Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/07

barley

• barley, bird seed, bran, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feed, fodder, forage, grain, hay, mash, meal, oats, pasturage, pasture, pet food, provender, scratch, scratch feed, silage, slops, straw, swill, wheat

barmaid

• barmaid, barkeep, barkeeper, barman, bartender, bootlegger, brewer, brewmaster, busboy, carhop, counterman, distiller, headwaiter, hostess, liquor dealer, liquor store owner, mixologist, moonshiner, publican, sommelier, tapster, tapstress, vintner, waiter, waitress, wine merchant, wine steward

barmaster

• barmaster, JA, amicus curiae, assessor, chancellor, circuit judge, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lay judge, legal assessor, master, military judge, ombudsman, ordinary, police judge, presiding judge, probate judge, puisne judge, recorder, vice-chancellor

barmy

• barmy, balmy, bananas, bats, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, diastatic, dippy, dotty, enzymic, fermenting, flaky, flipped, foam-flecked, foamy, freaked-out, frothy, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, heady, just plain nuts, kooky, lathery, leavening, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, raising, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, wacky, working, yeasty

barnacle

• barnacle, adherent, adhesive, beat, bloodsucker, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, cement, deadbeat, decal, decalcomania, freeloader, glue, gunk, hanger-on, leech, limpet, lounge lizard, molasses, mucilage, parasite, paste, plaster, prickle, remora, smell-feast, spiv, sponge, sponger, sticker, sucker, syrup, thorn

barnstorm

• barnstorm, act, act as foil, appear, come out, control, copilot, drive, emote, emotionalize, fly, get top billing, manipulate, mime, pantomime, patter, peel off, perform, pilot, play, play the lead, playact, register, sketch, solo, star, steal the show, stooge, tread the boards, troupe, upstage

barnyard

• barnyard, arable land, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, collective farm, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, mains, manor farm, orchard, pasture, pen, plantation, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, sheep farm, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm

barometer

• barometer, aerological instrument, aneroid barometer, aneroidograph, barograph, barometrograph, canon, check, criterion, degree, feeler, gauge, glass, graduated scale, hurricane-hunter aircraft, hygrometer, measure, model, norm, parameter, pattern, pilot balloon, probe, quantity, radiosonde, random sample, reading, readout, recording barometer, rule, sample, scale, sound, sounder, standard, straw vote, test, touchstone, trial balloon, type, vacuometer, value, weather balloon, weather instrument, weather satellite, weather vane, weathercock, weatherglass, yardstick

baron

• baron, Brahman, Establishment, VIP, archduke, aristocracy, aristocrat, armiger, banker, baronet, barons, big boss, big businessman, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, blue blood, brass, brass hat, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, celebrity, count, cream, czar, daimio, dignitary, dignity, director, duke, earl, elder, elite, enterpriser, entrepreneur, esquire, establishment, father, figure, financier, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, great man, hidalgo, important person, industrialist, interests, king, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lion, little businessman, lord, lordling, lords of creation, magnate, magnifico, man of commerce, man of mark, manager, margrave, marquis, merchant prince, mogul, nabob, name, nobility, noble, nobleman, notability, notable, optimate, overlapping, palsgrave, panjandrum, patrician, peer, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, power structure, prince, ruling circle, ruling circles, ruling class, sachem, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, somebody, something, squire, swell, the best, the best people, the brass, the great, the top, thoroughbred, top brass, top executive, top people, tycoon, upper class, upper crust, upper-cruster, very important person, viscount, waldgrave, worthy

baronet

• baronet, Bayard, Brahman, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, bachelor, banneret, baron, blue blood, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, companion, count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

baroque

• baroque, Gothic, arabesque, bizarre, brain-born, busy, chichi, deformed, dream-built, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, freak, freakish, frilly, fussy, gilt, grotesque, high-wrought, labored, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen, monstrous, moresque, notional, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, outlandish, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, picturesque, preposterous, pretty-pretty, rich, rococo, scrolled, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical, wild

barrage

• barrage, aim at, antiaircraft barrage, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrier, bear-trap dam, beat, beating, beaver dam, blast, blitz, bombard, bombardment, boom, box barrage, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, broadside, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burst, cannon, cannonade, cannonry, cofferdam, commence firing, creeping barrage, dam, defense, dike, ditch, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, earthwork, embankment, emergency barrage, enfilade, eruption, fence, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, flare, flutter, fusillade, gate, gravity dam, groin, hail, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, moat, mole, mortar, mortar barrage, mound, normal barrage, open fire, open up on, outburst, palpitation, paradiddle, parapet, patter, pepper, pitapat, pitter-patter, pop at, portcullis, pound, pounding, pulsation, rake, rampart, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roadblock, rock-fill dam, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, salvo, seawall, shell, shoot, shoot at, shower, shutter dam, snipe, snipe at, spatter, splutter, spray, sputter, staccato, standing barrage, stone wall, storm, strafe, stream, surge, take aim at, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom, tornado, torpedo, volley, wall, weir, wicket dam, work, zero in on

barred

• barred, absurd, banded, banned, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, brinded, brindle, brindled, cabined, caged, cancellated, cloistered, closed-in, closed-out, confined, contraband, contrary to reason, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, crossbarred, debarred, deported, ejected, enclosed, excluded, exiled, expelled, fenced, filigreed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, grated, gridded, hedged, hemmed, hopeless, illegal, illicit, immured, impossible, imprisoned, incarcerated, inconceivable, jailed, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, leaguered, left out, liquidated, listed, logically impossible, marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mewed, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, oxymoronic, paled, paradoxical, penned, pent-up, plexiform, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, quarantined, railed, restrained, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, ridiculous, ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, shut-in, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable, veined, verboten, vetoed, walled, walled-in, watered

barrel

• barrel, abundance, acres, bag, bags, ball the jack, barb, barbule, barrels, basket, beeline, bole, boom, bottle, bowl along, box, box up, breeze, breeze along, brush, burden, bushel, butt, can, capsule, carton, case, cask, cilium, clip, column, copiousness, countlessness, crate, cut along, cylinder, cylindroid, drum, encase, encyst, filament, filamentule, fill, fleet, flit, flood, fly, fly low, foot, freight, go fast, great deal, hamper, hasten, heap, heap up, highball, hogshead, hustle, jar, keg, lade, lashings, load, lot, lump, make knots, mass, mess, mountain, much, multitude, nip, numerousness, ocean, oceans, outstrip the wind, pack, pack away, package, parcel, peck, pile, pillar, pipe, plenitude, plenty, pocket, pot, pour it on, power, profusion, quantities, quantity, quill, rip, rocket, roll, roller, rouleau, run, rush, sack, scorch, sea, shaft, ship, sight, sizzle, skim, smoke, spate, speed, stack, store, storm along, stow, superabundance, superfluity, sweep, tank, tear, tear along, thunder along, tin, tons, trunk, tube, tun, volume, whisk, whiz, world, worlds, zing, zip, zoom

barren

• barren, abortive, acarpous, arid, bare, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, bloodless, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, clear, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, depleted, desert, desolate, devoid, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, gainless, gaunt, gelded, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, impoverished, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid, irreclaimable, issueless, jejune, leached, leaden, lifeless, literal, low-spirited, menopausal, mundane, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, of no force, otiose, pale, pallid, parched, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, profitless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, rewardless, sine prole, slow, solemn, spiritless, staid, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stuffy, sucked dry, superficial, tasteless, tedious, teemless, unavailing, uncultivable, uncultivated, unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unlively, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unrelieved, unremunerative, unrewarding, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, untilled, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, virgin, void, waste, wasted, wasteland, white, wild, wilderness, wildness, with nothing inside, without content, without issue, wooden, worn-out

barrens

• barrens, Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, barren, barren land, brush, bush, desert, desolation, dust bowl, heath, howling wilderness, karroo, lunar landscape, lunar waste, outback, salt flat, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wild, wilderness, wilds

barricade

• barricade, abatis, advanced work, arm, armor, armor-plate, balistraria, bang, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrier, bartizan, bastion, batten, batten down, battle, battlement, blank wall, block, block up, blockade, bolt, breastwork, bulwark, button, button up, casemate, castellate, cheval-de-frise, chock, choke, choke off, circumvallation, clap, close, close off, close tight, close up, constrict, contain, contract, contravallation, counterscarp, cover, crenellate, crowd, curtain, debar, demibastion, dig in, dike, dog, drawbridge, earthwork, embattle, enclosure, entanglement, entrench, escarp, escarpment, fasten, fence, fieldwork, fold, fold up, fortalice, fortification, fortify, garrison, glacis, jam, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, loophole, lunette, machicolation, man, man the garrison, mantelet, merlon, mine, mound, obstruct, occlude, outwork, pack, padlock, palisade, parados, parapet, plumb, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, sally port, scarp, sconce, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stockade, stop, stop up, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work, zip up, zipper

barrier

• barrier, abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bolt, boom, bottleneck, boundary, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulwark, bumper, casemate, cecum, cheval-de-frise, choking, choking off, circumvallation, clog, cloison, cofferdam, collision mat, congestion, constipation, contravallation, costiveness, counterscarp, cul-de-sac, curtain, cushion, dam, dead end, defense, demibastion, diaphragm, dike, dissepiment, ditch, dividing line, dividing wall, division, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, embolism, embolus, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fender, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, frontier, gate, glacis, gorge, gravity dam, groin, ha-ha, hindrance, hydraulic-fill dam, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interseptum, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, limit, lock, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, mat, merlon, midriff, midsection, milldam, moat, mole, mound, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, outwork, pad, padlock, palisade, panel, parados, parapet, paries, partition, party wall, portcullis, postern gate, property line, rail, railing, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, sealing off, seawall, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stop, stoppage, strangulation, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

barring

• barring, aside from, ban, bar, beside, besides, blockade, boycott, but, circumscription, debarment, debarring, demarcation, discounting, embargo, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception, exception taken of, excluding, exclusion, exclusive of, from, inadmissibility, injunction, leaving out, less, let alone, lockout, minus, narrowing, nonadmission, not counting, off, omission, omitting, outside of, precluding, preclusion, prohibition, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restriction, save, save and except, saving, taboo, than, unless, without

barrio

• barrio, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, midtown, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, uptown, urban blight

barrister

• barrister, advocate, agent, amicus curiae, attorney, attorney-at-law, barrister-at-law, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, deputy, friend at court, intercessor, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, mouthpiece, pleader, proctor, procurator, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, solicitor

barroom

• barroom, alehouse, bar, barrel house, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cocktail lounge, dive, dramshop, drinkery, drinking saloon, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, honky-tonk, local, lounge, nightclub, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, wine shop

barrow

• barrow, anthill, arch, beehive tomb, boar, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brae, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, butte, cairn, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cyclolith, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, down, drumlin, dune, fell, foothills, footstone, gilt, grave, gravestone, headstone, hill, hillock, hoarstone, hog, house of death, hummock, inscription, knob, knoll, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, molehill, monolith, monstrance, monticle, monticule, monument, moor, mound, mummy chamber, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, pillar, pit, plaque, porker, prize, pyramid, razorback, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sand dune, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shoat, shrine, sow, stela, stone, stupa, suckling pig, swell, swine, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, tusker, vault, wild boar

bartender

• bartender, barkeep, barkeeper, barmaid, barman, bootlegger, brewer, brewmaster, busboy, carhop, counterman, distiller, headwaiter, hostess, liquor dealer, liquor store owner, mixologist, moonshiner, publican, sommelier, tapster, tapstress, vintner, waiter, waitress, wine merchant, wine steward

barter

• barter, abalienate, abalienation, agency, alien, alienate, alienation, amortization, amortize, amortizement, assign, assignation, assignment, backscratching, bargain, bargain and sale, bartering, bequeath, bequeathal, brokerage, buy and sell, buying and selling, cede, cession, change, confer, conferment, conferral, consign, consignation, consignment, convey, conveyance, conveyancing, deal, dealing, deed, deed over, deeding, deliver, deliverance, delivery, demise, devolve upon, disposal, disposition, do business, doing business, enfeoff, enfeoffment, even trade, exchange, give, give in exchange, give title to, give-and-take, giving, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, horse trading, horse-trade, interchange, jobbing, lease and release, logrolling, make over, merchandising, negotiate, pass, pass on, pass over, pork barrel, retailing, sale, sell, settle, settle on, settlement, settling, sign away, sign over, surrender, swap, swap horses, swapping, switch, take in exchange, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, trading, traffic, trafficking, transfer, transference, transmission, transmit, transmittal, truck, turn over, vesting, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling

bartizan

• bartizan, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

bas relief

• bas relief, anaglyph, bellying, boldness, boss, bulging, cameo, cameo glass, cavo-rilievo, cut glass, embossment, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, glyph, glyptograph, high relief, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, low relief, mask, medal, medallion, plaquette, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, relievo, salience, salient, sculptured glass, tuberosity, tuberousness

basal

• basal, ab ovo, aboriginal, basic, basilar, beginning, bottom, bottommost, central, constituent, constitutive, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gut, in embryo, in ovo, lowermost, lowest, material, nethermost, of the essence, original, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, protogenic, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, seminal, substantial, substantive, underlying, undermost

basalt

• basalt, aa, abyssal rock, bedrock, block lava, brash, breccia, conglomerate, crag, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, igneous rock, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, stone, talus, tufa, tuff

base pay

• base pay, compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes

base

• base, CP, GHQ, HQ, Mickey Mouse, abhorrent, abject, abominable, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anchor, angle, anion, antacid, antecedents, arrant, atom, atrocious, awful, background, bad, baluster, balustrade, banister, base of operations, base-minded, baseboard, baseborn, basement, basis, bearing wall, beastly, bed, bed on, bedding, bedrock, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, biochemical, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, bolster, bottom, bottom on, brutal, build, build in, build on, buttress, caitiff, call, camp, caryatid, cation, causation, cause, cause and effect, center of authority, central administration, central office, central station, chassis, cheap, cheesy, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, clown white, coarse, cold cream, collector, colonnade, column, command post, common, compact, company headquarters, compound, construct, contemptible, copolymer, core, corrupt, cosmetics, counterfeit, cowardly, craven, criminal, crude, crummy, dado, damnable, dark, dastard, dastardly, debased, deficient, degraded, degrading, deplorable, depraved, derive, despicable, determinant, determinative, detestable, die, dimer, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, distance, downtrodden, draw, dreadful, drugstore complexion, dunghill, dunghilly, egregious, element, emitter, enormous, establish, etiology, evil, evil-minded, execrable, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, factor, fake, fetid, filamentary transistor, filthy, fix, flagitious, flagrant, floor, flooring, fond, foot, footing, footstalk, forbidding, forged, form, foul, found, found on, foundation, foundation cream, fourth-class, frame, framework, fraudulent, fulsome, fundament, fundamental, general headquarters, germanium crystal triode, grave, greasepaint, grievous, gross, ground, ground on, grounds, groundwork, hand cream, hand lotion, hardpan, hateful, headquarters, heavy chemicals, heinous, high polymer, hinge, home, homopolymer, hook-collector transistor, horrible, horrid, humble, humiliating, hydracid, ignoble, ignominious, imperfect, improper, inadequate, incompetent, indecent, infamous, inferior, infra dig, infrastructure, iniquitous, inorganic chemical, install, insufferable, insufficient, invest, ion, irregular, isomer, jack, keel, knavish, lamentable, lascivious, lay the foundation, lewd, line of departure, lip rouge, lipstick, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-minded, low-quality, low-test, lowborn, lower strata, lowest level, lowest point, lowly, lumpen, macromolecule, main office, makeup, maladroit, malodorous, mangy, mascara, mean, measly, mediocre, menial, mephitic, metamer, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, molecule, monomer, monstrous, mopboard, mudpack, nadir, nail polish, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, neutralizer, newel-post, noisome, nonacid, not comparable, not in it, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, occasion, odious, offensive, organic chemical, ornery, out of it, outrageous, oxyacid, paint, paltry, pavement, peccant, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, perspective, petty, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pinchbeck, pitch, pitiable, pitiful, place, plant, plebeian, plinth, point of departure, point-contact transistor, poky, pole, poltroon, poltroonish, polymer, poor, pornographic, port of embarkation, position, post, powder, powder puff, predicate, principle, profane, prop, pseudoisomer, puff, punk, pusillanimous, put in, put up, queen-post, radical, rank, rascally, reagent, rebarbative, recreant, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, rest, revolting, ribald, riprap, rock bottom, roguish, root, rotten, rouge, rubbishy, rude, rudiment, sad, scabby, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, seat, seating, second-best, second-class, secure, seedy, selfish, servile, set, set on, set up, shabby, shaft, shameful, shocking, shoddy, shoemold, sickening, sill, sinful, slavish, sleazy, small, socle, sole, solid ground, solid rock, sordid, sorry, spacistor, spurious, squalid, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standing, start, starting gate, starting place, starting point, starting post, station, status, stay, stem, stereobate, stimulus, stinking, stylobate, subbase, submissive, subservient, substratum, substruction, substructure, sulfacid, support, surbase, tacky, takeoff, talcum, talcum powder, tatty, terra firma, terrible, tetrode transistor, theme, third-class, third-rate, tinny, toe, too bad, transistor, trashy, trimer, trivial, trunk, ugly, unclean, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergird, undergirding, underlie, underlying level, underpinning, understruction, understructure, undignified, unforgivable, unipolar transistor, unmentionable, unpardonable, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unwashed, unworthy, upright, vanishing cream, vanity case, venue, vest, vicious, viewpoint, vile, villainous, vulgar, wainscot, war paint, warrant, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

baseborn

• baseborn, base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, false, fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, spurious, supposititious, third-estate, ungenteel, unwashed, vulgar

based on

• based on, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, bolstered, borne, boxed in, braced, buttressed, certain, circumscribed by, circumstantial, conclusive, contingent, contingent on, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, dependent, dependent on, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, guyed, hearsay, hedged about by, held, hinging on, implicit, incident to, incidental to, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, maintained, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, predicated on, presumptive, probative, propped, reliable, revolving on, shored up, significant, stayed, subject to, suggestive, supported, sure, sustained, symptomatic, telling, turning on, upheld, valid, weighty

baseless

• baseless, bottomless, built on sand, empty, false, gratuitous, groundless, idle, ill-founded, indefensible, needless, not well-founded, pointless, reasonless, senseless, unbased, uncalled-for, unfounded, ungrounded, unjustifiable, unnecessary, unneeded, unsolid, unsupportable, unsupported, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, unwarranted, vain, without basis, without foundation, wrong

basement

• basement, WC, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backhouse, bank, base, baseboard, basis, bathroom, bay, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bottom, box, bunker, buttery, can, cargo dock, cellar, cellarage, chassis, chest, closet, coal bin, comfort station, conservatory, convenience, crapper, crate, crib, cupboard, cyclone cellar, dado, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, earth closet, exchequer, floor, flooring, fond, foot, footing, foundation, frame, fundament, fundamental, glory hole, godown, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, head, hold, hole, hutch, john, johnny, johnny house, keel, latrine, lavatory, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mopboard, nadir, necessary, outhouse, pavement, potato cellar, powder room, principle, privy, rack, radical, repertory, repository, reservoir, rest room, rick, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, seat, shelf, shoemold, sill, sole, solid ground, solid rock, stack, stack room, stereobate, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, storm cellar, stylobate, subbasement, substratum, substruction, substructure, supply base, supply depot, tank, terra firma, toe, toilet, toilet room, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, urinal, vat, vault, wainscot, warehouse, washroom, water closet, wine cellar

