, twisting, wale, warp and woof, warpage, wattle, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, wicker, wickerwork, wobble, woof, wool, wreathe, wreathing

• weaving, arabesque, basketry, basketwork, cancellation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, entwining, filigree, fret, fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, interlacing, intertexture, intertwinement, intertwining, interweaving, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, netting, network, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, sieve, texture, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, twining, wattle, weave, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork

• weazen, Sanforize, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, blot, brush, burn, consume, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, insolate, kiln, macerate, mummify, parch, preshrink, rub, scorch, sear, shrink, shrivel, smoke, soak up, sponge, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, torrefy, towel, waste, waste away, wipe, wither, wizen

• weazened, Sanforized, adust, attenuated, baked, burnt, consumed, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, emacerated, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, mummified, parched, preshrunk, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, sun-dried, sunbaked, thin, wasted, wasted away, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened

• web, anatomy, animal fiber, arabesque, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artificial fiber, basketry, basketwork, bed, braid, braiding, build, building, cancellation, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cloth, cobweb, complexity, complication, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cylinder press, denier, drapery, embroilment, enlace, enlacement, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, entwine, entwinement, entwining, etoffe, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, felt, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, filigree, flagellum, flatbed cylinder press, forging, form, format, formation, frame, fret, fretwork, getup, goods, gossamer, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hair, hank, hatching, interknit, interknitting, interlace, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertie, intertieing, intertissue, intertwine, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwist, intertwisting, interweave, interweavement, interweaving, intort, involvement, jungle, knit, knitting, knot, labyrinth, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, loom, loop, make, makeready, makeup, making, manufacture, mat, material, maze, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mold, molding, morass, napery, net, netting, network, noose, organic structure, organism, organization, pattern, patterning, physique, plait, plaiting, plan, platen, platen press, pleach, plexure, plexus, press, presswork, printing machine, printing press, production, raddle, rag, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, rotary press, rotogravure press, screen, screening, setup, shape, shaping, sieve, silk, skein, snarl, splice, strand, structure, structuring, stuff, suture, tangle, tectonics, tendril, textile, textile fabric, texture, thread, threadlet, tissu, tissue, toils, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, twill, twine, twining, twist, twisting, warp and woof, warpage, wattle, weave, weaving, web press, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, wicker, wickerwork, woof, wool, wreathe, wreathing

• wed, affiliate, ally, apply, arrange a match, associate, band together, be in cahoots, be made one, be spliced, become one, bind, bracket, bunch, bunch up, cabal, catch, cement a union, centralize, club, club together, combine, come together, confederate, conjoin, connect, consociate, conspire, contract matrimony, correlate, couple, draw a parallel, equate, espouse, federalize, federate, gang, gang up, get hitched, give away, go in partners, go in partnership, hitch, hook up with, identify, intermarry, interrelate, interwed, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, league, link, make a match, make one, marry, match, mate, miscegenate, nuptial, organize, pair, pair off, parallel, parallelize, partner, relate, relativize, remarry, rewed, splice, stand together, stand up with, take to wife, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie, tie in with, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite in marriage, unite with, wive, yoke

• wedded, affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, bridal, cabalistic, collateral, collected, confederate, confederated, conjoined, conjugal, conjugate, connected, connubial, conspiratorial, copulate, corporate, correlated, coupled, enleagued, epithalamic, federate, federated, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, husbandly, hymeneal, implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, marital, married, matched, mated, matrimonial, merged, nuptial, of that ilk, of that kind, one, paired, parallel, partnered, partners with, related, spliced, spousal, teamed, tied, twinned, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wifely, yoked

• wedding, Anschluss, Gretna Green wedding, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, banns, blend, blending, bridal, bridal suite, bridechamber, cabal, cartel, centralization, chuppah, church wedding, civil ceremony, civil wedding, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, composition, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, ecumenism, elopement, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, epithalamium, espousals, espousement, federalization, federation, forced marriage, fusion, honeymoon, hookup, hymen, hymeneal, hymeneal rites, inclusion, incorporation, integration, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, nuptial apartment, nuptial mass, nuptial song, nuptials, package, package deal, prothalamium, saffron veil, shotgun wedding, solidification, spousal, spousals, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-up, unification, union, wedding canopy, wedding song, wedding veil

• wedge in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, cram in, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drag in, drive in, drop in, edge in, enter, foist in, force in, fudge in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, impact, implant in, inject in, insert, insert in, insinuate in, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, knock in, look in, lug in, pack in, plunge in, poke in, pop in, pound in, press in, push in, put between, put in, ram in, run in, sandwich, set foot in, slip in, smuggle in, squeeze in, step in, stuff in, take in, tamp in, throw in, thrust in, visit, work in, worm in

• wedge, arrowhead, articulate, batten, batten down, bed, bolt, buckle, butt, button, character, clasp, cleat, clip, confirm, crowbar, cuneiform, deep-dye, define, demotic character, determinative, dovetail, embed, engraft, engrave, entrench, establish, etch, fix, found, get a foothold, get leverage, grammalogue, ground, hasp, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hinge, hiragana, hitch, hook, ideogram, ideograph, impact, implant, impress, imprint, infix, ingrain, inscribe, jam, jimmy, joint, kana, katakana, latch, lever, lock, lodge, logogram, logograph, miter, mortise, nail, ogham, pack, peg, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, pin, plant, print, prize, pry, rabbet, radical, rivet, root, rune, scarf, screw, seat, set, set in, settle, sew, shorthand, skewer, snap, stamp, staple, stereotype, stick, stitch, tack, toggle, word letter, zipper

• wedged, aground, anchored, bonded, caught, cemented, chained, close, fast, fastened, firm, fixed, glued, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted, inextricable, jammed, moored, packed, secure, set, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, taped, tethered, tied, tight, transfixed

• wedlock, a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wifehood

• weed killer, acaricide, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, contact poison, defoliant, disinfectant, eradicant, fumigant, fungicide, germicide, herbicide, insect powder, insecticide, microbicide, miticide, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, pesticide, poison, rat poison, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, stomach poison, systemic, systemic insecticide, toxic, toxicant, toxin, venin, venom, vermicide, virus

• weed out, abstract, avulse, backset, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, cultivate, culture, cut, cut out, delve, deport, deracinate, dig, dig out, dig up, disentangle, dispose of, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, dress, eject, elide, eliminate, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect, extract, extricate, fallow, fertilize, force, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, gouge out, grub up, harrow, hoe, liquidate, list, mine, mulch, outlaw, pick out, plow, pluck out, pluck up, prune, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, quarry, rake, rake out, remove, rip out, root out, root up, spade, strike off, strike out, take out, tear out, thin, thin out, throw over, throw overboard, till, till the soil, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed, withdraw, work, wrest out

• weed, Canada thistle, DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, abate, abrade, abstract, acid, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, antidepressant, aquatic plant, ataractic, backset, bate, biennial, black sheep, blemish, bones, boo, brake, burdock, burr, cannabis, chaff, chicory, cosmopolite, crab grass, creeping buttercup, culm, cultivate, culture, curtail, cut, cutting, dandelion, deadwood, deciduous plant, decrease, deduct, delve, depreciate, derogate, detract, dicot, dicotyledon, diethyltryptamine, dig, dimethyltryptamine, diminish, dishwater, disparage, dock, draff, drain, dregs, dress, dust, eat away, ephemeral, erode, evergreen, exotic, extract, fallow, fertilize, file away, filings, flowering plant, force, foreign body, foreign intruder, fungus, gage, gametophyte, ganja, garbage, gash, grass, gymnosperm, hallucinogen, harrow, hash, hashish, hay, hemp, hoe, hogwash, horsetail, husks, hydrophyte, impair, impurity, intruder, jimsonweed, joint, kava, leach, leavings, lees, lessen, list, mallow, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, milkweed, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, misfit, monkey wrench, monocot, monocotyl, morning glory seeds, mote, mulch, mustard, nettle, oddball, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, perennial, peyote, plant, plantain, plow, poison ivy, poke, pokeweed, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pot, potsherds, prune, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, purify, rags, rake, raspings, reduce, reefer, refine, refuse, remove, retrench, roach, rub away, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, seed plant, seedling, shards, shavings, shorten, slack, slag, sliver, slop, slops, spade, speck, spermatophyte, splinter, sporophyte, stick, stone, stubble, subduct, subtract, sweepings, swill, take away, take from, tares, tea, thallophyte, thin, thin out, thistle, till, till the soil, tranquilizer, triennial, vascular plant, vegetable, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wear away, weed out, weeds, withdraw, work

• weedy, botanic, bulbous, cereal, dense, exuberant, farinaceous, flourishing, fruitlike, fruity, gross, heavy, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, impenetrable, jungled, jungly, leguminose, leguminous, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, plantlike, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rank, rhizoid, riotous, rootlike, thick, tuberous, unweeded, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weed-choked, weed-ridden

• week, Heptateuch, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, heptachord, heptad, heptagon, heptahedron, heptameter, heptarchy, heptastich, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, septennate, septet, septuor, session, seven, sevener, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, weekday, year

• weekend, Christmas, Sunday, buy time, consume time, furlough, go on furlough, go on leave, holiday, keep time, kill time, leave, leave of absence, liberty, look for time, make holiday, measure time, occupy time, paid holiday, paid vacation, pass time, put in time, race against time, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, shore leave, spend time, summer, take a holiday, take leave, take time, take up time, time off, use time, vacation, winter, work against time

• weekly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, daily newspaper, daybook, decennial, diary, diurnal, ephemeris, extra, extra edition, fortnightly, gazette, hebdomadal, hourly, journal, magazine, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, newsmagazine, newspaper, newspaper of record, organ, paper, periodical, pictorial, quarterly, quotidian, rag, review, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, serial, sheet, slick magazine, special, special edition, tabloid, tertian, trade magazine, triennial, weekly newspaper, yearbook, yearly

• weenie, Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna, braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese, hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse, sausage, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie

• weep for, be sorry for, bleed, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, compassionate, condole with, console, express sympathy for, feel for, feel sorrow for, feel sorry for, feel with, grieve for, grieve with, lament for, pity, sorrow with, speak soothing words, sympathize, sympathize with, weep with

• weep, bag, bawl, bemoan, bewail, bleed, blubber, boohoo, break down, burst into tears, cascade, condense, cry, daggle, dangle, depend, deplore, dirge, discharge, dissolve in tears, distill, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, dribble, drip, dripple, drizzle, droop, drop, drop a tear, drum, effuse, effusion, egest, elegize, eliminate, emit, excrete, excretion, exfiltrate, exfiltration, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, exude, fall, fester, filter, filtering, filtrate, filtration, flap, flop, flow, give off, give out, give sorrow words, greet, grieve, gurgle, hang, hang down, keen, knell, lactate, lament, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, lixiviate, lixiviation, lop, matter, mizzle, moan, mourn, nod, ooze, oozing, pass, patter, pelt, pend, percolate, percolating, percolation, pipe, pitter-patter, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, produce, rain, rain tadpoles, rankle, reek, repine, ripen, run, sag, secern, secrete, seep, seepage, sew, shed tears, shower, shower down, sigh, sing the blues, snivel, sob, sorrow, spatter, spit, sprinkle, spurtle, strain, straining, stream, suppurate, swag, sweat, swing, tattoo, tear, trail, transpire, transudation, transude, trickle, trill, wail, water, weep over, weeping, whimper

• weeping, awash, bathed, bawling, blubbering, cascading, cry, crying, dangling, deluged, dependent, depending, dipped, dissolved in tears, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, effusion, engulfed, excretion, exfiltration, external secretion, extravasation, exudation, falling, falling loosely, filtering, filtration, fit of crying, flood of tears, flooded, flowing, good cry, greet, hanging, hung, immersed, in tears, internal secretion, inundated, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimation, lacrimatory, lactation, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, melting mood, ooze, oozing, overflowed, overflowing eyes, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, percolating, percolation, permeated, ready to cry, saturated, secernment, secreta, secretion, seep, seepage, seeping, sniveling, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sobbing, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, straining, submerged, submersed, suspended, swamped, swinging, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, transudation, waterlogged, watersoaked, weep, weepiness, weepy, weltering, whelmed, whimpering, with eyes suffused, wringing wet

• weepy, blubbering, crying, dissolved in tears, excretory, exudative, in tears, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, leaky, oozy, percolative, permeable, pervious, porous, ready to cry, runny, sniveling, sobbing, tearful, teary, transudative, weeping, whimpering, with eyes suffused

• weevily, bad, barfy, blasted, blighted, blown, brackish, buggy, cloying, despoiled, fetid, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fulsome, fusty, high, icky, insectlike, maggoty, mawkish, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, ravaged, rebarbative, rotten, sickening, smutted, smutty, spoiled, stinking, verminous, vile, vomity, worm-eaten, wormy, yucky

• weft, arabesque, basketry, basketwork, cancellation, cloth, cross-hatching, crossing-out, drapery, etoffe, fabric, felt, filigree, filling, fret, fretwork, goods, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, material, mesh, meshes, meshwork, napery, net, netting, network, pick, plexure, plexus, raddle, rag, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, shoot, sieve, silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, warp, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, wicker, wickerwork, woof, wool

• weigh anchor, board, break ground, cast away, cast loose, cast off, cat the anchor, detach, disengage, doff, drop the mooring, embark, embus, emplane, enplane, entrain, free, go aboard, go on board, go on shipboard, liberate, loose, loose for sea, loosen, put to sea, release, remove, take off, take ship, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unmoor, unstick, unstrap, untie, up-anchor

• weigh down, ballast, bear hard upon, burden, cramp, cripple, cumber, embarrass, encumber, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, fetter, go hard with, go ill with, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hobble, impede, involve, lame, lead, lie on, lime, load, lumber, net, oppress, overburden, overload, press, press down, sadden, saddle with, sandbag, shackle, snarl, tangle, toil, trammel, try one, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, weight down

• weigh upon, bear hard upon, bear on, bear upon, beat down, burden, burthen, cast down, charge, crush one, cumber, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, encumber, exhaust, freight, go hard with, go ill with, hamper, handicap, haunt, haunt the memory, knock down, lade, lie on, load, lower, lower the spirits, obsess, oppress, overburden, overload, overtax, overweight, press, press down, press hard upon, prey on, rest hard upon, rest on, sadden, saddle, sink, tax, tire, try one, wear out, wear upon one, weary, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh heavy upon, weigh on, weight down

• weigh, amount to something, analogize, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assimilate, balance, be abstracted, be featured, be heavy, be influential, be persuasive, be prominent, be somebody, be something, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, brood, calculate, calibrate, caliper, carry, carry weight, catalog, categorize, charge, check a parameter, chew the cud, class, classify, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, compute, confront, consider, contemplate, contrast, count, counterbalance, counterpose, cumber, cut ice, cut some ice, debate, deliberate, dial, digest, divide, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, encumber, estimate, evaluate, excogitate, factor, fathom, gauge, get top billing, graduate, group, have an in, have full play, have influence, have personality, have pull, have weight, heft, hold the scales, identify, import, introspect, lade, lie heavy, liken, liken to, load, lumber, match, matter, measure, measure against, meditate, mensurate, metaphorize, mete, meter, militate, mind, muse, oppose, pace, parallel, perpend, place against, play around with, play with, plumb, ponder, prize, probe, quantify, quantize, rate, reflect, register, relate, ruminate, run a comparison, saddle, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off against, set over against, sift, signify, similize, size, size up, sort, sort out, sound, span, speculate, stand out, star, step, strike a balance, study, survey, take a reading, tax, tell, think over, thrash out, tip the scales, toy with, triangulate, valuate, value, view together, weigh against, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight, winnow

• weight, Indian club, accent, affliction, amperage, armipotence, ascendancy, authoritativeness, authority, balance, ballast, barbell, be heavy, beef, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, black power, bob, brim, brute force, buckram, burden, burden of care, burden with, burthen, cankerworm of care, carat, care, cargo, carry weight, centigram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, charge, charisma, charm, chock, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, concern, concernment, congest, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, contaminate, control, corrupt, counterbalance, cram, credit, cross, crowd, crown of thorns, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, debase, decagram, decigram, demand, difficulty, dignity, dint, disadvantage, distress, doctor, dominance, domination, dram, dram avoirdupois, drive, dumbbell, duress, duty, dyne, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, efficacy, embarrassment, eminence, emphasis, enchantment, encumber, encumbrance, energy, enjoin, esteem, exact, excellence, exerciser, extrinsicality, fasten upon, favor, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, form, formality, formalization, foul up, freight, freight with, full blast, full force, gall, gall and wormwood, good feeling, grain, gram, gravity, greatness, grievance, hamper, handicap, have weight, heft, high order, high rank, hold, hold the scales, horse, hundredweight, impediment, impedimenta, impersonality, import, importance, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, incidental power, inconvenience, inflict on, inflict upon, infliction, influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, interest, jam, jam-pack, justness, kilo, kilogram, lade, lay, lay on, lead, leadership, leverage, levy, lie heavy, load, long horse, lumber, magnetism, magnitude, main force, main strength, mana, mark, mass, mastery, materiality, megaton, merit, might, might and main, mightiness, milligram, millstone, mole, moment, momentousness, moxie, muscle power, note, onus, oppression, ounce, ounce avoirdupois, ounce troy, overfill, pack, pack of troubles, pad, parallel bars, paramountcy, peck of troubles, penalty, pennyweight, personality, persuasion, pith, pizzazz, place, plumb, plummet, pomp, pomposity, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, pound, pound avoirdupois, pound troy, poundal, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotency, pressure, prestige, primacy, primness, priority, productiveness, productivity, prominence, puissance, pull, punch, punching bag, purchase, push, put, put down, put on, put upon, ram in, rank, reign, repute, rigidness, rings, ritual, rituality, rowing machine, rule, saddle, saddle with, sandbag, satiate, saturate, say, scruple, sea of troubles, self-importance, seniority, set, side horse, significance, signification, sinew, sinker, slug, solemnity, solidity, sophisticate, sorrow, soundness, spoil, starchiness, stature, steam, stiffness, stiltedness, stone, strength, stress, strike a balance, strong arm, stuff, stylization, suasion, subject to, substantiality, subtle influence, suggestion, supercharge, superiority, superpower, supremacy, surfeit, sway, task, tax, thorn, tip the scales, ton, top off, trampoline, trapeze, trouble, units of weight, upper hand, validity, value, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wad, waters of bitterness, wattage, weigh, weigh down, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight down, weight down with, weightiness, whip hand, white elephant, woe, worth, yoke with

• weighted down, burdened, charged, cumbered, encumbered, fraught, freighted, hampered, heavy, heavyhearted, laden, laden with sorrow, loaded, long-faced, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, sad, sad of heart, sad-eyed, sad-faced, saddened, saddled, sadhearted, taxed, weighed upon, weighted

• weightless, airy, bodiless, bubbly, downy, ethereal, featherweight, feathery, fluffy, foamy, frothy, gossamery, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imponderous, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lightweight, mousse, nonsubstantial, souffle, unconcrete, unheavy, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, volatile, yeasty

