Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/08

bellwether

• bellwether, Mahdi, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde, bell cow, bell mare, born leader, buccinator, bushwhacker, charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, conductor, coryphaeus, doyen, duce, ewe, ewe lamb, explorer, file leader, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, inspired leader, jumbuck, lamb, lambkin, lead, lead runner, leader, leader of men, messenger, messiah, mutton, pacemaker, pacesetter, pathfinder, pilot, pioneer, point, precedent, precentor, precursor, predecessor, ram, ringleader, scout, sheep, standard-bearer, stormy petrel, symphonic conductor, teg, torchbearer, trailblazer, trailbreaker, tup, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, wether, yeanling

belly dancer

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

belly flop

• belly flop, belly buster, belly whopper, cannonball, crash dive, dive, drop, fall, gainer, header, jackknife, nose dive, parachute jump, pitch, plunge, pounce, power dive, running dive, sky dive, stationary dive, stoop, swan dive, swoop

belly

• belly, abdomen, abomasum, ascender, back, bag, balloon, bastard type, bay window, beard, bed, bedrock, beerbelly, belly out, bevel, bilge, billow, black letter, body, bottom, bottom side, bouge, breadbasket, breech, bug, bulge, buttocks, cap, capital, case, convexity, counter, craw, crop, cylindricality, descender, diaphragm, dilate, distend, downside, em, embonpoint, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, first stomach, font, fundament, gizzard, globosity, globularity, goggle, groove, gullet, gut, hardpan, honeycomb stomach, italic, kishkes, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, lower side, lowest layer, lowest level, majuscule, manyplies, maw, midriff, minuscule, nether side, nethermost level, nick, omasum, orbicularity, paunch, pi, pica, point, pooch, pop, pot, potbelly, potgut, pouch, pout, print, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rock bottom, roman, rotundity, rotundness, round out, roundness, rumen, sans serif, script, second stomach, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, spare tire, sphericality, sphericalness, sphericity, spheroidicity, spheroidity, stamp, stem, stomach, substratum, swagbelly, swell, swell out, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underbelly, underlayer, underneath, underside, upper case, venter, ventripotence

bellyache

• bellyache, ache, aching, air a grievance, angina, backache, beef, beefing, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, cephalalgia, clamor, colic, collywobbles, complain, complaining, complaint, crab, croak, destructive criticism, dissent, earache, faultfinding, fret, fret and fume, fuss, gnawing, grievance, gripe, gripes, griping, groan, groaning, grouch, grouse, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, gut-ache, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, holler, howl, kick, kicking, lodge a complaint, megrim, migraine, murmur, murmuring, mutter, odontalgia, otalgia, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, protest, pyrosis, querulousness, raise a howl, register a complaint, scolding, sick headache, sniping, splitting headache, squawk, squawking, stomachache, take on, throbbing pain, toothache, whining, yap, yapping, yelp

bellyband

• bellyband, back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bit, blinders, blinds, breeching, bridle, caparison, cavesson, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, crownband, crupper, curb, gag swivel, girt, girth, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, headgear, headstall, hip straps, horn, jaquima, jerk line, jockey, lines, martingale, noseband, pole strap, pommel, reins, ribbons, saddle, shaft tug, side check, snaffle, stirrup, surcingle, tack, tackle, trappings, tug, winker braces, yoke

bellyful

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

belong

• belong, accord, affect, agree, answer to, appertain, appertain to, apply to, be a member, be inscribed, be there, bear on, bear upon, become, befit, belong to, carry a card, chime, concern, connect, correspond, correspond to, deal with, fit, fit in, go, harmonize, have connection with, have its place, have place, hold membership, indwell, inhere, interest, involve, liaise with, link with, match, pertain, pertain to, refer to, regard, relate to, respect, set, subscribe, suit, tally, tie in with, touch, touch upon, treat of, vest, vest in

belongings

• belongings, accessories, appanages, appendages, appointments, appurtenances, chattels, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, effects, goods, lares and penates, material things, movables, paraphernalia, perquisites, personal effects, personal property, possessions, things, trappings

beloved

• beloved, admired, adored, beau, beloved object, cherished, crush, darling, dear, dear one, dearly beloved, esteemed, favorite, flame, heartthrob, held dear, honey, idolized, inamorata, inamorato, ladylove, light of love, love, loved, loved one, lover, pet, popular, precious, prized, respected, revered, steady, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, treasured, truelove, valued, well-beloved, well-liked, white-haired

below par

• below par, ailing, at a discount, at a reduction, bad, below, below deck, below standard, below the mark, belowstairs, critically ill, down, down below, downstairs, faint, faintish, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, ill, in danger, indisposed, infra, laid low, mortally ill, not quite right, off, off-color, out of sorts, rocky, seedy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, substandard, taken ill, under, under the weather, underfoot, unwell

below the mark

• below the mark, amiss, astray, at a disadvantage, at the nadir, below, below deck, below par, below standard, belowstairs, beside the mark, beside the point, bootlessly, down below, downstairs, far from it, fruitlessly, in the gutter, in vain, infra, least, least of all, less, off, short of, substandard, to no purpose, under, under par, underfoot, vainly

below

• below, adown, at a disadvantage, at the nadir, behind, below deck, below par, below the mark, belowstairs, beneath, beneath the sky, down, down below, down south, downgrade, downhill, downline, downright, downstairs, downstream, downstreet, downtown, downward, downwards, downwith, following, hellishly, here, here below, in hell, in hellfire, in the gutter, in the world, infernally, infra, least, least of all, less, neath, next, on earth, short of, since, subordinate to, subsequent to, unbefitting, under, under heaven, under par, under the stars, under the sun, underfoot, underneath

belt

• belt, Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, Van Allen belt, adhesive tape, airspace, anklet, area, arm, armlet, baldric, band, bandage, bandolier, bang, bar, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batten, bay, bayou, beat, beating, bed, bedding, begird, belabor, bellyband, belt, belt in, bend, biff, bight, bind, bind up, birch, blacksnake, blast, blow, boca, bonk, bop, brace, bracelet, breechclout, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, bundle, cane, cat, cellophane tape, cestus, chain, chemosphere, chop, cinch, cincture, cingulum, circle, circuit, clap, clip, clobber, cloth tape, clout, club, clump, coldcock, collar, collarband, confines, continental shelf, corridor, couche, country, course, cove, cowhide, crack, craze, creek, crop, cudgel, cummerbund, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, department, dhoti, diaper, dig, dint, district, division, do up, drub, drubbing, drumming, earring, ecliptic, encincture, encircle, engird, ensphere, environs, equator, estuary, euripus, fascia, fetch, fetch a blow, fillet, finger ring, fjord, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flog, floor, friction tape, frith, fusillade, fustigate, gallery, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick, great circle, ground, gulf, gut, harbor, heartland, hit, hit a clip, hoop, horsewhip, inlet, ionosphere, isothermal region, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, kurbash, kyle, lace, land, lash, lath, lay on, layer, leash, ledge, let have it, level, lick, ligula, ligule, list, loch, loincloth, loinguard, loop, lower atmosphere, masking tape, measures, milieu, moocha, mouth, napkins, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, neckband, necklace, neighborhood, nose ring, offshore rights, outer atmosphere, overlayer, overstory, part, parts, paste, pelt, perimeter, photosphere, pistol-whip, place, plank, plastic tape, plunk, poke, pommel, pound, precincts, premises, pummel, punch, purlieus, put across, put over, quarter, quirt, quoit, rap, rawhide, razor strap, reach, region, ribband, ribbon, ring, road, roads, roadstead, rope, salient, sash, scourge, seam, section, shelf, shred, sjambok, slam, slat, slip, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, soil, sound, space, spank, spill, splice, spline, stage, step, story, strait, straits, strake, strap, stratosphere, stratum, streak, streaking, stretch, stria, striation, striature, striga, strike, strike at, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, strop, substratosphere, substratum, superstratum, swaddle, swat, swath, swathe, swing, swinge, swipe, switch, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tattoo, terrain, territory, thickness, thong, thrash, three-mile limit, thump, thwack, ticker tape, tie, tie up, tier, topsoil, tract, tropopause, troposphere, trounce, truncheon, truss, twelve-mile limit, twine around, underlayer, understory, understratum, upper atmosphere, vicinage, vicinity, waist belt, waistband, waistcloth, wallop, whack, whale, wham, whip, whiplash, whop, wire, wrap, wrap up, wreathe, wreathe around, wristband, wristlet, yerk, zodiac, zone

belvedere

• belvedere, Havana, Texas tower, alcove, beacon, bleachers, box of cigars, bridge, cheroot, cigar, cigar box, cigar case, cigar cutter, cigarillo, colorado, conning tower, corona, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, humidor, lighthouse, lookout, loophole, observation post, observatory, outlook, overlook, pagoda, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, ringside, ringside seat, rope, sighthole, stinker, stogie, top gallery, tower, trichinopoly, watchtower

bemire

• bemire, begrime, bemud, besmoke, bog, bog down, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dust, grime, mire, muck, muck up, muddy, sink in, slime, smoke, soot, stodge

bemoan

• bemoan, be sorry for, bewail, complain, deplore, dirge, elegize, give sorrow words, grieve, grieve for, keen, knell, lament, moan, mourn, regret, repine, rue, rue the day, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, weep, weep for, weep over

bemused

• bemused, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, addled, beery, besotted, blind drunk, castle-building, crapulent, crapulous, daydreaming, daydreamy, distrait, dizzy, dreaming, dreamy, drenched, drowsing, drunk, drunken, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, far-gone, faraway, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, half-awake, happy, in a reverie, in liquor, in the clouds, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lost, lost in thought, maudlin, meditative, mellow, merry, mooning, moonraking, muddled, museful, musing, napping, nappy, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, reeling, shikker, sodden, somewhere else, sotted, stargazing, taken up, tiddly, tipsy, transported, unconscious, under the influence, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

bench mark

• bench mark, abode, area, bearings, bookmark, cairn, cardinal point, catstone, chief thing, climax, core, cornerstone, crisis, critical point, crux, district, emplacement, essence, essential, essential matter, fundamental, gist, gravamen, great point, heart, high point, hole, important thing, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, latitude and longitude, lieu, lighthouse, lightship, locale, locality, location, locus, main point, main thing, mark, marker, material point, meat, menhir, milepost, milestone, monument, nub, pharos, pinpoint, pith, pivot, place, placement, platform, point, position, real issue, region, salient point, seamark, sine qua non, site, situation, situs, spot, stead, substance, substantive point, the bottom line, the point, tower, turning point, watchtower, whereabout, whereabouts

bench

• bench, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, agency, ambo, assembly, association, atelier, bar, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, buffet, butcher shop, cabinet, camarilla, chair, chamber, city council, common council, company, concern, conference, congress, consultative assembly, corporation, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, counter, county council, court, curule chair, dais, deliberative assembly, desk, diet, directory, divan, escritoire, establishment, facility, firm, helm, house, installation, institution, judgment seat, junta, kitchen cabinet, lectern, legislature, loft, mercy seat, mesa, organization, parish council, parlor, plateau, privy council, saddle, seat, seat of justice, seat of power, seat of state, secretaire, secretary, shop, soviet, staff, stand, studio, sweatshop, syndicate, synod, table, table mountain, tableland, tribunal, woolsack, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, writing table

bend over backwards

• bend over backwards, be careful, be cautious, be fair, be just, do justice to, exercise care, give and take, handle with gloves, have a care, lean over backwards, redress a wrong, remedy an injustice, see justice done, shoot straight with, take care, take good care, take heed, take pains, take trouble, tread on eggs, treat gently

bend

• bend, L, S-curve, aberrancy, aberration, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, achievement, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, affect, agree with, aim, aim at, alerion, angle, angle off, animal charge, annulet, apex, apply, arc, arch, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, assimilate to, azure, band, bandage, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, be guided by, bear off, bearings, beat down, belt, bend, bend back, bend sinister, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bending, bending the knee, bent, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, billet, bind, bind up, blazon, blazonry, bob, bob a curtsy, bob down, bordure, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bow to, bowing, bowing and scraping, brace, branch, branch off, branching off, break, break down, bring low, bring to terms, broad arrow, buckle, buckle down, bundle, cadency mark, cant, canton, cave, chain, change the bearing, channel, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chime in with, cinch, circuitousness, coat of arms, cockatrice, coin, collapse, color, comply, comply with, compose, conduce, conflexure, conform, conquer, contort, contribute, corner, coronet, correct, correspond, cower, crank, crescent, crest, cringe, cringe to, crook, cross, cross moline, crotchet, crouch, crouch before, crown, crumple, crush, curl, curtsy, curvation, curvature, curve, declination, decurve, deflect, deflection, depart from, departure, determine, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, devote, diagonal, difference, differencing, diffract, diffuse, digress, digression, dipping the colors, direct, directionize, discipline, discursion, disperse, dispose, distort, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, do homage, do obeisance, do up, dogleg, dome, double, drift, drifting, duck, eagle, elbow, ell, embow, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, errantry, escutcheon, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, falcon, fall down before, fall in with, fell, fess, fess point, field, file, fit, fix, fix on, flanch, flatten, flection, fleur-de-lis, flex, flexure, focus, fold up, follow, fork, fret, fur, furcate, furcation, fusil, garland, geanticline, gear to, genuflect, genuflection, geosyncline, get down, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give, give way, gnarl, go, go by, griffin, grovel, gules, gyron, hairpin, hairpin turn, harmonize, hatchment, have a tendency, head, heel, helmet, heraldic device, hold on, homage, honor point, hook, humble, humiliate, hump, hunch, hunch down, impalement, impaling, inclination, incline, incurvate, incurve, indirection, induce, inescutcheon, inflect, inflection, influence, jaundice, knee, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knot, knuckle to, kowtow, label, lace, lash, lead, lean, leash, level at, lion, look to, loop, lozenge, lurch, make a leg, make a reverence, make conform, make obeisance, making a leg, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master, meander, meet, metal, mold, motto, move, mullet, nod, nombril point, nook, obeisance, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, obliquity, obsequiousness, observe, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, overmaster, override, overwhelm, oxbow, pale, paly, pean, pererration, persuade, pheon, point, point at, point to, predispose, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, present, presenting arms, prompt, prostrate, prostration, pull, purpure, put down, quarter, quartering, quell, quoin, rambling, reconcile, rectify, recurve, redound to, reduce, reflect, reflection, reflex, refract, relax, relent, retroflex, reverence, rhomboid, ride down, rope, rose, round, rub off corners, sable, sag, salaam, saltire, salutation, salute, scatter, scrape, scratch comma, screw, scrouch down, scutcheon, separatrix, serve, servility, set, set toward, settle, shape, sheer, shield, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, show a tendency, sight on, skew, slant, slash, slue, smash, soften up, solidus, splice, spread eagle, spring, squat, standing at attention, steer, stoop, straighten, strap, straying, subdue, subjugate, submission, submissiveness, submit, subordinary, suit, supination, suppress, swaddle, swag, swathe, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, tally with, tend, tenne, throw, tie, tie up, tincture, tinge, tone, torse, train, train upon, trample down, trample underfoot, transverse, tread underfoot, trend, tressure, truckle to, truss, turn, turn aside, turn awry, turn upon, turning, twist, tyrannize, unbend, unicorn, unman, vair, vanquish, variation, vary, vault, veer, verge, vert, vertex, virgule, wallow, wandering, warp, wear down, weigh with, welter, wind, wire, work, work toward, wrap, wrap up, wreath, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, yale, yaw, yield, zag, zig, zigzag

bendable

• bendable, adaptable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding

bender

• bender, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, binge, booze, bout, brannigan, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, guzzle, jag, lark, orgy, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, randan, randy, revel, soak, spree, symposium, tear, toot, wassail, wingding

bends

• bends, Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, asteroids, aurora particles, black lung, blackout, caisson disease, chilblain, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, intergalactic matter, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, meteor dust impacts, meteors, motion sickness, pneumoconiosis, radiation, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, space bullets, sunstroke, the bends, trench foot, weightlessness

beneath contempt

• beneath contempt, abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crude, crummy, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mean, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

beneath one

• beneath one, cheap, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disgraceful, gutter, humiliating, humiliative, infra dig, infra indignitatem, opprobrious, outrageous, pitiful, sad, scandalous, shameful, shocking, sorry, too bad, unbecoming, unworthy of one

Benedict Arnold

• Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, archtraitor, betrayer, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, informer, intrigant, intriguer, machinator, plotter, quisling, rat, schemer, serpent, snake, timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat

Benedictine

• Benedictine, Augustinian, Augustinian Hermit, Austin Friar, Bernardine, Black Friar, Black Monk, Bonhomme, Brigittine, Capuchin, Carmelite, Carthusian, Cistercian, Cluniac, Conventual, Crossed Friar, Crutched Friar, Dominican, Franciscan, Friar Minor, Gilbertine, Gray Friar, Hospitaler, Jesuit, Loyolite, Marist, Maryknoll, Minorite, Observant, Oratorian, Premonstratensian, Recollect, Recollet, Redemptorist, Templar, Trappist, White Friar, begging hermit, preaching friar

benediction

• benediction, OK, acknowledgment, advantage, approval, benedicite, benefit, benison, blessing, boon, cognizance, credit, crediting, favor, godsend, grace, hymn, invocation, paean, praise, prayer of thanks, recognition, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving

benefaction

• benefaction, act of grace, act of kindness, alms, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, boon, charity, contribution, courtesy, favor, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, manna, mercy, mitzvah, obligation, offering, office, service, turn

beneficence

• beneficence, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, agape, alms, altruism, auspiciousness, benefaction, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, benignancy, benignity, bigheartedness, brightness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contribution, do-goodism, favorableness, flower power, fortunateness, generosity, giving, good auspices, good omen, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, humanitarianism, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, luckiness, offering, philanthropism, philanthropy, propitiousness, prosperousness, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness

beneficent

• beneficent, almsgiving, altruistic, amicable, benevolent, benign, benignant, bighearted, charitable, cooperative, eleemosynary, favorable, freehearted, friendly, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, neighborly, philanthropic, propitious, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

beneficial

• beneficial, advantageous, aidful, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, benevolent, benign, bon, bonny, bracing, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, constitutional, constructive, contributory, effective, efficacious, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fitting, functional, furthersome, good, good for, goodly, grand, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, kind, laudable, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, pleasant, positive, practical, pragmatical, profitable, proper, refreshing, regal, remedial, royal, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, serviceable, skillful, sound, splendid, supportive, therapeutic, tonic, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, wholesome

beneficiary

• beneficiary, allottee, almsman, almswoman, annuitant, assign, assignee, benefice-holder, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, devisee, donee, feoffee, feudatory, grantee, householder, incumbent, laird, landlady, landlord, legatary, legatee, lord, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, patentee, pensionary, pensioner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, resident, residentiary, squire, stipendiary, titleholder

