Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/63

physique

• physique, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, beef, beefiness, bod, body, body-build, bones, brand, brawn, brawniness, build, building, built, carcass, cast, character, chassis, clay, clod, complexion, composition, configuration, conformation, constituents, constitution, construction, corpus, crasis, creation, dharma, diathesis, disposition, elasticity, ethos, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, fiber, figure, flesh, forging, form, format, formation, frame, genius, getup, grain, habit, heftiness, hue, hulk, humor, humors, huskiness, ilk, involuntary muscle, kind, make, makeup, making, manufacture, material body, mold, molding, muscle, muscularity, musculature, nature, organic structure, organism, organization, pattern, patterning, person, physical body, plan, production, property, quality, setup, shape, shaping, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, soma, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, streak, stripe, structure, structuring, suchness, system, tectonics, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, texture, thew, thewiness, thews, tissue, tone, torso, trunk, type, vein, voluntary muscle, warp and woof, way, weave, web

phytology

• phytology, algology, aquiculture, botany, bryology, dendrology, fungology, hydroponics, mycology, paleobotany, phycology, physiological botany, phytobiology, phytochemistry, phytoecology, phytogeography, phytography, phytomorphology, phytonomy, phytopaleontology, phytopathology, phytotaxonomy, phytoteratology, phytotomy, phytotopography, plant anatomy, plant pathology, plant physiology, pomology, structural botany, systematic botany

pi

• pi, ascender, back, ball up, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, bollix up, cap, capital, case, compose, confound, confuse, counter, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, foul up, fumble, garble, groove, impose, italic, jumble, justify, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, make up, minuscule, mix up, muck up, muddle, nick, overrun, pi a form, pica, play hob with, point, print, riffle, roman, sans serif, scramble, screw up, script, set, set in print, shank, shoulder, shuffle, small cap, small capital, snafu, snarl up, stamp, stem, tumble, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case

pianissimo

• pianissimo, a cappella, a la sourdine, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, barely audible, brillante, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, decrescendo, dim, diminuendo, dimly, distant, dolce, faint, faint-voiced, faintly, feeble, feebly, forte, fortissimo, gentle, gently, half-heard, hushedly, indistinct, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, low, marcando, morendo, murmured, parlando, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, scarcely heard, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softly, sordamente, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, unclear, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, whispered

piano

• piano, Klavier, Steinway, a cappella, a la sourdine, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, baby grand, barely audible, brillante, capriccioso, cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern, clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, concert grand, cottage piano, couched harp, crescendo, decrescendo, dim, diminuendo, dimly, distant, dolce, dulcimer harpsichord, faint, faint-voiced, faintly, feeble, feebly, forte, fortissimo, gentle, gently, grand, grand piano, half-heard, hammer dulcimer, harmonichord, harpsichord, hushedly, indistinct, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, low, manichord, manichordon, marcando, melodion, melopiano, monochord, morendo, murmured, pair of virginals, parlando, parlor grand, pianette, pianino, pianissimo, piano-violin, pianoforte, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, scarcely heard, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softly, sordamente, sordo, sostinente pianoforte, sotto voce, spiccato, spinet, square piano, staccato, stretto, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, unclear, upright, upright piano, violin piano, virginal, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, whispered

pianoforte

• pianoforte, Klavier, Steinway, baby grand, cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern, clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, concert grand, cottage piano, couched harp, dulcimer harpsichord, grand, grand piano, hammer dulcimer, harmonichord, harpsichord, manichord, manichordon, melodion, melopiano, monochord, pair of virginals, parlor grand, pianette, pianino, piano, piano-violin, sostinente pianoforte, spinet, square piano, upright, upright piano, violin piano, virginal

piazza

• piazza, agora, campo, forum, gallery, lanai, market, market cross, marketplace, mart, patio, place, plaza, porch, rialto, sleeping porch, solarium, square, stoop, sun porch, veranda

pica

• pica, analgesia, anesthesia, anxiety equivalent, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, counter, depraved appetite, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, groove, italic, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, neurasthenia, nick, paresthesia, parorexia, pi, point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, speech abnormality, stamp, stem, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case

picayune

• picayune, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bickering, bit, brass farthing, button, captious, caviling, cent, choplogic, curio, cursory, depthless, detailed, equivocatory, evasive, exact, farce, farthing, feather, few, fig, finicky, fleabite, folderol, footling, fribble, frippery, full, fussy, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, hairsplitting, halfpenny, hedging, hill of beans, immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsequentiality, inconsiderable, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, insignificant, irrelevance, jerkwater, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, little, littleness, logic-chopping, low, low priority, marginality, meager, measly, meticulous, miniature, minikin, minute, mockery, molehill, negligibility, negligible, nice, niggling, nit-picking, no great shakes, one-horse, paltering, paltry, particular, peppercorn, pettifogging, pettiness, petty, picayunish, picayunishness, piddling, piffling, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pokiness, poky, precise, puniness, punk, puny, pussyfooting, quibbling, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, secondariness, shallow, shit, short, shuffling, skin-deep, slightness, small, small-beer, small-time, smallness, snap, sneeshing, sou, special, specific, straw, superficial, tinhorn, tiny, toy, trichoschistic, trifle, trifling, trinket, trivial, triviality, tuppence, two cents, two-bit, two-by-four, twopence, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, whim-wham

piccolo

• piccolo, English horn, Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, 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, 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

pick off

• pick off, charge, cock, detonate, discharge, drop, eject, fell, fire, fire off, gun, gun for, hit, let fly, let off, load, pelt, pepper, pistol, plug, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, riddle, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, snipe, strike, take a potshot, torpedo

pick out

• pick out, abscind, abstract, address to, advert to, allude to, amputate, analyze, annihilate, assign, avulse, ban, bar, be taken as, behold, bob, bolt, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, cast off, cast out, catch sight of, choose out, chuck, cite, clap eyes on, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull, cull out, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, decide between, demarcate, demark, denominate, denote, deport, deracinate, descry, designate, determine, differentiate, dig out, dig up, direct attention to, direct to, discern, discover, discriminate, disentangle, dispose of, distinguish, divide, dock, draw, draw out, draw the line, dredge, dredge up, eject, elect, elide, eliminate, emblematize, enucleate, eradicate, espy, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, figure, finger, fix, focus on, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, ghettoize, gin, glean, glimpse, gouge out, grub up, handpick, have in sight, indicate, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, ken, knock off, lay aside, lay eyes on, liquidate, look on, look upon, lop, make a selection, make out, mark, mark the interface, mention, mine, mutilate, name, nip, notice, observe, opt for, outlaw, pare, peel, perceive, pick, pick out, pin down, pluck out, pluck up, point at, point out, point to, prefer, prune, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, put aside, quarantine, quarry, rake out, recognize, refer to, remove, riddle, rip out, root out, root up, rule out, screen, screen out, seclude, see, segregate, select, separate, set, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, shave, shear, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sight, signify, single out, sort, sort out, specialize, specify, split hairs, spot, spy, stamp out, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, subdivide, subtilize, symbol, symbolize, take in, take off, take out, tear out, thrash, thresh, throw over, throw overboard, touch on, truncate, twig, typify, unearth, unravel, uproot, view, weed out, winnow, wipe out, withdraw, witness, wrest out