• weightlessness, airiness, ascent, asteroids, aurora particles, blackout, bubbliness, buoyancy, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, daintiness, delicacy, downiness, ethereality, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, frothiness, gentleness, gossameriness, intergalactic matter, lack of weight, levitation, levity, lightness, meteor dust impacts, meteors, radiation, softness, space bullets, tenderness, the bends, unheaviness, volatility, yeastiness

• weighty, Gargantuan, absolute, adducible, admissible, amplitudinous, ascendant, astronomical, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, awe-inspiring, awesome, based on, big, binding, boundless, bulky, burdensome, certain, charismatic, charming, circumstantial, clothed with authority, cogent, colossal, commanding, competent, conclusive, consequential, considerable, consistent, controlling, convincing, corpulent, cosmic, cumbersome, cumbrous, cumulative, damning, decisive, decorous, demanding, demure, determinative, dignified, documentary, documented, dominant, duly constituted, earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, elevated, eminent, empowered, enchanting, enormous, estimable, evidential, evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exacting, exhausting, exigent, extensive, eye-witness, factual, fat, fatal, fateful, final, firsthand, fleshy, formal, formidable, founded on, frowning, galactic, gigantic, good, governing, grand, grave, great, grievous, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, grinding, gross, grounded on, harsh, hearsay, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, huge, immeasurable, immense, imperative, implicit, important, imposing, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, infinite, influential, inspiring, irrefutable, irresistible, just, king-size, large, lawful, leaden, leading, legal, legitimate, lofty, logical, long-faced, magnetic, majestic, mammoth, massive, massy, material, meaningful, mighty, momentous, monocratic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, moving, no-nonsense, noble, nuncupative, obese, official, onerous, oppressive, outsize, overburdensome, overgrown, overweight, overwhelming, personable, persuasive, ponderous, portentous, portly, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, presumptive, probative, prodigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, reliable, reputable, ruling, sedate, self-consistent, senior, serious, severe, significant, sizable, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, solid, somber, sound, spacious, staid, stately, stone-faced, stout, straight-faced, strong, stupendous, suasive, sublime, substantial, sufficient, suggestive, superincumbent, superior, supreme, sure, symptomatic, taxing, telling, thoughtful, titanic, totalitarian, tough, tremendous, tyrannous, unsmiling, valid, vast, voluminous, wearing, wearying, well-founded, well-grounded, winning

• weir, aboideau, air lock, arch dam, avenue, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blowhole, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, channel, chute, cofferdam, dam, debouch, defense, dike, ditch, dock gate, door, earthwork, egress, embankment, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, fence, flood-hatch, floodgate, flume, gate, gravity dam, groin, head gate, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, lock, lock gate, logjam, loophole, milldam, moat, mole, mound, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, parapet, penstock, pore, port, portcullis, rampart, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, seawall, shutter dam, sluice, sluice gate, spiracle, spout, stone wall, tap, tide gate, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, wall, water gate, way out, wicket dam, work

• Weird Sisters, Atropos, Clotho, Dame Fortune, Decuma, Fata, Fates, Fortuna, Heaven, Lachesis, Moirai, Morta, Nona, Norns, Parcae, Providence, Skuld, Tyche, Urdur, Verthandi, Weirds, coven, hag, hex, lamia, shamaness, sorceress, witch, witchwife, witchwoman

• weird, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, absurd, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, beyond belief, bizarre, blue, book of fate, cadaverous, cantrip, cast, charm, circumstance, cockamamie, constellation, corpselike, crazy, creepy, cup, curious, curse, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, dreadful, eccentric, eerie, eldritch, end, evil eye, exorcism, extravagant, fantastic, fatality, fate, fearful, foolish, forecast, foredoom, foretelling, fortune, freaked out, freaky, funny, future, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glamour, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, haunting, hex, high-flown, hoodoo, horrific, ides of March, incantational, incantatory, incredible, inevitability, inscrutable, jinx, kismet, kooky, laughable, livid, lot, ludicrous, lurid, macabre, magian, magic, magic spell, malocchio, moira, monstrous, mortuary, mysterious, necromantic, nonsensical, numinous, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, outrageous, outre, pale, passing strange, peculiar, planets, poppycockish, portion, preposterous, preternatural, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, prophecy, quaint, queer, ridiculous, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, singular, sorcerous, spell, spookish, spooky, stars, strange, supernal, supernatural, talismanic, thaumaturgic, uncanny, unco, uncolike, uncouth, unearthly, unlucky day, unnatural, voodoo, voodooistic, wan, wanga, whammy, wheel of fortune, wild, will of Heaven, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly, wondrous strange

• weirdo, aliene, bedlamite, borderline case, character, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, dement, demoniac, eccentric, energumen, erratic, fanatic, flake, fou, freak, idiot, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah, noncompos, nonconformist, nut, oddball, phrenetic, raving lunatic, recluse, screwball, strange duck

• welcome, abide by, accede, accept, acceptable, acceptance, accession, acclaim, accueil, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquiescence, acquire, affable, agree, agree to, agree with, agreeable, agreement, agreement in principle, amiable, amicable, applaud, assent, assentation, be responsible for, bigheartedness, blissful, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, bring down, bring on, bring upon, buy, cheer, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, compliance, comply, concurrence, congenial, consent, contract, cordial, desirable, dulcet, easy purse strings, embrace, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, fall in with, fall into, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, gain, general agreement, generosity, generousness, genial, get, give the nod, givingness, glad hand, good, goodly, gracious, graciousness, grateful, gratifying, great heart, greatheartedness, greetings, hail, harmonious, heart-warming, hearty assent, hearty welcome, hold with, honeyed, hospitality, hug, in toto, incur, invite, largeheartedness, largeness, largess, liberality, liberalness, likable, magnanimity, make welcome, mellifluous, mellow, munificence, nice, nod, nod assent, open arms, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, receipt, receive, receiving, reception, refuge, rewarding, run, satisfying, smiling reception, subscribe to, support, sweet, sympathetic, take kindly to, taking in, the glad hand, unselfishness, vote for, warm assent, welcome mat, welcoming, yes, yield assent

• welcoming, admissible, admissive, admissory, amiable, cordial, friendly, generous, genial, gracious, hearty, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, liberal, neighborly, open, openhearted, receivable, receptible, receptive, recipient, warm, warmhearted

• weld, accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, ankle, articulate, articulation, assemble, associate, band, bind, blaze, blister, bond, boundary, bracket, brand, braze, bridge, bridge over, burn, burn in, burn off, butt, carve, cast, cauterize, cement, cervix, chain, char, chase, chisel, clap together, clinch, closure, coal, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, copulate, couple, coupling, cover, crack, cupel, cut, dovetail, elbow, embrace, encompass, engrave, flame, found, fuse, gather, gliding joint, glue, grave, gum, hinge, hinged joint, hip, include, insculpture, interface, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knot, knuckle, lay together, league, link, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, merge, miter, mobilize, model, mold, mortise, neck, oxidate, oxidize, pair, parch, paste, piece together, pivot, pivot joint, put together, pyrolyze, rabbet, roll into one, scarf, scorch, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, seam, sear, shoulder, singe, solder, span, splice, stick together, stitch, suture, swinge, symphysis, take in, tape, tie, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, torrefy, unify, union, unite, vesicate, vulcanize, wrist, yoke

• welfare state, ADC, Medicaid, Medicare, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, child welfare, coalition government, colonialism, commonweal, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, cradle-to-grave security, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state, gerontocracy, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, health insurance, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, old-age assistance, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, public assistance, public welfare, pure democracy, regency, relief, representative democracy, representative government, republic, self-determination, self-government, sickness insurance, social democracy, social insurance, social security, social service, social welfare, social work, socialized medicine, state medicine, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, welfare, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare statism, welfare work, welfarism, womb-to-tomb security

• welfare, ADC, Easy Street, Medicaid, Medicare, advantage, affluence, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, almsgiving, altruistic, annuity, assistance, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, beneficent, benefit, benevolent, benison, bighearted, blessing, boon, bounty, charitable, child welfare, clover, comfort, commonweal, contentment, cradle-to-grave security, depletion allowance, dole, ease, easy circumstances, eleemosynary, felicity, fellowship, financial assistance, fleshpots, fortune, freehearted, gain, generous, good, gracious life, gracious living, grant, grant-in-aid, greathearted, guaranteed annual income, guaranteed income, happiness, health insurance, help, humanitarian, interest, lap of luxury, largehearted, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luck, luxury, old-age assistance, old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pension, philanthropic, price support, profit, prosperity, prosperousness, public assistance, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, satisfaction, scholarship, security, sickness insurance, social insurance, social security, social service, social welfare, social work, socialized medicine, state medicine, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, success, support, tax benefit, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, upward mobility, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare aid, welfare capitalism, welfare payments, welfare state, welfare statism, welfare statist, welfare work, welfarism, welfarist, well-being, womb-to-tomb security, world of good

• welkin, Caelus, aerosphere, air, atmosphere, azure, biosphere, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, ecosphere, empyrean, ether, firmament, gaseous envelope, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, noosphere, sky, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, vault, vault of heaven

• well done, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, bien cuit, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, done, doneness, excellent, expert, fancy, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, medium, medium-rare, neat, no mean, overcooked, overdone, politic, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-cooked, workmanlike

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

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

• well fixed, abounding in riches, affluent, big-rich, comfortable, disgustingly rich, easy, fat, flush, frightfully rich, in funds, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, loaded, luxurious, made of money, moneyed, oofy, opulent, prosperous, provided for, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, snug, substantial, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well, well provided for, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

• well, ably, abysm, abyss, acceptably, adeptly, adequately, adroitly, agilely, all right, all the way, altogether, amply, appropriately, approvingly, aptly, aright, artfully, artificial lake, artistically, baths, bayou lake, becomingly, benignantly, benignly, beyond all expectation, blow out, bonanza, brilliantly, bunkum, capably, capitally, cascade, cataract, cavity, certainly, chasm, cistern, clear, cleverly, comfortable, comfortably, competently, completely, conceivably, concernedly, considerably, considerately, cornucopia, correctly, crater, crevasse, cunningly, dam, dead water, decently, decorously, deep, deftly, deluge, depth, dexterously, dextrously, dig, diggings, dike, doing nicely, doubtlessly, drain, drain out, easily, easy, effectively, effectually, efficiently, effortlessly, empty, engulf, entirely, etang, excavation, excellently, exhaust, expertly, facilely, famously, far, farm pond, favorably, featly, find vent, fine, finely, fishpond, fit, fitly, fittingly, flood, flow, flow out, font, fortunate, fortunately, fount, fountain, fountainhead, freely, freshwater lake, fully, generously, glacial lake, gold mine, good, gulf, gush, gush out, hale, handily, happily, happy, headspring, headstream, headwater, heedfully, hole, hollow, humanely, humanly, inception, indeed, ingeniously, inland sea, interestedly, inundate, jet, justly, kindheartedly, kindly, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lightly, likely, linn, loch, lode, lough, mainspring, masterfully, mere, millpond, millpool, mine, neatly, nicely, nimbly, nyanza, obviously, origin, outflow, outpour, overbrim, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, oxbow lake, passably, perfectly, perhaps, pit, plash, play, pleasantly, plumb, pond, pondlet, pool, possibly, pour, pour out, pour over, probably, proficiently, properly, prosperously, provenance, provenience, providential, puddle, quarry, quite, rather, readily, really, reservoir, resource, resourcefully, right, rightly, riverhead, root, roundly, royally, run out, run over, salina, salt pond, sane, satisfactorily, satisfyingly, shaft, significantly, skillfully, slam, slop, slosh, sluice out, smoothly, snug, softheartedly, somewhat, sound, source, source of supply, spa, spew, spew out, spill, spill out, spill over, spit, splendidly, spout, spout out, spray, spring, springhead, springs, spritz, spryly, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stagnant water, standing water, staple, still water, sublimely, submerge, substantial, successfully, suitably, sump, superbly, surely, surge, swamp, sweep, swimmingly, tank, tarn, tenderheartedly, thoughtfully, tidal pond, to good purpose, to some purpose, tolerably, truly, unailing, undoubtedly, unquestionably, unsick, unsickly, up and about, utterly, vein, very well, volcanic lake, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, warmheartedly, warmly, water hole, water pocket, watering place, well out, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, wellhead, wellspring, whelm, white, wholesome, wholly, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill, workings, yawning abyss

• well-advised, careful, circumspect, considerate, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, enlightened, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reflecting, reflective, thoughtful, well-judged

• well-balanced, assured, balanced, coequal, collected, commonsense, composed, confident, cool, coolheaded, coordinate, equal, equanimous, equilateral, equilibrious, eurythmic, even, fast, fiducial, finished, firm, firm as Gibraltar, harmonious, imperturbable, in equilibrium, levelheaded, logical, philosophical, poised, practical, pragmatic, predictable, proportioned, rational, reasonable, recollected, regular, reliable, sane, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, sensible, sober, sober-minded, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, substantial, symmetric, together, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unshakable, unwavering, well-set, well-set-up, without nerves

• well-being, Easy Street, Hygeia, abundance, acceptance, advantage, affluence, amusement, animal pleasure, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, benefit, benison, blessing, bloom, bodily pleasure, boon, carnal delight, clover, comfort, composure, content, contentedness, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, ease, easy circumstances, easy street, emotional health, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, entire satisfaction, euphoria, felicity, fitness, fleshpots, flush, forepleasure, fruition, fulfillment, fun, gain, glow, good, gracious life, gracious living, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, happiness, health, hearty enjoyment, intellectual pleasure, interest, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, mental health, peace of mind, physical condition, physical fitness, physical pleasure, pleasure, profit, prosperity, prosperousness, quiet pleasure, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, rosiness, satisfaction, security, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, solid comfort, success, sweetness of life, the affluent life, the good life, thriving, thriving condition, titillation, upward mobility, velvet, voluptuousness, weal, wealth, welfare, world of good, zest

• well-bred, blue-blooded, cultivated, cultured, full-blooded, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, highborn, highbred, ladylike, of good breed, polished, pur sang, pure-blooded, purebred, refined, thoroughbred, well-brought-up, wellborn

• well-built, Junoesque, able-bodied, adamantine, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, athletic, becoming, bonny, braw, brawny, broad-shouldered, built, built for comfort, bulky, burly, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast, comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, dense, durable, enduring, extracted, fabricated, fair, fashioned, firm, forged, formed, gathered, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade, hard, harvested, heavy, homemade, homespun, lasting, likely, lovely to behold, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, massive, milled, mined, molded, muscle-bound, muscular, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rugged, shaped, shapely, sightly, sinewy, slender, smelted, solid, sound, stable, stacked, statuesque, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, thewy, thickset, tough, unyielding, well-constructed, well-favored, well-formed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-knit, well-made, well-proportioned, well-set, well-set-up, well-shaped, well-stacked, wiry

• well-defined, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, connected, consistent, conspicuous, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, direct, distinct, evident, explicit, express, glaring, in focus, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, obvious, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, prominent, pronounced, simple, staring, straightforward, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unmistakable, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved

• well-disposed, acquiescent, advocating, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, amiable, amicable, approving, ardent, backing, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, brotherly, compliant, congenial, consenting, content, cooperative, disposed, docile, eager, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favoring, forward, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, game, harmonious, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, minded, neighborlike, neighborly, peaceable, pleasant, pliant, predisposed, pro, prompt, prone, propitious, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sib, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, supporting, sympathique, tractable, unhostile, well-affected, well-inclined, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

• well-groomed, anal, bandbox, braw, chic, chipper, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dinky, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, orderly, posh, recherche, ritzy, sassy, sharp, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, smug, snazzy, snug, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spick-and-span, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, uncluttered, well-cared-for, well-dressed

• well-grounded, adamantine, admissible, authoritative, binding, bulky, calculable, cogent, confirmed, consistent, credible, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dense, dependable, durable, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enduring, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, faithful, faithworthy, fast, firm, firmly established, good, graven, hard, heavy, implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inveterate, invincible, inwrought, just, justifiable, lasting, lawful, legal, legitimate, logical, long-established, massive, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, plausible, predictable, rational, reasonable, reliable, rooted, rugged, sane, secure, self-consistent, sensible, set, settled, solid, sound, stabilized, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sufficient, sure, surefire, tough, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, unyielding, valid, vested, weighty, well-argued, well-built, well-constructed, well-educated, well-established, well-founded, well-informed, well-made, well-posted, well-read, well-set, well-settled, well-versed, wholesome, widely read

• well-kept, anal, conserved, dinky, intact, kept, neat, preserved, protected, saved, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, snug, spared, spruce, tidy, tight, trig, trim, undamaged, unspoiled, untainted, well-cared-for, well-conserved, well-groomed

• well-known, acclaimed, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, celebrated, common, commonly known, commonplace, conspicuous, corny, current, cut-and-dried, distinguished, fabled, fade, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed, far-heard, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, honored, household, important, leading, legendary, marked, moth-eaten, much acclaimed, musty, mythical, notable, noted, notorious, of mark, of note, old hat, outstanding, platitudinous, popular, prominent, proverbial, public, renowned, set, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn, worn thin

• well-liked, admired, adored, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, dearly beloved, esteemed, favored, favorite, held dear, loved, pet, popular, precious, preferred, prized, revered, treasured, well-beloved

• well-made, Junoesque, adamantine, agreeable, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, bulky, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, cast, clean, clean-cut, comely, constructed, crafted, created, curvaceous, curvy, custom, custom-built, custom-made, dense, durable, enduring, extracted, fabricated, fair, fashioned, firm, forged, formed, gathered, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grown, handcrafted, handmade, hard, harvested, heavy, homemade, homespun, lasting, likely, lovely to behold, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, massive, milled, mined, molded, neat, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, prefab, prefabricated, presentable, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, rugged, shaped, shapely, sightly, slender, smelted, solid, sound, stable, stacked, statuesque, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, trim, unyielding, well-built, well-constructed, well-favored, well-formed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

• well-mannered, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, correct, courteous, decorous, genteel, good-mannered, hieratic, liturgic, mannerly, polite, pompous, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, solemn, stately, well-behaved, well-spoken

• well-meaning, agreeable, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, brotherly, congenial, cooperative, favorable, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, harmonious, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, neighborlike, neighborly, peaceable, pleasant, propitious, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, sympathique, unhostile, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meant

• well-off, abounding in riches, affluent, big-rich, comfortable, disgustingly rich, do, easy, fat, flush, frightfully rich, in funds, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, loaded, luxurious, made of money, moneyed, oofy, opulent, prosperous, provided for, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-to-do

• well-planned, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, clever, copious, cunning, diffuse, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, full, galore, generous, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, superabundant, teeming, wealthy, well-appointed, well-armed, well-considered, well-contrived, well-designed, well-fitted, well-found, well-furnished, well-invented, well-laid, well-provided, well-reasoned, well-stocked, well-supplied, well-thought-out, well-weighed, wholesale