benefit

• benefit, abet, absolute interest, account, act of grace, act of kindness, advance, advantage, aid, allowances, ameliorate, answer, assist, assistance, avail, bail out, be handy, be of use, be right, bear a hand, befit, befitting, befriend, behalf, behoof, benediction, benefaction, benefits, benevolence, benignity, benison, bestead, better, bill, blessing, boon, break no bones, build, claim, comfort, common, confer a benefit, contingent interest, contribute to, convenience, courtesy, debut, do, do a favor, do a kindness, do good, do no harm, do the trick, doctor, ease, easement, entertainment, equitable interest, equity, estate, exhibit, exhibition, farewell performance, favor, fill the bill, fit, flesh show, forward, further, gain, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give good returns, give help, godsend, good, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, help, holding, improve, interest, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, lend a hand, lend one aid, limitation, manna, mercy, ministration, ministry, mitzvah, not come amiss, obligation, office, offices, part, pay, pay off, percentage, performance, perks, perquisites, point, premiere, presentation, presentment, production, proffer aid, profit, promote, prosperity, protect, protection, rally, reclaim, redeem, relief, relieve, remedy, render a service, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, right, right of entry, sake, save, serve, serve the purpose, service, set up, settlement, show, stage presentation, stake, strict settlement, succor, suffice, suit the occasion, support, swan song, take in tow, theatrical performance, therapy, title, trust, tryout, turn, use, value, vested interest, welfare, well-being, work, work for, world of good, worth, yield a profit

benevolence

• benevolence, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, agape, agreeableness, altruism, amiability, amity, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, benignancy, benignity, bigheartedness, blessing, boon, brightness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, cheerfulness, cheeriness, class, clemency, cogency, comity, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance, compliment, condolence, condonation, contribution, courtesy, decency, desert, disregard, do-goodism, donation, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness, first-rateness, flower power, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortunateness, friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, gift, giving, good auspices, good deed, good offices, good omen, good turn, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, grace, graciosity, graciousness, grant, greatheartedness, healthiness, helpfulness, humanitarianism, humanity, indulgence, kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, largeheartedness, largess, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, love, love of mankind, luckiness, magnanimity, manna, mercy, merit, mitigation, mitzvah, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, philanthropism, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness, present, profitableness, propitiousness, prosperousness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness, ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tolerance, turn, unrevengefulness, unselfishness, usefulness, utilitarianism, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, welfarism, well-disposedness, wholeness, worth

benevolent

• benevolent, accommodating, advantageous, affable, agreeable, almsgiving, altruistic, amiable, amicable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benign, benignant, big, bighearted, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, caring, charitable, chivalrous, cogent, commendable, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, decent, eleemosynary, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, forbearing, forgiving, freehearted, friendly, generous, good, goodly, gracious, grand, greathearted, healthy, helpful, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, laudable, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, neighborly, nice, noble, obliging, open-handed, openhanded, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, permissive, philanthropic, placable, pleasant, profitable, propitious, public-spirited, regal, royal, salutary, skillful, sound, sparing, splendid, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, unresentful, unrevengeful, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, warm-hearted, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

benighted

• benighted, ableptical, amaurotic, backward, bereft of light, blind, color-blind, dark, dim-sighted, empty-headed, eyeless, hemeralopic, ignorant, illiterate, in darkness, in the dark, know-nothing, mind-blind, naive, night-overtaken, nyctalopic, rayless, sightless, spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, undiscerning, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninstructed, unlettered, unobserving, unperceiving, unprogressive, unschooled, unseeing, untaught, untutored, visionless

benign

• benign, Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, affable, affectionate, agreeable, amiable, amicable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benignant, bland, bracing, bright, brotherly, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, congenial, constitutional, cooperative, cordial, curable, decent, dexter, fair, favorable, favoring, forbearing, fortunate, fraternal, friendly, full of promise, generous, genial, gentle, golden, good, good for, good-hearted, gracious, happy, harmless, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, human, humane, hygeian, hygienic, indulgent, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, invigorating, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, loving, lucky, merciful, mild, neighborly, nice, nonmalignant, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonvirulent, obliging, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, promising, propitious, prosperous, refreshing, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tonic, undamaging, unhurtful, uninjurious, unobnoxious, warm, warm-hearted, warmhearted, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, white, wholesome

benignity

• benignity, accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, affectionateness, agreeableness, amiability, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignancy, blessing, brightness, brotherhood, cheerfulness, cheeriness, class, cogency, compassion, complaisance, compliance, courtesy, decency, desert, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, fineness, first-rateness, fortunateness, fraternal feeling, generousness, good auspices, good deed, good offices, good omen, good turn, goodliness, goodness, goodness of heart, grace, graciosity, graciousness, harmlessness, healthiness, heart of gold, helpfulness, humaneness, humanity, hurtlessness, innocence, innocuousness, inoffensiveness, kind deed, kind offices, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly act, kindly disposition, kindness, labor of love, loving kindness, luckiness, mercy, merit, mitzvah, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, pleasantness, profitableness, propitiousness, prosperousness, quality, rewardingness, service, skillfulness, softheartedness, soul of kindness, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tenderheartedness, turn, uninjuriousness, unobnoxiousness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart, wholeness, worth

bent on

• bent on, aching for, crazy to, dead set on, decided upon, desirous of, determined upon, dying for, dying to, fain of, fixed upon, fond of, hell-bent on, inclined toward, intent upon, itching for, keen on, leaning toward, mad on, partial to, resolved upon, set on, settled upon, sot on, spoiling for, wild to

bent

• bent, V-shaped, Y-shaped, a thing for, ability, abnormal, affinity, afflicted, aim, akimbo, an ear for, an eye for, anamorphous, angular, animus, apt, aptitude, aptness, arched, arciform, askew, asymmetric, awry, azimuth, bag, bearing, bend, bias, billowing, billowy, boiled, bombed, boozy, bowed, canned, capacity for, cast, character, chosen kind, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, contorted, cornered, corrupt, corrupted, course, crazy, crocked, crocko, crook, crooked, crotched, crumpled, crunched, cup of tea, current, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, decided, decisive, deflected, delight, determined, deviant, deviative, diathesis, direction, direction line, dishonest, disposed, disposition, dispositioned, distorted, drift, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, elevated, faculty, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, felicity, flair, forejudgment, forked, fried, fuddled, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, genius, genius for, geosynclinal, gift, gift for, given, grain, half-seas over, head, heading, helmsmanship, high, hooked, idiosyncrasy, illegal, illuminated, in the mood, inclination, inclined, inclining, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, individualism, innate aptitude, intent, irregular, jagged, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, knack, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, lay, leaning, liability, lie, likely, liking, line, line of direction, line of march, lit, lit up, loaded, lopsided, lubricated, lurch, lushy, make, makeup, mazy, meandering, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, minded, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, muzzy, nature, navigation, nonsymmetric, nose, oiled, one-sided, one-sidedness, organized, orientation, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanship, peculiar, penchant, personal choice, perverse, perverted, pickled, pie-eyed, piloting, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, point, pointed, polluted, potted, preconception, predilection, predisposed, predisposition, preference, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proclivity, prone, proneness, propensity, quarter, raddled, range, readiness, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, resolute, resolved, round, rounded, run, saw-toothed, sawtooth, sensitivity to, serpentine, serrate, set, settled, sharp, sharp-cornered, sheer, shellacked, sinuous, skew, skunk-drunk, slant, slue, smashed, soaked, soft spot, soused, sprung, squiffy, stamp, steerage, steering, stewed, stinko, strain, strange, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, swacked, swerve, sympathy, talent, tanked, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing, tight, tortuous, track, trend, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, twisted, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, undulant, unsymmetric, veer, warp, warped, wavy, way, weakness, weird, willingness, wry, zigzag

benthos

• benthos, Bassalia, Loch Ness monster, abyss, abyssal zone, alevin, bathyal zone, benthon, bottom waters, bottomless depths, cetacean, dolphin, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, grilse, ground, inner space, kipper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, nekton, ocean bottom, ocean depths, ocean floor, panfish, pelagic zone, plankton, porpoise, salmon, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shark, smolt, sponge, the deep, the deep sea, the deeps, the depths, trench, tropical fish, whale

benumb

• benumb, KO, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, bedaze, bemuse, besot, bite, blunt, chill, chloroform, coldcock, cushion, cut, deaden, deaden the pain, desensitize, diminish, dope, drug, dull, ease, ease matters, etherize, foment, freeze, frost, frostbite, give relief, go through, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay out, lessen, lull, mitigate, mollify, mull, narcotize, nip, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, palsy, paralyze, penetrate, petrify, pierce, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, reduce, refrigerate, relieve, salve, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, stun, stupe, stupefy, subdue

benumbed

• benumbed, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, blah, blase, bored, callous, comatose, dead, deadened, debilitated, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient, in a stupor, inanimate, indifferent, inert, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, resigned, sated, senseless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied, supine, thick-skinned, thick-witted, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

Benzedrine

• Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, cocaine, coke, crystal, dextroamphetamine sulfate, football, heart, jolly bean, methamphetamine hydrochloride, pep pill, purple heart, snow, speed, stimulant, upper

benzine

• benzine, alcohol, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coal oil, coke, combustible, dope, electricity, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, illuminant, illuminating gas, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, light source, luminant, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, petrol, petroleum, propane, propellant, rocket fuel, turf

bequeath

• bequeath, abalienate, add a codicil, alien, alienate, amortize, assign, barter, cede, confer, consign, convey, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devise, devolve upon, enfeoff, entail, exchange, execute a will, give, give title to, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, leave, legate, make a bequest, make a will, make over, negotiate, pass, pass on, pass over, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, surrender, trade, transfer, transmit, turn over, will, will and bequeath, will to

bequeathal

• bequeathal, abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, attested copy, bargain and sale, barter, bequest, birthright, borough-English, cession, codicil, coheirship, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, coparcenary, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, devise, disposal, disposition, enfeoffment, entail, exchange, gavelkind, giving, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, law of succession, lease and release, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, probate, reversion, sale, settlement, settling, succession, surrender, testament, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ultimogeniture, vesting, will

bequest

• bequest, attested copy, bequeathal, birthright, borough-English, codicil, coheirship, coparcenary, devise, entail, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, probate, reversion, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, will

berate

• berate, abuse, bark at, bawl out, betongue, blacken, castigate, chew out, chide, excoriate, execrate, fulminate against, harangue, jaw, load with reproaches, objurgate, rag, rail, rail at, rate, rave against, revile, scold, thunder against, tongue-lash, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at

berating

• berating, abuse, assailing, assault, attack, bitter words, blackening, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, onslaught, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation

bereave

• bereave, abridge, bleed, curtail, cut off, deprive, deprive of, disentitle, disinherit, dispossess, divest, drain, ease one of, leave, leave behind, lighten one of, lose, milk, mine, orphan, oust, rob, strip, take away from, take from, tap, widow

bereaved

• bereaved, beggared, beggarly, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, distressed, divested, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lacking, mendicant, minus, motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, out of, parentless, parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, robbed of, shorn of, sorrowing, starveling, stripped, stripped of, underprivileged, wanting, widowed

bereavement

• bereavement, abridgment, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, divestment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, perdition, privation, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss

bereft

• bereft, bankrupt in, bare of, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft of, cut off, denuded, denuded of, deprived, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, disadvantaged, divested, empty of, fatherless, fleeced, for want of, forlorn of, ghettoized, impoverished, in default of, in need, in rags, in want, in want of, indigent, lacking, mendicant, minus, missing, motherless, necessitous, needing, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, out of, out of pocket, parentless, parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, robbed of, scant of, shorn of, short, short of, shy, shy of, starveling, stripped, stripped of, unblessed with, underprivileged, unpossessed of, void of, wanting, widowed

berg

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

beribbon

• beribbon, bead, bejewel, bespangle, diamond, engrave, feather, figure, filigree, flag, flounce, flower, garland, gem, illuminate, jewel, paint, plume, ribbon, spangle, tinsel, wreathe

beribboned

• beribboned, adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, bespangled, decked out, decorated, embellished, feathered, festooned, figured, flowered, garnished, jeweled, ornamented, plumed, spangled, spangly, studded, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed

beriberi

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

berm

• berm, alameda, bank, beach, beaten path, beaten track, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path, catwalk, coast, coastland, coastline, embankment, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, foreshore, garden path, groove, hiking trail, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, mall, parade, path, pathway, plage, playa, prado, promenade, public walk, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, run, runway, rut, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, sidewalk, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, towing path, towpath, track, trail, trottoir, walk, walkway, waterfront, waterside

berry

• berry, Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bearberry, bilberry, bird seed, blackberry, cacao, candleberry, canistel, cantaloupe, capulin, casaba, checkerberry, cherimoya, cherry, citrange, citron, citrus, citrus fruit, civet fruit, crab apple, cranberry, currant, custard apple, damson, date, dewberry, elderberry, feijoa, fig, flaxseed, fruit, gooseberry, grain, grape, grapefruit, guanabana, guava, hayseed, honeydew, huckleberry, icaco, ilama, imbu, jaboticaba, jackfruit, jujube, kernel, kumquat, lemon, lime, lingonberry, linseed, litchi, loganberry, loquat, mammee apple, mandarin orange, mango, mangosteen, manzanilla, marang, mayapple, medlar, melon, mulberry, muscadine, muscat, muscatel, muskmelon, navel orange, nectarine, nut, nutmeg melon, olive, orange, papaw, papaya, passion fruit, peach, pear, persimmon, pineapple, pip, pippin, pit, plantain, plum, plumcot, pomegranate, prune, quince, raisin, rambutan, raspberry, red currant, seed, stone, strawberry, sugar apple, sugarplum, sweetsop, tangelo, tangerine, ugli fruit

berserk

• berserk, Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, bacchic, bellowing, carried away, corybantic, crazed, delirious, demoniac, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, orgasmic, orgiastic, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, roaring, running mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

berth

• berth, abide, accommodations, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, appointment, basin, bed, billet, breakwater, bulkhead, bunk, cohabit, connection, diggings, digs, dock, dockage, dockyard, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dry dock, dwell, embankment, employment, engagement, gig, groin, hang out, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, house, housing, incumbency, inhabit, jetty, job, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, live, living quarters, lob, lodge, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, marina, mole, moonlighting, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, nest, occupy, office, opening, perch, pier, place, port, position, post, protected anchorage, put up, quarter, quarters, quay, remain, reside, road, roads, roadstead, room, rooms, roost, seaport, seawall, second job, service, shelter, shipyard, situation, sleeping place, slip, spot, squat, stable, station, stay, tenant, tenure, vacancy, wharf

beseech

• beseech, adjure, appeal, appeal to, beg, call for help, call on, call upon, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, entreat, give thanks, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make supplication, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, plead with, pray, pray over, recite the rosary, return thanks, run to, say grace, supplicate

beseechment

• beseechment, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor, collect, communion, contemplation, cry, devotions, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving

beset

• beset, abashed, afflict, afflicted, aggravate, agitated, ail, annoy, annoyed, anxious, apply pressure, assail, assault, attack, badger, badgered, bait, baited, barred, be at, be the matter, bedevil, bedeviled, beleaguer, beleaguered, besiege, besieged, blandish, blockade, blockaded, bother, bothered, bound, box in, bristle, brown off, bug, bugged, bullyrag, bullyragged, burn up, buttonhole, cabined, cage, caged, cajole, cast down, chagrined, chamber, chapfallen, chivied, chivy, circle, cloistered, close in, closed-in, coax, compass, compel, complicate matters, concern, confined, confused, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cooped, cordon, cordon off, cordoned, cordoned off, corral, corralled, cramped, crawl with, creep with, cribbed, devil, deviled, discomfited, discomforted, discommode, discompose, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distemper, distress, distressed, disturb, disturbed, dog, dogged, drive, dun, embarrassed, encircle, enclose, enclosed, encompass, enshrine, envelop, environ, exasperate, exercise, exert pressure, fall, fash, fence in, fenced, fret, fretted, gem, get, gird, girdle, grip, gripe, grubby, harass, harassed, harried, harry, haunt, haunted, heckle, heckled, hector, hectored, hedge in, hedged, hem, hem in, hemmed, hold, hound, hounded, house in, hung up, hunt, ill at ease, immured, impel, importune, impound, imprison, imprisoned, incarcerate, incarcerated, include, inconvenience, inconvenienced, infatuate, infest, infested, invade, invest, irk, irked, jail, jailed, jewel, kennel, lay siege to, leaguer, leaguered, lousy, mew, mew up, mewed, miff, molest, mortified, nag, nag at, needle, needled, nettle, nipped at, not let go, nudzh, obsess, oppress, out of countenance, overrun, overspread, overswarm, paled, pedicular, pediculous, peeve, pen, pen in, penned, pent-up, perplex, persecute, persecuted, perturb, perturbed, pester, pestered, pick on, picked on, pique, plague, plagued, pluck the beard, ply, pocket, possess, pother, preoccupy, press, pressure, provoke, pursue, push, put out, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzle, puzzled, quarantine, quarantined, ragged, rail in, railed, ratty, ravage, ravaged, restrained, ride, rile, ring, roil, ruffle, shrine, shut in, shut up, shut-in, soften up, sore beset, stable, storm, strike, surround, swarm, swarm with, tease, teased, teeming, torment, tormented, trouble, troubled, try the patience, tweak the nose, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, urge, vex, vexed, victimize, wall in, walled, walled-in, wheedle, work on, wormy, worried, worried sick, worried stiff, worry, wrap, yard, yard up

besetting

• besetting, annoying, average, backbreaking, common, crushing, current, dominant, epidemic, grueling, heavy, hefty, irksome, normal, onerous, oppressive, ordinary, painful, pandemic, plaguey, popular, predominant, predominating, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, reigning, rife, routine, ruling, running, standard, stereotyped, troublesome, trying, usual, vexatious

beside the point

• beside the point, adrift, amiss, astray, below the mark, beside the mark, beside the question, bootlessly, extraneous, extrinsic, far from it, fruitlessly, immaterial, impertinent, in vain, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, irrelative, irrelevant, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, off the subject, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, to no purpose, unessential, vainly

beside

• beside, abeam, above, abreast, additionally, again, agitated, all included, along by, alongside, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, apart from, as compared with, as well, aside, aside from, au reste, away from, bar, barring, besides, beyond, but, by, by comparison with, close to, compared with, crazy, else, en plus, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, extra, farther, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, hard by, in addition, in apposition, in comparison with, in conjunction, in juxtaposition, inter alia, into the bargain, item, leaving out, let alone, likewise, mad, more, moreover, near, nearby, next to, nigh, off, omitting, on the side, on top of, opposite, outside of, over, over against, over and above, overwrought, plus, precluding, round, save, save and except, saving, similarly, taken with, than, then, therewith, to boot, too, unless, upset, with, without, yet

besides

• besides, above and beyond, added, additionally, along, along with, also, apart from, as well, as well as, aside from, bar, barring, beside, beyond, but, else, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, farther, further, furthermore, in addition, in addition to, into the bargain, likewise, more, moreover, new, not counting, other, other than, otherwise, outside of, over and above, save, then, to boot, together with, too, yet

besiege

• besiege, apply pressure, assail, assault, attack, beleaguer, beset, blandish, block, block off, block up, blockade, bound, box in, bug, buttonhole, cage, cajole, chamber, close in, coax, compass, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, cut off, dun, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, envelop, exert pressure, fence in, harass, harry, hedge in, hem in, house in, importune, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inundate, invest, jail, kennel, lay siege to, leaguer, mew, mew up, nag, nag at, overwhelm, pen, pen in, pester, petition, plague, ply, pocket, press, pressure, push, quarantine, rail in, shrine, shut in, shut up, soften up, stable, sue, surround, tease, trap, urge, wall in, wheedle, work on, wrap, yard, yard up

besmear

• besmear, apply paint, attaint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bestain, black, blacken, blur, brand, brush on paint, butter, calcimine, coat, color, complexion, cover, dab, darken, daub, deep-dye, dip, dirty, discolor, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, fast-dye, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on, lay on color, mark, paint, parget, pigment, prime, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, shellac, singe, slap on, slather, slop on paint, slubber, slur, smear, smear on, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spot, spread on, spread with, stain, stigmatize, stipple, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, wash, whitewash

