Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/64

pleasance

• pleasance, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, bliss, blissfulness, common, commons, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, enjoyableness, felicitousness, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, paradise, park, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, pleasurefulness, public park, rapport, sweetness, sweetness and light, welcomeness

pleasant

• pleasant, achingly sweet, advantageous, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, alluring, amiable, amicable, appealing, approachable, appropriate, ariose, arioso, attractive, auspicious, balmy, beaming, beneficial, benevolent, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bon, bonny, braw, bright, bright and fair, bright and sunny, brotherly, bueno, canorous, cantabile, capital, catchy, charming, cheerful, cheering, cheery, clear, cloudless, cogent, commendable, companionable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, convivial, cordial, courteous, cultivated, cultured, debonair, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, dulcet, elated, elegant, en rapport, engaging, enjoyable, estimable, eupeptic, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, euphoric, exalted, excellent, exhilarated, expedient, fair, fair and pleasant, famous, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, fitting, flushed, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, genial, genteel, glad, gladsome, glowing, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grand, grateful, gratifying, gregarious, happy, harmonious, healthy, heart-warming, helpful, high, honeyed, hopeful, hospitable, in good spirits, in high spirits, inviting, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, kind, laudable, laughing, likable, likeable, lovely, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noble, of good cheer, open, optimistic, outgoing, palatable, peaceable, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polished, polite, pretty, profitable, radiant, rainless, regal, rewarding, riant, rich, rosy, royal, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, savory, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, simpatico, singable, sisterly, skillful, smiling, sociable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sound, sparkling, splendid, suave, suitable, sunny, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sympathique, toothsome, tunable, tuneful, undarkened, unhostile, urbane, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, welcome, welcoming, well-affected, well-bred, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-mannered, well-meaning, well-meant, winning, winsome

pleasantly

• pleasantly, affably, agreeably, airily, amiably, amicably, ardently, arm in arm, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully, cheerily, congenially, cordially, enjoyably, fair, familiarly, favorably, friendliwise, friendly, genially, gladly, graciously, gratifyingly, hand in hand, happily, heartily, hopefully, intimately, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, kindly, lightly, optimistically, pleasingly, pleasurably, satisfyingly, smilingly, warmly, with good cheer, with open arms

pleasantness

• pleasantness, advantageousness, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, blitheness, blithesomeness, brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein, class, cogency, cordiality, desert, enjoyableness, eupeptic mien, excellence, expedience, fairness, favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, geniality, gladness, gladsomeness, good cheer, goodliness, goodness, grace, gratefulness, happiness, healthiness, helpfulness, hopefulness, kindness, merit, niceness, optimism, pleasance, profitableness, quality, radiance, rewardingness, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness, skillfulness, soundness, sunniness, superiority, sweetness and light, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, wholeness, winsomeness, worth

pleasantry

• pleasantry, Atticism, affability, agile wit, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, aphorism, apothegm, badinage, banter, black humor, bliss, blissfulness, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliance, brilliant idea, burlesque, caricature, chaff, cleverness, comedy, compatibility, complaisance, conceit, congeniality, cordiality, crack, dry wit, enjoyableness, epigram, esprit, exchange, facetiae, facetiousness, farce, felicitousness, flash of wit, flight of wit, fooling, fooling around, funniness, geniality, gibe, give-and-take, good-natured banter, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, happy thought, harmless teasing, harmoniousness, humor, humorousness, irony, jape, jest, jive, jocoseness, jocularity, joke, joking, josh, joshing, keen-wittedness, keenness, kidding, kidding around, lampoon, mellifluousness, mellowness, mot, nasty crack, niceness, nimble wit, nimble-wittedness, parody, persiflage, play of wit, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, pretty wit, pungency, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quip, quips and cranks, raillery, rallying, rapport, ready wit, repartee, retort, ridicule, riposte, sally, salt, saltiness, sarcasm, satire, savor of wit, scintillation, sharpness, slapstick, slapstick humor, smart crack, smart saying, smartness, snappy comeback, sport, squib, stroke of wit, subtle wit, sweetness, travesty, turn of thought, twit, visual humor, welcomeness, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness

please

• please, I beg you, amuse, be good enough, cater to, cheer, choose, choose rather, coddle, content, cosset, delectate, delight, desire, divert, do, elect, entertain, favor, give pleasure, give way to, gladden, go over big, gratify, happify, have a bias, have preference, have rather, have the goodness, hit the spot, honor before, humor, if you please, indulge, interest, lean towards, like, like better, make a hit, mollycoddle, oblige, opt, overjoy, pamper, pleasure, pray, pray do, prefer, prefer to, prithee, rather, regale, rejoice, satisfy, see fit, set before, spoil, suit, think best, think fit, think proper, tickle, titillate, want, will, will you, wish, yield to

pleased

• pleased, accepting, at ease, charmed, chuffed, comfortable, composed, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, easygoing, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, glad, gladsome, gratified, happy, in clover, in seventh heaven, intrigued, of good comfort, on cloud nine, pleased as Punch, pleased with, reconciled, resigned, sans souci, satisfied, sold on, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, uncomplaining, unrepining, without care

pleasing

• pleasing, Attic, Junoesque, acceptable, adorable, aesthetic, affable, agreeable, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, amply endowed, appetizing, artistic, attractive, becoming, blissful, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, chaste, cheerful, choice, classic, coddling, comely, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, cosseting, curvaceous, curvy, dainty, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, desirable, dulcet, easy, elegant, en rapport, enchanting, enjoyable, enviable, excellent, exciting, exquisite, facile, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, favoring, felicific, felicitous, fine, flowing, fluent, genial, goddess-like, good, good to eat, good-looking, good-mannered, good-tasting, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, gratification, gratifying, gustable, gusty, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, humoring, in good taste, indulgence, juicy, likable, likely, lovable, lovely to behold, luscious, lush, mellifluous, mellow, mollycoddling, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, obliging, of choice, of gourmet quality, of quality, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, palatable, pampering, permissiveness, personable, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, pneumatic, presentable, provocative, pure, quiet, restrained, rewarding, sapid, satisfactory, satisfying, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seductive, shapely, sightly, simple, slender, smooth, spoiling, stacked, statuesque, subdued, succulent, suitable, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tasteful, tasty, tempting, to be desired, toothsome, tripping, unaffected, understated, unobjectionable, unobtrusive, welcome, well-built, well-chosen, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, winning, worth having, yummy

pleasurable

• pleasurable, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blissful, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, genial, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, likable, mellifluous, mellow, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding, satisfying, sweet, welcome

pleasure principle

• pleasure principle, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, anima, appetite, appetitiveness, ardor, coconscious, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, drive, eagerness, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, epicureanism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, ethical self, eudaemonism, fancy, fantasy, foreconscious, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, hope, horme, id, intellectual curiosity, libidinal energy, libido, lust for learning, luxuriousness, luxury, mind, motive force, need, passion, persona, personality, pleasure, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, psychological hedonism, racial unconscious, self, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sexual desire, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, sybaritism, thirst for knowledge, unchastity, unconscious, unconscious mind, urge, vital impulse, voluptuousness, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment

pleasure seeker

• pleasure seeker, Cyrenaic, Heliogabalus, Sardanapalus, bon vivant, carouser, carpet knight, contestant, cutup, epicure, epicurean, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, gamboler, gourmand, gourmet, hedonist, merrymaker, playboy, player, pleasurer, pleasurist, reveler, rollicker, sensualist, sensuist, skylarker, swine, sybarite, voluptuary

pleasure seeking

• pleasure seeking, Cyrenaic, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, appetite, appetitive, appetitiveness, bent on pleasure, epicurean, epicureanism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, eudaemonic, fun-loving, hedonic, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, hedonistic, luxurious, luxuriousness, luxury, luxury-loving, pleasure principle, pleasure-bent, pleasure-loving, psychological hedonism, sensual, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sybaritic, sybaritism, unchaste, unchastity, voluptuous, voluptuousness

pleasure

• pleasure, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, alternate choice, alternative, amenity, amiability, amicability, amusement, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, ardor, behest, bidding, bliss, blissfulness, choice, comfort, command, commandment, compatibility, complaisance, conation, conatus, concupiscence, congeniality, contentment, cordiality, curiosity, decision, delectate, delectation, delight, desideration, desire, determination, dictate, dictation, direct order, discretion, disposition, diversion, divertisement, divertissement, drive, eagerness, enjoyableness, enjoyment, entertainment, fancy, fantasy, felicitousness, felicity, free choice, free will, fruition, geniality, gladden, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, gratification, gratify, happify, happiness, harmoniousness, hest, hope, horme, imperative, inclination, intellectual curiosity, intention, joy, joyance, kick, libido, liking, lust, lust for learning, mellifluousness, mellowness, mind, mirth, need, niceness, objective, option, optionality, order, passe-temps, passion, pastime, pleasance, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure principle, pleasurefulness, possible choice, preference, rapport, recreation, regalement, relaxation, relish, resolution, satisfaction, say-so, sexual desire, solace, special order, sweetness, thirst for knowledge, thrill, urge, velleity, volition, want, wanting, welcomeness, will, will and pleasure, will power, wish, wish fulfillment, word, word of command

pleasureless

• pleasureless, anguished, anxious, bored, cheerless, depressed, discontented, disgusted, grim, humorless, in bad humor, infestive, joyless, mirthless, miserable, nauseated, nauseous, out of humor, out of sorts, prey to malaise, repelled, revolted, sad, sickened, sorry, sorryish, suffering angst, uncheerful, uncheery, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unjoyful, unmirthful, unquiet, unsatisfied, unsmiling, wretched

pleat

• pleat, accordion pleat, aqueduct, box pleat, canal, canalization, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chisel, corrugate, crack, crease, crimp, crisp, cut, dado, dike, ditch, dog-ear, double, double over, enfold, engrave, entrenchment, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, fosse, frill, furrow, gash, gather, goffer, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, ha-ha, incise, infold, interfold, kennel, knife pleat, lap over, moat, plait, plat, plicate, plow, ply, quill, rabbet, rifle, ruff, ruffle, rut, score, scratch, slit, streak, striate, sunk fence, trench, trough, tuck, turn over, twill, wrinkle

pleated

• pleated, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, creased, crimped, cut, dadoed, dog-eared, doubled, engraved, flexible, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, furrowed, gashed, gathered, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, plaited, pliable, plicate, plicated, plicatile, quilled, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, tucked, twilled, wrinkled

plebeian

• plebeian, Babbittish, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, Philistine, average man, base, baseborn, below the salt, bourgeois, brutish, campy, coarse, cockney, common, common man, commoner, commonplace, crass, gauche, general, high-camp, homely, homespun, humble, ignoble, inferior, kitschy, little fellow, little man, low, low-camp, low-class, lowborn, lowbred, lowbrow, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, pleb, pop, popular, proletarian, provincial, public, roturier, rude, rustic, shabby-genteel, third-estate, uncouth, undistinguished, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined, unwashed, vernacular, vulgar, working-class

plebiscite

• plebiscite, Australian ballot, Hare system, aye, ballot, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, constitutional referendum, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, direct initiative, division, enfranchisement, facultative referendum, fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, indirect initiative, initiative, list system, mandate, mandatory referendum, nay, no, nontransferable vote, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, recall, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, statutory referendum, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

pledge

• pledge, Bible oath, Greek, accounts payable, accounts receivable, affiliate, agree, amount due, associate, assurance, assure, avouch, avouchment, avow, bad debts, bail, belonger, bib, bill, bills, bind, bond, booze, borrowing, bottomry, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charges, charter member, cheer, chip in, chits, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, collateral, commit, committeeman, comrade, confide, consign, contract, contribute, contribute to, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, countersign, covenant, debt, deposit, dip, donate to, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, due, dues, dues-paying member, earnest, earnest money, engage, enlistee, enrollee, entrust, escrow, extrajudicial oath, faith, fellow, financial commitment, floating debt, fraternity man, funded debt, gage, gift, gift with, give to, go bail, guarantee, guaranty, guildsman, guzzle, handsel, health, hock, honorary member, hostage, hypothecate, imbibe, impignorate, indebtedness, indebtment, initiate, insider, ironclad oath, joiner, judicial oath, kick in, liability, life member, loyalty oath, mainprise, make a promise, make imperative, make incumbent, maturity, member, mortgage, national debt, oath, oath of allegiance, oath of office, obligate, obligation, oblige, official oath, one of us, outstanding debt, parole, pass, pawn, pignus, plight, pop, post, promise, public debt, pull, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, quaff, recognizance, replevin, replevy, require, saddle with, score, security, sip, sister, socius, solemn declaration, solemn oath, sorority girl, sorority woman, spout, stake, subscribe, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, surety, swear, sweeten the kitty, swig, swill, test oath, tie, tipple, toast, token, token payment, toss down, toss off, tribute, troth, uncollectibles, undertake, undertaking, underwrite, unfulfilled pledge, vadimonium, vadium, vouch, vouchsafe, vow, warrant, warranty, wash down, word, word of honor

pledged

• pledged, affianced, affirmed, alleged, announced, answerable for, as earnest, asserted, asseverated, assured, at stake, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, beholden, beholden to, betrothed, bound, bounden, bounden to, certified, chargeable, committed, compromised, contracted, declared, deposed, deposited, duty-bound, engaged, enunciated, guaranteed, in duty bound, in hock, in pawn, indebted to, intended, liable, manifestoed, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, on deposit, pawned, plighted, posted, predicated, professed, promised, pronounced, put up, responsible, saddled, staked, stated, sworn, sworn to, tied, under obligation, underwritten, up the spout, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted

pledget

• pledget, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, binder, brace, cast, cataplasm, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, elastic bandage, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze, lint, plaster, plaster cast, poultice, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, sling, splint, sponge, stupe, tampon, tape, tent, tourniquet, triangular bandage

pleiad

• pleiad, big name, celebrity, constellation, cynosure, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, hero, heroine, idol, immortal, important person, lion, luminaries, luminary, man of mark, master spirit, name, notability, notable, person of note, personage, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, public figure, social lion, somebody, star, superstar, worthy

Pleiades

• Pleiades, Atlantides, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, Messier catalog, NGC, Napaea, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, binary star, black hole, double star, dryad, dwarf star, fixed star, flower nymph, giant star, glen nymph, globular cluster, gravity star, hamadryad, limoniad, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, mountain nymph, neutron star, nova, nymph, nymphet, nymphlin, open cluster, oread, populations, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, stellar magnitude, supernova, tree nymph, variable star, vila, white dwarf star, willi, wood nymph

plenary

• plenary, SRO, absolute, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, comprehensive, congested, consequential, considerable, cram-full, crammed, deep, exhaustive, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, grand, grave, great, heavy, illimitable, intense, irresistible, jam-packed, limitless, main, maximum, mighty, no strings, open, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, perfect, powerful, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, serious, soaked, standing room only, strong, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful, total, unbound, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, unequivocal, unlimited, unmeasured, unqualified, unrestricted, wide-open, without strings

plenipotentiary

• plenipotentiary, absolute, all-powerful, almighty, ambassador, ambassadorial, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, attache, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, consul, consul general, consular, consular agent, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, foreign service officer, internuncio, legate, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, ministerial, nuncio, omnipotent, resident, secretary of legation, sovereign, supreme, unlimited, vice-consul, vice-legate

plenitude

• plenitude, abundance, accumulation, acres, affluence, amassment, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, backlog, bags, barrels, bonanza, boundlessness, bountifulness, bountiousness, budget, bulk, bumper crop, bushel, ceaselessness, collection, commissariat, commissary, completeness, congestion, consecutiveness, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, continuousness, copiousness, cornucopia, countlessness, cumulation, dump, endlessness, enormity, enormousness, entireness, equilibrium, expanse, extravagance, exuberance, featurelessness, fertility, flood, flood tide, flow, foison, formidableness, full, full measure, fullness, gaplessness, generosity, generousness, gigantism, grandeur, grandness, great abundance, great plenty, great scope, greatness, gush, heap, high tide, high water, hoard, hugeness, immensity, impletion, incessancy, infinity, intactness, integrity, intensity, inventory, jointlessness, landslide, larder, largeness, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, load, lots, luxuriance, magnitude, mass, material, materials, materiel, maximum, might, mightiness, monotony, more than enough, mountain, much, muchness, multitude, munitions, myriad, myriads, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, overfullness, peck, pile, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, power, prevalence, prodigality, prodigiousness, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, provisionment, provisions, quantities, quantity, rations, repertoire, repertory, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rick, riot, riotousness, satiety, saturation, saturation point, scads, sea, seamlessness, shower, smoothness, soundness, spate, spring tide, stability, stack, steadiness, steady state, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream, strength, stupendousness, substantiality, substantialness, successiveness, superabundance, superfluity, supplies, supply on hand, surfeit, teemingness, tons, treasure, treasury, tremendousness, unbrokenness, undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unrelievedness, vastness, volume, wealth, wholeness, world, worlds

plenteous

• plenteous, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, fruitful, full, galore, generous, hearty, lavish, liberal, luxurious, opulent, plenty, prodigal, profuse, profusive, prolific, rampant, rife

plentiful

• plentiful, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, bursting, bursting out, copious, countless, creative, diffuse, effuse, enough, epidemic, excessive, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fulsome, galore, generous, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenty, plethoric, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, pullulating, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, sufficient, superabundant, swarming, swimming, teeming, thriving, uberous, unstinted, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

plenty

• plenty, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant, abundantly, accumulation, acres, adequate, affluence, affluent, all-sufficing, amassment, ample, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, avalanche, backlog, bags, barely sufficient, barrels, beaucoup, bonanza, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bountifulness, bountiousness, budget, bumper crop, bushel, collection, commensurate, commissariat, commissary, competent, considerable, considerably, copious, copiousness, cornucopia, corresponding, countlessness, cumulation, decent, deluge, diffuse, due, dump, effuse, embarras de richesses, enough, epidemic, equal to, ever so, ever so much, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, fit, flood, flow, flush, foison, full, full measure, fullness, galore, generosity, generous, generousness, good, good enough, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, heaps, highly, hoard, in great measure, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, infinitude, innumerability, inundation, inventory, landslide, larder, largely, lavish, lavishness, liberal, liberality, liberalness, load, loads, lot, lots, luxuriance, luxuriant, many, manyness, mass, masses, material, materials, materiel, maximal, maximum, mess, minimal, minimum, money to burn, more than enough, mountain, mountains, much, muchly, multifariousness, multifoldness, multiplicity, multitude, multitudes, multitudinousness, munitions, myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, numbers, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oodles, opulence, opulency, opulent, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overflowing, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, pack, peck, pile, piles, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty good enough, plethora, pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, proportionate, provisionment, provisions, quantities, quantity, rampant, rations, redundancy, repertoire, repertory, replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rick, rife, rifeness, riot, riotous, riotousness, running over, satisfactory, scads, scores, sea, shower, sight, slews, so, so very much, spate, stack, stacks, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream, substantial, substantiality, substantialness, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, superflux, supplies, supply on hand, swarmingness, teeming, teemingness, to the skies, tons, treasure, treasury, up to, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, world, worlds

plenum

• plenum, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Indian file, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, air, all, all being, all creation, allness, array, articulation, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, atom, atomic particles, ball, bank, brawl, brute matter, building block, buzz, catena, catenation, caucus, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chemical element, colloquium, commission, committee, component, concatenation, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, connection, consecution, constituent, continuum, conventicle, convention, convocation, cosmos, council, course, created nature, created universe, creation, cycle, dance, date, descent, diet, drone, earth, eisteddfod, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, endless belt, endless round, everything that is, expanding universe, festivity, fete, file, filiation, fire, forgathering, forum, fundamental particle, gamut, gathering, get-together, gradation, housewarming, hum, hyle, hypostasis, levee, line, lineage, macrocosm, macrocosmos, material, material world, materiality, matter, meet, meeting, megacosm, metagalaxy, molecule, monad, monotone, natural world, nature, nexus, omneity, panel, party, pendulum, periodicity, physical world, powder train, progression, prom, pulsating universe, queue, quorum, rally, range, rank, reception, recurrence, rendezvous, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seance, sequence, series, session, shindig, sidereal universe, single file, sit-in, sitting, soiree, spectrum, steady-state universe, string, stuff, substance, substratum, succession, sum of things, swath, symposium, synod, system, the four elements, thread, tier, totality, totality of being, train, turnout, unit of being, universe, water, whole wide world, wide world, windrow, world, world without end

plethora

• plethora, amplitude, avalanche, congestion, deluge, embarras de richesses, engorgement, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flood tide, full, fullness, glut, high tide, high water, hyperemia, impletion, inundation, landslide, lavishness, many, money to burn, more than enough, much, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overkill, overlavishness, overload, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuch, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overplus, overpopulation, overprofusion, overspill, oversufficiency, oversupply, overweight, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, redundancy, repletion, satiety, saturation, saturation point, spate, spring tide, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, surplus, surplusage

pleura

• pleura, allantoic membrane, amnion, amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, basement membrane, conjuctiva, eardrum, hymen, maidenhead, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium, perineurium, serosa, tympanic membrane, tympanum, velum

pleurisy

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

plexiform

• plexiform, barred, cancellated, crossbarred, filigreed, grated, gridded, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, striped

plexus

• plexus, afferent neuron, arabesque, autonomic nervous system, axon, basketry, basketwork, brain, cancellation, central nervous system, cerebral cortex, craniosacral nervous system, cross-hatching, crossing-out, dendrite, effector organ, efferent neuron, filigree, fret, fretwork, ganglion, grate, grating, gray matter, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interlacement, internuncial neuron, intertexture, intertwinement, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, medullary sheath, mesh, meshes, meshwork, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, net, netting, network, neuron, peripheral nervous system, plexure, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, sensorium, sensory area, sensory cell, sieve, solar plexus, spinal cord, synapse, texture, thoracolumbar nervous system, tissue, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, white matter, wicker, wickerwork

pliability

• pliability, abulia, acquiescence, adaptability, agreeability, agreeableness, alacrity, amenability, aptitude, aptness, ardor, bendability, biddability, brightness, cheerful consent, cleverness, compliableness, compliance, consent, convenience, cooperativeness, cowardice, docility, ductibility, ductility, eagerness, educability, elasticity, enthusiasm, extendibility, extensibility, facility, faintheartedness, faintness, favorable disposition, favorableness, fear, feasibility, feeblemindedness, feebleness, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, formativeness, forwardness, frailty, gameness, give, goodwill, handiness, impressionability, infirmity, intelligence, limberness, litheness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, moldability, motivation, plasticity, pliancy, practicality, promptness, quickness, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, spinelessness, springiness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, tractability, tractility, trainableness, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, untroublesomeness, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakness, wieldableness, wieldiness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, willowiness, yieldingness, zeal, zealousness

pliable

• pliable, abulic, accessible, adaptable, afraid, amenable, appliable, applicable, apt, bendable, bending, bendy, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, convenient, cowardly, creased, crimped, docile, dog-eared, doubled, ductile, educable, elastic, exploitable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, fainthearted, feasible, feeble, feebleminded, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, foolproof, formable, formative, frail, gathered, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, infirm, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, invertebrate, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable, moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, operable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plaited, plastic, pleated, pliant, plicate, plicated, plicatile, practical, quick, quilled, ready, receptive, responsive, reusable, ripe for instruction, ruffled, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spineless, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, tucked, twilled, untroublesome, usable, utilizable, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding

pliant

• pliant, accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, adjustable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, ardent, bendable, bending, biddable, complaisant, compliant, conformable, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, elastic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, handy, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, minded, moldable, movable, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, practical, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, spongy, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, tractable, tractile, unaustere, undemanding, unexacting, unharsh, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous

plicate

• plicate, crease, creased, crimp, crimped, crisp, dog-ear, dog-eared, double, double over, doubled, enfold, flexible, flounce, flounced, flute, fluted, fold, fold over, foldable, folded, folding, frill, gather, gathered, infold, interfold, lap over, plait, plaited, plat, pleat, pleated, pliable, plicated, plicatile, ply, quill, quilled, ruff, ruffle, ruffled, tuck, tucked, turn over, twill, twilled