baseness

• baseness, abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, contrariety, cravenness, crudeness, crumminess, dastardliness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, depravity, desertion under fire, despicability, despicableness, detestableness, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, egregiousness, enormity, evilness, execrableness, failure, fewness, fiendishness, filth, flagitiousness, foulness, fourth-rateness, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, helotism, helotry, homeliness, horribleness, humbleness, ignobility, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, infamousness, inferiority, inferiorness, iniquitousness, insufficiency, knavery, knavishness, littleness, loathsomeness, lousiness, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, menialness, miserableness, monstrousness, moral turpitude, nastiness, naughtiness, nauseousness, nefariousness, noisomeness, notoriousness, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, odiousness, offensiveness, ordinariness, outrageousness, paltriness, peonage, pettiness, plebeianism, pokiness, poltroonery, poltroonishness, poltroonism, poorness, pusillanimity, pusillanimousness, putridity, putridness, rankness, rascality, rascalry, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, reprobacy, repugnance, repulsiveness, roguery, roguishness, rottenness, scabbiness, scampishness, scandalousness, scoundrelism, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, second-rateness, serfdom, servility, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, sinfulness, skedaddling, slavery, slavishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, submissiveness, subnormality, subservience, subserviency, terribleness, the pits, third-rateness, triviality, turpitude, uncleanness, unskillfulness, unspeakableness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, worthlessness, wretchedness

bash

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

bashful

• bashful, Olympian, abashed, aloof, autistic, awkward, backward, blank, blushful, boggling, chilled, chilly, close, cold, confused, conscious, constrained, cool, cowardly, coy, demure, demurring, detached, diffident, discreet, dissociable, distant, embarrassed, expressionless, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, forbidding, frigid, frosty, goosy, guarded, hesitant, hesitating, icy, ill at ease, impassive, impersonal, in a tizzy, in fear, inaccessible, inarticulate, incompatible, insociable, introverted, jumpy, meek, modest, mopey, mopish, morose, mousy, nervous, nongregarious, offish, qualmish, rabbity, recoiling, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, scary, scrupulous, self-conscious, self-contained, self-effacing, self-sufficient, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, snug, socially incompatible, squeamish, stammering, standoff, standoffish, startlish, stickling, subdued, sullen, suppressed, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unclubbable, uncomfortable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconfident, uncongenial, undemonstrative, uneasy, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unostentatious, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

basic training

• basic training, apprenticeship, arrangement, breaking, breeding, briefing, clearing the decks, conditioning, cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, equipment, exercise, familiarization, fetching-up, fixing, fostering, foundation, grooming, groundwork, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, makeready, making ready, manual training, manufacture, military training, mobilization, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, planning, practice, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal, sloyd, spadework, training, treatment, trial, tryout, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, warm-up

basic

• basic, ab ovo, aboriginal, acid, alkali, austere, bare, basal, basilar, bedrock, biochemical, bottom, capital, central, chaste, chemical, chemicobiological, chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical, chemurgic, chief, constituent, constitutive, copolymeric, copolymerous, crucial, dimeric, dimerous, electrochemical, element, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, focal, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gut, heteromerous, homely, homespun, homogeneous, in embryo, in ovo, indispensable, indivisible, irreducible, isomerous, key, life-and-death, life-or-death, macrochemical, main, material, mere, metameric, monolithic, monomerous, nonacid, of a piece, of the essence, of vital importance, original, part and parcel, photochemical, physicochemical, phytochemical, plain, polymeric, pregnant, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, principal, pristine, protogenic, pure, pure and simple, radical, radiochemical, root, rudiment, rudimentary, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, spare, stark, substantial, substantive, thermochemical, unadorned, uncluttered, underlying, undifferenced, undifferentiated, uniform, vital

basin

• basin, alkali flat, alluvial plain, alveolation, alveolus, anchorage, anchorage ground, antrum, aquamanile, armpit, automatic dishwasher, bath, bathtub, bed, berth, bidet, bottom, bottomland, bowl, breakwater, bulkhead, bushveld, campo, catch basin, cavity, cereal bowl, champaign, champaign country, channel, cistern, coastal plain, concave, concavity, coulee, crater, crypt, cup, delta, depression, desert, dip, dishpan, dishwasher, dock, dockage, dockyard, down, downs, dry dock, embankment, ewer, fell, finger bowl, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, floor, fold, follicle, funnel chest, grass veld, grassland, gravy boat, groin, ground, harbor, harborage, haven, heath, hip bath, hole, hollow, hollow shell, jetty, jutty, kitchen sink, lacuna, lande, landing, landing place, landing stage, lavabo, lavatory, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, marina, mesa, mesilla, mole, moor, moorings, moorland, ocean bottom, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, pier, piscina, pit, plain, plains, plateau, playa, pocket, porringer, port, prairie, protected anchorage, punch bowl, quay, road, roads, roadstead, sag, salad bowl, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sauce boat, savanna, scoop, seaport, seawall, sebkha, shell, shipyard, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinus, sitz bath, slip, socket, steppe, table, tableland, terrine, tree veld, trough, tub, tundra, tureen, upland, vat, vega, veld, vug, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub, weald, wharf, wide-open spaces, wold

basis

• basis, Anschauung, a priori principle, affirmation, ambition, angle, angle of vision, antecedents, apriorism, aspiration, assertion, assumed position, assumption, axiom, base, basement, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bottom, burden, call, calling, case, categorical proposition, causation, cause, cause and effect, chapter, concern, consideration, data, determinant, determinative, element, essence, etiology, eye, factor, first principles, floor, flooring, focus of attention, focus of interest, fond, footing, foundation, frame of reference, framework, fundament, fundamental, gist, goal, good reason, ground, grounds, groundwork, guiding light, guiding star, hardpan, head, heading, heart, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, ideal, infrastructure, inspiration, intention, issue, justification, law, lemma, light, line of departure, living issue, lodestar, main point, mainspring, major premise, material basis, matter, matter in hand, meat, mental outlook, minor premise, motif, motive, occasion, outlook, pavement, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, place, point, point at issue, point in question, point of departure, point of view, port of embarkation, position, postulate, postulation, postulatum, premise, presumption, presupposition, principle, problem, proposition, propositional function, question, radical, reason, reference system, regard, respect, rest, right, riprap, rock bottom, root, rubric, rudiment, sake, score, seat, side, sight, sill, situation, slant, solid ground, solid rock, source, spring, stand, standpoint, start, starting gate, starting place, starting point, starting post, statement, stereobate, stimulus, stylobate, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, sumption, supposal, system, takeoff, terra firma, text, theme, theorem, thesis, topic, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, ulterior motive, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, universe, view, viewpoint, vocation, warrant

bask

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

basket

• basket, bag, ballocks, balls, barrel, bassinet, beard, bottle, box, box up, breadbasket, breasts, bushel, can, capsule, carton, case, cask, cervix, clitoris, clothesbasket, cod, cods, crane, crate, creel, cullions, encase, encyst, family jewels, female organs, frail, fruit basket, genitalia, genitals, gonads, hamper, jar, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, meat, nuts, nymphae, ovary, pack, package, pannier, parcel, penis, phallus, picnic basket, pot, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, punnet, reed basket, reproductive organs, rocks, rush basket, sack, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sewing basket, sex organs, spermary, tank, testes, testicles, tin, trug, uterus, vagina, vulva, wastebasket, wastepaper basket, wicker basket, wire basket, womb, wooden basket, yoni

basketwork

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

bass

• bass, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, accompaniment, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass viol, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, blues singer, bourdon, bow, bravura, bridge, bull fiddle, burden, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caroler, cello, chanter, chantress, chest voice, choral, choric, coloratura, coloratura soprano, comic bass, continuo, contrabass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, crowd, deep, deep bass, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, descant, diva, double bass, dramatic, dramatic soprano, drone, drone bass, falsetto, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, figured bass, fingerboard, grave, ground bass, head voice, heavy, heroic, heroic tenor, hollow, hymnal, hymner, improvisator, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, lead singer, lieder singer, line, liturgical, low, low-pitched, lyric, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, operatic, part, plain chant, plain song, prick song, prima donna, psalm singer, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, rock-and-roll singer, sacred, scroll, sepulchral, singer, singing, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, soundboard, string, tenor, tenor violin, thorough bass, torch singer, treble, tuning peg, undersong, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, vocal, vocalist, vocalizer, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice, voice part, warbler, yodeler

basso

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

bassoon

• bassoon, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cromorne, cymbel, diapason, double bassoon, double reed, dulciana, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, hybrid stop, koppel flute, larigot, licorice stick, melodia, mixture, musette, mutation stop, nazard, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, octave, organ stop, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, plein jeu, pommer, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sax, saxophone, sesquialtera, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, tierce, tin-whistle, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

bastard

• bastard, SOB, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bantling, bar sinister, baseborn, bastard child, bastardy, bird, blackguard, bogus, brummagem, bugger, by-blow, cat, chap, character, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, creep, criminal, cross, crossbred, crossbreed, devil, distorted, dressed up, duck, dummy, embellished, embroidered, enfant terrible, ersatz, evildoer, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fart, fatherless, feigned, feller, fellow, fictitious, fictive, garbled, guy, half blood, half-breed, heel, hood, hooligan, illegitimacy, illegitimate, illegitimate child, imitation, jasper, jerk, joker, junky, knave, lad, limb, louse, love child, lowlife, make-believe, malefactor, man-made, meanie, misbegotten, mischief, miscreant, miscreated, mock, mongrel, mother, mule, natural, offender, perverted, phony, pill, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, rapscallion, rascal, rat, reprobate, rogue, scalawag, scoundrel, self-styled, sham, shit, shithead, shitheel, shoddy, simulated, sinner, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, stinkard, stinker, stud, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, turd, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped

bastardize

• bastardize, adulterate, brutalize, contaminate, corrupt, cut, debase, debauch, demoralize, denaturalize, denature, deprave, dilute, doctor, doctor up, fortify, lace, pervert, pollute, spike, tamper with, vitiate, warp, water, water down

baste

• baste, bake, bang, barbecue, bastinado, batter, bawl out, beat, belabor, belt, berate, birch, blanch, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, buffet, cane, chew out, clobber, club, coddle, cook, cowhide, cudgel, curry, cut, devil, do, do to perfection, drub, fire, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, griddle, grill, hammer, heat, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, maul, mill, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, parboil, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, poach, pommel, pound, prepare, prepare food, pulverize, pummel, rail, rap, rawhide, roast, saute, scallop, scourge, sear, shirr, simmer, sledgehammer, smite, spank, steam, stew, stir-fry, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tell off, thrash, thresh, thump, toast, tongue-lash, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop, wig

bastille

• bastille, POW camp, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, bucket, caboose, calaboose, can, cell, chokey, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, constrain, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, immure, incarcerate, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, quod, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

bastion

• bastion, abatis, acropolis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, battlement, beachhead, blockhouse, breastwork, bridgehead, bulwark, bunker, casemate, castle, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, citadel, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, donjon, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fasthold, fastness, fence, fieldwork, fort, fortalice, fortification, fortress, garrison, garrison house, glacis, hold, keep, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, martello, martello tower, merlon, mote, motte, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, peel, peel tower, pillbox, portcullis, post, postern gate, rampart, rath, ravelin, redan, redoubt, safehold, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, strong point, stronghold, tenaille, tower, tower of strength, vallation, vallum, ward, work

bat out

• bat out, botch, bungle, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, fake up, fudge up, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, patch, patch together, patch up, pound out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, slap up, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, whomp up

bat the eyes

• bat the eyes, allure, bait, bait the hook, blandish, blink, cajole, coax, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, ensnare, entice, flirt, flirt with, give the come-on, inveigle, lead on, lure, nictitate, offer bait to, rope in, seduce, suck in, wink, woo

bat

• bat, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Indian buffalo, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, agate, alpaca, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, ass, aurochs, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, badger, bag, ball, bandicoot, bang, baseball bat, bash, bassarisk, baton, battledore, bauble, bear, beating, beaver, beldam, belt, bender, bettong, biddy, biff, billy club, binge, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blind man, blink, blocks, blow, bludgeon, blue fox, bobcat, bonk, booze, bop, bout, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bum, burro, burro deer, bust, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carousal, carouse, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, celebration, celerity, chamois, checkerboard, cheetah, chessboard, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, chop, cinnamon bear, clap, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, cockhorse, coldcock, compotation, coon, coon cat, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, crack, cricket bat, crone, cue, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, debauch, deck, deer, deer tiger, dig, dingo, dint, dog, doll, doll carriage, donkey, dormouse, drab, drift, drinking bout, dromedary, drub, drubbing, drumming, drunk, drunken carousal, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, escapade, eyra, fallow deer, ferret, fetch, fetch a blow, field mouse, fisher, fitch, fling, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, fusillade, gad, gait, gallivant, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, gewgaw, gimcrack, giraffe, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, golf club, gopher, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, guzzle, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, hippopotamus, hit, hit a clip, hobbyhorse, hog, horse, hyena, hyrax, ibex, jab, jack-in-the-box, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jag, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kickshaw, kinkajou, kit fox, knickknack, knobkerrie, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, koala, lapin, lark, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lick, lion, llama, lynx, mace, mammoth, mara, marble, marionette, marmot, marten, mastodon, meander, meerkat, mig, mink, mole, mongoose, mooch, moose, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nictitate, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, orgy, otter, ounce, ox, pace, pack rat, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, paper doll, paste, peccary, pelt, peludo, phalanger, pick-up sticks, pig, pine mouse, pinwheel, platypus, plaything, ploy, plunk, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, poke, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, potation, pouched rat, pound, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, pronghorn, pub-crawl, puma, punch, puppet, quickness, rabbit, raccoon, racket, rag doll, ramble, randan, randy, rap, rapidity, rat, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, revel, rhinoceros, roam, rocking horse, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rove, sable, serval, sheep, shillelagh, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, skunk, slam, slog, sloth, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, snowshoe rabbit, soak, sock, sport, spree, springbok, squirrel, steelie, stoat, strike, strike at, stroke, suslik, swamp rabbit, swat, swiftness, swine, swing, swipe, symposium, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tattoo, taw, tear, teetotum, the blind, the sightless, the unseeing, thump, thwack, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, toot, top, toy, toy soldier, traipse, tree shrew, trinket, trot, truncheon, twinkle, urus, velocity, vole, wallaby, wallop, war club, warthog, wassail, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, whack, wham, wharf rat, whim-wham, whistler, white fox, whop, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wingding, witch, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, yak, yerk, zebra, zebu, zoril

batch

• batch, amount, array, assortment, block, budget, bulk, bunch, bundle, chunk, clod, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, considerable, copse, count, crop, deal, dose, gob, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, hunk, knot, large amount, lashings, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, make, making, mass, measure, mess, mint, nugget, number, oodles, pack, parcel, part, pat, peck, pile, piles, portion, pot, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ration, run, scads, set, shock, sight, slew, slews, small amount, spate, stack, stacks, stook, sum, thicket, tidy sum, tuft, tussock, volume, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp

bate

• bate, abate, ablate, abrade, abstract, alleviate, allow, attenuate, bar, be eaten away, blunt, charge off, close, consume, consume away, corrode, count out, crumble, curtail, cut, debar, decline, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, derogate, detract, die away, die down, dilute, diminish, discount, disedge, disparage, dive, drain, draw the teeth, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle, ease, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, eliminate, erode, except, extenuate, extract, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, impair, kick back, languish, leach, lessen, let down, let up, loose, loosen, make allowance, melt away, mitigate, moderate, obtund, plummet, plunge, purify, rebate, reduce, refine, refund, relax, remit, remove, repress, retrench, retund, rub away, rule out, run low, sag, shorten, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, subduct, subside, subtract, suspend, tail off, take a premium, take away, take from, take off, taper, taper off, thin, thin out, turn, unbend, unbrace, unstrain, unstring, wane, waste, waste away, water down, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, withdraw, write off

bated breath

• bated breath, aspiration, breath, breathy voice, exhalation, little voice, low voice, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering, sigh, soft voice, stage whisper, still small voice, susurration, susurrus, underbreath, undertone, whisper, whispering

bated

• bated, abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen, flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued, watered-down, weakened, worn

bath

• bath, Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, acid bath, affusion, aquamanile, aspergation, aspersion, automatic dishwasher, bagnio, balneae, balneum, baptism, basin, bathe, bathhouse, bathing, bathroom, baths, bathtub, bedewing, bidet, caldarium, cold shower, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, dip, dishpan, dishwasher, douche, drowning, ewer, finger bowl, fixing bath, flooding, hip bath, hosing, hosing down, humidification, hummum, immersion, inundation, irrigation, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, laving, mercury bath, mikvah, moistening, needle bath, piscina, plunge bath, public baths, rest room, rinsing, sauna, sauna bath, sheep dip, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, sitz bath, spa, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponge bath, spraying, sprinkling, steam room, submersion, sudarium, sudatorium, swashing, sweat bath, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, tub, wash, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washroom, washstand, washtub, watering, watering place, wetting, whirlpool bath

bathe

• bathe, Australian crawl, Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bandage, baptize, bath, bathing, breaststroke, brew, butterfly, care for, cold shower, crawl, cure, diagnose, dive, diving, doctor, dog paddle, douche, douse, drench, drouk, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, float, floating, flush, flush out, flux, gargle, give care to, go in swimming, go in wading, heal, hip bath, holystone, hummum, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, irrigate, lap, lather, launder, lave, leach, lip, lixiviate, macerate, massage, minister to, mop, mop up, natation, needle bath, nurse, operate on, percolate, permeate, physic, plaster, plunge bath, poultice, purge, remedy, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, rub, saturate, sauna, sauna bath, scour, scrub, scrub up, seethe, shampoo, shower, shower bath, sidestroke, sitz bath, skinny-dip, sluice, sluice out, soak, soap, sodden, sop, souse, splint, sponge, sponge bath, steep, strap, surfboarding, surfing, swab, sweat bath, swim, swimming, syringe, toivel, tread water, treading water, treat, tub, wade, wading, wash, wash out, wash up, waterlog, waterskiing, whirlpool bath

bathhouse

• bathhouse, bagnio, balneae, balneum, bath, bathroom, baths, caldarium, lavatory, mikvah, public baths, rest room, sauna, spa, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, washroom, watering place

bathing beauty

• bathing beauty, Miss America, bather, bathing girl, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dazzler, diver, dream, enchantress, frogman, great beauty, knockout, lady fair, looker, mermaid, merman, model, natator, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner, swimmer

bathing

• bathing, Australian crawl, Rugby, acrobatics, affusion, agonistics, aquaplaning, aquatics, aspergation, aspersion, association football, athletics, backstroke, balneation, baptism, bath, bathe, bedewing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, diving, dog paddle, drowning, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, flooding, gymnastics, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, laving, moistening, natation, palaestra, rinsing, rugger, sidestroke, soccer, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sports, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, surfboarding, surfing, swashing, swim, swimming, track, track and field, treading water, tumbling, wading, watering, waterskiing, wetting

bathos

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

bathroom

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

baths

• baths, bagnio, balneae, balneum, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, caldarium, casino, club, clubhouse, gambling house, gathering place, hangout, haunt, health resort, hot spring, lavatory, meeting place, mikvah, mineral spring, public baths, pump house, pump room, purlieu, rallying point, resort, rest room, sauna, spa, springs, stamping ground, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, washroom, watering place

bathtub

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

bathymetry

• bathymetry, altimetry, aquiculture, bathometry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartography, chorography, craniometry, depth sounding, echo sounding, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hydrography, hypsography, hypsometry, marine biology, mensuration, metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry, sonar, sounding, soundings, stereometry, surveying, thalassography, topography, water

bathysphere

• bathysphere, Aqua-Lung, air cylinder, aquascope, bathyscaphe, benthoscope, diving bell, diving boat, diving chamber, diving goggles, diving helmet, diving hood, diving mask, diving suit, periscope, scuba, snorkel, submarine, swim fins, wet suit

batman

• batman, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie, chore boy, copyboy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl, footboy, gofer, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman

baton

• baton, Malacca cane, achievement, alerion, alpenstock, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aspersion, attaint, azure, badge, badge of infamy, badge of office, badges, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, bastardism, bastardy, bat, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, billy, billy club, black eye, black mark, blazon, blazonry, blot, bludgeon, blur, bordure, brand, brassard, broad arrow, button, cadency mark, caduceus, cane, canton, cap and gown, censure, chain, chain of office, champain, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, class ring, club, coat of arms, cockade, cockatrice, collar, coronet, crescent, crest, crook, crosier, cross, cross moline, cross-staff, crown, crutch, crutch-stick, decoration, device, diapason, difference, differencing, disparagement, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fasces, fess, fess point, field, figurehead, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gavel, griffin, gules, gyron, hammer and sickle, handstaff, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heraldry, honor point, illegitimacy, illegitimateness, impalement, impaling, imputation, inescutcheon, insignia, label, lapel pin, lion, lituus, livery, lozenge, mace, mantle, mantling, mark of Cain, markings, marshaling, martlet, mascle, medal, metal, metronome, monochord, mortarboard, motto, mullet, music stand, mute, nightstick, nombril point, octofoil, old school tie, onus, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pastoral staff, paterissa, pean, pheon, pillorying, pin, pitch pipe, point champain, portfolio, purpure, quarter, quartering, quarterstaff, reflection, regalia, reprimand, reproach, rhythmometer, ring, rod, rod of office, rose, sable, saltire, scepter, school ring, scutcheon, shamrock, shield, shillelagh, sigillography, skull and crossbones, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, sonometer, sphragistics, spot, spread eagle, staff, stain, stave, stick, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, subordinary, swagger stick, swanking stick, swastika, taint, tarnish, tartan, tenne, thistle, tie, tincture, tone measurer, torse, tressure, truncheon, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, unicorn, uniform, vair, verge, vert, walking stick, wand, wand of office, war club, wreath, yale

batrachian

• batrachian, amphibian, anguine, bullfrog, colubriform, crawling, creeping, croaker, crocodilian, frog, froggy, hoppytoad, hoptoad, lizardlike, newt, ophidian, paddock, polliwog, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, salamander, saurian, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, slithering, snakelike, snaky, tadpole, toad, toadish, tree frog, tree toad, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery

bats

• bats, balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, haywire, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, slaphappy, wacky

battalion

• battalion, KP, age group, army, army group, band, battery, battle group, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, field army, field train, file, fleet, flying column, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, junta, kitchen police, legion, maniple, mob, movement, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, salon, section, set, squad, squadron, stable, string, tactical unit, task force, team, train, tribe, troop, troupe, unit, wing

batten

• batten, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, act drop, adhesive tape, anchor, articulate, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, band, bandage, bang, bar, barricade, batten down, belay, belt, bloom, blossom, bolt, bolt down, boom, border, buckle, butt, button, button up, cellophane tape, chain, choke, choke off, clap, clasp, cleat, clip, close, close up, cloth, cloth tape, constrict, contain, contract, coulisse, counterweight, cover, cram, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, decor, devour, dovetail, drop, drop curtain, engorge, fascia, fasten, fasten down, fatten, fillet, fire curtain, flat, flipper, flourish, flower, fold, fold up, friction tape, girdle, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, grow fat, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hanging, hasp, hinge, hitch, hook, jam, joint, key, latch, lath, ligula, ligule, list, live to eat, lock, lock out, lock up, make fast, make secure, make sure, masking tape, miter, moor, mortise, nail, occlude, padlock, peg, pin, plank, plastic tape, plumb, rabbet, rag, raven, ribband, ribbon, rivet, scarf, scene, scenery, screen, screw, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, sew, shred, shut, shut the door, shut up, side scene, skewer, slam, slat, slip, snap, spill, spline, squeeze shut, stage screw, staple, stick, stitch, strake, strangle, strap, strip, strop, stuff, tab, tableau, tack, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, teaser, tether, thrive, ticker tape, tie, toggle, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, wedge, wing, wingcut, wolf, wolf down, woodcut, zip up, zipper

batter

• batter, Beau Brummel, abuse, albumen, amateur athlete, archer, assault, athlete, attack, ballplayer, bang, barbarize, baseballer, baseman, bash, baste, battery, beat, beat up, belabor, blocking back, bombard, bonnyclabber, bowman, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bung, bung up, burn, butcher, butter, carry on, catcher, center, clabber, clobber, clout, coach, competitor, contuse, cornstarch, cream, cricketer, cripple, curd, defensive lineman, destroy, disable, disfigure, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dough, drub, egg white, end, flail, flap, footballer, games-player, gamester, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, go on, goo, gook, goop, gruel, guard, gumbo, gunk, hammer, harm, hit, ill-treat, ill-use, infielder, injure, jam, jell, jelly, jock, jumper, knock, knock about, lacerate, lambaste, lame, larrup, lay waste, lineman, loblolly, loot, maim, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, maul, mishandle, mistreat, molasses, molest, mucilage, mucus, mug, mutilate, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, outrage, pap, paste, patter, pelt, pillage, player, poloist, pommel, porridge, pound, professional athlete, pudding, pugilist, pulp, pulverize, pummel, puree, putty, quarterback, racer, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, riot, roar, rob, rough, rough up, ruin, sack, savage, semifluid, semiliquid, shatter, size, skater, slaughter, sledgehammer, smite, soup, sow chaos, spank, sport, sportsman, starch, sticky mess, storm, strike, syrup, tackle, tailback, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thrash soundly, thresh, thump, toxophilite, treacle, vandalize, violate, wallop, whip, wingback, wreck, wrestler

battering

• battering, assault, attack, butchery, disorderliness, forcible seizure, killing, laying waste, looting, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillaging, rape, riot, rioting, sacking, slaughter, sowing with salt, unruliness, violation

battery powered

• battery powered, dynamoelectric, electric, electric-powered, electrified, electrifying, electrochemical, electrodynamic, electrokinetic, electromechanical, electrometric, electromotive, electropneumatic, electrostatic, electrothermal, galvanic, galvanometric, hydroelectric, photoelectric, piezoelectric, static, voltaic

battery

• battery, KP, Leyden jar, accumulator, amateur athlete, archer, army, army group, array, artillery, athlete, atomic battery, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, bastinado, basting, batch, battalion, batter, battle group, beating, bells, belting, block, blocking back, body, bones, bowman, brigade, buffeting, bunch, bundle, cadre, caning, cannon, cannonry, castanets, catcher, celesta, cell, center, chime, chimes, clappers, clot, clubbing, clump, cluster, coach, coast artillery, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, competitor, corporal punishment, corps, cowhiding, crash cymbal, cricketer, cudgeling, cymbals, defensive lineman, detachment, detail, division, drubbing, dry cell, electronic battery, end, field army, field artillery, field train, file, finger cymbals, flagellation, flailing, flak, flogging, flying column, footballer, fuel cell, fustigation, gamelan, games-player, gamester, garrison, glockenspiel, gong, guard, handbells, heavy field artillery, horsewhipping, idiophone, infielder, jock, jumper, kit, kitchen police, lacing, lashing, legion, lineman, lot, lyra, maniple, maraca, marimba, metallophone, offensive lineman, orchestral bells, ordnance, organization, outfield, outfielder, outfit, pack, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, phalanx, pistol-whipping, platoon, player, poloist, posse, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, rank, rattle, rattlebones, rawhiding, regiment, scourging, section, series, set, siege artillery, siege engine, sizzler, skater, snappers, solar battery, spanking, sport, sportsman, squad, squadron, storage battery, storage cell, strapping, stripes, suit, suite, swingeing, switching, tackle, tactical unit, tailback, tam-tam, task force, thrashing, tintinnabula, tonitruone, toxophilite, train, trench artillery, triangle, troop, trouncing, truncheoning, tubular bells, unit, vibes, vibraphone, wet cell, whipping, wing, wingback, wrestler, xylophone

battle cry

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

battle fatigue

• battle fatigue, accident neurosis, anaphylactic shock, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, association neurosis, blast neurosis, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis, compulsion neurosis, conversion hysteria, conversion neurosis, expectation neurosis, fixation neurosis, fright neurosis, homosexual neurosis, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, hypoglycemic shock, hysteria, mental shock, neurogenic shock, neurosis, neuroticism, obsessional neurosis, occupational neurosis, pathoneurosis, phobia, protein shock, psychasthenia, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic disorder, psychopathia martialis, regression neurosis, secondary shock, serum shock, shell shock, shock, situational neurosis, surgical shock, thanatosis, trauma, traumatism, war neurosis, wound shock

battle royal

• battle royal, action, aerial combat, affray, armored combat, battle, brush, bullfight, clash, clash of arms, cockfight, combat, conflict, dogfight, embroilment, exchange of blows, fight, fire fight, fray, ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, house-to-house combat, naval combat, passage of arms, pitched battle, quarrel, rumble, running fight, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, shoving match, skirmish, stand-up fight, street fight, struggle, tauromachy, tug-of-war, tussle

battle

• battle, Actium, Adrianople, Aegates Isles, Aegospotami, Agincourt, Antietam, Anzio, Arbela-Gaugamela, Ardennes, Austerlitz, Ayacucho, Balaclava, Bannockburn, Bataan-Corregidor, Bismarck Sea, Blenheim, Bosworth Field, Bouvines, Boyne, Brunanburh, Bunker Hill, Cannae, Caporetto, Chancellorsville, Crecy, Dunkirk, El Alamein, Flodden, Fontenoy, Fredericksburg, Gaza, Gettysburg, Granicus River, Guadalcanal, Hampton Roads, Hastings, Hohenlinden, Inchon, Long Island, Marathon, Midway, Poitiers, Sedan, Singapore, Solferino, Waterloo, action, aerial combat, affray, agonize, all-out war, altercation, antagonize, appeal to arms, argument, arm, armed combat, armed conflict, armor, armor-plate, armored combat, assail, assault, attack, bank, barricade, battle royal, beat against, beat up against, belligerence, belligerency, blockade, bloodshed, bombard, box, brawl, breast the wave, broil, brush, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, bullfight, bulwark, campaign, carry on hostilities, castellate, clash, clash of arms, close, close with, cockfight, collide, combat, come to blows, compete with, competition, conflict, contend, contend against, contest, crenellate, crusade, cut and thrust, dig in, dispute, dogfight, duel, embattle, embroilment, encounter, engage in hostilities, engagement, entrench, exchange blows, exchange of blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fight against, fighting, fire fight, fortify, fracas, fray, garrison, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, ground combat, grunt and sweat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hassle, hostilities, hot war, house-to-house combat, huff and puff, join battle with, jostle, joust, la guerre, labor against, make war, man, man the garrison, melee, might of arms, military operations, militate against, mine, mix it up, naval combat, offer resistance, onset, onslaught, open hostilities, open war, oppugn, palisade, passage of arms, pitched battle, quarrel, rassle, reluct, reluctate, resort to arms, riot, rival, rumble, run a tilt, running fight, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, shed blood, shooting war, shoving match, skirmish, sortie, spar, spill blood, stand-up fight, state of war, stem the tide, street fight, strive, strive against, struggle, struggle against, take on, tauromachy, the sword, thrust and parry, tilt, total war, tourney, tug, tug-of-war, tussle, vie with, wage war, wall, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime, wrestle

battledore

• battledore, Lastex, abecedarium, abecedary, agate, alphabet book, baleen, ball, baseball bat, bat, bauble, blocks, casebook, checkerboard, chessboard, chewing gum, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, elastic, elastomer, exercise book, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, gradus, grammar, gum, gum elastic, handball, hobbyhorse, hornbook, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jumping jack, kickshaw, knickknack, manual, manual of instruction, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, primer, puppet, racket, rag doll, reader, rocking horse, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, schoolbook, spandex, speller, spelling book, sport, spring, springboard, steelie, stretch fabric, t, taw, teetotum, text, top, toy, toy soldier, trampoline, trinket, whalebone, whim-wham, workbook

battlefield

• battlefield, DMZ, aceldama, battle line, battle site, battleground, combat area, combat zone, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, seat of war, shambles, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, zone of communications

battlement

• battlement, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, castellation, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, crenel, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, embrasure, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

batty

• batty, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, beany, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, deranged, dippy, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, fatuitous, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, haywire, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, mad, maniac, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, slaphappy, stupid, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

bauble

• bauble, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio, dido, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, kickshaw, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, novelty, ornament, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham

bawd

• bawd, fancy man, gigolo, harlot, hooker, madam, maquereau, meretrix, moll, nightwalker, pander, panderer, pimp, poule, procurer, procuress, streetwalker, white slaver, whore

bawdy

• bawdy, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty, earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, lusty, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, ribald, risque, rude, salacious, satyric, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry, taboo, unchaste, unclean, uninhibited, unprintable, unrepeatable, unrestrained, vile, vulgar

bawdyhouse

• bawdyhouse, bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, crib, den, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, joint, panel den, panel house, red-light district, sink of iniquity, sporting house, stew, stews, tenderloin, whorehouse

bawl out

• bawl out, berate, bless, carpet, chew, chew ass, chew out, condemn, cuss out, denounce, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, jack up, lambaste, lash, ream, ream ass, ream out, sit on, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid, wig

bawl

• bawl, bark, battle cry, bawl out, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, bluster, boohoo, boom, bray, break down, breathe, burst into tears, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, chant, cheer, chirp, clamor, coo, crow, cry, cry out, dissolve in tears, dolorous tirade, drawl, drop a tear, exclaim, flute, gasp, give tongue, give voice, greet, groan, growl, grunt, hail, halloo, hiss, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, jeremiad, keen, lament, lilt, low, make an outcry, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, outcry, pant, pipe, plaint, planctus, pule, rallying cry, reprimand, roar, rout, rumble, scold, screak, scream, screech, shed tears, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snivel, snort, sob, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, thunder, tirade, troat, trumpet, twang, ululate, ululation, upbraid, vociferate, wail, wail of woe, war cry, war whoop, warble, weep, whicker, whimper, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

bay window

• bay window, abdomen, abomasum, bay, beerbelly, belly, bow window, breadbasket, casement, casement window, corporation, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, fan window, fanlight, first stomach, gizzard, grille, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, oriel, pane, paunch, picture window, pod, port, porthole, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rose window, rumen, second stomach, skylight, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, transom, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, wicket, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane

bay

• bay, Old Mug, Titian, accolade, adust, alcove, archives, arm, armlet, armory, arsenal, attic, auburn, award, badge, bank, bark, basement, bawl, bay window, bay-colored, bayard, bayou, bays, beep, bell, bellow, belt, bight, bin, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blow, blow the horn, boca, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bow window, box, bray, brazen, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, bugle, bunker, buttery, calico pony, call, cargo dock, carrel, casement, casement window, castaneous, caterwaul, cellar, chaplet, chest, chestnut, chestnut-brown, civic crown, clarion, closet, conservatory, copper, copper-colored, coppery, corner, cove, cranny, crate, creek, crib, crown, cry, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cup, cupboard, cupreous, dapple-gray, decoration, depository, depot, distinction, dock, drawer, dump, dun, estuary, euripus, exchequer, fan window, fanfare, fanlight, ferruginous, fjord, flourish of trumpets, foxy, frith, garland, give tongue, give voice, glory hole, godown, gray, grille, grizzle, gulf, gut, harbor, henna, hold, honk, howl, hutch, inglenook, inlet, kudos, kyle, lancet window, lantern, lattice, laurel, laurels, library, light, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, loch, locker, louver window, loving cup, low, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mahogany, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, neigh, niche, nicker, nook, oriel, paint, painted pony, palm, palms, pane, peal, picture window, piebald, pinto, pipe, pitchhole, port, porthole, pot, pule, quest, rack, reach, recess, recession, reddish-brown, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, road, roads, roadstead, roan, roar, roomlet, rose window, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, screak, scream, screech, shelf, shriek, skewbald, skylight, slough, snuggery, sorrel, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squall, squeak, squeal, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strait, straits, sunburned, supply base, supply depot, tank, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, terra-cotta, toot, tootle, transom, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, troat, trophy, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, ululate, vat, vault, wail, warehouse, whicker, whine, whinny, whistle, wicket, wind, window, window bay, window glass, windowpane, wine cellar, wreath, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

bayard

• bayard, Titian, adust, auburn, bay, bay-colored, brazen, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, calico pony, castaneous, chestnut, chestnut-brown, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cupreous, dapple-gray, dun, ferruginous, foxy, gray, grizzle, henna, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, mahogany, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, reddish-brown, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, skewbald, sorrel, sunburned, terra-cotta

bayonet

• bayonet, dagger, dirk, dudgeon, impale, knife, lance, pierce, plunge in, poniard, run through, saber, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, stiletto, sword, transfix, transpierce

bayou

• bayou, affluent, arm, armlet, bay, belt, bight, billabong, boca, branch, confluent, confluent stream, cove, creek, dendritic drainage pattern, effluent, estuary, euripus, feeder, fjord, fork, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, prong, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, tributary

bazaar

• bazaar, auto show, boat show, closing-out sale, commercial complex, distress sale, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market, garage sale, going-out-of-business sale, inventory-clearance sale, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza, rialto, rummage sale, sale, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, staple, street market, tax sale, trade fair, white elephant sale

bazoo

• bazoo, Bronx cheer, bird, boo, catcall, chaps, chops, embouchure, gab, gob, hiss, hoot, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, lips, mandibles, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, pooh, pooh-pooh, premaxilla, razz, row, trap, yap

be above

• be above, be contemptuous of, care nothing for, contemn, deride, despise, disdain, disparage, disprize, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, insult, look down upon, misprize, put down, rank low, ridicule, scorn, set at naught, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, think nothing of

be born

• be born, arise, awake, awaken, be begotten, be illegitimate, be incarnated, become, break out, burst forth, come alive, come forth, come into being, come into existence, come out, come to, come to be, come to life, crop up, erupt, get to be, hatch, have birth, have origin, irrupt, issue, issue forth, live again, originate, quicken, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise, rise again, see the light, spring up, take birth, take rise

be careful

• be careful, be cautious, bend over backwards, exercise care, go on tiptoe, handle with gloves, have a care, make haste slowly, pussyfoot, take care, take good care, take heed, take it easy, take pains, take trouble, think twice, tiptoe, tread on eggs, treat gently, walk on eggshells

be gone

• be gone, be all over, be consumed, be past, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, elapse, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fly, go, go away, have run out, hide, lapse, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, retire from sight, sink, sink away, suffer an eclipse, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away

be in

• be in, be in force, be the rage, be the rule, be the thing, carry, deal in, dominate, handle, job, market, merchandise, obtain, predominate, prevail, reign, retail, rule, sell, trade in, traffic in, wholesale

be off

• be off, beat it, begone, clear out, flake off, get, get going, get lost, get off, get out, git, go forth, hit the road, issue, issue forth, make yourself scarce, outset, outstart, put forth, sally, sally forth, scram, set forth, set forward, set off, set out, shove off, start, start off, start out, strike out, vamoose

be still

• be still, abide, be a sideliner, coast, delay, do nothing, drift, freeze, hang fire, hibernate, idle, keep quiet, lie dormant, lie still, mark time, not breathe, not budge, not stir, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, sit back, sit it out, stagnate, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand still, stay, stay put, stick, stick fast, tarry, tread water, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait

be

• be, abide, be extant, be found, be in existence, be met with, be present, be the case, be there, breathe, come, continue, endure, exist, go on, happen to be, have being, have place, hold, live, move, obtain, occur, persist, prevail, remain, stand, subsist

beach

• beach, bank, berm, careen, cast away, coast, coastland, coastline, embankment, foreshore, ground, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, margin, pile up, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, run aground, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shipwreck, shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, take the ground, tidewater, waterfront, waterside, wreck

beachcomber

• beachcomber, Arab, Bowery bum, beach bum, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, derelict, devil, dogie, drifter, drunkard, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idler, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, losel, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, mudlark, no-good, pauvre diable, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, sad case, sad sack, ski bum, skid-row bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, worthless fellow, wretch

beachhead

• beachhead, acropolis, advance guard, airhead, avant-garde, bastion, battle line, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, farthest outpost, fasthold, fastness, first line, forefront, fort, fortress, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, line, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, outguard, outpost, peel, peel tower, pillbox, pioneer, point, post, precursor, railhead, rath, safehold, scout, spearhead, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, van, vanguard, ward