besmirch

• besmirch, attaint, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, blur, brand, call names, charcoal, cork, darken, daub, defile, denigrate, dinge, dirty, discolor, ebonize, engage in personalities, heap dirt upon, ink, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify

besmirched

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

besmoke

• besmoke, attaint, bedaub, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmear, besmirch, bestain, blacken, blur, brand, darken, daub, dirt, dirty, dirty up, discolor, dust, grime, mark, mire, muck, muck up, muddy, scorch, sear, singe, slime, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, soil, soot, stain, stigmatize, taint, tarnish

besot

• besot, KO, addle, anesthetize, bedaze, befuddle, bemuse, benumb, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, inebriate, intoxicate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun, stupefy

besotted

• besotted, addled, apish, asinine, batty, beery, befooled, beguiled, bemused, blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, cockeyed, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dotty, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, enamored, far-gone, fatuitous, fatuous, fixated, flaky, flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious, goofy, gripped, gulled, happy, held, hung-up, idiotic, imbecile, in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept, infatuate, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, mellow, merry, monomaniac, monomaniacal, moronic, muddled, nappy, nutty, obsessed, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, reeling, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shikker, silly, sodden, sotted, stupid, thoughtless, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence, wacky, wet, witless

bespangle

• bespangle, band, bar, bead, bejewel, beribbon, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, check, checker, dapple, diamond, dot, engrave, feather, figure, filigree, flag, flake, fleck, flounce, flower, freckle, garland, gem, glitter, harlequin, illuminate, iris, jewel, maculate, marble, marbleize, motley, mottle, paint, pepper, plume, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, ribbon, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tinsel, variegate, vein, wreathe

bespangled

• bespangled, ablaze, adorned, aglow, alight, bathed with light, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, blotched, blotchy, brightened, candlelit, decked out, decorated, dotted, dotty, embellished, enlightened, feathered, festooned, figured, firelit, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flowered, frecked, freckled, freckly, garnished, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, jeweled, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, macular, maculate, maculated, moonlit, ornamented, patchy, peppered, plumed, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, spangly, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, stippled, studded, sunlit, tinseled, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed

bespatter

• bespatter, asperge, asperse, attaint, bedabble, bedew, befoul, besmirch, bespot, besprinkle, blacken, blot, blow upon, brand, call names, censure, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, defame, defile, denigrate, dew, disapprove, disparage, douche, engage in personalities, expose, expose to infamy, gibbet, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, moisten, muckrake, paddle, pillory, reprimand, revile, slander, slobber, slop, slosh, slur, smear, smirch, soil, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, splotch, sponge, spot, spray, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, swash, syringe, taint, tarnish, throw mud at, traduce, vilify, water, wet, wet down

bespeak

• bespeak, accost, address, announce, apostrophize, appeal to, apply for, apply to, approach, approve, argue, ask, ask for, attest, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, beg leave, betoken, book, breathe, brief, buttonhole, call for, call to, characterize, connote, crave, demand, demonstrate, denominate, denote, desire, differentiate, disclose, display, employ, engage, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, file for, furnish evidence, give evidence, give indication of, give token, go to show, greet, hail, halloo, highlight, hint, hire, identify, illustrate, imply, import, indent, indicate, invoke, involve, make a request, make a requisition, make application, manifest, mark, mean, memorialize, note, order, point to, preengage, put in for, recruit, refer to, request, requisition, reserve, retain, reveal, salute, set forth, show, show signs of, sign on, sign up, sign up for, signalize, signify, solicit, speak, speak fair, speak for itself, speak to, speak volumes, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, take aside, take into employment, take on, talk to, tell, tend to show, testify, whistle for, wish, witness

bespeckle

• bespeckle, band, bar, bespangle, bespot, blot, blotch, check, checker, dapple, dot, flake, fleck, flyspeck, freckle, harlequin, iris, maculate, marble, marbleize, motley, mottle, pepper, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, spangle, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, variegate, vein

best man

• best man, acolyte, adjutant, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, assistant, attendant, auxiliary, bridemaiden, bridesmaid, bridesman, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, deputy, executive officer, groomsman, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, lieutenant, matron of honor, paranymph, paraprofessional, second, servant, sideman, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, usher, wedding attendant, wedding party

best seller

• best seller, big hit, book, bound book, brilliant success, classic, coloring book, definitive work, fad, folio, gas, gasser, great success, great work, hardback, hit, juvenile, juvenile book, killing, limp-cover book, magnum opus, meteoric success, momentary success, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paperback, picture book, playbook, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, resounding triumph, riot, roaring success, sensation, serial, sketchbook, smash, smash hit, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, storybook, title, tome, trade book, triumph, volume, work, wow, writing

best wishes

• best wishes, best love, best regards, blessing, compliment, compliments, congratulation, devoirs, egards, felicitation, good wishes, gratulation, greetings, kind regards, kindest regards, love, regards, remembrances, respects, salaams, salutations

best

• best, aristocracy, barons, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, better, bottom, cap, champion, choice, chosen, clobber, conquer, cream, crush, cut, defeat, destroy, do in, drub, elect, elite, establishment, exceed, excel, excellent, exemplar, fat, finery, finest, first, first-class, first-rate, fix, flower, for the best, foremost, gem, giveaway, go one better, greater, greatest, half-price, handpicked, hide, highest, hors de combat, improve on, kindest, lambaste, largest, lather, lick, lords of creation, lowest, marked down, master, matchless, maximal, maximum, model, most, nobility, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimal, optimum, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, outstrip, outweigh, outwit, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overlapping, overpass, overpower, overtop, overwhelm, paragon, paramount, pattern, peerless, perfect, pick, picked, power elite, power structure, predominate, preponderate, prevail, prevail over, pride, prime, primrose, prize, put, queen, quintessence, quintessential, reduced, richest, rise above, rock-bottom, rout, ruin, ruling circles, ruling class, sacrificial, select, settle, skin, skin alive, slashed, subdue, superb, superior, superlative, supreme, surmount, surpass, surpassing, take the cake, the best, the best ever, the best people, the brass, the tops, the very best, thrash, tip-top, top, top people, top-notch, topmost, tower above, tower over, transcend, trim, triumph, triumph over, trounce, trump, undo, unexcelled, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, upper class, upper crust, uppermost, utmost, vanquish, very best, wealthiest, whip, win, worst

bested

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

bestial

• bestial, Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Tartarean, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beastlike, beastly, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, dumb, earthy, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fleshly, gross, hellish, ill-bred, impolite, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, kill-crazy, lapsed, malign, malignant, material, materialistic, merciless, mindless, murderous, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual, orgiastic, outlandish, physical, pitiless, postlapsarian, primitive, rough-and-ready, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, swinish, tameless, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

bestiality

• bestiality, Adam, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, abominableness, anal intercourse, animalism, animality, atrociousness, autoeroticism, awfulness, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, buggery, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, contemptibleness, cruelness, cruelty, cunnilingus, despicableness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, earthiness, egregiousness, fallen nature, fallen state, fellatio, fellation, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, filth, flesh, fleshliness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, hand job, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, ill breeding, impoliteness, incivility, infamousness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, irrumation, lapsed state, loathsomeness, lousiness, manipulation, masturbation, materialism, nastiness, nefariousness, noisomeness, nonspirituality, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, onanism, oral-genital stimulation, outrageousness, pederasty, philistinism, postlapsarian state, rankness, repulsiveness, rottenness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, savagism, scandalousness, scurviness, self-abuse, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, sodomy, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, swinishness, terribleness, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the pits, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncleanness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, unrefinement, unspirituality, vandalism, viciousness, vileness, violence, wanton cruelty, wildness, worthlessness, wretchedness

bestow

• bestow, accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, apply, award, bestow on, billet, board, bunk, communicate, confer, consecrate to, consume, deal, deal out, dedicate to, devote, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, domicile, donate, dose, dose with, employ, enforce upon, entertain, exercise, expend, exploit, extend, force, force upon, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give away, give freely, give out, give over to, give to, grant, hand out, handle, harbor, heap, help to, house, impart, issue, lavish, lay on, let have, lodge, mete, mete out, mete out to, offer, pack, pass, pour, prescribe for, present, proffer, put in, put on, put up, put upon, quarter, rain, render, serve, shell out, shower, slip, snow, spend, store, tender, use, use up, utilize, vouchsafe, warehouse, while, while away, wile, yield

bestowal

• bestowal, accommodation, accordance, administration, application, applying, award, awarding, bestowment, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, contribution, deliverance, delivery, donation, dosage, dosing, endowment, enforcing, forcing, forcing on, furnishment, gifting, giving, grant, granting, impartation, impartment, investiture, liberality, meting out, offer, prescribing, presentation, presentment, provision, subscription, supplying, surrender, vouchsafement

bestraddle

• bestraddle, abut on, arch over, back, be based on, bear on, bestride, board, bridge, clear, climb on, command, dominate, extend over, get in, get on, go aboard, go on board, hang over, hop in, imbricate, jump in, jut, lap, lap over, lean on, lie on, lie over, look down upon, mount, outtop, overarch, overhang, overlap, overlie, overlook, override, overshadow, overtop, perch, pile in, rely on, repose on, rest on, ride, rise above, shingle, sit on, span, stand on, straddle, stride, surmount, top, tower above, tower over

bestride

• bestride, abut on, arch over, back, be based on, bear on, bestraddle, board, bridge, bypass, clear, climb on, command, cross, dictate, dominate, extend over, ford, get ahead of, get in, get on, go aboard, go across, go by, go on board, hang over, have the ascendancy, hop in, imbricate, jump in, jut, lap, lap over, lean on, lie on, lie over, look down upon, master, mount, outtop, overarch, overhang, overlap, overlie, overlook, override, overshadow, overstride, overtop, pass, pass by, pass over, perch, pile in, play first fiddle, predominate, preponderate, prevail, rely on, repose on, rest on, ride, rise above, rule the roost, shingle, shoot ahead of, sit on, span, stand on, step over, straddle, stride, surmount, take the lead, top, tower above, tower over, twist, wear the pants

bet on

• bet on, aller sans dire, ante, ante up, back, bank on, be axiomatic, be certain, be confident, bet, calculate on, call, count on, cover, depend on, doubt not, fade, feel sure, gamble, gamble on, go without saying, have no doubt, hazard, just know, know, know for certain, lay, lay a wager, lay down, lean on, make a bet, meet a bet, parlay, pass, place reliance on, play against, plunge, punt, reckon on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest assured, rest on, see, stake, stand pat, swear by, trust to, wager

bet

• bet, ante, ante up, back, bet on, book, call, chunk, cover, fade, gamble, game, handbook, hazard, lay, lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, make book, meet a bet, parlay, pass, play, play against, plunge, pot, predict, prognosticate, punt, put on, risk, see, set, shot, stake, stand pat, take a chance, wager

beta particle

• beta particle, Kern, NMR, alpha particle, antibaryon, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, aurora particle, baryon, cathode particle, electron, electron affinity, electron cloud, electron pair, electron shells, electron spin, electron transfer, electron-positron pair, elementary particle, energy level, excited state, extranuclear electrons, ground state, heavy particle, lepton, lone pair, meson, mesotron, negatron, neutron, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, octet, orbital electron, photoelectron, photon, proton, radioactive particle, radion, recoil electron, secondary electron, shared pair, solar particle, strangeness, strong interaction, subvalent electrons, surface-bound electron, thermion, triton, valence electron, valence electrons, valence shell, wandering electron

beta ray

• beta ray, Becquerel ray, Grenz ray, Roentgen ray, X radiation, X ray, actinic ray, alpha radiation, alpha ray, anode ray, beta radiation, canal ray, cathode ray, cosmic radiation, cosmic ray, cosmic ray bombardment, electron emission, gamma radiation, gamma ray, infraroentgen ray, nuclear rays, positive ray, radiorays

bete noire

• bete noire, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mumbo Jumbo, Wolf-man, affliction, anathema, bane, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, burden, calamity, crushing burden, curse, death, destruction, detestation, disease, evil, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, grievance, harm, hate, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, infliction, monster, nemesis, nightmare, ogre, ogress, open wound, pest, pestilence, phantom, plague, revenant, running sore, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scourge, specter, succubus, terror, thorn, torment, vampire, vexation, visitation, werewolf, woe

betide

• betide, be found, be met with, be realized, bechance, befall, break, chance, come, come about, come along, come down, come off, come to pass, come true, develop, eventuate, fall, fall out, go, go off, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, hazard, occur, pass, pass off, pop up, take place, transpire, turn up

betimes

• betimes, after a while, ahead, ahead of time, anon, at times, before, before long, beforehand, beforetime, by and by, directly, early, ere long, ever and again, ever and anon, foresightedly, here and there, in a moment, in a while, in advance, in anticipation, in due course, in due time, now and again, now and then, once and again, oversoon, precociously, prematurely, presently, seasonably, shortly, soon, timely

betoken

• betoken, affect, announce, approve, argue, attest, augur, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, bode, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, characterize, connote, dangle, demonstrate, denominate, denote, develop, differentiate, disclose, display, divine, divulge, dramatize, embody, enact, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, flaunt, flourish, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, furnish evidence, give evidence, give indication of, give sign, give token, go to show, highlight, hint, identify, illuminate, illustrate, imply, import, incarnate, indicate, involve, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, note, omen, parade, perform, point to, portend, prefigure, preindicate, presage, present, presign, presignal, presignify, pretypify, produce, promise, refer to, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, show, show forth, show signs of, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spell, spotlight, stand for, suggest, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, tell, tend to show, testify, token, trot out, typify, unfold, wave, witness

betray

• betray, abuse, apostatize, babble, bamboozle, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear witness against, beguile, betoken, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blow the whistle, bluff, blurt, blurt out, bolt, break away, break faith, cajole, cheat on, circumvent, collaborate, conjure, cross, debauch, deceive, defect, defile, deflower, delude, demonstrate, desert, despoil, diddle, disclose, discover, divulge, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, evidence, evince, expose, fail, fink, fool, force, forestall, gammon, get around, give away, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, impart, indicate, inform, inform against, inform on, juggle, lay bare, lead astray, leak, let down, let drop, let fall, let slip, manifest, misguide, mislead, mock, narc, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, peach, pigeon, play one false, pull out, put something over, rape, rat, ravage, ravish, renegade, reveal, reveal a secret, ruin, run out on, secede, seduce, sell, sell out, shop, show, sing, snare, snitch, snitch on, snow, soil, spill, spill the beans, split, squeal, stool, string along, sully, take in, talk, tattle, tattle on, tell, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, testify against, trap, trick, turn in, turn informer, two-time, uncover, unveil, violate

betrayal

• betrayal, Judas kiss, abuse, apostasy, babbling, backsliding, bad faith, blabbering, blabbing, bolt, breach of faith, breakaway, communication leak, criminal assault, dead giveaway, debauchment, defection, defilement, defloration, deflowering, dereliction, deserter, desertion, despoilment, disclosure, disloyalty, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, divulging, double cross, evulgation, faithlessness, giveaway, going over, indiscretion, leak, letting out, obvious clue, perfidy, priapism, rape, ratting, ravage, ravishment, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, revelation, schism, secession, seducement, seduction, sellout, sexual assault, telltale, telltale sign, traitorousness, treachery, treason, turning traitor, unwitting disclosure, violation, walkout

betrayed

• betrayed, baffled, balked, bilked, blasted, blighted, chapfallen, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, foiled, frustrated, ill done-by, ill-served, let down, out of countenance, regretful, sorely disappointed, soured, thwarted

betrayer

• betrayer, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, archtraitor, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, convict, criminal, crook, debaucher, deceiver, defiler, delator, desperado, desperate criminal, despoiler, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, felon, fink, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, informer, intrigant, intriguer, jailbird, lawbreaker, machinator, mobster, narc, nark, outlaw, peacher, plotter, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, raper, rapist, rat, ravager, ravisher, schemer, scofflaw, seducer, serpent, snake, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, swindler, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, thief, thug, timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, two-timer, violator, whistle-blower

betrothed

• betrothed, affianced, assured, bound, bride-to-be, committed, compromised, contracted, engaged, fiance, fiancee, future, guaranteed, intended, obligated, pledged, plighted, promised, sworn, underwritten, warranted

better half

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

better self

• better self, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, compunction, ego, ethical self, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, me, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, pangs, pangs of conscience, pricking of heart, qualms, scruples, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them, themselves, they, throes, touch of conscience, twinge of conscience, voice of conscience, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

better

• better, a cut above, above, accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, advantage, ahead, alter, altered, ameliorate, amend, ascendant, beat, best, better for, better off, bettor, bigger, boost, brass hat, break up, bring forward, cap, capping, change, changeable, changed, choice, chosen, civilize, control, convert, converted, cured, deform, degenerate, denature, desirable, deviant, distinguished, divergent, diversify, eclipsing, edify, educate, elder, elevate, emend, eminent, enhance, enlighten, enrich, exceed, exceeding, excel, excellent, excelling, exceptional, fatten, favor, favored, favoring, finer, fit, forward, foster, gambler, gamester, go one better, go straight, greater, happier, help, higher, higher-up, improve, improve on, improve upon, improved, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, lard, larger, lift, major, make an improvement, marked, mastery, meliorate, mend, metamorphosed, metastasized, mitigate, modified, modify, modulate, more, more desirable, most, mutant, mutate, nurture, of choice, one up on, outdo, outshine, outstanding, outstrip, outweigh, over, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overpass, overthrow, overtop, perfect, predominate, preferable, preferably, preferential, preferred, preferring, preponderate, prevail, promote, punter, qualified, qualify, raise, rare, re-create, realign, rebuild, rebuilt, reconsider, reconstruct, recovered, redesign, refine upon, refit, reform, reformed, remake, renew, renewed, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, revived, revolutionary, richer, ring the changes, rivaling, senior, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, socialize, speculator, sport, straighten out, subversive, subvert, success, super, superior, superiority, superiors, surpass, surpassing, think better of, think twice, to be preferred, top, topping, tower above, tower over, transcend, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, transfigure, transform, transformed, translated, transmuted, triumph, trump, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, unmitigated, upgrade, uplift, upper, vary, wagerer, wealthier, well-advised, win, wiser, work a change, worse, worsen

bettered

• bettered, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, civilized, converted, cultivated, cultured, developed, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, improved, perfected, polished, refined, reformed, transfigured, transformed

betterment

• betterment, Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration, amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, boost, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance, gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend, mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

bettor

• bettor, adventurer, betting ring, boneshaker, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, compulsive gambler, crap shooter, gambler, gamester, hazarder, petty gambler, piker, player, plunger, punter, sharp, sharper, sharpie, speculator, sport, sporting man, sportsman, tinhorn, tipster, tout, venturer, wagerer

between the lines

• between the lines, covert, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, esoteric, hibernating, hidden, latent, lurking, muffled, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult, possible, potential, sleeping, submerged, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, veiled, virtual

betweentimes

• betweentimes, ad interim, at infrequent intervals, at intervals, at odd times, at times, at various times, between acts, betweenwhiles, during the interval, en attendant, every so often, for a time, for the meantime, for the nonce, in the interim, in the meanwhile, meantime, meanwhile, now and then, occasionally, on divers occasions, on occasion, once and again, only occasionally, only when necessary, pendente lite, sometimes, until then

betwixt and between

• betwixt and between, amid, amidships, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, half-and-half, halfway, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, indifferent, insipid, lackluster, medially, mediocre, medium, mediumly, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middling, midships, midst, midway, moderate, modest, namby-pamby, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, passable, respectable, so-so, tedious, tolerable, vapid, wishy-washy