• well-read, acquainted with, at home in, at home with, conversant with, familiar with, informed in, intimate with, master of, proficient in, strong in, up on, versed in, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-posted, well-read in, well-versed, widely read

• well-regulated, arranged, businesslike, formal, habitual, harmonious, in hand, methodical, normal, ordered, orderly, regular, routine, steady, symmetrical, systematic, uniform, usual, well-ordered

• well-set, able-bodied, athletic, balanced, brawny, broad-shouldered, burly, coequal, confirmed, coordinate, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, equal, equilateral, established, etched, eurythmic, even, finished, firmly established, graven, harmonious, implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, muscle-bound, muscular, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, proportioned, regular, rooted, set, settled, sinewy, stabilized, symmetric, thewy, thickset, uniform, vested, well-balanced, well-built, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-knit, well-set-up, well-settled, wiry

• well-spoken, Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Tullian, articulate, correct, eloquent, facund, felicitous, free-speaking, free-spoken, glib, good-mannered, loud-speaking, loud-spoken, mannerly, outspoken, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, silver, silver-tongued, slick, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soft-speaking, soft-spoken, speaking, spellbinding, talkative, talking, true-speaking, well-behaved, well-mannered

• well-thought-of, accepted, acclaimed, admired, admitted, adored, advocated, applauded, appreciated, approved, backed, creditable, cried up, esteemed, estimable, favored, favorite, held in esteem, held in respect, highly considered, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, highly touted, honorable, honored, in favor, in good odor, in high esteem, in high favor, meritorious, much-admired, noble, popular, prestigious, prized, received, recommended, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverenced, reverend, supported, valued, venerable, venerated, well-considered, worshiped, worshipful, worthy

• well-timed, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, auspicious, becoming, befitting, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, good, happy, likely, lucky, meet, opportune, politic, profitable, proper, propitious, providential, recommendable, right, ripe, seasonable, seemly, sortable, suitable, timely, to be desired, useful, wise, worthwhile

• well-to-do, abounding in riches, affluent, big-rich, comfortable, disgustingly rich, easy, fat, flush, frightfully rich, in funds, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, loaded, luxurious, made of money, moneyed, oofy, opulent, prosperous, provided for, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, snug, substantial, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off

• well-versed, abreast of, adept in, at home in, au courant, briefed, educated, enlightened, expert at, good at, handy at, informed, instructed, master of, posted, primed, proficient in, schooled, skilled in, strong in, taught, trained, up on, up-to-date, versed, versed in, well up on, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-posted, well-read, widely read

• well-wisher, Maecenas, abettor, acquaintance, admirer, advocate, aficionado, alter ego, angel, apologist, backer, best friend, bosom friend, brother, buff, casual acquaintance, champion, close acquaintance, close friend, confidant, confidante, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, exponent, familiar, fan, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, friend, friend at court, inseparable friend, intimate, lover, mainstay, maintainer, neighbor, other self, paranymph, partisan, patron, pickup, promoter, protagonist, reliance, repository, second, seconder, sectary, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, upholder, votary

• well-worn, automatic, back-number, banal, bare, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, common, commonplace, constant, corny, cut-and-dried, deep-worn, dog-eared, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, persistent, platitudinous, recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, sere, set, shelfworn, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known, well-trodden, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down

• wellspring, bonanza, cornucopia, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, gold mine, headspring, headstream, headwater, inception, lode, mainspring, mine, origin, provenance, provenience, quarry, resource, riverhead, root, source, source of supply, spring, springhead, staple, vein, well, wellhead

• welsh, back out, backpedal, backwater, crawfish out, cry off, default, disallow, dishonor, dodge, dog it, duck, duck duty, get out of, goldbrick, goof off, levant, malinger, not pay, not pull fair, protest, refuse to pay, renege, repudiate, resile, shirk, skulk, slack, slide out of, slip out of, sneak out of, soldier, stop payment

• welsher, clock watcher, defaulter, delinquent, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, levanter, malingerer, nonpayer, old soldier, shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slacker, soldier, tax dodger, tax evader, truant

• welt, abscess, aposteme, bash, bat, beading, bed sore, belt, bilge, binding, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boil, bop, bordering, bordure, 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, dress down, ear, edging, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fimbria, fimbriation, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, flax, flounce, freckle, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galloon, gathering, give a dressing-down, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hem, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hide, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, larrup, lather, leather, lentigo, lesion, lick, lip, list, loop, lump, milium, mole, motif, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, paddle, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pound, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, ruffle, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, selvage, shoulder, skirting, smack, smash, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, tan, track, trim, trimming, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, valance, verruca, vesicle, wale, wallop, warp, wart, weal, wen, whack, whale, wheal, whelk, whelp, whitehead, whitlow, wound

• welter, arsy-varsiness, bask, bend, blunder, careen, career, clutter, cower, cringe, crouch, falter, farrago, flounce, flounder, get down, grovel, hash, heave, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hobbyhorse, hodgepodge, hunch, hunch down, hysteron proteron, indulge, jumble, labor, litter, lurch, luxuriate, make heavy weather, mess, mishmash, mummify, mummy, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, rear, reel, revel, rock, roll, rollick, scend, scramble, scrouch down, seethe, shrivel, squat, stagger, stoop, strive, struggle, stumble, sway, swing, thrash about, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, volutation, wallop, wallow, wilt, wizen, writhe, yaw

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

• wen, benign tumor, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bulla, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, check, cicatrix, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dilatation, dilation, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, excrescence, fault, flaw, freckle, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, growth, hemangioma, hickey, intumescence, keloid, kink, lentigo, lump, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, milium, mole, morbid growth, needle scar, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, proud flesh, pustule, rift, rising, sarcoma, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, split, strawberry mark, sty, swell, swelling, swollenness, track, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, whitehead

• wench, Jane, Jezebel, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, babe, baby, bad woman, baggage, betweenmaid, biddy, bird, bitch, broad, chambermaid, chaperon, chick, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, colleen, companion, cook, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, drab, duenna, easy lay, easy woman, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, filly, floozy, frail, frail sister, gal, gentlewoman, girl, girlie, grisette, handmaid, handmaiden, harridan, heifer, hen, hired girl, housemaid, hoyden, hussy, hysteromaniac, jade, jeune fille, jezebel, jill, junior miss, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lass, lassie, little missy, live-in maid, live-out maid, loose woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, maidservant, minx, miss, missy, nursemaid, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, parlormaid, pickup, piece, quail, quean, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, skirt, slattern, slip, slut, soubrette, strumpet, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, tart, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, tramp, trollop, trull, tweeny, upstairs maid, uteromaniac, virgin, waiting maid, wanton, whore, young creature, young thing

• werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, ape-man, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, demon, devil, devil incarnate, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fiend from hell, frightener, ghost, ghoul, harpy, hellhound, hellkite, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, jaguar-man, lamia, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire, werecat, werecrocodile, werefox, werehyena, werejaguar, werelion, weretiger

• West, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle Atlantic, Middle East, Middle West, Near East, New England, New World, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West Coast, Western Hemisphere, Yankeeland, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, northland, the Coast, the old country, westland, wild West

• west, W, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastbound, easter, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, eastward, half points, hyperborean, lubber line, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, norther, northerly, northern, northernmost, northward, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occident, occidental, orient, oriental, quarter points, rhumb, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, souther, southerly, southern, southernmost, southward, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, sunrise, sunset, westabout, westbound, wester, westerly, western, westernly, westernmost, westward, westwardly, westwards

• westerly, Euroclydon, Tehuantepec wind, Tehuantepecer, antarctic, arctic, austral, bise, boreal, east, east wind, eastbound, easter, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, gregale, hyperborean, levanter, meridional, mistral, north, north wind, northbound, northeast, northeaster, northeasterly, northeastern, norther, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwester, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, south wind, southbound, southeast, southeaster, southeasterly, southeastern, souther, southerly, southerly buster, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwester, southwesterly, southwestern, tramontane, west, west wind, westbound, wester, western, westernmost

• Western, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Marchen, Technicolor, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, animated cartoon, apologue, bedtime story, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, detective story, documentary, documentary film, educational film, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, film, flick, flicker, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, horror picture, horse opera, legend, love story, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, newsreel, nudie, nursery tale, parable, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, romance, science fiction, shocker, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, space fiction, space opera, spaghetti Western, suspense story, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film, whodunit, work of fiction

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

• westward, W, cardinal points, compass card, compass rose, degrees, east, eastward, half points, lubber line, north, northeast, northward, northwest, occident, orient, quarter points, rhumb, south, southeast, southward, southwest, sunrise, sunset, west, westabout, westerly, westernly, westwardly, westwards

• wet blanket, Foamite, acid, automatic sprinkler, bore, buttonholer, carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, carbon-dioxide foam, chill, cold water, crashing bore, crepehanger, damp, damper, deck gun, deluge set, determent, deterrent, discouragement, drag, drip, dryasdust, dusty, extinguisher, fire apparatus, fire engine, fire hose, fire hydrant, fireplug, flat tire, foam, foam extinguisher, frightful bore, grouch, headache, hook-and-ladder, humdrum, killjoy, ladder pipe, malcontent, nuisance, pessimist, pest, pill, proser, pumper, snorkel, soda, sourpuss, spoilsport, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, super-pumper, twaddler, water, water cannon

• wet nurse, aliment, amah, ayah, breast-feed, care for, cherish, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dry nurse, dry-nurse, fatten, fatten up, feed, fondle, force-feed, foster, lactate, lavish care on, mammy, mother, nanny, nourish, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid, nurture, nutrify, pamper, sitter, spoon-feed, stuff, suckle, sustain

• wet suit, air cylinder, aqualung, aquascope, bathing suit, bathyscaphe, bathysphere, benthoscope, bikini, diving bell, diving boat, diving chamber, diving goggles, diving helmet, diving hood, diving mask, diving suit, maillot, periscope, scuba, snorkel, submarine, swim fins, swim suit, swimming suit, tank suit, trunks

• wet, Scotch mist, apish, asinine, asperge, batty, bedew, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bespatter, besprinkle, blood rain, bogginess, boggy, boozy, brainless, buffoonish, canned, cat-and-dog weather, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, dabble, daffy, daft, damp, dampen, dampish, dampness, dank, dash, dazed, deluge, dew, dewiness, dewy, dirty weather, disguised, dizzy, doting, douche, douse, draft, dram, drench, drenched, drink, dripping, drizzle, drop, drown, drunk, dumb, evening mist, exudation, fall, fatuitous, fatuous, fenny, fill, flaky, flurry, fogginess, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gargle, goofy, gout of rain, gulled, guzzle, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humor, idiotic, imbecile, impregnate, inane, inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irrigate, jigger, jolt, kooky, lave, libation, loony, mad, make water, marshiness, marshy, maudlin, mist, mistiness, misty rain, mizzle, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness, moisture, monsoon, moronic, muggy, nip, number one, nutty, paddle, patter, pee, pee-pee, peg, piddle, piss, pitter-patter, pixilated, plastered, potation, potion, precipitation, predominance of Aquarius, pull, pump bilge, rain, raindrop, rainfall, raininess, rains, rainwater, rainy, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, rinse, roric, roriferous, round, round of drinks, sappy, saturate, saturated, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sheet of rain, shot, shower, showeriness, silly, sip, slobber, slop, slosh, slug, snifter, snort, soak, soaked, soaking, sodden, soddenness, sogginess, soggy, sop, soppiness, sopping, soppy, souse, soused, sparge, spatter, spell of rain, spend a penny, splash, splatter, sponge, spot, spray, spring rains, sprinkle, stale, sticky, stormy weather, stupid, suck, sup, swampiness, swampy, swash, swig, swill, syringe, tacky, thoughtless, tot, undried, unfrozen hydrometeor, urinate, wacky, wash, water, wateriness, wee-wee, wet down, wet season, wet weather, wetness, wettish, wettishness, witless

• wetback, Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, DP, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Paddy, dago, displaced person, emigrant, emigre, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, frog, greaseball, greaser, immigrant, in-migrant, limey, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, stateless person, trekker

• whack down, blow down, blow over, bowl down, bowl over, bring down, bulldog, cast down, chop down, cut down, dash down, deck, down, drop, fell, fetch down, floor, ground, hew down, knock down, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, mow down, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, raze, send headlong, spread-eagle, supinate, take down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble

• whack, approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid, biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst, bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming, effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap, fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning, innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place, plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say, shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike, strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap, tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat, token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking, wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk

• whacked, all in, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, bushed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, exhausted, fagged out, gone, knocked out, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, spent, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, wiped out, worn-out

• whacking, awful, banging, bumping, deadly, dreadful, fearful, frightful, horrible, howling, rousing, slapping, spanking, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, walloping, whaling, whopping

• whale, Loch Ness monster, alevin, angle, bait the hook, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, benthon, benthos, birch, bob, buffet, cane, cetacean, clam, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, dap, dib, dibble, dinosaur, dolphin, dress down, drive, drub, elephant, fingerling, fish, flagellate, flail, flax, flog, fly-fish, fry, fustigate, game fish, gig, give a dressing-down, give a whipping, give the stick, go fishing, grig, grilse, guddle, hide, hippo, hippopotamus, horsewhip, hulk, jack, jacklight, jig, jumbo, kipper, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, leather, leviathan, lick, mammoth, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, mastodon, minnow, minny, monster, nekton, net, paddle, panfish, pistol-whip, plankton, pommel, porpoise, pummel, rawhide, salmon, scourge, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seine, shark, shrimp, smite, smolt, spank, spin, sponge, still-fish, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tan, thrash, thump, thumper, torch, trawl, trim, troll, tropical fish, trounce, truncheon, wallop, wear out, welt, whip, whop, whopper

• whaler, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, angler, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, dibber, dibbler, drift netter, drifter, fair-weather sailor, fisher, fisherman, guddler, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacker, jacky, jigger, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, pirate, piscator, piscatorialist, piscatorian, privateer, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tar, the compleat angler, trawler, troller, viking, water dog, windjammer, windsailor

• whaling, angling, banging, bumping, casting, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, fishery, fishing, fly fishing, gargantuan, gigantic, guddling, harpooning, hiding, immense, jigging, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mighty, paddling, piscation, prodigious, rod and reel, slapping, spanking, still-fishing, tanning, thumping, thundering, trawling, trolling, walloping, whacking, whopping

• wham, bang, bash, bat, belt, biff, blast, bonk, boom, bump, burst, bust, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, fetch, fetch a blow, flap, flop, hit, hit a clip, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, paste, plunk, poke, punch, rap, report, slam, slap, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, splat, strike, strike at, swap, swat, swipe, tap, thump, thwack, wallop, whack, whap, whomp, whop, yerk

• whammy, Jonah, amulet, anathema, bad blood, bad influence, bad temper, bad will, ban, bedroom eyes, blasphemy, blighting glance, bring bad luck, cantrip, charm, come-hither look, commination, curse, damnation, denunciation, enchantment, evil disposition, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, excommunication, execration, exorcism, fetish, fulmination, fylfot, gammadion, gape, gaze, glad eye, glamour, glare, glower, glowering look, goggle, good-luck charm, hex, hoodoo, ill nature, ill will, ill wind, ill-disposedness, imprecation, jinx, juju, love charm, lucky bean, lucky piece, madstone, magic spell, malevolence, malevolent influence, malison, malocchio, mascot, mumbo jumbo, obeah, ogle, penetrating look, periapt, philter, phylactery, proscription, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, spell, stare, sudarium, swastika, talisman, thundering, veronica, voodoo, wanga, weird

• wharf, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, embankment, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, marina, mole, moorings, pier, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip

• what for, ass-reaming, bawling-out, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chewing, condign punishment, correction, cussing-out, deserts, disciplinary measures, discipline, dressing, dressing-down, excuse, explanation, ferule, for which, for why, from what cause, going-over, how come, infliction, jacking-up, judgment, judicial punishment, nemesis, on what account, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pourquoi, pretense, pretext, punishment, punition, raking-down, rational ground, rationale, reaming, reaming-out, reason, reason for, reason why, retribution, retributive justice, roasting, scourge, setdown, speaking-to, stated cause, talking-to, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, underlying reason, well-deserved punishment, wherefore, why, whyever, whyfor

• wheal, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, lesion, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pustule, rising, scab, soft chancre, sore, stigma, strake, streak, stripe, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, weal, welt, whelk, whelp, whitlow, wound

• wheat, Bengal grass, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, alfilaria, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, bird seed, black bent, bluegrass, bog grass, bran, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, canary grass, cane, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, forage, four-leaved grass, grain, grasses, hassock grass, hay, horsetail, little quaking grass, lovegrass, maize, mash, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meal, millet, myrtle grass, oats, paddy, palm-leaved grass, pampas grass, papyrus, pasturage, pasture, peppergrass, pet food, provender, reed, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, scratch, scratch feed, scutch, sedge, sesame, sesame grass, silage, slops, sorghum, straw, striped grass, sugar cane, swill, switch grass, sword grass, tufted hair grass, wild oats, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia

• wheedle, adulate, advocate, apply pressure, banter, beset, besiege, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, blarney, bug, buttonhole, cajole, call on, call upon, coax, compliment, con, conceit, dun, exert pressure, exhort, fawn upon, flatter, high-pressure, importune, insist, insist upon, jawbone, lobby, make fair weather, nag, nag at, oil the tongue, palaver, pester, plague, plead with, ply, praise, press, pressure, push, recommend, slobber over, soft-soap, sweet-talk, tease, urge, work on

• wheedling, adulation, adulatory, allurement, bland, blandishing, blandishment, blarney, blarneying, bunkum, buttery, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, coaxing, compliment, complimentary, conning, courtierly, courtly, demanding, dunning, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, eyewash, fair words, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, flattery, fulsome, grease, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, hortative, hortatory, importunate, importunateness, importunity, incense, inducement, insincere, insinuating, insistent, jawboning, lobbying, mealymouthed, nagging, obsequious, oil, oily, oily-tongued, palaver, persuading, persuasion, persuasive, pestering, plaguing, plying, praise, preaching, preachment, pressing, pressure, pretty lies, sales talk, salesmanship, selling, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snow job, soap, soapy, soft soap, soft-soaping, solicitation, suasion, suasive, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, sycophantic, teasing, unctuous, urgency, urgent, urging, working on

• wheel of fortune, April showers, Chance, Dame Fortune, Fortuna, Fortune, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Lady Luck, Luck, Proteus, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, blind Chance, book of fate, chameleon, cloud shapes, constellation, crap table, cup, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, end, fatality, fate, fickle Chance, foredoom, fortune, future, gambling table, gambling wheel, ides of March, inevitability, kaleidoscope, kismet, lot, mercury, moira, moon, one-armed bandit, planets, portion, quicksilver, raffle wheel, rolling stone, roulette wheel, shifting sands, slot machine, stars, the weather, unlucky day, water, weather vane, weathercock, weird, whirligig, will of Heaven