pick to pieces

• pick to pieces, atomize, break to pieces, carp, catch at straws, cavil, cleave, cut up, defoliate, demolish, denude, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, draw and quarter, fault-find, find fault, flay, fragment, lacerate, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, mutilate, nitpick, peel, pettifog, pick holes, pull apart, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, quibble, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, shred, skin, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack up, wreck

pick up

• pick up, accumulate, acquire, advance, amass, ameliorate, amend, animate, annex, apprehend, arrest, assemble, book, boost, brace, brace up, brighten, bring, bring back, bring together, brisk, brisken, buck up, buoy up, bust, call for, capture, chalk up, chase after, cheer, chirk up, collar, collect, come along, come on, compass, continue, convalesce, cull, descry, detain, detect, develop, dig up, discern, distinguish, drag up, draw up, dredge, dredge up, elevate, encourage, enliven, espy, exhilarate, fetch, fetch and carry, fillip, fish up, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, gain, gain ground, gain strength, galvanize, garner, gather, gather in, gather up, get, get ahead, get along, get better, get in, get together, give a lift, gladden, glean, go after, go ahead, go and get, go fetch, go for, go forward, go get, go to get, grab, graduate, grow better, grub, grub up, haul up, have, hearten, hoist, home on, identify, improve, infuse life into, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jazz up, land, liven, look up, make an arrest, make headway, make out, make progress, make strides, map, master, meliorate, mend, nab, net, notice, obtain, perceive, perk up, pick, pinch, pinpoint, pique, pluck, pluck up, procure, progress, provoke, pull in, put under arrest, quicken, raise, rake up, rally, reanimate, rear, receive, recognize, recommence, recreate, recruit, recuperate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, renew, reopen, resuscitate, retrieve, revive, revivify, round up, run after, run in, scan, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secure, see, seize, sense, set up, shag, shape up, sharpen, show improvement, skyrocket, sleep it off, spot, spy, stimulate, sweep, take captive, take in, take into custody, take off, take prisoner, take up, trigger, tune in, turn the corner, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, vitalize, vivify, whet

pick

• pick, abuse, accelerate, accost, accumulate, acquire, adz, aggravate, alternativity, amass, annoy, apprehend, arrest, assemble, ax, badger, bait, be at, beak, become acquainted with, bedevil, beset, best, bother, bread knife, bring in, bring together, bristle, browbeat, brown off, brush, bug, bully, bullyrag, bunt, burn up, bushwhacker, bust, butcher knife, buy, call for, carp at, carving knife, catch, champion, chaser, chisel, chivy, choice, choose, choose out, choosing, chosen, chuck, clean up, cleaver, clipper, clippers, co-optation, co-option, collar, collect, come by, come down with, contract, cream, criticize, crop, crop herbs, cull, cut, dab, dagger, decide between, decision, devil, dig, dig up, discern, discompose, discriminate, distemper, distinguish, disturb, dog, elect, election, elite, exasperate, excerpt, exclusive, exercise, extract, fash, fat, filling, fillip, find, first choice, flick, flip, flirt, flower, foment, free choice, free will, fret at, fuss at, gain, garner, gather, gather in, get, get better, get hold of, get in, get together, glean, go to get, gouge, grabble, graze, gripe, grub, grub up, hack, handpick, harass, harry, harvest, hassle, hatchet, hay, heckle, hector, heft, henpeck, hoe, hoist, hound, hunting knife, improve, incite, increase, initiate, intimidate, irk, irritate, jackknife, jest, kill, knife, lance, lancet, learn, letter-opener, lift up, machete, make a comeback, make a selection, make headway, make out, make progress, mark, master, mattock, meet, miff, molest, mow, nab, nag, nag at, neaten, needle, nettle, nibble, nibble at, nick, niggle, nippers, nonesuch, nonpareil, nosh, nudzh, nut, obtain, opt for, optimum, option, paper cutter, paper knife, paragon, paring knife, pat, peck, peck at, peeve, penknife, perk up, persecute, pester, pick and choose, pick at, pick off, pick on, pick out, pick up, pickax, picked, pinch, pique, plague, plectron, plectrum, plowshare, pluck, pluck the beard, plunk, pother, prefer, preference, preoption, pride, prime, prize, provoke, pull in, purchase, queen, quintessence, raise up, rake up, rally, rap, razor, razor blade, reap, reap and carry, recognize, recoup, recover, ride, rile, roil, round up, ruffle, run in, saw knife, sax, scalpel, scare up, scissors, scoop, scrape together, scrape up, scraper, screen out, scuffle hoe, scythe, select, selected, selection, separate, settle on, settle upon, share, shears, sheath knife, shoot, shoot down, sickle, sidecutters, sift, sift out, single out, snack, snap, snips, sort out, spear, speed up, spokeshave, start, stir up, straighten out, straighten up, strum, superlative, surgical knife, sweep the strings, sword, table knife, take, take in, take into custody, take up, tap, taunt, tease, tell apart, the best, the best ever, the pick, the tops, the very best, thrum, tickle, tidy up, tip, top, torment, touch, try the patience, twang, tweak the nose, vex, volition, warp, wedge, weft, whisk, will, winnow, woof, work up, worry, yap at

picked

• picked, accepted, adopted, appointed, approved, best, carried, champion, choice, chosen, designated, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, elite, embraced, espoused, exclusive, for the best, greatest, handpicked, matchless, named, nominated, optimal, optimum, paramount, passed, peerless, pick, prime, prize, quintessential, ratified, select, selected, supreme, surpassing, unanimously elected, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, very best

picker

• picker, Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, banjoist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, fiddler, folk guitarist, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, guitar-picker, guitarist, harper, harpist, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lute player, lutenist, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, planter, plowboy, plowman, psalterer, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, string musician, strummer, tea-planter, tenant farmer, thrummer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, twanger, violinist, yeoman, zitherist