beacon

• beacon, AM transmitter, FM transmitter, Klaxon, Mayday, RT transmitter, Roman candle, SOS, Texas tower, Very flare, aid to navigation, air-raid alarm, airport beacon, airway beacon, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, amateur transmitter, amber light, anchor light, approach light, backfire, balefire, beacon fire, beacons, beam, bell, bell buoy, belvedere, blaze, bleachers, blinker, blinker light, blinking light, blue peter, bonfire, bridge, buoy, burglar alarm, burning ghat, buzzer, campfire, caution light, ceiling light, cheerful fire, combustion, conflagration, conning tower, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, crostarie, death fire, fan marker, fen fire, fiery cross, fire, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flame, flare, flare path, flare-up, flashing light, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, fusee, gale warning, gallery, gazebo, glance, go light, gong buoy, grandstand, green light, heliograph, high sign, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, ignis fatuus, ignition, ingle, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, lambent flame, leer, light, lighthouse, lightship, lookout, loophole, magnesium flare, marker, marker beacon, marshfire, microphone, navigation light, nod, note of alarm, nudge, observation post, observatory, occulting light, open fire, outlook, overlook, parachute flare, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, prairie fire, pylon, pyre, quarantine flag, racon, radar beacon, radiator, radio beacon, radio range beacon, radio transmitter, radiomicrophone, radiosonde, raging fire, red flag, red light, ringside, ringside seat, rocket, sailing aid, sea of flames, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sheet of fire, sighthole, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal flare, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal of distress, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, siren, skyrocket, small-craft warning, smudge fire, spar buoy, still alarm, stop light, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, the nod, the wink, three-alarm fire, tocsin, top gallery, touch, tower, traffic light, traffic signal, transceiver, transmitter, two-alarm fire, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, watch fire, watchtower, whistle, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wildfire, wind cone, wind indicator, wind sock, wink, witch fire, yellow flag

bead

• bead, anklet, armlet, ball, balloon, bangle, beads, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, conglobulate, coronet, crown, dewdrop, diadem, diamond, drop, droplet, earring, engrave, feather, figure, filigree, flag, flounce, flower, fob, garland, gem, globe, illuminate, jewel, locket, mushroom, necklace, nose ring, paint, pearl, pin, plume, precious stone, raindrop, rhinestone, ribbon, ring, snowball, spangle, sphere, spherify, stickpin, stone, teardrop, tiara, tinsel, torque, wampum, wreathe, wristband, wristlet

beaded

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

beading

• beading, binding, bordering, bordure, edging, fimbria, fimbriation, flounce, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, hem, list, motif, ruffle, selvage, skirting, trimming, valance, welt

beadle

• beadle, Bible clerk, Bible reader, G-man, MP, acolyte, almoner, anagnost, bailiff, beagle, bedral, bound bailiff, capitular, capitulary, captain, catchpole, chief of police, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, commissioner, constable, deacon, deaconess, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, elder, elderman, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man, inspector, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, parish clerk, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, precentor, reader, reeve, roundsman, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sexton, shames, sheriff, sidesman, succentor, suisse, superintendent, teaching elder, thurifer, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper, verger, vergeress

beads

• beads, Agnus Dei, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Holy Grail, Host, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, aid prayer, appeal, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, candle, censer, chaplet, ciborium, collect, communion, contemplation, cross, crucifix, cruet, devotions, entreaty, eucharistial, grace, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, impetration, imploration, incensory, intercession, invocation, litany, matzo, meditation, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, monstrance, obsecration, obtestation, orison, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, pax, petition, phylacteries, prayer, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, relics, rogation, rood, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, shofar, silent prayer, suit, sukkah, supplication, tabernacle, tallith, thanks, thanksgiving, thurible, urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle

beagle

• beagle, G-man, MP, bailiff, beadle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, chief of police, commissioner, constable, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, dick, eye, fed, federal, flatfoot, flic, gendarme, government man, gumshoe, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, inspector, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, private eye, reeve, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, skip tracer, sleuthhound, spotter, superintendent, tec, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper

beak

• beak, JP, Justice, antlia, arbiter, arbitrator, beezer, bencher, bill, bow, bowsprit, bugle, cape, conk, court, critic, downspout, figurehead, forecastle, foredeck, foreland, forepeak, gargoyle, head, headland, his honor, his lordship, his worship, indicator, jib boom, judge, justice, magistrate, moderator, muffle, muzzle, nares, naze, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, pick, point, proboscis, prore, prow, referee, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller, snoot, snout, spout, stem, trunk, umpire, waterspout

beaked

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

beam

• beam, AM signal, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, FM signal, H beam, I beam, IF signal, IF video signal, IM display, RF amplifier, RF echoes, RF signal, RF stage, TV band, X ray, abutment, actinic ray, actinism, amplitude, angle rafter, arc-boutant, atomic beam, atomic ray, audio signal, backside, balk, bank, bar, batten, be bright, be in heaven, be pleased, beacon, beam, beam of light, beat signal, bedazzle, beggar description, behind, billet, blaze, blind, blips, bloom, board, boarding, boom, border, bottom, bounce, bounces, box girder, brace, breadth, breakwater, breastsummer, bright smile, broad grin, broadcast, broadness, broadside, bulwark, burn, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, can, cant hook, caper, caracole, cheek, chirp, chirrup, chop, clapboard, claw bar, coast, corbel, cord, cordwood, crack a smile, crank, crossbeam, crosstie, crow, crowbar, dance, daze, dazzle, deal, delight, derriere, die with delight, diffuse light, direct signal, display, distance across, double-dot display, driftwood, ear-to-ear grin, echo, echo signal, embankment, equalizing pulse, expanse, extent, fan marker, fanny, feel happy, firewood, flame, flank, flare, flare path, flash, flying buttress, footing beam, frolic, fulgurate, fullness, gambol, gamma ray, girder, give light, glance, glare, gleam, gleaming smile, glint, glow, glowing smile, go into raptures, grin, grinning, groin, hammer beam, hand, handedness, handspike, hanging buttress, hardwood, haunch, hip, hip rafter, idiotic grin, incandesce, infrared ray, invisible radiation, iron crow, jam, jetty, jimmy, joist, jowl, joy, jutty, knock dead, laterality, lath, lathing, lathwork, latitude, lattice girder, laugh, leam, lever, lilt, limb, lintel, local oscillator signal, log, lumber, luster, many-sidedness, marker, marlinespike, mole, multilaterality, newscast, output pulse, output signal, outrigger, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, patch, peavey, pedal, pencil, photoemission, photon, picture, picture carrier, pier, pier buttress, pinch bar, pips, plank, planking, plate girder, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, posterior, prize, profile, pry, puncheon, purr, pylon, quarter, racon, radar beacon, radar signal, radiate, radiate cheer, radiation, radio, radio beacon, radio-frequency amplifier, radio-frequency signal, radio-frequency stage, radiobroadcast, radiorays, rafter, rampart, ray, ray of light, reading, rear, reflected signal, reflection, retaining wall, return, return beam, return signal, ribbon, ribbon of light, ridge strut, ridgepole, ripping bar, romp, sardonic grin, scanning beam, seat, seawall, send, send out rays, shaft, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shine, shine brightly, shingle, shoot, shoot out rays, shore, shortwave, shortwave signal, shoulder, side, sideboard, siding, sign off, sign on, signal, signal display, sill, simper, sing, skip, slab, slat, sleeper, smile, smile brightly, smiling, smirk, softwood, solar rays, sound carrier, span, spar, sparkle, splat, sportscast, spot, spread, sprit, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, stringpiece, strut, stud, studding, stupid grin, summer, summertree, synchronizing signal, take great satisfaction, target image, television channel, temple, three-by-four, tie, tie beam, timber, timbering, timberwork, toothful grin, trace, transmit, transmitter signal, transom, transverse, trave, traverse, tread on air, treadle, trestle, truss, truss beam, two-by-four, ultraviolet ray, unidirectional signal, unilaterality, vertical synchronizing pulse, video signal, violet ray, voltage pulse, weatherboard, whistle, wideness, width, wind cone, wind indicator, wind sock, wireless, wood, wrecking bar

beaming

• beaming, aglow, beamy, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, blooming, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning, candescent, capering, cheerful, cheery, chirping, dancing, dazzling, devastating, divine, effulgent, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, flushed with joy, flushing, fulgent, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, glamorous, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, happy, heavenly, high, hopeful, illuminant, in good spirits, in high spirits, incandescent, irradiative, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, killing, lambent, lamping, laughing, leaping, light as day, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, of good cheer, optimistic, orient, pleasant, purring, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, riant, rosy, rutilant, rutilous, sanguine, sanguineous, shining, shiny, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike, starry, starry-eyed, streaming, stunning, sublime, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, thrice happy, winsome

bean pole

• bean pole, barebones, beanstalk, broomstick, clothes pole, corpse, giant, grenadier, lanky, longlegs, longshanks, rattlebones, seven-footer, shadow, skeleton, slim, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, stack of bones, stilt, twiggy, walking skeleton

bean

• bean, Irish potato, Kraut, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, algae, aubergine, autophyte, bagatelle, bauble, beans, belfry, bibelot, bit, bracken, brain, brass farthing, brow, brown algae, button, cabbage, cent, climber, conferva, confervoid, conk, creeper, crown, curio, diatom, dome, eggplant, encephalon, farce, farthing, feather, fern, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, grapevine, gray matter, green algae, greens, gulfweed, hair, halfpenny, head, headpiece, herb, heterophyte, hill of beans, ivy, jest, joke, kelp, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, legume, legumes, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, love apple, mad apple, minikin, mockery, mold, molehill, moss, mushroom, noddle, noggin, noodle, organ of thought, parasite, parasitic plant, pate, pea, peppercorn, perthophyte, phytoplankton, picayune, pieplant, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, planktonic algae, plant families, poll, potato, potherbs, produce, puffball, pulse, rap, red algae, red cent, rhubarb, ridge, rockweed, row of pins, rush, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sconce, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seat of thought, seaweed, sensation, sensorium, sensory, shit, smut, snap, sneeshing, sou, spud, straw, succulent, tater, toadstool, tomato, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vegetables, vetch, vine, whim-wham, white potato, wort, wrack

beanery

• beanery, automat, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dining hall, dining room, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess hall, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, sandwich shop, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

bear down on

• bear down on, accost, advance, advance against, advance upon, approach, approach anchorage, appropinquate, approximate, bear against, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear up, bear up for, bear up to, close, close in, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, confront, counterattack, draw near, draw nigh, drive, encounter, fetch, flank, gain upon, gas, go aboard, go alongside, high-pressure, infiltrate, launch an attack, lay aboard, lay for, lay in, lean on, lie in, make, make at, make for, march against, march upon, mount an attack, narrow the gap, near, open an offensive, press, pressure, proximate, push, put away for, put in, put into port, put pressure on, reach, run for, sail for, sidle up to, squeeze, stand for, steer toward, step up, strike, thrust

bear down

• bear down, beat down, bring low, buckle down, couch, crush, debase, defeat, depress, detrude, do double duty, downbear, elucubrate, endeavor, get cracking, get cutting, go all out, haul down, hit the ball, hop to it, hotfoot, hump, hump it, hustle, indent, knuckle down, lay to, lean on it, let down, lower, lucubrate, overpower, overwork, ply the oar, pour it on, press down, pull down, push down, reduce, scratch, shag ass, shake a leg, shake it up, sink, slave, snap to it, spare no effort, step on it, subdue, subjugate, sweat, take down, tear ass, thrust down, vanquish, work hard, work late, work overtime

bear fruit

• bear fruit, advance, bear, bloom, blossom, blow, bring forth, bring to maturity, come to fruition, develop, evolute, evolve, flourish, flower, fructify, fruit, furnish, grow, grow up, maturate, mature, mellow, produce, progress, reach its season, reach maturity, ripe, ripen, wax, yield

bear hug

• bear hug, bite, clamp, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clutch, death grip, embrace, enfoldment, firm hold, foothold, footing, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, iron grip, nip, purchase, seizure, squeeze, tight grip, toehold

bear in mind

• bear in mind, brood over, cherish, consider, contemplate, dwell on, dwell upon, entertain thoughts of, fan the embers, harbor an idea, have in mind, have regard for, have thoughts about, hold an idea, hold in mind, hold the thought, keep, keep in memory, keep in mind, keep in sight, keep in view, reckon with, retain, take account of, take cognizance of, take heed of, take into account, take into consideration, take note of, take notice of, think of, treasure

bear off

• bear off, about ship, angle, angle off, avert, back and fill, bear away, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bias, box off, branch off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the bearing, change the heading, come about, crook, curve, deflect, depart from, detour, deviate, digress, divagate, divaricate, diverge, double a point, draw aside, drift, drift off course, drive, ease off, edge off, fall down, fetch about, fetch away, fly off, gee, glance, glance off, go about, go off, gybe, haul off, haw, head off, head to leeward, heave round, heel, jib, jibe, jibe all standing, make leeway, make way for, miss stays, move aside, oblique, pay off, ply, put about, put back, put off, round a point, run from, sag, sail away from, sheer, sheer off, shift, shove aside, shove off, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, skew, slew, slue, stand from, stand off, steer away from, steer clear of, step aside, sway, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, switch, tack, throw about, trend, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn back, twist, vary, veer, veer off, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw, yaw off

bear out

• bear out, affirm, afford support, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear, bear up, bolster, bolster up, buttress, certify, circumstantiate, confirm, corroborate, crutch, document, finance, fortify, fund, give support, hold up, justify, keep, lend support, maintain, probate, prop, prop up, prove, ratify, reinforce, shore, shore up, strengthen, subsidize, substantiate, subvention, subventionize, support, sustain, undergird, upbear, uphold, upkeep, validate, verify, warrant

bear up

• bear up, accost, advance, afford support, approach, appropinquate, approximate, assure, back, back up, be proof against, bear, bear down on, bear down upon, bear out, bear the brunt, bear up against, bear up under, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buoy up, buttress, carry, cheer, close, close in, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, come up fighting, comfort, condole with, confront, console, cradle, crutch, cushion, defy, draw near, draw nigh, ease, encounter, encourage, endure, finance, float, float high, fund, gain upon, give comfort, give support, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hearten, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, keep, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, live through it, live with it, mainstay, maintain, narrow the gap, near, never say die, not flag, not give up, not weaken, pillow, prop, prop up, proximate, put at ease, reassure, rebuff, reinforce, relieve, repel, repulse, resist, ride high, see it out, set at ease, shore, shore up, shoulder, sidle up to, solace, stand, stand the gaff, stand up, stay, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, step up, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, subsidize, subvention, subventionize, support, sustain, sweat it out, sympathize with, take it, take what comes, tough it out, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, uplift, upraise, waft, withstand

bear upon

• bear upon, abut on, act on, affect, answer to, appertain to, apply to, approach, assault, be based on, bear, bear on, belong to, bestraddle, bestride, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, concern, connect, correspond to, cram, crowd, deal with, dig, draw, draw on, drive, elbow, exert influence, force, get cozy with, goad, have connection with, hurtle, hustle, interest, involve, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, lead on, lean on, liaise with, lie on, link with, lobby, lobby through, magnetize, make advances, make overtures, make up to, nudge, perch, pertain to, pile drive, poke, press, press down, prod, pull strings, punch, push, ram, ram down, rattle, refer to, regard, relate to, rely on, repose on, respect, rest on, ride, run, run against, shake, shoulder, shove, sit on, stand on, straddle, stress, stride, tamp, thrust, tie in with, touch, touch upon, treat of, weigh on, weigh upon, wire-pull, work on

bear with

• bear with, abide, abide with, allow for, bear, bide, blink at, brave, brook, condone, connive at, countenance, disregard, endure, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, hear of, ignore, indulge, leave unavenged, let it go, lump, lump it, make allowances for, overlook, pass over, persevere, pocket, pocket the affront, put up with, regard with indulgence, spare the rod, stand, stand for, stick, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, swallow, take, take up with, tolerate, wink at

bear witness against

• bear witness against, betray, blab, blow the whistle, fink, inform against, inform on, narc, peach, rat, sell out, snitch, snitch on, squeal, stool, tattle, tell on, testify against, turn informer

bear witness

• bear witness, acknowledge, affirm, allege, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, certify, depone, depose, disclose, give evidence, swear, testify, vouch, warrant, witness

bear

• bear, Cape polecat, Tartar, abide, abide with, acquiesce, acquit, act, admit of, affect, afflict, afford, afford support, aim, allow, answer, ape, appertain, apply, assault, attend, author, avail, back, back up, bar, be confined, be equal to, be worthy of, bear a child, bear account, bear fruit, bear on, bear out, bear the market, bear up, bear upon, bear with, bear young, beget, bide, birth, blink at, bolster, bolster up, boost, bosom, bow, brace, brave, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, brook, buck, bull, bull the market, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, buoy up, butt, butt against, buttress, calve, carry, cast, cause, cavy, chaperon, cheer, cherish, chimp, chimpanzee, cling to, clip, companion, comport, conceive, concern, condone, conduct, confirm, connive at, consort with, convey, convoy, coon, correspond, corroborate, countenance, cradle, cram, crank, create, crosspatch, crowd, crush, crutch, cushion, defer, deliver, demean, deport, develop, dig, digest, display, dispose, do, do it, dragon, drive, drop, effect, effectuate, elbow, embosom, embrace, encourage, endure, engender, entertain, escort, establish, exhibit, experience, fabricate, farrow, fashion, father, fawn, feist, ferret, ferry, fill the bill, finance, fire-eater, fly, foal, fondle, force, form, foster, foumart, found, freight, fructify, fruit, fulfill, fund, furnish, fury, generate, gestate, get by, give birth, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, give support, glutton, go, go around, go on, goad, grizzly bear, grouch, groundhog, guinea pig, hack it, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, harbor, have, have a baby, have and hold, have young, head, hear of, hedgehog, hold, hold a heading, hold on to, hold out, hold up, hothead, hotspur, hug, hump, hurtle, hustle, inaugurate, incline, indulge, influence, institute, invent, invite, involve, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, just do, keep, keep afloat, keep up, kitten, labor, lamb, lead, lend support, lie in, lift, light out, litter, lug, lump, lump it, mainstay, maintain, make, make allowances for, make do, make the grade, manhandle, manipulate the market, meet, meet requirements, merit, monk, monkey, mother, mousehound, move, multiply, nudge, nurse, nurture, occasion, opossum, originate, overlook, pack, parallel, pass, pass muster, peg the market, permit, persevere, pertain, pile drive, pillow, point, poke, polecat, porcupine, possess, possum, prairie dog, press, procreate, prod, produce, prop, prop up, propagate, provoke, punch, pup, push, put up with, qualify, quill pig, quit, raccoon, raid the market, ram, ram down, rattle, reach, realize, refer, reinforce, relate, reproduce, rig the market, run, run against, satisfy, serve, serve the purpose, set, set afloat, set on foot, set out, set up, shake, shape, shore, shore up, short, short account, short interest, short seller, short side, shorts, shoulder, shove, show, sire, skunk, sorehead, spare, spare the price, spawn, squab, squash, squeeze, squish, stand, stand for, stand up, stand up to, stay, steer, stick, stick out, still, stomach, stress, stretch, strike out, submit, subsidize, substantiate, subvention, subventionize, suffer, suffice, support, survive, sustain, swallow, sweat out, take, take it, take off, take up with, tamp, tend, tend to go, throw, thrust, tie in with, tolerate, torment, torture, tote, touch, touch on, touch upon, transport, travail, treasure, treasure up, trend, try, turn, turn out, ugly customer, underbrace, undergird, undergo, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, verge, waft, warrant, wash sales, weasel, well afford, whelp, whipsaw, whisk, whistle-pig, wing, wink at, wish, withstand, wolverine, woodchuck, work, yean, yield, zoril

beard

• beard, Vandyke, affront, ascender, back, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, bastard type, beaver, bell the cat, belly, bevel, bid defiance, bite the bullet, black letter, body, brave, brazen, brazen out, breasts, bristles, call out, cap, capital, case, cervix, challenge, clitoris, cod, cods, confront, counter, cullions, dare, defy, descender, double-dare, down, em, en, face, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, family jewels, fat-faced type, feet, female organs, font, front, genitalia, genitals, goatee, gonads, groove, imperial, italic, labia, labia majora, labia minora, letter, ligature, lingam, lips, logotype, lower case, majuscule, male organs, meat, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, minuscule, nick, nuts, nymphae, outdare, outface, ovary, peach fuzz, penis, phallus, pi, pica, point, print, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, roman, run the gauntlet, sans serif, scream defiance, script, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, set at defiance, sex organs, shank, shoulder, show fight, side whiskers, small cap, small capital, speak out, speak up, spermary, stamp, stand up to, stare down, stem, stubble, testes, testicles, tuft, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, uterus, vagina, venture, vulva, whisker, whiskers, womb, yoni