plight

• plight, adverse circumstances, adversity, affiance, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, assurance, assure, avouch, avouchment, baffle, bafflement, bearings, become engaged, betroth, bewilderment, bind, blight, bother, box, breakers ahead, bummer, cardhouse, care, case, catch-22, cause for alarm, circumstance, circumstances, clutch, complication, condition, confoundment, confusion, contract, contract an engagement, corner, countersign, covenant, crisis, cross, crunch, curse, danger, dangerous ground, difficulties, difficulty, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, downer, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment, engage, engagement, enigma, estate, extremity, faith, fine how-do-you-do, fix, footing, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, guarantee, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, hazard, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, imperilment, irritation, jam, jeopardy, location, lot, make a promise, menace, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass, mystery, nonplus, oath, parlous straits, parole, pass, peril, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, pinch, place, pledge, position, posture, pother, predicament, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, promise, publish the banns, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quicksand, rank, riddle, rigor, risk, rocks ahead, scrape, sea of troubles, situation, slough, solemn declaration, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station, status, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, strait, straits, stress, stress of life, swamp, swear, thin ice, threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, trial, tribulation, tricky spot, troth, trouble, troubles, unassuredness, underwrite, unholy mess, upset, vale of tears, vicissitude, vouch, vow, warrant, warranty, word, word of honor

plinth

• plinth, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, caryatid, colonnade, column, dado, die, footstalk, jack, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pole, post, queen-post, shaft, socle, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, subbase, surbase, trunk, upright

plod

• plod, amble, andante, barge, bowl along, bundle, chug on, claudication, clump, crawl, creep, dead march, dig, dogtrot, drag, drudge, fag, flounce, flounder, foot, footpace, footslog, funeral march, grind, grub, halt, hammer, hammer away, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, jog, jog on, jog trot, jolt, jump, keep doggedly at, labor, leisurely gait, limp, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, mince, mincing steps, moil, muck, pace, paddle, peg, peg away, piaffe, piaffer, plod along, plug, plug along, plug at, plug away, pound away, prance, rack, roll, rub on, sashay, saunter, schlep, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slave, slink, slither, slog, slog away, slop, slouch, slow march, slow motion, stagger, stalk, stamp, stodge, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, tramp, trample, trash, travail, tread, trip, trudge, waddle, wade through, walk, wallow, wamble, wiggle, wobble, work, work away

plodder

• plodder, beast of burden, dawdle, dawdler, drone, drudge, fag, foot-dragger, galley slave, goldbrick, goof-off, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loiterer, procrastinator, slave, sleepyhead, slogger, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, swot, tortoise, workhorse

plodding

• plodding, application, arid, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, banausic, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bulldog tenacity, characterless, cold, colorless, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, dead, diligence, diligent, dim, dismal, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, endurance, enduring, engrossment, etiolated, fade, faithful, fidelity, flat, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, immutable, inalterable, inane, indefatigability, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry, inexcitable, insipid, insistence, insistency, insistent, invincible, jejune, laboring, lasting, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, loyal, loyalty, monotone, monotonous, never-tiring, obstinacy, obstinate, pale, pallid, patience, patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, pedestrian, pegging, permanence, permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence, persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plugging, pointless, poky, ponderous, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, relentlessness, resolute, resolution, sedulity, sedulous, sedulousness, single-minded, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slaving, sleepless, slogging, slow, solemn, spiritless, stability, stable, stamina, staying power, steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, sterile, stick-to-itiveness, stiff, stodgy, straining, striving, struggling, stubborn, stubbornness, stuffy, superficial, sweating, tasteless, tedious, tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness, toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlively, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving, unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vapid, weariless, wooden, working

plop

• plop, abruptly, bang, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, burble, cast, cave, cave in, chuck, clap, dash, decline, dive, droop, drop, effervesce, exactly, fall, ferment, fizz, fizzle, fling, flop, flop down, flump, flump down, flush, founder, full, give way, go down, guggle, gurgle, hastily, hiss, hurl, impetuously, impulsively, kerplunk, lapse, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, lower, nose-dive, of a sudden, on short notice, parachute, pitch, plank, plop down, plumb, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, point-blank, pop, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, right, sag, seethe, set, settle, settle down, sharp, simmer, sink, sink down, skin-dive, sky-dive, slap, slouch, slump, slump down, smack, smack-dab, sound, spang, sparkle, square, squarely, startlingly, stoop, straight, submerge, subside, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, swag, swoop, swoop down, take a header, throw, thrust, toss, unawares, unexpectedly, without notice, without warning, work

plot

• plot, acreage, acres, action, allotment, anagnorisis, angle, anticipate, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argument, arrange, art, artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, await, background, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, blind, block, blueprint, brew, brouillon, cabal, calculate, cartoon, catastrophe, characterization, chart, chattels real, chicanery, clearing, clos, close, cogitate, collogue, collude, collusion, color, come, come on, complication, complicity, complot, compute, conceive, concoct, confederacy, connivance, connive, conniving, conspiracy, conspire, continuity, contraption, contrivance, contrive, contriving, cook up, copy, corn field, countermine, counterplot, coup, covin, craft, croft, cultivated land, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, delineation, demesne, denouement, depict, design, determine, development, device, devise, diagram, dodge, domain, draft, draw, draw near, draw on, drawing, dream up, ebauche, elevation, enclave, engineer, engineering, episode, esquisse, expect, expedient, fable, fakement, falling action, feint, fetch, field, figure, finagle, finagling, find, finesse, fix, foresee, foretell, forethink, forty, frame, frame up, frame-up, gambit, game, gerrymander, gimmick, graph, grift, ground plan, grounds, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hayfield, honor, hope, house plan, ichnography, incident, intrigue, jockey, jugglery, knavery, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lay, lay a plot, lay down, lay off, lay out, lie ahead, line, little game, local color, look for, look forward to, loom, lot, lots, machinate, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulate, manipulation, manor, map, map out, mark off, mark out, messuage, mood, motif, move, movement, mythos, near, operate, organize, outline, pack, pack the deal, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, pattern, peripeteia, piece of land, plan, plat, play games, plot of ground, plot out, plotting, ploy, practice, praedium, prearrange, preconcert, preconsider, precontrive, predesign, predetermine, predict, premeditate, preorder, preresolve, profile, project, projection, property, prophesy, pull strings, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, racket, real estate, real property, realty, recognition, red herring, rice paddy, rig, rigging, rising action, rough, ruse, scenario, scheme, schemery, scheming, secondary plot, section, set out, set up, sew up, shift, show, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant, sleight, square, stack the cards, story, stratagem, strategy, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch, table, tactic, tenements, thematic development, theme, thread, threaten, toft, tone, topic, tract, trick, trickery, twist, underplot, wangle, web of intrigue, wheat field, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, work out beforehand, working drawing

plotted

• plotted, admeasured, appraised, approaching, arranged, assessed, blueprinted, calculated, charted, coming, contrived, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, designed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devised, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, figured, fixed, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gauged, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in the bag, in the works, known by measurement, later, mapped, measured, metered, methodized, nearing, on ice, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, packed, planned, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, predicted, premeditated, preordered, probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, put-up, quantified, quantized, rationalized, rigged, scheduled, schematized, schemed, set, set-up, shaped, stacked, strategetic, strategic, sur le tapis, surveyed, systematized, tactical, to come, to-be, triangulated, ultimate, valuated, valued, worked out

plotter

• plotter, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Machiavellian, Quisling, archtraitor, betrayer, cockatrice, coconspirator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, exploiter, finagler, informer, intrigant, intriguer, machinator, maneuverer, operator, opportunist, quisling, rat, schemer, serpent, snake, timeserver, traitor, treasonist, trimmer, turncoat, wire-puller

plotting

• plotting, Byzantine, Machiavellian, artifice, cabal, calculating, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent, conniving, conspiracy, conspiring, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, covin, deep-laid plot, designing, engineering, finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, intrigue, intriguing, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, packed deal, packed jury, planning, plot, prearrangement, preconcertedness, premeditation, preordering, put-up job, rigged jury, rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, setup, stacked deck, stratagem, stratagemical, trick, underplot, up to, web of intrigue, wire-pulling

plow

• plow, all-crop harvester, backset, baler, bank, bean harvester, beet harvester, binder, break, breaker, canal, canalize, carve, cast plow, chamfer, channel, chisel, combine, corrugate, cotton picker, crab, crack, crimp, cultivate, cultivator, culture, cut, dado, delve, dig, dike, dip, disk, disk harrow, disk plow, ditch, drag, dress, drill, drill plow, engrave, fallow, feather, fertilize, fishtail, flute, force, four-bottom plow, furrow, gang plow, gash, goffer, gouge, grain harvester, groove, grub hook, gully, harrow, harvester, haymaker, header, hoe, hoe drill, incise, list, lister, lister cultivator, loop, middlebreaker, moldboard plow, mulch, peg-tooth harrow, planter, pleat, plow drill, porpoise, prairie breaker, press drill, prune, pull out, pull up, push down, rabbet, rake, ridge, rifle, roll, rotary plow, rut, scooter, score, scratch, seed plow, seeder, shovel plow, sideslip, skid, slit, snap machine, spade, spin, spiral, sprayer, spring-tooth harrow, stag gang, streak, striate, stunt, subsoil plow, sulky lister, sulky plow, swather, swivel plow, tedder, thin, thin out, thrasher, three-bottom plow, thresher, threshing machine, till, till the soil, trench, trench plow, trough, turn, turn over, turnplow, two-bottom plow, undulate, vineyard plow, walking plow, weed, weed out, windrower, work, wrinkle, yaw

plowman

• plowman, Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman

ploy

• ploy, Byzantine intrigues, art, artful dodge, artifice, backstairs influence, bag of tricks, bat, bender, binge, blind, bluff, bosey, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, catch, celebration, chicanery, chouse, connections, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deals, debauch, deceit, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, drinking bout, escapade, expedient, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, fling, gambit, game, games, gimmick, googly, grift, hocus-pocus, influence peddling, intrigue, intrigues, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, lark, little game, lobbying, lobbyism, maneuver, move, orgy, pass, play, plot, ploys, racket, randan, randy, red herring, revel, ropes, ruse, scheme, schemes, scurvy trick, shift, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, spree, stratagem, strategy, strings, subterfuge, tactic, tear, toot, trick, trickery, wile, wily device, wingding, wire-pulling, wires

pluck

• pluck, accumulate, amass, assemble, avulse, backbone, bare, bleed, bleed white, bob, boldness, bottle, bottom, bravery, bring in, bring together, bust, catch at, chutzpah, collect, courage, crop, crop herbs, cull, cut, cut out, dauntlessness, denudate, denude, deplume, deracinate, despoil, determination, dig, dig out, dig up, disentangle, displume, divest, drain, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, dry, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exhaust, expose, exsect, extract, extricate, fail, flay, fleece, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, flunk, flunk out, fortitude, gameness, gather, gather in, get in, get out, get together, glean, gouge out, grab, grabble, grit, grub, grub up, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hardiness, harvest, hay, heart, heart of oak, hitch, impoverish, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, lay bare, lay open, mettle, mettlesomeness, milk, mine, mow, moxie, nerve, nut, pick, pick clean, pick out, pick up, pith, pluck out, pluck up, pluckiness, plunk, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, rake up, reap, reap and carry, remove, resolution, resolve, rip out, root out, root up, round up, sand, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, shear, skin, snake, snatch, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, start, steadfastness, stout heart, stoutness, strip, strip bare, strum, sturdiness, suck dry, sudden pull, sweep the strings, take out, take up, tear out, thrum, toughness, true grit, twang, tweak, twitch, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unravel, unsheathe, unveil, uproot, vellicate, wash out, weed out, withdraw, wrench, wrest out, yank, yerk

plucky

• plucky, bold, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, mettlesome, nervy, pertinacious, red-blooded, resolute, spirited, spiritful, spunky, tenacious, tough, unfearing

plug away

• plug away, carry on, dig, drudge, fag, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, keep at it, keep busy, keep doggedly at, keep driving, keep going, keep moving, keep on, moil, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug at, pound away, slog, slog away, toil, travail, wade through, work away

plug ugly

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

plug

• plug, PR, acknowledgment, advert, advertise, advertisement, advocate, appreciation, back, bait, balker, balky horse, ballyhoo, bar, bark, bill, bind, birdlime, block, block up, blockade, blurb, bola, boost, bright light, build up, buildup, bulletin, bung, caulk, cavendish, celebrity, charge, check valve, chew, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, chug on, circularize, clog, clog up, close, close off, close up, cobweb, cock, commend, commendation, commercial, commercial announcement, common knowledge, congest, constipate, cork, cover, crock, crowbait, cry, cry up, currency, dam, dam up, daylight, detonate, dig, discharge, dog, dragnet, drop, drudge, eclat, eject, establish, exposure, fag, fame, famousness, faucet, fell, fill, fill up, fire, fire hydrant, fire off, fireplug, fishhook, fly, foul, garron, gill net, give a write-up, give publicity, glare, goat, good word, grind, ground bait, grub, gun, gun for, hack, hammer, hammer away, hit, honorable mention, hook, hoopla, hue and cry, hydrant, hype, jade, jam, jig, jog on, jughead, keep doggedly at, lariat, lasso, let fly, let off, lid, lime, limelight, load, lumber, lure, maximum dissemination, mention, meshes, moil, nag, net, noose, notoriety, obstipate, obstruct, occlude, pack, peg, peg away, pelt, pepper, pick off, pigtail, pin, pistol, placard, plod, plod along, plug along, plug at, plug away, plug up, post, post bills, post up, pot, potshoot, potshot, pound away, pound net, press notice, press-agent, prime, promote, promotion, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicize, publicness, puff, puffing, purse seine, push, quid, reclame, recognition, recommend, recommendation, report, riddle, roarer, rogue, rosinante, rub on, scalawag, schlep, sea cock, seal off, seal up, seine, sell, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slog, slog away, snare, sniggle, snipe, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, spiel, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spinner, spot, spot announcement, spotlight, springe, squid, stanch, stay, stench, stiff, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopper, stopple, strike, stuff, stuff up, stump, support, take a potshot, tap, toil, toils, torpedo, tout, tramp, travail, trawl, trudge, twist, valve, wad, wade through, water plug, whistler, wobbler, work away, write up, write-up

plugged

• plugged, blocked, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, congested, constipated, costive, foul, fouled, full, infarcted, jammed, obstipated, obstructed, packed, plugged up, stopped, stopped up, stuffed, stuffed up

plugging

• plugging, application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence, diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, drudging, endurance, enduring, engrossment, faithful, fidelity, grind, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, immutable, inalterable, indefatigability, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, insistent, invincible, labor, laboring, lasting, loyal, loyalty, moil, never-tiring, obstinacy, obstinate, patience, patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, pegging, permanence, permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence, persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, relentlessness, resolute, resolution, sedulity, sedulous, sedulousness, single-minded, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slavery, slaving, sleepless, slogging, stability, stable, stamina, staying power, steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, stick-to-itiveness, straining, striving, struggling, stubborn, stubbornness, sweating, tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness, toil, toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving, unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, working

plum

• plum, Mars violet, Tyrian purple, accrued dividends, accumulated dividends, ambition, amethyst, bawbee, boast, bonus, carrot, cash dividend, catch, clematis, coup, cream, crown, cumulative dividend, dahlia, damson, dearest wish, desideration, desideratum, desire, diamond, dividend, dollar, extra dividend, farthing, favors of office, find, fiver, florin, forbidden fruit, fourpence, fourpenny, fuchsia, gem, glimmering goal, godsend, golden vision, good thing, grape, groat, guerdon, guinea, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, heliotrope, hope, hyacinth, imperial purple, interest, interim dividend, jewel, lavender, lilac, lodestone, mag, magenta, magnet, mallow, mauve, meed, meg, melon, mite, monkey, monsignor, mulberry, new pence, np, optional dividend, orchid, p, pansy, pansy violet, patronage, pearl, pence, penny, phony dividend, political patronage, pontiff purple, pony, pork, pork barrel, pound, premium, pride, pride and joy, prize, quid, regal purple, regular dividend, royal purple, shilling, sixpence, solferino, special dividend, stock dividend, temptation, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, treasure, trophy, trouvaille, tuppence, twopence, violet, windfall, wine purple, winner, wish

plumb

• plumb, T square, absolute, absolutely, accurately, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, answer, aplomb, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, at right angles, azimuth circle, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bob, bolt, born, bottom, broad-based, button, button up, calculate, calibrate, caliper, cast the lead, check a parameter, choke, choke off, clap, clean, clear, clear up, close, close up, come alive, completely, comprehensive, compute, congenital, constrict, consummate, contain, contract, cover, crack, dead, debug, decipher, decode, deep-dyed, definitely, delve, delve into, descry, dial, dig into, directly, discern, disentangle, divide, divine, do, dope, dope out, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, entirely, estimate, evaluate, even, exactly, exhaustive, explain, explore, expressly, faithfully, fasten, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, flush, fold, fold up, full, fully, gauge, get, get right, go into, graduate, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, in all respects, in every respect, indagate, intensive, interpret, investigate, ipsissimis verbis, irretrievably, irrevocably, just, kerplunk, key, latch, lead, literally, literatim, lock, lock out, lock up, look into, make a sounding, make out, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, normal, occlude, omnibus, omnipresent, open the lock, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out-and-out, outright, pace, padlock, peer into, penetrate, perceive, perfect, perfectly, perpendicular, perpendicularly, pervasive, pierce, plain, plop, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plumb the depths, plumb-line, plummet, plump, plunging, plunk, point-blank, poke into, positively, precipitous, precisely, prize, probe, pry into, psych, psych out, pure, puzzle out, quantify, quantize, quite, radical, rate, ravel, ravel out, regular, resolve, riddle, right, right angle, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, rigidly, rigorously, sandbag, seal, seal off, seal up, search into, secure, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, set, set square, sheer, sheerly, shut, shut the door, shut up, sift, sinker, size, size up, slam, slap, sling the lead, smack, smack-dab, snap, solve, sort out, sound, span, spang, spot, square, squarely, squeeze shut, stark, steep, step, straight, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, strangle, strictly, survey, sweeping, take a reading, take soundings, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughly, through-and-through, to the letter, total, triangulate, try square, ubiquitous, unconditional, undeviatingly, undo, unerringly, universal, unlock, unmitigated, unqualified, unravel, unrelievedly, unreserved, unrestricted, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, up and down, up-and-down, upright, utter, utterly, valuate, value, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritable, vertical, vertical circle, weigh, weight, wholesale, wholly, word by word, word for word, work, work out, zip up, zipper

plumbing

• plumbing, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, conveniences, duffel, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, impedimenta, installations, kit, machinery, materiel, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, plant, rig, rigging, stock-in-trade, tackle, things, utensils

plume

• plume, bead, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, brush up, crest, diamond, dress, engrave, feather, fettle, figure, filigree, flag, flounce, flower, garland, gem, groom, hackle, illuminate, jewel, manicure, paint, panache, pinion, pique, plumule, preen, quill, ribbon, scapular, spangle, tinsel, topknot, tuft, wreathe

plumed

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

plummet

• plummet, T square, abate, ablate, bate, be eaten away, beat down, bob, break, cascade, cataract, cheapen, cheapening, collapse, come down, consume, consume away, corrode, crash, crumble, cut, cut prices, decline, decrease, deflate, deflation, deliquesce, depreciate, depreciation, descend, devaluate, devaluation, die away, diminish, dip, dip down, dive, down, drop, drop down, drop off, dump, dwindle, ebb, erode, fall, fall away, fall down, fall in price, fall off, give way, go down, go downhill, gravitate, jew down, languish, lead, lessen, let up, lose altitude, lower, lowering, mark down, markdown, melt away, nose dive, nose-dive, parachute, pare, pitch, plop, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour down, precipitate, price cut, price fall, price reduction, rain, reduce, reduction, run low, sag, sandbag, set square, shave, shrink, sink, sinker, skid, skin-dive, sky-dive, slash, slump, soar, sound, square, stoop, subside, swoop, swoop down, tail off, take a header, trend downward, trim, try square, tumble, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, weight

plummeting

• plummeting, break, cascade, cataract, cheapening, chute, collapse, collapsing, comedown, crash, cut, debacle, deciduous, declension, declination, decline, declining, declivitous, decurrent, deflation, defluxion, depreciation, descendant, descending, descension, descent, devaluation, dive, down, down-reaching, downbend, downcome, downcoming, downcurve, downfall, downfalling, downflow, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, downpour, downrush, downsinking, downtrend, downturn, downward, downward trend, drooping, drop, dropping, fall, falling, gravitation, inclination, lowering, markdown, nose dive, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummet, plunge, plunging, pounce, price cut, price fall, price reduction, rapids, reduction, sag, sagging, setting, sinking, slash, slump, stoop, submerging, subsiding, swoop, tottering, tumbledown, waterfall

plump

• plump, abruptly, adipose, ample, at once, back, ballot, bang, beamy, become overweight, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, blunt, bosomy, brawny, bump, burly, busty, buxom, campaign for, canvass, cast, cast a ballot, cave, cave in, chink, choose, chubby, chuck, chunky, clap, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, collapse, corpulent, crump, cushion, dash, decline, definite, definitive, deposit, direct, directly, distended, dive, divide, downright, droop, drop, dull thud, dumpy, ease, engross, exactly, fall, fat, fatten, fattish, fleshy, flick, fling, flop, flop down, fluff, flump, flump down, flush, forthright, founder, full, full-bodied, gain weight, gather flesh, gentle, give way, go down, gross, hastily, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hurl, impetuously, imposing, impulsively, kerplunk, knead, lapse, laxate, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, limber, limber up, loosen, lower, lusty, mash, massage, matter-of-fact, meaty, mellow, milden, mollify, nose-dive, obese, of a sudden, on short notice, overweight, pad, parachute, pat, patter, paunchy, pinguefy, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, plain, plank, plop, plop down, plumb, plummet, plunge, plunk, podgy, point-blank, poll, pop, portly, potbellied, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, pudgy, puff up, puffy, pulp, pursy, put down, put on weight, rap, relax, right, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, sag, select, set, set down, settle, settle down, shake up, sharp, side with, simple, sink, sink down, skin-dive, sky-dive, slap, slouch, slump, slump down, smack, smack-dab, smash, soften, soften up, sound, spang, square, squarely, squash, squat, squatty, stalwart, startlingly, steatopygous, stocky, stoop, stout, straight, strapping, subdue, submerge, subside, sudden, suddenly, supple, support, surprisingly, swag, swollen, swoop, swoop down, take a header, tap, tenderize, thick-bodied, thickset, throw, thrust, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tone down, top-heavy, toss, tubby, tune down, tunk, unambiguous, unawares, unequivocal, unexpectedly, unmistakable, vote, well-fed, without notice, without warning

plunder

• plunder, banditry, blackmail, boodle, booty, brigandage, brigandism, capture, depredate, depredation, desolate, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devastate, direption, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, graft, gut, haul, hot goods, knock off, knock over, lay waste, loot, looting, maraud, marauding, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, pillaging, pirate, plundering, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive, reiving, relieve, rifle, rifling, rob, robbery, sack, sacking, seize, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, spoliation, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, strip, swag, sweep, take, things, till, traps, tricks, vandalism, vandalize

plunderer

• plunderer, depredator, despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, looter, marauder, pillager, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, sacker, spoiler, spoliator, wrecker

plundering

• plundering, banditry, brigandage, brigandism, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, foraging, foray, freebooting, looting, marauding, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plunderous, predacious, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory

plunge into

• plunge into, accept, acquiesce, agree, assume, attack, attempt, bayonet, be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, begin, blast away, blast off, bone, buckle to, collaborate, commence, con, consent, contemplate, cooperate, cram in, crowd in, dagger, dig, dirk, dive in, dive into, drill, drive in, elucubrate, embark in, embark upon, endeavor, engage in, enter on, enter upon, examine, fall into, fall to, force in, get busy, get cracking, get going, get to, get under way, get with it, go about, go ahead, go along with, go at, go in for, go into, go off half-cocked, go over, go to it, go upon, grind, have at, head into, hop to it, impact, impale, incline, jam in, jump off, jump to it, kick off, knife, knock in, lance, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lean, light into, look kindly upon, lucubrate, move into, not hesitate to, pack in, peruse, pierce, pitch in, pitch into, plunge, plunge headlong, plunge in, poke in, poniard, pore over, pound in, practice, press in, proceed to, push in, ram in, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, run in, run through, rush into, saber, sail into, send off, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set in, set out, set sail, set to, set to work, spear, spike, spit, squeeze in, stab, start, start in, start off, start out, stick, stiletto, study, stuff in, sword, swot, tackle, take off, take on, take up, tamp in, thrust in, transfix, transpierce, turn to, undertake, venture upon, vet, wade into, wade through, wedge in, would as leave, would as lief