picket

• picket, Argus, Charley, advance guard, airplane spotter, anchor, armed guard, bank guard, bar, beef, bind, bitch, blockade, boggle, box in, boycott, bridle, bulkhead in, call in question, chain, challenge, coast guard, complain, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cry out against, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstrator, demur, dismember, dispute, draw and quarter, enchain, enclose, enter a protest, entrammel, expostulate, fasten, fence, fence in, fetter, fire patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, flying squadron, forward observer, garrison, go on strike, go out, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, goon, goon squad, grill, guard, guarder, guardsman, gyve, hamper, handcuff, hedge, hem, hem in, hobble, hog-tie, hold out, holler, hopple, howl, impale, inlying picket, jailer, keelhaul, kick, lash, leash, leg, lock out, lookout, lookout man, make fast, manacle, march, moor, night watchman, object, observer, outguard, outpost, pale, paling, palisade, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peg, peg down, picket line, picketer, picquet, pile, pin down, pinion, post, press objections, protest, protester, put in irons, rack, rail, raise a howl, rally, rear guard, remonstrate, restrain, revolt, rope, roundsman, scout, scruple, secure, security guard, sentinel, sentry, shackle, shank, shut in, shut it down, sit down, sit in, slow down, spile, spotter, squawk, stake, stanchion, state a grievance, straitjacket, strap, strike, striker, strong-arm man, tar and feather, teach in, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, torture, train guard, trammel, upright, van, vanguard, vedette, vertical, walk out, wall, wall in, ward, warder, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman, yell bloody murder

picketing

• picketing, beef, bitch, boycott, challenge, complaint, compunction, confinement, demonstration, demur, demurrer, dismemberment, estrapade, exception, expostulation, galleys, grievance, grievance committee, hard labor, howl, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, indignation meeting, jailing, keelhauling, kick, march, martyrdom, nonviolent protest, objection, penal servitude, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, railriding, rally, remonstrance, remonstration, rock pile, scruple, sit-in, squawk, strappado, strike, tar-and-feathering, teach-in, the gantlet, torment, torture

pickings

• pickings, blackmail, boodle, booty, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, dividends, earnings, filthy lucre, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, graft, gross, gross profit, haul, hoard, hot goods, income, interest, killing, loot, lucre, makings, neat profit, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, plunder, pork barrel, prize, proceeds, profit, profits, public till, public trough, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, store, swag, take, take-in, till, wealth, winnings

pickle

• pickle, acid, acidulant, anhydrate, baffle, bafflement, bearings, bewilderment, bind, blast-freeze, booze up, boozify, bother, box, bread-and-butter pickle, brine, case, chokecherry, circumstance, clutch, complication, condition, confoundment, confusion, corn, corner, crab apple, crock, crunch, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dilemma, dill pickle, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, embarrassing position, embarrassment, enigma, estate, evaporate, fine how-do-you-do, fix, footing, freeze, freeze-dry, fuddle, fume, green apple, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, irradiate, jam, jerk, kipper, lemon, lime, location, lot, marinade, marinate, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass, mummify, mystery, nonplus, overtake, parlous straits, pass, perplexity, perturbation, pinch, place, plaster, plight, pollute, position, posture, pother, predicament, preservatize, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quick-freeze, quicksand, rank, refrigerate, riddle, salt, scrape, season, situation, slough, smoke, smoke-cure, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, souse, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station, status, stew, sticky wicket, stone, strait, straits, stuff, swack, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tipsify, tricky spot, unassuredness, unholy mess, upset, verjuice, vinegar, yogurt

pickled

• pickled, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, afflicted, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, brackish, briny, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crab, crabbed, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, dry, elevated, fried, fuddled, green, half-seas over, high, illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, pungent, raddled, saline, salt, salted, saltish, salty, sec, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, swacked, tanked, tart, tartish, tight, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegarish, vinegary

pickling

• pickling, anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, tinning

pickup

• pickup, Gramophone, Great Leap Forward, Jezebel, PA, PA system, Sunday drive, Victrola, accelerando, acceleration, acquaintance, advance, advancement, advocate, aggravation, airing, alter ego, amelioration, amendment, apprehension, arrestation, arrestment, ascent, audio sound system, audiophile, backer, bad woman, baggage, beefing-up, best friend, bettering, betterment, binaural system, bitch, bitch box, blowing up, blowup, booking, boost, bosom friend, bracer, broad, brother, bullhorn, cartridge, casual acquaintance, ceramic pickup, changer, chippy, clitoromaniac, close acquaintance, close friend, cocotte, concentration, condensation, confidant, confidante, consolidation, crystal pickup, deepening, derived four-channel system, detention, discrete four-channel system, drab, drive, easy lay, easy woman, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, floozy, four-channel stereo system, frail sister, friend, furtherance, getaway, grisette, harridan, headway, heating-up, heightening, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, hussy, hysteromaniac, impetus, improvement, information explosion, inseparable friend, intensification, intercom, intercommunication system, intimate, jade, joyride, jukebox, lift, loose woman, lover, magnetic pickup, magnification, melioration, mend, mending, mobile camera, monaural system, mono, nab, needle, neighbor, nickelodeon, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, other self, outside pickup, partisan, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pick-me-up, pinch, population explosion, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, quean, quickening, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, recovery, redoubling, refresher, reinforcement, remote pickup, repository, restoration, revival, reviver, ride, rise, slut, sound reproduction system, sound truck, speedup, spin, spot pickup, squawk box, step-up, stereo, strengthening, strumpet, stylus, supporter, sympathizer, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tart, telecamera, television camera, thrust, tightening, tone arm, transcription turntable, trollop, trull, turntable, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, uteromaniac, wanton, well-wisher, wench, whirl, whore

picky

• picky, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, dainty, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, perfectionistic, persnickety, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, strict

picnic

• picnic, Cadmean victory, KO, Mardi Gras, Pyrrhic victory, Saturnalia, TV dinner, action, agonizing, agony, alfresco meal, arduous, ascendancy, ball, banquet, barbecue, big time, blowout, board, break bread with, breakfast, breeze, brunch, buffet supper, carnival, championship, cinch, clambake, coffee break, conquest, cook out, cookout, difficult, dine, dine out, diner, dinner, disagreeable, do, duck, easy target, easy thing, easy victory, eat out, elevenses, fair, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, fish fry, fun, fun and games, funmaking, gala, gala affair, gala day, game, garden party, good time, grand slam, great doings, great fun, high jinks, high old time, high tea, high time, hot luncheon, jamboree, kermis, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, laughs, lead-pipe cinch, lovely time, lunch, luncheon, mash, mastery, meat breakfast, mess with, misfortune, moral victory, no picnic, painful, party, petit dejeuner, pie, piece of cake, play, pleasant time, pushover, rough, runaway victory, setup, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, sport, subdual, subduing, success, sup, supper, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, torture, torturous, total victory, tough, triumph, velvet, victory, walkaway, walkover, waygoose, wayzgoose, wiener roast, wienie roast, win, winning, winning streak

picot

• picot, Vandyke, blaze, chop, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, gash, incise, indent, jag, knurl, machicolate, mill, nick, notch, pink, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, serrate, slash, tooth