• wheel, BMOC, Charybdis, Ferris wheel, O, Procrustean bed, airscrew, alternate, annular muscle, annulus, areola, arsis, association, aureole, auto, avert, balance wheel, be here again, beat, bed of Procrustes, bevel gear, bicycle, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big wheel, big-time operator, big-timer, bike, boot, bout, buffing wheel, bus, carousel, cartwheel, caster, catch a train, centrifugate, centrifuge, chaplet, charioteer, chauffeur, chopper, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circular saw, circulate, circulation, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, circumvolution, circus, close the circle, closed circle, cog, cogwheel, come about, come again, come and go, come around, come full circle, come round, come round again, come up again, compass, conference, contrate wheel, corona, coronet, course, crank, crown, crown wheel, cycle, cycloidal gear, deflect, describe a circle, diadem, diastole, discus, disk, divert, dizzy round, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, downbeat, drive, drive wheel, driver, eddy, encircle, encompass, entrain, escape wheel, eternal return, fairy ring, fan, fetch about, flank, flywheel, garland, gear, gearwheel, girdle, girdle the globe, glory, go about, go around, go by rail, go round, go the round, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyre, gyrowheel, halo, have second thoughts, heel, helm, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, idler wheel, impeller, intermit, iron, iron heel, joyride, kick wheel, lap, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, maelstrom, magic circle, make a circuit, make a train, merry-go-round, mill wheel, minibike, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, noose, orbit, oscillate, paddle wheel, pedal, pedal wheel, pedicab, pig, pilot, pinion, pinwheel, pirouette, piston, pivot, pivot about, power wheel, prayer wheel, prop, propellant, propeller, propulsor, pulley, pulsate, pulse, put about, rack, radius, rat race, reappear, recur, reel, reins, reins of government, reoccur, repeat, return, revolution, revolve, ride, ring, road-bike, roll around, roller, rolling stone, rondelle, rotate, rotation, rotator, rotor, roulette wheel, round, roundabout, roundel, rudder, rundle, saucer, scarpines, screw, screw propeller, series, sheer, skirt, spell, sphincter, spin, spiral, stagger, steering wheel, surge, surround, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, systole, take a joyride, taxi, tergiversate, thesis, thumbscrew, tiller, tool, top, totter, trail bike, tricycle, trike, truck, truckle, turbine, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twin screws, twirl, twist, undulate, upbeat, veer, veer around, vicious circle, volte-face, vortex, wamble, water wheel, wheel about, wheel around, wheel of fortune, whip, whirl, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, wind, wreath

• wheeler dealer, Machiavellian, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, activist, bad influence, ball of fire, beaver, behind-the-scenes operator, big wheel, big-time operator, bustler, busy bee, court, doer, eager beaver, eminence grise, enthusiast, finagler, five-percenter, friend at court, gamesman, go-getter, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, human dynamo, hustler, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, live wire, lobby, lobbyist, logroller, lords of creation, machinator, man of action, man of deeds, man of influence, manipulator, militant, new broom, open sesame, operator, political activist, pork-barrel politician, powerhouse, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, strategist, take-charge guy, the Establishment, very important person, winner, wire-puller

• wheelhorse, Conservative, Democrat, Labourite, Republican, Tammany man, Tory, Whig, bidet, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, fill horse, filler, gigster, hack, hackney, heeler, hunter, jument, lead, leader, loyalist, machine politician, mount, old campaigner, pack horse, palfrey, partisan, party boss, party chieftain, party faithful, party hack, party leader, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, plow horse, pol, pole horse, political hack, political leader, politician, polo pony, post-horse, professional politician, reform politician, reformer, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, stalking-horse, stalwart, sumpter, sumpter horse, thill horse, thiller, war-horse, ward heeler, wheeler, workhorse

• wheeling and dealing, agency, barter, bartering, brokerage, buying and selling, dealing, doing business, exchange, give-and-take, horse trading, interchange, jobbing, merchandising, retailing, swapping, trade, trading, trafficking, wholesaling

• wheels within wheels, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, action, can of worms, clockworks, complex, drive train, gear, innards, jungle, knot, labyrinth, machinery, maze, meander, mechanism, mesh, mess, motion, movement, movements, perplex, power train, ravel, servomechanism, snafu, snake pit, snarl, tangle, tangled skein, watchworks, webwork, wheels, wilderness, workings, works

• wheels, action, auto, autocar, automobile, boat, buggy, bus, car, clockworks, crate, drive train, gear, heap, innards, jalopy, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, movement, movements, power train, servomechanism, tub, voiture, watchworks, wheels within wheels, workings, works, wreck

• wheeze, Aqua-Lung, antic, artificial respiration, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, belly laugh, blow, blue story, break down, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, burn out, buzz, caper, collapse, cough, crack up, dirty joke, dirty story, double entendre, droop, drop, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, ethnic joke, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, faint, fatigue, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, flag, frication, frictional rustling, frolic, fun, funny story, gag, gasp, get tired, give out, good one, good story, grow weary, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, howler, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, jade, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, lark, laugh, lisp, monkeyshine, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, panic, pant, peter out, play, play out, point, poop out, puff, puff and blow, respiration, respire, rhonchus, rib tickler, riot, run down, run out, scream, scuba, shenanigan, shines, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, sick joke, sidesplitter, siffle, sigh, sight gag, sigmatism, sink, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sport, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, story, succumb, suspiration, swish, tire, trick, visual joke, weary, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wilt, wind, wow, yarn, zip

• wheezing, asthmatic, breathing, breathless, effervescent, errhine, expiratory, fizzling, heaving, hissing, huffing, hushing, inspiratory, nasal, out of breath, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, short-breathed, short-winded, sibilant, sissing, sizzling, sneezy, sniffing, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, wheezy, winded

• whelk, Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, blue point, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, clam, cold sore, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, langouste, lesion, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, periwinkle, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, prawn, pustule, quahog, rising, scab, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft chancre, soft-shell crab, sore, steamer, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whelp, whitlow, wound

• whelm, baptize, be prodigal with, blank, bulldoze, bury, cascade, cataract, clobber, cream, defeat utterly, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flood the market, flow on, immerge, immerse, inundate, knock over, merge, overbear, overbrim, overcome, overdose, overequip, overflow, overfurnish, overlavish, overpower, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, oversell, overstock, oversupply, overwhelm, paste, plunge in water, pour on, pour out, pour over, prostrate, rain, run over, schmear, shellac, shut out, sink, skunk, slop, slosh, sluice, smear, snow under, souse, spill, spill out, spill over, steamroller, submerge, submerse, swamp, sweep, whitewash, whomp, whop

• whelp, Seeing Eye dog, animal, bandog, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beast, birdling, bitch, bowwow, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, calf, calve, canine, cast, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, cur, dog, dogie, drop, duckling, fancy dog, farrow, fawn, fellow, fledgling, foal, fryer, give birth, gosling, guide dog, gyp, have, have a baby, have young, hobbledehoy, hound, hyena, insect, kennel, kid, kit, kitten, labor, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, lap dog, lie in, litter, manchild, master, mongrel, muchacho, nest, nestling, pack of dogs, pig, piglet, pigling, polecat, polliwog, pooch, pullet, pup, puppy, reptile, schoolboy, serpent, sheep dog, shoat, show dog, skunk, sled dog, slut, snake, sonny, sonny boy, swine, tadpole, throw, toy dog, travail, varmint, vermin, viper, wale, watchdog, weal, weaner, welt, whelk, working dog, worm, yean, yeanling, young man, youth

• when, after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, anon, as far as, as long as, at all events, at any rate, at what time, at which, at which time, but, during which time, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, in what period, in which time, just the same, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, on what occasion, on which occasion, rather, still, the while, though, upon which, what time, when as, whenever, whereas, whereupon, while, whilst, yet

• whence, accordingly, away, because of that, because of this, consequently, derivation, ergo, for that, for that cause, for that reason, for this cause, for this reason, for which reason, forth, fountain, hence, hereat, inception, off, on that account, on that ground, on this account, origin, out, propter hoc, provenance, provenience, root, then, thence, thereat, therefor, therefore, therefrom, thereof, thus, thusly, thuswise, well, wellspring, wherefore, wherefrom

• whenever, anytime, at what time, at whatever time, at which, at which time, if ever, in what period, in which time, no matter when, on what occasion, on which occasion, once, upon which, what time, when, when as, whensoever, whereupon

• whereabouts, abode, area, bearings, bench mark, district, emplacement, hole, in what place, in which place, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, locality, location, locus, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, stead, where, whereabout, whither

• whereas, albeit, although, as, as far as, as long as, as things go, at which time, because, being as how, boundary condition, catch, cause, clause, condition, considering, donnee, during which time, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, fine print, for, forasmuch as, given, grounds, howbeit, in that, inasmuch as, insofar as, insomuch as, joker, kicker, limiting condition, now, obligation, parameter, parce que, prerequisite, provision, provisions, proviso, requisite, saving clause, seeing, seeing as how, seeing that, since, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, terms, the while, ultimatum, when, while, whilst

• wherefore, accordingly, after all, after which, all things considered, argument, because of that, because of this, before the bench, before the court, ceteris paribus, consequently, considering, ergo, everything being equal, excuse, explanation, for that, for that cause, for that reason, for this cause, for this reason, for which, for which reason, for why, from what cause, ground, hence, hereat, hereinafter, how come, in court, on, on balance, on that account, on that ground, on the whole, on this account, on what account, pourquoi, pretense, pretext, proof, propter hoc, rational ground, rationale, reason, reason for, reason why, stated cause, sub judice, taking into account, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, then, thence, thereat, therefor, therefore, this being so, thus, thusly, thuswise, underlying reason, upon, upon which, what for, whence, whereat, wherefrom, whereon, whereto, whereunto, whereupon, wherewith, why, whyever, whyfor

• whereupon, after which, at what time, at which, at which time, hereinafter, in what period, in which time, on, on what occasion, on which occasion, upon, upon which, what time, when, when as, whenever, whereat, wherefore, whereon, whereto, whereunto, wherewith

• wherewithal, Swiss bank account, ability, and pence, assets, balance, bank account, bottom dollar, budget, capacity, capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, command of money, currency, devices, disposable resources, dollars, emergency money, exchequer, filthy lucre, finances, fractional currency, fund, funds, gold, hard cash, hard currency, kitty, legal tender, life savings, lucre, mammon, managed currency, means, medium of exchange, method, mintage, money, moneys, necessity money, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pelf, pocket, pool, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, power, purse, recourses, reserves, resorts, resources, savings, savings account, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, sterling, stock, substance, supply, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, unregistered bank account, ways, ways and means, wherewith

• whet, accelerate, aculeate, acuminate, aggravate, agitate, animate, antepast, antipasto, aperitif, appetizer, arouse, awaken, bait, barb, beef up, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, bribe, canape, carrot, challenge, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, cultivate, cuspidate, deepen, double, edge, encouragement, enhance, enliven, exacerbate, exaggerate, excite, exhilarate, fan, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, file, fillip, fire, foment, foretaste, galvanize, grind, heat, heat up, heighten, hone, hop up, hot up, impassion, incense, incentive, incite, incitement, inducement, inflame, infuse life into, instigate, intensify, interest, invigorate, invitation, jazz up, key up, kindle, lure, magnify, make complex, make sensitive, nettle, oilstone, payment, percentage, persuasive, pick up, pique, point, profit, provocation, provoke, put up to, quicken, rally, ramify, redouble, refine, reinforce, renew, reset, resuscitate, revive, reward, rouse, sensibilize, sensitize, set, set on, sharp, sharpen, sic on, smorgasbord, soup up, spiculate, spur, step up, stimulate, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stir, stir the embers, stir up, strap, strengthen, strop, sweetener, sweetening, taper, tickle, triple, wake, waken, whip up, work up

• whey, beverage, blood, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, cheese, condensed milk, cream, dairy products, drink, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, ghee, half-and-half, heavy cream, hydraulics, hydrogeology, juice, latex, light cream, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, margarine, milk, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, raw milk, sap, semiliquid, skim milk, sour cream, water, whipping cream, yogurt

• whiff, aroma, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, bomb, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe in, breeze, breeze up, brew, capful of wind, catchword, clue, come up, crap out, cue, cue word, dash, definite odor, detectable odor, draw a blank, drop a bomb, drop the ball, effluvium, emanation, essence, evidence, exhalation, fan, flatus, flavor, flop, flummox, fold, fold up, fragrance, freshen, fume, gather, get left, hint, hot lead, huff, inhale, intimation, key, key word, lay an egg, lead, lose out, nose, not hack it, not make it, odor, pipe up, puff, puff of air, puff of wind, rage, redolence, savor, scent, set in, shade, smack, smell, smell of, sniff, snuff, snuffle, soupcon, spoor, squall, stench, stir of air, storm, strike out, subtle odor, suggestion, take the count, telltale, tincture, tinge, tip-off, trace, trail, trifle, vestige, waft, whiffet, whiffle

• whiffet, a nobody, a nothing, breath, breath of air, capful of wind, cipher, common man, dummy, figurehead, flatus, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nebbish, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, puff, puff of air, puff of wind, punk, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, stir of air, waft, whiff, whippersnapper, zero, zilch

• Whig, Conservative, Democrat, Labourite, Republican, Tory, heeler, loyalist, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, stalwart, ward heeler, wheelhorse

• while away the time, beguile the time, burn daylight, buy time, consume time, dabble, diddle, doodle, drown care, footle, fribble, fritter away time, have a ball, have fun, keep time, kill time, laugh it up, live it up, look for time, loosen up, lose time, measure time, occupy time, pass the time, pass time, piddle, potter, put in time, putter, race against time, relax, spend time, summer, take time, take up time, trifle, use time, waste time, weekend, winter, work against time

• while away, bestow, consecrate to, consume, dally away, dedicate to, devote, diddle away, dribble away, drivel away, employ, expend, fool away, fritter away, give over to, give to, idle away, muddle away, pass, piss away, potter away, put in, spend, trifle away, use up, while, wile

• while, albeit, although, amuse, as far as, as long as, at which time, beguile, bit, brighten, chronology, continuity, day, divert, duration, duree, during which time, elbow grease, enliven, entertain, exertion, fateful moment, hour, howbeit, instant, interval, juncture, kairos, lastingness, lighten, meantime, meanwhile, minute, moment, moment of truth, pains, period, point, pregnant moment, psychological moment, psychological time, season, space, space-time, span, spell, stage, stretch, tense, term, the future, the past, the present, the while, tide, time, time lag, timebinding, trouble, when, whereas, whet, whilst, wile

• whim wham, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, boutade, brainstorm, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, capriccio, caprice, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, cricket bat, crotchet, cue, curio, doll, doll carriage, fad, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, flimflam, folderol, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, harebrained idea, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, humor, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, kink, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, maggot, marble, marionette, megrim, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, notion, paper doll, passing fancy, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, quirk, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vagary, whim, whimsy

• whim, apparition, bee, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, bubble, capriccio, caprice, chimera, conceit, crank, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, delirium, disposition, dream, eidolon, fad, fancy, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasy, fiction, figment, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, hallucination, harebrained idea, humor, idea, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inclination, insubstantial image, invention, kink, maggot, make-believe, megrim, myth, notion, passing fancy, phantasm, phantom, quirk, romance, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, thought, toy, trip, vagary, vapor, vision, whim-wham, whimsy, wildest dreams

• whimper, bawl, blubber, boohoo, break down, burst into tears, cry, dissolve in tears, dolorous tirade, drop a tear, greet, groan, howl, jeremiad, keen, lament, moan, murmur, mutter, outcry, plaint, planctus, pule, scream, shed tears, snivel, sob, tirade, ululation, wail, wail of woe, weep, whine, yammer, yawp, yowl

• whimpering, Jeremianic, bawling, blubbering, complaining, cry, crying, dissolved in tears, faultfinding, fit of crying, flood of tears, fretful, good cry, greet, howling, in tears, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, lamentive, melting mood, moanful, mournful, overflowing eyes, peevish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulous, ready to cry, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowful, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, ululant, wailful, weepiness, weeping, weepy, whining, whiny, with eyes suffused

• whimsical, Attic, Gothic, abnormal, absurd, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, amusing, anomalous, arbitrary, baroque, biting, bizarre, brain-born, brilliant, capricious, chancy, changeable, changeful, clever, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviative, dicey, different, divergent, dizzy, dotty, doubting, dream-built, droll, eccentric, equivocal, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, facetious, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fast and loose, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, florid, fluctuant, fluctuating, freakish, funny, giddy, grotesque, harebrained, hesitant, hesitating, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, iffy, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody, mordant, motiveless, nimble-witted, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, outlandish, peculiar, petulant, pointed, polysemous, preposterous, priceless, pungent, quaint, queer, quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rambling, rapier-like, restless, rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo, roving, salt, salty, scatterbrained, scintillating, screaming, screwball, screwy, shapeless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shuffling, singular, skeptical, smart, sparkling, spasmodic, spineless, sprightly, strange, temperamental, touch-and-go, twisted, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconventional, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unfixed, unforeseeable, unnatural, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unverifiable, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, wild, wishy-washy, witty

• whimsy, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, apparition, boutade, brainchild, brainstorm, bubble, capriccio, caprice, chimera, conceit, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, crotchetiness, delirium, deviancy, deviation, differentness, disposition, divergence, dottiness, dream, eccentricity, eidolon, erraticism, erraticness, fad, fancy, fantasque, fantastic notion, fantasy, fiction, figment, flimflam, fool notion, freak, freakiness, freakish inspiration, freakishness, hallucination, harebrained idea, humor, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inclination, insubstantial image, invention, irregularity, kink, maggot, make-believe, mannerism, megrim, myth, nonconformity, notion, oddity, passing fancy, peculiarity, phantasm, phantom, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, romance, sick fancy, singularity, strangeness, thick-coming fancies, thought, toy, trick, trip, twist, unconventionality, unnaturalness, vagary, vapor, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsicality, wildest dreams

• whine, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, chant, chirp, coo, creak, crow, cry, dolorous tirade, drawl, exclaim, flute, fuss, gasp, give tongue, give voice, groan, growl, grunt, hiss, howl, jeremiad, keen, kick, lament, lilt, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, outcry, pant, pipe, plaint, planctus, pule, 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, wail of woe, warble, whicker, whimper, whinny, whisper, whistle, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yowl

• whiner, bellyacher, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, croaker, faultfinder, frondeur, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, kicker, kvetch, malcontent, murmurer, mutterer, querulous person, reactionary, reactionist, rebel, sorehead

• whining, Jeremianic, acute, argute, bawling, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, blatant, complaining, complaint, creaky, crying, destructive criticism, dissent, ear-piercing, faultfinding, fretful, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouse, grousing, grumbling, holler, howl, howling, keen, keening, kick, kicking, lamentive, lowing, moanful, moaning, mournful, mugient, murmuring, peeve, peevish, peevishness, penetrating, pet peeve, petulance, petulant, piercing, piping, plaintive, plangent, protest, puling, querulous, querulousness, reedy, scolding, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sigh, sighing, sniping, sobbing, sorrowful, soughing, squawk, squawking, squeaking, squeaky, thin, ululant, wailful, wailing, whimpering, whiny, whistling, yapping