plunge

• plunge, abate, ablate, advance, agiotage, ante, ante up, arbitrage, ascend, back, back up, bate, be caught short, be eaten away, be short, beat down, belong, bet, bet on, blunder, boil, break, bucket, bucketshop, budge, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bustle, buy in, buy into, buying in, calculated risk, call, canter, careen, career, cascade, catabasis, cataract, chance, change, change place, charge, chase, cheapen, cheapening, circle, climb, collapse, come down, consume, consume away, corrode, cover, crash, cropper, crowd, crumble, culbute, cut, cut prices, dash, dash off, dash on, dead run, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrescendo, deflate, deflation, deliquesce, deposit margin, depreciate, depreciation, descend, descent, devaluate, devaluation, die away, dig, diminish, diminuendo, dip, dip down, dive, dive into, dogtrot, double-time, down, downtrend, downturn, drive, drop, drop down, drop off, dwindle, dwindling, ebb, engulf, equity capital, erode, fade, fall, fall away, fall down, fall headlong, fall in price, fall off, falter, festinate, financier, flank speed, flat-out speed, flier, fling, flop, flounce, flounder, flow, flutter, forced draft, forced landing, fortune, full gallop, gallop, gamble, get going, get moving, get over, give way, go, go around, go down, go downhill, go long, go off half-cocked, go round, go sideways, gravitate, gyrate, hand gallop, hasten, hazard, head, header, headlong rush, heave, heavy right foot, high lope, hobbyhorse, hold on, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, immerse, immersion, incline, invest, invest in, investment, jew down, jog trot, keel over, labor, languish, lapse, lay, lay a wager, lay down, lay out money, lead, lean, leap, lessen, let up, liquidation, lope, lose altitude, lose no time, lower, lowering, luck, lunge, lurch, make a bet, make a killing, make a scoop, make an investment, make haste, make heavy weather, margin up, mark down, markdown, maximum speed, meet a bet, melt away, miss the market, mount, move, move over, move quickly, natatorium, nose dive, nose-dive, nosedive, open throttle, operate, overstay the market, overwhelm, parachute, pare, parlay, pass, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, place, play, play against, play the market, plop, plow back into, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge bath, plunge headlong, plunge into, plunk, point, pool, post, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pound, pour down, pratfall, precipitate, press on, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prime investment, profit taking, progress, propel, punt, push, push on, put, pyramid, race, rain, ram, rear, reduce, reduction, reel, regress, reinvest, remission, retreat, retrogress, rise, risk, rock, roll, rotate, round trade, run, run low, rush, rush into, rush through, sag, scalp, scalping, scamper, scend, scoop the market, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, see, seethe, settle, shave, shift, shove, shrink, sink, sink money in, skid, skin-dive, sky-dive, slash, slowdown, slump, soar, sound, speculate, speculation, spill, spin, spot sale, sprawl, sprint, spurt, stab, stag, stag the market, stagger, stake, stand pat, stick, stir, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, stoop, stream, struggle, stumble, submerge, submersion, subside, subsidence, sway, swimming bath, swimming hole, swimming pool, swing, swoop, swoop down, tail off, take a flier, take a header, tear, tend, tend to go, thrash about, thrust, topple, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trade on margin, travel, trend downward, trim, trip, trot, tumble, turn, uncertainty, venture, venture capital, volutation, wading pool, wager, wallop, wallow, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, welter, whirl, wide-open speed, yaw

plunger

• plunger, adventurer, betting ring, bettor, big operator, boneshaker, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, compulsive gambler, crap shooter, deep-sea diver, diver, free diver, frogman, gambler, gamester, gunslinger, hazarder, jumper, lame duck, margin purchaser, operator, parachute jumper, pearl diver, petty gambler, piker, player, punter, scalper, scuba diver, sharp, sharper, sharpie, skin diver, sky diver, smart operator, snorkel diver, speculator, sport, sporting man, sportsman, stag, tinhorn, tipster, tout, venturer, wagerer

plunging

• plunging, Brownian movement, abrupt, abysmal, abyssal, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, bluff, bold, bottomless, breakneck, career, cavernous, climbing, collapsing, course, current, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, deep as hell, deep-sea diving, descendant, descending, descent, diving, down, down-reaching, down-trending, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, drooping, dropping, ebbing, falling, fancy diving, fathomless, flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion, gaping, going, gyrational, gyratory, headlong, high diving, mounting, oblique motion, on the descendant, on the downgrade, ongoing, onrush, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, passage, passing, pearl diving, perpendicular, plumb, plumbless, plummeting, precipitous, progress, progressive, radial motion, random motion, rapid, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, retrogression, retrogressive, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sagging, set, setting, sharp, sheer, sideward, sideward motion, sinking, skin diving, sky diving, soaring, soundless, steep, sternway, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, stream, streaming, submerging, subsiding, tottering, traject, trajet, trend, tumbledown, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, up-and-down, up-trending, upward, upward motion, vertical, without bottom, yawning

plunk

• plunk, abruptly, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, blow, bonk, bump, cast, chink, chop, chuck, clap, click, clink, clip, clobber, clop, clout, clump, clunk, coldcock, crack, crump, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, dint, dive, drop, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud, exactly, fall, fetch, fetch a blow, flick, fling, flump, flush, full, fusillade, hastily, hit, hit a clip, hurl, impetuously, impulsively, jab, kerplunk, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, nose-dive, of a sudden, on short notice, pad, parachute, paste, pat, patter, pelt, pick, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, plank, plop, pluck, plumb, plummet, plump, plunge, point-blank, poke, pop, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pound, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, precisely, punch, rap, right, sharp, skin-dive, sky-dive, slam, slap, slog, slug, smack, smack-dab, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, sound, spang, square, squarely, startlingly, stoop, straight, strike, strike at, stroke, strum, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, swat, sweep the strings, swing, swipe, swoop, swoop down, take a header, tap, tattoo, throw, thrum, thrust, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tinkle, toss, tunk, twang, unawares, unexpectedly, wallop, whack, wham, whop, without notice, without warning, yerk

plural

• plural, a certain number, a few, certain, composite, dual, more, more than one, nonuniqueness, not singular, number, numerous, numerousness, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality, pluralness, plurative, several, singular, some, trial, variety, various

pluralism

• pluralism, Nazism, a certain number, a few, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, capriciousness, centralism, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coalescence, collectivism, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communism, composition, constitutionalism, dappleness, democratism, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, dualism, eclecticism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, fusion, governmentalism, immixture, imperialism, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, monarchism, more, motleyness, mutability, national socialism, neofascism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, numerousness, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, plurality, pluralness, political principles, raggedness, republicanism, royalism, several, socialism, statism, syncretism, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering

pluralistic

• pluralistic, absolute, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, blended, bureaucratic, capricious, certain, changeable, changing, choppy, civic, civil, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, constitutional, dappled, democratic, despotic, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dictatorial, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, eclectic, equivocal, erose, erratic, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, fifty-fifty, governmental, gubernatorial, half-and-half, heterogeneous, heteronomous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, many-sided, matriarchal, matriarchic, medley, mercurial, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, more, more than one, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not singular, numerous, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patchy, patriarchal, patriarchic, plural, plurative, political, promiscuous, ragged, republican, rough, scrambled, self-governing, some, spasmodic, sporadic, syncretic, theocratic, thrown together, totalitarian, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering

plurality

• plurality, a mass of, a world of, army, best part, better part, bevy, body, bulk, bunch, cloud, clutter, covey, essence, flight, flock, flocks, generality, gist, gravamen, hail, hive, host, jam, large amount, legion, lots, main body, major part, majority, many, mass, masses of, meat, mob, more than half, most, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, pack, preponderance, preponderancy, quantities, quite a few, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, substance, swarm, the greatest number, throng, thrust, tidy sum, worlds of

plus

• plus, above, accessory, add, added, added to, addend, addition, additional, additionally, adjoin, advantage, affix, again, agglutinate, aggrandize, all included, along with, also, altogether, among other things, ancillary, and, and all, and also, and so, annex, another, append, as well, as well as, asset, attach, attended by, au reste, augment, auxiliary, balance, beef up, benefit, beside, besides, beyond, bonus, boost, build, burden, collateral, complicate, compound, conjoin, contributory, coupled with, decorate, dividend, else, en plus, encumber, enlarge, expand, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further, furthermore, gain, glue on, gratuity, hitch on, in addition, in addition to, in conjunction with, including, inclusive of, infix, inter alia, into the bargain, item, join with, lagniappe, leftover, let alone, likewise, linked to, magnify, margin, minus, more, moreover, negative, new, not to mention, on the side, on top of, ornament, other, over, over and above, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paste on, plus sign, positive, postfix, pourboire, prefix, profit, put with, remainder, return, saddle with, similarly, slap on, something extra, spare, subjoin, subtotal, suffix, sum, summation, superadd, supernumerary, superpose, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, surplusage, tack on, tag, tag on, then, therewith, tip, to boot, together with, too, total, ulterior, unite with, with, yet

plush

• plush, Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, blubber, breeze, butter, classy, clay, costly, cottony, cushion, deluxe, dough, down, eiderdown, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy, feather bed, feathers, fine, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, kapok, lavish, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, opulent, palatial, pillow, plushy, posh, princely, proud, pudding, puff, putty, regal, rich, ritzy, rubber, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, silk, silken, silklike, silky, soft as silk, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swansdown, swell, thistledown, velutinous, velvet, velvetlike, velvety, wax, wool, zephyr

Pluto

• Pluto, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dis pater, Earth, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Tellus, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer

plutocrat

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

ply

• ply, about ship, apply pressure, back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, beat to windward, beset, besiege, blandish, boat, box off, break, bring about, bring round, bug, buttonhole, cajole, canoe, cant, cant round, carry sail, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, circumnavigate, close-haul, coast, coat, coating, coax, collop, come about, come in contact, course, cover, covering, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, cross, cruise, cut, deal, disk, dispense, do, do with, dog-ear, double, double a point, double over, doubling, dun, duplicature, employ, enfold, exercise, exert, exert pressure, feel, feel of, fetch about, feuille, film, finger, flap, flection, flexure, flick, flounce, flute, foil, fold, fold over, force upon, frill, function, gather, go about, go by ship, go on shipboard, go over, go to sea, gybe, handle, heave round, importune, infold, insist, interfold, jibe, jibe all standing, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lap over, lapel, lappet, leaf, luff, luff up, make a passage, make use of, manage, maneuver, manipulate, measure, membrane, miss stays, motorboat, nag, nag at, navigate, operate, overpass, palm, palpate, pane, panel, pass over, pass through, patina, patrol, paw, peel, pellicle, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, pester, pinch, plague, plait, plank, plat, plate, plating, play, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply upon, plywood, poke at, practice, press, press upon, pressure, prod, push, push upon, put about, put back, put forth, put out, quill, range, range over, rasher, reconnoiter, round a point, row, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, run, safety glass, sail, sail fine, sail round, sail the sea, scour, scour the country, scout, scull, scum, seafare, sheer, sheet, shift, skin, slab, slat, slew, slice, steam, steamboat, sweep, swerve, swing, swing round, swing the stern, table, tablet, tack, take a voyage, tap, tease, throw, throw about, thrust upon, thumb, touch, touch the wind, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, tuck, turn, turn back, turn over, twiddle, twill, urge, urge upon, use, utilize, veer, veneer, voyage, wafer, wear, wear ship, wheedle, wield, wind, work, work on, yacht, yaw

plywood

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

pneuma

• pneuma, anima, anima humana, animating force, animus, atman, ba, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, buddhi, divine breath, divine spark, ego, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inner man, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, khu, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, manes, mind, nephesh, prana, psyche, purusha, ruach, seat of life, shade, shadow, soul, spark of life, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, the self, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

pneumatic

• pneumatic, Junoesque, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerographic, aerologic, aeromechanical, aerophysical, aerostatic, aerotechnical, aery, agreeable, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, amply endowed, atmospheric, bagging, baggy, ballooning, becoming, bellying, billowing, billowy, bloated, bonny, bosomy, braw, breezy, built, built for comfort, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, comely, curvaceous, curvy, distended, ethereal, exposed, fair, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, hillocky, hummocky, light, likely, lovely to behold, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, moutonnee, open-air, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, personable, pleasing, pneumatological, potbellied, pouching, presentable, reeking, reeky, roomy, rounded, shapely, sightly, slender, smoking, smoky, stacked, statuesque, steaming, steamy, swelling, tropospheric, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

pneumatics

• pneumatics, aerial photography, aeroballistics, aerodynamics, aerogeology, aerography, aerology, aeromechanics, aeromedicine, aerometry, aeronautical meteorology, aerophotography, aerophysics, aeroscopy, aerospace research, aerostatics, air, anemology, atmosphere, aviation technology, avionics, barometry, climatography, climatology, fluid, forecasting, gas, halogen gas, hydrostatics, inert gas, kinematics, kinetics, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, photometry, rocketry, supersonics, weatherology

pneumonia

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

poach

• poach, abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bake, barbecue, baste, blanch, boil, boost, borrow, braise, brew, broil, brown, coddle, cook, cop, crib, curry, defraud, devil, do, do to perfection, embezzle, extort, filch, fire, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, griddle, grill, heat, hook, lift, make off with, nip, oven-bake, palm, pan, pan-broil, parboil, pilfer, pinch, prepare, prepare food, purloin, roast, run away with, rustle, saute, scallop, scrounge, sear, shirr, shoplift, simmer, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, steam, stew, stir-fry, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, toast, walk off with

poacher

• poacher, body snatcher, booster, chicken thief, con man, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, prowler, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shoplifter, sneak thief, stealer, swindler, thief, white-collar thief

poaching

• poaching, abstraction, annexation, appropriation, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, boosting, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, catering, conversion, conveyance, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, embezzlement, filching, fraud, frying, graft, grilling, home economics, liberation, lifting, nutrition, pan-broiling, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, roasting, sauteing, scrounging, searing, shirring, shoplifting, simmering, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, steeping, stewing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, toasting

pock

• pock, abscess, alveolation, alveolus, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dilatation, dilation, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, edema, engrave, eschar, fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish, fistula, flaw, freckle, furrow, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gouge, grain, granular texture, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knub, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, nap, needle scar, nevus, notch, nub, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, protuberance, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, shag, soft chancre, sore, split, stamp, stigma, strawberry mark, structure, sty, sunken part, suppuration, surface, surface texture, swell, swelling, swollenness, tamp, texture, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, woof, wound

pocked

• pocked, alveolar, alveolate, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, dented, depressed, dimpled, dotted, dotty, engraved, faveolate, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, honeycombed, indented, macular, maculate, maculated, notched, patchy, peppered, pitted, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded

pocket

• pocket, CAT, Swiss bank account, abstract, acquire, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, appropriate, area, armpit, assets, baby, baby-sized, bag, balance, balloon, bank account, bantam, banty, barrel, basin, bear with, beleaguer, beset, besiege, billfold, bladder, blind alley, blockade, bottle, bottom dollar, bound, bowl, box, box in, budget, bump, burden, cage, camp, can, canned, capsule, cash reserves, catch up, cavity, ceiling, chamber, checking account, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, close in, cluster, clutch, collar, command of money, compact, compass, concave, concavity, concentration, constitute, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, crate, crater, crosswind, crypt, cul-de-sac, cup, dead end, decree, depression, digest, diminutive, dip, disregard, down, drain off, draw off, duodecimo, dwarfish, eat, embezzle, embrace, empty space, enact, enact laws, encircle, enclose, encompass, endure, enshrine, exchequer, favorable wind, fence in, filch, filibuster, fill, finances, fiscal, fob, fog, fold, follicle, freight, front, fund, funds, funnel chest, get, get hold of, get the floor, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handbag, handy, have the floor, head wind, heap, heap up, hedge in, hem in, high-pressure area, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hook, house in, hug, ignore, impasse, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, ionosphere, island, itsy-bitsy, jail, jetstream, keep, kennel, kill, kitty, lacuna, lade, lay hands on, lay hold of, leaguer, legislate, life savings, lift, load, lobby through, logroll, loot, low-pressure area, mass, means, mew, mew up, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscule, minute, monetary, money belt, money clip, moneys, nab, nail, nest egg, nick, nip, nip up, ordain, overcast, pack, pack away, palm, partake, pass, pecuniary, pecuniary resources, pen, pen in, pigeonhole, pile, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pit, pocket the affront, pocket-size, pocket-sized, pocketbook, poke, pony, pool, porte-monnaie, possess, potted, pouch, punch bowl, purloin, purse, purse strings, put in force, put through, quarantine, rail in, railroad through, receive, receptacle, reserves, resources, reticule, rip off, roll logs, roughness, sac, sack, satchel, savings, savings account, scoop, seize, shell, ship, shrine, shut in, shut up, sink, sinus, small-scale, snaffle, snap up, snatch, snitch, socket, soup, space, stable, stack, steal, stomach, store, stow, stratosphere, subminiature, substance, substratosphere, surround, swallow, swallow an insult, swipe, table, tail wind, take, take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take possession, take the floor, thieve, tolerate, toy, treasure, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, turn aside provocation, twelvemo, unregistered bank account, vest-pocket, veto, visibility, visibility zero, vug, wall in, wallet, wee, weeny, wherewithal, whip up, wrap, yard, yard up, yield the floor

pocketbook

• pocketbook, Domesday Book, account book, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, bag, billfold, blankbook, blotter, calendar, cashbook, catalog, classified catalog, commonplace book, court calendar, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, handbag, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, money belt, money clip, notebook, pad, petty cashbook, pocket, pocket notebook, poke, police blotter, porte-monnaie, purse, purse strings, scrapbook, scratch pad, spiral notebook, table, tablet, triptych, wallet, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

pockmark

• pockmark, alveolation, alveolus, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, dimple, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, engrave, fault, flaw, freckle, furrow, gouge, hemangioma, hickey, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, keloid, kink, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, notch, pimple, pit, pock, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, press in, print, punch, punch in, pustule, recess, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, set back, set in, split, stamp, strawberry mark, sty, sunken part, tamp, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

pockmarked

• pockmarked, alveolar, alveolate, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, dented, depressed, dimpled, dotted, dotty, engraved, faveolate, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, honeycombed, indented, macular, maculate, maculated, notched, patchy, peppered, pitted, pocked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded

pocky

• pocky, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bespangled, bilious, blotched, blotchy, broken, bumpy, cancerous, chlorotic, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, colicky, consumptive, corrugated, cross-grained, dotted, dotty, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, grainy, granulated, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, laryngitic, leprous, linsey-woolsey, luetic, macular, maculate, maculated, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, palsied, paralytic, patchy, peppered, phthisic, pimply, pitted, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocked, pockmarked, podagric, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, potholed, punctated, rachitic, rank, rheumatic, rickety, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scorbutic, scrofulous, shagged, shaggy, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded, tabetic, tabid, textured, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled

pod

• pod, army, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift, drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk, jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin, skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop

podgy

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

podiatrist

• podiatrist, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, chiropodist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, geriatrician, gerontologist, gynecologist, immunologist, internist, neurologist, obstetrician, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, otolaryngologist, otologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pediatrist, psychiatrist, radiologist, serologist, skin man, specialist

podium

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

poem

• poem, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, article, autograph, balada, ballad, ballade, brainchild, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, composition, computer printout, copy, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, document, draft, eclogue, edited version, elegy, engrossment, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, essay, eyeful, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, georgic, ghazel, haiku, holograph, idyll, jingle, letter, limerick, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, lyric, madrigal, manuscript, matter, monody, narrative poem, nonfiction, nursery rhyme, ode, opus, original, palinode, paper, parchment, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, penscript, picture, piece, piece of writing, play, poesy, poetry, printed matter, printout, production, prothalamium, reading matter, recension, rhapsody, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the written word, thing of beauty, threnody, transcript, transcription, triolet, troubadour poem, typescript, verse, verselet, versicle, version, villanelle, virelay, vision, work, writing

poesy

• poesy, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, anthology, bad poetry, book of verse, creative imagination, fire of genius, garland, inspiration, musical thought, poetastering, poetastery, poetic genius, poetic works, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, the Muses, the supreme fiction, verse, versemongering

poet

• poet, Meistersinger, Parnassian, advertising writer, annalist, arch-poet, art critic, author, authoress, ballad maker, balladist, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, belletrist, bibliographer, bucoliast, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative artist, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, elegist, encyclopedist, epic poet, essayist, fancier, fantasist, fantast, fili, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, idyllist, imaginer, imagist, inditer, inventor, jongleur, laureate, librettist, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, lyricist, magazine writer, major poet, maker, man of letters, metrist, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, monographer, muse, music critic, mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, occasional poet, odist, pamphleteer, pastoral poet, pastoralist, penwoman, poet laureate, poetaster, poetress, prose writer, reviewer, rhapsode, rhapsodist, rhymer, rhymester, satirist, scenario writer, scenarist, scop, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, skald, sonneteer, storyteller, symbolist, technical writer, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, versemaker, versifier, word painter, wordsmith, writer

poetic justice

• poetic justice, ars poetica, defensibility, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, give-and-take, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, measure for measure, meetness, nemesis, poetcraft, poetic language, poetic license, poeticism, poetics, properness, propriety, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, scales of justice, summary justice, versecraft, versemaking, versification, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right

poetic

• poetic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Parnassian, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, aesthetic, airy, artistic, autistic, bardic, bucolic, dereistic, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, georgic, heroic, idealistic, idyllic, impractical, in the clouds, lyrical, melodic, melodious, metrical, mock-heroic, musical, narrative, otherworldly, pastoral, poetical, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, quixotic, rhapsodic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, runic, sapphic, skaldic, starry-eyed, storybook, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary, wish-fulfilling

poetry

• poetry, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, creative imagination, ease, elegance, facility, fire of genius, flow, fluency, grace, gracefulness, inspiration, metrics, poesy, poetic genius, rhyme, rune, smoothness, song, the Muses, verse, versification

poignancy

• poignancy, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, asperity, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitterness, bleakness, causticity, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, cuttingness, dash, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, drive, edge, effectiveness, fierceness, force, forcefulness, grief, grievousness, grip, guts, harshness, impressiveness, incisiveness, joylessness, keenness, lamentability, lamentation, liveliness, mordacity, mordancy, mournfulness, nervosity, nervousness, pain, painfulness, pathos, pep, piquancy, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, point, power, punch, pungency, raciness, regrettableness, rigor, roughness, sadness, severity, sharpness, sinew, sinewiness, sorrowfulness, sourness, sparkle, spirit, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong language, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigorousness, violence, virulence, vitality, vivacity, vividness, woebegoneness, woefulness

poignant

• poignant, absorbing, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, agitating, agonizing, asperous, astringent, atrocious, barbed, biting, bitter, bleak, blue, caustic, cheerless, comfortless, corrosive, cramping, cruel, cutting, deep, deep-felt, deepgoing, deplorable, depressing, depressive, disastrous, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, double-edged, dramatic, dreary, driving, earnest, edged, effective, emotional, escharotic, excruciating, exquisite, extreme, fierce, forceful, forcible, gnawing, grave, grievous, griping, gutsy, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartfelt, homefelt, hurtful, hurting, imperative, impressive, incisive, indelible, intense, irritating, joyless, keen, lamentable, lively, melancholy, miserable, mordacious, mordant, mournful, moving, nervous, nose-tickling, painful, paroxysmal, pathetic, penetrating, peppery, peppy, perturbing, pervading, piercing, piquant, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pointed, powerful, profound, punchy, pungent, racking, racy, regrettable, rigorous, rough, rueful, sad, saddening, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, sensational, severe, sharp, shooting, sincere, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, snappy, sore, sorrowful, sour, sparkling, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spicy, spirited, stabbing, stinging, stirring, strident, striking, stringent, strong, tart, telling, tormenting, torturous, touching, tragic, trenchant, uncomfortable, upsetting, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, vivacious, vivid, woebegone, woeful, wretched, zesty

point at

• point at, address to, advert to, aim, aim at, allude to, be taken as, bend, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, cite, denominate, denote, deride, designate, determine, direct, direct attention to, direct to, directionize, emblematize, figure, finger, fix, fix on, focus on, grin at, hold in derision, hold on, laugh at, laugh to scorn, level at, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, mention, name, pan, pick out, pillory, point, point out, point to, poke fun at, present, put one on, rag, razz, refer to, ride, ridicule, roast, select, set, sight on, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, specify, stand for, stigmatize, symbol, symbolize, touch on, train, train upon, turn, turn upon, typify

point blank

• point blank, absolutely, dead, definitely, directly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, flush, full, in all respects, in every respect, in plain English, in plain words, ipsissimis verbis, just, kerplunk, literally, literatim, matter-of-factly, naturally, plainly, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, positively, precisely, right, rigidly, rigorously, simply, smack, smack-dab, spang, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, to the point, unaffectedly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word