pictogram

• pictogram, allegory, alphabet, arrowhead, art, blueprint, character, charactering, characterization, charactery, chart, choreography, cipher, conventional representation, conventional symbol, cuneiform, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, demotic character, depiction, depictment, determinative, diagram, drama, drawing, emblem, exemplification, figuration, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, iconography, iconology, ideogram, ideograph, illustration, imagery, imaging, kana, katakana, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, logotype, love knot, map, musical notation, notation, ogham, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictograph, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, radical, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rune, schema, score, script, shorthand, syllabary, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, tablature, token, totem, totem pole, type, wedge, word letter, writing

pictograph

• pictograph, arrowhead, character, cuneiform, demotic character, determinative, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, ogham, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, radical, rune, shorthand, wedge, word letter

pictographic

• pictographic, abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, apish, capital, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphemic, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, lettered, lexigraphic, limning, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, mimetic, mimish, minuscular, minuscule, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictorial, portraying, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, transliterated, typifying, uncial, upper-case, vivid

pictorial

• pictorial, annual, apish, bimonthly, biweekly, clear, daily, daybook, delineatory, depictive, diary, echoic, embodying, ephemeris, explicit, expressive, figurative, fortnightly, freehand, gazette, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, journal, limning, lucid, magazine, mimetic, mimish, monochrome, monthly, newsmagazine, onomatopoeic, organ, painty, pastose, periodical, personifying, photographic, pictographic, picturable, pictural, picturesque, plain, polychrome, portraying, quarterly, representational, representative, representing, review, scenographic, scumbled, serial, simulative, slick magazine, striking, symbolizing, telling, trade magazine, typifying, vivid, weekly, yearbook

picture show

• picture show, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, pornographic film, preview, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

picture

• picture, 3-D, CRT spot, Cinemascope, Cinerama, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, Technicolor, Telephoto, Vorstellung, Western, Wirephoto, abstract, abstraction, aerial photograph, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue, animated cartoon, approach, arrangement, artwork, associate, attack, badge, banner, beam, beat signal, black spot, black-and-white film, black-and-white photograph, blips, block print, bloom, blooping, blueprint, blueprinting, bounces, brass tacks, bring to life, brother, calculation, call to mind, call up, cameo, candid photograph, carbon copy, cartoon, catalog, cataloging, catch a likeness, certified copy, chalk, character, character sketch, characteristic, characterization, characterize, charcoal, chart, charting, cheesecake, chiller, chronophotograph, cine, cinema, close copy, close match, cognate, collage, color, color film, color photograph, color print, companion, complement, concept, conception, conceptualization, congenator, congener, conjure up, contrivance, coordinate, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterfeit, counterpart, crayon, creepie, crosshatch, cyclorama, dash off, daub, dead ringer, definition, delineate, delineation, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, details, device, diagram, diapositive, differentia, diptych, display, disposition, documentary, documentary film, doodle, double, double-dot display, draft, draw, drawing, duplicate, earmark, echo, echo signal, ectype, educational film, effigy, eidetic image, embodiment, engraving, enterprise, envisage, envisagement, envisaging, envision, envisioning, epitome, equivalent, essence, essential facts, essentials, evocation, evoke, exact likeness, express, eyeful, facsimile, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fancy, feature, fellow, figuring, film, flare, flick, flicker, foresight, forethought, forgery, fresco, fringe area, game, ghost, give words to, granulation, graphic account, graphing, grid, ground plan, guidelines, hallmark, hard shadow, hatch, heliochrome, heliograph, hit off, horror picture, horse opera, icon, idea, idiosyncrasy, idol, illumination, illustrate, illustration, image, imagery, imagery study, imagine, imaging, imagism, imitation, impression, incarnation, index, indicant, indicator, insignia, intention, interpret, itemization, just see, keynote, kindred spirit, layout, lifelike image, like, likeness, limn, limning, lineup, living image, living picture, local oscillator signal, long-range plan, map, mapping, mark, master plan, match, mate, measure, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, method, methodology, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mosaic, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, mug, mug shot, multiple image, mural, near duplicate, newsreel, noise, notate, note, notion, nudie, objectification, objectify, obverse, operations research, organization, outline, output signal, paint, paint a picture, painting, panorama, parallel, particularization, pasticcio, pastiche, peculiarity, pencil, pendant, personification, phony, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photodrama, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, photoplay, picture noise, picture shifts, picture show, picturing, picturize, pinup, pips, plan, planning, planning function, poem, poetic imagery, pornographic film, portrait, portraiture, portray, portrayal, prearrangement, presentment, preview, print, procedure, profile, program, program of action, property, prototype, radar signal, rain, rationalization, reading, realize, reciprocal, reflection, register, render, rendering, rendition, represent, representation, representative, reproduction, resemblance, return, return signal, ringer, rolling, rub, rubbing, scanning pattern, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, schematize, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scintillation, scratch, scumble, seal, second self, see, semblance, set forth, setup, shade, shading, shadow, short, shot, show, sigil, sign, signal, signal display, signature, silent, silent film, similitude, simulacrum, sister, sketch, skin flick, slide, snap, snapshot, sneak preview, snow, snowstorm, soul mate, spaghetti Western, specification, spit, spit and image, spitting image, spot, stained glass window, stamp, stencil, still, still life, still photograph, strategic plan, strategy, such, suchlike, summon up, sure sign, symbolize, symptom, system, systematization, tableau, tactical plan, tactics, take a rubbing, talkie, talking picture, tally, tapestry, target image, telephotograph, telltale sign, the big picture, the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the information, the like of, the likes of, the particulars, the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story, thing of beauty, thriller, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, tracing, trailer, trait, transmitter signal, transparency, triptych, twin, underground film, understanding, very image, very picture, video signal, vignette, vision, visual image, visualization, visualize, vivid description, wall painting, way, word painting, word-painting, working plan, write

picturesque

• picturesque, arabesque, attractive, baroque, busy, charming, chichi, colorful, delightful, elaborate, elegant, fancy, fetching, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, freehand, frilly, fussy, graphic, high-wrought, idyllic, interesting, intriguing, labored, lovely, luxuriant, luxurious, monochrome, moresque, original, ornate, ostentatious, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painty, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural, pleasing, polychrome, pretty, pretty-pretty, quaint, realistic, rich, rococo, scenic, scenographic, scumbled, striking, unique, unusual, vivid

picturing

• picturing, Vorstellung, concept, conception, conceptualization, eidetic image, envisaging, envisioning, image, imagery, imagery study, imaging, imagism, imagistic poetry, lifelike image, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, objectification, picture, poetic imagery, vision, visual image, visualization, word-painting

picturization

• picturization, acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, coloring, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, exemplification, figuration, finger painting, flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache, grisaille, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, imagery, imaging, impasto, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, monochrome, mural painting, musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting, pictogram, plan, portraiture, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush, wash, wash drawing, writing