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

• whip hand, advantage, ascendance, ascendancy, authority, balance of power, bulge, charisma, charm, clout, coign of vantage, consequence, control, credit, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, drop, edge, effect, eminence, eminent domain, enchantment, esteem, favor, flying start, force, good feeling, head start, hold, importance, incidental power, influence, influentiality, inside track, insinuation, jump, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mastery, moment, odds, overlordship, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, pressure, prestige, primacy, principality, purchase, reign, repute, rule, running start, say, something extra, something in reserve, sovereignty, start, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, upper hand, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, victory, weight

• whip up, abduct, ad-lib, agitate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, blow the coals, blow up, call forth, call up, carry off, churn, churn up, convulse, cook up, dash off, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, do offhand, enkindle, enrage, excite, extemporize, fake, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, flurry, foment, frenzy, fret, heat, heat up, impassion, improvisate, improvise, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, instigate, jury-rig, key up, kidnap, kindle, knock off, lash up, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, make up, move, nettle, overexcite, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pique, play by ear, provoke, put up to, rally, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, scrap the plan, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, shake, shake up, shanghai, sic on, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, strike off, summon up, swirl, throttle, throw off, throw together, tickle, toss off, toss out, trouble, turn on, upset, vamp, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whisk, whomp up, wing it, work into, work up

• whip, Ferris wheel, Jehu, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, accelerate, aerate, agitate, alderman, assemblyman, avert, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beat up, belabor, belt, best, birch, blast, bludgeon, bowl down, box, buffet, bullwhacker, bundle, bustle, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, cage, cameleer, cane, carousel, carter, cartman, charioteer, chosen freeholder, churn, churn up, chute-the-chutes, chutes, city father, clabber, clobber, clot, club, coachman, coachy, coagulate, cocher, cochero, colloid, colloidize, congressman, congresswoman, conquer, convulse, cool, corral, councilman, cowhide, cream, crowd, cudgel, cuff, curdle, curry, cut, defeat, deflect, destroy, disarrange, discompose, dispatch, disquiet, disturb, divert, do in, drayman, drive, drive on, driver, drove, drub, dust, elephant driver, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, expedite, ferment, fix, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, floor leader, flurry, flying horses, foam, forward, fret, froth, fustigate, gad, gadfly, gharry-wallah, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hack, hackman, hacky, hammer, harness racer, haste, hasten, hasten on, herd, hide, hie on, hors de combat, horsewhip, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lawgiver, lawmaker, lay on, legislator, lick, lopper, mahout, majority leader, mantle, maul, merry-go-round, minority leader, mop up, mule skinner, muleteer, needle, nudge, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overcome, overrun, overwhelm, oxgoad, paddle, party whip, paste, patter, pelt, perturb, perturbate, pistol-whip, pivot, poke, pommel, pound, precipitate, press, prick, prod, pulverize, pummel, punch cattle, push, push on, push through, put, quicken, quirt, railroad through, rap, rawhide, reinsman, representative, ride herd on, rile, ripple, roil, roller coaster, roughen, round up, roundabout, rout, rowel, ruffle, ruin, rumple, rush, rush along, scourge, scum, seesaw, senator, settle, shake, shake up, sheer, shellac, shepherd, skin, skin alive, skinner, skunk, slap, sledgehammer, smack, smear, smite, smother, solon, spank, speed, speed along, speed up, spume, spur, stage coachman, stampede, state senator, steamroller, sting, stir, stir up, strap, stripe, subdue, sud, suds, swing, swinge, swirl, switch, teamster, teeter-totter, thicken, thrash, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trouble, trounce, truckman, truncheon, undo, upend, upset, urge, vanquish, veer, vetturino, voiturier, volte-face, wagoner, wagonman, wallop, wear out, whale, wheel, whip along, whip up, whiplash, whirl, whirligig, whisk, whomp, whop, work up, worst, wrangle, yerk

• whiplash, belt, blacksnake, bullwhack, bullwhip, cat, cowhide, crop, flagellum, gad, gadfly, goad, horsewhip, knout, kurbash, lash, oxgoad, prick, prod, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, rowel, scourge, sjambok, spur, sting, strap, thong, whip

• whipped, all up with, beat, beaten, bested, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, ebullient, effervescent, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, puffed, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whelmed, worsted

• whippersnapper, JD, a nobody, a nothing, boldface, brat, brazenface, chutzpanik, cipher, common man, dummy, elf, enfant terrible, figurehead, gamin, holy terror, hussy, imp, insignificancy, jackstraw, juvenile delinquent, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, little monkey, malapert, man of straw, mediocrity, minx, nebbish, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, puck, punk, punk kid, pup, puppy, runt, saucebox, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, spoiled brat, squirt, squit, swaggerer, upstart, urchin, whiffet, wise guy, wise-ass, zero, zilch

• whipping, Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, gear, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping, quietus, rawhiding, rig, rigging, ropework, roping, ruin, running rigging, scourging, service, serving, smash, spanking, standing rigging, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, tackle, tackling, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment

• whir, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, birr, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bowling, bum, burr, buzz, centrifugation, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, drone, full circle, gyration, hum, pivoting, purr, reeling, revolution, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, spin, spinning, swinging, swirling, swiveling, thrum, trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, volutation, volution, wheeling, whirling, whiz

• whirl, Charybdis, Maelstrom, Sunday drive, ado, advance, agitation, airing, ascend, avert, back, back stream, back up, backflow, backwash, backwater, barrel, bother, botheration, brouhaha, budge, bullet, burst, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, change, change place, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, cirrus, clatter, climb, coil, come about, commotion, contort, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, crack, crinkle, curl, curlicue, deflect, descend, disturbance, divert, dizzy round, drive, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fetch about, fidgetiness, fit, flap, fleet, flit, flow, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, get over, go, go about, go around, go round, go sideways, gulf, gurge, gyrate, gyration, gyre, hassle, heel, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, intort, involute, joyride, kink, lift, mad round, maelstrom, meander, merry-go-round, moil, mount, move, move over, pell-mell, perturbation, pickup, pirouette, pivot, pivot about, plunge, pop, pother, progress, purl, put about, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regress, regurgitation, restlessness, retrogress, ride, ringlet, rise, roll, rotate, rotation, round, round of pleasure, ruction, ruffle, run, scallop, scramble, screw, scroll, serpentine, sheer, shift, shot, sink, slap, slink, snake, soar, spasm, speed, spin, spiral, spurt, stab, stagger, stave, stew, stir, storm, stream, subside, surge, sweat, swim, swing, swing round, swirl, swirling, swivel, tendril, the dizzy rounds, the rounds, to-do, travel, try, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, unquiet, uproar, veer, veer around, volte-face, volute, volution, vortex, wane, whack, wheel, wheel about, whip, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, whish, whisk, whiz, whorl, wind, worm, wring, yeastiness

• whirligig, April showers, Ferris wheel, Proteus, carousel, chameleon, chute-the-chutes, chutes, cloud shapes, disk, flying horses, gyrate, gyre, kaleidoscope, mercury, merry-go-round, moon, pirouette, purl, quicksilver, roller, roller coaster, rolling stone, rotator, rotor, roundabout, rundle, seesaw, shifting sands, swing, teeter-totter, the weather, top, twirl, water, weather vane, weathercock, wheel, wheel of fortune, whip, whirl, whirlabout, whirler

• whirling, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, bowling, centrifugation, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, full circle, gyrating, gyration, pivoting, reeling, revolution, revolving, roll, rolling, rotating, rotation, rotational motion, spin, spinning, swinging, swirling, swiveling, trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, twirling, volutation, volution, wheeling, whir

• whirlpool bath, Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, bath, bathe, cold shower, douche, facial, facial massage, hip bath, hummum, hydrotherapy, kneading, massage, massaging, massotherapy, needle bath, plunge bath, rubdown, sauna, sauna bath, shower, shower bath, sitz bath, sponge, sponge bath, stroking, sweat bath, tub, vibrator, water cure

• whirlpool, Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bustle, centrifugate, centrifuge, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, dizzy round, eddy, flurry, furore, fuss, gulf, gurge, gyre, maelstrom, pirouette, pother, purl, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, round, spin, surge, swirl, turn, twirl, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlwind, whorl

• whirlwind, Charybdis, ado, baguio, blaze, burst, bustle, convulsion, cyclone, dizzy round, dust devil, eddy, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flurry, furore, fuss, gale, gurge, gust, gyre, hurricane, irruption, maelstrom, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, pirouette, pother, rainspout, rat race, reel, rotary storm, round, sand column, sandspout, seizure, spasm, spin, storm, surge, swirl, tempest, tornado, turn, twirl, twister, typhoon, upheaval, vortex, waterspout, wheel, whirl, whirlblast, whirlpool, whirly, wind eddy

• whirly, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, cyclonic, gulfy, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, rotary, rotational, rotatory, swirly, tornadic, trochilic, vertiginous, vortical, whirlabout, whirlblast, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy

• whish, assibilate, assibilation, bullet, buzz, crinkle, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleet, flit, fly, frication, frictional rustling, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, rhonchus, rustle, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, speed, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, stave, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whirl, whisk, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

• whisk, aerate, agitate, agitator, ball the jack, barrel, beak, bear, beat, beat up, beater, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, broom, brush, brush off, bullet, bunt, carry, chuck, churn, churn up, clip, conduct, convey, convulse, cream, cut along, dab, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, eggbeater, excite, ferment, fillip, fleet, flick, flip, flirt, flit, flurry, fly, fly low, foam, foot, freight, fret, froth, go fast, graze, highball, jiggler, lather, lift, lug, make knots, manhandle, mantle, nip, outstrip the wind, pack, paddle, pat, peck, perturb, perturbate, pick, pour it on, rap, rile, rip, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, rumple, scorch, scum, shake, shake up, shaker, sizzle, skim, snap, speed, spume, stir, stir up, storm along, sud, suds, sweep, sweep out, sweep up, swirl, take, tap, tear, tear along, thunder along, tickle, tip, tote, touch, transport, trouble, upset, vacuum, vacuum-clean, vibrator, waft, whip, whip up, whish, whiz, wing, work up, zing, zip, zoom

• whiskey, Angostura bitters, Canadian, Canadian whiskey, Cognac, Grand Champagne, Irish, Irish whiskey, Kirsch, Scotch, Scotch whiskey, absinthe, bitters, blended whiskey, bourbon, brandy, clean rum, eau de vie, gin, grog, light whiskey, malt whiskey, marc, mescal, moonshine, ouzo, plum brandy, raki, rum, rye, rye whiskey, schnapps, slivovitz, spirits, tequila, vodka

• whisper, advice, alert, alerting, articulate, aspirate, aspiration, bark, bated breath, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breath, breathe, breathy voice, broad hint, bruit, brush, buzz, cackle, canard, caress, caution, chant, chime, chirp, chorus, clue, come out with, common talk, communicate, confide, confide to, contact, convey, coo, crow, cry, cue, cutaneous sense, dash, deliver, disclose, drawl, drone, droning, emit, entrust with information, enunciate, exclaim, exhalation, express, feel, feeling, fingertip caress, fizz, fizzle, flick, fling off, flute, flying rumor, formulate, gabble, gasp, gentle hint, gesture, gibber, gibbering, give, give confidential information, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, glance, glimmer, glimmering, grapevine, graze, groan, growl, grunt, hand-mindedness, hearsay, hint, hiss, howl, idea afloat, impart, implication, index, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, jabber, jibber, keen, kick, kiss, lambency, lap, latrine rumor, let in on, let next to, let out, lick, light touch, lilt, lip, little voice, look, low voice, maffle, maunder, maundering, mention privately, moan, monition, mouth, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitate, mutter, muttering, news stirring, nod, nudge, office, on-dit, out with, pant, passing word, phonate, phrase, pipe, pointer, pour forth, present, prompt, pronounce, put forth, put hep, put in words, put next to, raise, report, roar, roorback, rub, rumble, rumor, say, scent, scream, screech, scuttlebutt, sense of touch, set forth, shade, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sign, signal, sing, sizzle, snap, snarl, snort, sob, soft voice, sough, sound, soupcon, speak incoherently, splutter, spoor, sputter, squall, squawk, squeal, stage whisper, steer, still small voice, stroke, suggestion, suspicion, susurrate, susurration, susurrus, swish, symptom, tactile sense, taction, take aside, talk, tap, tell, tell confidentially, telltale, tentative poke, throw off, thunder, tinge, tip, tip off, tip-off, touch, town talk, trace, track, trumpet, twang, unconfirmed report, underbreath, undertone, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, wail, warble, warning, wheeze, whiff, whine, whispering, whistle, whiz, whoosh, wink, word, yap, yawp, yell, yelp

• whispering campaign, aspersion, character assassination, dirt, dirty politics, gossip column, imputation, innuendo, insinuation, juicy morsel, last-minute lie, malicious gossip, muckraking, mudslinging, mudslinging campaign, personal remark, personality, political canard, reflection, roorback, scandal, scandalmongering, slander, slur, sly suggestion, smear campaign, suggestion, tidbit, uncomplimentary remark

• whispering, aspiration, bated breath, breath, breathy voice, buzz, cry, drone, droning, exhalation, gabble, gibber, gibbering, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, jabber, jibber, little voice, low voice, maundering, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, murmurish, murmurous, mutter, muttering, rumble, rumor, rustling, scuttlebutt, sigh, soft voice, stage whisper, still small voice, susurrant, susurration, susurrous, susurrus, talk, underbreath, undertone, whisper, whispery

• whistle blower, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, delator, fink, informer, narc, peacher, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale

• whistle for, apply for, ask, ask for, beg leave, bespeak, call for, crave, demand, desire, file for, indent, make a request, make a requisition, make application, order, put in for, request, requisition, wish

• whistle, Angelus, Angelus bell, English horn, Klaxon, Mayday, Pandean pipe, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, anthem, assibilation, aulos, bagpipe, ballad, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, battle cry, bay, beacon, beam, beep, bell, birdcall, birdies, blare, blast, blat, blinking light, blooping, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, blurping, boiler factory, boiler room, bombard, boo, bray, bugle, bugle call, bull-roarer, burglar alarm, buzz, buzzer, cackle, call, caper, caracole, carillon, carol, catcall, caterwaul, caw, chant, chatter, cheep, cherry bomb, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, clack, clacker, clap hands, clapper, clarinet, clarion, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, coo, cracker, creak, cricket, croak, cromorne, cronk, croon, crostarie, crow, cuckoo, dance, delight, descant, distortion, do-re-mi, doodle, double bassoon, double reed, double-tongue, drum, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exult, fanfare, feedback, fiery cross, fife, fipple flute, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, firecracker, five-minute gun, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, flageolet, flashing light, flourish of trumpets, flute, flutter, fluttering, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, frication, frictional rustling, frisk, frolic, gabble, gaggle, gale warning, gambol, give the bird, give the raspberry, glory, glow, gobble, groan, growl, guggle, hautboy, heckelphone, hiss, hissing, honk, hoo, hoot, hooter, horn, hornpipe, howl, howling, hue and cry, hum, hurricane warning, hush, hushing, hymn, intonate, intone, joy, jubilate, keen, last post, laugh, licorice stick, lighthouse, lilt, lip, lisp, minstrel, moan, moose call, motorboating, murmur, musette, mutter, noisemaker, note of alarm, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, occulting light, panpipe, peal, peep, penny-whistle, piccolo, pip, pipe, police whistle, pommer, psalm, quack, quaver, radiate cheer, rallying cry, rattle, rattlebox, rebel yell, recorder, reed, reed instrument, rejoice, reveille, revel, rhonchus, roar, roll, rollick, romp, roulade, rumble, sax, saxophone, scold, scratching, screak, scream, screech, serenade, shake, shawm, shredding, shriek, shrill, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, signal of distress, sing, sing in chorus, single reed, single-reed instrument, siren, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, skip, skip for joy, skirl, skreigh, small-craft warning, smile, snapper, snarl, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, sonorophone, sough, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, sparkle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squawk, squeak, squeal, squeals, squelch, squish, static, steam whistle, sternutation, stertor, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, summons, sweet potato, swish, syrinx, tabor pipe, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, tenoroon, ticktack, tin-whistle, tocsin, tongue, toot, tootle, tremolo, trill, triple-tongue, troll, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, two-minute gun, ululate, ululation, upside-down flag, vocalize, wail, war cry, warble, wheeze, whine, whish, whisper, whistle at, whistles, whistling, white noise, whiz, whizgig, whizzer, whoosh, wind, wind the horn, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument, woomping, wow, wowwows, wrawl, yammer, yodel, zip

• whistling, acute, argute, assibilation, buzz, creaky, ear-piercing, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, hiss, hissing, howling, hush, hushing, keen, keening, lisp, penetrating, piercing, piping, reedy, rhonchus, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squeaking, squeaky, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, thin, ululant, wailing, wheeze, whining, whish, whistle, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

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

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

• white elephant, Christmas present, award, birthday present, box, burden, burthen, cadeau, cargo, charge, cross, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, embarrassment, encumbrance, fairing, freight, gift, hamper, handicap, handsel, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, load, lumber, oblation, offering, onus, pack, peace offering, penalty, present, presentation, tribute, trouble, weight

• white feather, Milquetoast, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken heart, chicken liver, cold feet, coward, faintheart, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, milksop, mouse, scaredy-cat, sissy, weak knees, weak sister, weakling, white liver, yellow streak

• white flag, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, calumet, caution light, downing of arms, empty hands, flag of truce, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, hand of friendship, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, offer of parley, olive branch, outstretched hand, parachute flare, parley, peace feelers, peace offer, peace offering, peace pipe, pilot flag, pipe of peace, poke, police whistle, propitiatory gift, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, spar buoy, stop light, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, truce flag, watch fire, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• white goods, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, dinnerware, dry goods, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, leather goods, leatherware, linens, metalware, napery, ovenware, silverware, soft goods, sporting goods, sportswear, stoneware, tableware, textiles, tinware, tools and machinery, woodenware, yard goods

• white hot, abandoned, afire, ardent, baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, committed, dedicated, devoted, devout, earnest, ebullient, faithful, fanatic, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, glowing, grilling, hard-core, hearty, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, in earnest, inflamed, intense, intent, intent on, like a furnace, like an oven, loyal, madcap, on fire, overheated, overwarm, parching, passionate, perfervid, piping hot, red-hot, resolute, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, serious, simmering, sincere, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, spirited, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, totally committed, vehement, warm, zealous

• White House, Dymaxion house, adobe house, building, casa, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, hall, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, penthouse, prefabricated house, presidential palace, ranch house, rectory, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house, vicarage

• white lie, blague, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, yarn

• white man, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, 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, whitey, yellow man