point of view

• point of view, Anschauung, angle, angle of vision, approach, assumption, attitude, basis, belief, climate of opinion, coign of vantage, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, doctrine, estimate, estimation, ethos, eye, feeling, footing, frame of reference, framework, general belief, idea, impression, judgment, light, lights, mental outlook, mind, mystique, notion, observation, opinion, orientation, outlook, personal judgment, perspective, place, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, principle, public belief, public opinion, reaction, reference system, regard, respect, sentiment, side, sight, situation, slant, stance, stand, standpoint, system, theory, thinking, thought, universe, vantage, vantage point, view, viewpoint, way of thinking

point out

• point out, address to, advert, advert to, allude, allude to, assign, be taken as, bring to attention, bring to notice, bring up, call attention to, cite, conduct to, denominate, denote, designate, determine, direct attention to, direct to, emblematize, figure, finger, fix, focus on, indicate, lead to, mark, mention, name, pick out, pin down, point at, point out to, point the way, point to, put right, refer to, select, set, set right, set straight, show, show the way, signify, specialize, specify, stand for, state, steer, stigmatize, stipulate, symbol, symbolize, touch on, typify

point to

• point to, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, address to, advert to, aim, aim at, allude to, apply to, approve, argue, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attest, attribute to, augur, be taken as, bend, bend to, bespeak, betoken, bias, blame, blame for, blame on, breathe, bring home to, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, charge on, charge to, cite, conduce, confess, connect with, connote, contribute, credit with, demonstrate, denominate, denote, designate, determine, direct, direct attention to, direct to, directionize, display, dispose, divine, emblematize, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, fasten upon, father upon, figure, finger, fix, fix on, fix upon, focus on, foretoken, furnish evidence, give indication of, go, go to show, hang on, have a tendency, head, hint, hold on, illustrate, imply, impute to, incline, indicate, involve, lay to, lead, lean, level at, look to, manifest, mark, mean, mention, name, pick out, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point, point at, point out, prefigure, preindicate, present, presign, presignal, presignify, pretypify, redound to, refer to, saddle on, saddle with, select, serve, set, set down to, set forth, set toward, settle upon, show, show a tendency, show signs of, sight on, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, specify, spell, stand for, stigmatize, suggest, symbol, symbolize, symptomatize, tell, tend, tend to show, token, touch on, train, train upon, trend, turn, turn upon, typify, verge, warp, work toward

point up

• point up, accent, accentuate, belabor, dwell on, emphasize, give emphasis to, harp on, highlight, italicize, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, punctuate, rub in, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore

point

• point, L, Thule, Ultima Thule, abode, accent, accentuate, ace, acerbity, acidity, acme, acridity, acrimony, aculeate, aculeus, acuminate, acumination, address, advance guard, advantage, affective meaning, aim, aim at, airhead, allude to, ambition, amount, analyze, ancestor, angle, animus, announcer, antecedent, antler, apex, apogee, applicability, applicable, application, apposite, appropriate, appropriateness, apropos, apt, area, article, as regards, ascender, aspect, aspiration, astringency, atom, attribute, auger, avail, avant-garde, awl, ax, azimuth, back, barb, barbed wire, barblet, barbule, barbwire, basis, bastard type, battle line, beachhead, bear, beard, bearing, bearings, behalf, behoof, bellwether, belly, belly laugh, bench mark, bend, bend to, benefit, bent, beside the point, bevel, bias, bifurcation, bight, bill, birthmark, bit, bite, bitter end, bitterness, black letter, blade, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blue story, bodkin, body, borer, bottom, bottom dollar, boundary, bracket, bradawl, brand, breakwater, bridgehead, bring up, brink, brow, buccinator, burden, burin, bushwhacker, butt, butt end, caesura, caliber, call attention to, caltrop, cant, cap, cape, capital, cardinal point, carpet tack, case, cast, caste mark, causticity, chalk, chalk up, chapter, character, characteristic, check, check off, checkmark, chersonese, cheval-de-frise, chevron, chief thing, chisel, cicatrix, cicatrize, circumstantial, circumstantiality, climax, cloud nine, cockspur, coin, cold steel, colon, coloring, comma, compass, concern, concerning, conduce, conjugate, connotation, consideration, constituent, contribute, convenience, coral reef, core, corner, cornerstone, counsel, count, counter, course, crank, crest, crisis, critical point, crook, crotchet, crown, crumb, crux, culmen, culmination, current, cusp, cuspidate, cut, cutlery, cutter, dab, dagger, dapple, dash, datum, day, decimal point, decline, define, deflection, degree, delimit, delta, demarcate, denotation, descend, descender, desideration, desideratum, design, designate, desire, detail, details, determination, determine, diacritical mark, dibble, die, direct, direct attention to, direction, direction line, directionize, dirty joke, dirty story, discolor, discoloration, dispose, district, dogleg, dole, dot, double entendre, dram, dribble, driblet, drift, drill, drop, droplet, dwarf, earmark, edge, edge tools, effect, elbow, element, ell, em, emphasize, emplacement, en, end stop, engrave, engraving, engraving tool, entity, essence, essential, essential matter, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, ethnic joke, exhibit, explorer, extension, extent, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, face, facet, fact, factor, fag end, farthest bound, farthest outpost, farthing, fat-faced type, fateful moment, feature, feet, fid, fierceness, file, first line, fishhook, fitting, fix, fix on, fixed purpose, fleck, flick, flyspeck, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, font, force, forebear, forefront, foregoer, foreland, forerunner, fork, fragment, freckle, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, full stop, fun, function, fundamental, funny story, furcation, gaff, gag, gash, germane, gimlet, gist, gnat, go, goad, goal, gobbet, good one, good story, grade, grain, grammatical meaning, granule, gravamen, graver, graving, gravitate, great point, grind, grip, groat, groove, groundbreaker, guide, guts, hack, hair, handful, harbinger, harpoon, harshness, hat pin, hatch, have a tendency, head, heading, headland, heart, heaven, heavens, height, helmsmanship, herald, high noon, high point, highest pitch, highest point, hilltop, hint, hold a heading, hold on, hole, hone, hook, horn, hour, howler, hyphenate, icepick, idea, identify, immaterial, impact, implication, imply, import, important thing, impress, imprint, in point of, in reference to, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inclination, incline, inconsequential, indicate, individual, inflect, inflection, innovator, instance, instant, intaglio, integer, intendment, intension, intent, intention, interest, interval, iota, irrelevant, issue, italic, item, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, jot, jumping-off place, juncture, kairos, keenness, kernel, keystone, knee, knife, knoll, lance, lancet, landmark, latitude and longitude, laugh, lay, lead, lead runner, leader, lean, leap, lentigo, letter, level, level at, lexical meaning, lie, lieu, ligature, limit, line, line of direction, line of march, literal meaning, little, little bit, living issue, locale, locality, location, locus, lofty peak, logotype, look to, lower case, macula, main point, main thing, majuscule, make a mark, malapropos, mallet, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marlinespike, material, material point, matter, matter in hand, maximum, meaning, measure, meat, mention, meridian, messenger, microbe, microorganism, midge, milestone, mind, minim, minimum, minor detail, minuscule, minute, minutia, minutiae, mite, modeling clay, modicum, module, mole, molecule, moment, moment of truth, mordacity, mordancy, mote, motif, motive, mottle, mountaintop, mucro, mull, nail, naked steel, navigation, naze, ne plus ultra, neb, needle, ness, nevus, nib, nicety, nick, nisus, no place higher, nook, noon, notch, notion, nuance, nub, nucleus, nutshell, object, objective, oilstone, orientation, ounce, outguard, outpost, overtone, oxgoad, panic, parenthesize, parse, part, particle, particular, pas, patch, pathfinder, pause, peak, pebble, peg, pencil, peninsula, pepper, percentage, period, person, persona, pertinence, pertinent, pi, pic, pica, pico, piece of advice, pigsticker, pike, piloting, pin, pinch, pinhead, pinnacle, pinpoint, pioneer, pitch, pitchfork, pith, pittance, pivot, place, place emphasis on, placement, plan, plane, plateau, play, plunge, poignancy, point at, point at issue, point in question, point out, point to, point up, pointer, pointless, pole, polka dot, position, precedent, precipice, precipitate, precursor, predecessor, pregnant moment, present, prick, prickle, print, problem, profit, project, projection, promontory, prong, property, proportion, proposal, prospectus, psychological moment, punch, punctuate, punctuation, punctuation marks, puncture, puncturer, purport, purpose, quality, quarter, question, quiddity, quill, quoin, railhead, range, range of meaning, ratio, reach, real issue, real meaning, redound to, reef, reference, reference mark, referent, regard, regarding, region, relation, relevance, relevant, remind, remove, reset, resolution, resolve, respect, rib tickler, riddle, ridge, rigor, riot, rocker, roman, roughness, round, rowel, rubric, run, rung, sake, salient point, sandspit, sans serif, say, scale, scar, scarification, scarify, scope, score, scorper, scotch, scout, scrap, scratch, scratching, scream, script, scruple, seal, seam, season, semantic cluster, semantic field, semicolon, sense, serve, service, set, set toward, settle, seventh heaven, severity, shade, shadow, shank, sharpen, sharpener, sharpness, shoulder, show, show a tendency, sick joke, side, sidesplitter, sight gag, sight on, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, single, single out, singleton, sink, site, situation, situs, skewer, sky, small cap, small capital, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, solder, soldering iron, something, soul, space, span, span of meaning, spatula, spearhead, specifics, speck, speckle, spell, spiculate, spicule, spiculum, spike, spine, spire, spirit, spit, splash, splotch, spoonful, sport, spot, spotlight, spur, stage, stain, stair, stamp, standard, staple, station, stead, steel, steer, steerage, steering, stem, step, stigma, stigmatize, sting, stint, stop, stormy petrel, story, strap, strawberry mark, streak, stress, stretch, striate, stridency, stringency, stripe, striving, strop, structural meaning, stub, study, stump, style, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subside, substance, substantive point, suggest, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, summit, swerve, sword, symbolic meaning, tack, tactic, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tally, tang, taper, tartness, tattoo, tattoo mark, teeth, tend, tend to go, tendency, tenor, text, the bottom line, the point, theme, thimbleful, thing, thought, thrust, thumbtack, tick, tick off, time, time lag, tine, tiny bit, tip, tip-top, tittle, to the point, toad sticker, tongue, top, topic, tor, totality of associations, trace, track, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train, train upon, trait, transferred meaning, tread, trenchancy, trend, trifling amount, trivia, turn, turn upon, turning point, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, unadorned meaning, underline, underscore, undertone, unimportant, unit, upmost, upper case, upper extremity, uppermost, use, utmost, value, van, vanguard, vanishing point, vaunt-courier, veer, vehemence, verge, vertex, very top, view, violence, virulence, visual joke, voortrekker, warp, watermark, way, wheeze, whereabout, whereabouts, whet, while, whit, whittle, will, with respect to, work toward, worth, wow, yarn, zag, zenith, zig, zigzag

point-blank

• point-blank, abrupt, abruptly, blunt, bluntly, candidly, categorical, categorically, close, direct, directly, downright, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, frankly, nearby, openly, outright, plainly, right away, short, straight, straightforward, to the point, unalloyed, uncompromising, uncompromisingly, unmitigated, unreserved, unreservedly

pointed

• pointed, Attic, Spartan, V-shaped, Y-shaped, abbreviated, abridged, acanthoid, acanthous, accented, accentuated, acicular, aciform, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, akimbo, allegorical, angular, aphoristic, apiculate, aposiopestic, arresting, associational, axiomatic, barbed, bent, biting, brief, brilliant, brusque, clever, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative, conspicuous, contracted, cornered, cornuted, crisp, crooked, crotched, curt, cusped, cuspidate, cut, cutting, decided, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, droll, elliptic, emphasized, emphatic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, facetious, figurative, forceful, forcible, forked, formulaic, formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, funny, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, gnomic, hebetate, hispid, hooked, horned, horny, humorous, humorsome, in red letters, incisive, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, italicized, jagged, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, knee-shaped, laconic, marked, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, mordant, mucronate, muricate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, nimble-witted, outstanding, peaked, peaky, penetrating, piercing, pithy, platitudinous, pointy, positive, pregnant, prominent, pronged, proverbial, pruned, punctuated, pungent, quick-witted, rapier-like, readable, referential, remarkable, reserved, salient, salt, salty, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scintillating, sententious, serrate, serrated, sharp, sharp-cornered, sharp-pointed, short, short and sweet, shortened, signal, significant, significative, smart, sparkling, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, sprightly, starred, stressed, striking, substantial, succinct, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn, tapered, tapering, telling, terse, tight, tined, to the point, toothed, transferred, trenchant, truncated, unbated, underlined, underscored, unmistakable, whimsical, witty, zigzag

pointedly

• pointedly, abundantly, acutely, advisedly, amazingly, amply, aphoristically, astonishingly, awesomely, briefly, brusquely, by design, calculatedly, concisely, consciously, conspicuously, contemplatedly, copiously, crisply, curtly, deliberately, designedly, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, generously, glaringly, impressively, in cold blood, incredibly, intensely, intentionally, knowingly, laconically, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, meditatedly, nobly, notably, on purpose, particularly, peculiarly, pithily, preeminently, premeditatedly, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, purposefully, purposely, purposively, remarkably, richly, sententiously, shortly, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, succinctly, summarily, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, tersely, uncommonly, unusually, voluntarily, willfully, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose, wittingly, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

pointer

• pointer, Gyropilot, advice, alerting, arrow, automatic pilot, blaze, boatheader, boatsteerer, caution, cicerone, clue, compass needle, courier, cowherd, coxswain, cue, direction, direction post, dragoman, drover, finger post, fist, goatherd, guide, guideboard, guidepost, guider, hand, helmsman, herd, herdsman, hint, hour hand, index, index finger, indicator, lead, lubber line, mercury, milepost, minute hand, monition, navigator, needle, office, passing word, piece of advice, pilot, point, recommendation, river pilot, rod, shepherd, sign, signboard, signpost, steer, steerer, steersman, stick, suggestion, tip, tip-off, tour director, tour guide, warning, whisper

pointless

• pointless, abrupt, absurd, aimless, arid, asinine, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bootless, characterless, cold, colorless, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, dusty, edgeless, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, faired, fatuous, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inexcitable, insignificant, insipid, jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, meaningless, no go, nonsensical, obtuse, of no use, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, poky, ponderous, preposterous, purportless, purposeless, ridiculous, rounded, senseless, silly, slow, smoothed, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, superficial, superfluous, tasteless, tedious, unavailing, unedged, unlively, unmeaning, unpointed, unproductive, unsharp, unsharpened, useless, vain, vapid, wooden, worthless

pointlessly

• pointlessly, aimlessly, aridly, barrenly, bloodlessly, bootlessly, colorlessly, dismally, draggily, drearily, drearisomely, dryly, dully, dustily, effetely, emptily, fecklessly, fruitlessly, futilely, heavily, hollowly, inanely, insipidly, jejunely, lifelessly, needlessly, pallidly, ploddingly, ponderously, purposelessly, slowly, spiritlessly, stodgily, stuffily, superficially, tastelessly, tediously, to little purpose, to no purpose, uninterestingly, unnecessarily, uselessly, vainly, vapidly

pointlessness

• pointlessness, absurdity, aimlessness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, characterlessness, colorlessness, deadness, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, fatuity, fecklessness, flatness, fruitlessness, futility, heaviness, hollowness, impotence, inanity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, inexcitability, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, meaninglessness, nugacity, otiosity, paleness, pallor, pokiness, ponderousness, profitlessness, purposelessness, rat race, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, the absurd, triviality, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, vapidness, vicious circle, woodenness, worthlessness

poise

• poise, accommodate, action, actions, activity, acts, address, adjust, affectation, air, aplomb, arrogance, aspire, assurance, assuredness, back, balance, ballast, bearing, beck, beckon, become airborne, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, belief, body language, calmness, cancel, carriage, certitude, charade, chironomy, claw skyward, cocksureness, coequality, coextension, compensate, comportment, composure, conduct, confidence, confidentness, control, conviction, cool, coolness, coordinate, correspondence, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, courage, culture pattern, custom, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, demeanor, deportment, dignity, diplomacy, doing, doings, dumb show, equability, equality, equalize, equanimity, equate, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, even, even up, evenness, faith, fit, float, fly, fly aloft, folkway, gain altitude, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gestures, goings-on, grace, guise, hand signal, hang, hover, hubris, identity, imperturbability, integrate, justice, kinesics, kite, leave the ground, level, level head, levelheadedness, levelness, likeness, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motion, motions, movement, movements, moves, observable behavior, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pantomime, par, parallelism, parity, pattern, plane, pomposity, port, pose, positiveness, possession, posture, practice, praxis, prepare, presence, presence of mind, pride, procedure, proceeding, proportion, reserve, restraint, sang-froid, security, sedateness, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-control, self-importance, self-possession, self-reliance, self-restraint, serenity, settled belief, shrug, sign language, soar, social science, spire, square, stabilitate, staidness, stance, stasis, steady, strike a balance, style, subjective certainty, support, sureness, surety, symmetry, tact, tactics, take off, tone, tranquillity, trust, uphold, way, way of life, ways, well-regulated mind, zoom

poised

• poised, apoise, arrogant, assured, balanced, calm, cocksure, collected, composed, confident, controlled, convinced, cool, decided, determined, dignified, easy, easygoing, equanimous, equibalanced, equilibrious, equiponderant, equiponderous, hovering, hubristic, imperturbable, levelheaded, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persuaded, placid, pompous, positive, possessed, prepared, proud, ready, reassured, recollected, reserved, secure, sedate, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-important, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-restrained, serene, staid, sure, suspended, symmetric, teetering, together, tottering, tranquil, trembling, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unflappable, unhesitating, unruffled, unwavering, waiting, wavering, well-balanced, wobbling

poison

• poison, Cain, DDD, DDT, Paris green, abomination, abuse, acaricide, activate, adulterate, adulteration, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, annihilate, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antimony, antiseptic, apache, arsenic, arsenic trioxide, assassin, assassinator, atrocity, bad, bane, befoul, befoulment, bereave of life, beryllium, bewitch, bichloride of mercury, blight, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, bug bomb, burker, butcher, button man, cadmium, cancer, canker, cannibal, carbamate insecticide, carbolic acid, carbon monoxide, carbon tetrachloride, carry away, carry off, charge, cheapen, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, chlorine, chloroform, coarsen, communicability, condemn, confound, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, contaminate, contamination, corrupt, corruption, crucify, crying evil, curse, cut down, cut off, cutthroat, cyanide, damage, deadliness, debase, debauch, defile, defilement, deflower, defoliant, degenerate, degrade, demoralize, denature, deprave, deprive of life, desecrate, desperado, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, destructiveness, detriment, devalue, disadvantage, disinfectant, dispatch, dispose of, disserve, distort, distress, do a mischief, do away with, do evil, do for, do ill, do to death, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embalming fluid, empoison, end, envenom, eradicant, eradicator, evil, execute, executioner, exterminate, exterminator, finish, finish off, formaldehyde, fumigant, fungicide, garroter, germicide, get into trouble, gorilla, grievance, gun, gunman, gunsel, harass, harm, hatchet man, havoc, head-hunter, herbicide, hex, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, hurt, hydrocyanic acid, hyoscyamine, ill, immolate, impair, infect, infection, infectiousness, infectivity, injure, injury, insect powder, insecticide, irradiate, jinx, kill, killer, launch into eternity, lead, liquidate, lynch, make away with, malignancy, maltreat, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, martyr, martyrize, massacrer, matador, menace, mephitic, mephitis, mercuric chloride, mercury, miasma, microbicide, mischief, mistreat, misuse, miticide, molest, murder, murderer, mustard gas, nicotine, noxiousness, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage, panther piss, persecute, pervert, pesticide, pestilence, phenol, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poison gas, poisoner, poisonousness, pollute, pollution, prejudice, prostitute, prussic acid, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, radiumize, rat poison, ravage, ravish, remove from life, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, rotgut, sacrifice, savage, scathe, selenium, shellac, slaughterer, slay, slayer, sophistication, stain, starve, stomach poison, strangler, strychnine, subvert, systemic, systemic insecticide, taint, take life, take off, the worst, threaten, thug, torment, torpedo, torture, toxic, toxicant, toxicity, toxin, trigger man, twist, ulcerate, venin, venom, venomous, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, violate, virulence, virulency, virulent, virus, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, weed killer, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

poisoned

• poisoned, activated, autoluminescent, bad, cankered, charged, contaminated, diseased, gangrened, gangrenous, hot, infected, irradiated, morbid, mortified, pathological, peccant, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, septic, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous

poisoner

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

poisoning

• poisoning, adulteration, autointoxication, bane, befouling, beheading, blood, blood poisoning, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, burning, capital punishment, contamination, corruption, crucifixion, dealing death, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, defilement, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, electrocution, envenoming, ergotism, euthanasia, execution, extermination, festering, flow of blood, food poisoning, fouling, fusillade, garrote, gassing, gore, hanging, hemlock, immolation, infection, intoxication, judicial murder, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, milk sickness, misuse, necktie party, perversion, pollution, prostitution, ptomaine poisoning, pyemia, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, sepsis, septic poisoning, septicemia, septicopyemia, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, strangling, strangulation, suppuration, taking of life, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, toxemia, venenation, vitiation

poisonous

• poisonous, bad, baleful, baneful, barfy, brackish, catching, cloying, communicable, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, defamatory, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diabolical, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, envenomed, evil, fatal, fetid, foul, fulsome, harmful, high, hurtful, icky, infectious, infective, injurious, lethal, maggoty, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mortal, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, ominous, overripe, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poison, prejudicial, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, scatheful, septic, sickening, slanderous, spoiled, stinking, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, vile, virulent, vomity, weevily, yucky

poke around

• poke around, beat about, beat the bushes, burrow, delve, dig, explore, feel around, feel for, forage, frisk, fumble, go through, grabble, grope, grope for, hunt, look around, look round, look through, nose around, poke, pry, pry around, research, root, scrabble, search, search through, smell around

poke

• poke, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, amble, arouse, assault, awaken, bag, balefire, balloon, bang, bash, bat, beacon, beacon fire, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat the bushes, beat the drum, beating, beetle, bell, bell buoy, belt, biff, billfold, bladder, blinker, blockhead, blow, blue peter, bonk, boost, box, buck, buffet, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, buoy, burrow, busybody, butt, butt against, butt in, caution light, chaff, chop, chump, clap, claudicate, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, come in contact, crack, cram, crawl, creep, crowd, cuff, cut, cut and thrust, dally, dash, dawdle, deal, deal a blow, deck, delve, diddle, dig, dillydally, dimwit, dint, dip, dogtrot, dolt, doodle, dope, drag, drag along, drag out, drive, drub, drubbing, drumming, dumbbell, elbow, exchange colors, excite, explore, feel, feel of, feint, fetch, fetch a blow, finger, flag, flag down, flail at, flail away at, flare, flash, flick, flog, fob, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, forage, force, frisk, fusillade, galvanize, give a signal, give the nod, glance, go dead slow, go light, go slow, go through, goad, gong buoy, green light, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, handbag, handle, head, heliograph, high sign, hit, hit a clip, hit at, hobble, hoist a banner, hunt, hurtle, hustle, idiot, idle, ignoramus, inch, inch along, interfere, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, intrude, investigate, jab, jam, jeer at, jog, jog-trot, joggle, jolt, jostle, jut, kick, kid, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, lag, lash, lash out at, laze, leer, let drive at, let fly at, let have it, lick, limp, linger, loiter, lollygag, look around, look round, look through, lunge at, make a sign, make fun of, manipulate, marker beacon, meddle, mock, money belt, money clip, moron, mosey, mouse, needle, nod, nose, nose around, nudge, overhang, palm, palpate, parachute flare, paste, paw, pelt, piddle, pile drive, pilot flag, plunk, ply, pocket, pocketbook, poke along, poke around, poke at, poke fun at, police whistle, porte-monnaie, pouch, pound, pout, press, pressure, prick, probe, procrastinate, prod, project, protrude, provoke, pry, punch, purse, purse strings, push, put off, quarantine flag, quicken, radio beacon, raise a cry, ram, ram down, rap, rattle, red flag, red light, research, rib, ridicule, rocket, root, rouse, run, run against, sac, sack, sailing aid, salute, saunter, search, search through, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, send up, shake, shoulder, shove, shuffle along, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smell around, smite, snap, snook, snoop, soak, sock, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spank, spar buoy, speak, spur, stab, stagger along, stand out, stick, stick out, stimulate, sting, stir, stop light, stress, strike, strike at, strike out at, stroke, stroll, swat, swing, swing at, swing on, swipe, tamp, tamper, tap, tarry, tattoo, taunt, tease, the nod, the wink, thrust, thrust at, thumb, thump, thwack, toddle, toddle along, totter along, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, trail, traipse, twiddle, twit, unfurl a flag, waddle, walk, wallet, wallop, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, whack, wham, whip, white flag, whop, wield, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, worm, worm along, yellow flag, yerk

poker face

• poker face, anesthesia, autism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, expressionlessness, frigidity, frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, inexcitability, inexpressiveness, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, objectivity, obtuseness, passionlessness, self-absorption, soullessness, spiritlessness, straight face, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpressiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal

poker faced

• poker faced, abstract, blank, colorless, deadpan, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, earnest, empty, expressionless, fishy, glassy, grave, impassive, impersonal, inexpressive, sedate, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, unexpressive, vacant, weighty, wooden

poker

• poker, andiron, chain, coal tongs, crane, crook, damper, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, lifter, pothook, salamander, spit, tongs, tripod, trivet, turnspit

poking

• poking, ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, delving, digging, easy, faltering, fishing, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, in search of, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, loaded for bear, looking for, lumbering, moderate, nosy, out for, out for bear, poky, probing, prying, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, searching, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling

poky

• poky, abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic, barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank, bloodless, blowzy, careless, cautious, characterless, cheesy, chintzy, circumspect, claudicant, cold, colorless, contemptible, cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crummy, dead, debased, degraded, deliberate, depraved, despicable, dilapidated, dim, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dismal, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, easy, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, execrable, exiguous, fade, faltering, flagging, flagrant, flat, foot-dragging, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gentle, gradual, grave, gross, grubby, half-pint, halting, heavy, heinous, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling, hollow, humdrum, idle, in rags, inane, indolent, inexcitable, informal, insipid, jejune, jerkwater, knee-high, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lifeless, limited, limping, little, loose, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumbering, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, moderate, monotone, monotonous, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, niggling, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, pale, pallid, paltry, pedestrian, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, plodding, pointless, poking, ponderous, poor, punk, puny, ragged, raggedy, rank, relaxed, reluctant, reptilian, ruinous, sauntering, scabby, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short, shuffling, slack, slatternly, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, sluttish, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, sordid, spiritless, squalid, staggering, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strolling, stuffy, superficial, tacky, tasteless, tattered, tedious, tentative, tinhorn, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, two-bit, two-by-four, unhurried, unkempt, unlively, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vapid, vile, waddling, wooden, wretched

polar

• polar, Antarctic, Arctic, Siberian, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetic, antithetical, boundary, brumal, caudal, conclusive, confronting, contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, converse, counter, definitive, determinative, diamagnetic, diametric, electromagnetic, endmost, eventual, extreme, eyeball-to-eyeball, facing, farthest, ferromagnetic, final, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, hibernal, hostile, hyperborean, icy, inverse, last, limiting, magnetic, numbing, obverse, opposed, opposing, opposite, polaric, polarized, reverse, tail, terminal, terminating, terminative, ultimate, wintry