piddle

• piddle, beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, kill time, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lose time, make water, mess around, micturition, monkey, monkey around, number one, pass the time, pee, pee-pee, pish, piss, play, play around, play with, poke, potter, pump bilge, putter, smatter, spend a penny, stale, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, twiddle, urea, urinate, urination, urine, waste time, water, wee-wee, wet

piddling

• piddling, Mickey Mouse, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, meager, measly, miserly, niggardly, niggling, one-horse, paltry, peanut, peddling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, punk, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimping, skimpy, slight, slim, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four

pie eyed

• pie eyed, afflicted, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, elevated, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, high, illuminated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, swacked, tanked, tight

pie

• pie, Danish pastry, Deutschmark, French pastry, Mark, Reichsmark, afghani, anna, baht, baklava, blintz, breeze, cent, centavo, centime, chocolate eclair, cinch, conto, cream puff, dollar, dong, dowdy, easy target, easy thing, eclair, florin, franc, guilder, gulden, kip, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, milreis, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, peseta, picnic, piece of cake, piece of eight, pipe, pistareen, pound, puff, pushover, quiche, rand, rial, rosette, ruble, rupee, setup, shekel, shilling, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, sol, sou, stiver, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, velvet, vol-au-vent, won, yen

piebald

• piebald, bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley, mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, pied, pinto, roan, skewbald, sorrel

piece de resistance

• piece de resistance, boil, broil, casserole, champion, choice, chosen, course, cover, cream, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, dish, elect, elite, entree, fat, flower, fry, grill, main dish, masterpiece, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimum, paragon, pick, prime, prize, queen, quintessence, roast, select, side dish, superlative, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best

piece together

• piece together, accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, band, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, build, build up, cast, cement, chain, clap together, collect, combine, compose, compound, comprise, concatenate, concoct, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consist of, constitute, construct, copulate, couple, cover, create, devise, elaborate, embody, embrace, encompass, enter into, erect, evolve, extrude, fabricate, fashion, form, formulate, frame, fudge together, gather, get up, glue, go into, include, incorporate, indite, join, knot, lay together, league, link, lump together, make, make up, manufacture, marry, marshal, mass, mature, merge, merge in, mix, mobilize, mold, organize, pair, patch together, prefabricate, prepare, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, roll into one, run up, set up, shape, solder, span, splice, stick together, structure, synthesize, take in, tape, tie, unify, unite, unite in, weld, whomp up, write, yoke

piece

• piece, Grand Guignol, Nachtmusik, Passion play, Tom show, absolute music, actor, adaptation, aesthetic distance, air, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alike, allotment, allowance, antagonist, antihero, antimasque, arrangement, art object, article, ass, assemble, audience success, autograph, automatic, babe, baby, bait, ballet, bawling-out, beat, big end, bigger half, bishop, bit, bit part, bite, blowgun, blowpipe, bolt, bomb, brainchild, break down, breeze, bric-a-brac, broad, broadcast drama, broken, budget, budget of news, burlesque show, butt, cast, castle, causerie, chamber music, chamber orchestra, character, charade, chessman, chick, chiding, chip, chunk, cinch, classic, clearance, cliff hanger, clip, clipping, closet drama, coil, coin, colleen, collop, comedy drama, commission, compass, compose, composition, computer printout, connect, contingent, copy, crack up, creation, critical success, crown, crumb, crumble, cue, cut, cutie, cutting, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daytime serial, deal, deep space, demoiselle, depths of space, descant, design, destiny, destroyed, dialogue, discourse, discussion, disintegrate, disquisition, dissertation, distance, ditty, divergence, dividend, division, document, documentary drama, dole, doll, dollop, double eagle, doubloon, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, draughtsman, dressing-down, ducat, duodrama, duologue, eagle, edited version, electronic music, end, engrossment, epic theater, equal share, essay, etude, examination, exclusive, excursus, exercise, experimental theater, exposition, extent, extravaganza, failure, fair copy, farness, fat part, fate, feature, feeder, fiction, filly, final draft, finished version, firearm, first approach, first draft, five-dollar gold piece, fix, flamethrower, flimsy, flop, fraction, fragment, frail, gal, gasser, gat, gather, girl, girlie, giveaway, go to pieces, gob, gobbet, gold piece, grotesque, guinea, gun, half, half crown, half eagle, halver, handgun, happening, hard money, harmonious, harmonization, heater, heavy, heifer, hell, helping, hero, heroine, hit, hit show, holding, holograph, homily, hot number, hoyden, hunk, identical, improvisational drama, in agreement, in harmony, in keeping, in pieces, incidental music, infinity, ingenue, instrumental music, interest, introductory study, invention, jeune fille, jill, jingle, junior miss, king, kitsch, knight, lass, lassie, lead, lead role, lead-pipe cinch, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lecture, leeway, legitimate drama, length, letter, light-years, lines, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, little missy, lot, lucubration, lump, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, man, manuscript, margin, masque, master, masterpiece, masterwork, matter, measure, meat, meed, melodrama, melody, member, memoir, mend, mess, mileage, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, miss, missy, mobile, modicum, moidore, moiety, monodrama, monograph, monologue, morality, morality play, morceau, morsel, museum piece, music, music drama, musical revue, musket, mystery, mystery play, napoleon, news item, nocturne, nonfiction, note, nude, nymphet, old master, opera, opus, orchestration, original, outline, pageant, pandect, panel show, pantomime, paper, paragraph, parcel, parchment, paring, parsecs, part, particle, pasticcio, pastiche, pastoral, pastoral drama, pawn, peashooter, penscript, percentage, person, personage, perspective, piece of ass, piece of cake, piece of meat, piece of money, piece of silver, piece of virtu, piece of writing, piece together, pistol, play, playlet, poem, portion, pound sovereign, preliminary study, printed matter, printout, problem play, production, program music, prolegomenon, proportion, protagonist, psychodrama, put together, quantity, quantum, queen, quiz show, quota, radio drama, rake-off, range, rasher, ration, reach, reading matter, rebuke, recension, remnant, remoteness, repeater, report, reprimand, research paper, restore, review, revolver, revue, ricercar, rifle, rod, role, roll, roll of coins, romp, rook, rouleau, ruined, run, sample, sawed-off shotgun, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, scolding, scoop, score, scrap, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, section, segment, sensational play, separation, serial, serving, sex goddess, sex object, sex queen, shard, share, shatter, shattered, shaving, shiver, shooting iron, short story, shotgun, show, shred, side, similar, sitcom, situation comedy, six-gun, six-shooter, sketch, skirt, skit, slice, slip, sliver, small share, smashed, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snippet, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, sonata, sonatina, song, soubrette, sovereign, space, span, special article, specie, specimen, spectacle, splinter, spot news, stabile, stage play, stage show, stake, statue, still life, stitch, stock, story, straight drama, straight part, stretch, stride, string orchestra, string quartet, strip, stud, study, stump, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, supporting character, supporting role, survey, suspense drama, swatch, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, taste, tatter, teenybopper, teleplay, television drama, television play, ten-dollar gold piece, term paper, the same, the written word, theater of cruelty, theme, theme and variations, thesis, title role, token, tomato, tomboy, tongue-lashing, total theater, tract, tractate, transcript, transcription, treatise, treatment, trio, tune, twenty-dollar gold piece, typescript, uniform, unite, variation, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, version, villain, virgin, virtu, walk-on, walking part, way, ways, wedge, wench, what for, word-of-mouth success, work, work of art, writing, young creature, young thing