beardless

• beardless, acomous, bald, bald-headed, boyish, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, clean-shaven, coltish, depilous, girlish, girllike, glabrous, hairless, kiddish, maiden, maidenly, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, shaven, smooth, smooth-faced, smooth-shaven, tonsured

bearer

• bearer, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bheesty, boy, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, busboy, buttress, caddie, cane, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, cervix, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, corset, courier, crook, crutch, cupbearer, drayman, emissary, envoy, express, expressman, foundation garment, freighter, fulcrum, girdle, griever, gun bearer, guy, guywire, hauler, homing pigeon, internuncio, jock, jockstrap, keener, lamenter, letter carrier, litter-bearer, mainstay, maintainer, mast, mourner, mute, neck, pallbearer, porter, professional mourner, prop, redcap, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shield-bearer, shoulder, shroud, skycap, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stevedore, stick, stiffener, strengthener, stretcher-bearer, support, supporter, sustainer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, upholder, wagoner, walking stick, water boy, water carrier

bearing

• bearing, Zeitgeist, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, affective meaning, aftermath, aim, air, air express, airfreight, airlift, applicability, application, appositeness, aspect, asportation, attitude, axis, azimuth, backing, ball bearing, bearings, beck, beckon, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bent, bevel bearing, birthing, body language, bolstering, boost, born, bracing, brow, bump, bumper crop, bunt, burdened, bushing, butt, buttressing, calved, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, cast, cast of countenance, celestial navigation, charade, chassis, childbearing, childbirth, chironomy, color, coloring, complexion, comportment, concern, concernment, conduct, connection, connotation, consequence, conveyance, correlation, countenance, course, crop, culture pattern, current, custom, dactylology, dead reckoning, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, delivery, demeanor, denotation, deportment, dig, direction, direction line, display, doing, doings, drayage, drift, dropped, dumb show, effect, endurance, enduring, essence, exposure, expressage, extension, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, ferriage, fix, foaled, folkway, force, frame, freight, freightage, front, frontage, fructiferous, fructification, fruit, fruitbearing, fruiting, fruition, fulcrum, garb, germaneness, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gestures, gist, given birth, giving birth, glacial movement, goings-on, grammatical meaning, guise, hand signal, harvest, hatched, haulage, hauling, head, heading, headstock, helmsmanship, holding, hustle, idea, impact, implication, import, inclination, infrastructure, intension, interest, jab, jewel, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, kinesics, lay, lexical meaning, lie, lighterage, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, lineaments, lines, literal meaning, look, looks, lugging, main current, mainstream, maintaining, maintien, make, manner, manners, materiality, meaning, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motion, motions, mount, mounting, movement, movements, moves, navigation, nee, needle bearing, newborn, nudge, oarlock, observable behavior, orientation, output, overtone, packing, pantomime, parturition, pattern, pertinence, physiognomy, pilotage, piloting, pith, pivot, point, poise, poke, port, portage, porterage, pose, position, position line, posture, practical consequence, practice, praxis, presence, press, pressure, procedure, proceeding, proceeds, prod, produce, producing, product, production, propping, punch, purport, push, quarter, radio bearing, railway express, range, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, regard, relatedness, relation, relationship, relevance, respect, rest, resting point, roller bearing, rowlock, run, scope, second crop, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, set, setting, shipment, shipping, shoring, shove, shrug, sign language, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, skeleton, social science, span of meaning, spirit, stance, stand, steerage, steering, stillborn, stream, stress, structural meaning, style, substance, sum, sum and substance, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, swing, symbolic meaning, tactics, telpherage, tendency, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, thole, tholepin, thrust, thrust bearing, time spirit, tone, totality of associations, toting, track, traits, transferred meaning, transport, transportation, transshipment, trend, truckage, turn, unadorned meaning, underframe, undertone, upholding, value, vintage, visage, waft, waftage, wagonage, way, way of life, ways, whelped, yield, yielding

bearings

• bearings, abode, accommodation, achievement, adaptation, adjustment, alerion, alignment, animal charge, annulet, area, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aspect, attitude, azimuth, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearing, bench mark, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, case, celestial navigation, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, circumstance, coat of arms, cockatrice, condition, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, dead reckoning, device, difference, differencing, disorientation, district, eagle, emplacement, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, estate, exposure, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, fix, flanch, fleur-de-lis, footing, fret, frontage, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, hole, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, jam, label, latitude and longitude, lay, lie, lieu, line of position, lion, locale, locality, location, locus, lot, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, modality, mode, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orientation, orle, pale, paly, pass, pean, pheon, pickle, pilotage, pinpoint, place, placement, plight, point, position, position line, posture, predicament, purpure, quarter, quartering, radio bearing, rank, region, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, set, shield, site, situation, situs, spot, spread eagle, standing, state, station, status, stead, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, whereabout, whereabouts, wreath, yale

bearish

• bearish, abrupt, aggressive, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fractious, gruff, harsh, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, perverse, rough, severe, sharp, short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, testy, truculent, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish

beast of burden

• beast of burden, Siberian husky, ass, camel, draft animal, dromedary, drudge, elephant, fag, galley slave, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, horse, husky, llama, malamute, mule, ox, pack horse, plodder, reindeer, slave, sledge dog, slogger, sumpter, sumpter horse, sumpter mule, swot, workhorse

beast

• beast, Mafioso, Young Turk, animal, anthropophagite, barbarian, being, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brute, cannibal, creature, creeping thing, critter, cur, demon, destroyer, devil, dog, dragon, dumb animal, dumb friend, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hound, hyena, incendiary, insect, killer, living being, living thing, mad dog, madcap, man-eater, mongrel, monster, mugger, nihilist, pig, polecat, quadruped, rapist, reptile, revolutionary, savage, serpent, shark, she-wolf, skunk, snake, spitfire, swine, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, vandal, varmint, vermin, violent, viper, virago, vixen, whelp, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf, worm, wrecker

beastly

• beastly, Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable, abrupt, aggressive, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, bearish, beastlike, below contempt, beneath contempt, bestial, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, bodily, boorish, brash, brusque, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, cavalier, churlish, coarse, contemptible, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious, enormous, execrable, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, forbidding, foul, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross, gruff, harsh, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, hoggish, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, intolerable, lamentable, lapsed, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, material, materialistic, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mindless, monstrous, murderous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, nonrational, nonspiritual, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, orgiastic, outrageous, physical, piggish, pitiable, pitiful, postlapsarian, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rough, rude, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful, sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short, sickening, slavering, snippy, sordid, squalid, stinking, subhuman, surly, swinish, terrible, too bad, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, unclean, uncultivated, unhuman, unpleasant, unrefined, unspeakable, unspiritual, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

beat about

• beat about, about ship, agonize over, angle for, ask for, back and fill, be at sea, be hard put, be uncertain, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about for, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, come about, delve for, dig for, double a point, doubt, feel around, feel for, feel unsure, fetch about, fish for, flounder, follow, fumble, go about, go gunning for, grabble, grope, grope for, gun for, gybe, have trouble, heave round, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, jibe, jibe all standing, labor under difficulties, look, look for, look up, miss stays, ply, poke around, prowl after, pry around, pursue, put about, put back, puzzle over, quest, question, round a point, scrabble, search for, see to, seek, seek for, sheer, shift, slew, still-hunt, struggle, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, thrash about, throw about, try to find, turn, turn back, veer, walk on eggshells, wear, wear ship, wind, wonder, wonder whether, yaw

beat around the bush

• beat around the bush, about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, circumlocute, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, go round about, hedge, hem and haw, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, periphrase, pick nits, prevaricate, pull away, pull back, pussyfoot, put off, quibble, recoil, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shuffle, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, split hairs, step aside, swerve, tergiversate, ward off

beat back

• beat back, brush off, chase, chase away, chase off, cut, dismiss, drive away, drive back, fend off, hold off, keep off, pack off, push back, put back, rebuff, refuse, repel, repulse, send away, send off, send packing, snub, spurn, thrust back, turn back, ward off

beat down

• beat down, bargain, bear down, bend, bid, bid for, blow down, break, break down, bring down, bring low, bring to terms, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, burn down, cast down, castrate, chaffer, cheapen, chop down, clamp down on, coerce, compel, conquer, cow, crush, cut, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, daunt, decline, defeat, deflate, deject, depreciate, depress, despotize, devaluate, dicker, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, dive, domineer, domineer over, drive a bargain, enslave, fall, fall in price, fell, flatten, give way, grind, grind down, haggle, henpeck, higgle, huckster, humble, humiliate, intimidate, jew down, keep down, keep under, knock down, knock over, level, lord it over, lower, lower the spirits, mark down, master, mow down, negotiate, nose-dive, oppress, outbid, overawe, overbear, overmaster, overpower, override, overwhelm, pare, plummet, plunge, press down, press heavy on, prostrate, pull down, quell, rase, raze, reduce, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, sadden, sag, shave, sink, slash, slump, smash, steamroller, subdue, subjugate, suppress, take down, tear down, terrorize, throw down, trample down, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread down, tread underfoot, tread upon, trim, tyrannize, tyrannize over, underbid, unman, vanquish, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon

beat it

• beat it, be off, begone, blow, clear out, dog it, duck and run, duck out, flake off, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, hit the road, lam, make yourself scarce, scram, shove off, skin out, split, take a powder, vamoose

beat off

• beat off, block, check, counter, drive back, fend, fend off, hinder, hold at bay, hold off, keep at bay, keep off, obstruct, parry, push back, put back, rebuff, repel, repulse, stave off, stop, turn aside, ward off

beat the drum

• beat the drum, advertise, ballyhoo, bark, beat, beat a tattoo, beat the drums, beat time, bill, blow the trumpet, boost, build up, bulletin, call to arms, call up, campaign for, celebrate, circularize, commemorate, conscript, count, count the beats, crusade for, cry up, dip, dress ship, drum, espouse, establish, exchange colors, fire a salute, flag, flag down, flash, give a signal, give a write-up, give publicity, give the nod, glance, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hallow, hoist a banner, hold jubilee, honor, jubilate, jubilize, keep, keep time, kick, leer, levy, maffick, make a sign, make merry, mark, memorialize, mobilize, muster, nod, nudge, observe, placard, play drum, plug, poke, post, post bills, post up, pound, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, raise a cry, rally, recruit, ruffle, salute, sell, sign, signal, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, sound a tattoo, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, speak, spiel, take up, tap, thrum, thump, tom-tom, touch, unfurl a flag, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, wink, write up

beat up

• beat up, agitate, all in, batter, battered, beat, beat-up, beaten, beaten up, bedraggled, blowzy, bone-weary, broken-down, bruise, bushed, careless, chintzy, churn, churn up, clabber, clot, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, convulse, cream, curdle, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drained, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, exhausted, fagged out, ferment, flurry, fret, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, gone, grubby, in rags, in ruins, incrassate, informal, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knocked out, loose, lopper, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, paddle, perturb, perturbate, played out, poky, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ready to drop, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, ruined, ruinous, rumple, run-down, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shake, shake up, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, sordid, spent, squalid, stir, stir up, swirl, tacky, tattered, thicken, thrash soundly, tired out, tired to death, tottery, trouble, tuckered out, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, upset, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, whip, whip up, whisk, wiped out, work up, worn-out

beat

• beat, Alexandrine, Bohemian, about ship, abrade, abscond, accent, accentuation, addle, addled, aerate, agitate, air lane, all in, all up with, alternation, amaze, ambit, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, andante tempo, antispast, area, arena, arrhythmia, arsis, article, at a loss, atomize, bacchius, back and fill, baffle, baffled, bailiwick, balk, bamboozle, bamboozled, bang, bar beat, barnacle, barrage, bash, baste, bastinado, baton, batter, bear away, bear off, bear the palm, bear to starboard, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beat about, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beat it, beat off, beat the drum, beat time, beat to windward, beat up, beaten, beaten path, beating, beguile of, belabor, belt, best, bested, better, bicker, bilk, birch, blend, blow, bludgeon, boggle, bone-weary, border, borderland, bout, box off, bray, break, breakaway, brecciate, bring about, bring round, broke, bruise, budget of news, buffalo, buffaloed, buffet, bunco, bung, bung up, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burn, burn out, bushed, busted, cadence, cadency, caesura, cane, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, catalexis, change course, change the heading, chase, cheat, chinoiserie, chisel, chloriamb, chloriambus, chouse, chouse out of, churn, churn up, circle, circuit, circumvent, clobber, close-haul, clout, club, cog, cog the dice, colon, comb, come about, comminute, compound time, con, confound, confounded, conquer, contriturate, contuse, convulse, copy, count, count the beats, counterpoint, course, cowhide, cozen, cream, cretic, crib, crumb, crumble, crush, cudgel, curry, cut, cycle, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, daily grind, dance, dash, daze, dazed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, debilitate, defeat, defeated, defraud, demesne, depart, department, destroy, diaeresis, diastole, diddle, dimeter, din, ding, dipody, disappoint, disarrange, discipline, discomfited, discompose, disintegrate, disquiet, disturb, do, do in, do out of, do up, dochmiac, dog, dog-tired, dog-weary, domain, dominion, done, done for, done in, done up, double a point, down, downbeat, drained, drive, drive away, drive off, drub, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, duff, dump, duple time, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, enervate, epitrite, euchre, exceed, excel, excite, exclusive, exhaust, exhausted, fag, fag out, fagged, fagged out, falcon, fallen, far out, fashion, fatigue, fatigued, feminine caesura, ferment, fetch about, field, finagle, fix, fixed, flag, flagellate, flail, flam, flap, flat, flat broke, fleece, flick, flicker, flight path, flimflam, flip, flit, flitter, flog, floor, floored, flop, flour, flurry, flush, flutter, foam, fob, foil, follow the hounds, foot, forage, forge, form, fowl, fragment, frazzle, free and easy, freeloader, fret, fringy, froth, fuddle, fuddled, fudge, full circle, fustigate, get, give a whipping, give the stick, go about, go hunting, go pitapat, gone, gouge, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groove, grub, gull, gun, gutter, gybe, gyp, hammer, harass, have, hawk, heartbeat, heartthrob, heave round, hemisphere, heptameter, heptapody, heretical, heroic couplet, heterodox, hexameter, hexapody, hide, hippie, hit the road, hocus, hocus-pocus, hors de combat, horsewhip, hound, hunt, hunt down, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, in a dilemma, in suspense, informal, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, itinerary, jack, jacklight, jade, jibe, jibe all standing, jingle, jog trot, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, keep in suspense, keep time, kinky, knock, knock out, knock up, knocked out, knout, lace, lam, lambaste, lap, largo, larrup, lash, lather, lathered, lay on, leave, leech, level of stress, levigate, lick, licked, lilt, line, loop, luff, luff up, make, manhandle, mantle, march, march tempo, masculine caesura, mash, master, maul, maverick, maze, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, mill, miss stays, mix, mixed times, molossus, mora, mould, movement, muddle, muddled, mulct, muss up, mystified, mystify, news item, nonplus, nonplussed, not cricket, not done, not kosher, number, numbers, offbeat, on tenterhooks, on the skids, oofless, orb, orbit, original, oscillation, outclass, outdo, outdone, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, outstrip, overborne, overcome, overfatigue, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overreach, overridden, overstrain, overthrown, overtire, overturned, overweary, overwhelm, overwhelmed, pack the deal, paddle, paeon, pale, palpitate, palpitation, panicked, pant, paradiddle, parasite, paste, path, patter, pelt, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, perplex, perplexed, perturb, perturbate, pestle, piece, pigeon, pinch, pistol-whip, piston motion, pitapat, pitter-patter, play drum, played out, ply, pommel, poop, poop out, pooped, pooped out, pound, pounding, powder, practice fraud upon, precinct, presto, prevail, prevail over, primary stress, primrose path, proceleusmatic, prosodics, prosody, prostrate, province, prowl after, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, pulverize, pummel, put, put about, put back, put to rout, puzzle, puzzled, pyrrhic, quantity, quiver, rag, ragtime, rake, ransack, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhide, ready to drop, realm, reappearance, recurrence, red tape, red-tapeism, reduce to powder, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, revolution, rhyme, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, ride to hounds, rile, ripple, rise above, road, roil, roll, rook, rotation, rough up, roughen, round, round a point, round trip, rounds, rout, route, routed, routine, rub-a-dub, rubato, ruff, ruffle, ruin, ruined, rummage, rumple, run, run away, run off, rut, sail fine, scam, scattered, scoop, scourge, screw, scrunch, scum, sea lane, search, seasonality, secondary stress, sell gold bricks, series, settle, settled, sextuple time, shake, shake up, shape, shard, shave, sheer, shellac, shift, shikar, shoot, shortchange, shortcut, shred, silenced, simple time, skin, skin alive, skinned, skinned alive, slat, sledgehammer, slew, smash, smear, smell-feast, smite, smother, sound a tattoo, spank, spatter, spell, spent, sphere, splatter, splutter, spondee, sponge, sponger, sport, spot news, sprung rhythm, spume, sputter, squash, squirrel cage, staccato, stack the cards, stalk, stampeded, start, stick, still-hunt, sting, stir, stir up, stone-broke, stony, story, strap, strapped, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, strike, stripe, stroke, stuck, stump, stumped, subdiscipline, subdue, sud, suds, surmount, surpass, swerve, swindle, swing, swing round, swing the stern, swinge, swirl, switch, syncopation, syncope, systole, syzygy, tack, take a dive, tan, tap, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, tempo rubato, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, thimblerig, thrash, three-quarter time, thresh, throb, throbbing, throw, throw a fight, throw about, thrown, thrum, thump, thumping, thwart, tick, ticktock, time, time pattern, timing, tire, tire out, tire to death, tired out, tired to death, tom-tom, top, touch the wind, tour, track, trade route, trail, traject, trajectory, trajet, trample, transcend, tread, treadmill, tribrach, trim, trimeter, trimmed, triple time, triplet, tripody, triseme, triturate, triumph, triumph over, trochee, trouble, trounce, trounced, truncheon, tucker, tuckered out, turn, turn back, two-four time, unconventional, undo, undone, undulation, unfashionable, unorthodox, upbeat, upset, use up, used up, vanquish, veer, victimize, waggle, walk, wallop, waltz time, washed-up, wave, waver, way out, weak stress, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear ship, weary, weary unto death, well-worn groove, whack, whacked, whale, wheel, whelmed, whip, whip up, whipped, whisk, whop, wilt, win, wind, wiped out, work up, worn out, worn-out, worst, worsted, yaw

beaten path

• beaten path, alameda, beat, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, catwalk, chinoiserie, daily grind, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, garden path, grind, groove, hiking trail, humdrum, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jog trot, mall, monotony, parade, path, pathway, prado, promenade, public walk, red tape, red-tapeism, round, routine, run, runway, rut, sameliness, sameness, sidewalk, squirrel cage, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, towing path, towpath, track, trail, treadmill, trottoir, undeviation, unvariation, walk, walkway, wearisome sameness, well-worn groove

beaten

• beaten, all in, all up with, automatic, beat, beat up, bested, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bone-weary, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, bushed, carbonated, chiffon, confounded, constant, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, defeated, discomfited, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, down, drained, ebullient, effervescent, exhausted, fagged out, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored, frequent, gone, habitual, hackneyed, hors de combat, knocked out, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, persistent, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, puffed, put to rout, ready to drop, recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routed, routine, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spent, spumescent, stampeded, stereotyped, tired out, tired to death, trimmed, trite, trounced, tuckered out, undone, upset, used up, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, washed-up, weary unto death, well-trodden, well-worn, whacked, whelmed, whipped, wiped out, worn-out, worsted

beater

• beater, Nimrod, agitator, big game hunter, blender, cement mixer, churn, courser, crucible, eggbeater, emulsifier, hunter, huntress, huntsman, jacker, jacklighter, jiggler, melting pot, mixer, paddle, shaker, shikari, sportsman, sportswoman, stalker, trapper, vibrator, whisk, white hunter