bevel

• bevel, ascender, astrolabe, azimuth circle, azimuth compass, back, bank, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel protractor, bevel square, beveled, bezel, bias, biased, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, chute, clinometer, counter, descender, easy slope, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, fleam, font, gentle slope, glacis, goniometer, grade, gradient, graphometer, groove, hanging gardens, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, italic, launching ramp, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, nick, pantometer, pi, pica, pitch, point, print, protractor, quadrant, radiogoniometer, ramp, roman, sans serif, scarp, script, sextant, shank, shelving beach, shoulder, side, slanted, slanting, slope, small cap, small capital, stamp, steep slope, stem, stiff climb, talus, theodolite, transit, transit circle, transit instrument, transit theodolite, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case

beveled

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

beverage

• beverage, John Barleycorn, ade, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, ambrosia, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, beef tea, birch beer, blood, booze, bouillon, brew, buttermilk, chicory, chocolate milk, cider, cocktail, cocoa, coffee, cola, drink, drinkable, egg cream, eggnog, espresso, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, frappe, frosted, frosted shake, fruit juice, ginger ale, ginger beer, grape juice, grapefruit juice, grog, hard liquor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, ice-cream soda, iced coffee, iced tea, inebriant, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, juice, koumiss, latex, lemonade, limeade, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, little brown jug, malt, milk, mineral water, mocha, nectar, orangeade, phosphate, pop, potable, potation, punch, punch bowl, root beer, root beer float, rum, sap, schnapps, seltzer, semiliquid, shake, social lubricant, soda, soda pop, soda water, soft drink, spirits, spring water, strong drink, strong waters, tea, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tisane, tonic, toxicant, water, water of life, whey

bevue

• bevue, bad job, balk, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, clumsy performance, error, etourderie, false move, false step, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaucherie, hash, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, mess, miscue, misstep, mistake, muff, off day, omission, oversight, sad work, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step

bevy

• bevy, a mass of, a world of, age group, army, assembly, band, battalion, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet, flight, flock, flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hail, hive, host, in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots, many, masses of, mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, numbers, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, plague, platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few, regiment, rout, ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring, squad, stable, string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop, troupe, watch, wing, worlds of

bewail

• bewail, be sorry for, bemoan, deplore, dirge, elegize, give sorrow words, grieve, keen, knell, lament, moan, mourn, regret, repine, rue, rue the day, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, weep, weep over

bewhiskered

• bewhiskered, back-number, banal, bearded, bromidic, common, commonplace, corny, cut-and-dried, fade, familiar, fusty, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, platitudinous, set, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stubbled, stubbly, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, unshaven, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, whiskered, worn, worn thin

bewilder

• bewilder, abash, addle, addle the wits, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, baffle, ball up, becloud, bedaze, bedazzle, befog, befuddle, bemuse, boggle, bother, bowl down, bowl over, bug, cap, cloud, confound, confuse, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, dismay, disorganize, disorient, distract, disturb, dumbfound, dumbfounder, embarrass, entangle, flabbergast, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mystify, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, perturb, petrify, pose, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, stagger, startle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stumble, stun, stupefy, surprise, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset

bewildered

• bewildered, abashed, abroad, adrift, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, at gaze, at sea, awed, awestruck, baffled, beguiled, bewitched, bothered, breathless, captivated, clueless, confounded, confused, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, embarrassed, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, guessing, hypnotized, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, in awe, in awe of, lost, lost in wonder, marveling, mazed, mesmerized, mystified, nonplussed, off the track, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, perplexed, perturbed, popeyed, put-out, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound, staggered, staring, stuck, stumped, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, turned around, under a charm, upset, wide-eyed, without a clue, wonder-struck, wondering

bewildering

• bewildering, baffling, beguiling, bothering, confounding, confusing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystifying, outlandish, passing strange, perplexing, perturbing, phenomenal, problematic, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, strange, striking, stupendous, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, upsetting, wonderful, wondrous

bewitch

• bewitch, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, allure, attract, becharm, bedevil, befoul, beguile, blight, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, charm, condemn, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, dazzle, defile, delectate, delight, demonize, deprave, despoil, destroy, devilize, diabolize, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, draw, draw on, enamor, enchant, endear, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, envenom, fascinate, freak out, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hold in thrall, hoodoo, hurt, hypnotize, impair, imparadise, infatuate, infect, inflame with love, injure, intrigue, jinx, knock dead, knock out, magnetize, maltreat, menace, mesmerize, mistreat, molest, obsess, outrage, overlook, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, possess, prejudice, ravish, savage, scathe, seduce, send, slay, snow, sorcerize, spell, spellbind, taint, take, tantalize, tempt, threaten, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, torment, torture, transport, trick, vamp, violate, voodoo, wile, witch, wound, wow, wreak havoc on, wrong

bewitched

• bewitched, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, becharmed, beguiled, bewildered, breathless, captivated, charmed, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enamored, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, hag-ridden, heartsmitten, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, infatuate, infatuated, lost in wonder, magical, marveling, mesmerized, miraculous, necromantic, obsessed, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, possessed, prodigious, puzzled, rapt in wonder, smitten, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thaumaturgic, thunderstruck, under a charm, wide-eyed, witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched, wonder-struck, wonder-working, wondering, wondrous

bewitching

• bewitching, Circean, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delightful, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, heart-robbing, hypnotic, illusionary, illusive, illusory, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luxurious, magnetic, mesmeric, mouth-watering, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sensuous, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching

bey

• bey, Dalai Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, ardri, beg, beglerbeg, burgrave, cacique, caesar, cham, collector, czar, dey, eparch, exarch, gauleiter, governor, governor-general, kaid, khan, khedive, lieutenant governor, mikado, nabob, nawab, negus, padishah, palatine, pendragon, pharaoh, proconsul, provincial, rig, sachem, sagamore, satrap, shah, sheikh, shogun, stadtholder, subahdar, tenno, tetrarch, tycoon, vali, vice-king, viceroy, wali

beyond belief

• beyond belief, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, extravagant, fantastic, foolish, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe, high-flown, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outrageous, outre, passing belief, poppycockish, preposterous, problematic, questionable, ridiculous, staggering belief, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weird, wild

beyond compare

• beyond compare, a outrance, absolutely, all out, beyond all bounds, beyond comparison, beyond measure, completely, dead, downright, easily first, essentially, extremely, facile princeps, flat out, fundamentally, immeasurably, immortal, in the extreme, incalculably, incomparable, indefinitely, infinitely, inimitable, invincible, matchless, most, nulli secundus, peerless, perfectly, purely, radically, second to none, sui generis, totally, unapproachable, unapproached, unbeatable, unconditionally, unequaled, unequivocally, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, utterly, with a vengeance, without equal, without parallel

beyond control

• beyond control, breachy, contumacious, defiant, fractious, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, obstreperous, out of hand, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting, restive, shrewish, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, wild

beyond measure

• beyond measure, a outrance, absolutely, all out, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, completely, dead, downright, essentially, extravagantly, extremely, flat out, fundamentally, immeasurably, in the extreme, incalculably, indefinitely, infinitely, lavishly, more than enough, most, out of measure, overabundantly, perfectly, plentifully, prodigally, purely, radically, superabundantly, totally, unconditionally, unequivocally, utterly, with a vengeance, without measure

beyond one

• beyond one, complex, complicated, crabbed, cramp, difficult, garbled, hard, hard to understand, impracticable, impractical, inoperable, insuperable, insurmountable, intricate, jumbled, knotty, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, overtechnical, perplexed, scrambled, too much for, tough, unachievable, unattainable, uncompassable, undoable, uneffectible, unnegotiable, unperformable, unrealizable, unsurmountable, unworkable

beyond recall

• beyond recall, beyond remedy, cureless, gone, immedicable, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, terminal, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable

beyond

• beyond, Heaven, Paradise, a better place, above, above and beyond, across, added, additionally, after, afterlife, afterworld, again, all included, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, as well, as well as, athwart, au reste, behind, beside, besides, destiny, else, en plus, eternal home, extra, farther, fate, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, future state, home, in addition, in excess of, inter alia, into the bargain, item, later than, life after death, life to come, likewise, more, moreover, new, next world, on the side, on top of, other, otherwise, otherworld, outside, over, over and above, past, plus, postexistence, similarly, subsequent to, the beyond, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter, the hereafter, the unknown, then, therewith, to boot, too, too deep for, transversely, what bodes, what is fated, without, world to come, yet, yon, yonder

biannual

• biannual, annual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

bias

• bias, a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, across, affect, affinity, angle, angle off, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bag, bear off, bend, bend to, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, biased, biaswise, branching off, canting, careening, cast, catercorner, catercornered, catercornerways, character, chosen kind, circuitousness, color, conatus, conduce, conduciveness, constitution, contribute, corner, cornerways, cornerwise, crook, crossways, crosswise, cup of tea, curve, declination, deflect, delight, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, diathesis, diffract, diffuse, digression, discrimination, discursion, disperse, dispose, disposition, distort, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, forejudgment, garble, go, grain, hairpin, have a tendency, head, idiosyncrasy, impulse, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, incline, inclined, inclining, indirection, individualism, induce, inequality, influence, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, kittycorner, lead, lean, leaning, liability, liking, listing, look to, lurch, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misrender, misrepresent, misuse, mold, move, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, nepotism, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, obliquity, on the bias, one-sidedness, out of plumb, out of square, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanism, partisanship, penchant, pererration, personal choice, persuade, pervert, pitched, point, point to, preconception, predilection, predispose, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, prejudgment, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prepossession, probability, proclivity, prompt, proneness, propensity, pull, raking, rambling, readiness, recumbent, redound to, refract, rhomboid, scatter, scratch comma, sensitivity to, separatrix, serve, set, set toward, sheer, shelving, shelvy, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, show a tendency, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slash, sloped, sloping, slue, soft spot, soften up, solidus, stamp, standpoint, strain, straying, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, sympathy, tack, taint, taste, temper, temperament, tend, tendency, thing, thwart, tilted, tilting, tinge, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tone, torture, transverse, trend, tropism, turn, turn of mind, turning, twist, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, variation, varnish, veer, verge, viewpoint, virgule, wandering, warp, weakness, wear down, weigh with, weight, willingness, work, work toward, yaw, zigzag

biased

• biased, across, antiblack, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biaswise, canting, careening, catercorner, catercornered, chauvinistic, colored, cooked, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, disposed, distorted, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, garbled, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, influenced, interested, involved, jaundiced, kittycorner, know-nothing, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, out of plumb, out of square, partial, partisan, perverted, pitched, predisposed, prejudiced, prepossessed, racist, raking, recumbent, sexist, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, strained, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, thwart, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tortured, transverse, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, xenophobic

bibelot

• bibelot, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bit, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, curio, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin, mockery, molehill, novelty, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham

Bible

• Bible, Douay Bible, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, King James Version, Revised Standard Version, Revised Version, Scripture, Septuagint, Testament, Vulgate, canon, canonical writings, sacred writings, scripture, scriptures, the Book, the Good Book, the Scriptures, the Word

Biblical

• Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic, apostolic, canonical, evangelic, evangelistic, gospel, inspired, prophetic, revealed, revelational, scriptural, textual, textuary, theopneustic

bibliographer

• bibliographer, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliognost, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, chief librarian, coauthor, collaborator, college editor, columnist, compiler, composer, copy editor, copywriter, creative writer, critic, curator, dance critic, diarist, dictionary editor, drama critic, dramatist, editor, editor-in-chief, encyclopedist, essayist, executive editor, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, managing editor, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, permissions editor, philobiblist, poet, printer, production editor, prose writer, publisher, reference editor, reference librarian, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, textbook editor, trade editor, word painter, wordsmith, writer

bibliography

• bibliography, Art Index, Baedeker, Bibliography Index, Books in Print, Cumulative Book Index, Education Index, National Union Catalog, Yellow Pages, acknowledgments, annotated bibliography, annual bibliography, back, back matter, backlist, bastard title, bibliogenesis, bibliogony, bibliography of bibliographies, bibliology, bibliopolism, body of knowledge, body of learning, book manufacturing, book production, bookcraft, bookmaking, bookselling, business directory, card catalog, catalog, catalogue raisonne, catch line, catchword, checklist, city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, critical bibliography, cyclopedia, dedication, directory, encyclopedia, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, file, filing system, finding list, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, guidebook, half-title page, handbook, handlist, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, itinerary, leaf, letter file, literature, lore, makeup, materials, page, periodical index, phone book, pigeonholes, preface, preliminaries, publications, recto, reference book, reverso, road map, roadbook, running title, signature, store of knowledge, subtitle, system of knowledge, table of contents, tail, telephone book, telephone directory, text, title, title page, treasury of information, trim size, type page, verso

bibliolatry

• bibliolatry, Sabbatarianism, bibliomania, bigotry, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, dogmatism, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, evangelicalism, fanaticism, fundamentalism, gift of tongues, glossolalia, hideboundness, humanism, humanistic scholarship, hyperorthodoxy, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, literacy, literalism, overdevoutness, overpiousness, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overzealousness, pedantism, pedantry, pentecostalism, precisianism, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, reading, revival, revivalism, sabbatism, sanctimony, scholarship, scripturalism, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, strict interpretation, strictness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness

bibliophile

• bibliophile, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliolatrist, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophilist, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, chief librarian, college editor, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, executive editor, greasy grind, grind, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, managing editor, permissions editor, philobiblist, printer, production editor, publisher, reference editor, reference librarian, textbook editor, trade editor

bibulous

• bibulous, absorbent, addicted to drink, adsorbent, assimilative, bibacious, blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, crapulent, crapulous, digestive, drinking, drunken, endosmotic, excessive, exosmotic, extravagant, extreme, given to drink, gluttonous, imbibitory, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, osmotic, overindulgent, overindulging, prodigal, resorbent, self-indulgent, soaking, sorbent, sottish, spongeous, spongy, swilling, swinish, thirsty, tippling, too much, toping, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasured, unrestrained, unthrifty, winebibbing

bicameral

• bicameral, biaxial, bicuspid, bifid, biform, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartite, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, congressional, deliberative, lawmaking, legislative, legislatorial, parliamentary, senatorial, unibivalent, unicameral

bicentennial

• bicentennial, C, anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, biennial, birthday, bissextile day, cental, centare, centenarian, centenary, centennial, centennium, centigram, centimeter, centipede, centistere, centred, centref, centrev, centumvir, centumvirate, centurion, century, commemoration, cwt, decennial, diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, gross, hecatomb, holy days, hundred, hundredweight, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, long hundred, name day, natal day, octennial, one C, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentenary, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary, tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary

biceps

• biceps, adductor, arm, buccinator, elbow, forearm, gemellus, gluteus maximus, infraspinatus, intercostal, latissimus dorsi, levator, masseter, mentalis, mylohyoid, nasalis, oblique, occipitalis, omohyoid, pectineus, pectoralis, peroneus, sphincter, tensor, trapezius, triceps, upper arm, wrist

bicker

• bicker, altercate, argue, argufy, around the bush, bandy words, battle, beat, beat about, beg the question, bicker over, boggle, brawl, broil, caterwaul, cavil, choplogic, clack, clatter, clitter, contend, contend about, contest, cross swords, cut and thrust, dance, differ, discept, dispute, dodge, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fall out, fence, feud, fight, fight over, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flite, flitter, flop, flutter, give and take, go pitapat, gutter, hassle, have it out, have words, hedge, join issue, lock horns, logomachize, moot, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palpitate, palter, parry, pettifog, pick nits, pitter-patter, play, plead, polemicize, polemize, prevaricate, pulse, pussyfoot, quarrel, quarrel over, quibble, quiver, row, scrap, set to, shatter, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, slat, spar, spat, split hairs, splutter, sputter, squabble, squabble over, take issue with, take sides, tergiversate, thrash out, throb, tiff, try conclusions, war, wave, waver, wrangle, wrangle over

bickerer

• bickerer, battler, belligerent, belted knight, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, enforcer, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, wrangler

bickering

• bickering, Kilkenny cats, aflicker, aggressive, aggressiveness, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bellicose, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerent, bicker, blinking, boggling, captious, captiousness, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, combat, combative, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, dancing, debate, defense, disputation, disputatious, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, divisive, dodging, embroilment, enmity, equivocation, equivocatory, eristic, evasion, evasive, faction, factional, factious, factiousness, fencing, fighting, flak, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, flyting, hairsplitting, hassle, hedging, hostility, hubbub, infighting, irascibility, irascible, irritability, irritable, lambent, litigation, litigious, litigiousness, logic-chopping, logomachy, nit-picking, paltering, paper war, parrying, partisan, partisan spirit, partisanship, passage of arms, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, playing, polarizing, polemic, polemics, prevarication, pugnacious, pugnacity, pussyfooting, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, quibbling, quivering, quivery, rhubarb, row, run-in, scrapping, set-to, shifting, shrewish, shrewishness, shuffling, sidestepping, spat, squabble, squabbling, strife, stroboscopic, struggle, subterfuge, tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, wavering, wavery, words, wrangle, wrangling

bicolored

• bicolored, bicolor, colorful, colory, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, medley, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, parti-color, parti-colored, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored

bicorn

• bicorn, Cynthian, S-shaped, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, horn-shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, semicircular, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, two-horned

bicuspid

• bicuspid, baby tooth, biaxial, bicameral, bifid, biform, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartite, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, dental, denticle, denticulation, dentiform, dentil, dentition, dentoid, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanged, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, milk tooth, molar, odontoid, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, snaggletooth, tooth, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tush, tusk, tusked, unibivalent, wisdom tooth

bicycle

• bicycle, bike, bus, catch a train, chauffeur, chopper, cycle, drive, entrain, go by rail, iron, joyride, make a train, minibike, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, pedal, pedicab, pig, ride, road-bike, take a joyride, taxi, trail bike, tricycle, trike, two-wheeler, velocipede, wheel

bid come

• bid come, ask, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, cite, conjure, conjure up, convene, convoke, demand, evoke, indent, invite, invoke, issue an invitation, muster, muster up, order up, page, preconize, recall, requisition, send after, send for, serve, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons

bid price

• bid price, asking price, bargain price, bearish prices, bid, book value, bullish prices, call price, cash price, closing price, controlled price, current price, current quotation, cut price, decline, face value, fixed price, flash price, flat rate, flurry, flutter, going price, high, issue par, issue price, list price, low, market price, market value, neat price, net, nominal value, offering price, opening price, package price, par, par value, parity, piece price, price, price list, prices current, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, recommended price, selling price, settling price, stated value, stock market quotations, swings, trade price, unit price, wholesale price

bid

• bid, adjuration, advance, appeal, approach, ask, asking price, assay, attempt, bargain, bargain price, beat down, beseechment, bid for, bid in, bid price, bid up, biddance, bidding, call, call on, call the signals, call upon, calling, cash price, chaffer, charge, cheapen, clamor, command, commission, controlled price, crack, cry, current price, current quotation, cut price, declare, decree, dicker, dictate, direct, drive a bargain, effort, endeavor, engraved invitation, enjoin, entreaty, essay, experiment, feeler, fixed price, flat rate, fling, gambit, give an order, give the word, go, going price, haggle, higgle, huckster, imploration, imploring, imprecation, instruct, invitation, invite, invocation, invocatory plea, issue a command, issue a writ, jew down, lick, list price, make a bid, make an offer, mandate, market price, move, neat price, negotiate, net, obsecration, obtestation, offer, offer to buy, offering, ordain, order, order about, outbid, overture, package price, piece price, plea, prayer, preliminary approach, presentation, price list, prices current, proclaim, proffer, promulgate, pronounce, quotation, quoted price, recommended price, request, rogation, rule, say the word, selling price, shill, shot, stab, step, stock market quotations, stroke, strong bid, submission, suit, summon, summons, supplication, tell, tentative, tentative approach, trade price, trial, trial and error, try, underbid, undertaking, unit price, warn, whack, wholesale price