piecemeal

• piecemeal, adrift, apart, apart from, aside from, asunder, away from, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by snatches, disjointed, drop by drop, fitfully, foot by foot, fragmentary, gradual, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, in the abstract, in twain, in two, inch by inch, inchmeal, intermittently, little by little, one by one, part by part, piece by piece, separately, severally, slowly, sporadic, sporadically, step-by-step

pier

• pier, abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arcade, atlas, baluster, balustrade, banister, bank, base, basin, beam, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, caryatid, colonnade, colonnette, column, dado, die, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, embankment, flying buttress, footstalk, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, jack, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, levee, marina, mole, moorings, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peristyle, pier buttress, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, port, portico, post, protected anchorage, quay, queen-post, rampart, retaining wall, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, shaft, shipyard, shoulder, slip, socle, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, subbase, support, surbase, telamon, trunk, upright, wharf, wharfage

pierce

• pierce, abrade, affect, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, auger, barb the dart, bark, bayonet, benumb, bite, blemish, bloody, bore, break, broach, bruise, burn, chafe, check, chill, chip, claw, come alive, come home to, comprehend, convulse, countersink, crack, craze, crucify, cut, cut up, dagger, descry, dirk, discern, discover, distress, drill, empierce, excruciate, fathom, fester, fix, fracture, fray, frazzle, freeze, fret, frost, frostbite, gain entree, gall, gash, get into, get through, give pain, gnaw, go deep, go through, go through one, gore, gouge, gouge out, grasp, grate, grieve, grind, gripe, harrow, hole, honeycomb, hurt, hurt the feelings, impale, incise, inflame, inflict pain, injure, interpenetrate, irritate, kill by inches, knife, lacerate, lance, maim, make an entrance, make mincemeat of, make out, make way into, martyr, martyrize, maul, melt, melt the heart, move, mutilate, needle, nip, numb, pain, pass through, penetrate, perceive, perforate, pinch, pink, plumb, plunge in, poke into, poniard, prick, prolong the agony, punch, puncture, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, realize, ream, ream out, refrigerate, rend, riddle, rip, rouse, rub, run, run into, run through, rupture, saber, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, skewer, skin, slash, slice, slit, smart, soften, spear, spike, spit, sprain, stab, stick, stiletto, sting, stir, strain, strike, sword, tap, tear, torment, torture, touch, touch a chord, transfix, transpierce, traumatize, trepan, trephine, tweak, twist, twist the knife, understand, wound, wrench, wring

piercing

• piercing, Siberian, absorbing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acupunctuation, acupuncture, acute, afflictive, agonizing, algid, apperceptive, appercipient, arctic, argute, arresting, asperous, astringent, astute, atrocious, bayonetting, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blaring, bleak, booming, bore, boreal, boring, brisk, broach, brumal, caustic, chilling, cogent, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, corroding, corrosive, cramping, creaky, crisp, cruel, cutting, deafening, deep, deep-felt, deepgoing, discerning, distressing, double-edged, drastic, drill hole, driving, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earsplitting, earthshaking, edged, effective, empiercement, enthralling, entrancing, escharotic, excessive, excruciating, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, farseeing, farsighted, fascinating, fierce, fixing, forceful, forcible, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forte, fortissimo, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosty, full, furious, gelid, glacial, gnawing, goring, grave, great, griping, gripping, gutsy, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartfelt, hibernal, hiemal, high, high-pitched, homefelt, howling, hurtful, hurting, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immoderate, impalement, imperative, impressive, incisive, inclement, indelible, intemperate, intense, irritating, keen, keening, knifelike, knifing, lancing, longheaded, longsighted, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, mordacious, mordant, nervous, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing, outrageous, painful, paroxysmal, pealing, penetrating, penetration, perceptive, percipient, perforation, perspicacious, perspicuous, pervading, pinching, piping, piquant, plangent, poignant, powerful, pricking, probing, profound, provident, punching, punchy, puncture, puncturing, pungent, racking, raw, reedy, reeking, resounding, rigorous, ringing, roaring, rough, sagacious, scathing, scorching, screaky, screaming, screeching, screechy, searching, sensational, severe, sharp, shooting, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sinewed, sinewy, skewering, slashing, sleety, slushy, snappy, sonorous, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spellbinding, splitting, squeaking, squeaky, stabbing, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stinging, stone-cold, strident, striking, stringent, strong, subzero, supercooled, tart, telling, terebration, the sword, thin, thundering, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, tormenting, torturous, tough, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, treble, trenchant, trepanning, trephining, ululant, unconscionable, understanding, vehement, venomous, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, wailing, whining, whistling, window-rattling, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering

Pierian

• Pierian, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, heroic, idyllic, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic

pietistic

• pietistic, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, adoring, affected, assured, believing, canting, certain, confident, convinced, cultish, cultist, cultistic, devoted, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, dutiful, faithful, false, fideistic, godly, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, holy, hypocritical, impressed with, insincere, mealymouthed, persuaded, pharisaic, pious, pistic, positive, prayerful, religious, reverent, reverential, sanctified, sanctimonious, satisfied, secure, self-righteous, sniveling, sold on, solemn, sure, theistic, unctuous, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, venerational, venerative, worshipful

piety

• piety, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affection, allegiance, ardor, cant, dedication, deference, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, false piety, falseness, fealty, fervor, godliness, goody-goodiness, grace, holiness, hypocrisy, insincerity, loyalty, mealymouthedness, mummery, obedience, observance, oiliness, passion, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piousness, religionism, religiosity, religiousness, respect, reverence, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sanctity, self-righteousness, snivel, snuffle, unction, unctuousness, veneration, zeal

piffle

• piffle, babble, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, drool, flapdoodle, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, jabber, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat, shit, talk nonsense, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor, waffle, wind

piffling

• piffling, Mickey Mouse, jerkwater, measly, niggling, one-horse, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pimping, poky, punk, puny, small-beer, small-time, tinhorn, trifling, trivial, two-bit, two-by-four