• white paper, Congressional Record, Hansard, Red Book, account, acquaintance, announcement, annunciation, blue book, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, circular, communication, communique, data, datum, declaration, directory, dispatch, edict, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, facts, factual information, familiarization, gazette, gen, general information, green book, guidebook, handout, hard information, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, light, manifesto, mention, message, notice, notification, official journal, position paper, presentation, proclamation, program, programma, promotional material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, public notice, publication, publicity, release, report, sidelight, state paper, statement, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, ukase, white book, word, yellow book

• white slave, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, call girl, daughter of joy, erring sister, fallen woman, fille de joie, harlot, hooker, hustler, meretrix, painted woman, poule, prostitute, scarlet woman, stew, streetwalker, unfortunate woman, whore

• white slavery, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, black market, bootlegging, gambling, gray market, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, loan-sharking, moonshining, narcotics traffic, organized crime, prostitution, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, usury

• white water, breakers, collar, foam, froth, head, lather, meringue, mousse, offscum, puff, scud, scum, sea foam, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stinging, suds, surf

• white, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bourbon, Bushman, Caucasian, Chinese white, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, achroma, achromasia, achromatic, achromatosis, achromic, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, alabaster, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, albumen, along in years, ancient, anemic, argent, argentine, ashen, ashy, auspicious, bare, barium sulfate, barren, benign, besnow, black, black man, blackfellow, blanc fixe, blanch, bland, blank, bleach, bleached, bled white, blench, blimp, blond, blondness, bloodless, blotless, boy, bright, brown man, burrhead, cadaverous, calcimine, canescence, canescent, caviar, chalk, chalkiness, chalky, characterless, chaste, chloranemic, clean, cleanly, clear, colored person, colorless, coon, creaminess, cretaceous, dainty, darky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize, devoid, dexter, diehard, dim, dimmed, dingy, dirt-free, discolored, driven snow, dull, egg, egg white, eggshell, elderly, empty, etiolate, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extenuate, faded, faint, fair, fairness, fallow, fastidious, featureless, fish eggs, flat, fleece, fleecy-white, flour, foam, fortunate, fresh, frost, frosted, frostiness, frosty, ghastly, glair, glaucescence, glaucousness, gloss over, gook, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzle, grizzled, grizzliness, grizzly, grown old, haggard, hoar, hoariness, hoary, hollow, honky, hueless, hypochromic, immaculate, impeccable, inane, innocent, insipid, ivory, jigaboo, jungle bunny, kosher, lackluster, lactescence, lactescent, leaden, leukoderma, lightness, lily, lily-white, livid, lurid, lusterless, maggot, marble, marmoreal, mat, mealy, milk, milkiness, milky, muddy, neutral, nigger, niggra, niveous, nonpolluted, null, null and void, of cleanly habits, ofay, old, old as Methuselah, ovule, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, paleface, paleness, pallid, paper, pasty, patriarchal, pearl, pearliness, pipe-clay, platinum, propitious, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, pygmy, reactionarist, reactionist, red man, redskin, ritually pure, roe, royalist, sallow, senectuous, sexually innocent, sheet, shiny, sickly, silver, silvered, silveriness, silvery, slant-eye, smut-free, smutless, snow, snow-white, snowiness, snowy, spade, spawn, spotless, stainless, sugarcoat, swan, swan-white, sweet, tahar, taintless, tallow-faced, the Man, toneless, tubbed, ultraconservative, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, uncolored, uncorrupt, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant, vacuous, varnish, veneer, venerable, virtuous, vitellus, vitiligo, void, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, well-scrubbed, well-washed, whey-faced, white as snow, white lead, white man, white race, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, whiten, whitened, whiteness, whitewash, whitey, whitishness, with nothing inside, without content, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old, yellow, yellow man, yolk, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc white

• whitecaps, billow, bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, dirty water, eagre, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, peak, popple, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, sea, send, surf, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses

• whiten, achromatize, besnow, blanch, bleach, bleach out, blench, blush, bowdlerize, chalk, change color, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, color, crimson, darken, decolor, decolorize, delouse, depurate, deterge, dim, discolor, drain, drain of color, dry-clean, dull, dust, dust off, etiolate, expurgate, extenuate, fade, fade out, flush, freshen, frost, fume, gloss over, glow, grizzle, grow pale, lighten, look black, lose color, lustrate, mantle, pale, peroxide, purge, purify, redden, reform, scavenge, silver, spruce, steam-clean, sugarcoat, sweep out, sweeten, tarnish, tidy, tone down, turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn white, varnish, veneer, wan, wash out, white, whitewash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

• whitening, achromatization, albification, blanching, bleach, bleaching, calcimine, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, discoloration, etiolation, fading, frosting, grizzling, lightening, madder bleach, market bleach, paling, pipe clay, silvering, whitewash, whitewashing, whiting

• whitewash, absolve, acquit, allow for, allowance, amnesty, apply paint, becloud, bedaub, bedizen, befog, begild, belie, besmear, blank, blanket, blind, brush on paint, bulldoze, calcimine, camouflage, chalk, clear, cloak, clobber, clobbering, cloud, coat, color, complexion, conceal, cover, cover up, cream, crushing defeat, curtain, dab, daub, decisive defeat, decontaminate, decontamination, deep-dye, defeat utterly, destigmatize, diminish, dip, discharge, disguise, dismiss, dispense from, dissemble, distemper, distort, distract attention from, double-dye, dress up, dye, ease, eclipse, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, extenuate, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, face, falsify, fast-dye, forgive, free, fresco, fudge, garble, gild, gilding, give absolution, glaze, gloss, gloss over, grain, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, hide, hue, ignore, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, justify, keep under cover, lacquer, lay on color, lessen, let go, let off, make allowance for, mask, mince, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, mitigate, mitigation, no contest, nonpros, obfuscate, obscure, occult, overbear, overstate, overwhelm, overwhelming defeat, paint, palliate, palliation, palliative, pardon, parget, paste, pasting, pervert, pigment, pipe clay, pipe-clay, prime, purge, qualification, quash the charge, release, remit, schmear, screen, set free, shade, shadow, shellac, shellacking, shrive, shroud, shut out, skunk, slant, slop on paint, slur over, smashing defeat, smear, smearing, snow under, soft-pedal, soften, softening, stain, steamroller, stipple, strain, sugarcoat, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, total defeat, trick out, twist, undercoat, understate, utter defeat, varnish, veil, veneer, vindicate, warp, wash, whelm, white, whiten, whitening, whitewashing, whiting, whomp, whop, whopping, withdraw the charge

• whitewashing, albification, allowance, blanching, bleaching, calcimining, clobbering, coating, color, covering, crushing defeat, decisive defeat, decontamination, enameling, etiolation, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, fresco, frosting, gilding, glazing, gloss, glossing, grizzling, japanning, mitigation, no contest, overwhelming defeat, painting, palliation, palliative, pasting, priming, qualification, shellacking, silvering, smashing defeat, smearing, softening, staining, stippling, total defeat, undercoating, utter defeat, varnish, varnishing, whitening, whitewash, whopping

• whitey, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, 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, yellow man

• Whitsuntide, Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitweek

• whittle, amputate, ax, bisect, blade, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, cold steel, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cutlery, cutter, dagger, dichotomize, dissever, edge tools, excise, fissure, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, knife, lance, naked steel, pare, pigsticker, point, prune, puncturer, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, sharpener, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, steel, sunder, sword, tear, toad sticker

• whittler, carver, chaser, clay modeler, earth artist, figurer, figuriste, gem carver, graver, mason, modeler, molder, monumental mason, sculptor, sculptress, sculpturer, statuary, stonecutter, wax modeler, wood carver

• whittling, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art, embossing, engraving, founding, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, metal sculpture, modeling, molding, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutting, wire sculpture, wood carving, xyloglyphy

• whiz, ace, adept, assibilate, assibilation, ball the jack, barrel, beaut, birr, bombilate, bombinate, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, bullet, bum, burr, buzz, clip, corker, crackerjack, cut along, dab, dabster, daisy, dandy, darb, dilly, dream, drone, dust, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, first-rater, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, frication, frictional rustling, genius, go fast, good hand, great, highball, hiss, hissing, honey, hum, humdinger, hush, hushing, killer-diller, knockout, lisp, lollapaloosa, lulu, magician, mahatma, make knots, man of genius, master, master hand, mastermind, nip, outstrip the wind, past master, peach, pip, pippin, pour it on, practiced hand, prodigy, professional, purr, rhonchus, rip, sage, scorch, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, skilled hand, skim, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, speed, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, star, sternutation, stertor, storm along, superstar, sweep, sweetheart, swish, tear, tear along, the nuts, thrum, thunder along, topnotcher, virtuoso, wheeze, whir, whirl, whish, whisk, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whoosh, wizard, zing, zip, zoom

• whodunit, Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera, legend, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, work of fiction

• whole, a certain, absolute, account, across-the-board, admissibility, admission, admitting no exception, aggregate, all, all hands, all the world, all-comprehensive, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-out, amount, amplitude, an, any, any one, assimilation, atomic, be-all and end-all, being, blanket, box score, bulk, bunkum, cast, categorical, census, clear, coherence, cohesion, compendious, complete, completeness, composition, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensiveness, comprisal, concentrated, conclusive, constituents, content, contents, count, coverage, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, developed, difference, divisions, downright, either, elements, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, encyclopedic, entire, entirety, entity, envisagement, every man Jack, everybody, everyone, exclusive, exhaustive, exhaustiveness, explicit, express, extent, final, fit, fixed, flat, flat-out, flawless, force, full, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, global, good, gross, guts, hale, healthy, holistic, implicit, inappealable, inclusion, inclusive, inclusiveness, incorporation, index, indisputable, individual, indivisible, ingredients, innards, insides, intact, integral, integrate, integrated, inventory, irreducible, items, linkage, list, lone, magnitude, mass, matter, mature, matured, measure, measurement, membership, monadic, monistic, number, numbers, omnibus, one, one and all, one and indivisible, openness, orbicular, organism, organization, out-and-out, outright, over-all, panoramic, part, participation, parts, peremptory, perfect, plenary, positive, product, quantity, quantum, reception, reckoning, result, resultant, right, ripe, round, rounded, sane, score, simple, single, singular, sole, solid, solitary, sound, straight, straight-out, strength, substance, sum, sum total, summation, supply, sweeping, synoptic, system, tale, tally, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tolerance, toleration, total, totality, tote, tout le monde, unabbreviated, unanalyzable, unblemished, unbroken, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, uncut, undamaged, undiminished, undistracted, undivided, undoubting, unequivocal, unexpurgated, unhampered, unhesitating, unhurt, uniform, unimpaired, uninjured, unique, unitary, unity, universal, unlimited, unmarred, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unswerving, untouched, unwaivable, utter, well, well-rounded, wholesome, without exception, without omission, without reserve, x number

• wholehearted, abiding, ardent, authentic, bona fide, bound, bound and determined, committed, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted, earnest, enduring, fervent, genuine, heartfelt, hearty, impassioned, never-failing, obstinate, passionate, persevering, persistent, purposeful, relentless, resolute, resolved, serious, sincere, single-minded, steadfast, steady, tenacious, unfaltering, unfeigned, unqualified, unquestioning, unwavering

• wholeness, advantageousness, agreeableness, allness, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, class, cogency, combination, completeness, comprehensiveness, desert, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, entireness, entirety, excellence, exhaustiveness, expedience, fairness, favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, fullness, fusion, goodliness, goodness, grace, haleness, healthiness, heartiness, helpfulness, holism, human factor, identity, inclusiveness, individualism, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, kindness, merit, niceness, nominalism, nonconformity, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularism, particularity, perfection, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, pervasiveness, pleasantness, plenitude, profitableness, purity, quality, rewardingness, robustness, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, skillfulness, solidarity, solidification, solidity, soul, soundness, superiority, thoroughness, total approach, totality, ubiquity, undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity, universality, univocity, usefulness, validity, value, vigor, virtue, virtuousness, worth

• wholesale house, boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom

• wholesale, abounding, absolute, abundant, affluent, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, at a bargain, at a sacrifice, at budget prices, at cost, at cost price, at piggy-bank prices, at prime cost, at reduced rates, at small cost, at wholesale, be in, bill of sale, blanket, born, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, broad-based, business, carry, casual, cheap, cheaply, clean, clear, close out, commercial, comprehensive, congenital, consummate, convert into cash, copious, cut under, deal in, deep-dyed, demand, diffuse, downright, dump, dyed-in-the-wool, effect a sale, effuse, egregious, epidemic, exhaustive, exhaustless, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fat, fertile, flush, for a song, for pennies, full, galore, general, generous, handle, imprudent, in plenty, in quantity, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminating, indiscriminative, industrial, inexhaustible, inexpensively, insensitive, intensive, job, large-scale, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, make a sale, many, market, marketing, mass market, maximal, mercantile, merchandise, merchandising, merchant, moderately, move, much, nominally, nonjudgmental, numerous, omnibus, omnipresent, on the cheap, opulent, out-and-out, outlet, outright, overflowing, perfect, pervasive, plain, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plumb, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, promiscuous, pure, radical, rampant, reasonably, regular, replete, resell, retail, retailing, rich, rife, riotous, running over, sacrifice, sale, sales, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, selling, sheer, straight, superabundant, sweeping, tactless, teeming, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tie-in, total, trade, trade in, trading, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, turnover, ubiquitous, unconditional, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undercut, undersell, undifferentiating, undiscreet, undiscriminated, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, undistinguishing, unexacting, unfastidious, universal, unload, unmeticulous, unmitigated, unparticular, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, unselective, unsubtle, untactful, utter, veritable, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesaling, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread

• wholesaler, agent, broker, chandler, connection, dealer, distributor, go-between, importer, intermediary, intermedium, jobber, liaison, link, marketer, mediary, mediator, medium, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tie, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker

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

• wholesome, admissible, all, all in all, all there, altogether, balanced, beneficial, benign, bracing, bunkum, clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, completely, compos mentis, constitutional, credible, curing, entirely, exactly, fit, fully, good, good for, hale, healing, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, healthy-minded, hygeian, hygienic, in toto, invigorating, just, justifiable, legitimate, logical, lucid, mentally sound, normal, of sound mind, perfectly, plausible, purely, quite, rational, reasonable, refreshing, remedial, restorative, right, roundly, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sane, sane-minded, sanitary, sensible, sound, sound-minded, thoroughly, together, tonic, totally, unimpaired, uninjurious, utterly, vulnerary, well, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, whole, wholly

• wholly, absolutely, across the board, all, all put together, altogether, as a body, as a whole, at large, at length, bodily, collectively, completely, comprehensively, corporately, en bloc, en masse, entirely, exclusively, exhaustively, faultlessly, flawlessly, fully, globally, hundred per cent, ideally, immaculately, impeccably, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in detail, in extenso, in full, in full measure, in its entirety, in particular, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inclusively, infallibly, inside out, integrally, irreducibly, just right, largely, merely, minutely, on all counts, one and all, only, outright, particularly, perfectly, purely, roundly, simply, solely, specifically, spotlessly, thoroughly, to the hilt, totally, tout a fait, tout ensemble, unanalyzably, unconditionally, undividedly, unreservedly

• whomp up, ad-lib, assemble, bat out, botch, build, bungle, cast, compose, compound, concoct, construct, cook up, create, dash off, devise, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, elaborate, erect, evolve, extemporize, extrude, fabricate, fake, fake up, fashion, form, formulate, frame, fudge together, fudge up, get up, improvisate, improvise, indite, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, make, make up, manufacture, mature, mold, patch, patch together, patch up, piece together, play by ear, pound out, prefabricate, prepare, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run up, scrap the plan, set up, shape, slap up, strike off, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, vamp, whip up, wing it, write

• whomp, appulse, bang, bang into, beat, blank, blow, box, box the ears, brunt, buffet, bulldoze, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into, burst, bust, cannon, carambole, carom, carom into, clap, clash, clobber, collide, collision, come into collision, concuss, concussion, confront each other, crack, crack up, crack-up, crash, crash into, cream, crump, crunch, cuff, dash into, defeat utterly, drub, encounter, fall foul of, flap, flop, foul, hammering, hit, hit against, hurt, hurtle, impact, impinge, impingement, knock, knock against, lambaste, mauling, meet, meeting, onslaught, overbear, overwhelm, paste, percuss, percussion, ramming, rap, report, run into, schmear, shellac, shock, shut out, sideswipe, skunk, slam, slam into, slap, slap the face, slat, sledgehammering, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, smear, snow under, splat, steamroller, strike, strike against, swap, tap, thrash, thrusting, thwack, token punishment, trounce, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whelm, whitewash, whop

• whoop it up, be enthusiastic, be noisy, brawl, bubble over, carouse, carry on, carry on over, celebrate, chirm, clamor, clangor, cut loose, cut up, cut up rough, debauch, effervesce, enthuse, go on, go on over, gush, gush over, hell around, horse around, jollify, jolly, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, maffick, make a noise, make a racket, make an uproar, make merry, make much of, make whoopee, noise, racket, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell, raise sand, raise the deuce, raise the devil, raise the roof, rave, rave about, revel, rhapsodize, roar, roister, roughhouse, row, rumpus, see life, skylark, spree, step out, take on over, wanton

• whoop, ace, bark, battle cry, bawl, bellow, call, caterwaul, cheer, cry, damn, hail, halloo, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, jot, lota, modicum, rallying cry, ray, roar, scream, screech, shout, shred, shriek, squall, squawk, squeal, war cry, war whoop, whit, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yo-ho, yowl

• whoopee, celebration, conviviality, elation, exultation, festivity, gaiety, high jinks, holiday-making, hoopla, jollification, jollity, joviality, jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, larking, mafficking, merriment, merrymaking, racketing, raucous happiness, rejoicing, revel, reveling, revelment, revelry, revels, show of joy, skylarking, triumph, wassail

• whooping cough, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Asiatic flu, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, Hong Kong flu, acute articular rheumatism, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, ague, alkali disease, aluminosis, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, anthrax, asbestosis, asthma, atypical pneumonia, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, bituminosis, black death, black fever, black lung, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, catarrh, cerebral rheumatism, chalicosis, chicken pox, cholera, chronic bronchitis, cold, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, coryza, cowpox, croup, croupous pneumonia, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, emphysema, empyema, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epidemic pleurodynia, erysipelas, famine fever, fibrinous pneumonia, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hay fever, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, la grippe, laryngitis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, lipoid pneumonia, loa loa, loaiasis, lobar pneumonia, lockjaw, lung cancer, lung fever, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, quinsy, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, siderosis, silicosis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sore throat, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, swine flu, tetanus, the sniffles, the snuffles, thrush, tinea, tonsilitis, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, virus pneumonia, wet pleurisy, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• whoosh, assibilate, assibilation, buzz, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, rhonchus, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, zip