beatification

• beatification, aggrandizement, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, blessing, bliss, blissfulness, canonization, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, consecration, dedication, deification, delectation, delight, devotion, dignification, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elevation, enchantment, ennoblement, enshrinement, enthronement, erection, escalation, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, glorification, grace, hallowing, happiness, heaven, height, high spirits, immortalization, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, justification, justification by works, lifting, magnification, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, purification, raising, rapture, ravishment, rearing, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven, state of grace, sunshine, sursum corda, transport, unalloyed happiness, upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust

beatified

• beatified, Elysian, Olympian, aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, archangelic, awesome, beaming, beatific, big, blessed, blissful, canonized, capering, celestial, cheerful, cherubic, chirping, consecrated, dancing, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, ethereal, exalted, excellent, extramundane, extraterrestrial, flushed with joy, from on high, gay, glad, glorified, glowing, grand, great, hallowed, happy, heavenly, held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, immortalized, in glory, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lofty, magnified, martyred, mighty, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, purring, radiant, redeemed, sainted, saintly, sanctified, saved, seraphic, set apart, shrined, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sublime, supereminent, supernal, thrice happy, throned, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unworldly

beatify

• beatify, aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, bless, canonize, cheer, cleanse, consecrate, crown, dedicate, deify, devote, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, exalt, gladden, glamorize, glorify, hallow, happify, immortalize, lionize, magnify, make happy, make legendary, purify, raise, saint, sanctify, set apart, set up, throne, uplift

beating

• beating, Waterloo, abrasion, alternate, arrhythmia, atomization, attrition, bang, barrage, bash, bastinado, basting, bat, battery, beat, belt, belting, biff, blow, bonk, brecciation, buffeting, cadenced, cadent, caning, chop, circling, clicking, clip, clout, clubbing, clump, collapse, comminution, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crack, crash, crumbling, crushing, cudgeling, cut, cyclic, dance, dash, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, detrition, dig, dint, disintegration, downfall, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, epochal, even, every other, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flap, flicker, flit, flitter, flogging, flop, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, fusillade, fustigation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, heartbeat, heartthrob, hiding, hit, horsewhipping, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, jab, knock, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, levigation, lick, licking, mashing, mastery, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pelt, periodical, pistol-whipping, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk, poke, pound, pounding, powdering, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, punch, quietus, quiver, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhiding, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rotary, rout, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, ruin, scourging, seasonal, serial, shake, shellacking, shredding, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smashing, sock, spanking, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, steady, strapping, stripes, stroke, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swat, swing, swingeing, swipe, switching, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, thrashing, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack, ticking, tom-tom, trimming, trituration, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, undulant, undulatory, vanquishment, wavelike, waver, whack, wheeling, whipping, whop, yerk

beatitude

• beatitude, beatification, bewitchment, blessedness, blessing, bliss, blissfulness, canonization, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, consecration, dedication, delectation, delight, devotion, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, enshrinement, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glee, glorification, grace, hallowing, happiness, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, justification, justification by works, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, purification, rapture, ravishment, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven, state of grace, sunshine, transport, unalloyed happiness

beatnik

• beatnik, Bohemian, deviant, dissenter, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie

Beau Brummel

• Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, coxcomb, dandy, deb, debutante, dude, exquisite, fashion plate, fashionable, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, lounge lizard, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, mondain, mondaine, puppy, socialite, spark, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, swell, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter

beau

• beau, Beau Brummel, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, amoroso, beloved, blade, blood, boulevardier, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, clotheshorse, coxcomb, dandy, dude, esquire, exquisite, fashion plate, fellow, fine gentleman, flame, fop, fribble, gallant, gentleman friend, gigolo, inamorato, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, love-maker, lover, macaroni, man, man-about-town, masher, necker, old man, petter, philanderer, puppy, seducer, sheik, spark, sport, squire, steady, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart, swell, truelove, young man

beaucoup

• beaucoup, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, as all creation, as all get-out, considerable, considerably, ever so, ever so much, galore, greatly, highly, in great measure, largely, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, plenty, pretty much, so, so very much, to the skies, very much

beaut

• beaut, Miss America, ace, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, bunny, charmer, corker, cover girl, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, darb, dazzler, dilly, dream, enchantress, eyeful, great beauty, honey, humdinger, killer-diller, knockout, lady fair, lollapaloosa, looker, lovely, lulu, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pip, pippin, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner, sweetheart, the nuts, whiz

beauteous

• beauteous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, attractive, beautiful, bonny, comely, elegant, endowed with beauty, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fine, flowerlike, good-looking, graceful, gracile, handsome, heavy, lovely, pretty, pulchritudinous

beautified

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

beautiful people

• beautiful people, Vanity Fair, beau monde, best people, cafe society, carriage trade, cream of society, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, jeunesse doree, monde, people of fashion, polite society, right people, salon, smart, smart set, social register, societe, society, the Four Hundred, ton, upper crust, uppercut, world of fashion

beautiful

• beautiful, admirable, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, alluring, appealing, art-conscious, artistic, arty, attractive, beauteous, bonny, charming, choice, comely, delightful, elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fine, first-rate, flowerlike, glorious, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, handsome, hear, heavy, incomparable, lovely, magnificent, of consummate art, ornamental, painterly, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, proper, pulchritudinous, radiant, resplendent, smashing, spectacular, splendid, stunning, sublime, superb, superior, tasteful, well done, well-favored, wonderful

beautify

• beautify, adorn, array, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, evolve, fig out, finish, fix up, furbish, garnish, glamorize, grace, gussy up, mature, ornament, paint, perfect, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

beauty parlor

• beauty parlor, agency, atelier, barbershop, beauty salon, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, loft, organization, parlor, salon de beaute, shop, studio, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

beauty queen

• beauty queen, Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, belle, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dazzler, dream, enchantress, great beauty, knockout, lady fair, looker, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner

beauty

• beauty, Miss America, advantage, asset, attraction, attractiveness, balance, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, bunny, charmer, concinnity, cover girl, dazzler, dream, dreamboat, enchantress, equilibrium, euphony, eye-opener, eyeful, good-looker, great beauty, handsomeness, harmony, knockout, lady fair, looker, loveliness, lovely, measure, measuredness, model, order, orderedness, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, proportion, pulchritude, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, rhythm, sex kitten, slick chick, strength, stunner, sweetness, symmetry, toast

beaver

• beaver, Vandyke, activist, ball of fire, beard, big-time operator, bristles, bustler, busy bee, doer, down, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, goatee, human dynamo, hustler, imperial, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, peach fuzz, political activist, powerhouse, side whiskers, stubble, take-charge guy, tuft, wheeler-dealer, whiskers, winner

bebop

• bebop, acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, boogie-woogie, bop, country rock, dance music, dances, folk rock, hard rock, hot jazz, jazz, jive, mainstream jazz, musical suite, rag, ragtime, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music

because

• because, as, as long as, as things go, being, being as how, cause, considering, for, forasmuch as, in that, inasmuch as, insofar as, insomuch as, now, parce que, seeing, seeing as how, seeing that, since, whereas

becharm

• becharm, allure, attract, beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, charm, delectate, delight, draw on, enamor, enchant, endear, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, freak out, glamour, hold in thrall, hypnotize, imparadise, infatuate, inflame with love, intrigue, knock dead, knock out, mesmerize, ravish, seduce, send, slay, spell, spellbind, tantalize, tempt, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, transport, vamp, witch, wow

becharmed

• becharmed, bewitched, captivated, charm-bound, charmed, enamored, enchanted, enraptured, fascinated, heartsmitten, hypnotized, in a trance, infatuate, infatuated, mesmerized, smitten, spell-caught, spellbound, under a spell

beck

• beck, adolescent stream, arroyo, bearing, beck and call, beckon, bidding, body language, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, call, calling, calling forth, carriage, channel, charade, chironomy, convocation, creek, crick, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, dumb show, evocation, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gill, hand signal, indent, invocation, kill, kinesics, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, motion, movement, moving road, navigable river, nod, pantomime, poise, pose, posture, preconization, race, racing stream, requisition, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, shrug, sign language, sike, spill stream, stance, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, summons, wadi, watercourse, waterway

beckon

• beckon, appeal, attract, be attractive, bid, call, engage, fetch, gesticulate, gesture, interest, invite, mime, motion, motion to, pantomime, saw the air, shrug, shrug the shoulders, signal, summon, tantalize, tease, tempt, tickle, titillate, wave the arms, whet the appetite

becloud

• becloud, addle, addle the wits, ball up, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, befuddle, begloom, bemist, bewilder, black, black out, blacken, blanket, blind, block the light, blot out, blur, bother, brown, bug, camouflage, cast a shadow, clabber up, cloak, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, confuse, cover, cover up, curtain, darken, darken over, daze, dazzle, dim, dim out, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disguise, disorganize, disorient, dissemble, distract attention from, disturb, eclipse, embarrass, encloud, encompass with shadow, enmist, ensconce, enshroud, entangle, envelop, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, gloom, gloss over, haze, hide, keep under cover, mask, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, murk, nubilate, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, slur over, smog, smoke, somber, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset, varnish, veil, whitewash

beclouded

• beclouded, abstruse, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, befuddled, blind, buried, close, clouded, cloudy, concealed, covered, covert, eclipsed, fogged, foggy, fuddlebrained, fuddled, hazy, hid, hidden, in a cloud, in a fog, in a muddle, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, latent, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muzzy, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, puzzleheaded, recondite, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, unknown, wrapped in clouds

become of

• become of, attend, come about, come of, come out, develop, end, ensue, eventuate, fall out, fare, follow, issue, pan out, prove, prove to be, result, terminate, turn out, unfold, work out

become

• become, adorn, agree with, alter into, arise, assimilate to, be born, be bound, be changed, be converted into, be obligated, be obliged, become of, befit, behoove, beseem, break out, bring to, burst forth, change, change into, change over, come, come forth, come of, come out, come over, come round to, come to be, convert, crop up, do over, enhance, erupt, evolve into, fall into, fit, get, get to be, go, go with, grace, grow, have origin, irrupt, issue, issue forth, lapse into, make, make over, melt into, mount, naturalize, open into, originate, owe it to, pass into, reconvert, reduce to, render, resolve into, reverse, ripen into, rise, run, run into, settle into, shift, shift into, soar, spring up, suit, switch, switch over, take birth, take rise, transform, turn, turn back, turn into, turn to, wax

becoming

• becoming, Junoesque, a propos, ad rem, adapted, advantageous, advisable, agreeable, amply endowed, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, attractive, beautifying, befitting, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, chic, civil, comely, comme il faut, condign, conforming, congruous, convenient, correct, curvaceous, curvy, decent, decorous, delicate, desirable, dovetailing, elegant, enhancing, expedient, fair, fashionable, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fetching, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, flattering, fructuous, geared, genteel, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, happy, just, just right, likely, lovely to behold, meet, meshing, modest, nice, on the button, opportune, pat, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, politic, presentable, profitable, proper, qualified, recommendable, relevant, right, rightful, seasonable, seemly, shapely, sightly, slender, sortable, stacked, statuesque, stylish, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, tasteful, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, urbane, useful, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

bed of roses

• bed of roses, Easy Street, affluence, clover, comfort, contentment, ease, easy circumstances, felicity, fleshpots, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, prosperity, prosperousness, security, solid comfort, success, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvet, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being

bed

• bed, Colonial bed, Hollywood bed, Japanese garden, a world-without-end bargain, accommodation, accommodations, alliance, alpine garden, aqueduct, arboretum, arroyo, band, base, basement, basin, basis, bassinet, bearing wall, bed and board, bed down, bed in, bed on, bed-davenport, bedding, bedrock, bedstead, belly, belt, berth, billet, board, board and room, bog garden, bond of matrimony, border, botanical garden, bottom, bottom on, bottom side, break, breech, bridebed, bridle, broadcast, brush, build on, bunk, bunk bed, buttocks, camp bed, canal, channel, cohabitation, confirm, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, cot, couch, couche, coulee, course, coverture, cradle, creek bed, crib, culvert, curl up, curry, currycomb, cylinder press, day bed, deck, deep-dye, define, dibble, disseminate, domicile, domiciliate, donga, door bed, doss, double bed, double bunk, downside, drench, drill, dry bed, dry garden, duplex bed, embed, engraft, engrave, entrench, establish, etch, facilities, feather bed, feed, fix, flatbed cylinder press, floor, flooring, flop, flower bed, flower garden, flume, fodder, fold-away bed, fond, footing, forest, found, found on, foundation, four-poster, fundament, fundamental, gallery, garden, garden spot, gentle, go beddy-bye, go night-night, go to bed, go to rest, grape ranch, grapery, ground, ground on, grounds, groundwork, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gurney, hammock, handle, harbor, hardpan, harness, headrace, herbarium, hitch, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, hortus siccus, hospital bed, house, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, impact, implant, impress, imprint, infix, ingrain, inlay, inscribe, inseminate, inset, intermarriage, interracial marriage, irrigation ditch, jam, jardin, keep, king-size bed, kip, kitchen garden, layer, ledge, level, lie down, litter, lodge, lodgings, loll, lounge, lower berth, lower side, lowest layer, lowest level, makeready, manage, market garden, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, measures, mesalliance, milk, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, nestle, nether side, nethermost level, nullah, nuptial bond, ocean bottom, ornamental garden, overlayer, overstory, pack, pallet, panel bed, paradise, pavement, pile, pinetum, pipe berth, plant, platen, platen press, poster bed, pot, press, presswork, principle, print, printing machine, printing press, put in, put to bed, put up, quarter, quarter berth, queen-size bed, race, radical, recline, reforest, repose, reset, rest, retimber, retire, riprap, river bed, riverway, rock bottom, rock garden, roll in, roll-away bed, roof garden, room, root, rotary press, rotogravure press, rub down, rudiment, runnel, sacrament of matrimony, saddle, scatter seed, seam, seat, seed, seed down, seminate, set, set in, set on, settle, settle to rest, shelf, shelter, shrubbery, sill, single bed, sluice, snug down, sofa, sofa-bed, solid ground, solid rock, sow, sow broadcast, spillbox, spillway, spousehood, sprawl, stable, stage, stamp, step, stereobate, stereotype, story, stratum, stream bed, streamway, stretcher, stylobate, subsistence, substratum, substruction, substructure, sunken garden, superstratum, swash, swash channel, tailrace, take it easy, take life easy, tame, tea garden, tend, terra firma, tester bed, the hay, the sack, thickness, three-quarter bed, tier, topsoil, train, transplant, truck garden, truckle bed, trundle bed, tuck in, turn in, underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergird, undergirding, underlayer, underlie, underneath, underpinning, underside, understory, understratum, understruction, understructure, union, vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery, vineyard, wadi, water, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, web, web press, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedge, wedlock, wifehood, yoke, zone

bedaub

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

bedazzle

• bedazzle, addle, addle the wits, amaze, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, ball up, bandage, be bright, beacon, beam, becloud, bedaze, befuddle, benight, bewilder, blaze, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, boggle, bother, bowl down, bowl over, bug, burn, cloud, confound, confuse, darken, daze, dazzle, deprive of sight, diffuse light, dim, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, disturb, dumbfound, dumbfounder, eclipse, embarrass, entangle, excecate, flabbergast, flame, flare, flash, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fulgurate, fuss, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glow, gouge, hoodwink, incandesce, luster, make blind, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, obscure, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, perturb, petrify, pother, put out, radiate, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, send out rays, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, snow-blind, stagger, startle, strike blind, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset

bedazzled

• bedazzled, blindfold, blindfolded, darkened, dazed, dazzled, dopey, excecate, groggy, hoodwinked, in a daze, knocked silly, mazed, obscured, punch-drunk, punchy, silly, slaphappy, snow-blind, snow-blinded, woozy

bedclothes

• bedclothes, afghan, bed linen, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, buffalo robe, case, clothes, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, eiderdown, fitted sheet, lap robe, linen, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, robe, rug, sheet, sheeting, slip, spread

bedding

• bedding, afghan, air mattress, band, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedrock, bedsheet, bedspread, belt, blanket, bolster, buffalo robe, case, clothes, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, couche, counterpane, course, cover, coverlet, coverlid, cushion, deck, eiderdown, fitted sheet, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gallery, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, innerspring mattress, lap robe, layer, ledge, level, linen, litter, mat, mattress, measures, overlayer, overstory, pad, pallet, patchwork quilt, pavement, pillow, pillow slip, pillowcase, principle, quilt, radical, riprap, robe, rock bottom, rudiment, rug, seam, seat, sheet, sheeting, shelf, sill, sleeping bag, slip, solid ground, solid rock, spread, springs, stage, step, stereobate, story, stratum, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, superstratum, terra firma, thickness, tier, topsoil, underbed, underbedding, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, underpinning, understory, understratum, understruction, understructure, zone

bedeck

• bedeck, adorn, apparel, array, attire, beautify, bedaub, bedizen, bedrape, blazon, bundle up, clothe, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, dight, dizen, doll up, drape, dress, dress up, dud, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enclothe, endue, enrich, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fig out, fix up, furbish, garb, garment, garnish, grace, gussy up, habilitate, invest, lap, muffle up, ornament, paint, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, raiment, redecorate, redo, refurbish, robe, set off, set out, sheathe, shroud, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, swaddle, swathe, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, wrap, wrap up

bedecked

• bedecked, adorned, appareled, arrayed, attired, beaded, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, decked out, decorated, dight, disguised, dressed, embellished, endued, feathered, festooned, figured, flowered, garbed, garmented, garnished, gowned, habilimented, habited, hooded, invested, jeweled, liveried, mantled, ornamented, pantalooned, plumed, raimented, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed, spangled, spangly, studded, tired, togged, tricked out, trimmed, trousered, vested, vestmented, wreathed

bedevil

• bedevil, aggravate, annoy, badger, bait, be at, beset, bewitch, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, demonize, devil, devilize, diabolize, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exasperate, exercise, fash, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hex, hoodoo, hound, irk, jinx, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, obsess, overlook, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, possess, pother, provoke, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, tantalize, tease, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, voodoo, witch, worry

bedeviled

• bedeviled, badgered, baited, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, demonized, devil-ridden, deviled, dogged, harassed, harried, heckled, hectored, hounded, needled, nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on, pixilated, plagued, possessed, ragged, teased, tormented, worried

bedfellow

• bedfellow, ace, adjunct, ally, amigo, associate, bedmate, bosom buddy, brother, brother-in-arms, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, coadjutor, cohort, colleague, comate, companion, company, compatriot, compeer, comrade, confederate, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, crony, fellow, fellow member, fellow student, girl friend, gossip, mate, messmate, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, playfellow, playmate, roommate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, teammate, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

bedizen

• bedizen, adorn, apply paint, array, beautify, bedaub, bedeck, begild, besmear, blazon, brush on paint, calcimine, coat, color, complexion, cover, dab, dandify, daub, deck, deck out, decorate, deep-dye, dip, distemper, dizen, doll up, double-dye, dress, dress up, dye, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, face, fancy up, fast-dye, fig out, fix up, fresco, furbish, garnish, get up, gild, glaze, gloss, grace, grain, gussy up, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on color, ornament, overdress, paint, parget, pigment, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, prime, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, shade, shadow, shellac, slick up, slop on paint, smarten, smarten up, smear, spruce up, stain, stipple, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, trick out, trick up, trim, undercoat, varnish, wash, whitewash

bedizened

• bedizened, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, adorned, affected, beaded, bedecked, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, big-sounding, convoluted, decked out, declamatory, decorated, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, feathered, festooned, figured, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flowered, fulsome, garish, garnished, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, jeweled, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, ornamented, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, plumed, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, spangled, spangly, stilted, studded, tall, tortuous, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed

bedlam

• bedlam, Babel, Bedlam let loose, asylum, blast, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, bughouse, cacophony, chaos, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, confusion, confusion of tongues, din, discord, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, flap, fracas, free-for-all, hell, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, insane asylum, jangle, loud noise, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, noise, noise and shouting, nuthouse, outcry, padded cell, pandemonium, psychiatric ward, psychopathic hospital, racket, rattle, rhubarb, roar, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, static, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, turmoil, uproar