Polaris

• Polaris, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, celestial body, comet, cynosure, daystar, evening star, fixed stars, guiding star, heavenly body, living sapphires, lodestar, morning star, orb, polar star, polestar, sphere, starry host, stars

polarity

• polarity, Janus, N pole, S pole, ambiguity, ambivalence, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, balance, biformity, bifurcation, bilateral symmetry, clashing, collision, conflict, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, congruity, conjugation, consistency, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, correspondence, counterposition, cross-purposes, dichotomy, disagreement, discrepancy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, dynamic symmetry, equality, equilibrium, equivocality, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, finish, halving, harmony, hostility, inconsistency, inimicalness, irony, keeping, magnetic axis, magnetic pole, multilateral symmetry, negative pole, north pole, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, pairing, parallelism, perversity, polar opposition, polarization, pole, posing against, positive pole, proportion, proportionality, regularity, repugnance, shapeliness, showdown, south pole, symmetricalness, symmetry, trilateral symmetry, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, uniformity

polarization

• polarization, N pole, S pole, agreement to disagree, anteposition, antigravity, antithesis, centrifugal force, confrontation, confrontment, contention, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, cross-purposes, diamagnetism, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disaffinity, disagreement, disparity, dividedness, division, hostility, magnetic axis, magnetic pole, magnetic repulsion, misunderstanding, mutual repulsion, negative pole, north pole, odds, opposing, opposition, opposure, polar opposition, polarity, pole, posing against, positive pole, repellence, repellency, repelling, repulsion, south pole, variance

polarize

• polarize, bump heads, confront, contend, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, counteract, face, front, lie opposite, match, meet head-on, oppose, pose against, put in opposition, set over against, stand opposed, stand opposite, subtend

polarizing

• polarizing, aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, combative, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, irascible, irritable, litigious, partisan, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, shrewish, wrangling

pole vault

• pole vault, Highland fling, and jump, bounce, bound, broad jump, buck, buckjump, capriole, curvet, demivolt, flying jump, galliard, gelandesprung, grand jete, handspring, high jump, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, jete, jig, jump, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, lavolta, leap, leapfrog, long jump, morris, pounce, running broad jump, running high jump, saut de basque, ski jump, skip, spring, steeplechase, tour jete, upleap, upspring, vault

pole

• pole, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, Maypole, N pole, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, S pole, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, acme, advance, all over, antenna tower, antipodal points, antipodes, antipoints, antipoles, apex, apogee, arbor, at odds, at opposite extremes, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, baluster, balustrade, banister, bar, barbican, bare pole, base, beam, beanpole, belfry, bell tower, billet, bitter end, black and white, board, boarding, bottom dollar, boundary, bowl, brow, bunt, butt, butt end, campanile, cap, caryatid, clapboard, climax, cloud nine, colonnade, colossus, column, contraposita, contrapositives, contraries, cord, cordwood, counterpoles, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cupola, dado, deal, derrick, die, distaff, dome, driftwood, drive, edge, end, everywhere, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, fag end, far and wide, farthest bound, fire tower, firewood, flagstaff, footstalk, forward, frontier, fulcrum, gimbal, godforsaken place, gudgeon, hardwood, heaven, heavens, height, high and low, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hinge, hingle, hub, impel, irreconcilable, jack, jumping-off place, lantern, lath, lathing, lathwork, lighthouse, limit, log, lumber, magnetic axis, magnetic pole, mandrel, martello, martello tower, mast, maximum, meridian, minaret, monument, mountaintop, move, nave, ne plus ultra, negative pole, newel-post, nib, night and day, no place higher, noon, north pole, nowhere, oar, oarlock, obelisk, observation tower, opposite poles, opposites, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, paddle, pagoda, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, peak, pedal, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pin, pinnacle, pintle, pitch, pivot, plank, planking, plinth, plyboard, plywood, point, polar opposites, polarity, polarization, poles, poles apart, positive pole, post, propel, puncheon, push, pylon, pyramid, queen-post, radiant, ridge, rod, roll, row, rowlock, scape, scull, seventh heaven, shaft, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shove, shunt, sideboard, siding, sky, skyscraper, slab, slat, socle, softwood, south pole, spar, spindle, spire, splat, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe, stave, steeple, steering oar, stem, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, stub, stump, stupa, subbase, summit, surbase, sweep, sweep along, swivel, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, television mast, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, three-by-four, thrust, timber, timbering, timberwork, tip, tip-top, tongue, top, tope, totem pole, tour, tower, treadle, tree, troll, trundle, trunk, trunnion, turret, two-by-four, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, upright, utmost, vertex, very top, water tower, weatherboard, windmill tower, wood, worlds apart, zenith

polecat

• polecat, Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, cur, dog, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, pig, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, serpent, skunk, snake, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, varmint, vermin, viper, weasel, whelp, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril

polemic

• polemic, Kilkenny cats, Philadelphia lawyer, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apologist, apology, arguer, argufier, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, casuist, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversialist, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, debater, defense, disceptator, disputant, disputation, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fighting, fliting, flyting, fracas, fuss, guardhouse lawyer, hassle, hostility, hubbub, imbroglio, litigation, logomacher, logomachist, logomachy, mooter, open quarrel, paper war, passage of arms, pilpulist, polemicist, polemics, polemist, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, squabble, squabbling, strife, struggle, tiff, tussle, vendetta, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangler, wrangling

polemical

• polemical, aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, litigious, logomachic, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, shrewish, wrangling

poles apart

• poles apart, assorted, at odds, at opposite extremes, at variance, back to back, contrariwise, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eyeball to eyeball, face to face, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, just opposite, many, motley, multifarious, nose to nose, opposite, poles asunder, separate, separated, several, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, vis-a-vis, widely apart, worlds apart

polestar

• polestar, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, artificial magnet, bar magnet, celestial body, center of attraction, center of consciousness, center of interest, comet, cynosure, daystar, electromagnetic lifting magnet, evening star, field magnet, fixed stars, focal point, focus, focus of attention, guiding star, heart, heavenly body, horseshoe magnet, hub, living sapphires, lodestar, lodestone, magnet, magnetic needle, magnetite, morning star, nerve center, orb, paramagnet, point of convergence, polar star, prime focus, seat, solenoid, sphere, starry host, stars

police officer

• police officer, bobby, bull, constable, cop, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man, officer, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pig, police, police constable, policeman, policewoman

police state

• police state, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state, gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, self-determination, self-government, social democracy, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, welfare state

police whistle

• police whistle, Klaxon, Mayday, Roman candle, SOS, aid to navigation, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blinking light, blue peter, buoy, burglar alarm, buzzer, caution light, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flare, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, gale warning, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, lighthouse, marker beacon, nod, note of alarm, nudge, occulting light, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal of distress, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, siren, small-craft warning, spar buoy, still alarm, stop light, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, the nod, the wink, tocsin, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, watch fire, whistle, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

police

• police, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, administer, arm, armor, bless, bull, champion, clean up, clear the decks, clear up, cloak, compass about, constabulary, control, cop, copper, copyright, county police, cover, cushion, defend, enforce, ensure, fence, fend, fix up, fuzz, groom, guarantee, guard, harbor, haven, heat, highway patrol, insure, keep, keep from harm, keep guard, keep vigil, keep watch, law enforcement agency, make safe, man, military police, monitor, mount guard, neaten, nestle, observe, officer, oversee, patent, patrol, peace officer, police force, police officer, police up, political police, posse, protect, provincial police, put in trim, register, regulate, ride shotgun for, riot police, safeguard, screen, secret police, secure, security force, shelter, shield, shore patrol, shroud, special police, spruce, spruce up, stand guard, stand sentinel, state police, straighten up, supervise, tactical police, the cops, the fuzz, tidy, tidy up, trig up, trim, trim up, troopers, underwrite, vigilance committee, vigilantes, watch

policeman

• policeman, Dogberry, G-man, John Law, MP, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bluebottle, bluecoat, bobby, bound bailiff, bull, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, flatfoot, flic, fuzz, gendarme, government man, gumshoe, heat, inspector, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, man, marshal, mounted policeman, nab, narc, officer, paddy, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pig, police, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policewoman, portreeve, reeve, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trap, trooper

policy

• policy, accident insurance, action, actuary, annuity, approach, arrangement, assurance, autarky, aviation insurance, bail bond, behavior, bimetallism, bingo, bond, business life insurance, card games, casualty insurance, certificate of insurance, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, circumspection, circumspectness, conduct, consideration, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, cool judgment, course, court bond, covenant of indemnity, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, credit insurance, credit life insurance, creed, custom, debenture, debenture bond, deductible, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, design, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, economic self-sufficiency, endowment insurance, family maintenance policy, fan-tan, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, flood insurance, formal contract, fraternal insurance, free enterprise, free trade, game plan, good judgment, government insurance, governmentalism, group policy, guiding principles, hazard, health insurance, horse racing, implied contract, indent, indenture, industrial life insurance, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, interinsurance, judgment, judiciousness, keno, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, liability insurance, license bond, limited payment insurance, line, localism, lotto, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, managed currency, management, marine insurance, method, mortgage deed, mutual company, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, ocean marine insurance, parol contract, party line, party principle, permit bond, pinball, pitch and toss, plan of action, planned economy, platform, polity, position, position paper, practice, price supports, principles, procedure, program, promissory note, protection, protectionism, protocol, providence, prudence, prudentialism, public policy, pump-priming, recognizance, reflection, reflectiveness, regulation, robbery insurance, rouge et noir, roulette, rule, scheme, sectionalism, shell game, social security, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, stock company, strategy, sweepstake, sweepstakes, system, tactics, term insurance, the numbers, the numbers game, theft insurance, thoughtfulness, title deed, trente-et-quarante, underwriter, way, ways and means, weighing

polio

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

polis

• polis, Stadt, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, banlieue, body politic, boom town, borough, bourg, buffer state, burg, burgh, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, conurbation, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, free city, ghost town, grand duchy, greater city, kingdom, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, nation, nationality, outskirts, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, republic, satellite, seneschalty, settlement, sovereign nation, spread city, state, suburb, suburbia, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, ville

polish off

• polish off, KO, accomplish, achieve, attain, blast, blot out, bump off, call off, cancel, compass, complete, consummate, croak, deal with, delete, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, do the job, do the trick, drop the curtain, effect, effectuate, enact, end off, erase, execute, expunge, extinguish, fetch, finalize, finish, fix, fold up, fulfill, get, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the business, give the quietus, gun down, hit, ice, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock off, knock out, lay out, make, manage, off, perfect, perform, produce, punish, put, put away, put paid to, realize, rub out, scrag, settle, shoot down, succeed, take care of, turn the trick, waste, wipe out, work, work out, zap

polish

• polish, Atticism, abradant, abrasive, acculturation, acquired taste, aluminum oxide, ameliorate, appreciation of excellence, appropriateness, auto polish, beautify, better, breeding, brighten, brighten up, brightness, brilliance, brush up, buff, bump off, burnish, chasteness, chastity, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clean, clearness, colcothar, comeliness, con, conclude, consume, correct, correctness, corundum, crocus, cultivate, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, destroy, develop, dignity, directness, discrimination, dispatch, dispose of, distinction, do away with, do in, dress, ease, eat, education, elaborate, elegance, elegancy, eliminate, embellish, emend, emery, emery board, emery paper, enculturation, end, enhance, enlightenment, evolve, excellence, fastidiousness, felicitousness, felicity, file, finesse, finish, fittingness, fix, flow, flowing periods, fluency, freshen, furbish, furbish up, garnet, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, glance, glaze, gleam, glint, gloss, glow, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, improve, kill, ladylikeness, lawn-roller, learn, limpidity, liquidate, lucidity, luster, mature, mend, murder, nail file, naturalness, neatness, niceness, nicety, oil, patina, pellucidity, perfect, perspicuity, plainness, polish off, polish up, polishes, propriety, pumice, pumice stone, purity, put away, quality, radiance, rasp, refine, refinement, renovate, repair, restraint, retouch, review, revive, ripen, roller, rottenstone, rouge, round, rub, rub out, rub up, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, scrub, season, seemliness, sheen, shine, shoe polish, silicon carbide, silver polish, simplicity, slay, sleek, sleeker, slick, slick down, slicker, smooth, smoother, smoothness, socialization, sophistication, sparkle, spruce, spruce up, straightforwardness, study, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, terminate, terseness, tone up, touch up, unaffectedness, vamp, vamp up, varnish, wax, wolf down

polished

• polished, Attic, Ciceronian, accomplished, adept, advanced, ameliorated, archetypical, beautified, bettered, buffed, burnished, chaste, civilized, classic, clear, complete, consummate, converted, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, debonair, delicate, developed, direct, discriminating, distingue, easy, educated, elegant, embellished, enhanced, enriched, excellent, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, fastidious, faultless, fine, finished, flawless, fully developed, fully realized, furbished, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gifted, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, glossy, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, impeccable, improved, lacquered, ladylike, limpid, lucid, lustrous, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, nice, outstanding, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous, plain, polite, proficient, pure, quintessential, refined, reformed, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, simple, sleek, slick, smarmy, soignee, sophisticated, straightforward, subtle, superb, superior, superlative, tasteful, terse, thorough, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, well-bred, well-brought-up, well-mannered

polite

• polite, accommodating, affable, agreeable, attentive, civil, complaisant, considerate, cordial, courteous, deferential, diplomatic, fair, formal, genteel, graceful, gracious, mannerly, obliging, polished, proper, respectful, solicitous, tactful, thoughtful, urbane, well-mannered

politeness

• politeness, affability, agreeableness, amenities, amenity, civilities, civility, comity, complaisance, considerateness, convention, courteousness, courtesy, courtliness, decencies, decorum, deference, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, formalities, good form, good manners, gracefulness, graciousness, manners, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, politesse, proprieties, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, respect, respectfulness, rules of conduct, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage, solicitousness, solicitude, tact, tactfulness, thoughtfulness, urbanity

politic

• politic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever, congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent, deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert, fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten, fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish, governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful, hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean, noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient, profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick, quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective, regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming, seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful, tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough, thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised, well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike, worthwhile

political party

• political party, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Know-Nothing Party, Labour Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Tory Party, Whig Party, breakaway group, camp, caucus, city hall, division, ethnic group, faction, interest, interest group, machine, major party, minor party, minority group, multiple party system, offshoot, one-party system, opposition party, party, party in power, political machine, pressure group, sect, side, silent majority, splinter, splinter group, splinter party, third party, two-party system, vocal minority, wing

political

• political, absolute, administrative, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, diplomatic, factional, factious, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, geopolitical, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, national, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, partisan, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, politic, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, public, republican, self-governing, state, statesmanlike, suffragist, theocratic, totalitarian

politician

• politician, Admirable Crichton, MP, Machiavel, Machiavellian, Machiavellianist, Member of Parliament, adept, administrator, artisan, artist, attache, authority, bureaucrat, civil servant, congressman, congresswoman, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomat, diplomatist, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, graduate, handy man, influence peddler, journeyman, lawmaker, legislator, machine politician, marksman, minister, no slouch, office-bearer, official, political hack, political realist, power broker, pro, professional, professor, proficient, public servant, representative, savant, selectman, senator, shark, sharp, statesman, stateswoman, technical adviser, technician

politics

• politics, Geopolitik, Machiavellianism, Machiavellism, civics, diplomacy, diplomatics, geopolitics, government, international relations, jobbery, jobbing, machination, manipulation, poli-sci, political behavior, political economy, political geography, political philosophy, political science, political theory, public administration, statecraft, statesmanship

polity

• polity, Everyman, John Doe, Machtpolitik, Public, Realpolitik, Tammany Hall, administration, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, autarky, bimetallism, body politic, bossism, buffer state, captive nation, career politics, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circumspection, circumspectness, citizenry, city-state, civil government, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, community, community at large, confrontation politics, consensus politics, consideration, cool judgment, country, county, course, creed, direction, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, dispensation, disposition, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, economic self-sufficiency, economics in action, empery, empire, empirical politics, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, form of government, free city, free enterprise, free trade, general public, gentry, good judgment, governance, government, governmentalism, grand duchy, guiding principles, judgment, judiciousness, kid-glove politics, kingdom, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, land, line, localism, machine politics, managed currency, management, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, men, nation, nationality, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, oversight, partisan politics, partisanism, party line, party principle, peanut politics, people, people in general, persons, petty politics, plan of action, planned economy, platform, policy, polis, political organization, politics, populace, population, pork-barrel politics, position, position paper, possession, power, power politics, practical politics, pressure-group politics, price supports, principality, principate, principles, procedure, program, protection, protectionism, protectorate, providence, province, prudence, prudentialism, public, public policy, pump-priming, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, reflection, reflectiveness, reform politics, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, republic, rule, satellite, sectionalism, seneschalty, settlement, silk-stocking politics, society, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, sovereign nation, sovereignty, state, sultanate, superpower, supervision, sway, system of government, territory, thoughtfulness, toparchia, toparchy, ward politics, weighing, world, you and me

polka dot

• polka dot, bespangled, birthmark, blaze, blemish, blotch, blotched, blotchy, brand, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, cut, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, discoloration, dot, dotted, dottedness, dotty, earmark, engraving, flea-bitten, fleck, flecked, fleckered, flick, frecked, freckle, freckled, freckliness, freckly, gash, graving, hack, jot, lentigo, macula, macular, maculate, maculated, maculation, macule, mark, marking, mole, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, patch, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, point, pointillage, pointille, pointillism, pointillistic, prick, punctated, puncture, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, spangled, speck, specked, speckle, speckled, speckledy, speckliness, speckly, splash, splotch, splotched, splotchy, spot, spotted, spottedness, spottiness, spotty, sprinkled, stain, stigma, stipple, stippled, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, studded, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, watermark

poll

• poll, Australian ballot, Hare system, VAT, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, ad valorem duty, agenda, alcohol tax, amusement tax, ask, assessment on default, aye, ballot, ballot box, balloting place, beadroll, bean, belfry, bob, boil down, book, brow, cadastre, calendar, call off, call over, call the roll, canvass, canvassing, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, capsulize, carve, cast a ballot, casting vote, catalog, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, chump, clip, compress, condense, conduct a poll, conk, consumer research, consumer-preference survey, contract, corporation tax, count, counting heads, crop, crown, cumulative voting, curtail, customs, customs duty, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, death duty, death tax, deciding vote, divide, division, dock, docket, dome, doomage, dramatis personae, duty, election returns, elide, enfranchisement, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, epitomize, estate duty, estate tax, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, export tax, fagot vote, federal tax, figures, file, fill out, foliate, foreshorten, franchise, gabelle, get, gift tax, grave, graveyard vote, hand vote, head, head count, head tax, headpiece, honor roll, impanel, import tax, incise, income tax, index, inheritance tax, inquiry, inscribe, insert, internal revenue tax, interview, jot down, jury list, jury panel, land tax, landslide, lineup, liquor tax, list, list system, local tax, log, luxury tax, make a memorandum, make a note, make a survey, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, measure, minute, mow, muster, muster roll, nay, nip, no, noddle, noggin, nontransferable vote, noodle, nose count, note, note down, nuisance tax, number, numerate, official count, opinion poll, order of business, page, paginate, pate, personal property tax, place upon record, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural vote, poll tax, pollard, pollbook, polling, polling booth, polling place, polling station, polls, post, post up, preferential voting, program, property roll, property tax, property-increment tax, proportional representation, protective tariff, provincial tax, proxy, prune, public-opinion poll, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quantify, quantize, question, questionary, questionnaire, rates, reap, recap, recapitulate, receive, record, record vote, recount, reduce, reduce to writing, referendum, register, representation, retrench, returns, revenue tariff, ridge, right to vote, rising vote, roll, roll call, roster, rota, run over, sales tax, salt tax, sample, say, school tax, sconce, scroll, secret ballot, set down, severance tax, shave, shear, shorten, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, snub, specific duty, state tax, straw vote, stunt, suffrage, sum up, summarize, survey, synopsize, tabulate, take down, take in, tally, tape, tape-record, tariff, tariff duty, tax roll, telephone tax, telescope, tell, tidal wave, transferable vote, trim, truncate, use tax, value added tax, videotape, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting booth, voting machine, voting right, win, window tax, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

pollen

• pollen, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, male gamete, milt, protein, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon

polliwog

• polliwog, amphibian, batrachian, birdling, bullfrog, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, croaker, cub, dogie, duckling, fawn, fledgling, foal, frog, fryer, gosling, hoppytoad, hoptoad, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, landlubber, litter, lubber, nest, nestling, newt, paddock, piglet, pigling, pullet, pup, puppy, salamander, shoat, tadpole, toad, tree frog, tree toad, weaner, whelp, yeanling

pollster

• pollster, asker, catechist, cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, detective, examiner, inquirer, inquisitionist, inquisitor, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix, interviewer, opinion-sampler, poller, prober, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quizzer, sampler, secret agent

pollute

• pollute, abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, bastardize, befoul, benasty, bewitch, blight, booze up, boozify, canker, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, crock, crucify, curse, cut, damage, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denaturalize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, dilute, dirty, disadvantage, disserve, distort, distress, divert, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doctor, doctor up, doom, embezzle, envenom, fortify, foul, fuddle, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, impair, infect, injure, jinx, lace, maladminister, maltreat, menace, mess, mess up, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, mistreat, misuse, molest, nasty, outrage, overtake, peculate, persecute, pervert, pickle, pilfer, plaster, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, prejudice, profane, prostitute, ravage, ravish, savage, scathe, soil, souse, spike, spoil, stain, stew, stone, sully, swack, taint, tamper with, tarnish, threaten, tipsify, torment, torture, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, water, water down, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

polluted

• polluted, abandoned, afflicted, bad, bad for, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, common, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, crocked, crocko, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, disguised, dissolute, drunk, elevated, foul, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, harmful, high, illuminated, impure, inebriated, infected, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, morally polluted, morbific, muddled, muzzy, noisome, nonkosher, noxious, oiled, organized, pathogenic, peccant, perverted, pestiferous, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, potted, profligate, raddled, reprobate, ritually unclean, rotten, septic, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, steeped in iniquity, stewed, stinko, swacked, tainted, tanked, tight, tref, unbathed, unclean, uncleanly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unpure, unsanitary, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwashed, unwholesome, unwiped, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped

pollution

• pollution, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, adulteration, air, atrocity, bad, badness, bane, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment, besmirchment, blight, contamination, conversion, corrupt administration, corruption, crying evil, cutting, damage, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, despoliation, destruction, detriment, dilution, dirtying, diversion, doctoring, embezzlement, envenoming, evil, festering, fortifying, fouling, grievance, harm, harmfulness, havoc, health hazard, hurt, ill, infection, injuriousness, injury, insalubriousness, insalubrity, lacing, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, menace to health, misapplication, misappropriation, mischief, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, noise pollution, noisomeness, noxiousness, outrage, pathenogenicity, peculation, perversion, pilfering, poison, poisoning, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, ritual uncleanness, soiling, spiking, spoiling, staining, sullying, suppuration, tainting, the worst, toxin, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsalutariness, unwholesomeness, venom, vexation, violation, vitiation, water, watering, woe, wrong