bidding

• bidding, beck, beck and call, behest, bid, biddance, call, calling, calling forth, charge, command, commandment, convocation, demand, dictate, dictation, direct order, direction, engraved invitation, evocation, hest, imperative, indent, injunction, instruction, invitation, invite, invocation, mandate, nod, order, pleasure, preconization, requisition, say-so, special order, summoning, summons, will, word, word of command

biddy

• biddy, Bantam, Jane, Partlet, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, bag, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bat, beldam, betweenmaid, bird, bitch, bossy, broad, broiler, brood mare, brooder, broody hen, capon, chambermaid, chanticleer, chaperon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, companion, cook, cow, crone, dame, doe, doll, domestic fowl, drab, drake, duck, duckling, duenna, dunghill fowl, ewe, ewe lamb, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, filly, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gentlewoman, girl, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, gyp, handmaid, handmaiden, heifer, hen, hen turkey, hind, hired girl, housemaid, jenny, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, lioness, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, mare, minx, nanny, nanny goat, nursemaid, parlormaid, partlet, peahen, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, roaster, roe, rooster, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, setting hen, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, skirt, slut, soubrette, sow, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tigress, tom, tom turkey, tomato, trot, turkey, turkey gobbler, upstairs maid, vixen, waiting maid, wench, witch

bide

• bide, abide, abide with, await, bear, bear with, bide the issue, brave, brook, carry on, cease not, continue, continue to be, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, dig, dillydally, drag on, dwell, endure, exist, extend, go along, go on, hang about, hang around, hang in, hang in there, hang out, hang tough, hold, hold everything, hold on, hold out, hold steady, hold your horses, jog on, keep, keep going, keep on, last, last long, last out, linger, live, live on, live through, loiter, lump, lump it, maintain, mark time, never cease, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, put up with, remain, run, run on, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, slog on, stagger on, stand, stand for, stay, stay on, stay up, stay up for, stick, stick around, subsist, suffer, support, survive, sustain, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take time, take up with, tarry, tide over, tolerate, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait on, wait up for, watch, watch and wait, wear, wear well

bidet

• bidet, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, dishpan, dishwasher, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, ewer, fill horse, filler, finger bowl, gigster, hack, hackney, hunter, jument, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, lead, leader, mount, pack horse, palfrey, piscina, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, stalking-horse, sumpter, sumpter horse, thill horse, thiller, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub, wheeler, wheelhorse, workhorse

biennial

• biennial, amphibian, angiosperm, anniversary, annual, annual holiday, aquatic plant, biannual, bicentenary, bicentennial, bimonthly, birthday, bissextile day, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, commemoration, cosmopolite, cutting, daily, decennial, deciduous plant, diamond jubilee, dicot, dicotyledon, diurnal, ephemeral, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fortnightly, fungus, gametophyte, golden wedding anniversary, gymnosperm, hebdomadal, holy days, hourly, hydrophyte, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, menstrual, momentary, momently, monocot, monocotyl, monthly, name day, natal day, octennial, perennial, plant, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, quadrennial, quarterly, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, quotidian, secular, seed plant, seedling, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, septennial, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, spermatophyte, sporophyte, tercentenary, tercentennial, tertian, thallophyte, tricennial, triennial, vascular plant, vegetable, wedding anniversary, weed, weekly, yearly

biff

• biff, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, blow, bonk, bop, catch, chop, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming, fetch, fetch a blow, fusillade, hit, hit a clip, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, nail, paste, pelt, plunk, poke, pound, punch, rap, slam, slog, slosh, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, strike, strike at, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tattoo, thump, thwack, wallop, whack, wham, whop, yerk

bifocals

• bifocals, Polaroid glasses, blinkers, cheaters, colored glasses, contact lens, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglass, eyeglasses, glasses, goggles, granny glasses, harlequin glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, lorgnette, lorgnon, mini-specs, monocle, nippers, pair of glasses, peepers, quizzing glass, readers, reading glasses, shades, specs, spectacles, sun-specs, sunglasses, trifocals

bifurcation

• bifurcation, Janus, L, ambiguity, ambivalence, angle, apex, arborescence, arborization, bend, bifidity, biforking, biformity, bight, bipartition, bisection, branching, branching off, by two, cant, chevron, coin, conjugation, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, cutting in two, deflection, dichotomy, dimidiation, divarication, division, dogleg, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, elbow, ell, equivocality, fork, forking, furcation, halving, hook, in half, inflection, irony, knee, nook, pairing, point, polarity, quoin, ramification, subdivision, swerve, treelikeness, trifurcation, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag

Big Brother

• Big Brother, auditor, boatswain, boss, chief, comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sirdar, slave driver, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, visitor

big business

• big business, balance of trade, business, business dealings, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, dealing, dealings, fair trade, free trade, industry, intercourse, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchantry, multilateral trade, reciprocal trade, restraint of trade, small business, the business world, the marketplace, trade, traffic, truck, unilateral trade

big deal

• big deal, emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity

Big Dipper

• Big Dipper, Antlia, Antlia Pneumatica, Apus, Aquarius, Ara, Caela Sculptoris, Caelum, Camelopardus, Cancer, Columba Noae, Corona Australis, Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater, Crux, Dorado, Draco, Equuleus, Gemini, Grus, Hercules, Horologium, Hydra, Lacerta, Leo, Leo Minor, Lepus, Libra, Little Dipper, Lupus, Lynx, Lyra, Malus, Mensa, Microscopium, Monoceros, Musca, Norma, Northern Cross, Octans, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Phoenix, Reticulum, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Sculptor, Scutum, Sextans, Southern Cross, Taurus, Telescopium, Triangulum, Triangulum Australe, Tucana, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Vela, Virgo, Volans, Vulpecula, the Balance, the Bull, the Crane, the Cross, the Crow, the Cup, the Dragon, the Fly, the Foal, the Hare, the Indian, the Lion, the Lizard, the Lynx, the Lyre, the Mast, the Octant, the Rule, the Sails, the Sea Serpent, the Serpent, the Serpent Bearer, the Sextant, the Southern Crown, the Swan, the Table, the Telescope, the Toucan, the Twins, the Unicorn, the Virgin, the Water Bearer, the Wolf, the Wreath

big game

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

big gun

• big gun, Establishment, VIP, baron, big boy, big cheese, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, dignitary, dignity, elder, father, figure, great gun, great man, high-muck-a-muck, important person, interests, leader, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, ruling circle, sachem, somebody, something, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy

big hand

• big hand, acclaim, acclamation, applause, burst of applause, cheer, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, eclat, encore, hand, handclap, handclapping, ovation, plaudit, popularity, round of applause, thunder of applause

big league

• big league, big, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking, grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, major, material, momentous, name, self-important, significant, substantial, superior, world-shaking

big mouth

• big mouth, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, blower, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, candor, communicativeness, conversableness, effusion, effusiveness, fanfaron, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gasbag, gasconader, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, hector, hot-air artist, long-windedness, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, miles gloriosus, openness, prolixity, slush, sociability, spate of words, talkativeness, verbosity, volubility, windbag, windiness, windjammer, windy

big name

• big name, Establishment, VIP, baron, big, big gun, big man, big-league, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, brass, brass hat, celebrity, consequential, considerable, constellation, cynosure, dignitary, dignity, double-barreled, earthshaking, elder, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, grand, great, great man, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-powered, idol, immortal, important, important person, interests, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, major, man of mark, master spirit, material, mogul, momentous, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, self-important, significant, social lion, somebody, something, star, substantial, superior, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, world-shaking, worthy

big talk

• big talk, Barnumism, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, blowing up, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, burlesque, caricature, convolution, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, fulsomeness, garishness, gas, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, heightening, high-flown diction, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflatedness, inflation, inordinacy, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magnification, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prodigality, profuseness, prose run mad, puffery, puffing up, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sensationalism, sententiousness, showiness, stiltedness, stretching, superlative, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall story, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity

big talker

• big talker, agreeable rattle, babbler, blab, blabberer, blatherer, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, gibble-gabbler, great talker, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, jabberer, jay, magpie, moulin a paroles, patterer, prater, prattler, rattle, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger

big time operator

• big time operator, BMOC, activist, ball of fire, beaver, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big wheel, big-timer, bustler, busy bee, doer, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, human dynamo, hustler, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, political activist, powerhouse, take-charge guy, wheel, wheeler-dealer, winner

big time

• big time, action, ball, big, big-league, big-name, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking, fun, fun and games, funmaking, game, good time, grand, great, great fun, heavyweight, high old time, high time, high-powered, important, laughs, lovely time, major, material, momentous, name, picnic, play, pleasant time, self-important, significant, sport, substantial, superior, world-shaking

big top

• big top, burlesque show, carnival, circus, coochie show, fantoccini, floor show, galanty show, girly show, hootchy-kootchy show, leg show, light show, magic show, ombres chinoises, peep show, puppet show, raree-show, rep show, repertory show, rodeo, shadow show, sideshow, the big top, variety show, vaudeville show

big wheel

• big wheel, BMOC, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big noise, big shot, big-time operator, big-timer, bigwig, chief, court, eminence grise, five-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, high-muck-a-muck, his nibs, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, the Establishment, very important person, wheel, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

big

• big, adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big-league, big-name, big-time, bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged, bombastic, brimful, brimming, bull, bumper, canonized, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, cloyed, clumsy, commodious, comprehensive, condescending, consequential, considerable, considerate, copious, crammed, crowded, damned, deified, distended, domineering, double-barreled, earthshaking, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, expectant, expecting, extensive, extravagant, extremely, fat, flushed, full to bursting, gassy, generous, glorified, glutted, gone, goodly, grand, gravid, great, great gun, great of heart, greathearted, greatly, grown, grown-up, handsome, haughty, healthy, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-powered, high-sounding, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hugely, hulking, husky, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, important, imposing, inflated, knightly, large, large-scale, largehearted, liberal, lion, lofty, magnanimous, magnified, major, man-sized, marriable, marriageable, material, mature, maturescent, meaningful, mighty, momentous, much, name, noble, noble-minded, nubile, numerous, of age, of marriageable age, old, openhanded, overbearing, overblown, overflowing, packed, parturient, patronizing, pretentious, princely, proud, purse-proud, replete, roomy, sainted, sanctified, sated, satiated, satisfied, self-important, shrined, significant, sizable, spacious, stuck-up, stuffed, sublime, substantial, supereminent, superior, swollen, tall, throned, tidy, toplofty, unwieldy, uppish, uppity, upstage, voluminous, weighty, whacking, whopping, windy, world-shaking

bigamy

• bigamy, beena marriage, common-law marriage, companionate marriage, concubinage, deuterogamy, left-handed marriage, levirate, leviration, love match, marriage of convenience, monandry, monogamy, monogyny, morganatic marriage, picture marriage, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny, trial marriage, trigamy

biggety

• biggety, aggressively self-confident, bluff, bold, brash, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, chutzpadik, cocky, conceited, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, know-it-all, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, procacious, puffed up, rude, sassy, saucy, self-conceited, self-opinionated, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, stuck-up, swelled-headed, uncalled-for, wise-ass

bighearted

• bighearted, almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, chivalrous, eleemosynary, elevated, exalted, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, humanitarian, idealistic, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic, princely, profuse, stintless, sublime, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist

bight

• bight, L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation, boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord, fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet, knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag

bigot

• bigot, Anglophobe, Russophobe, approver, ass, bitter-ender, bug, bullethead, chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, dogmatizer, donkey, fanatic, fiend, freak, hardnose, hater, illiberal, infallibilist, intolerant, intransigeant, intransigent, jingo, last-ditcher, male chauvinist, man-hater, maniac, maverick, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogynist, mule, nut, opinionist, perverse fool, pig, pighead, positivist, purist, racist, sexist, standpat, standpatter, stickler, superpatriot, ultranationalist, woman-hater, xenophobe, zealot

bigoted

• bigoted, Sabbatarian, authoritarian, balking, balky, biased, bigot, borne, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, closed, conceited, conservative, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatic, dogmatizing, evangelical, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, fundamentalist, haggard, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, hyperorthodox, illiberal, inordinate, insular, intolerant, irrational, jaundiced, lily-white, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mulish, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, parochial, partial, peremptory, perfervid, persevering, pertinacious, petty, pigheaded, pontifical, positive, positivistic, precisianist, precisianistic, prejudiced, pronunciative, provincial, purblind, purist, puristic, puritanical, rabid, restive, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, set, shortsighted, small, small-minded, staunch, stiff-necked, straitlaced, strict, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tenacious, ultrazealous, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncooperative, ungenerous, unliberal, unreasonable, unregenerate, wild-eyed, wild-looking, willful, zealotic

bigotry

• bigotry, Anglophobia, Russophobia, Sabbatarianism, abhorrence, abomination, anti-Semitism, antipathy, authoritarianism, aversion, balkiness, bias, bibliolatry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bullheadedness, closed mind, cramped ideas, despitefulness, determination, detestation, dislike, doggedness, dogmaticalness, dogmatism, evangelicalism, excessiveness, execration, extravagance, extremeness, extremism, fanaticalness, fanaticism, fixed mind, fundamentalism, hardheadedness, hate, hatred, headstrongness, hideboundness, hyperorthodoxy, illiberality, infallibilism, inflexible will, insularism, insularity, intolerance, literalism, little-mindedness, littleness, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, mean mind, meanness, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mulishness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, odium, odium theologicum, opinionatedness, overenthusiasm, overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, parochialism, partiality, peremptoriness, perfervidness, perseverance, pertinacity, pettiness, petty mind, pigheadedness, positiveness, positivism, precisianism, prejudice, provincialism, purblindness, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, rabidness, race hatred, racism, repugnance, restiveness, sabbatism, scripturalism, self-opinionatedness, self-will, shortsightedness, shut mind, smallness, spite, spitefulness, staunchness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, strict interpretation, strictness, strongheadness, stubbornness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity, ultrazealousness, uncatholicity, uncooperativeness, unregenerateness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, willfulness, xenophobia, zealotism, zealotry

bigwig

• bigwig, Establishment, VIP, aristocracy, baron, barons, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwigs, boss, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, cream, dignitary, dignity, elder, elite, establishment, father, figure, great man, hotshot, important person, interests, king, kingpin, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, nobility, notability, notable, overlapping, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, power structure, queen, ruling circle, ruling circles, ruling class, sachem, somebody, something, the best, the best people, the brass, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, upper class, upper crust, very important person, worthy

bijou

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

bike

• bike, bicycle, bus, catch a train, chauffeur, chopper, cycle, drive, entrain, go by rail, iron, joyride, make a train, minibike, motocycle, motor, motorbike, motorcycle, pedal, pedicab, pig, ride, road-bike, take a joyride, taxi, trail bike, tricycle, trike, two-wheeler, velocipede, wheel

bilabial

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

bilateral

• bilateral, Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bivalent, conduplicate, dichotomous, dihedral, disomatous, double, double-faced, duadic, dual, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, flanked, geminate, geminated, handed, identical, lateral, many-sided, matched, multilateral, one-sided, polyhedral, quadrilateral, second, secondary, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided, trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, unilateral

bile

• bile, absorption, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, anger, animosity, asperity, assimilation, autacoid, bad humor, bad temper, biliousness, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, chalone, choler, corrosiveness, digestion, digestive secretion, digestive system, discontent, endocrine, gall, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, gnashing of teeth, hard feelings, heartburning, hormone, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, ingestion, intestinal juice, liver, mucus, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, predigestion, prostatic fluid, rancor, rankling, rheum, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, salivary secretion, secondary digestion, semen, slow burn, soreness, sourness, sperm, spleen, tears, thyroxin, virulence

bilge

• bilge, balderdash, baloney, bilgewater, blah, blah-blah, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bop, bosh, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bull, bulla, bullshit, bump, bunch, bunk, bunkum, burl, bushwa, button, cahot, carrion, chine, clump, condyle, convex, crap, dishwater, ditchwater, dowel, ear, flange, flap, flapdoodle, gall, garbage, gas, gnarl, guff, gup, handle, hill, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, malarkey, mole, moonshine, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, offal, offscourings, papilloma, peg, piffle, poppycock, refuse, rib, ridge, riffraff, ring, rot, rubbish, scat, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shit, shoulder, slop, slops, slough, spine, stud, style, swill, tab, tommyrot, trash, tripe, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, wind

bilious

• bilious, allergic, anemic, angry, apoplectic, arthritic, bad-tempered, bitter, cancerous, chlorotic, choleric, colicky, consumptive, cross, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, embittered, encephalitic, epileptic, ill-natured, ill-tempered, jaundiced, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, palsied, paralytic, peevish, petulant, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, sour, sour-tempered, soured, tabetic, tabid, testy, tetchy, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, vinegarish, wrathful

bilk

• bilk, avoid, baffle, balk, beat, beguile of, bunco, burn, cast down, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, cross, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, defraud, diddle, disappoint, disillusion, dissatisfy, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double, duck, elude, eschew, euchre, evade, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, frustrate, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, let down, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, ruin, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shake, shave, shortchange, shun, shy, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, tantalize, tease, thimblerig, throw a fight, thwart, victimize

bill collector

• bill collector, accumulator, collection agent, collector, connoisseur, credit man, creditor, creditress, debtee, douanier, dun, dunner, exciseman, farmer, gatherer, magpie, miser, mortgage-holder, mortgagee, note-holder, pack rat, tax collector

bill of fare

• bill of fare, account, agenda, batting order, bill, bill of lading, blueprint, books, budget, calendar, card, carte, carte du jour, docket, invoice, ledger, lineup, list of agenda, manifest, menu, playbill, program, program of operation, programma, prospectus, protocol, roster, schedule, slate, statement

bill of health

• bill of health, affidavit, attestation, authority, authorization, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, clearance, credential, deposition, diploma, full pratique, navicert, notarized statement, note, pass, passport, pratique, protection, safe-conduct, safeguard, sheepskin, sworn statement, testamur, testimonial, ticket, visa, vise, voucher, warrant, warranty, witness

bill of particulars

• bill of particulars, accusal, accusation, accusing, allegation, allegement, arraignment, blame, bringing of charges, bringing to book, charge, complaint, count, delation, denouncement, denunciation, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, lawsuit, laying of charges, plaint, prosecution, reproach, suit, taxing, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation

Bill of Rights

• Bill of Rights, Declaration of Right, Magna Carta, Magna Charta, Petition of Right, civil liberties, civil rights, constitution, constitutional amendment, constitutional guarantees, constitutional rights, human rights, legal rights, natural rights, right, rights, unalienable rights, unwritten constitution, written constitution

bill

• bill, CD, Federal Reserve note, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, account, accounts payable, accounts receivable, act, advertise, affiche, affidavit, agenda, allegation, allowance, amount due, antlia, assessment, assignat, bad debts, ballyhoo, bank acceptance, bank check, bank note, banknote, bark, batting order, be a gas, be a hit, beak, beezer, benefit, bill of account, bill of complaint, bill of draft, bill of exchange, bill of fare, bill of lading, bills, blackmail, blank check, blood money, blueprint, bomb, bone, book, books, boost, borrowing, breakwater, buck, budget, bugle, build up, bulletin, bylaw, calendar, call, call in, canon, cape, card, carte, carte du jour, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, charge, charges, check, checkbook, cheque, chersonese, chits, circularize, claim, clause, commercial paper, companion bills amendment, complaint, conk, coral reef, cry up, damage, debenture, debt, debut, declaration, decree, delta, demand bill, demand draft, demand payment, deposition, dictate, dictation, docket, dollar bill, draft, dragnet clause, dramatize, due, due bill, dues, dun, edict, emolument, enacting clause, enactment, entertainment, escalator clause, establish, exchequer bill, exhibit, exhibition, fail, farewell performance, feature, fee, fiat money, financial commitment, fish, flesh show, floating debt, flop, folding money, footing, foreland, form, formality, formula, formulary, fractional note, frogskin, funded debt, give a write-up, give publicity, government note, handbill, head, headland, headline, hold-up bill, hook, hush money, indebtedness, indebtment, initiation fee, institution, invoice, iron man, itemized bill, jaws, joker, jus, law, ledger, legal-tender note, legislation, letter of credit, lex, liability, libel, line up, lineup, list of agenda, make a hit, manifest, maturity, measure, melodramatize, menu, mileage, money order, motion, mount, muffle, mull, muzzle, nares, narratio, national bank note, national debt, naze, neb, negotiable instrument, negotiable note, ness, nib, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, nose, nostrils, note, note of hand, nozzle, obligation, olfactory organ, omnibus bill, open, open a show, ordinance, ordonnance, outstanding debt, paper, paper money, peak, pecker, peninsula, performance, placard, playbill, pledge, plug, point, post, post bills, post up, postal order, premiere, prescript, prescription, present, presentation, presentment, press-agent, preview, privileged question, proboscis, produce, production, program, program of operation, programma, promissory note, promontory, promote, prospectus, protocol, proviso, public debt, publicize, puff, put on, question, reckoning, reef, regulation, retainer, retaining fee, rhinarium, rider, roster, rostrum, rubric, rule, ruling, sandspit, saving clause, scenarize, schedule, schnozzle, score, scot, scrip, sell, send a statement, set the stage, shinplaster, show, sight bill, sight draft, skin, slate, smacker, smeller, snoot, snout, spiel, spit, spur, stage, stage presentation, standing order, star, statement, statement of facts, statute, stipend, succeed, swan song, tab, tabulation, tally, theatrical performance, theatricalize, time bill, time draft, tongue, trade acceptance, treasury bill, treasury note, tribute, trunk, try out, tryout, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, voucher, warrant, write up

billed

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

billet doux

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

billet

• billet, achievement, acknowledgment, alerion, anchor, animal charge, annulet, answer, appointment, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, beam, bearings, bed, bend, bend sinister, berth, bestow, billet at, bivouac, blazon, blazonry, board, boarding, bordure, broad arrow, bunk, burrow, business letter, cadency mark, camp, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, chit, clapboard, coat of arms, cockatrice, colonize, come to anchor, communication, connection, cord, cordwood, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, deal, device, difference, differencing, dispatch, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, driftwood, drop anchor, eagle, employment, engagement, ensconce, entertain, epistle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, establish residence, falcon, favor, fess, fess point, field, file, firewood, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gig, griffin, gules, gyron, harbor, hardwood, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, hive, honor point, house, hut, impalement, impaling, incumbency, inescutcheon, ingot, inhabit, job, keep house, label, lath, lathing, lathwork, letter, line, lion, live at, locate, lodge, log, lozenge, lumber, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, message, metal, missive, moonlighting, moor, motto, move, mullet, nest, nombril point, note, octofoil, office, opening, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, park, pean, people, perch, pheon, place, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, populate, position, post, puncheon, purpure, put up, quarter, quartering, relocate, reply, rescript, reside, rod, room, roost, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, second job, service, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shelter, shield, shingle, sideboard, siding, sit down, situation, slab, slat, softwood, splat, spot, spread eagle, squat, stable, stand, station, stave, stay at, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, strike root, strip, subordinary, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenne, tenure, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tincture, torse, tressure, two-by-four, unicorn, vacancy, vair, vert, weatherboard, wood, wreath, yale

billion

• billion, a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, astronomical number, googol, googolplex, infinitude, infinity, jillion, large number, milliard, trillion, zillion

billionaire

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

billow

• billow, bag, balloon, be poised, belly, belly out, bilge, bore, bouge, break, breakers, bug, bulge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dilate, dirty water, distend, eagre, ebb and flow, goggle, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lift, lop, peak, pooch, pop, popple, pouch, pout, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roll, roller, rough water, round out, scend, sea, send, smash, surf, surge, swell, swell out, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, toss, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps

billowy

• billowy, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellying, bent, billowing, bloated, bosomy, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, distended, geosynclinal, hillocky, hummocky, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, moutonnee, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rolling, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, surgy, swelling, tortuous, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, verrucated, verrucose, warty, wavy

billy goat

• billy goat, billy, boar, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, chanticleer, cock, cockerel, doe, doeling, dog, drake, entire, entire horse, gander, goat, gobbler, hart, he-goat, kid, mountain goat, nanny, nanny goat, peacock, ram, rooster, she-goat, stag, stallion, steer, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether

bin

• bin, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

binary

• binary, Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, dual, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminate, geminated, second, secondary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold

bind up

• bind up, bale, band, bandage, belt, bend, bind, brace, bundle, bundle up, chain, cinch, do up, gird, girdle, girt, girth, lace, lash, leash, pack, package, parcel, roll up, rope, splice, strap, swaddle, swathe, tie, tie up, truss, truss up, wire, wrap, wrap up

bind

• bind, accept obligation, adjoin, afterthought, agglutinate, agree to, ally, anchor, annoyance, answer for, apply, apprentice, article, associate, attach, band, bandage, bar, be answerable for, be responsible for, be security for, befringe, belt, bend, bind over, bind up, block, block up, blockade, blockage, border, bore, bother, bound, brace, bracket, braze, bridle, bundle, bung, bureaucratic delay, caulk, cause, cause to, cement, chain, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, cinch, clog, clog up, clutch, commit, compel, complication, congest, connect, constipate, constrain, contract, cork, correlate, couple, cover, crunch, dam, dam up, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, dilemma, do up, double take, dragging, draw a parallel, drive, edge, embarrassing position, embarrassment, enchain, encircle, enforce, enframe, engage, entrammel, equate, fasten, fetter, fill, fill up, fine how-do-you-do, fix, force, foul, frame, fringe, fuse, gird, girdle, girt, girth, glue, go bail for, gum, gyve, halt, hamper, handcuff, hang-up, have, have an understanding, hell to pay, hem, hindrance, hobble, hog-tie, hold, holdup, hopple, hot water, how-do-you-do, identify, imbroglio, impel, indenture, interim, interrelate, irritant, irritation, jam, lace, lag, lagging, lap, lash, leash, line, link, list, logjam, make, make fast, make imperative, make incumbent, manacle, march, marge, margin, marginate, mess, mix, moor, morass, moratorium, obligate, oblige, obstipate, obstruct, obstruction, ordeal, pack, paperasserie, parallel, parallelize, parlous straits, pass, paste, pause, peg down, picket, pickle, pin down, pinch, pinion, pledge, plight, plug, plug up, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, purfle, purl, put in irons, quagmire, quicksand, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, relate, relativize, reprieve, require, respite, restrain, retardance, retardation, rim, rope, saddle with, scrape, secure, set off, shackle, shake hands on, side, skirt, slough, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, solder, spile, splice, spot, squeeze, stanch, stay, stay of execution, stench, stew, stick, stick together, sticky wicket, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strait, straitjacket, straits, strap, stuff, stuff up, suspension, swaddle, swamp, swathe, take the vows, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, tie-up, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, time lag, trammel, trial, tricky spot, trim, truss, undertake, unholy mess, use force upon, verge, vexation, wait, wed, weld, wire, wrap, wrap up, wreathe

binder

• binder, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adhesive tape, amortization, amortizement, application, band, bandage, bandaging, binding, brace, cash, cash payment, cast, cataplasm, clearance, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, dressing, dust jacket, earnest, earnest money, elastic bandage, envelope, envelopment, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze, gift wrapping, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, jacket, lint, liquidation, monthly payments, never-never, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, retirement, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, satisfaction, settlement, sinking-fund payment, sling, splint, sponge, spot cash, stupe, tampon, tape, tent, tourniquet, triangular bandage, weekly payments, wrap, wrapper, wrapping

binding

• binding, Smyth sewing, absolute, adhesive, affixation, annexation, attachment, authoritative, backing, bandage, bandaging, beading, bibliopegy, binder, binder board, bond, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bordering, bordure, canonical, case, casemaking, casing-in, clasping, cogent, collating, collating mark, combinative, communicating, compulsory, conclusive, conjunctive, connecting, connectional, connective, consistent, copulative, cover, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, dictated, didactic, dust cover, dust jacket, edging, entailed, envelope, envelopment, fastener, fastening, fimbria, fimbriation, final, flounce, folding, footband, formulary, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, gathering, gift wrapping, girding, gluing-off, good, hard and fast, hard binding, hard-and-fast, headband, hem, hooking, imperative, imperious, imposed, inevitable, instructive, intercommunicating, involuntary, irrevocable, jacket, joining, just, knot, lashing, lawful, legal, legitimate, library binding, ligation, lining, lining-up, linking, list, logical, mandated, mandatory, mechanical binding, meeting, motif, must, necessary, niggerhead, obligatory, official, peremptory, perfect binding, plastic binding, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, required, rounding, rubric, ruffle, saddle stitching, self-consistent, selvage, sewing, side sewing, signature, skirting, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, solid, sound, spiral binding, splice, stamping, standard, stapling, statutory, sticking, substantial, sufficient, tailband, tieing, tipping, trimming, ultimate, valance, valid, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded, welt, wire stitching, without appeal, wrap, wrapper, wrapping, zipping

binge

• binge, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, blast, blowout, booze, bout, brannigan, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, guzzle, jag, lark, orgy, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rampage, randan, randy, revel, soak, souse, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, time, toot, wassail, wingding

bingo

• bingo, Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery, association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano, billiards, bowling, bowls, boxing, card games, cat, catch, charades, checkers, chess, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, class lottery, climbing, crack-loo, crambo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, cricket, croquet, curling, discus, dominoes, draft lottery, draughts, drawing, fishing, fives, football, ghost, gliding, go, golf, grab bag, handball, hazard, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey, hopscotch, horse racing, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, interest lottery, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog, lottery, lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering, mumble-the-peg, ninepins, number lottery, numbers pool, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, pinball, pitch and toss, policy, polo, pool, post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets, raffle, riding, roller skating, rouge et noir, roulette, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, shell game, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles, sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, sports, squash, stickball, surfing, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, table tennis, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, tetherball, the numbers, the numbers game, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting, tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, tombola, tontine, trapshooting, trente-et-quarante, tug of war, volleyball, water polo, waterskiing, wrestling

binomial

• binomial, Linnaean, biaxial, bicameral, bicuspid, bifid, biform, binocular, binominal, bipartite, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, classificatory, nomenclatural, onomastic, orismological, taxonomic, terminological, toponymic, toponymous, trinomial, unibivalent

biochemical

• biochemical, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, base, basic, cation, chemical, chemical element, chemicobiological, chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical, chemurgic, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, copolymeric, copolymerous, dimer, dimeric, dimerous, electrochemical, element, elemental, elementary, heavy chemicals, heteromerous, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, isomerous, macrochemical, macromolecule, metamer, metameric, molecule, monomer, monomerous, neutralizer, nonacid, organic chemical, oxyacid, photochemical, physicochemical, phytochemical, polymer, polymeric, pseudoisomer, radical, radiochemical, reagent, sulfacid, thermochemical, trimer

biochemistry

• biochemistry, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, life science, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

biofeedback

• biofeedback, Arica movement, Erhard Seminars Training, New Consciousness, Pentothal interview, SAT, T-group, assertiveness training, behavior modification, behavior therapy, bioenergetics, confrontation therapy, conjoint therapy, consciousness raising, counseling, directive therapy, encounter therapy, est, family training, feminist therapy, gestalt therapy, group psychotherapy, group relations training, group sensitivity training, group therapy, humanistic therapy, hypnoanalysis, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotism, marathon, marriage encounter, mind cure, narcoanalysis, narcohypnosis, narcosynthesis, narcotherapy, nondirective therapy, occupational therapy, pastoral counseling, play therapy, primal therapy, prolonged narcosis, psychodrama, psychological counseling, psychosurgery, psychosynthesis, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy, radical therapy, rational-emotive therapy, reality therapy, recreational therapy, regression therapy, release therapy, scream therapy, sensitivity training, sensory awareness training, sleep treatment, supportive therapy, training group, transactional analysis, transcendental meditation, transpersonal therapy, vocational therapy

biography

• biography, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, autobiography, biographical sketch, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, confessions, curriculum vitae, diary, experiences, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, journal, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, necrology, obit, obituary, photobiography, profile, record, resume, story, theory of history

biological clock

• biological clock, anima, animating force, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, pneuma, prana, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

biological urge

• biological urge, andromania, aphrodisia, bodily appetite, carnal desire, concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, indecency, infantile sexuality, itch, lasciviousness, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, nymphomania, passion, polymorphous perversity, prurience, pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, venereal appetite

biologist

• biologist, anatomist, animal physiologist, anthropologist, bacteriologist, biochemist, biometrist, biophysicist, botanist, conchologist, cytologist, ecologist, entomologist, ethologist, geneticist, helminthologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, malacologist, mammalogist, natural scientist, naturalist, ophiologist, ornithologist, physiologist, protozoologist, taxidermist, zoo-ecologist, zoographer, zoologist, zoonomist, zoopathologist, zoophysicist, zootaxonomist

biology

• biology, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, animal physiology, anthropology, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, comparative anatomy, conchology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, entomology, enzymology, ethnobiology, ethology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, life science, malacology, mammalogy, microbiology, molecular biology, ornithology, pharmacology, physiology, protozoology, radiobiology, taxidermy, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

bionics

• bionics, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, automatic electronics, autonetics, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, circuit analysis, communication theory, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, information theory, life science, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radio control, radiobiology, servo engineering, servomechanics, system engineering, systems analysis, systems planning, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

bionomics

• bionomics, aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, autecology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, electrobiology, element, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, life science, medium, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, synecology, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

biophysics

• biophysics, Newtonian physics, acoustics, aerobiology, aerophysics, agrobiology, anatomy, applied physics, astrobiology, astrophysics, bacteriology, basic conductor physics, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, botany, cell physiology, chemical physics, cryobiology, cryogenics, crystallography, cybernetics, cytology, cytophysics, ecology, electrobiology, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, geophysics, gnotobiotics, life science, macrophysics, mathematical physics, mechanics, medicophysics, microbiology, microphysics, molecular biology, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear physics, optics, pharmacology, philosophy, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, physiology, psychophysics, radiation physics, radiobiology, radionics, solar physics, solid-state physics, statics, stereophysics, taxonomy, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, virology, xenobiology, zoology, zoophysics

biopsy

• biopsy, Pap test, anatomic diagnosis, biological diagnosis, clinical diagnosis, cytodiagnosis, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, digital examination, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, examination, laboratory diagnosis, mammography, oral examination, physical diagnosis, physical examination, postmortem diagnosis, serodiagnosis, smear, study, test, urinalysis, uroscopy, work-up

biorhythm

• biorhythm, anima, animating force, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, blood, breath, breath of life, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, pneuma, prana, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

biosphere

• biosphere, Earth, Gaea, Ge, Tellus, Terra, aerosphere, all that lives, atmosphere, biochore, biocycle, biota, biotope, brawn, ecosphere, fiber, flesh, flora and fauna, gaseous envelope, geography, geosphere, globe, lift, living matter, living nature, mother earth, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, plasm, terra, terrestrial globe, the blue planet, this pendent world, tissue, vale, vale of tears, welkin, whole wide world, world

bipartisan

• bipartisan, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, bipartite, biparty, dichotomous, double, duadic, dual, dualistic, duplex, duplicated, dyadic, identical, matched, partisan, party, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-sided

bipartisanship

• bipartisanship, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, sextet, solidarity, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, trio, triumvirate, troika, united action

bipartite

• bipartite, apart, asunder, biaxial, bicameral, bicuspid, bifid, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartisan, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, dichotomous, discontinuous, discrete, distinct, divergent, double, duadic, dual, dualistic, duplex, duplicated, dyadic, identical, in two, incoherent, insular, matched, noncohesive, partitioned, separate, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-sided, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconnected, unibivalent, unjoined

biped

• biped, amphibian, aquatic, biaxial, bicameral, bicuspid, bifid, biform, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartite, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, unibivalent, varmint, vermin, vertebrate