bedmate

• bedmate, ace, amigo, associate, bedfellow, birthmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, clubmate, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, copemate, copesmate, couchmate, cradlemate, crony, cupmate, fellow, fellow student, general partner, girl friend, gossip, jailmate, mate, messmate, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, roommate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, secret partner, shelfmate, shipmate, shopmate, side partner, sidekick, sidekicker, silent partner, sleeping partner, special partner, tablemate, teammate, tentmate, watchmate, waymate, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

bedpan

• bedpan, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical closet, chemical toilet, commode, crapper, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, stool, throne, thunder mug, toilet, urinal, water closet

bedraggled

• bedraggled, beat-up, befouled, besmirched, blowzy, careless, chintzy, decrepit, defiled, dilapidated, dirtied, dirty, down-at-heel, drabbled, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drenched, faded, fouled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, grungy, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, run-down, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirched, smudged, soaked, soiled, sordid, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, tacky, tainted, tarnished, tattered, threadbare, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wet

bedrape

• bedrape, apparel, array, attire, bedeck, bundle up, clothe, deck, dight, drape, dress, dud, enclothe, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, garb, garment, habilitate, invest, lap, muffle up, rag out, raiment, robe, sheathe, shroud, swaddle, swathe, tire, wrap, wrap up

bedrock

• bedrock, aa, abyssal rock, basalt, base, basement, basic, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, belly, block lava, bottom, bottom side, bottommost, brash, breccia, breech, buttocks, central, conglomerate, crag, deepest, downside, druid stone, essential, festooned pahoehoe, floor, flooring, focal, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gneiss, granite, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, igneous rock, indispensable, infrastructure, lava, life-and-death, life-or-death, limestone, living rock, lower side, lower strata, lowest, lowest layer, lowest level, lowest point, magma, mantlerock, material, metamorphic rock, monolith, nadir, nether side, nethermost, nethermost level, of vital importance, pahoehoe, pavement, pillar, pillow lava, porphyry, principle, pudding stone, radical, regolith, riprap, rock, rock bottom, rock-bottom, root, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, rudiment, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, seat, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substantive, substratum, substruction, substructure, talus, terra firma, tower, tufa, tuff, underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, underlying level, undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside, understruction, understructure, vital

bedspread

• bedspread, afghan, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, blanket, buffalo robe, case, clothes, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, eiderdown, fitted sheet, lap robe, linen, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, robe, rug, sheet, sheeting, slip, spread

bedtime

• bedtime, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, blanket drill, bye-bye, curfew, doze, dreamland, drowse, eleventh hour, fitful sleep, hibernation, land of Nod, light sleep, repose, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, snoozle, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, unconsciousness, winter sleep

bee

• bee, boutade, bumblebee, conceit, cornhusking, crotchet, drone, fancy, freak, honeybee, hornet, humor, husking, idea, impulse, megrim, queen, queen bee, quilting bee, raising bee, vagary, wasp, whim, worker, yellow jacket

beef up

• beef up, accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, blow up, boost, brace, brace up, buttress, case harden, complicate, concentrate, condense, confirm, consolidate, deepen, double, enhance, enlarge, exacerbate, exaggerate, expand, extend, fortify, gird, harden, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, intensify, invigorate, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, multiply, nerve, prop, ramify, redouble, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, sharpen, shore up, soup up, steel, step up, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, temper, toughen, triple, undergird, whet

beef

• beef, Brahman, Indian buffalo, air a grievance, altercation, amperage, arm, armipotence, aurochs, authority, avoirdupois, beef cattle, beef extract, beef tea, beefiness, beefing, beeves, bellyache, bellyaching, bickering, bison, bitch, bitching, black power, bleat, blow off, boggle, bossy, bouillon, bovine, bovine animal, boycott, brawl, brawn, brawniness, brute force, buffalo, bull, bullock, bully, bully beef, calf, call in question, carabao, cattle, challenge, charge, charisma, charqui, chipped beef, clamor, clout, cogence, cogency, complain, complaining, complaint, compulsion, compunction, cow, crab, critter, croak, cry out against, dairy cattle, dairy cow, deadweight, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, destructive criticism, dint, dispute, dissent, dogie, dried beef, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, elasticity, energy, enter a protest, exception, expostulate, expostulation, falling-out, fatness, faultfinding, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, fret, fret and fume, full blast, full force, fuss, gravity, grievance, grievance committee, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, gross weight, grouch, ground beef, grouse, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, hamburger, heaviness, heft, heftiness, heifer, holler, hornless cow, howl, huskiness, indignation meeting, influence, involuntary muscle, jerky, kick, kicking, kine, leppy, liveweight, lodge a complaint, main force, main strength, mana, march, maverick, might, might and main, mightiness, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, moxie, muley cow, muley head, murmur, murmuring, muscle, muscle power, muscularity, musculature, musk-ox, mutter, neat, neat weight, net, net weight, nonviolent protest, object, objection, overbalance, overweight, ox, oxen, pastrami, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, physique, picket, picketing, pizzazz, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, poundage, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, press objections, productiveness, productivity, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, puissance, pull, punch, push, qualm, querulousness, raise a howl, rally, register a complaint, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, rhubarb, roast beef, salt beef, scolding, scruple, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, sit in, sit-in, sniping, squabble, squawk, squawking, state a grievance, steam, steer, stirk, stot, strength, strike, strong arm, suet, superiority, superpower, take on, teach in, teach-in, thew, thewiness, thews, tiff, tone, tonnage, underweight, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, voluntary muscle, wattage, weight, weightiness, whining, wisent, yak, yammer, yap, yapping, yawp, yearling, yell bloody murder, yelp, zebu

beefcake

• beefcake, Telephoto, Wirephoto, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, diapositive, heliochrome, heliograph, montage, mug, mug shot, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, portrait, shot, slide, snap, snapshot, still, still photograph, telephotograph, transparency

beefed up

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

beefhead

• beefhead, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, dolthead, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, jolterhead, jughead, knucklehead, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noodlehead, numskull, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead

beefing

• beefing, beef, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, complaining, complaint, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, destructive criticism, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dissent, envious, faultfinding, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouchy, grouse, grousing, growling, grumbling, holler, howl, kick, kicking, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, muttering, out of humor, peeve, peevish, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, petulant, protest, querulant, querulous, querulousness, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, scolding, sniping, squawk, squawking, sulky, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, whining, whiny, yapping

beefsteak

• beefsteak, London broil, Salisbury steak, T-bone steak, bifteck, chopped steak, club steak, cubed steak, fillet steak, flank steak, ground beef, ground chuck, ground round, hamburg, hamburg steak, hamburger, porterhouse steak, rib steak, round steak, rump steak, shell steak, sirloin steak, steak, tenderloin steak

beefy

• beefy, adipose, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, doughty, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hippy, husky, imposing, iron-hard, lusty, meaty, mighty, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent, powerful, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, red-blooded, robust, robustious, roly-poly, rotund, rugged, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, steely, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-fed

beeline

• beeline, air line, axis, chord, cut, cutoff, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, edge, great-circle course, normal, perpendicular, radius, radius vector, right line, secant, segment, shortcut, shortest way, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, transversal, vector

Beelzebub

• Beelzebub, Abaddon, Aeshma, Angra Mainyu, Apollyon, Azazel, Belial, Eblis, Lilith, Lucifer, Mephisto, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Scratch, Putana, Sammael, Satan, Shaitan, diablo, fiend, serpent

beep

• beep, bay, bell, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow the horn, bray, bugle, clarion, fanfare, flourish of trumpets, honk, peal, pipe, shriek, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squeal, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, toot, tootle, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, whistle, wind

beer garden

• beer garden, alehouse, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer hall, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cocktail lounge, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, honky-tonk, local, nightclub, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, wine shop

beerbelly

• beerbelly, abdomen, abomasum, bay window, belly, breadbasket, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence

beery

• beery, addled, bathetic, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, cloying, crapulent, crapulous, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, gooey, gushing, happy, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, maudlin, mawkish, mellow, merry, muddled, mushy, namby-pamby, nappy, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, reeling, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, shikker, sloppy, sodden, soft, sotted, sticky, tear-jerking, teary, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence

beetle browed

• beetle browed, beetle, beetling, black, black-browed, dark, dejected, dour, dumpish, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grum, impendent, impending, incumbent, jutting, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, overhanging, overhung, pending, projecting, scowling, sulky, sullen, superincumbent, surly

beetle

• beetle, arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly, hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over, impendent, impending, incumbent, insect, jut, jutting, larva, lean over, lowering, macerator, maggot, masher, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending, poke, potato masher, pouch, pout, project, project over, projecting, protrude, pulp machine, pulper, pulpifier, scorpion, smasher, spider, stand out, superincumbent, tarantula, thrust over, tick

befall

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

befit

• befit, advance, advantage, agree with, answer, be bound, be obligated, be obliged, be right, become, befitting, behoove, benefit, beseem, do the trick, fill the bill, fit, forward, go together, not come amiss, owe it to, profit, promote, serve, suit the occasion, work

befitting

• befitting, a propos, ad rem, adapted, advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, appropriate to, apropos, apt, auspicious, becoming, comme il faut, conforming, congruous, convenient, correct, decent, desirable, dovetailing, due, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, geared, good, happy, just, just right, likely, lucky, meet, meshing, nice, on the button, opportune, pat, politic, profitable, proper, proper to, propitious, providential, qualified, recommendable, relevant, right, ripe, seasonable, seemly, sortable, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, useful, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

befog

• befog, becloud, bedim, bemist, bewilder, blanket, blind, blur, camouflage, cap, clabber up, cloak, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, confound, confuse, cover, cover up, curtain, darken, darken over, dim, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, eclipse, encloud, enmist, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, fog, gloss over, haze, hide, keep under cover, mask, mist, muddy, nubilate, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, occult, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, perplex, pose, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, slur over, smog, smoke, stumble, varnish, veil, whitewash

before long

• before long, after a time, after a while, afterward, afterwards, anon, betimes, by and by, by destiny, directly, ere long, fatally, hopefully, imminently, in a moment, in a while, in aftertime, in due course, in due time, in the future, later, predictably, presently, probably, proximo, shortly, soon, tomorrow

before

• before, above, aforetime, ahead, ahead of time, already, ante, before all, before now, beforehand, beforetime, betimes, by choice, by election, by vote, confronting, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, erstwhile, facing, first, fore, foremost, foresightedly, formerly, forward, headmost, hereinabove, hereinbefore, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in advance, in advance of, in anticipation, in anticipation of, in front, in front of, in preference, in preference to, in preparation for, in the forefront, in the foreground, in the front, in the future, in the lead, in the past, in times past, once, only yesterday, or ever, preceding, precociously, preferably, prehistorically, previous, previous to, previously, prior to, priorly, rather, rather than, recently, sooner, sooner than, supra, then, theretofore, till, to, to come, to the fore, to the front, until, up ahead, up to, whilom, yesterday, yet

beforehand

• beforehand, ahead, ahead of time, anachronistic, ante, antedated, before, beforetime, behind time, behindhand, betimes, dated, earlier, early, fore, foredated, foresightedly, forward, in advance, in anticipation, late, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, precociously, previous, prochronistic, sooner, tardy, unpunctual, unseasonable

beforetime

• beforetime, aforetime, ahead, ahead of time, anticipative, anticipatory, before, before now, beforehand, betimes, bright and early, earlier, early, erenow, erewhile, erst, forehand, forehanded, foresighted, foresightedly, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in advance, in anticipation, in good time, in the past, in times past, only yesterday, precociously, prehistorically, prevenient, previously, priorly, recently, then, whilom, yesterday

befoul

• befoul, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, benasty, bespatter, bewitch, blacken, blight, condemn, contaminate, convert, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, debase, defalcate, defame, defile, denigrate, deprave, desecrate, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, divert, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embezzle, envenom, foul, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, impair, infect, injure, jinx, maladminister, maltreat, menace, mess, mess up, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, mistreat, misuse, molest, nasty, outrage, peculate, persecute, pervert, pilfer, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, profane, prostitute, savage, scathe, slander, slur, smear, spatter, sully, taint, tarnish, threaten, torment, torture, traduce, violate, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

befriend

• befriend, abet, aid, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand, benefit, buddy up, comfort, do good, doctor, ease, favor, get acquainted, get chummy with, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, help, lend a hand, lend one aid, make friends with, play footsie with, proffer aid, protect, rally, reclaim, redeem, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, save, scrape acquaintance with, set up, shake hands with, succor, take in tow, take up with, win friends

befrilled

• befrilled, adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, colored, decked out, decorated, embellished, embroidered, fancy, feathered, festooned, figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery, garnished, jeweled, lush, luxuriant, ornamented, ornate, overcharged, overloaded, plumed, purple, spangled, spangly, studded, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed

befuddle

• befuddle, addle, addle the wits, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, bemuse, besot, bewilder, bother, bug, cloud, confuse, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, distract, disturb, embarrass, entangle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, inebriate, intoxicate, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, throw into confusion, throw off, unsettle, upset

befuddled

• befuddled, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, beclouded, cloudy, fogged, foggy, fuddlebrained, fuddled, hazy, in a fog, in a muddle, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muzzy, puzzleheaded

beg leave

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

beg off

• beg off, abandon, back out, be unmoved, be unwilling, cry off, decline, decline to accept, depart from, disagree, disallow, discard, disclaim, dissent, drop out, evacuate, forsake, go back on, hold out against, jettison, jilt, leave, leave behind, leave flat, maroon, negate, negative, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not think of, pull out, quit, quit cold, refuse, refuse consent, reject, renege, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, say goodbye to, say nay, say no, stand aloof, stand down, take leave of, throw over, turn down, vacate, vote nay, vote negatively, withdraw

beg the question

• beg the question, about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, hedge, hem and haw, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, pull away, pull back, pussyfoot, put off, quibble, recoil, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shuffle, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, split hairs, step aside, swerve, tergiversate, ward off

beg to differ

• beg to differ, agree to differ, agree to disagree, be at variance, be in dissent, differ, disagree, disagree with, discord with, dissent, dissent from, divide on, drop out, not agree, oppose, secede, take exception, take issue, withdraw, withhold assent

beg

• beg, adjure, appeal, appeal to, ask, bear, beget, beseech, besiege, brace, breed, bum, cadge, call for help, call on, call upon, circumvent, clamor for, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, demand, ditch, double, elude, entreat, escape, evade, generate, get, get around, get away from, get out of, hit, hit up, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, mooch, multiply, nag, obtest, panhandle, pass the hat, petition, plead, plead for, pray, press, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, request, run to, scrounge, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, sire, skirt, solicit, sue, supplicate, touch, worry

beget

• beget, author, be fruitful, be productive, bear, birth, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, evolve, fabricate, father, found, frame, fructify, generate, gestate, get, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, institute, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature, mint, mother, multiply, occasion, originate, outbreed, plan, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, spawn, strike out, teem, think out, think up, work

beggar

• beggar, Arab, Bowery bum, almsman, almswoman, asker, baffle, bankrupt, beach bum, beachcomber, beggarly fellow, blighter, bloke, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, casual, challenge, chap, charity case, coupon clippers, deadbeat, defy, derelict, devil, dogie, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, drone, drunkard, fellow, freeloader, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, guy, hardcase, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idle rich, idler, impoverish, indigent, landloper, lazzarone, leisure class, loafer, losel, lounge lizard, lowlife, lumpen proletariat, man, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, pauper, pauperize, pauvre diable, penniless man, person, petitioner, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, poor man, poorling, prayer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, reduce, rentiers, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, spiv, sponge, sponger, starveling, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, suitor, sundowner, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, want, wastrel, welfare client, worthless fellow, wretch

beggared

• beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, broke, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, flat, fleeced, fortuneless, ghettoized, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauperized, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged

beggarly

• beggarly, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, backscratching, bare-handed, base, base-minded, beggared, beneath contempt, bereaved, bereft, bootlicking, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, deprived, despicable, dirty, disadvantaged, disgusting, empty-handed, execrable, famished, fawning, flagrant, flattering, fleeced, footlicking, foul, fulsome, gaudy, ghettoized, gimcracky, grave, gross, groveling, half-starved, hangdog, heinous, ignoble, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, ingratiating, little, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly, mendicant, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, necessitous, needy, nefarious, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee, on relief, on short commons, out at elbows, paltry, parasitic, pathetic, pauperized, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, poverty-stricken, prostrate, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shoddy, shorthanded, small, sniveling, sorry, sponging, squalid, starved, starveling, starving, stripped, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, trashy, truckling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed, unmentionable, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched

beggary

• beggary, absence, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, begging, bumming, cadging, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack, mendicancy, mendicity, moneylessness, mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, omission, panhandling, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want, wantage

begging

• begging, adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging, entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, panhandling, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precative, precatory, scrounging, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory

begild

• begild, apply paint, aurify, bedaub, bedizen, besmear, brush on paint, calcimine, coat, color, complexion, cover, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, fast-dye, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, jaundice, lacquer, lay on color, paint, parget, pigment, prime, sallow, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, stipple, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, turn yellow, undercoat, varnish, wash, whitewash, yellow

begin

• begin, arise, attack, blast away, blast off, broach, commence, create, dig in, dive in, embark, enter, enter on, enter upon, establish, fall to, found, get off, get to, go ahead, go into, head into, inaugurate, initiate, institute, introduce, jump off, kick off, launch, lead off, open, originate, pitch in, plunge into, prepare, send off, set about, set in, set out, set sail, set to, set up, spring, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle, take off, take up, turn to, usher in

beginner

• beginner, abecedarian, agent, alphabetarian, ancestors, apprentice, architect, articled clerk, artificer, artist, author, baby, begetter, boot, builder, catalyst, catechumen, causer, colt, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, deb, debutant, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, entrant, executor, executrix, father, fledgling, founder, freshman, generator, greenhorn, greeny, grower, ignoramus, inaugurator, inductee, industrialist, infant, initiate, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, learner, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, mover, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, organizer, originator, parent, past master, planner, postulant, precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, probationer, probationist, producer, raiser, raw recruit, realizer, recruit, rookie, shaper, sire, smith, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, wright

beginning

• beginning, abecedarian, aboriginal, alpha, anlage, antenatal, anticipation, appearance, authorship, autochthonous, babyhood, basal, beginnings, birth, budding, childhood, coinage, commencement, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative, creative effort, dawn, dawning, day, derivation, devising, earliness, early hour, early stage, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergence, fabrication, fetal, first crack, first stage, foresight, formative, foundational, freshman year, fundamental, generation, genesis, gestatory, grass roots, ground floor, hatching, head, head start, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoation, inchoative, incipience, incipiency, incipient, incunabula, incunabular, infancy, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, invention, inventive, making do, mintage, nascence, nascency, nascent, natal, nativity, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, outstart, parturient, parturition, postnatal, pregnancy, pregnant, prenatal, prevenience, prevision, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, prologue, provenience, radical, radix, readiness, rise, root, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, setout, source, spring, sprout, start, stem, stock, taproot, time to spare, ur, very beginning, youth

begrime

• begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, besoil, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dust, foul, grime, mire, muck, muck up, muddy, slime, smirch, smoke, smooch, smudge, soot, tarnish

begrudge

• begrudge, balk at, be unwilling, cast envious eyes, close the hand, covet, deny, envy, famish, grudge, hold back, live upon nothing, mind, not care to, not feel like, object to, pinch, pinch pennies, refuse, resent, scamp, scant, screw, scrimp, skimp, starve, stint, withhold, would rather not

beguile

• beguile, allure, amuse, bamboozle, beat, becharm, beguile of, betray, bewitch, bilk, bluff, bunco, burn, cajole, call away, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, charm, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, conjure, convulse, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delight, delude, deprive of, detract, detract attention, diddle, distract, divert, divert the mind, do in, do out of, double-cross, dupe, enchant, engage, engross, enliven, enrapture, enravish, entertain, enthrall, entice, entrance, euchre, exhilarate, exploit, fascinate, finagle, finesse, flam, fleece, fleet, flimflam, fob, fool, forestall, four-flush, fracture one, fudge, gammon, get around, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, hypnotize, infatuate, intrigue, jockey, juggle, kill, knock dead, let down, loosen up, lure, maneuver, mesmerize, mislead, mock, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, play, play one false, practice fraud upon, put something over, raise a laugh, raise a smile, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, rook, scam, screw, seduce, sell, sell gold bricks, sell out, shave, shortchange, slay, snow, solace, spell, spellbind, split, stack the cards, stick, sting, string along, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, tickle, titillate, transport, trick, two-time, vamp, victimize, wile, witch, wow