Pollyanna

• Pollyanna, Leibnizian optimist, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast, daydreamer, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, optimist, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, ray of sunshine, utopian, wishful thinker

poltergeist

• poltergeist, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, Masan, Ouija, Puck, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, automatic writing, automatism, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, elf, erlking, form, ghost, grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, kobold, larva, lemures, levitation, little devil, manes, materialization, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pixie, planchette, poltergeistism, presence, psychography, psychorrhagy, puck, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, spook, sprite, table tipping, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, theophany, tokoloshe, trance speaking, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, young devil, zombie

poltroon

• poltroon, arrant coward, base, caitiff, chicken, coward, craven, dastard, dastardly, dunghill, dunghilly, funk, funker, gutless, lily-livered, poltroonish, pusillanimous, quitter, recreant, sneak, spunkless, unmanly

polyandry

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

polychromatic

• polychromatic, bicolor, bicolored, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, cool, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, discolor, divers-colored, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multihued, parti-color, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, rainbow, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, warm

polychrome

• polychrome, bicolor, bicolored, colorful, colory, crazy, daedal, dichroism, dichromatic, dichromatism, discolor, divers-colored, freehand, graphic, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, medley, monochrome, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multihued, painty, parti-color, parti-colored, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural, picturesque, polychromatic, polychromatism, polychromic, prismal, riot of colors, scenographic, scumbled, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, trichroism, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, variegation, versicolor, versicolored

polygamy

• polygamy, beena marriage, bigamy, 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, polygyny, trial marriage, trigamy

polyglot

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

polyhedral

• polyhedral, bifacial, bilateral, dihedral, flanked, handed, lateral, many-sided, multiangular, multilateral, one-sided, polygonal, prismatic, prismoid, pyramidal, pyramidic, quadrilateral, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided, trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, two-sided, unilateral

Polyhymnia

• Polyhymnia, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Melpomene, Muse, Orpheus, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, afflatus, artistic imagination, conception, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, fire of genius, genius, inspiration, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, sacred Nine, shaping imagination, the Muses, the Nine, tuneful Nine

polymer

• polymer, acid, acidity, adhesive, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, base, biochemical, cast plastic, cation, cellulose plastic, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, dimer, element, extruded plastic, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, laminate, macromolecule, metamer, molded plastic, molding compounds, molecule, monomer, neutralizer, nonacid, organic chemical, oxyacid, plastic, protein plastic, pseudoisomer, radical, reagent, resin plastic, sulfacid, synthetic, synthetic fabric, synthetic rubber, thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, trimer

polymerization

• polymerization, acetification, acidification, acidulation, alkalization, carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, electrolysis, ferment, fermentation, hydrogenation, isomerism, metamerism, metamerization, nitration, oxidation, oxidization, phosphatization, polymerism, position isomerism, reduction, saturization, working

polymerize

• polymerize, acetify, acidify, acidulate, alkalify, alkalize, borate, carbonate, catalyze, chemical, chlorinate, electrolyze, ferment, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, isomerize, nitrate, oxidize, pepsinate, peroxidize, phosphatize, reduce, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, work

polyp

• polyp, abdominal hernia, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, colitis, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, duodenal ulcer, duodenitis, eschar, esophagal ulcer, esophagitis, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gastritis, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, hiatal hernia, kibe, lesion, megacolon, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peptic ulcer, peritonitis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, pustule, rising, scab, soft chancre, sore, stigma, stomach ulcer, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

polyphonic prose

• polyphonic prose, Goliardic verse, Hudibrastic verse, amoebean verse, concrete poetry, cubist poetry, dramatic poetry, elegiac poetry, epic poetry, epopee, epos, erotic poetry, expository prose, heroic poetry, imagist verse, light verse, melic poetry, metaphysical poetry, mock-heroic poetry, narrative poetry, nonfiction prose, oral poetry, poetic prose, prose, prose fiction, prose poetry, prose rhythm, prose style, runic verse, satire, satirical poetry, stichomythia, symbolist verse, vers de societe

polysyllable

• polysyllable, antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence, hard word, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme, lexiphanicism, linguistic form, locution, logos, long word, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, sesquipedalian, syllable, synonym, term, usage, utterance, verbalism, verbum, vocable, word

polytheism

• polytheism, acosmism, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, cosmotheism, deism, ditheism, dualism, dyotheism, henotheism, hylotheism, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, zootheism

polytheist

• polytheist, allotheist, anthropolater, anthropotheist, autotheist, cosmotheist, deist, ditheist, dualist, henotheist, hylotheist, monotheist, multitheist, myriotheist, pantheist, physitheist, psychotheist, tetratheist, theist, theriotheist, tritheist, zootheist

pomade

• pomade, anoint, balm, balsam, beeswax, brilliantine, chrism, cold cream, collyrium, cream, daub, demulcent, dress, embrocate, embrocation, emollient, eye-lotion, eyewash, face cream, glycerolate, grease, grease the wheels, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, lard, lenitive, lotion, lubricate, nard, oil, ointment, pomatum, salve, slick, slick on, smear, smooth the way, soap the ways, soothing syrup, spikenard, unction, unguent, unguentum, wax

pomander

• pomander, atomizer, censer, fumigator, incense burner, incensory, odorator, odorizer, parfumoir, perfumer, potpourri, pouncet-box, purse atomizer, sachet, scent bag, scent ball, scent bottle, scent box, scenter, smelling bottle, spray, thurible, vinaigrette

pommel

• pommel, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, bellyband, belt, birch, buffet, cane, cinch, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, girt, girth, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, horn, horsewhip, jockey, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, stirrup, strap, stripe, surcingle, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

pomp

• pomp, array, brilliance, buckram, caravan, cavalcade, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, circumstance, column, cortege, cosmorama, cyclorama, dignity, diorama, display, dress parade, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, extravaganza, extrinsicality, fanfare, flyover, form, formality, formalization, funeral, georama, glory, grandeur, gravity, heraldry, impersonality, light show, line, liturgy, magnificence, march past, motorcade, mule train, myriorama, pack train, pageant, pageantry, panoply, panorama, parade, phantasmagoria, pomposity, presentation, pride, primness, procession, promenade, psychedelic show, representation, review, rigidness, ritual, rituality, shifting scene, shine, show, sight, skimmington, solemnity, spectacle, splendor, stage show, starchiness, state, stiffness, stiltedness, stream, string, stylization, tableau, tableau vivant, train, weight

pomposity

• pomposity, Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution, courage, dignity, extrinsicality, faith, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, form, formality, formalization, fulsomeness, garishness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, gravity, high-flown diction, hubris, impersonality, inflatedness, inflation, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, platitudinous ponderosity, poise, polysyllabic profundity, pomp, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, positiveness, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, primness, prose run mad, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rigidness, ritual, rituality, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sensationalism, sententiousness, settled belief, showiness, solemnity, starchiness, stiffness, stiltedness, stuffiness, stylization, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, trust, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, weight

pompous

• pompous, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional, convinced, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, decided, declamatory, decorous, determined, egotistical, elephantine, elevated, embroidered, euphuistic, exhibitionist, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flossy, flowery, forced, formal, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, haughty, heavy, hieratic, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-hat, high-sounding, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, imperious, important, inflated, inkhorn, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, liturgic, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magisterial, magniloquent, meretricious, narcissistic, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, overconfident, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, oversure, overweening, overwrought, pedantic, persuaded, poised, ponderous, pontifical, positive, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffy, reassured, rhetorical, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, secure, self-assured, self-centered, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, selfish, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, solemn, sonorous, stately, stiff, stilted, stuck-up, stuffy, sure, swollen, tall, tortuous, tumid, turgid, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, unwieldy, uppity, vain, vainglorious, well-mannered, windy

pond

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

ponder

• ponder, appraise, back down, balance, be abstracted, brood, brood over, chaw, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, con over, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, demur, digest, dwell, evaluate, excogitate, falter, fear, hang back, hem and haw, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, introspect, jib, meditate, meditate upon, mind, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, pause, perpend, play around with, play with, ponder over, pull back, reason, reflect, reflect over, retreat, revolve, roll, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, scruple, shilly-shally, shy, speculate, stick at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain at, study, think, think over, think twice about, toy with, turn over, weigh, withdraw, yield

ponderous

• ponderous, Latinate, all thumbs, arid, awkward, barren, big, blah, blank, bloodless, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, boring, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, characterless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cold, colorless, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fat, fingers all thumbs, flat, forced, formal, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, grandiloquent, guinde, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, heavyweight, hefty, ho-hum, hollow, huge, hulking, hulky, impractical, inane, inconvenient, inelegant, inexcitable, inflated, inkhorn, insipid, jejune, labored, laborious, large, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, lifeless, long-winded, loutish, low-spirited, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, massive, massy, oafish, overdone, overweight, pale, pallid, pedestrian, perverse, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, prolix, sesquipedalian, sloppy, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, turgid, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unlively, unmanageable, unwieldy, vapid, verbose, weighty, windy, wooden, wordy

ponderousness

• ponderousness, Gothicism, aridity, avoirdupois, awkwardness, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, barrenness, beef, beefiness, bloodlessness, bombasticness, boorishness, bulkiness, bumblingness, cacology, cacophony, characterlessness, clownishness, clumsiness, coarseness, colorlessness, crudeness, cumbersomeness, cumbrousness, deadness, deadweight, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, dysphemism, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, fatness, flatness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, gravity, gross weight, grossness, ham-handedness, handful of thumbs, harshness, heaviness, heavy-handedness, heft, heftiness, hollowness, hulkiness, ill-balanced sentences, impracticality, impropriety, impurity, inanity, inconcinnity, inconvenience, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, inexcitability, infelicity, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, left-handedness, lifelessness, liveweight, loutishness, lowness of spirit, lubberliness, lumpishness, maladroitness, massiveness, neat weight, net, net weight, oafishness, overbalance, overweight, paleness, pallor, pointlessness, pokiness, pompousness, ponderability, ponderosity, poor diction, poundage, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, sterility, stiffness, stiltedness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, tonnage, turgidity, uncouthness, underweight, uneuphoniousness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandiness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unmanageability, unrefinement, unseemliness, unwieldiness, vapidity, vapidness, vulgarism, vulgarity, weight, weightiness, woodenness

pontiff

• pontiff, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch, high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, vicar

pontifical

• pontifical, apostolic, arrogant, bigoted, bloated, bombastic, conceited, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, flatulent, formal, gassy, grandiloquent, important, inflated, magisterial, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, papal, papish, papist, papistic, peremptory, pompous, popish, positive, positivistic, pronunciative, puffy, self-important, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tumid, turgid

pontificate

• pontificate, Apostolic See, Barnumize, See of Rome, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, bishopric, blow, bombast, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, cock, consulate, consulship, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, directorship, dogmatize, emirate, episcopacy, governorship, headship, hegemony, hierarchy, inflate, lay it on, leadership, look big, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nobility, oracle, oraculate, papacy, papality, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, peacock, pile it on, pontificality, popedom, popehood, popeship, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proclaim, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, put on, put on airs, put on side, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, ritz it, ruling class, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, swagger, swank, swell, swell it, talk big, talk highfalutin, the Vatican, tribunate, vapor, vizierate, viziership

pony

• pony, Galloway, Iceland pony, Shetland, Shetland pony, amplification, bantam, banty, bawbee, bilingual text, button, chit, clavis, crib, crown, decipherment, decoding, diminutive, dollar, entry, faithful translation, farthing, favorite, featherweight, fingerling, fiver, florin, fourpence, fourpenny, free translation, gloss, glossary, groat, guinea, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, interlinear, interlinear translation, key, lightweight, loose translation, mag, meg, metaphrase, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mite, monkey, mouse, mudder, new pence, np, nubbin, p, paraphrase, peewee, pence, penny, plate horse, plater, pole horse, pound, quid, race horse, racer, restatement, rewording, runt, shelty, shilling, shrimp, sixpence, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, stable, stake horse, staker, starter, steeplechaser, string, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tit, transcription, translation, transliteration, trot, tuppence, twopence, wart, wisp

pooch

• pooch, Seeing Eye dog, bandog, bitch, bowwow, canine, dog, fancy dog, guide dog, gyp, hound, kennel, lap dog, pack of dogs, pup, puppy, sheep dog, show dog, sled dog, slut, toy dog, tyke, watchdog, whelp, working dog

pooh pooh

• pooh pooh, barrack, bird, boo, chaff, cut, cut at, cut dead, dig at, dismiss, disregard, dump on, fleer, flout, gibe, give the go-by, ignore, jab, jab at, jape, jeer, look right through, make little of, mock, neglect, overlook, pass by, pass up, pooh, put down, rail at, rally, rank out, razz, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to recognize, revile, scoff, scout, slam, slap at, slight, sneer, sneer at, swipe, taunt, twit

pool

• pool, Aktiengesellschaft, Swiss bank account, accumulate, aktiebolag, amalgamate, artificial lake, assets, balance, bank, bank account, bayou lake, bear pool, blind pool, body corporate, bottom dollar, budget, bull pool, business, business establishment, cartel, cash reserves, chain, chamber of commerce, checking account, cistern, collect, collection, combine, command of money, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidate, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, dam, dead water, dike, diversified corporation, enterprise, etang, exchequer, farm pond, finances, firm, fishpond, freshwater lake, fund, funds, gather, glacial lake, group, holding company, house, industry, inland sea, jackpot, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, kitty, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, league, life savings, linn, loch, lough, means, mere, merge, millpond, millpool, moneys, natatorium, nest egg, nyanza, operating company, oxbow lake, partnership, pecuniary resources, plash, plunderbund, plunge, plunge bath, pocket, pond, pondlet, pot, public utility, puddle, purse, reserves, reservoir, resources, salina, salt pond, savings, savings account, stagnant water, stakes, standing water, still water, stock company, substance, sump, swimming bath, swimming hole, swimming pool, syndicate, tank, tarn, team up with, tidal pond, tiger, trade association, treasure, trust, unregistered bank account, utility, volcanic lake, wading pool, water hole, water pocket, well, wherewithal

pooling

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

poolroom

• poolroom, archery ground, athletic field, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, betting house, betting parlor, billiard parlor, bowling alley, bowling green, casino, course, court, crib, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, diamond, fairway, field, flat, football field, gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, gridiron, gym, gymnasium, hell, ice rink, infield, joint, links, outfield, oval, playground, playing field, playroom, polo ground, pool hall, putting green, racecourse, racket court, rink, skating rink, soccer field, sporting house, squash court, stretch, tennis court, track, turf

poop out

• poop out, beat, blow, blow up, break, break down, burn out, cave in, collapse, come apart, come to naught, come to nothing, come unstuck, conk out, crack up, crumble, debilitate, decline, disintegrate, do in, do up, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, explode, fade, fag, fag out, fail, fail miserably, faint, fall down, fall flat, fall through, fatigue, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flag, frazzle, gasp, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, get nowhere, get tired, give out, give way, go downhill, go phut, go soft, go to pieces, grow weary, hang up, harass, hit the skids, jade, knock out, knock up, languish, misfire, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pant, peg out, peter out, pine, play out, poop, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, run down, run out, sink, succumb, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, use up, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear thin, weary, wheeze, wilt, wind, yield

pooped

• pooped, all in, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, ausgespielt, beat, beat up, beaten, benumbed, blase, bloodless, bone-weary, bored, bushed, chicken, cowardly, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, debilitated, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, dopey, dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effete, emptied, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, exhausted, fagged out, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, frazzled, gone, gutless, heavy, hebetudinous, imbecile, impotent, inanimate, inert, jaded, knocked out, lackadaisical, laid low, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, listless, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moribund, nerveless, numb, phlegmatic, pithless, played out, pooped out, powerless, prostrate, ready to drop, rubbery, run-down, sapless, sated, shotten, sinewless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soft, somnolent, spent, spineless, stagnant, stagnating, strengthless, stultified, supine, tired, tired out, tired to death, torpid, tuckered out, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, used up, vegetable, vegetative, wan, washed-up, weak, weakly, weary, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, world-weary, worn-out

poor devil

• poor devil, Bowery bum, almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, casual, charity case, derelict, devil, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hardcase, hobo, human wreck, indigent, lowlife, martyr, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, object of compassion, pauper, pauvre diable, penniless man, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor man, poorling, prey, sad case, sad sack, skid-row bum, starveling, stiff, sufferer, sundowner, swagman, tramp, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, victim, wastrel, welfare client, worthless fellow, wretch

poor taste

• poor taste, Babbittry, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, high camp, impropriety, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, low camp, philistinism, pop, pop culture, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

poor

• poor, DP, Lenten, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, against, amateurish, arrant, artless, ascetic, atrocious, attenuated, austere, awful, bad, badly off, bankrupt, bare-handed, barren, base, beggared, beggarly, below par, beneath contempt, broke, bumbling, cadaverous, cheap, cheeseparing, cheesy, chinchy, chintzy, chronic poor, chronic poverty area, coarse, common, con, contemptible, corpselike, crumbling, crummy, debased, decrepit, defective, deficient, degraded, depleted, depraved, depressed class, depressed population, despicable, destitute, destitution, dirty, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disgusting, disillusioned, disintegrating, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, distressed, down to bedrock, down-and-out, dwarfed, dwarfish, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, empty-handed, execrable, exhausted, exiguous, famished, faulty, feeble, feeling the pinch, flagrant, flat, flat broke, flawed, flimsy, fortuneless, foul, fourth-class, frugal, fruitless, fulsome, gaudy, ghetto-dwellers, gimcracky, grave, gross, haggard, half-assed, half-starved, hapless, hard up, heinous, hollow-eyed, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ill, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-fated, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-starred, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in need, in rags, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, inconclusive, inconsequential, indigence, indigent, indignant, inefficient, inept, inexpert, inferior, infertile, infirm, infrequent, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insolvent, insubstantial, insufficient, irregular, jejune, land-poor, lean, least, limited, little, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lowest, lowliest, lowly, luckless, lumpen, mangy, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, measly, mediocre, meretricious, miserable, miserly, modest, moneyless, monstrous, narrow, necessitous, neediness, needy, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, on short commons, on the edge, opposed, opposing, out of pocket, outcasts, paltry, parsimonious, pathetic, pauperism, pauperized, peaked, peaky, pedestrian, penniless, penurious, penury, petty, piddling, pinched, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poky, poorish, poorly off, poorness, poverty subculture, poverty-stricken, privation, punk, puny, rank, rare, reduced, reptilian, rotten, rotten at, rubbishy, ruined, sad, scabby, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, shoddy, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, shorthanded, shriveled, simple, skeletal, skill-less, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, slipshod, slum-dwellers, small, sorry, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, squalid, squeezed, star-crossed, starvation, starved, starveling, starving, sterile, stingy, stinted, stone-broke, stony, straitened, strapped, stunted, subsistence, substandard, tabetic, tabid, tacky, teachable, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged, the urban poor, thin, third-class, third-rate, thoughtless, tight, tinny, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, turned-off, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unacceptable, unappreciative, unapproving, unapt, uncomplimentary, undeft, under par, underdeveloped nation, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, undexterous, undextrous, undistinguished, unfacile, unfavorable, unfed, unfirm, unfortunate, unfruitful, unhappy, unimportant, unintelligent, unlucky, unmentionable, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpretentious, unproductive, unprofessional, unproficient, unprosperous, unproved, unprovided, unreplenished, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unskillful, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, unsupplied, unsustained, valueless, vile, want, wasted, watered, watery, weak, weazeny, welfare rolls, wiped out, withered, wizened, worthless, wraithlike, wretched

poorly

• poorly, abjectly, abominably, ailing, arrantly, atrociously, badly, basely, below par, commonly, contemptibly, crudely, despicably, execrably, flagrantly, foully, frugally, grossly, heinously, improperly, inadeptly, inadequately, inaptly, incapably, incompetently, indisposed, inefficiently, ineptly, inexpertly, inferiorly, meagerly, meanly, miserably, monstrously, nefariously, obnoxiously, odiously, pettily, punily, rotten, scantily, scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, sick, slightly, sparely, sparingly, unaptly, undeftly, under the weather, undexterously, unfacilely, unfitly, unproficiently, unsatisfactorily, unskillfully, unwell, vilely, wretchedly

pop culture

• pop culture, Babbittry, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, high camp, impropriety, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, low camp, philistinism, poor taste, pop, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

pop in

• pop in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, call, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come by, come in, come over, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop, drop in, ease in, edge in, enter, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, infuse, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, interject, introduce, intromit, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, look in, pack in, perfuse, press in, push in, put in, set foot in, set in, slip in, squeeze in, step in, stick in, stop by, take in, throw in, thrust in, tuck in, visit, wedge in, whip in, work in

pop off

• pop off, blow, buy it, cash in, check in, check out, croak, die, drop off, exit, get away, get off, go, go west, have it, kick in, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, leave, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, perish, pipe off, pull out, retire, run along, shove off, step off, succumb, take off

pop up

• pop up, accomplish, achieve, appear, appear unexpectedly, approach, arise, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, be unexpected, bechance, befall, betide, blow in, bob up, break forth, break water, burst forth, chance, check in, clock in, come, come along, come forth, come in, come into being, come into existence, come on, come to, come to hand, come unawares, come upon, creep up on, crop up, debouch, draw on, erupt, fall upon, fetch, fetch up at, find, flare up, flash, flash upon one, float up, fly up, fountain, gain, get in, get there, get to, gleam, gush, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, hazard, hit, hit town, irrupt, jet, jump up, leap up, make, make it, materialize, pounce upon, present itself, pull in, punch in, reach, ring in, rocket, roll in, shoot up, show up, sign in, skyrocket, spring up, spurt, start up, surface, time in, turn up, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upstart, vault up

pop

• pop, Babbittish, Babbittry, Methuselah, Philistine, abba, abruptly, alcoholic drink, antediluvian, antique, back number, bad taste, bag, ballad, balloon, bang, bark, belly, belly out, beverage, bilge, billow, blast, bouge, bourgeois, bourgeois taste, bug, bulge, bump, burst, camp, campiness, campy, catch, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, common, commonplace, conservative, crack, crump, dad, daddy, dash, detonate, detonation, dilate, ding, dip, discharge, distend, dodo, drink, drinkable, dull thud, elder, explode, explosion, father, flick, flump, fogy, fossil, foster father, frosted, frosted shake, fud, fuddy-duddy, fulminate, fulmination, fusillade, general, genitor, go, go off, goggle, governor, granny, gunshot, has-been, hastily, high camp, high-camp, hit, hit tune, hock, homely, homespun, impetuously, impignorate, impropriety, impulsively, inappropriateness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, kitschy, light music, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, liquid, liquor, longhair, low camp, low-camp, malt, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mortgage, mossback, nail, of a sudden, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, on short notice, ordinary, pa, pad, pap, papa, pappy, pat, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, patter, philistinism, pitapat, pitter-patter, plebeian, pledge, plop, plump, plunk, pooch, poor taste, pop culture, pop music, pops, popular, popular music, popular song, potable, potation, pouch, pout, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, public, rap, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, round out, salvo, shake, sharp, shot, sire, slap, slog, smack, smite, sock, soda, soda pop, soda water, soft drink, song hit, spout, square, stab, stagger, starets, startlingly, stepfather, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, swat, swell, swell out, tap, tastelessness, the old man, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tonic, traditionalist, try, tunk, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unawares, unbecomingness, unexpectedly, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vernacular, volley, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, whack, whirl, without notice, without warning