Bircher

• Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, conservatist, conservative, diehard, extreme right-winger, hard hat, imperialist, monarchist, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, ultraconservative

bird cage

• bird cage, aviary, birdhouse, bones, columbary, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crooked dice, cubes, dice, die, dovecote, ivories, loaded dice, perch, pigeon house, pigeon loft, poker dice, roost, roosting place, teeth

bird sanctuary

• bird sanctuary, Indian reservation, archives, asylum, bank, forest preserve, game preserve, game reserve, game sanctuary, harbor, harbor of refuge, harborage, haven, library, museum, national forest, national park, paradise, park, port, preserve, refuge, reservation, reserve, safe haven, safehold, sanctuary, snug harbor, state forest, store, stronghold, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve

bird

• bird, Bronx cheer, Jane, atomic warhead, avifauna, baby bird, bastard, biddy, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, bitch, boo, broad, bugger, cage bird, cat, catcall, chap, character, chick, cygnet, dame, diving bird, doll, dove, duck, eagle, eaglet, feller, fellow, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, guided missile, guy, hen, hiss, hoot, insect-eating bird, jasper, joker, lad, migrant, migratory bird, minx, missile, nestling, nuclear warhead, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, payload, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, pooh, pooh-pooh, ratite, razz, rocket, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, skirt, songbird, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, stud, swan, thermonuclear warhead, tomato, torpedo, wading bird, war rocket, warbler, warhead, water bird, waterfowl, wench, wildfowl

birdcall

• birdcall, Angelus, Angelus bell, alarm, alarum, animal noise, bark, barking, battle cry, bugle call, call, clang, cry, grunt, howl, howling, last post, mating call, moose call, note, rallying cry, rebel yell, reveille, stridulation, summons, taps, trumpet call, ululation, war cry, whistle, woodnote

birth control

• birth control, aridity, barrenness, contraception, dearth, dry womb, dryness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, planned parenthood, rhythm method, sterileness, sterility, the pill, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, vasectomy, withered loins

birth defect

• birth defect, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease

birth

• birth, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, abiogenesis, abortion, accouchement, affiliation, allele, allelomorph, ancestry, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, apparentation, archigenesis, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, babyhood, bear, bearing, beget, beginning, beginnings, being alive, biogenesis, birth throes, birthing, blastogenesis, blessed event, blood, bloodline, blue blood, branch, breed, bring to birth, character, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, commencement, common ancestry, confinement, consanguinity, cradle, creation, dawn, dawning, delivery, derivation, descent, determinant, determiner, development, diathesis, digenesis, direct line, distaff side, distinction, emergence, endowment, engender, epigenesis, eugenics, eumerogenesis, existence, extraction, factor, family, father, female line, filiation, freshman year, gene, generation, genesiology, genesis, genetic code, genetics, genteelness, gentility, give birth to, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, having life, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, honorable descent, house, immortality, inborn capacity, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, inheritability, inheritance, isogenesis, labor, life, lifetime, line, line of descent, lineage, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, male line, matrocliny, merogenesis, metagenesis, miscarriage, monogenesis, mother, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, onset, opening, origin, origination, orthogenesis, outset, outstart, pangenesis, parentage, parthenogenesis, parturition, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, phylum, pregnancy, procreate, procreation, quality, race, rank, recessive character, replication, royalty, seed, sept, side, sire, slip, spear side, spindle side, spontaneous generation, spriteliness, start, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, the Nativity, the stork, travail, viability, vitality, vivacity, youth

birthday suit

• birthday suit, bareness, decollete, ecdysiast, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, nakedness, naturism, naturist, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, state of nature, stripper, stripteaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness

birthday

• birthday, anniversary, annual holiday, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, bissextile day, centenary, centennial, commemoration, decennial, diamond jubilee, golden wedding anniversary, holy days, immovable feast, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day, octennial, quadrennial, quasquicentennial, quincentenary, quincentennial, quinquennial, septennial, sesquicentennial, sextennial, silver wedding anniversary, tercentenary, tercentennial, tricennial, triennial, wedding anniversary

birthmark

• birthmark, blackhead, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, bulla, caste mark, character, check, checkmark, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot, earmark, engraving, fault, feature, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, hemangioma, hickey, jot, keloid, kink, lentigo, macula, mark, marking, milium, mole, mottle, needle scar, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, puncture, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sebaceous cyst, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, sty, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, track, trait, travail, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

birthplace

• birthplace, Vaterland, breeding place, brooder, cradle, fatherland, forcing bed, hatchery, home, homeground, homeland, hotbed, incubator, la patrie, mother country, motherland, native land, native soil, nest, nidus, nursery, patria, rookery, the old country

birthright

• birthright, appanage, appurtenance, authority, bequeathal, bequest, borough-English, claim, coheirship, conjugal right, coparcenary, demand, divine right, droit, due, entail, faculty, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, inalienable right, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, interest, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, natural right, patrimony, perquisite, postremogeniture, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, primogeniture, privilege, proper claim, property right, reversion, right, succession, title, ultimogeniture, vested interest, vested right

biscuit

• biscuit, Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, adobe, bisque, bone, bowl, brick, brownie, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, cookie, cracker, crock, crockery, date bar, dust, enamelware, firebrick, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, glass, graham cracker, hardtack, jug, ladyfinger, macaroon, mummy, parchment, pilot biscuit, porcelain, pot, pottery, pretzel, refractory, rusk, saltine, sea biscuit, ship biscuit, shortbread, sinker, soda cracker, stick, sugar cookie, tile, tiling, urn, vase, wafer, zwieback

bisect

• bisect, amputate, average, ax, bifurcate, branch, butcher, by two, carve, chop, cleave, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dimidiate, dissever, divide, double, excise, fission, fissure, fold, fork, gash, hack, halve, hew, in half, incise, jigsaw, lance, middle, pare, prune, ramify, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, split in two, subdivide, sunder, tear, transect, whittle

bisexual

• bisexual, AC-DC, amphierotic, androgyne, androgynous, auntie, autoerotic, bi-guy, biaxial, bicameral, bicuspid, bifid, biform, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartite, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexed, bivalent, bull dyke, butch, catamite, chicken, deviant, dyke, effeminate, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gay, gunsel, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, invert, lesbian, mannish, nance, pansy, pathic, perverted, punk, queen, queer, sapphic, sapphist, swinging both ways, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic, unibivalent

bishop

• bishop, Aaronic priesthood, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, Melchizedek priesthood, Seventy, abuna, antipope, apostle, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, castle, chaplain, chessman, coadjutor, curate, deacon, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, elder, exarch, hierarch, high priest, king, knight, man, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, pawn, penitentiary, piece, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, priest, primate, queen, rector, rook, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, teacher, vicar

bishopric

• bishopric, Kreis, abbacy, aedileship, archbishopric, archdeaconry, archdiocese, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopdom, borough, canonicate, canonry, canton, cardinalship, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, city, commune, conference, congressional district, constablewick, consulate, consulship, county, curacy, deaconry, deaconship, deanery, deanship, departement, dictatorship, dictature, diocese, directorship, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, emirate, episcopacy, episcopate, government, governorship, hamlet, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, hundred, leadership, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolis, metropolitan area, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, oblast, okrug, papacy, parish, pashadom, pashalic, pastorate, pastorship, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, prebend, prebendaryship, precinct, prefectship, prefecture, prelacy, prelateship, prelature, premiership, presbyterate, presbytery, presidency, presidentship, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, province, provostry, provostship, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, region, riding, ruling class, see, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, synod, territory, town, township, tribunate, vicariate, vicarship, village, vizierate, viziership, wapentake, ward

bison

• bison, Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, kine, leppy, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, ox, oxen, steer, stirk, stot, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

bisque

• bisque, adobe, biscuit, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, bowl, brick, broth, burgoo, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, chicken soup, china, chowder, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, crock, crockery, egg drop soup, enamelware, firebrick, fish soup, gazpacho, glass, gravy soup, gumbo, jug, julienne, matzo ball soup, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, porcelain, pot, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, pottery, puree, refractory, soup, stock, thick soup, thin soup, tile, tiling, tomato soup, turtle soup, urn, vase, vegetable soup, vichyssoise, won ton soup

bistro

• bistro, alehouse, automat, bar, barrel house, barroom, beanery, beer garden, beer parlor, blind tiger, buffet, buvette, cabaret, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, cocktail lounge, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, discotheque, dive, dog wagon, dramshop, drinking saloon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, gin mill, grill, grillroom, groggery, grogshop, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, honky-tonk, hot-dog stand, kitchen, local, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, night spot, nightclub, nitery, pizzeria, pothouse, pub, public, public house, quick-lunch counter, rathskeller, restaurant, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, smorgasbord, snack bar, speakeasy, supper club, taproom, tavern, tearoom, trattoria, watering place, wine shop

bit by bit

• bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, by snatches, degreewise, drop by drop, foot by foot, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, inch by inch, inchmeal, little by little, part by part, piece by piece, piecemeal, slowly, step by step

bit

• bit, ALGOL, COBOL, EDP, FORTRAN, a breath, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ace, act, actor, aculeus, acumination, afterpiece, allotment, allowance, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, anchor watch, angular data, antagonist, antihero, arrest, assembler, atom, auger, back band, backstrap, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bearing rein, bellyband, bibelot, big end, bigger half, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit part, bite, blinders, blinds, borer, bowshot, brake, brass farthing, breeching, bridle, brief span, budget, bug, butt, button, byte, caparison, cast, cavesson, cent, chain, channel, character, chaser, check, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, chip, chock, chunk, cinch, cipher, clip, clipping, clog, close quarters, close range, collar, collop, command pulses, commands, commission, communication explosion, communication theory, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, constrain, contingent, control signals, controlled quantity, correcting signals, countercheck, crack, crownband, crumb, crupper, cue, curb, curb bit, curio, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, cusp, cut, cutting, dab, damper, data, data retrieval, data storage, day shift, deal, decoding, destiny, digit, divertimento, divertissement, dividend, dogwatch, dole, dollop, doorstop, dot, drag, drag sail, dram, dribble, driblet, drift anchor, drift sail, drill, drogue, drop, dwarf, earreach, earshot, electronic data processing, encoding, end, entropy, epilogue, equal share, error, error signals, exode, exodus, expository scene, farce, farthing, fat part, fate, feather, feedback pulses, feedback signals, feeder, fetter, fig, figure, film data, finale, fleabite, fleck, flyspeck, folderol, fragment, fribble, frippery, full time, gag swivel, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, girth, gob, gobbet, grain, granule, graveyard shift, groat, gunshot, hackamore, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half, half rations, half time, halfpenny, halter, halver, hames, hametugs, handful, harness, headgear, headstall, heavy, helping, hero, heroine, hexadecimal system, hill of beans, hip straps, hoke act, hold back, hold down, hold in, holdback, hunk, inch, information, information explosion, information theory, ingenue, inhibit, input data, input quantity, instant, instructions, interest, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, iota, jaquima, jerk line, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, little, little bit, little ways, little while, lobster trick, lot, lota, lump, machine language, martingale, measure, meed, mere subsistence, mess, message, minikin, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mockery, modicum, moiety, molecule, molehill, moment, morsel, mote, mouthful, mucro, multiple messages, neb, needle, nib, night shift, no time, noise, noseband, notation, number, numeral, numeric data, numero, nutshell, octal system, oscillograph data, ounce, output data, output quantity, overtime, pair of winks, paring, part, part time, particle, pebble, pelham, peppercorn, percentage, person, personage, picayune, piece, pin, pinch, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistol shot, pittance, play, point, polar data, pole strap, portion, prick, prickle, prologue, proportion, protagonist, punch-card data, quantum, quota, rake-off, random data, rap, rasher, ration, rectangular data, red cent, redundancy, reference quantity, reins, relay, remora, ribbons, role, routine, row of pins, ruly English, rush, saddle, scene, scoop, scotch, scrap, scrimption, scruple, sea anchor, segment, shackle, shaft tug, shard, share, shaving, shift, shit, shiver, short allowance, short commons, short distance, short piece, short spell, short time, short way, shred, shtick, side, side check, sign, signal, signals, single messages, sketch, skit, slice, sliver, small share, small space, smidgen, smitch, smithereen, snack, snaffle, snap, snatch, sneeshing, snip, snippet, song and dance, sou, soubrette, space, span, speck, spell, spitting distance, splinter, split schedule, split shift, spoke, spoonful, spot, spurt, stake, stand-up comedy act, starvation wages, stay, step, sting, stint, stitch, stock, stop, straight part, straw, stretch, striptease, stump, sunrise watch, supporting character, supporting role, surcingle, swing shift, symbol, tack, tackle, tatter, thimbleful, time, tiny bit, tip, title role, tittle, tour, tour of duty, toy, trammel, trappings, trick, trifle, trifling amount, trinket, trivia, triviality, tug, tuppence, turn, turn of work, two cents, two shakes, twopence, unorganized data, villain, visible-speech data, walk-on, walking part, watch, whet, whim-wham, whit, winker braces, withhold, work shift, yoke

bitch box

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

bitch

• bitch, Augean task, Herculean task, Jane, Jezebel, Partlet, Seeing Eye dog, air a grievance, backbreaker, bad woman, baggage, ballbuster, bandog, battle-ax, bawd, beef, beefing, beguile, beldam, bellyache, bellyaching, betray, biddy, bimbo, bird, bitch up, bitching, bleat, bluff, bobble, boggle, bonehead into it, bossy, botch, bowwow, boycott, broad, brood mare, bugger, bugger up, bungle, call in question, canine, cat, challenge, chick, chippy, chore, clamor, clitoromaniac, cocotte, common scold, complain, complaining, complaint, compunction, cow, crab, crib, croak, cry out against, dame, dead lift, delude, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, destructive criticism, dispute, dissent, doe, dog, doll, double-cross, drab, drop a brick, easy lay, easy woman, enter a protest, ewe, ewe lamb, exception, expostulate, expostulation, fancy dog, faultfinding, filly, fishwife, floozie, floozy, flub, foul up, four-flush, frail sister, fret, fret and fume, fury, fuss, goof, goof up, grievance, grievance committee, gripe, griping, grisette, groan, groaning, grouch, grouse, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grump, grunt, guide dog, guinea hen, gum up, gyp, handful, hard job, hard pull, harlot, harpy, harridan, hash up, heavy sledding, heifer, hen, hind, holler, hooker, howl, humbug, hussy, hustler, hysteromaniac, indignation meeting, jade, jenny, juggle, kennel, kick, kicking, lap dog, large order, lioness, lodge a complaint, loose woman, louse up, man-sized job, march, mare, mess up, minx, mope, murmur, murmuring, mutter, nag, nanny, nanny goat, nonviolent protest, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, object, objection, pack of dogs, peahen, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, picket, picketing, pickup, pooch, press objections, pro, prostitute, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, pup, puppy, qualm, quean, querulousness, raise a howl, rally, register a complaint, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, roe, rough go, ruin, scold, scolding, screw up, scruple, she-bear, she-devil, she-goat, she-lion, she-wolf, sheep dog, show dog, shrew, sit in, sit-in, skirt, sled dog, slut, sniping, sow, spitfire, spoil, squawk, squawking, state a grievance, streetwalker, strike, strumpet, sulk, take in, take on, tall order, tart, teach in, teach-in, termagant, tigress, tomato, tough job, tough proposition, toy dog, tramp, trollop, trull, uphill work, uteromaniac, virago, vixen, wanton, watchdog, wench, whelp, whining, whore, witch, working dog, yammer, yap, yapping, yawp, yell bloody murder, yelp

bitchy

• bitchy, abusive, back-biting, baleful, bearish, belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, cankered, cantankerous, catty, censorious, churlish, contemptuous, contumelious, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despiteful, detractory, disagreeable, disparaging, evil, excitable, feisty, fractious, harmful, hateful, huffish, huffy, iniquitous, invidious, irascible, irritable, libelous, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, minimizing, nasty, noxious, ornery, pejorative, perverse, rancorous, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, vicious, vilifying, waspish, wicked

bite the bullet

• bite the bullet, affront, beard, bell the cat, brave, brazen, brazen out, confront, face, face the music, face up, face up to, front, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, run the gauntlet, set at defiance, speak out, speak up, stand up to

bite the dust

• bite the dust, bow, break up, crumble, crumble to dust, disintegrate, drop dead, fall, fall dead, fall down dead, fall to pieces, go down, go to pieces, go under, have enough, lick the dust, lose, lose out, lose the day, say uncle, succumb, take the count, topple, tumble

bite

• bite, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuminate, acute pain, adhere to, afflict, agonize, ail, allotment, allowance, and sinker, astringency, auger, bait, be a sucker, be keen, be taken in, bear hug, benumb, big end, bigger half, bit, bite the tongue, bitingness, bitterness, bolus, bore, boring pain, briskness, bristle with, broach, budget, burn, causticity, chafe, champ, charley horse, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chill, chomp, chunk, clamp, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clip, clutch, collation, commission, contingent, convulse, corrode, countersink, cramp, cramps, crick, crucify, crunch, cud, cut, cuttingness, darting pain, deal, death grip, destiny, devour, distress, dividend, dole, drill, drive, eat, eat away, eat out, eat up, edge, effectiveness, embrace, empierce, end, equal share, erode, etch, excruciate, fall for, fate, fester, fierceness, firm hold, fix, foothold, footing, force, forcefulness, freeze, freeze to, fret, frost, frostbite, fulgurant pain, gall, ginger, girdle pain, give pain, gnash, gnaw, gnawing, go for, go through, gob, gobble up, gore, gouge, gouge out, grapple, grasp, grate, grind, grip, gripe, griping, gulp down, gum, guts, half, halver, hang on, hang on to, harrow, harshness, have an edge, helping, hitch, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hole, honeycomb, hotness, hug, hurt, impale, impressiveness, incisiveness, inflame, inflict pain, interest, iron grip, irritate, jumping pain, keenness, keep hold of, kick, kill by inches, kink, lacerate, lance, lancinating pain, lap up, lick, light lunch, light meal, light repast, line, liveliness, lot, martyr, martyrize, masticate, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, mordacity, mordancy, morsel, mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, needle, nervosity, nervousness, never let go, nibble, nip, nippiness, nosh, numb, pain, pang, paroxysm, part, penetrate, pepperiness, percentage, perforate, piece, pierce, pinch, pink, poignancy, point, portion, power, prick, prolong the agony, proportion, punch, puncture, purchase, put to torture, quantum, quid, quota, raciness, rack, rake-off, rankle, rasp, ration, ream, ream out, refreshments, refrigerate, relish, riddle, rigor, roughness, rub, ruminate, run through, scour, scrap, scrunch, segment, seizure, severity, share, sharp pain, sharpness, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, sinew, sinewiness, sip, skewer, slice, small share, snack, snap, snappiness, spasm, spear, spice, spiciness, spike, spit, spot of lunch, stab, stabbing pain, stake, stick, stick to, sting, stitch, stock, strength, stridency, stringency, strong language, sup, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow whole, swing at, take the bait, tang, tanginess, tap, tartness, taste, teeth, thrill, throes, tight grip, toehold, tooth, tormen, torment, torture, transfix, transpierce, trenchancy, trepan, trephine, tumble for, tweak, twinge, twist, twitch, vehemence, vigor, vigorousness, violence, virulence, vitality, wear away, wound, wrench, wring, zest, zestfulness, zip

biting

• biting, Attic, Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, agonizing, algid, arctic, asperous, astringent, atrocious, below zero, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brilliant, brisk, brumal, caustic, clear-cut, clever, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, corroding, corrosive, cramping, crisp, cruel, cutting, distressing, double-edged, driving, droll, edged, effective, escharotic, excruciating, facetious, fierce, forceful, forcible, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, funny, gelid, glacial, gnawing, grave, griping, gutsy, hard, harrowing, harsh, hibernal, hiemal, humorous, humorsome, hurtful, hurting, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, imperative, impressive, incisive, inclement, ingoing, irritating, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, mordacious, mordant, nervous, nimble-witted, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing, painful, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piquant, poignant, pointed, powerful, punchy, pungent, quick-witted, racking, rapier-like, raw, rigorous, rough, salt, salty, scathing, scintillating, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, shooting, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleety, slushy, smart, snappy, sour, sparkling, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sprightly, stabbing, stinging, stone-cold, strident, striking, stringent, strong, subzero, supercooled, tart, telling, tormenting, torturous, trenchant, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, whimsical, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering, witty

bitter end

• bitter end, Thule, Ultima Thule, bottom dollar, boundary, butt, butt end, catastrophe, climax, completion, conclusion, consummation, culmination, denouement, end, end result, extreme, extremity, fag end, farthest bound, final result, finale, jumping-off place, last act, limit, nib, payoff, point, pole, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, termination, tip

bitter pill

• bitter pill, acerbity, acridity, acridness, affliction, astringence, astringency, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitterness, burden, burden of care, cankerworm of care, care, causticity, cross, crown of thorns, curse, distress, encumbrance, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, infliction, load, oppression, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, pungency, sea of troubles, sharpness, sorrow, sourness, tartness, thorn, trouble, waters of bitterness, weight, woe

bitter

• bitter, Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, affecting, afflictive, aftertaste, algid, alienated, amaroidal, annoying, antagonistic, antipathetic, arctic, asperous, astringent, austere, bad, belligerent, below zero, bilious, biting, bitter as gall, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, brutal, burning, caustic, cheerless, choleric, clashing, coarse, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, colliding, comfortless, conflicting, corroding, corrosive, crisp, cruel, cutting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despiteful, disagreeable, discomforting, dislikable, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, displeasing, distasteful, distressful, distressing, disturbing, divided, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, double-edged, dreary, dyspeptic, edged, embittered, escharotic, estranged, fierce, flavor, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, full of hate, galling, gelid, glacial, grievous, gust, hard, harsh, hateful, hibernal, hiemal, hostile, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, incisive, inclement, intemperate, irreconcilable, irritating, jaundiced, joyless, keen, lamentable, malevolent, malicious, malignant, miserable, mordacious, mordant, mournful, moving, nasty, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing, obnoxious, offensive, painful, palate, pathetic, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piquant, piteous, pitiable, poignant, provoking, pungent, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, raw, regrettable, relish, reproachful, repugnant, resentful, resenting, rigorous, rough, rueful, rugged, sad, saddening, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, scathing, scorching, set against, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, smack, snappy, sore, sorrowful, sour, sour-tempered, soured, spiteful, splenetic, stabbing, stewing, stinging, stomach, stone-cold, strident, stringent, subzero, supercooled, sweet, tang, tart, taste, thankless, tongue, tooth, touching, trenchant, ugly, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, uncomfortable, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, uninviting, unkind, unlikable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, untasteful, unwelcome, vehement, venomous, vexatious, vicious, vinegarish, violent, virulent, vitriolic, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering, woebegone, woeful, wretched