• whop, bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter, beat, beating, belabor, belt, biff, birch, blank, blow, bonk, bop, buffet, bulldoze, bump, burst, bust, cane, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock, cowhide, crack, crash, cream, crump, cudgel, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, defeat utterly, dig, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming, fetch, fetch a blow, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, flop, fusillade, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hit, hit a clip, horsewhip, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, lace, lambaste, lash, lay on, let have it, lick, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pelt, pistol-whip, plunk, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, punch, rap, rawhide, report, schmear, scourge, shellac, shut out, skunk, slam, slap, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smear, smite, snap, snow under, soak, sock, spank, splat, steamroller, strap, strike, strike at, stripe, stroke, swap, swat, swing, swinge, swipe, switch, tap, tattoo, thrash, thump, thwack, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whack, whale, wham, whap, whelm, whip, whitewash, whomp, yerk

• whopping, awful, awfully, banging, big, bumping, clobbering, colossal, crushing defeat, damned, decisive defeat, enormous, exceedingly, gargantuan, gigantic, highly, hugely, immense, mighty, much, no contest, overwhelming defeat, pasting, prodigious, shellacking, slapping, smashing defeat, smearing, spanking, thumping, thundering, total defeat, utter defeat, walloping, whacking, whaling, whitewash, whitewashing

• whore, B-girl, Cyprian, Jezebel, Paphian, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, bad woman, baggage, bawd, be promiscuous, bitch, black sheep, broad, call girl, chase women, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, commit adultery, coquette, courtesan, daughter of joy, debauch, degenerate, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, dissipate, drab, easy lay, easy woman, erring sister, fallen angel, fallen woman, fancy woman, fille de joie, flirt, floozy, fornicate, frail sister, gold digger, grisette, grovel, harlot, harridan, hetaera, hooker, hussy, hustler, hysteromaniac, jade, kept woman, lecher, loose woman, lost sheep, lost soul, meretrix, miscreant, moll, nightwalker, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, painted woman, paphian, pervert, philander, pickup, pimp, poule, profligate, prostitute, quean, rake, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace, scarlet woman, sleep around, slut, sorry lot, stew, streetwalker, strumpet, swing, tart, trollop, trull, unfortunate woman, uteromaniac, vamp, wallow, wanton, wench, white slave, womanize

• whorehouse, bagnio, bawdy house, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, clip joint, crib, den, den of thieves, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, dump, fleshpots, gyp joint, hole, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, joint, lair, panel den, panel house, red-light district, sink of iniquity, sporting house, stew, stews, tenderloin

• whorish, Paphian, chambering, easy, fallen, harlot, hustling, lax, light, loose, loose-moraled, meretricious, of easy virtue, of loose morals, on the, on the town, pave, promiscuous, prostitute, prostituted, scarlet, slack, streetwalking, unchaste, wanton, wayward

• whorl, cirrus, coil, contort, corkscrew, crinkle, curl, curlicue, eddy, evolute, gurge, gyre, helix, intort, involute, kink, meander, purl, ringlet, roll, scallop, screw, scroll, serpentine, slink, snake, spiral, swirl, tendril, turn, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, wind, worm, wring

• whorled, ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty, verticillate, volute, voluted, winding, wreathlike, wreathy

• why, Chinese puzzle, argument, baffling problem, brain twister, conundrum, crossword puzzle, crux, enigma, enigmatic question, excuse, explanation, floorer, for which, for why, from what cause, ground, how come, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, mind-boggler, mystery, mystification, nut to crack, on what account, perplexed question, perplexity, poser, pourquoi, pretense, pretext, problem, proof, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark, rational ground, rationale, reason, reason for, reason why, riddle, sixty-four dollar question, stated cause, sticker, stumper, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, tough proposition, underlying reason, vexed question, what for, wherefore, whyever, whyfor

• wicked, Herculean, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abstruse, adroit, antic, arduous, arrant, atrocious, au fait, bad, baleful, barbarous, base, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, broad, brutal, capable, chancy, children of darkness, clever, competent, complex, criminal, critical, cussed, damnable, dark, delicate, delinquent, demanding, despiteful, deviant, difficile, difficult, disgraceful, dregs of society, evil, evildoing, exacting, execrable, felonious, flagitious, flagrant, formidable, foul, godless, good, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hardly the thing, harmful, hateful, hazardous, heinous, ignominious, ill, illegal, immoral, impious, impish, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious, incorrect, indecorous, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, intricate, invalid, invidious, irreligious, jawbreaking, jeopardous, knavish, knotted, knotty, laborious, larkish, limbs of Satan, low, malefactory, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasant, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, no picnic, not done, not easy, not the thing, noxious, off-base, off-color, operose, ornery, out-of-line, peccant, perilous, pesky, prankish, pranky, pretty, proper, purple, qualified, racy, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rigorous, risky, roguish, rough, rugged, sacrilegious, salty, scandalous, set with thorns, severe, shady, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinister, sons of Belial, sons of men, spicy, spiny, spiteful, steep, strenuous, suggestive, terrible, the bad, the evil, the reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, treacherous, tricky, troublous, ugly, un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungodly, unhealthy, unholy, unkind, unlawful, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unsaintly, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unworthy, uphill, vexatious, vicious, vile, villainous, workmanlike, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful

• wickedness, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, arrantness, badness, baseness, bitchiness, corruption, criminality, cussedness, damnability, debt, delinquency, depravity, deviance, deviancy, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, evilness, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, godlessness, harmfulness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, illegality, immorality, impiety, improperness, impropriety, inaccuracy, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inexpedience, inferiority, infraction, iniquitousness, invalidity, invidiousness, irreligion, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, moral badness, nastiness, naughtiness, nefariousness, noxiousness, orneriness, peccancy, rankness, reprehensibility, sin, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, ungodliness, unhealthiness, unholiness, unkindness, unlawfulness, unpleasantness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, violation, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

• wicket, bay, bay window, bow window, casement, casement window, fan window, fanlight, grille, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, oriel, pane, picture window, port, porthole, rose window, skylight, transom, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

• widdershins, a rebours, a reculons, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, around, ass-backwards, astern, away, back, backward, backwards, clockwise, counterclockwise, earthward, fro, head over heels, heavenward, heels over head, hindward, hindwards, homeward, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in circles, in reverse, landward, leeward, leftward, rearward, rearwards, retrad, rightward, round, round about, round and round, seaward, windward

• wide awake, agile, alert, alive, astute, attentive, awake, aware, bright, clear-sighted, clear-witted, clearheaded, conscious, keen, nimble, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, open-eyed, prompt, qui vive, quick, ready, sensible, sharp, sleepless, smart, unblinking, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up, vigilant, wakeful, watchful

• wide berth, ample scope, blank check, carte blanche, clearance, elbowroom, field, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, full scope, full swing, latitude, leeway, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, no holds barred, open space, play, range, room, rope, scope, sea room, space, swing, tolerance, way

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

• wide open spaces, Lebensraum, agricultural region, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, back country, basin, black belt, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, delta, desert, distant prospect, down, downs, dust bowl, empty view, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, fruit belt, glade, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing region, heath, highlands, lande, level, living space, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, meadows and pastures, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, open space, outback, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppes, table, tableland, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, veld, weald, wheat belt, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• wide open, absolute, all out, at full blast, at full drive, at full speed, at full throttle, bald, bare, clear, cleared, deltoid, disclosed, exposed, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, flat out, free, full, full speed ahead, illimitable, in full sail, limitless, naked, no strings, open, outspread, outstretched, patulous, perfect, plenary, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, unbound, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unclogged, unclosed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, uncovered, under full steam, unequivocal, unfolded, unhidden, unlimited, unmeasured, unobstructed, unqualified, unrestricted, unstopped, widespread, with all speed, without strings

• wide world, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, all, all being, all creation, allness, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation, everything that is, expanding universe, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, omneity, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe, steady-state universe, sum of things, system, totality, totality of being, universe, whole wide world, world, world without end

• wide, aberrant, abroad, abstract, accented, adrift, advanced, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alveolar, amiss, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, askew, assimilated, astray, at fault, awry, back, barytone, beside the mark, bilabial, bland, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broadly, cacuminal, capacious, catholic, central, cerebral, checked, clear, close, collective, commodious, comprehensive, consonant, consonantal, continuant, copious, corrupt, cosmopolitan, deceptive, deep, defective, delusive, dental, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffuse, dissimilated, distantly and broadly, distorted, dorsal, ecumenical, ecumenistic, errant, erring, erroneous, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, fallacious, false, far afield, far and near, far and wide, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, faultful, faulty, featureless, flat, flawed, front, full, general, generalized, generic, generous, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, heretical, heterodox, high, illogical, illusory, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large-scale, lateral, lax, liberal, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, not right, not true, occlusive, off, off the track, open, out, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, peccant, perverse, perverted, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, progressive, radical, retroflex, roomy, rounded, scopic, self-contradictory, semivowel, soft, sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spreading, stopped, straying, stressed, strong, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tolerant, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, uncharacterized, undifferentiated, unfactual, unfanatical, unhidebound, unorthodox, unparochial, unproved, unprovincial, unrounded, unspecified, unstressed, untrue, vague, vast, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, weak, wholesale, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-minded, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widely, widespread, wrong

• widen, accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloat, blow up, boom, branch, branch out, breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, deal in generalities, deepen, deploy, develop, dilate, disperse, distend, ecumenicize, enlarge, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fill out, flare, gain, gain strength, generalize, get ahead, globalize, go up, greaten, grow, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, make a generalization, mount, multiply, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, proliferate, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, ramify, rarefy, rise, run up, shoot up, snowball, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, strengthen, stretch, sufflate, swell, tumefy, unfold, universalize, up, wax

• widened, accelerated, aggrandized, ampliate, amplified, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up, crescendoed, deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, heightened, hiked, increased, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, proliferated, raised, reinforced, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened, upped

• widening, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, adjunct, advance, aggrandizement, ampliation, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, crescendo, deployment, development, dispersion, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, fanning out, flare, flood, gain, greatening, growth, gush, hike, hiking, increase, increment, inflation, jump, leap, magnification, mounting, multiplication, productiveness, proliferation, raise, raising, rise, snowballing, splay, spread, spreading, surge, swelling, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing

• widespread, accepted, ample, amplitudinous, broad, broadcast, capacious, commodious, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current, customary, deep, deltoid, diffuse, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, established, everyday, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, familiar, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, flabelliform, flared, flaring, generally accepted, indiscriminate, infinite, large-scale, liberal, normal, obtaining, open, ordinary, outspread, outstretched, patulous, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, rampant, received, regnant, regular, regulation, rife, roomy, ruling, scattered, set, spacious, sparse, splay, splayed, splaying, sporadic, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, standard, stock, straggling, straggly, stretched-out, strewn, strown, sweeping, time-honored, traditional, unfolded, usual, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-open, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, wonted

• widget, affair, article, artifact, concern, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, flumadiddle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, jigger, material thing, object, quelque chose, something, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, whatchy

• width, ambit, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, circle, compass, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance across, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, fullness, gauge, girth, greatness, height, largeness, latitude, length, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, orbit, panorama, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, span, spread, volume, wideness

• wield authority, administer, administrate, be master, captain, carry authority, chair, command, control, crack the whip, direct, discipline, dominate, govern, have clout, have power, have the power, have the right, have the say, head, lead, manage, officer, possess authority, preside over, regulate, rule, stand over, supervise

• wield, brandish, come in contact, conduct, control, dispense, do with, employ, exercise, exert, feel, feel of, finger, flap, flaunt, flick, float, flourish, flutter, fly, handle, make use of, manage, maneuver, manipulate, operate, palm, palpate, paw, play, ply, poke at, practice, prod, put out, shake, swing, tap, throw, thumb, touch, twiddle, undulate, use, utilize, wag, wave, wigwag, work

• wieldy, adaptable, convenient, ductile, feasible, flexible, foolproof, handy, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, mighty, pliable, pliant, powerful, practical, tractable, untroublesome, wieldable, yielding

• wiener roast, TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner, elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash, meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wienie roast

• wiener, Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna, braunschweiger, dog, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese, hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse, sausage, weenie, wienerwurst, wienie

• wife, better half, bride, common-law wife, concubine, consort, dowager, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, married woman, mate, matron, old lady, old woman, other half, rib, spouse, squaw, wedded wife, woman

• wifely, adoring, affectionate, bridal, conjugal, connubial, demonstrative, devoted, epithalamic, faithful, filial, fond, husbandly, hymeneal, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, marital, married, maternal, matrimonial, melting, nuptial, parental, paternal, romantic, sentimental, soft, spousal, tender, uxorious, wedded

• wig, admonishment, admonition, bawl out, berate, chew out, chiding, hairpiece, jaw, periwig, peruke, rail, rap, rate, reprimand, reproach, reproof, revile, tongue-lash, toupee, upbraid

• wiggle, amble, barge, bowl along, bundle, clump, drag, fidget, flip out, flounce, flutter, foot, footslog, freak out on, get high on, glow, go pitapat, halt, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, jerk, jog, jolt, jump, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, pace, paddle, palpitate, pant, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, quake, quaver, quiver, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shiver, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, squiggle, squirm, stagger, stalk, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swell, swell with emotion, swing, thrill, thrill to, throb, tingle, tingle with excitement, tittup, toddle, toss, toss and turn, totter, traipse, tremble, trip, trudge, tumble, turn on to, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, waddle, wag, waggle, wamble, wobble, worm, wriggle, writhe

• wigwag, Lissajous figure, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, alternate, alternation, amber light, back and fill, back-and-forth, balefire, battledore and shuttlecock, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, brandish, buoy, caution light, come and go, coming and going, ebb and flow, flap, flare, flaunt, float, flourish, flutter, flux and reflux, fly, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, hitch and hike, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute flare, pass and repass, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, reciprocate, reciprocation, red flag, red light, rhythmic play, ride and tie, rocket, sailing aid, seesaw, seesawing, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, shake, shuttle, shuttlecock, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, sine wave, spar buoy, stop light, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, the nod, the wink, to-and-fro, tottering, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, undulate, ups and downs, wag, watch fire, wave, wax and wane, white flag, wibble-wabble, wield, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag, zigzag

• wild about, ape about, attached to, bugs on, cracked on, crazy about, devoted to, enamored of, far gone on, fond of, freaked-out, gaga over, gone on, hepped up over, hipped on, hot about, in love with, mad about, nuts about, nuts on, partial to, smitten with, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, struck with, stuck on, sweet on, taken with, turned-on, wedded to, wrapped up in

• wild beast, Animalia, Mafioso, Young Turk, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, beast, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, beldam, berserk, berserker, big game, birds, bomber, brute, brute creation, cattle, demon, devil, domestic animals, dragon, fauna, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, furry creatures, fury, game, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, livestock, mad dog, madcap, monster, mugger, rapist, revolutionary, savage, she-wolf, small game, spitfire, stock, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, wild animals, wildlife, witch, wolf

• wild eyed, abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational, mad, madding, maniac, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, perfervid, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, roaring, running mad, storming, transported, ultrazealous, uncontrollable, unreasonable, violent, wild, wild-looking, zealotic

• wild goose chase, abortion, abortive attempt, bootless errand, dud, labor in vain, labor of Sisyphus, lost, merry chase, miscarriage, miscarrying, misfire, snipe hunt, vain attempt, waste of breath, waste of labor, waste of time, wet squib, work of Penelope

• wild man, adventurer, adventuress, animal, anthropophagite, barbarian, beast, brazenface, brute, cannibal, daredevil, destroyer, devil, fire-eater, harum-scarum, hellcat, hotspur, hyena, madbrain, madcap, man-eater, nihilist, rantipole, savage, shark, tiger, vandal, wrecker

• wild West, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, back country, backwoods, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush country, bushveld, eastland, forests, frontier, hinterland, northland, outback, outpost, the Coast, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, westland, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods

• wild, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Dionysiac, Gothic, Neanderthal, Sahara, abandoned, absurd, accident-prone, addled, adventurous, agitated, agrarian, amok, anarchic, angry, animal, at fever pitch, atrocious, audacious, bacchic, back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, barren, barren land, barrens, bellowing, berserk, bestial, bewildered, beyond belief, beyond control, bizarre, blatant, bloody, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bold, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brain-born, brash, breachy, breakneck, brush, brutal, brutish, bush, bush country, bushveld, carefree, careless, carried away, chaotic, clamorous, coarse, cockamamie, cocksure, confused, contumacious, corybantic, crazy, daredevil, daring, dashing, death-defying, debauched, defiant, delirious, demented, demoniac, deranged, desert, desolation, desperate, devil-may-care, dirty, disorderly, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, distrait, distraught, dream-built, dust bowl, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, escaped, extravagant, fanatical, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fast, febrile, feckless, feral, ferine, ferocious, feverish, fierce, fiery, fighting mad, fire-eating, florid, foolhardy, foolish, forests, forward, fractious, frantic, free, frenetic, frenzied, frontier, fulminating, fuming, furious, gallant, gay, go-go, graceless, grotesque, haggard, harebrained, harsh, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heath, hectic, heedless, hellish, high-flown, hinterland, hog-wild, hopping mad, hotheaded, howling, howling wilderness, hurried, hysteric, hysterical, ill-bred, immoderate, impatient of control, impetuous, impolite, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incautious, incontinent, incorrigible, incredible, indocile, indomitable, indulgent, infatuated, infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, insane, insensate, insuppressible, intemperate, intoxicated, intractable, irrepressible, irresponsible, karroo, kill-crazy, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, laughable, lax, lewd, licentious, like one possessed, loose, ludicrous, lunar landscape, lunar waste, mad, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, madding, maenadic, maggoty, malign, malignant, maniac, maniacal, merciless, mindless, monstrous, muddled, murderous, native, natural, noncivilized, nonrestrictive, nonsensical, notional, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, ornery, out of control, out of hand, outback, outlandish, outpost, outrageous, outre, overanxious, overdesirous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, pandemoniac, passionate, perfervid, permissive, perplexed, perturbed, pitiless, poppycockish, possessed, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, preposterous, presumptuous, primitive, profligate, rabid, raffish, raging, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rambling, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, ramping, ranting, rash, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive, revolutionary, ridiculous, riotous, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, rococo, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rude, running mad, running wild, ruthless, salt flat, sanguinary, savage, severe, shrewish, simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, sporty, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy, swaggering, sylvan, tameless, tasteless, tempestuous, terrorist, the bush, thoughtless, timbers, tornadic, transported, troglodytic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, ultrazealous, unbiddable, unbridled, unchaste, unchecked, uncivil, uncivilized, uncoerced, uncombed, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncurbed, undisciplined, undomesticated, unforced, ungentle, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhabited region, uninhibited, unkempt, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unpolished, unrefined, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsubmissive, unsuppressed, untamed, untoward, up-country, uproarious, upset, vehement, vicious, violent, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, volcanic, vulgar, wandering, wanton, waste, wasteland, weary waste, weird, whimsical, wild West, wild-ass, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wilderness, wildness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods

• wildcat, Jezebel, Leo, Siberian tiger, adventurous, aleatory, beldam, bitch-kitty, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chancy, cheetah, cougar, dicey, disobedient, full of risk, fury, grimalkin, hag, hazardous, headstrong, heady, hellcat, hellhag, insubordinate, irresponsible, jaguar, lawless, leopard, licentious, lion, lynx, mountain lion, mutinous, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, rampant, reinless, riskful, risky, self-willed, she-devil, she-wolf, simba, siren, speculative, termagant, tiger, tigress, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, venturesome, venturous, virago, vixen, willful, witch

• wilderness, Arabia Deserta, Chinese puzzle, Death Valley, Gordian knot, Lebensraum, Rube Goldberg contraption, Sahara, air space, back country, back of beyond, backcountry, backlands, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, can of worms, clear space, clearance, clearing, complex, desert, desolation, distant prospect, dust bowl, empty view, forests, frontier, glade, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, jungle, karroo, knot, labyrinth, living space, lunar landscape, lunar waste, maze, meander, mesh, mess, open country, open space, outback, outpost, perplex, plain, prairie, ravel, salt flat, snafu, snake pit, snarl, steppe, tangle, tangled skein, terrain, territory, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, weary waste, webwork, wheels within wheels, wide-open spaces, wild, wild West, wildness, wilds, woodlands, woods

• wildest dream, apparition, appearance, brainchild, bubble, chimera, delirium, eidolon, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, figure, form, hallucination, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot, make-believe, myth, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, presence, romance, shade, shadow, shape, sick fancy, specter, thick-coming fancies, trip, vapor, vision, waking dream, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wraith

• wildlife, Animalia, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, big game, birds, brute creation, cattle, domestic animals, fauna, furry creatures, game, livestock, small game, stock, wild animals

• wildly, a corps perdu, all to pieces, carelessly, deliriously, demonically, desperately, distractedly, fanatically, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like mad, like one possessed, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, rabidly, ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, stormily, turbulently, uncontrollably, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, with a vengeance

• wildwood, afforestation, arboretum, boondocks, bush, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, index forest, jungle, jungles, national forest, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubland, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, timber, timberland, tree veld, virgin forest, wood, woodland, woods

• wile, Italian hand, Machiavellianism, acuteness, allure, ambidexterity, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, bad faith, bag of tricks, beguile, bestow, bewitch, blind, bluff, bosey, cageyness, callidity, canniness, captivate, catch, charm, chicane, chicanery, chouse, cleverness, consecrate to, conspiracy, consume, contrivance, coup, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deceitfulness, dedicate to, design, device, devote, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, draw, duplicity, employ, enchant, expedient, expend, faithlessness, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fascinate, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, fine Italian hand, finesse, fleet, foxiness, gambit, game, gamesmanship, gimmick, give over to, give to, googly, grift, guile, hocus-pocus, improbity, ingeniousness, insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, little game, low cunning, magnetize, maneuver, move, one-upmanship, pass, plot, ploy, put in, racket, readiness, red herring, resourcefulness, ruse, satanic cunning, scheme, scurvy trick, sharpness, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, spend, stealth, stealthiness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, tactic, take, treachery, trick, trickery, trickiness, two-facedness, use up, wariness, while, while away, wiles, wiliness, wily device, wit

• will power, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, choice, command, conation, conatus, decision, desire, determination, discretion, disposition, fancy, fixity of purpose, fortitude, free choice, free will, inclination, intention, iron will, liking, lust, mind, moral courage, moral fiber, objective, passion, pleasure, power, resolution, sexual desire, strength, strength of mind, strength of purpose, velleity, volition, will, will of iron, wish

• will, add a codicil, aim, alternativity, ambition, animus, aplomb, appetite, ardor, aspiration, assurance, attested copy, behest, bequeath, bequeathal, bequest, bidding, character, choice, choose, choose to, choosing, co-optation, co-option, codicil, command, commandment, commitment, conclude, concupiscence, confidence, control, counsel, crave, curiosity, decide, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, decree, dedication, definiteness, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determinateness, determination, determine, determinedness, devise, devotion, dictate, dictation, direct order, discipline, discretion, disposition, drive, eagerness, earnestness, effect, election, entail, execute a will, fancy, fantasy, first choice, fix, fixed purpose, fixity of purpose, fortitude, free choice, free will, function, hand down, hand on, hankering, hest, hope, horme, idea, imperative, inclination, inheritance, intellectual curiosity, intendment, intent, intention, iron will, leave, legacy, legate, libido, like, liking, longing, lust for learning, make a bequest, make a will, meaning, mind, moral courage, moral fiber, motive, need, nisus, obstinacy, order, pass on, passion, perseverance, persistence, pick, pining, plan, please, pleasure, pleasure principle, point, poise, power, preference, preoption, probate, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, purposefulness, relentlessness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restraint, sake, say-so, seal, see fit, selection, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, self-will, seriousness, settle, sexual desire, sincerity, single-mindedness, special order, strength, strength of mind, strength of purpose, striving, study, take a resolution, temper, tenacity, testament, the pick, think fit, think good, think proper, thirst for knowledge, total commitment, transmit, urge, velleity, view, volition, want, wanting, will and bequeath, will and pleasure, will of iron, will power, will to, willpower, wish, wish fulfillment, wishes, word, word of command, yearning

• willful, advised, aimed, aimed at, arbitrary, autonomous, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, calculated, case-hardened, conscious, considered, contemplated, contumacious, decided, deliberate, deliberated, designed, determined, discretional, discretionary, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, elective, envisaged, envisioned, factious, fanatic, free, free will, froward, gratuitous, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, independent, indisciplined, insubordinate, intended, intentional, intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, knowing, lawless, licentious, meant, meditated, mulish, mutinous, naughty, nonconforming, nonmandatory, obstinate, of design, offered, opinionated, optional, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, planned, proffered, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rampant, recusant, reinless, resolved, restive, self-acting, self-active, self-determined, self-determining, self-willed, set, spontaneous, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, studied, sulky, sullen, teleological, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, unbridled, uncalled-for, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, uncomplying, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforced, ungoverned, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unregenerate, unreined, unrequested, unrequired, unrestrained, unsolicited, unsought, violative, voluntary, volunteer, wayward, wildcat, willing, witting, wrongheaded

• willing, accordant, acquiescent, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, approving, apt, ardent, assenting, bright, clever, compliable, compliant, complying, conative, conforming, consentient, consenting, content, cooperative, deliberate, determined, devoted, disposed, docile, duteous, dutiful, eager, educable, endorsing, enthusiastic, experimental, facile, fain, fair, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, formable, forward, game, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, instructable, intelligent, intentional, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, nothing loath, obedient, open, permissive, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, receptive, resolute, responsive, ripe for instruction, sanctioning, schoolable, submissive, susceptible, teachable, tentative, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, trainable, trial, unforced, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, venturesome, volitional, voluntary, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willful, willinghearted, witting, zealous

• willingness, OK, a thing for, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, allegiance, approbation, approval, aptitude, aptness, assent, aye, bent, bias, blessing, brightness, cast, cleverness, compliance, conatus, conduciveness, conformity, connivance, consent, delight, diathesis, disposition, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, educability, endorsement, facility, faith, fealty, feeling for, homage, impressionability, inclination, intelligence, leaning, liability, liking, loyalty, malleability, moldability, motivation, obedience, obediency, observance, okay, penchant, permission, plasticity, pliability, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, probability, proclivity, promptitude, promptness, proneness, propensity, quickness, ratification, readiness, receptivity, sanction, sensitivity to, service, servility, servitium, soft spot, submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tendency, trainableness, tropism, turn, twist, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, warp, weakness

• willowy, adaptable, airy, attenuate, attenuated, bendable, bending, boyish, compliant, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ductile, elastic, ethereal, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flimsy, formable, formative, frail, gauzy, girlish, giving, gossamer, gracile, impressible, impressionable, insubstantial, lacy, light, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, misty, moldable, papery, plastic, pliable, pliant, rare, rarefied, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, springy, submissive, subtle, supple, susceptible, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tractable, tractile, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, whippy, wiredrawn, wispy, yielding

• willy nilly, all over, all over hell, at intervals, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, come what may, compulsorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, every which way, fitfully, from necessity, haphazardly, harum-scarum, helplessly, helter-skelter, here and there, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, in spots, inescapably, inevitably, infrequently, intermittently, necessarily, need, needfully, needs, nolens volens, occasionally, of necessity, per saltum, perforce, randomly, requisitely, skimble-skamble, skippingly, unavoidably, without choice

• wilt, beat, blow, break, break down, burn out, cave in, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, crack up, crumble, debilitate, decline, desiccate, diminish, disintegrate, do in, do up, droop, drop, dry up, dwindle, enervate, exhaust, exude, fade, fade away, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fatigue, fizzle out, flag, frazzle, gasp, get tired, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, grow weary, harass, hit the skids, jade, knock out, knock up, languish, lose strength, mummify, mummy, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pant, peak, peg out, perspire, peter out, pine, play out, poop, poop out, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, run down, run out, sag, sear, shrink, shrivel, sink, succumb, swag, sweat, swelter, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, use up, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear thin, weary, welter, wheeze, wind, wither, wither away, wizen, yield

• wilted, atrophied, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, brittle, clammy, desiccated, diaphoretic, drenched with sweat, dried-up, emaciated, in a sweat, papery, parchmenty, perspiring, perspiry, sere, shriveled, shrunken, sticky, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, wasted, wet with sweat, withered, wizened, wrinkled

• wily, Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, sagacious, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, vulpine, wary

• win out, bear the palm, beat the game, beat the system, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, come out first, come through, come up fighting, come up smiling, finish in front, fluke, gain, gain the day, live through, make a killing, persevere, take the cake, triumph, weather out, weather the storm, win, win the battle, win the laurels, win the palm, win the prize, win through

• win over, argue into, assure, be convincing, bring around, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, captivate, carry conviction, charm, con, convert, convict, convince, draw, draw over, drive home to, evangelize, gain, gain over, get, hook, hook in, ingratiate, inspire belief, lead to believe, outtalk, persuade, prevail, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, prompt, proselyte, proselytize, satisfy, sell, sell one on, sway, talk into, talk over, talk to, wangle, wangle into, wean, wear down, win

• win, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, accomplish, achieve, acquire, annex, argue into, ascendancy, attain, bag, be seized of, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, best, bring in, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, captivate, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, catch, chalk up, championship, charm, clobber, come by, come in for, come into, come out first, con, conquer, conquest, contract, convince, corral, defeat, derive, drag down, draw, draw over, earn, easy victory, enter into possession, finish in front, fluke, gain, gain over, gain the day, get, grand slam, harvest, have, hook, hook in, knock down, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, lick, make, make a killing, mastery, moral victory, net, obtain, outtalk, overcome, persuade, pick up, picnic, prevail, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, procure, produce, pull down, pushover, reach, realize, reap, runaway victory, sack, score, secure, sell, sell one on, skin, subdual, subduing, success, sway, take, take the cake, talk into, talk over, total victory, triumph, trounce, victory, walkaway, walkover, wangle, wangle into, wear down, win out, win over, win the battle, win the laurels, win the palm, win the prize, win through, winning, winning streak, worst, yield

• wince, ache, agonize, ail, anguish, avoid, avoidance, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, cower, cringe, demur, dodge, draw back, draw in, duck, evade, evasion, fade, fall back, fallback, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, fight shy of, flinch, funk, grimace, hang back, hang off, have a misery, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, hurt, jib, make bones about, pause, pound, pull back, pull in, pull out, pullback, pullout, quail, recoil, reel back, retract, retreat, scruple, sheer, sheer off, shoot, shrink, shrink back, shy, shy at, sidestep, sidestepping, smart, squinch, start, start aside, start back, stick at, stickle, strain, suffer, swerve, thrill, throb, tingle, turn, turn aside, twinge, twitch, waver, weasel, weasel out, withdraw, writhe

• wind sock, anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph, anemoscope, beacon, beam, cock, fan marker, flare path, marker, pylon, racon, radar beacon, radio beacon, vane, weather vane, weathercock, wind cone, wind indicator, wind vane, wind-speed indicator

• wind tunnel, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, blowhole, breathing hole, louver, louverwork, naris, nostril, shaft, spilehole, spiracle, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, ventilator

• wind up, abort, button up, cap, carry to completion, cease, charge, clean up, climax, close, close out, close up, cock, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, get up steam, halt, load, mop up, perfect, perorate, prime, resolve, round out, scrap, scratch, set, steam up, stop, terminate, top off, top out, warm up, wind, wrap up

• wind, Aqua-Lung, Vayu, Zephyr, Zephyrus, about ship, aerate, aerophone, air, air out, air-condition, air-cool, airify, allure, antelope, arch, arrow, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, back and fill, bagpipe, bait the hook, baloney, bay, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, beep, belch, bell, bend, bend back, bilge, birdlime, blah, blah-blah, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, blue darter, blue streak, bop, bosh, bow, box off, bray, break, breath, breath of air, breathing, bring about, bring round, broken wind, bugle, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burn out, burp, cannonball, cant, cant round, carillon, cast, cast about, catch, catch out, change course, change the heading, charge, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, clarion, clue, cock, coil, come about, contort, corkscrew, cough, courser, crank, crap, crinkle, crook, cross-ventilate, cue, curl, curve, dart, debilitate, decoy, decurve, deflect, distort, divagate, do in, do up, dome, doodle, double a point, double reed, double-tongue, drift, eagle, electricity, embouchure, embow, encircle, enclose, enervate, enlace, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, entwine, envelop, enweb, err, eructation, excurse, exhalation, exhaust, expiration, express train, exsufflation, fag, fag out, fan, fart, fatigue, fetch about, fife, flag, flapdoodle, flash, flatulence, flatulency, flatuosity, flatus, flex, flute, frazzle, freshen, gas, gasp, gazelle, get up steam, gin, gird, girdle, go about, go adrift, go around, go astray, go round, greased lightning, greyhound, guff, gulp, gup, gybe, gyrate, gyre, hack, harass, hare, heave round, hiccup, hogwash, hokum, honk, hooey, hook, hook in, horn, hot air, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, indication, inflect, inhalation, inhalator, inkling, inspiration, insufflation, intimation, intort, inveigle, iron lung, jade, jet plane, jibe, jibe all standing, key, knock out, knock up, light, lightning, lime, lip, load, loop, lure, malarkey, meander, mercury, mesh, miss stays, misshape, moonshine, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouthpiece, naught, net, nil, nix, noose, notion, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, oxygenate, oxygenize, pant, peal, pererrate, piffle, pipe, pirouette, pivot, ply, poop, poop out, poppycock, prime, prostrate, puff, put about, put back, quicksilver, ramble, recurve, reed, reflect, reflex, refresh, respiration, retroflex, revolve, rocket, rot, rotate, round, round a point, rove, sag, scallop, scared rabbit, scat, screw, scuba, serpentine, set, sheer, shift, shit, shot, shriek, sigh, slew, slide, slink, snake, snare, snarl, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, sniggle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, spin, spiral, spread the toils, squeal, steam up, sternutation, stertor, straggle, stray, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, suggestion, surround, suspiration, swag, swallow, sweep, swerve, swing, swing round, swing the stern, swirl, swivel, tack, tangle, telltale, thought, throw about, thunderbolt, tire, tire out, tire to death, tommyrot, tongue, toot, tooter, tootle, torrent, torture, trap, trip, tripe, triple-tongue, trumpet, tucker, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn back, turn round, tweedle, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, use up, valve, vault, veer, ventilate, wamble, wander, warm up, warp, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear ship, weary, weave, wheel, wheeze, whirl, whistle, whorl, wilt, wind instrument, wind the horn, wind up, winnow, worm, wreathe, wring, yaw

• windbag, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, agreeable rattle, babbler, big mouth, big talker, blab, blabberer, blatherer, blower, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, chatterbox, chatterer, fanfaron, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, gasconader, gibble-gabbler, great talker, hector, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, jabberer, jay, magpie, miles gloriosus, moulin a paroles, patterer, prater, prattler, rattle, windjammer, windy, word-slinger

• windfall, boast, bonus, buried treasure, catch, diamond, discovery, find, finding, foundling, gem, godsend, good thing, gravy, jewel, pearl, plum, pride, pride and joy, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trophy, trouvaille, trove, waifs, waifs and strays, windfall money, windfall profit, winner

• winding, aberrant, aberrative, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, convoluted, convolution, convolutional, crinkle, crinkling, crooked, curving, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, indirect, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, stray, swerving, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, wave, waving, whorled, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

• windjammer, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Captain Bobadil, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Gascon, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Texan, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, agreeable rattle, babbler, big mouth, big talker, blab, blabberer, blatherer, blower, blowhard, bluejacket, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, buccaneer, chatterbox, chatterer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fanfaron, fisherman, gabber, gabbler, galley, gasbag, gasconader, gibble-gabbler, great talker, hearty, hector, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, jabberer, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jay, limey, lobsterman, magpie, mariner, matelot, miles gloriosus, moulin a paroles, navigator, patterer, pirate, prater, prattler, privateer, rattle, sail, sailboat, sailing boat, sailing cruiser, sailing ship, sailing vessel, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tall ship, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windbag, windboat, windsailor, windship, windy, word-slinger

• windlass, Chinese windlass, Spanish windlass, capstan, crab, crane, derrick, erector, forklift, gantry crane, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, lever, lift, lifter, reel, tackle, winch

• window dressing, acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance, arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring, deception, decor, decoration, delusion, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, elaboration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, facade, face, facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, flourish, flower arrangement, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, gilt, gloss, head, heading, humbug, humbuggery, illumination, imposture, lap, masquerade, meretriciousness, obverse, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, outward show, playacting, pose, posing, posture, preface, prefix, pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, put-on, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, trim, trimming, varnish, veneer

• window shopping, buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, cornering, emption, hire purchase, impulse buying, installment buying, mail-order buying, marketing, money illusion, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, rebuying, repurchase, shopping, shopping spree

• window, aluminum foil, bay, bay window, bow window, casement, casement window, chaff, fan window, fanlight, grille, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, oriel, pane, picture window, port, porthole, rose window, skylight, tinfoil, transom, wicket, window bay, window glass, windowpane

• windowpane, bay, bay window, bow window, casement, casement window, diaphane, display case, fan window, fanlight, glass, glassware, grille, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, oriel, pane, picture window, port, porthole, rose window, shopwindow, showcase, skylight, stemware, transom, transparent substance, vitrics, vitrine, watch crystal, watch glass, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowlight

• windproof, airtight, close, compact, dustproof, dusttight, fast, firm, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, lightproof, lighttight, oilproof, oiltight, rainproof, raintight, sealed, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, staunch, stormproof, stormtight, tight, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, windtight

• windshield, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sun helmet, umbrella, windscreen

• windstorm, black squall, blizzard, blow, cyclone, dirty weather, equinoctial, foul weather, gale, half a gale, heavy blow, hurricane, ill wind, line squall, line storm, rainstorm, rough weather, snowstorm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempest, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tornado, tropical cyclone, typhoon, ugly wind, violent blow, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line

• windup, Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, close, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, topping off