pope

• pope, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch, high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, vicar

popeyed

• popeyed, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bellied, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, bug-eyed, bulged, captivated, cockeyed, confounded, cross-eyed, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, exophthalmic, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, glare-eyed, goggle, goggled, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, monocular, moon-eyed, one-eyed, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, pouched, puzzled, rapt in wonder, saucer-eyed, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, swivel-eyed, swollen, thunderstruck, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, under a charm, ventricose, walleyed, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

popeyes

• popeyes, baby blues, banjo eyes, bright eyes, bug-eyes, clear eyes, cockeyes, cornea, cross-eyes, eye, eyeball, eyelid, goggle eyes, iris, lens, lid, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oculus, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, peeper, pupil, retina, saucer eyes, sclera, squint eyes, starry orbs, swivel eyes, unaided eye, visual organ, walleyes

popover

• popover, Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, bagel, bialy, bialystoker, bun, clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun, crumpet, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, muffin, onion roll, pinwheel roll, roll, scone, soft roll

popping

• popping, banging, blasting, bursting, busy, cracking, crashing, exploding, explosive, flapping, fussy, hopping, humming, hustling, knocking, lively, rapping, slapping, slatting, tapping

poppycock

• poppycock, baloney, bilge, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chick, crap, flapdoodle, gal, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, lady friend, lass, malarkey, moonshine, mouse, piffle, rot, scat, shit, tommyrot, tripe, wind

populace

• populace, Everyman, John Doe, Public, body politic, bourgeoisie, canaille, citizenry, common man, commonage, commonalty, commoners, commonwealth, community, community at large, constituency, crowd, cultural community, dwellers, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, general public, gentry, habitancy, hoi polloi, inhabitants, linguistic community, masses, men, mob, multitude, nation, nationality, peasantry, people, people at large, people in general, persons, plebeians, plebes, polity, population, proletariat, public, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, rank and file, society, speech community, state, third estate, throng, whole people, working class, world, you and me

popular prices

• popular prices, bargain prices, budget prices, cut price, easy prices, economy prices, low price, low tariff, manageable price, moderate price, nominal price, reasonable charge, reasonable price, reduced price, reduced rates, rock-bottom prices, sale price, sensible price, small price tag

popular

• popular, Babbittish, Philistine, accepted, accessible, acclaimed, accustomed, admired, admitted, adored, advocated, all the rage, all the thing, amateur, applauded, approved, associated, average, backed, beloved, besetting, bourgeois, campy, celebrated, cherished, civil, collective, collectivistic, common, commonplace, communal, communistic, commutual, conformable, congregational, conjoint, consuetudinary, conventional, cooperative, coveted, cried up, current, customary, darling, dear, dearly beloved, desired, distinguished, dominant, epidemic, established, esteemed, everyday, fabled, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed, far-heard, fashionable, favored, favorite, general, generally accepted, habitual, held dear, high-camp, highly touted, hip, homely, homespun, honored, hoped-for, hot, household, in, in common, in demand, in fashion, in favor, in good odor, in style, in vogue, inexpensive, joint, kitschy, laic, laical, lay, leading, legendary, longed-for, loved, low, low-camp, low-priced, marked, mod, modern, much acclaimed, mutual, mythical, new, newfashioned, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonreligious, normal, normative, notable, noted, notorious, obtaining, occupy, of mark, of note, ordinary, pandemic, people, pet, plebeian, pop, populate, precious, predominant, predominating, preferred, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, prized, prominent, public, rampant, reasonable, received, reciprocal, recommended, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, renowned, revered, rife, routine, ruling, running, secular, secularist, secularistic, self-governing, set, simplified, smart, social, socialistic, societal, standard, stereotyped, stock, stylish, supported, talked-about, talked-of, temporal, tenant, time-honored, traditional, treasured, trendy, understandable, universal, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, usual, vernacular, vulgar, wanted, well-beloved, well-known, well-liked, well-thought-of, widespread, wished-for, wonted

popularity

• popularity, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, acceptance, acclaim, acclamation, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, applause, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, big hand, bodily love, bon ton, brotherly love, burst of applause, caritas, celebrity, character, charity, cheer, clap, clapping, clapping of hands, conjugal love, currency, desire, devotion, eclat, encore, esteem, faithful love, fame, famousness, fancy, fashionableness, favor, fervor, figure, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, glory, hand, handclap, handclapping, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, kudos, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, lionization, love, lovemaking, married love, modishness, name, notoriety, notoriousness, ovation, passion, physical love, plaudit, popular regard, prevalence, publicity, reclame, recognition, regard, renown, report, reputation, repute, round of applause, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, stylishness, tender feeling, tender passion, the bubble reputation, thunder of applause, trend, trendiness, truelove, uxoriousness, vogue, voguishness, weakness, worship, yearning

popularize

• popularize, account for, allegorize, clarify, clear up, coarsen, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, make clear, make it clear, make plain, put across, put over, rationalize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vulgarize

populate

• populate, anchor, billet at, bivouac, burrow, camp, colonize, come to anchor, denizen, domesticate, drop anchor, dwell in, empeople, ensconce, establish residence, hive, inhabit, keep house, live at, live in, locate, moor, move, nest, occupy, park, people, perch, plant, relocate, reside, reside in, roost, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, settle in, sit down, squat, stand, stay at, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence

population

• population, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Everyman, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, John Doe, Messier catalog, NGC, Pleiades, Public, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, anchorage, binary star, black hole, body politic, citizenry, citizens, colonization, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, double star, dwarf star, empeoplement, establishment, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, fixation, fixed star, folk, folks, foundation, general public, gentry, giant star, globular cluster, gravity star, inauguration, inhabitants, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, lodgment, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, men, mooring, nation, nationality, neutron star, nova, open cluster, people, people in general, peoplement, peopling, persons, plantation, polity, populace, populations, public, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, settlement, settling, sky atlas, society, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, state, stellar magnitude, supernova, variable star, white dwarf star, world, you and me

populous

• populous, alive with, bristling, bursting, close, colonized, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, empeopled, firm, full, in profusion, inhabited, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, legion, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overflowing, packed, peopled, populated, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, settled, several, solid, studded, sundry, superabundant, swarming, teeming, tenanted, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, various, voluminous

porcelain

• porcelain, adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clay, crock, crockery, enamel, enamelware, firebrick, glass, jug, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn, vase

porch

• porch, Easter sepulcher, French door, ambry, apse, archway, back door, baptistery, barway, blindstory, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, chancel, choir, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, front door, gallery, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, lanai, lintel, nave, patio, piazza, portal, porte cochere, postern, presbytery, propylaeum, pylon, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, scuttle, side door, sleeping porch, solarium, stile, stoop, storm door, sun porch, threshold, tollgate, transept, trap, trap door, triforium, turnpike, turnstile, veranda, vestry

porcupine

• porcupine, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

pore over

• pore over, autopsy, bone, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, con, contemplate, dig, drill, elucubrate, examine, eye, give an examination, give the eye, give the once-over, go over, grind, hard look, inspect, leer, leer at, look at, look over, lucubrate, monitor, observe, ogle, ogle at, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, plunge into, pore, postmortem, practice, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, run over, scan, scrutinize, set an examination, size, size up, study, survey, swot, take a long, take stock of, take the measure, vet, wade through

pore

• pore, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, aperture, avenue, blowhole, broaching, canal, cavity, channel, chasm, check, chute, clearing, cleft, con, crack, debouch, disclosure, door, duct, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, examine, exhaust, exit, fenestra, fistula, floodgate, flume, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat, go over, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, intestines, lacuna, laying open, leak, loophole, meatus, opening, opening up, orifice, ostium, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, oviduct, passageway, perforation, peruse, pore over, port, read, sally port, salpinx, scrutinize, slot, sluice, space, spiracle, split, spout, stoma, study, tap, thoracic duct, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas, vent, ventage, venthole, vessel, vomitory, way out, weir, yawn

pork barrel

• pork barrel, Fort Knox, backscratching, bank, barter, blackmail, boodle, booty, bursary, cash register, cashbox, chest, coffer, coin box, depository, even trade, exchequer, favors of office, fisc, gold depository, graft, haul, hot goods, locker, logrolling, loot, melon, money chest, patronage, penny bank, perks, perquisite, pickings, piggy bank, plum, plunder, political patronage, pork, prize, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, storehouse, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, swag, swap, swapping, switch, take, till, trade, trading, treasure-house, treasury, vault

pork

• pork, bacon, butt, chitterlings, cochon de lait, cracklings, fat back, favors of office, flitch, gammon, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, jambon, jambonneau, lard, melon, patronage, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, plum, political patronage, pork barrel, porkpie, salt pork, side of bacon, small ham, sowbelly, suckling pig, trotters

pornographic

• pornographic, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, impure, indecent, ithyphallic, lewd, licentious, lurid, nasty, obscene, offensive, porno, prurient, raunchy, ribald, salacious, scurrile, scurrilous, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, taboo, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile

pornography

• pornography, French literature, Rabelaisianism, Renaissance literature, X-rated movie, ancient literature, bawdiness, bawdry, belles lettres, blue movie, classics, contemporary literature, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, erotica, erotographomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, folk literature, foulness, humane letters, iconolagny, kitsch, letters, lewdness, literature, medieval literature, nastiness, national literature, obscene literature, obscenity, offensiveness, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, porn, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scatological literature, scurrility, serious literature, sexploitation, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, travel literature, underground literature, vileness, wisdom literature

porous

• porous, cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy

porpoise

• porpoise, Loch Ness monster, alevin, benthon, benthos, cetacean, dolphin, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, grilse, kipper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, nekton, panfish, plankton, salmon, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shark, smolt, sponge, tropical fish, whale

porridge

• porridge, albumen, batter, bonnyclabber, breakfast food, butter, cataplasm, cereal, clabber, cornflakes, cornstarch, cream, crush, curd, dental pulp, dough, dry cereal, egg white, farina, frumenty, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, grits, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, jam, jell, jelly, kasha, loblolly, mash, millet, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mush, oatmeal, pap, paper pulp, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pith, plaster, potpourri, poultice, pudding, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puree, putty, rag pulp, rob, rolled oats, salad, salmagundi, sauce, semifluid, semiliquid, size, smash, smorgasbord, soup, sponge, squash, starch, stew, sticky mess, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, syrup, treacle, wheatflakes, white lead, wood pulp

port

• port, Gospel side, action, actions, activity, acts, address, aerodrome, affectation, air, air base, airdrome, airfield, airport, anchorage, anchorage ground, aport, asylum, avenue, basin, bay, bay window, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, berth, bird sanctuary, blowhole, bourn, bow window, breakwater, brow, bulkhead, cantorial side, carriage, casement, casement window, cast, cast of countenance, channel, chuck, chute, color, complexion, comportment, conduct, countenance, counterclockwise, cover, covert, culture pattern, custom, debouch, demeanor, deportment, destination, dock, dockage, dockyard, doing, doings, door, dry dock, egress, embankment, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, face, facial appearance, fan window, fanlight, favor, feature, features, field, floodgate, flume, folkway, forest preserve, game preserve, game sanctuary, garb, gestures, goal, goings-on, grille, groin, guise, harbor, harbor of refuge, harborage, haven, heliport, island, jetty, jutty, lancet window, landing, landing field, landing place, landing stage, lantern, larboard, last stop, lattice, left, left hand, left wing, left-hand, left-hand side, left-wing, left-winger, left-wingish, leftward, leftwardly, leftwards, levorotatory, liberal, light, lineaments, lines, looks, loophole, louver window, maintien, manner, manners, marina, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, mole, mooring, moorings, motions, movements, moves, near, near side, nigh, observable behavior, on the left, opening, oriel, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pane, pattern, physiognomy, picture window, pier, poise, pore, port tack, porthole, portside, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, preserve, procedure, proceeding, protected anchorage, quay, radical, refuge, retreat, riding, road, roads, roadstead, rose window, safe haven, safehold, sally port, sanctuary, seaport, seawall, set, shipyard, sinister, sinistrad, sinistral, sinistrally, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, skylight, slip, sluice, snug harbor, social science, spiracle, spout, stance, stop, stopping place, stronghold, style, tactics, tap, terminal, terminal point, terminus, to the left, tone, traits, transom, turn, vent, ventage, venthole, verso, visage, vomitory, way, way of life, way out, ways, weir, wharf, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane, wrong side

portable

• portable, assignable, carriable, communicable, compact, conductive, consignable, contagious, convenient, conveyable, expressable, handy, impartable, interchangeable, light, lightweight, little, mailable, manageable, metathetic, movable, pocket, pocket-sized, portative, removable, small, transferable, transfusable, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, vest-pocket, wieldy

portage

• portage, admission, admission fee, air express, airfreight, airlift, anchorage, asportation, bearing, brokerage, carfare, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, cellarage, charge, charges, conveyance, cover charge, demand, dockage, drayage, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, expressage, fare, fee, ferriage, freight, freightage, haulage, hauling, hire, license fee, lighterage, lugging, packing, pilotage, porterage, railway express, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shipment, shipping, shot, storage, telpherage, toll, toting, towage, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, waft, waftage, wagonage, wharfage

portal

• portal, French door, archway, back door, barway, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, foyer, front door, galilee, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, lintel, lobby, narthex, porch, porte cochere, portico, postern, propylaeum, pylon, scuttle, side door, stile, stoa, storm door, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, vestibule

portend

• portend, adumbrate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, croak, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, give advance notice, have a premonition, have a presentiment, look black, lower, menace, omen, preapprehend, precaution, predict, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, tell in advance, threaten, vaticinate, warn

portent

• portent, adumbration, advance notice, augury, auspice, balefulness, banefulness, betokening, betokenment, bodefulness, boding, direness, doomfulness, fatality, fatefulness, foreboding, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, forewarning, indicant, indication, marvel, meaning, miracle, omen, ominousness, phenomenon, plenty of notice, portentousness, precautioning, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prenotice, prenotification, presage, presagefulness, presentiment, presignifying, prewarning, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication, promise, sensation, shadow, sign, significance, sinisterness, soothsay, stunner, suggestiveness, token, tokening, type

portentous

• portentous, alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, earnest, evil, evil-starred, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fatal, fateful, foreboding, forerunning, forewarning, formidable, gloomy, grave, heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imposing, inauspicious, indescribable, ineffable, legendary, lowering, marvelous, menacing, mind-boggling, miraculous, momentous, mythical, noteworthy, of evil portent, ominous, phenomenal, portending, precautional, precautionary, precursive, precursory, premonitory, prodigious, prodromal, prodromic, remarkable, serious, sinister, sober, solemn, somber, star-crossed, stupefying, stupendous, threatening, unexampled, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unparalleled, unprecedented, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, weighty, wonderful, wondrous

porter

• porter, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, baggage man, bakehead, bearer, bheesty, brakeman, brakie, busboy, butcher, caddie, caretaker, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, cerberus, cleaner, common carrier, concierge, conductor, conveyer, coolie, cupbearer, dispatcher, doorkeeper, doorman, drayman, express, expressman, fireman, footplate man, freighter, gatekeeper, guard, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, janitor, letter carrier, lineman, litter-bearer, ostiary, railroad man, railroader, receptionist, redcap, shield-bearer, skycap, smoke agent, stationmaster, stevedore, stoker, stretcher-bearer, super, superintendent, switchman, the Water Bearer, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, transporter, truck driver, trucker, usher, wagoner, warden, watchman, water boy, water carrier, yardman, yardmaster

portfolio

• portfolio, baton, book end, book support, book table, book tray, book truck, bookcase, bookholder, bookrack, bookrest, bookshelf, bookstack, bookstand, caduceus, callable securities, cats and dogs, certificate of deposit, chain of office, corporation securities, crook, crosier, cross-staff, fasces, folder, folio, foreign securities, futures contract, gavel, government securities, junior securities, listed securities, mace, mantle, marketable securities, municipal securities, negotiable securities, noncallable securities, note, outstanding securities, over-the-counter securities, revolving bookcase, rod, rod of office, scepter, securities, senior securities, short-term note, stack, staff, stocks and bonds, subject to call, treasury bill, treasury bond, treasury certificate, treasury note, truncheon, undigested securities, unregistered securities, wand, wand of office, warrant

porthole

• porthole, air hole, armhole, bay, bay window, blowhole, bow window, bullet-hole, bunghole, casement, casement window, cringle, deadeye, eye, eyelet, fan window, fanlight, gasket, grille, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, loop, loophole, louver window, manhole, mousehole, oriel, pane, peephole, picture window, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, port, punch-hole, rose window, skylight, spiracle, tap, transom, vent, venthole, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

portico

• portico, access, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, artery, atlas, avenue, caryatid, channel, cloister, colonnade, colonnette, column, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, defile, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, exit, ferry, ford, foyer, galilee, gallery, inlet, interchange, intersection, junction, lane, lobby, narthex, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, peristyle, pier, pilaster, pillar, porch, portal, post, propylaeum, railroad tunnel, stoa, telamon, threshold, traject, trajet, tunnel, underpass, veranda, vestibule

portion

• portion, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, adjunct, administer, allocate, allocation, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, antepast, appanage, appointed lot, apportion, apportionment, assign, assignment, astral influences, astrology, bag, bang, batch, beverage, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, bolt, book of fate, booster, booster dose, booster shot, break up, budget, bumper, bunch, carve, carve up, chunk, circumstance, clutch, coil, commission, component, consign, constellation, contingent, count, course, cover, cross section, cup, cut, cut up, deal, deal out, deck, dessert, destination, destiny, detachment, detail, dies funestis, disburse, dish, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, district, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, dividend, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, dole out, doom, dose, dot, dower, dowry, draft, dram, drench, drink, dropping, drug packet, end, endowment, entree, entremets, equal share, fatality, fate, fix, foredoom, fortune, foundation, fraction, fragment, future, give out, gob, group, gulp, guzzle, half, halver, heap, help, helping, hit, hunk, ides of March, inevitability, injection, installment, interest, investment, issue, item, jointure, kismet, lap, large amount, legal jointure, libation, lot, lump, mainlining, marriage portion, measure, measure out, meed, member, mess, mete, mete out, modicum, moiety, moira, morsel, narcotic shot, nip, number, overdose, pack, parcel, parcel out, part, particular, partition, pass around, pay out, peg, percentage, piece, place, planets, plate, platter, popping, portion out, potation, potion, proportion, prorate, pull, quadrant, quaff, quantity, quantum, quarter, quota, rake-off, random sample, ration, remainder, roll, run, sample, sampling, scrap, second helping, section, sector, segment, service, serving, settlement, share, share out, share with, shift, shot, sip, skin-popping, slice, slice the pie, slice up, sliver, slug, slurp, small amount, small share, snort, split, split up, spoon out, stake, stars, stock, strip, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, suck, sum, sup, swig, swill, thirds, tot, unlucky day, wedge, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, zone

portly

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

portmanteau word

• portmanteau word, ambiguity, amphibology, blend, contamination, counterword, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, macaronic, macaronicism, polysemant, portmanteau, portmantologism, pun, squinting construction, telescope word, weasel word

portrait

• portrait, Telephoto, Wirephoto, account, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, cameo, candid photograph, catalog, cataloging, certified copy, character, character sketch, characterization, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, companion, copy, counterfeit, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, description, details, diapositive, dossier, double, duplicate, ectype, effigy, evocation, exact likeness, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fellow, file, forgery, graphic account, head, heliochrome, heliograph, icon, idol, image, imagery, imitation, impression, itemization, likeness, limning, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mug, mug shot, particularization, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, picturization, pinup, portraiture, portrayal, profile, record, reflection, rendering, rendition, representation, resemblance, ringer, rubbing, semblance, shadow, shot, silhouette, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, slide, snap, snapshot, specification, spit, spit and image, spitting image, still, still photograph, story, study, telephotograph, thumbnail sketch, trace, tracing, transparency, twin, very image, very picture, vignette, vivid description, word painting

portraitist

• portraitist, aquarellist, colorist, historical painter, landscapist, luminarist, luminist, marine painter, miniaturist, monochromist, oil-colorist, painter, pavement artist, polychromist, portrait painter, scene painter, scenewright, scenographer, still-life painter, watercolorist

portraiture

• portraiture, acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, coloring, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, evocation, exemplification, figuration, finger painting, flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache, graphic account, grisaille, head, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impasto, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, mural painting, musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting, particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portrait, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush, vignette, vivid description, wash, wash drawing, word painting, writing

portray

• portray, act a part, act out, bring to life, cartoon, catch a likeness, chalk, character, characterize, charcoal, chart, color, copy, crayon, create a role, crosshatch, dash off, daub, delineate, depict, describe, design, diagram, doodle, draft, draw, duplicate, enact, evoke, express, give words to, hatch, hit off, image, impersonate, interpret, limn, map, notate, outline, paint, paint a picture, pencil, personate, photograph, picture, picturize, play a part, play a role, play opposite, pose as, print, register, render, represent, reproduce, rub, schematize, scratch, scumble, set forth, shade, show, sketch, stencil, support, sustain a part, symbolize, take a part, take a rubbing, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, write

portrayal

• portrayal, acting, alphabet, aping, art, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, evocation, exemplification, figuration, gag, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, head, hieroglyphic, hoke, hokum, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, miniature, mummery, musical notation, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, portrait, portraiture, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, syllabary, symbol, tablature, taking a role, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

portraying

• portraying, apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid

pose as

• pose as, act, act a part, act as, act out, ape, copy, do, enact, impersonate, make false pretenses, masquerade as, mime, mimic, pantomime, pass for, perform, personate, play, play a part, pretend to be, take off

pose

• pose, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advance, affectation, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, arrange, ask, assert, attitude, attitudinarianism, attitudinize, attitudinizing, bearing, beck, beckon, befog, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bewilder, bluff, bluffing, body language, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, cap, carriage, charade, cheating, chironomy, color, coloring, commend to attention, comportment, conduct, confound, confuse, culture pattern, custom, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, deception, delusion, demeanor, deportment, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dog, doing, doings, dumb show, extend, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feign, feigning, feint, folkway, four-flushing, fraud, front, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gestures, gilt, give, gloss, goings-on, grandstand, guise, hand signal, hold out, humbug, humbuggery, imitate, impersonate, imposture, introduce, kinesics, launch, lay, lay before, lay down, lugs, maintien, make a motion, manner, mannerism, manners, masquerade, masquerade as, meretriciousness, method, methodology, methods, mien, mimic, model, modus vivendi, moot, motion, motions, move, movement, movements, moves, observable behavior, offer a resolution, open up, ostentation, outward show, pantomime, park, pass as, pass for, pass off, pattern, peacock, peacockery, peacockishness, perplex, place, playacting, poise, port, portray, pose as, pose for effect, posing, posit, position, post, postulate, posture, posturing, practice, praxis, predicate, prefer, presence, present, pretend, pretend to be, pretense, pretension, pretext, prettiness, procedure, proceeding, profess, proffer, propose, proposition, propound, purport, put, put forth, put forward, put it to, put on airs, puzzle, query, question, recommend, represent, representation, seat, seeming, semblance, set, set before, set forth, set up, sham, show, show off, shrug, sign language, simulacrum, simulation, sit, social science, speciousness, stance, start, station, stick, strike a pose, strike an attitude, strut, stumble, style, submit, suggest, tactics, tender, tone, varnish, way, way of life, ways, window dressing