beguiled

• beguiled, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, apish, asinine, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, batty, befooled, besotted, bewildered, bewitched, brainless, breathless, buffoonish, captivated, cockeyed, confounded, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, fatuitous, fatuous, flabbergasted, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gaping, gauping, gazing, goofy, gulled, hypnotized, idiotic, imbecile, in awe, in awe of, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, kooky, loony, lost in wonder, mad, marveling, maudlin, mesmerized, moronic, nutty, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, stupid, surprised, thoughtless, thunderstruck, under a charm, wacky, wet, wide-eyed, witless, wonder-struck, wondering

beguiling

• beguiling, alluring, amusing, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bewildering, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, deceiving, deceptive, delightful, deluding, delusive, delusory, diverting, dubious, enchanting, engaging, enigmatic, enravishing, entertaining, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exceptional, exciting, exotic, extraordinary, fabulous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fascinating, fetching, fishy, flirtatious, fun, glamorous, hallucinatory, humorous, hypnotic, illusive, illusory, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, marvelous, mesmeric, miraculous, misleading, mouth-watering, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, piquant, prepossessing, prodigious, provocative, provoquant, puzzling, questionable, rare, ravishing, recreational, remarkable, seducing, seductive, sensational, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strange, striking, stupendous, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, winning, winsome, witching, wonderful, wondrous

behalf

• behalf, advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, benison, blessing, boon, convenience, for, gain, good, in place of, interest, percentage, point, profit, service, use, value, welfare, well-being, world of good, worth

behave

• behave, acquit, act, act toward, act well, be good, be nice, bear, behave toward, carry, comport, conduct, control, cope with, deal by, deal with, demean, deport, direct, disport, do, do by, do right, function, go on, handle, make, make as if, manage, misbehave, move, operate, perform, play, play the game, practice, proceed, quit, react, respond to, serve, take, treat, use, work

behavior

• behavior, Pavlovian conditioning, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, bearing, comportment, conditioned response, conditioning, conduct, demeanor, deportment, doing, employment, exercise, function, functioning, instrumental conditioning, manner, manners, mien, movements, negative reinforcement, occupation, operant conditioning, operation, operations, play, positive reinforcement, practice, praxis, psychagogy, reeducation, reflex, reinforcement, reorientation, swing, unconditioned reflex, way, work, working, workings

behaviorism

• behaviorism, Adlerian psychology, Freudian psychology, Freudianism, Gestalt psychology, Horneyan psychology, Jungian psychology, Marxism, Pavlovian psychology, Reichian psychology, Skinnerian psychology, Watsonian psychology, analytical psychology, animalism, apperceptionism, association psychology, associationism, atomism, behavior therapy, behavioristic psychology, commonsense realism, configurationism, dialectical materialism, dianetics, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, materialism, mechanism, mental chemistry, metapsychology, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, orgone theory, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, pragmaticism, pragmatism, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, realism, representative realism, secularism, stimulus-response psychology, structuralism, substantialism, temporality, worldliness

behest

• behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, demand, dictate, dictation, direct order, hest, imperative, injunction, mandate, order, pleasure, prompting, request, say-so, solicitation, special order, will, word, word of command

behind the scenes

• behind the scenes, DR, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, back to back, backstage, before an audience, before the footlights, behind, behind the curtain, behind the veil, camouflaged, causal, causative, cognizant of, concealed, conscious of, constitutive, covertly, decisive, determinative, disguised, down left, down right, downstage, effectual, etiological, formative, hep to, hidden, imperceptible, in a corner, in a whisper, in back of, in darkness, in hidlings, in secret, in the background, in the dark, in the know, in the limelight, in the rear, in the secret, indiscernible, informed of, insensible, institutive, invisible, latent, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, nobody the wiser, occasional, off stage, on the stage, on to, onstage, originative, out of sight, pivotal, privy to, secret, secretly, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, sightless, sotto voce, streetwise, sub rosa, submerged, tandem, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undeceived, under the breath, under the rose, undercover, underground, undiscernible, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, up left, upright, upstage, viewless, wise to, with bated breath

behind time

• behind time, after time, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, backward, beforehand, behind, behindhand, belatedly, dated, deep into, early, far on, foredated, late, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, none too soon, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic, slow, tardy, unpunctual, unseasonable

behind

• behind, after, after time, afterpart, afterpiece, afterward, arrested, back, back door, back of, back seat, back side, back to back, backside, backward, behind the scenes, behind time, behindhand, belatedly, below, beyond, bottom, breech, butt, buttocks, by and by, can, checked, croup, crupper, deep into, delayed, derriere, detained, fanny, far on, following, haunches, heel, heinie, hind end, hind part, hindhead, impeded, in arrear, in arrears, in back of, in support of, in the background, in the rear, infra, late, later, later than, latterly, nates, next, none too soon, occiput, past, posterior, postern, rear, rear end, rearward, retarded, reverse, rump, set back, since, slow, slowed down, stern, subsequent to, subsequently, supporting, tail, tail end, tailpiece, tandem, tardy

behindhand

• behindhand, after time, ahead of time, anachronistic, antedated, arrested, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, belated, belatedly, blocked, careless, dated, deep into, defaulting, delayed, delayed-action, delinquent, derelict, detained, disregardful, early, far on, foredated, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, in arrear, in arrears, jammed, late, latish, lax, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, moratory, neglectful, never on time, none too soon, nonpaying, obstructed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic, regardless, remiss, retarded, slack, slow, stopped, tardy, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unseasonable, untimely

behold

• behold, NB, catch sight of, clap eyes on, descry, discern, discover, distinguish, espy, glimpse, have in sight, ken, lay eyes on, look at, look on, look upon, make out, mark, note, notice, observe, perceive, pick out, recognize, regard, remark, see, sight, spot, spy, take in, twig, view, witness

beholden

• beholden, acknowledging, appreciative, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, cognizant of, committed, crediting, duty-bound, grateful, in debt, in duty bound, indebted, indebted to, much obliged, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, pledged, saddled, sensible, thankful, tied, under obligation

behoof

• behoof, advantage, avail, behalf, benefit, benison, blessing, boon, convenience, gain, good, interest, percentage, point, profit, service, use, value, welfare, well-being, world of good, worth

beige

• beige, aureate, auric, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, chocolate, cinnamon, citron, citron-yellow, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, cream, creamy, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fallow, fawn, fawn-colored, flaxen, fuscous, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grege, hazel, khaki, lemon, lemon-yellow, lurid, luteolous, lutescent, nut-brown, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, olive-brown, olive-drab, or, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, straw, straw-colored, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, yellowish-brown

being

• being, Adamite, actual, actuality, aerobic organism, an existence, anaerobic organism, as, as is, as long as, autotrophic organism, body, bones, bosom, breast, cat, cause, chap, character, considering, contemporaneous, contemporary, creature, critter, current, customer, duck, earthling, ens, entelechy, entity, esprit, esse, essence, essentiality, existence, existent, existing, extant, fellow, for, fresh, genetic individual, groundling, guts, guy, hand, head, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, heterotrophic organism, homo, human, human being, immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force, inasmuch as, individual, individuality, inmost heart, inmost soul, innermost being, instant, joker, latest, life, living, living being, living soul, living thing, man, material, materiality, matter, microbe, microorganism, modern, monad, morphological individual, mortal, nature, new, nose, object, occurrence, on foot, one, ont, organic being, organism, organization, party, person, persona, personage, personality, physiological individual, presence, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, running, secret places, seeing, since, single, somebody, someone, something, soul, spirit, stuff, subsistence, subsistent, subsisting, substance, substantiality, tellurian, terran, texture, that be, that is, thing, topical, under the sun, unit, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, virus, viscera, whereas, worldling, zooid, zoon

bejewel

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

bejeweled

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

bel canto

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

belabor

• belabor, accent, accentuate, always trot out, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, dwell on, dwell upon, emphasize, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give emphasis to, give the stick, hammer away at, harp on, highlight, horsewhip, insist upon, italicize, knout, labor, lace, lambaste, lash, lay on, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, pelt, pistol-whip, place emphasis on, point up, pommel, pound, pummel, punctuate, rawhide, rub in, scourge, smite, spank, spotlight, star, strap, stress, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh over, thump, trounce, truncheon, underline, underscore, wallop, whale, whip, whop

belabored

• belabored, alliterating, alliterative, assonant, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, dingdong, harping, humdrum, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, monotone, monotonous, rhymed, rhyming, singsong, tedious

belated

• belated, antique, archaic, arrested, back, backward, behind time, behindhand, blocked, dated, delayed, delayed-action, detained, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstructed, oldfangled, out of date, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overdue, passe, retarded, slow, stopped, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely

belay

• belay, abandon, abort, affix, anchor, annex, attach, batten, batten down, cancel, cease, cement, chain, cinch, clamp, clinch, cramp, cut it out, desist, discontinue, drop it, end, engraft, fasten, fasten down, fix, give over, graft, grapple, halt, have done with, hold, knit, knock it off, lay off, leave off, make fast, make secure, make sure, moor, put to, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, screw up, scrub, secure, set, set to, stay, stop, terminate, tether, tie, tighten, trice up, trim

belch

• belch, blare, blat, blow open, blow out, bray, break out, burp, burr, burst, burst forth, burst out, buzz, cackle, cascade, caw, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clash, craunch, croak, crump, crunch, debouchment, discharge, disgorge, dissiliency, eject, eruct, eructate, eructation, erupt, eruption, expel, flare-up, gas, grind, groan, growl, grumble, gush, hiccup, hurl forth, irrupt, jangle, jar, jet, outbreak, outburst, rapids, rasp, rush, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, snarl, snore, spate, spew, spout, spurt, torrent, twang, volcan, vomit, wind

beldam

• beldam, Jezebel, Mafioso, Young Turk, bag, bat, battle-ax, beast, berserk, berserker, biddy, bitch, bitch-kitty, bomber, brute, cat, common scold, crone, dame, demon, devil, dowager, drab, dragon, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, frump, fury, gammer, goon, gorilla, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, mad dog, madcap, matriarch, matron, monster, mugger, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, rapist, revolutionary, savage, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, siren, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, trot, ugly customer, violent, virago, vixen, war-horse, wild beast, wildcat, witch, wolf

beleaguer

• beleaguer, annoy, bedevil, beset, besiege, blockade, bound, box in, cage, chamber, close in, compass, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, envelop, fence in, gnaw, harass, harry, hedge in, hem in, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, invest, jail, kennel, lay siege to, leaguer, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pester, plague, pocket, quarantine, rail in, shrine, shut in, shut up, siege, soften up, stable, storm, surround, tease, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

beleaguered

• beleaguered, barred, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, enclosed, fenced, hedged, hemmed, immured, imprisoned, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in

belfry

• belfry, antenna tower, barbican, bean, bell tower, campanile, carillon, colossus, column, conk, cupola, derrick, dome, fire tower, head, headpiece, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, noddle, noggin, noodle, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, poll, pylon, pyramid, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stupa, television mast, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windmill tower

belie

• belie, abjure, assert the contrary, be contrary to, blow sky-high, blow up, burlesque, call into question, camouflage, caricature, challenge, color, conceal, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deflate, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, discredit, disguise, disown, disprove, dispute, distort, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, explode, expose, falsify, forswear, fudge, gainsay, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, hide, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, oppugn, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, prove the contrary, puncture, rebut, recant, refuse to admit, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, show up, slant, strain, take back, take issue with, titivate, traverse, travesty, trick out, twist, undercut, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench

belied

• belied, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, exploded, exposed, impugned, invalidated, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, refuted, rejected, shown up, upset

belief

• belief, a belief, acceptance, acquiescence, arrogance, article of faith, assent, assurance, assuredness, axiom, canon, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, concept, confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, credence, credibility, credit, credo, creed, dependence, doctrine, dogma, eye, faith, feeling, fundamental, hubris, idea, intuition, judgement, law, maxim, mind, opinion, orthodoxy, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, persuasion, poise, pomposity, positiveness, precept, pride, principle, principles, reliance, religion, religious belief, religious faith, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sentiment, settled belief, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, system of beliefs, teaching, tenet, theology, tradition, trust, trustworthiness, view

believable

• believable, colorable, conceivable, convincing, credible, creditable, fiduciary, impressive, likely, meaningful, persuasive, plausible, possible, presumable, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfying, solid, substantial, supposable, tenable, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, worthy of faith

believe

• believe, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, accredit, admit, allow, assume, be afraid, be certain, be pious, be religious, believe in, believe without reservation, buy, conceive, conclude, confide in, conjecture, consider, credit, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, expect, fancy, fear God, feel, gather, give faith to, grant, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, hold, hope in, imagine, infer, keep the faith, let, let be, love God, maintain, make believe, opine, place confidence in, place reliance in, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretend, provisionally accept, put faith in, put trust in, receive, reckon, rely on, rely upon, repose confidence in, repose in, repute, rest in, say, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, swallow, swear by, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, take to be, think, trust, trust in, trust in God, trust to, understand

believer

• believer, Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, communicant, convert, cultist, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, fanatic, fideist, follower, good Christian, ist, neophyte, pietist, proselyte, receiver, religioner, religionist, religious believer, saint, the assured, the believing, the faithful, theist, true believer, truster, votary, zealot

belittle

• belittle, bedwarf, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, criticize, cry down, de-emphasize, debase, decry, degrade, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, derogate from, detract from, diminish, disapprove of, discount, discredit, disgrace, disparage, dispraise, downgrade, downplay, dwarf, hold in contempt, knock, lessen, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, minimize, misestimate, misprize, mitigate, play down, pooh-pooh, put down, reduce, reflect discredit upon, run down, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shrug off, slight, speak ill of, submit to indignity, think little of, think nothing of, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue, write off

belittled

• belittled, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, watered-down, weakened, worn

belittling

• belittling, abusive, back-biting, belittlement, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comedown, contempt, contemptuous, contumelious, decrial, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciation, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogation, derogative, derogatory, detraction, detractory, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, disparaging, faint praise, indignity, knocking, libelous, lukewarm support, minification, minimization, minimizing, pejorative, putting down, qualification, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, sour grapes, vilifying

bell the cat

• bell the cat, affront, beard, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, confront, court danger, defy danger, face, face the music, face up, face up to, flirt with death, front, go for broke, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, play Russian roulette, play with fire, run the gauntlet, set at defiance, speak out, speak up, stand up to, tempt Providence

bell

• bell, Roman candle, aerophone, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, arrest, balefire, battery, beacon, beacon fire, bell buoy, bells, blinker, blue peter, bones, bong, buoy, castanets, caution light, celesta, check, checkmate, chime, chimes, church bell, clapper, clappers, cowbell, crash cymbal, cutoff, cymbals, dead stop, deadlock, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, double reed, embouchure, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, finger cymbals, fire bell, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, full stop, gamelan, glance, glockenspiel, go light, gong, gong bell, gong buoy, green light, grinding halt, gun, halt, hand bell, handbells, heliograph, high sign, horn, hour, idiophone, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, jingle bell, key, kick, knell, leer, lip, lockout, lyra, maraca, marimba, marker beacon, metallophone, minute, mouthpiece, nod, nudge, orchestral bells, parachute flare, passing bell, peal, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, pilot flag, pipe, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, rattle, rattlebones, red flag, red light, reed, rocket, sacring bell, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sheepbell, 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, sit-down strike, sizzler, sleigh bell, slide, snappers, spar buoy, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stop light, stoppage, strike, tam-tam, telephone bell, the nod, the time, the wink, time, time of day, time signal, tintinnabula, tintinnabulum, toll, tongue, tonitruone, tooter, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, triangle, tubular bells, valve, vibes, vibraphone, walkout, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wind, wind instrument, wink, work stoppage, xylophone, yellow flag

belladonna

• belladonna, DET, DMT, Indian hemp, LSD, THC, bhang, cannabis, castor-oil plant, deadly nightshade, death camas, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, ergot, foxglove, ganja, hallucinogens, hashish, hemlock, hemp, henbane, horsetail, hyoscyamus, jimsonweed, marijuana, mayapple, mescal, mescal bean, mescaline, monkshood, morning glory seeds, peyote, poison ivy, poison parsley, poison sumac, pokeweed, psilocin, psilocybin, stramonium

bellboy

• bellboy, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, batman, bellhop, bellman, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie, callboy, caller, chore boy, copyboy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl, footboy, gofer, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman

belle

• belle, Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dazzler, dream, enchantress, fine lady, grande dame, great beauty, knockout, lady fair, looker, model, paragon, peach, pinup, pinup girl, precieuse, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, slick chick, stunner, toast

belles-lettres

• belles-lettres, French literature, Renaissance literature, ancient literature, classics, contemporary literature, erotic literature, erotica, folk literature, humane letters, kitsch, letters, literature, medieval literature, national literature, obscene literature, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, scatological literature, serious literature, travel literature, underground literature, wisdom literature

bellhop

• bellhop, Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, batman, bellboy, bellman, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie, callboy, caller, chore boy, copyboy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl, footboy, gofer, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman

bellicose

• bellicose, aggressive, antagonistic, assertive, battling, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, disputatious, divisive, enemy, eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebellious, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling

bellied

• bellied, bellylike, bug-eyed, bulged, bulging, convex, exophthalmic, goggle, goggled, popeyed, pouched, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventricose

belligerence

• belligerence, aggression, aggressiveness, all-out war, antagonism, antipathy, appeal to arms, argumentativeness, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, chauvinism, clash, clashing, collision, combat, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, despitefulness, disputatiousness, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, factiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, fighting, flak, friction, hate, hatred, hostilities, hostility, hot war, infighting, irascibility, irritability, jingoism, la guerre, litigiousness, malevolence, malice, malignity, martialism, might of arms, militancy, militarism, military operations, open hostilities, open war, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, repugnance, resort to arms, saber rattling, shooting war, shrewishness, spite, spitefulness, state of war, the sword, total war, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, war, warfare, warmaking, warmongering, warpath, warring, wartime

belligerent

• belligerent, acrid, aggressive, antagonist, antagonistic, antipathetic, ardent, argumental, argumentative, attacking, battler, battling, bellicose, belted knight, bickerer, bickering, bitter, blade, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, colliding, combatant, combative, competitor, conflicting, contender, contentious, contestant, controversial, despiteful, disputant, disputatious, divisive, duelist, enemy, enforcer, eristic, factional, factious, fencer, ferocious, feuder, fierce, fighter, fighting, fighting cock, foilsman, full of fight, full of hate, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hateful, hawk, hawkish, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, hot, inimical, invading, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jouster, knight, litigious, malevolent, malicious, malignant, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, plug-ugly, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarreler, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, saber-rattling, sabreur, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrapper, scrappy, scuffler, set against, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, sore, spiteful, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, tempered, thug, tilter, tough, trigger-happy, truculent, tussler, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, venomous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, warmonger, warmongering, warring, wrangler, wrangling

bellow

• bellow, bark, battle cry, bawl, bay, be angry, be excitable, bell, bellow out, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blow a gasket, blow up, blubber, bluster, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, call out, catch fire, catch the infection, caterwaul, chant, cheer, chirp, clamor, come apart, coo, crow, cry, cry out, drawl, excite easily, exclaim, explode, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up, flip, flute, gasp, get excited, give tongue, give voice, go into hysterics, growl, grunt, hail, halloo, have a tantrum, hiss, hit the ceiling, holler, holler out, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, keen, lilt, low, make an outcry, make an uproar, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, outcry, pant, pipe, pipe up, pule, rage, raise a clamor, rallying cry, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, roar, rout, rumble, run a temperature, screak, scream, screech, seethe, shout, shout out, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing out, smolder, snap, snarl, snort, sob, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, storm, take fire, thunder, troat, trumpet, turn a hair, twang, ululate, vociferate, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yell out, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

bellowing

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