bitterly

• bitterly, abominably, acerbically, acerbly, acidly, acridly, acrimoniously, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitingly, blatantly, brashly, caustically, confoundedly, corrodingly, corrosively, cruelly, cuttingly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, hardly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, incisively, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, keenly, lamentably, miserably, mordaciously, mordantly, nakedly, openly, painfully, penetratingly, piercingly, piteously, rancorously, sadly, scathingly, scorchingly, sharply, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, stabbingly, staggeringly, tartly, terribly, torturously, trenchantly, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, witheringly, woefully

bitterness

• bitterness, absolute zero, acerbity, aching heart, acid, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, agony, agony of mind, algidity, anguish, animosity, animus, antagonism, apologies, asperity, astringence, astringency, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad blood, bale, bile, bite, bitingness, bitter feeling, bitter pill, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, bleakness, bleeding heart, briskness, broken heart, causticity, causticness, cheerlessness, chill, chilliness, choler, cold, coldness, comfortlessness, contriteness, contrition, cool, coolness, coolth, corrosiveness, crispness, crushing, cryogenics, cryology, cuttingness, decrease in temperature, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, edge, enmity, extremity, feud, fierceness, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, gall, gall and wormwood, gelidity, gnashing of teeth, grief, grievousness, grip, hard feelings, harshness, hatred, heartache, heartburning, heavy heart, hostility, iciness, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, incisiveness, inclemency, infelicity, intense cold, joylessness, keenness, lamentability, lamentation, low temperature, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mordacity, mordancy, mournfulness, nip, nippiness, pain, painfulness, pathos, piercingness, piquancy, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, point, prostration, pungency, rancor, rankling, rawness, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regrettableness, regretting, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repining, resentment, rigor, roughness, sadness, severity, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, sharp air, sharpness, slow burn, soreness, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sourness, spleen, stabbingness, sting, stridency, stringency, suicidal despair, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, vendetta, venom, violence, virulence, vitriol, wistfulness, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, wretchedness

bivouac

• bivouac, Konzentrationslager, Lager, anchor, barrack, barracks, billet at, burrow, camp, camp out, campground, campsite, cantonment, casern, colonize, come to anchor, concentration camp, detention camp, domesticate, drive stakes, drop anchor, encamp, encampment, ensconce, establish residence, go camping, hive, hobo jungle, inhabit, keep house, lines, live at, locate, maroon, moor, move, nest, park, people, perch, pitch, pitch camp, populate, relocate, reside, roost, rough it, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down, sleep out, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tent, tented field

biweekly

• biweekly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, daybook, decennial, diary, diurnal, ephemeris, fortnightly, gazette, hebdomadal, hourly, journal, magazine, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, newsmagazine, organ, periodical, pictorial, quarterly, quotidian, review, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, serial, slick magazine, tertian, trade magazine, triennial, weekly, yearbook, yearly

bizarre

• bizarre, Gothic, absurd, amusing, antic, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baroque, beyond belief, brain-born, cockamamie, crazy, curious, deformed, deviant, dream-built, droll, eccentric, eerie, erratic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, florid, foolish, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, high-flown, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, incredible, irregular, kinky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, mysterious, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonsensical, notional, numinous, odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, outrageous, outre, peculiar, poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, quaint, queer, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rococo, screaming, singular, strange, teratogenic, teratoid, uncanny, unconventional, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild, witty

blab

• blab, agreeable rattle, babble, babblement, babbler, bavardage, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear witness against, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, bibble-babble, big talker, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blah-blah, blather, blatherer, blether, blethers, blow the whistle, blurt, blurt out, broadcast, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chatterbox, chatterer, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, delator, disclose, dither, divulge, expose, fink, gab, gabber, gabble, gabbler, gas, gasbag, gibber, gibble-gabble, gibble-gabbler, give away, go on, gossip, great talker, guff, gush, haver, hot air, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, idle talk, inform, inform against, inform on, informer, jabber, jabberer, jaw, jay, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, magpie, mere talk, moulin a paroles, narc, natter, noise about, nonsense talk, palaver, patter, patterer, peach, peacher, pour forth, prate, prater, prating, prattle, prattler, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rat, rattle, rattle on, reel off, reveal, reveal a secret, rumor, run on, sell out, sing, snitch, snitch on, snitcher, spill, spill the beans, spout, spout off, spy, squeal, squealer, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, talebearer, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tattle on, tattler, tattletale, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, telltale, testify against, tittle-tattle, turn informer, twaddle, twattle, waffle, whistle-blower, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger, yak, yakkety-yak

blabber

• blabber, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, be indiscreet, be unguarded, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, bibble-babble, blab, blabberer, blabbermouth, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blurt, blurt out, bombast, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chatterer, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, delator, dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, fink, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabber, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, give away, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, inform, inform on, informer, jabber, jabberer, jargon, jaw, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, magpie, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, narc, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, peach, peacher, piffle, pour forth, prate, prater, prating, prattle, prattler, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rat, rattle, rattle on, reel off, reveal a secret, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, sing, skimble-skamble, snitch, snitcher, spill, spill the beans, spout, spout off, spy, squeal, squealer, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talebearer, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tattle on, tattler, tattletale, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, telltale, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, whistle-blower, yak, yakkety-yak

blabbermouth

• blabbermouth, babbler, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, chatterer, delator, fink, gabber, gossip, informer, jabberer, magpie, narc, peacher, prater, prattler, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, whistle-blower

black and white

• black and white, North Pole, South Pole, antipodal points, antipodes, antipoints, antipoles, arc lighting, brouillon, cartoon, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, contraposita, contrapositives, contraries, contrast, counterpoles, crayon, decorative lighting, delineation, design, diagram, direct lighting, doodle, draft, drafting, drawing, ebauche, electric lighting, enlightenment, esquisse, festoon lighting, floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, gaslighting, glow lighting, graph, highlights, illumination, incandescent lighting, indirect lighting, irradiation, light and shade, lighting, line drawing, night and day, opposite poles, opposites, overhead lighting, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, polar opposites, poles, radiation, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sketching, spot lighting, stage lighting, strip lighting, study, tonality, tracing, vignette, writing

black belt

• black belt, Chinese boxer, agricultural region, arable land, bantamweight, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, citrus belt, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, heavyweight, highlands, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, lowlands, meadows and pastures, middleweight, moors, palooka, plains, prairies, prizefighter, province, provinces, pug, pugilist, rural district, rustic region, savate expert, sparrer, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, welterweight, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

black death

• black death, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, ambulatory plague, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black fever, black plague, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cellulocutaneous plague, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, defervescing plague, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, glandular plague, grippe, hansenosis, hemorrhagic plague, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, larval plague, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, murrain, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, pandemia, pandemic, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pest, pesthole, pestilence, plague, plague spot, pneumonia, pneumonic plague, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, premonitory plague, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, scourge, septic sore throat, septicemic plague, shingles, siderating plague, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, white plague, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

black eye

• black eye, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, black mark, black-and-blue mark, blot, blur, brand, broad arrow, bruise, censure, champain, contusion, disparagement, ecchymosis, imputation, mark of Cain, mouse, odium, onus, pillorying, point champain, reflection, reprimand, reproach, shiner, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, taint, tarnish

black hole

• black hole, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, Messier catalog, NGC, POW camp, Pleiades, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, bastille, binary star, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, double star, dwarf star, federal prison, fixed star, forced-labor camp, gaol, giant star, globular cluster, gravity star, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, neutron star, nova, open cluster, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, populations, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, reform school, reformatory, relative magnitude, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, sponging house, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, state prison, stellar magnitude, stockade, supernova, the hole, tollbooth, training school, variable star, white dwarf star

black humor

• black humor, Atticism, agile wit, burlesque, caricature, comedy, dry wit, esprit, farce, humor, irony, lampoon, nimble wit, parody, pleasantry, pretty wit, quick wit, ready wit, salt, sarcasm, satire, savor of wit, slapstick, slapstick humor, squib, subtle wit, travesty, visual humor, wit

black lung

• black lung, Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Minamata disease, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, altitude sickness, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, anthrax, asbestosis, asthma, atypical pneumonia, bituminosis, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, caisson disease, catarrh, chalicosis, chilblain, chronic bronchitis, cold, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, coryza, croup, croupous pneumonia, decompression sickness, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, emphysema, empyema, epidemic pleurodynia, fibrinous pneumonia, flu, frostbite, grippe, hay fever, immersion foot, influenza, itai, jet lag, la grippe, laryngitis, lead poisoning, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, lung cancer, lung fever, mercury poisoning, motion sickness, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, quinsy, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, rheum, siderosis, silicosis, sore throat, sunstroke, swine flu, the bends, the sniffles, the snuffles, tonsilitis, trench foot, virus pneumonia, wet pleurisy, whooping cough

black magic

• black magic, Black Mass, Satanism, chthonian worship, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, sorcery, the black art

black man

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

black mark

• black mark, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, black eye, blot, blur, brand, broad arrow, censure, champain, disparagement, imputation, mark of Cain, onus, pillorying, point champain, reflection, reprimand, reproach, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, taint, tarnish

black market

• black market, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, black-marketeer, bootleg, bootlegging, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious, fence, flawed, gambling, gray market, illegal, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate, illegitimate business, illicit, illicit business, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless, loan-sharking, moonshine, moonshining, narcotics traffic, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, organized crime, outlaw, outlawed, prostitution, protection racket, punishable, push, racket, shady dealings, shove, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usury, white slavery, wrongful

Black Mass

• Black Mass, Satanism, black magic, chthonian worship, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, sorcery

black out

• black out, annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, block the light, blot out, brown, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, crap out, darken, darken over, delete, dim, dim out, drop, eclipse, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, expunge, faint, fall senseless, gloom, gray out, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, keel over, kill, muffle, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pass out, quash, repress, shade, shadow, shush, sit on, smother, somber, squash, squelch, stifle, succumb, suppress, swoon, wipe out

black power

• black power, Black Power, Italian vote, Jewish vote, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, Polish Power, White Power, amperage, anti-Semitism, apartheid, armipotence, authority, beef, black supremacy, black vote, brute force, charge, charisma, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, clout, cogence, cogency, color bar, color line, compulsion, dint, discrimination, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, farm interests, fascism, financial interests, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, influence, interest group, know-nothingism, labor interests, main force, main strength, male chauvinist, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, minority prejudice, moxie, muscle power, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, pressure group, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting, segregation, sex discrimination, sexism, sinew, social barrier, social discrimination, special interests, special-interest group, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpatriotism, superpower, ultranationalism, validity, vehemence, vested interests, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, white power, white supremacy, xenophobia

black sheep

• black sheep, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, blemish, degenerate, fallen angel, foreign body, foreign intruder, impurity, intruder, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, misfit, monkey wrench, mote, oddball, pervert, pimp, profligate, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace, sliver, sorry lot, speck, splinter, stone, trollop, weed, whore

black

• black, American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Brunswick black, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, Stygian, WASP, abominable, absolute, angry, aniline black, apocalyptic, arrant, asperse, atramentous, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-tempered, baleful, ban, baneful, base, beamless, beetle-browed, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black man, black race, black-browed, black-skinned, blacken, blackfellow, blackguardly, blackish, blacklist, blackness, blamable, blameworthy, bleak, blue black, bodeful, boding, bone black, boy, boycott, brown man, brunet, burrhead, calamitous, caliginous, calumniate, carbon black, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, charcoal, chrome black, clouded, coal, coal-black, coaly, colored, colored person, complete, contuse, coon, corbeau, crape, criminal, crow, cypress, cypress lawn, damnable, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkling, darkness, darksome, darky, dastardly, deadly, deathly, deep black, deep mourning, defame, dejected, depressing, depressive, destructive, diabolical, dire, disastrous, disgraceful, dismal, dispiriting, doomful, dour, downright, drear, drearisome, dreary, drop black, dumpish, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, embargo, evil, evil-starred, execrable, fatal, fateful, felonious, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding, foul, frowning, funebrial, funereal, furious, gloomy, glowering, glum, gook, grave, gray, grievous, grim, grubby, grum, hateful, heinous, hellish, honky, hyacinthine, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, improper, impure, inaccurate, inauspicious, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, infernal, iniquitous, ink, ink-black, inkiness, inky, insidious, interdict, invalid, ivory black, japan, jet, jetty, jigaboo, jungle bunny, knavish, lampblack, libel, low, lowering, malevolent, malicious, malignant, melancholy, melanian, melanic, melanism, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, menacing, midnight, monstrous, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mourning, mourning band, mumpish, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nigger, niggra, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, of evil portent, ofay, ominous, onyx, oppressive, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, paleface, peccant, perfect, perfidious, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, portending, portentous, positive, pygmy, rank, raven, raven-black, rayless, red man, redskin, regular, reprehensible, reprobate, resentful, ruinous, sable, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, saturnine, scandalous, scowling, scurvy, shameful, sinful, sinister, slander, slant-eye, slate, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, slur, smear, smoke, smut, soily, solemn, somber, sombrous, soot, sooty, spade, squalid, starless, sulky, sullen, sunless, surly, swart, swarthy, tar, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, the Man, thoroughgoing, threatening, throw mud at, traduce, tragic, treacherous, triste, unclean, uncleanly, unconscionable, unfavorable, unforgivable, unfortunate, unhealthy, unilluminated, unkind, unlighted, unlit, unlucky, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unscrupulous, unskillful, unspeakable, untoward, unworthy, vicious, vile, vilify, villainous, weariful, wearisome, weary, weeds, white, white man, whitey, wicked, wrathful, wreckful, wrong, yellow man, yew

blackball

• blackball, ban, banish, banishment, blackballing, blacklist, boycott, boycottage, cast out, categorically reject, complaint, cut, deport, dim view, disagreement, disallow, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disapprove of, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disfellowship, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissent from, distaste, exclude, exclusion, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, frown at, frown down, frown upon, fugitate, grimace at, indignation, look askance at, look black upon, low estimation, low opinion, not approve, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, objection, oppose, opposition, opposure, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, proscribe, proscription, protest, reject, rejection, relegate, rusticate, say no to, send away, send down, send to Coventry, snub, spurn, take exception to, think ill of, think little of, thrust out, thumb down, thumbs-down, transport, unhappiness, view with disfavor

blackdamp

• blackdamp, afterdamp, breath, chokedamp, cloud, coal gas, damp, effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, fetid air, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fume, malaria, mephitis, miasma, puff of smoke, reek, smoke, smudge, steam, vapor, volatile, water vapor

blacken

• blacken, abuse, asperse, attaint, bark at, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedim, begloom, begrime, berate, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betongue, black, black out, blackwash, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, brown, call names, cast a shadow, cast aspersions on, censure, charcoal, cloud, cloud over, cork, darken, darken over, daub, defame, defile, denigrate, dim, dim out, dinge, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit, disparage, ebonize, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, engage in personalities, execrate, expose, expose to infamy, fulminate against, gibbet, gloom, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, ink, jaw, libel, load with reproaches, malign, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pillory, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprimand, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slander, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, somber, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish, throw mud at, thunder against, tongue-lash, traduce, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at

blackhead

• blackhead, birthmark, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, fault, flaw, freckle, hemangioma, hickey, keloid, kink, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, split, strawberry mark, sty, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

blackjack

• blackjack, Boston, Earl of Coventry, Pit, Polish bank, Russian bank, all fours, baccarat, banker, bastinado, bat, battering ram, billy, billy club, bludgeon, bluff, brag, bridge, bulldoze, bully, canasta, cane, casino, club, coerce, commerce, commit, connections, contract, contract bridge, cosh, cribbage, cudgel, dragoon, ecarte, euchre, faro, ferule, five hundred, flinch, fright, frog, gin, gin rummy, goat, hearts, hijack, intimidate, keno, knobkerrie, lansquenet, life preserver, loo, lottery, lotto, mace, matrimony, monte, morning star, napoleon, nightstick, old maid, ombre, paddle, patience, penny ante, picquet, poker, put-and-take, quadrille, quarterstaff, ram, reverse, rouge et noir, rum, rummy, sandbag, seven-up, shanghai, shillelagh, skat, snipsnapsnorum, solitaire, speculation, spontoon, staff, stave, steamroller, stick, straight poker, strong-arm, stud poker, thirty-one, truncheon, twenty-one, use violence, vingt-et-un, war club, whist

blackleg

• blackleg, Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, cheat, cheater, chiseler, cozener, crook, defrauder, diddler, distemper, fink, flimflam man, flimflammer, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes, glanders, gyp artist, gypper, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, juggler, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis, quarter evil, rabies, rat, rinderpest, rot, scab, scabies, sheep rot, splenic fever, staggers, strikebreaker, stringhalt, swindler, swine dysentery, two-timer

blacklist

• blacklist, anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, banishment, blackball, boycott, boycottage, bring home to, censure, condemn, convict, damn, denounce, denunciate, disfellowship, doom, excommunicate, find guilty, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, pass sentence on, penalize, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, proscription, sentence

blackmail

• blackmail, account, allowance, ask, ask for, assessment, badger, badger game, bill, blood money, bloodsucking, boodle, booty, call, call for, challenge, claim, clamor for, coerce, compel, contribution, cry for, demand, demand for, draft, drain, duty, emolument, exact, exaction, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, fee, footing, force, force from, graft, haul, heavy demand, hot goods, hush money, impose, imposition, impost, indent, initiation fee, insistent demand, issue an ultimatum, levy, levy blackmail, loot, make, make a demand, mileage, nonnegotiable demand, notice, order, order up, perks, perquisite, pickings, place an order, plunder, pork barrel, prize, protection racket, pry loose from, public till, public trough, put in requisition, ransom, reckoning, rend, rend from, require, requirement, requisition, retainer, retaining fee, rip, rip from, rush, rush order, scot, screw, shake down, shakedown, snatch from, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stipend, stolen goods, swag, take, tax, taxing, tear from, till, tribute, ultimatum, vampirism, warn, warning, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from

blackout

• blackout, KO, agnosia, amnesia, anoxia, asteroids, aurora particles, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blocking, brownout, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, censorship, coma, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, curtain, dematerialization, departure, dimout, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faint, fugue, going, grayout, hush-up, intergalactic matter, iron curtain, ironbound security, kayo, knockout, lipothymia, lipothymy, loss of memory, melting, meteor dust impacts, meteors, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, oath of secrecy, oblivion, obliviousness, occultation, official secrecy, pall, passing, pressure suit, radiation, repression, seal of secrecy, security, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sleep, smothering, space bullets, stifling, stupor, suppression, swoon, syncope, the bends, unconsciousness, vanishing, vanishing point, veil, veil of secrecy, weightlessness, wipe, word deafness, wraps

blacktop

• blacktop, Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, brick, carpet, causeway, cement, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, flag, flagging, flagstone, floor, gravel, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, metal, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, pebble, road metal, stone, tar, tarmacadam, tile, washboard