Poseidon

• Poseidon, AB, Agdistis, Amor, Ancient Mariner, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Argonaut, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Davy, Davy Jones, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dylan, Eros, Flying Dutchman, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, Nike, OD, Oceanid, Oceanus, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, fresh-water nymph, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, kelpie, limey, limniad, lobsterman, man fish, mariner, matelot, mermaid, merman, naiad, navigator, nix, nixie, ocean nymph, pirate, privateer, sailor, salt, sea devil, sea dog, sea god, sea nymph, sea rover, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, siren, tar, undine, viking, water dog, water god, water spirit, water sprite, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

poser

• poser, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, attitudinarian, attitudinizer, baffling problem, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, brain twister, canter, canting hypocrite, charlatan, crossword puzzle, crux, dilemma, dissembler, dissimulator, enigma, enigmatic question, fake, faker, floorer, formalist, fourflusher, fraud, humbug, hypocrite, impersonator, impostor, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, lip server, lip worshiper, malingerer, mind-boggler, mountebank, mystery, node, nodus, nonplus, nut to crack, oxymoron, paradox, perplexed question, perplexity, pharisee, phony, pietist, pious fraud, pons asinorum, poseur, posture maker, posturer, posturist, pretender, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quack, quacksalver, quackster, quandary, question, question mark, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sixty-four dollar question, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, sticker, striker of poses, stumper, teaser, tough proposition, vexed question, whited sepulcher, why

poseur

• poseur, ape, attitudinarian, attitudinizer, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, exhibitionist, fake, faker, forger, fourflusher, fraud, humbug, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, masquerader, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, posture maker, posturer, posturist, pretender, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sheep, show-off, simulator, striker of poses

posh

• posh, Babylonian, Corinthian, a la mode, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, braw, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, deluxe, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elaborate, elegant, exclusive, exquisite, extravagant, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, jaunty, lavish, luxurious, luxury, magnificent, majestic, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, noble, opulent, palatial, plush, princely, proud, recherche, regal, rich, ritzy, royal, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, spruce, stately, style-conscious, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tony, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed

posing

• posing, acting, affectation, aping, appearance, attitudinarianism, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, incarnation, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, ostentation, outward show, pantomime, pantomiming, peacockery, peacockishness, performance, performing, personation, personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posture, posturing, pretense, pretension, pretext, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, varnish, window dressing

posit

• posit, advance, apriorism, assert, assume, hypothesize, lay, lay down, offer, park, place, pose, post, postulate, postulation, predicate, premise, presume, presumption, presupposition, propose, propound, put, put forth, put forward, seat, set, set forth, station, stick, submit, supposition, thesis

position paper

• position paper, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, bulletin board, circular, communique, conclusion, course, creed, declaration, deposition, dictum, edict, encyclical, enunciation, guiding principles, ipse dixit, line, manifesto, notice, notification, plan of action, platform, policy, polity, position, positive declaration, predicate, predication, principles, procedure, proclamation, profession, program, programma, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, public notice, report, say, say-so, saying, solemn declaration, stance, stand, statement, statement of belief, ukase, utterance, vouch, white book, white paper, word

position

• position, Anschauung, Parthian shot, a priori principle, abode, address, affect, affectivity, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allocate, angle, angle of vision, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, appointment, apriorism, area, arrange, arrangement, aspect, assertion, asseveration, assign, assumed position, assumption, attitude, autarky, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, azimuth, basis, bearing, bearings, belief, bench mark, bent, berth, billet, bimetallism, blood, bracket, branch, cachet, capacity, case, caste, categorical proposition, category, celestial navigation, character, circumstance, circumstances, clan, class, climate of opinion, collocate, color, comment, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, condition, connection, consensus gentium, consequence, consideration, contention, crack, creed, data, dead reckoning, declaration, deploy, determine, dictum, dignity, disposal, dispose, disposition, district, division, duty, echelon, economic self-sufficiency, emotion, emotivity, emplace, emplacement, employment, engagement, enunciation, establish, estate, estimate, estimation, ethos, exclamation, exposure, expression, eye, face, feeling, feeling tone, first principles, fix, footing, foundation, frame of reference, framework, free enterprise, free trade, frontage, function, general belief, get a fix, gig, governmentalism, grade, greeting, ground, group, grouping, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, hole, home in on, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, idea, importance, impression, inclination, incumbency, install, interjection, ipse dixit, jam, job, judgment, kin, kudos, label, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitude and longitude, lay, leaning, lemma, level, lie, lieu, light, lights, line, line of position, locale, localism, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, lot, major premise, managed currency, manifesto, mental attitude, mental outlook, mention, mind, minor premise, modality, mode, moonlighting, mystique, navigate, noninterference, nonintervention, note, notion, nullification, observation, occupation, office, opening, opinion, order, orientation, outlook, part, party line, party principle, pass, personal judgment, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, pickle, pigeonhole, pilotage, pin down, pinpoint, place, placement, placing, planned economy, plight, point, point of view, policy, polity, popular belief, pose, position, position line, position paper, positive declaration, post, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture, power structure, precedence, predicament, predicate, predication, premise, prestige, presumption, presupposition, prevailing belief, price supports, principle, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, propositional function, protection, protectionism, protest, protestation, province, psychology, public belief, public opinion, public policy, pump-priming, put, put in place, quality, question, race, radio bearing, rank, rate, rating, reaction, reference system, reflection, regard, region, relation, remark, respect, role, rubric, say, say-so, saying, second job, section, sectionalism, sentence, sentiment, sept, service, set, settle, side, sight, site, situate, situation, situs, slant, sphere, spot, stage, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, state, statement, station, stature, status, stead, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, subjoinder, suborder, sumption, supposal, system, tenure, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, thought, title, triangulate, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, universe, utterance, vacancy, view, viewpoint, vouch, way of thinking, where, whereabout, whereabouts, word, zero in on

positioned

• positioned, assigned, deployed, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established, fixed, installed, located, placed, planted, posted, seated, set, settled, situate, situated, spotted, stationed

positioning

• positioning, allocation, assignment, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, emplacement, lading, loading, localization, locating, location, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, posting, putting, reposition, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage

positive

• positive, Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, absolute, accented, accentuated, accordant, actual, admitting no exception, affirmative, affirmatory, agreeable, agreeing, aidful, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, all-out, answerable, apodictic, arbitrary, arrant, arrogant, assertative, assertional, assertive, assured, at one, auspicious, authentic, believing, beneficial, bigoted, blind, blowup, blueprint, bound, cardinal, categorical, certain, cheerful, classical, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, clear-cut, cocksure, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, complete, complimentary, conceited, conclusive, concordant, concurring, conducive, confident, confirming, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, constructive, consummate, contact print, contact printing, contributory, convinced, convincing, cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, crass, cyanotype, de facto, deaf, decided, decimal, decisive, declarative, declaratory, definite, definitive, despotic, determinate, determined, devout, dictatorial, differential, digital, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, doubtless, downright, egregious, emphasized, emphatic, en rapport, encouraging, energetic, enlargement, enthusiastic, entire, equivalent, even, explicit, exponential, express, factual, faithful, favorable, fideistic, figural, figurate, figurative, final, finite, firm, fixed, flagrant, flat, flat-out, for real, forceful, forcible, fractional, functional, furthersome, genuine, glaring, global, glossy, good for, gross, hard, hard-nosed, harmonious, hectograph copy, helpful, historical, hologram, honest-to-God, hubristic, imaginary, impair, imperious, implicit, impossible, impress, impressed with, impression, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in red letters, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, infinite, inharmony, integral, intolerable, irrational, irrefutable, italicized, lantern slide, like-minded, logarithmic, logometric, matte, matter-of-fact, microcopy, microprint, mimeograph copy, minus, necessary, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, obdurate, obstinate, odd, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, offprint, on all fours, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, optimistic, oracular, ordinal, out-and-out, outright, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pair, peremptory, perfect, perfectly sure, persuaded, persuasive, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photostatic copy, pietistic, pigheaded, pious, pistic, plus, pointed, poised, pompous, pontifical, positivistic, possible, practical, pragmatical, precious, predestined, predetermined, predicational, predicative, prime, print, productive, profitable, profound, projection printing, promising, pronounced, pronunciative, proof, proper, propitious, proportionate, proud, punctuated, radical, rank, rational, real, realistic, reasonable, reassured, reassuring, reciprocal, reconcilable, regular, reliable, remedial, reprint, round, salutary, satisfied, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-consistent, self-important, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-reliant, semi-matte, serviceable, shattering, sheer, shocking, slide, sold on, sound, specific, stark, stark-staring, starred, stat, straight, straight-out, stressed, stubborn, submultiple, substantial, superlative, supportive, surd, sure, sure-enough, surpassing, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous, the veriest, therapeutic, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, transcendental, transparency, true, unafraid, unambiguous, unanimous, unbearable, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconscionable, uncontestable, uncontested, undeniable, under the impression, underlined, underscored, undoubtful, undoubting, unequivocal, unfaltering, unhampered, unhesitating, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unpersuadable, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unspoiled, unwaivable, unwavering, upbeat, useful, utilitarian, utter, veritable, whole, without exception, without reserve, yes

positively

• positively, OK, Roger, absolutely, actually, affirmatively, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assertively, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, beyond question, by all means, categorically, certainly, clearly, da, de facto, dead, decidedly, decisively, declaratively, definitely, demonstrably, directly, distinctly, doubtless, doubtlessly, emphatically, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, fine, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for real, for sure, forsooth, genuinely, good, good enough, hear, in actuality, in all conscience, in all respects, in effect, in every respect, in fact, in reality, in truth, indeed, indeedy, indisputably, indubitably, ipsissimis verbis, ja, just, just so, literally, literatim, mais oui, manifestly, most assuredly, most certainly, naturally, naturellement, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of course, okay, oui, patently, plumb, point-blank, precisely, predicatively, quite, rather, really, right, righto, rigidly, rigorously, sensibly, seriously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, sure, sure thing, surely, to a certainty, to be sure, to the letter, truly, unambiguously, undeniably, under oath, undeviatingly, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unerringly, unmistakably, unquestionably, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, verily, veritably, very well, visibly, well and good, why yes, with emphasis, without doubt, word by word, word for word, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

positivism

• positivism, Marxism, animalism, atomism, behaviorism, bigotry, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, dogmaticalness, dogmatism, down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, freedom from illusion, hardheadedness, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, infallibilism, lack of feelings, materialism, matter-of-factness, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, opinionatedness, peremptoriness, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positiveness, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, rationality, realism, reasonableness, representative realism, saneness, scientism, secularism, self-opinionatedness, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, substantialism, temporality, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, worldliness

positivist

• positivist, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, bullethead, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, dogmatizer, donkey, fanatic, hardnose, infallibilist, intransigeant, intransigent, last-ditcher, maverick, mule, opinionist, perverse fool, pighead, practical person, pragmatist, purist, realist, standpat, standpatter, stickler

positivistic

• positivistic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, bigoted, commonsense, conceited, cosmotheistic, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, existential, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalist, naturalistic, nominalist, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, panlogistical, pantheistic, peremptory, pontifical, positive, positivist, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatist, pronunciative, rational, rationalistic, realist, realistic, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sensationalistic, sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, worldly

posse

• posse, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, KP, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, age group, army, army group, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, constabulary, contingent, corps, coterie, county police, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, faction, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, forage, frisk, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, highway patrol, house-search, hunt, hunting, in-group, junta, kitchen police, law enforcement agency, legion, maniple, military police, mob, movement, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, perquisition, phalanx, platoon, police, police force, political police, probe, provincial police, quest, rank, ransacking, regiment, riot police, rummage, salon, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, secret police, section, security force, set, shore patrol, special police, squad, squadron, stable, stalk, stalking, state police, still hunt, string, tactical police, tactical unit, task force, team, train, tribe, troop, troopers, troupe, turning over, unit, vigilance committee, vigilantes, wing

possess

• possess, achieve, acquire, appreciate, apprehend, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be enfeoffed of, be informed, be possessed of, be seized of, bear, bedevil, beset, bewitch, boast, captivate, carry, catch up, charm, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clutch, cognize, come by, come into, command, compel, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, consume, contain, control, demonize, devilize, diabolize, discern, dominate, drain off, draw off, drive, embody, embrace, enchant, enjoy, fathom, fill, gain, get, get hold of, glom on to, govern, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hant, haunt, have, have and hold, have in hand, have information about, have knowledge of, have tenure of, hex, hold, hoodoo, hug, impel, include, infatuate, jinx, ken, know, lay hands on, lay hold of, loot, make out, nail, nip, nip up, not let go, obsess, obtain, occupy, overlook, own, palm, partake, perceive, pillage, pocket, prehend, preoccupy, procure, realize, receive, recognize, retain, savvy, secure, see, seize, snap up, snatch, spook, squat, squat on, steal, take, take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take possession, take possession of, understand, usucapt, voodoo, whip up, win, witch, wot, wot of

possessed

• possessed, abandoned, amok, bedeviled, bellowing, berserk, besotted, bewitched, bursting with happiness, by one, carried away, collected, composed, consumed, controlled, crazed, delirious, demented, demoniac, demonized, devil-ridden, distracted, dominated, driven, easy, eaten up, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, feral, ferocious, fierce, fixated, flushed, frantic, freaked out, free and clear, frenzied, fulminating, furious, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, gripped, hag-ridden, haggard, haunted, held, high, hog-wild, howling, hung-up, hysterical, imparadised, in a transport, in ecstasies, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seisin, in seventh heaven, in stock, in store, infatuated, intoxicated, jubilant, mad, maddened, madding, maniac, monomaniac, monomaniacal, obsessed, on cloud nine, on hand, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, own, owned, pixilated, placid, poised, preoccupied, prepossessed, pressed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, ravished, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, self-possessed, sent, serene, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spooky, storming, tranquil, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, witch-charmed, witch-held, witch-struck, witched

possession

• possession, aberration, abnormality, accessories, acquest, acquire, acquisition, affluence, alienation, ally, aplomb, appointments, appurtenances, archduchy, archdukedom, assets, assurance, baggage, balance, bedevilment, belongings, bewitchery, bewitchment, body politic, bottomless purse, brain damage, brainsickness, buffer state, bulging purse, captivation, captive nation, capture, care, chattels, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, claiming, clouded mind, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, complex, composure, compulsion, confidence, conquer, constraint, control, country, county, craziness, custody, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, discipline, disorientation, distraction, domain, dominion, duchy, duds, dukedom, earldom, easy circumstances, effects, embarras de richesses, empery, empire, enchantment, entrancement, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, equipment, estate and effects, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, fixtures, folie, fortune, free city, furnishings, furniture, furor, gold, goods, grand duchy, guardianship, handsome fortune, hang-up, havings, hereditament, high income, high tax bracket, hold, holding, holdings, hypercathexis, idee fixe, illusion, impedimenta, incorporeal hereditament, independence, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irresistible impulse, keeping, kingdom, land, lares and penates, level head, levelheadedness, loss of mind, loss of reason, lucre, lunacy, luxuriousness, madness, mammon, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, mania, material wealth, maya, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, money, money to burn, moneybags, monomania, morbid drive, movables, nation, nationality, obsession, obsessive compulsion, obtain, occupy, oddness, opulence, opulency, ownership, paraphernalia, pelf, pixilation, poise, polis, polity, possessions, possessorship, power, preoccupation, prepossession, presence of mind, principality, principate, properties, property, proprietary, proprietorship, prosperity, prosperousness, protection, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, queerness, rabidness, realm, reasonlessness, reception, repossess, republic, restraint, riches, richness, ruling passion, satellite, secure, seize, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, seneschalty, senselessness, settlement, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, six-figure income, sovereign nation, spirit control, state, strangeness, substance, sultanate, superpower, take, taking, taking away, taking possession, tangibles, tenure, territory, theft, things, tic, title, toparchia, toparchy, trappings, treasure, tricks, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness, well-regulated mind, win, witchery, witlessness

possessive

• possessive, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, careerist, controlling, covetous, dominating, domineering, egotistical, grasping, greedy, individualistic, materialistic, narcissistic, niggardly, overbearing, personalistic, possessory, privatistic, proprietary, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, stingy, ungenerous, ungiving, unyielding

possibility

• possibility, admissibility, aptitude, aptness, best bet, capacity, chance, conceivability, contingency, delitescence, dormancy, eventuality, favorable prospect, feasibility, good chance, good opportunity, good possibility, latency, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, main chance, obligation, odds, odds-on, odds-on chance, opportunity, plausibility, possibilities, potential, potentiality, probability, promise, proneness, prospect, sporting chance, sure bet, sure thing, virtuality, weakness, well-grounded hope

possible

• possible, accomplishable, achievable, admissible, advisable, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, attainable, available, between the lines, cardinal, cogitable, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, covert, credible, cryptic, decimal, delitescent, differential, digital, doable, dormant, earthly, esoteric, even, expedient, exponential, feasible, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hibernating, hidden, humanly possible, imaginable, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, latent, likely, logarithmic, logometric, lurking, mortal, muffled, mystic, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, obfuscated, obscured, occult, odd, on, ordinal, pair, plausible, positive, potential, practicable, practical, prime, probable, radical, rational, reachable, real, realizable, reasonable, reciprocal, sleeping, submerged, submultiple, surd, tenable, thinkable, transcendental, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, veiled, viable, virtual, workable

possum

• possum, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, porcupine, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

post

• post, Hermes, Iris, Mercury, PP, Paul Revere, Pheidippides, RD, RFD, Samson post, accredit, acquaint, acropolis, advertise, advise, affiliate, affix, air-express, airfreight, airmail, angle, announce, appoint, appointment, apprise, arcade, arm, assign, assignment, atlas, authorize, balance, balance the books, ballyhoo, baluster, balustrade, banister, bark, base, bastion, beachhead, beam, berth, bill, billet, blockhouse, board, boarding, bolt, bond, book, book post, boost, bottomry, boutique, brace, branch, branch office, bridgehead, brief, build up, bulletin, bundle, bunker, bustle, calendar, capitalize, career, carrier, carry, carry over, carve, caryatid, cast up accounts, castle, catalog, chain store, chalk, chalk up, chapter, charge, charge off, charter, chase, check in, chore, chronicle, circularize, circulate, citadel, clapboard, close out, close the books, clue, co-op, collection, colonnade, colonnette, column, come across, come across with, come down with, come through with, commission, commissionaire, commit, concession, connection, consign, cooperative, cord, cordwood, correspondence, cough up, countinghouse, country store, courier, credit, crowd, cry up, cut, dado, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, deal, debit, delegate, delivery, department store, deposit, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, die, dime store, diplomatic courier, direct mail, direct-mail selling, discount house, discount store, dispatch, distance, division, docket, donjon, doorjamb, doorpost, double-time, driftwood, drop a letter, duty, embark, emissary, employment, emporium, empower, engagement, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, entrust, enumerate, establish, establishment, estafette, expedite, export, express, fasthold, fastness, festinate, file, fill in, fill out, firewood, five-and-ten, fling, footing, footstalk, fork over, fort, fortress, forward, fourth-class mail, frank, freight, function, garrison, garrison house, gatepost, general store, get going, get moving, gig, give a write-up, give in charge, give publicity, go bail, go-between, grave, grease the palm, ground, halfpenny post, handsel, hardwood, haste, hasten, hie, hitching post, hock, hold, house, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, hypothecate, impanel, impignorate, incise, incumbency, index, inform, inscribe, insert, inventory, itemize, jack, jamb, job, jot down, journalize, junk mail, keep, keep books, keep score, kick in, king post, lath, lathing, lathwork, lay on one, leap, leg, letter post, letters, license, list, local, locate, lodge, log, lose no time, lumber, magasin, mail, mail-order house, mail-order selling, mailing list, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make haste, make out, mark down, market, mart, martello, martello tower, matriculate, message-bearer, messenger, milepost, minute, mission, moonlighting, mortgage, mote, motte, move quickly, mullion, necropsy, newel, newel-post, newspaper post, note, note down, notify, nuncio, office, offshoot, opening, organ, pale, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, parcel post, park, pawn, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peel, peel tower, peristyle, perspective, picket, pier, pigeonhole, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pillbox, placard, place, place upon record, plank, planking, pledge, plinth, plug, plunge, plunk down, plyboard, plywood, pole, poll, pony up, portico, pose, posit, position, post bills, post day, post up, postal service, postboy, poster, postmortem, postmortem examination, postrider, press on, press-agent, proclaim, program, promote, promulgate, prop, propagate, publicize, publish, puff, puncheon, push on, put, put down, put in hock, put in pawn, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, put up, pylon, queen-post, race, rath, record, reduce to writing, register, registered mail, remit, retail store, role, run, runner, rural delivery, rural free delivery, rush, rush through, safehold, salon, scamper, schedule, scoot, score, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, sea mail, seapost, seat, second job, sell, send, send away, send forth, send off, send out, service, set, set down, shaft, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, ship, shoot, shop, shore, sideboard, siding, signpost, situate, situation, skedaddle, slab, slat, snubbing post, socle, softwood, special delivery, special handling, spiel, splat, spot, spout, spurt, staff, stake, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standing, station, status, stave, stay, stem, step on it, stick, stick of wood, stile, store, stovewood, strike a balance, strong point, stronghold, strut, stump up, subbase, submit, supermarket, support, surbase, surface mail, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape-record, task, tear, telamon, tell, tenure, three-by-four, tickle the palm, timber, timbering, timberwork, tower, tower of strength, trading post, transfer, transmit, trunk, two-by-four, upright, vacancy, variety shop, variety store, venue, videotape, viewpoint, ward, warehouse, wareroom, warn, warrant, weatherboard, wholesale house, wing, wood, work, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

postdate

• postdate, International Date Line, afterlife, antedate, backdate, be dated, bear date, date, date at, date line, date-stamp, dateline, datemark, day, following, foredate, future time, hangover, lag, lateness, make a date, misdate, mistime, next life, point of time, postdating, posteriority, predate, provenience, remainder, sequence, set the date, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, time, update

postdated

• postdated, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, beforehand, behind time, behindhand, dated, early, foredated, late, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, prochronistic, tardy, unpunctual, unseasonable

posted

• posted, abreast of, as earnest, assigned, at stake, au courant, booked, briefed, deployed, deposited, documented, down, educated, embosomed, emplaced, enlightened, enrolled, ensconced, entered, established, filed, fixed, in hock, in pawn, indexed, informed, inscribed, installed, instructed, legal, located, logged, minuted, of record, official, on deposit, on file, on record, on the books, pawned, placed, planted, pledged, positioned, primed, put up, recorded, registered, schooled, seated, set, settled, situate, situated, spotted, staked, stationed, taught, trained, up on, up the spout, up-to-date, versed, well-versed, written down

poster

• poster, advertisement, affiche, announcement, banner, bill, billboard, broadside, carrier, carrier pigeon, circular, flier, handbill, homer, homing pigeon, mail car, mail coach, mail packet, mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, notice, packet boat, pigeon post, placard, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse, post-office car, railway mail car, sign, signboard

posterior

• posterior, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, appendant, arse, ass, attendant, back, back door, back seat, back side, backside, backward, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, cadet, consecutive, consequent, croup, crupper, derriere, ensuing, flack, following, haunches, heel, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindhead, hindmost, junior, later, latter, lineal, nates, next, occiput, postern, postpositional, postpositive, proximate, puisne, rear, rear end, rearmost, rearward, retral, retrograde, reverse, rump, seat, sequacious, sequent, sequential, stern, subsequent, succeeding, successive, suffixed, tail, tail end, tailpiece, tuchis, younger

posteriority

• posteriority, aftertime, afteryears, by-and-by, coming after, consecution, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, course ahead, crystal ball, descent, determinism, distant future, eventuality, expectation, extension, following, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, line, lineage, logical sequence, near future, offing, order, order of succession, outlook, postposition, prediction, probability, procession, progression, project, prolongation, prophecy, prospect, rotation, sequence, series, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow

posterity

• posterity, aftermath, agnate, ancestry, backup man, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brood, children, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, conclusion, connections, consanguinean, consequence, descendant, descendants, distaff side, distant relation, dynasty, effect, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, heir, heirs, inheritor, issue, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, near relation, next of kin, offspring, people, progeniture, progeny, relations, relatives, replacement, seed, sequel, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, successor, successors, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

postern

• postern, French door, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, archway, back, back door, back seat, back side, backward, barway, behind, breech, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, heel, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindhead, hindmost, lintel, occiput, porch, portal, porte cochere, posterior, propylaeum, pylon, rear, rear end, rearmost, rearward, retrograde, reverse, scuttle, side door, stern, stile, storm door, tail, tail end, tailpiece, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile

postgraduate

• postgraduate, academic, alumna, alumnae, alumni, alumnus, autodidactic, bookish, college graduate, college man, college-bred, collegiate, cross-disciplinary, degrees, doctoral candidate, educated class, educated man, grad, graduate, graduate student, graduate-professional, interdisciplinary, learned, meritocracy, pedagogical, professional, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, schoolish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate

posthaste

• posthaste, amain, apace, at flank speed, breakneck, by airmail, by cable, by express, by return mail, by telegraph, double-quick, expeditious, expeditiously, express, fast, flat-out, fleet, full tilt, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hasty, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in posthaste, in seven-league boots, lickety-cut, lickety-split, on the double, post, promptly, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, snappily, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, whip and spur, with all haste, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed

posthumous

• posthumous, after the Fall, after the flood, after the war, after-dinner, afterdeath, delayed, late, post-obit, postbellum, postcenal, postcibal, postdiluvial, postdiluvian, postlapsarian, postmortal, postmortem, postmortuary, postmundane, postobituary, postprandial, postwar, retarded

posting

• posting, allocation, appointment, assignment, booking, cataloging, chronicling, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, designation, disposition, emplacement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, lading, listing, loading, localization, locating, location, logging, matriculation, naming, nomination, ordainment, ordination, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, putting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reposition, selection, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, tabbing, tabulation, transferral