pig in a poke

• pig in a poke, bargain, blind bargain, borderline case, chance, chance at odds, contingency, deal, dicker, double contingency, gamble, gambling chance, guess, hard bargain, horse trade, matter of chance, open question, piece of guesswork, potluck, potshot, question, random shot, sight-unseen transaction, sporting chance, swap, toss, toss-up, touch and go, trade, trade-in, undecided issue, wager

pig

• pig, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, John Law, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, animal, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, ass, aurochs, bacon, badger, bandicoot, barrow, bassarisk, bat, bear, beast, beaver, belly-god, bettong, bicycle, bigot, bike, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blue fox, bluecoat, boar, bobby, bobcat, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bull, bullion, burro, burro deer, butt, button, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cast, casting, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, chauvinist, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, chitterlings, chopper, cinnamon bear, cochon de lait, coon, coon cat, cop, copper, cormorant, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, cracklings, cur, cycle, cyprian, deer, deer tiger, dick, dingo, doctrinaire, dog, dogmatist, donkey, dormouse, drab, dromedary, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, eyra, fallow deer, fanatic, fat back, ferret, field mouse, fisher, fitch, flatfoot, flattie, flitch, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, frump, fuzz, gammon, gate, gazelle, gemsbok, gendarme, genet, gilt, giraffe, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, gumshoe, guttler, ham, ham steak, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, haslet, headcheese, heat, hedgehog, hippopotamus, hog, horse, hound, husky eater, hussy, hyena, hyrax, ibex, illiberal, ingot, insect, intolerant, iron, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jade, jaguar, jaguarundi, jambon, jambonneau, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, jezebel, jingo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lard, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lion, litterbug, llama, lynx, male chauvinist, mammoth, man, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meerkat, minibike, mink, mole, mongoose, mongrel, moose, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nab, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, paddy, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, pedicab, peeler, peludo, phalanger, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, piggy, piglet, pigling, pine mouse, platypus, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, pork, porker, porkpie, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, pronghorn, puma, rabbit, raccoon, racist, rat, razorback, red deer, red squirrel, regulus, reindeer, reptile, rhinoceros, road-bike, roe, roe deer, roebuck, sable, salt pork, schlep, schlump, serpent, serval, sexist, shamus, sheep, sheet metal, shoat, shrew, shrew mole, side of bacon, sika, silver fox, skunk, slattern, slob, sloppy Joe, sloth, sloven, slut, small ham, snake, snowshoe rabbit, sow, sowbelly, springbok, squirrel, stoat, strumpet, suckling pig, superpatriot, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, the cops, the fuzz, the law, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, trail bike, tramp, tree shrew, trencherman, trencherwoman, tricycle, trike, trollop, trotters, trull, tusker, ultranationalist, urus, varmint, vermin, viper, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, wheel, whelp, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, worm, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

pigeon toed

• pigeon toed, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, flatfooted, grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated

pigeon

• pigeon, Cornish hen, avifauna, babe, baby bird, bamboozle, beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, bluff, boob, broiler, bunco, burn, cage bird, caille, cajole, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, cheat, cheat on, chick, chicken, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, chump, cinch, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, conjure, cozen, credulous person, crib, cull, cygnet, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, dindon, diving bird, do in, do out of, double-cross, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, eagle, eaglet, easy mark, easy pickings, euchre, faisan, fall guy, finagle, fish, fish-eating bird, flam, fledgling, fleece, flightless bird, flimflam, fob, fool, forestall, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fudge, fulmar, game bird, gammon, get around, gobe-mouches, goose, gouge, greener, greenhorn, greeny, grouse, gudgeon, guff, guinea hen, gull, gyp, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, innocent, insect-eating bird, juggle, leadpipe cinch, let down, mark, migrant, migratory bird, mock, monkey, mulct, nestling, oie, oscine bird, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, owl, pack the deal, partridge, passerine bird, patsy, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pheasant, pigeonneau, play one false, plaything, poulet, practice fraud upon, prize sap, pushover, put something over, quail, ratite, roaster, rook, sap, saphead, scam, schlemiel, screw, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sell gold bricks, shave, shore bird, shortchange, sitting duck, snow, songbird, squab, stack the cards, stewing chicken, stick, sting, stooge, storm petrel, stormy petrel, string along, sucker, swan, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trick, trusting soul, turkey, two-time, victim, victimize, volaille, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wild duck, wildfowl

pigeonhearted

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

pigeonhole

• pigeonhole, adjourn, air hole, alphabetize, analyze, armhole, arrange, assort, bibliography, blood, blowhole, book, bracket, branch, break down, bullet-hole, bunghole, calendar, card catalog, caste, catalog, catalogue raisonne, categorize, category, clan, class, classified catalog, classify, codify, constitute, continue, cringle, cubby, cubbyhole, deadeye, decree, defer, delay, digest, divide, division, doghouse, drag out, enact, enact laws, enroll, enter, enumerate, estate, extend, eye, eyelet, file, filibuster, filing system, finding list, gasket, get the floor, grade, grommet, group, grouping, guide, handlist, hang fire, hang up, have the floor, head, heading, hold off, hold over, hold up, hole, identify, impanel, index, inventory, itemize, keep score, keyhole, kill, kin, knothole, label, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay over, league, legislate, letter file, level, list, lobby through, logroll, loop, loophole, manhole, mousehole, name, niche, ordain, order, pass, peephole, pigeonholes, pinch, pinhole, place, placket, placket hole, playhouse, pocket, porthole, position, post, postpone, predicament, program, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, punch-hole, push aside, put aside, put away, put in force, put in mothballs, put off, put on ice, put through, race, railroad through, range, rank, rate, rating, recess, register, reserve, roll logs, rubric, schedule, score, section, sept, set, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sideline, sleep on, slot, sort, spiracle, stand over, station, status, stave off, stay, store, stow, strain, stratum, stretch out, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, suspend, table, table the motion, tabulate, take a recess, take the floor, tally, tap, tier, tight spot, tight squeeze, title, type, vent, venthole, veto, waive, yield the floor

pigeonholed

• pigeonholed, abandoned, assorted, cataloged, classified, deserted, disregarded, filed, graded, grouped, half-done, hierarchic, ignored, indexed, laid aside, left undone, missed, neglected, omitted, on file, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, placed, put aside, pyramidal, ranked, rated, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, sorted, stratified, tabular, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, undone, unregarded, unsolicited, untended, unwatched

pigeonholing

• pigeonholing, analysis, arrangement, cataloging, categorization, classification, codification, division, filing, grading, grouping, indexing, placement, ranging, ranking, rating, sorting, stratification, subdivision, tabulation, taxonomy, typology

piggish

• piggish, Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, asinine, avaricious, avid, beastly, bolting, bottomless, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, coveting, covetous, cowish, cowlike, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, deerlike, devouring, edacious, equestrian, equine, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, goatish, goatlike, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, mulish, omnivorous, overgreedy, ovine, polyphagic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ruminant, sheepish, sheeplike, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, ungulate, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing

piggy bank

• piggy bank, Fort Knox, bank, bursary, cash register, cashbox, chest, coffer, coin box, depository, exchequer, fisc, gold depository, locker, money chest, penny bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, storehouse, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, till, treasure-house, treasury, vault

pigheaded

• pigheaded, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, intolerant, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, restive, self-willed, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, uncooperative, unregenerate, unyielding, willful

piglet

• piglet, barrow, birdling, boar, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, dogie, duckling, fawn, fledgling, foal, fryer, gilt, gosling, hog, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, pig, piggy, pigling, polliwog, porker, pullet, pup, puppy, razorback, shoat, sow, suckling pig, swine, tadpole, tusker, weaner, whelp, wild boar, yeanling

pigment

• pigment, Adrianople red, Alice blue, Arabian red, Argos brown, Bordeaux, Brunswick black, Brunswick blue, Burgundy, Capri blue, Cassel yellow, Chinese blue, Chinese white, Claude tint, Cologne brown, Columbian red, Congo rubine, Copenhagen blue, Dresden blue, Dutch orange, Egyptian green, English red, French blue, French gray, Gobelin blue, Goya, Guinea green, India pink, Indian red, Irish green, Janus green, Kelly green, Kendal green, Kildare green, Lincoln green, Majolica earth, Mars orange, Mars violet, Mexican red, Mitis green, Montpellier green, Nile green, Paris green, Paris yellow, Persian blue, Persian red, Pompeian blue, Prussian blue, Prussian red, Quaker green, Roman umber, Saint Benoit, Saxe blue, Saxony green, Schweinfurt green, Spanish green, Spanish ocher, Tanagra, Titian, Turkey red, Turkey umber, Tyrian purple, Vandyke red, Vienna green, Wedgwood blue, Wedgwood green, absinthe, acid yellow, acier, acorn, air brush, alabaster, alesan, alizarin brown, amber, amethyst, amidonaphthol red, aniline black, aniline blue, annatto, anthracene brown, anthragallol, antique brown, antique gold, apple green, apply paint, apricot, aqua green, aquamarine, arsenic yellow, art paper, ash, ash gray, aureolin, autumn leaf, avocado green, azo blue, azo-orange, azulene, azure, azurite blue, baby blue, barium sulfate, bat, bedaub, bedizen, begild, benzoazurine, beryl, beryl green, besmear, bice, biscuit, bister, blanc fixe, bleu celeste, blond, blue black, blue turquoise, bone black, bone brown, bottle green, bracken, bright rose, brush, brush on paint, buff, bunny brown, burgundy, burnt Roman ocher, burnt almond, burnt carmine, burnt ocher, burnt rose, burnt sienna, butter, cadet blue, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, cafe noir, calamine blue, calcimine, camera lucida, camera obscura, canary, canvas, carbon black, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, carotene, celadon, cerulean, chalk, chamois, champagne, charcoal, chartreuse, chartreuse green, chartreuse tint, chartreuse yellow, chestnut, chrome, chrome black, chrome lemon, chrome orange, chrome oxide green, chrome red, chrome yellow, chromogen, chrysophenin, chrysoprase green, ciba blue, cinder gray, cinnabar, citron green, civette green, claret, clematis, cloud gray, coat, coat of paint, coating, cobalt, cobalt green, cochineal, coconut, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, copper, copper red, coptic, corbeau, cordovan, cornflower, cover, cramoisie, crash, crayon, cream, cresol red, crimson, crocus, crystal gray, cucumber green, cyan, cyanine blue, cypress green, dab, dahlia, damask, damson, dandelion, daub, dead leaf, dead-color, deep-dye, delft blue, dip, distemper, doeskin, double-dye, dove gray, drab, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, drop black, duck green, dun, dye, dyestuff, easel, eggshell, emblazon, emerald, emeraude, enamel, engild, exterior paint, face, faded rose, fast-dye, fiesta, fir, fire red, fixative, flat coat, flat wash, flax, flesh, flesh color, flesh red, floor enamel, foliage brown, fox, fresco, fuchsia, fuchsine, gamboge, garter blue, gild, glauconite, glaucous, glaucous blue, glaucous gray, glaucous green, glaze, gloss, golden pheasant, grain, grape, grass green, green ocher, grege, ground, gun metal, hazel, helianthin, heliotrope, henna, holly green, honey, honey yellow, hue, hyacinth, hyacinth red, illuminate, imbue, imperial purple, incarnadine, indigo, indigo white, infrared, ingrain, interior paint, iron gray, iron red, isamine blue, ivory, ivory black, jade, japan, jockey, jonquil, jouvence blue, lacquer, lake, lampblack, lapis lazuli blue, lavender, lavender blue, lay figure, lay on color, lead gray, leaf green, leather, lemon chrome, light red, lilac, liver brown, livid pink, lobster, madder, madder blue, madder crimson, madder lake, madder orange, madder pink, madder rose, madder yellow, magenta, maize, malachite green, mallow, mallow pink, mandarin, maple sugar, marigold, marine blue, maroon, massicot, maulstick, mauve, meadow brook, medium, melon, metanil yellow, methyl green, methyl orange, methyl yellow, methylene azure, methylene blue, mignonette, milori green, moleskin, monsignor, moonlight, moss green, mouse gray, mulberry, mummy, murrey, myrtle, naphthol yellow, navy, navy blue, negro, neutral tint, new blue, ocher brown, ocher orange, ocher red, oil yellow, old blue, old gold, old ivory, old red, olive, olive brown, olivesheen, opal gray, opaque color, orange chrome yellow, orange lead, orange madder, orange mineral, orange ocher, orchid, orchid rose, oriole, orpiment, orpiment red, otter brown, oxblood, oxide brown, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, palladium red, pansy, pansy violet, parget, parrot green, partridge, pastel, patina green, pea green, peach, peachblossom pink, peacock blue, pearl, pearl gray, pebble, pelican, pencil, pepper-and-salt, philamot, phosphine, pigments, platinum, plum, plumbago gray, pompadour green, ponceau, pontiff purple, poppy, powder blue, powder gray, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, primrose, primuline yellow, puce, pumpkin, purple lake, purree, pyrethrum yellow, quince yellow, raisin, raw sienna, raw umber, realgar, realgar orange, red lead, red ocher, red pink, regal purple, reseda, resorcin dark brown, roan, roccellin, rose, rose pink, royal pink, royal purple, rubine, ruby, ruddle, russet, saffron, salmon, sand, sap green, scarlet madder, scratchboard, sea blue, sea-water green, seal, serpentine green, shade, shadow, shamrock, shell pink, shellac, shocking pink, siccative, silver, sketchbook, sketchpad, sky blue, slop on paint, smalt, smear, smoke blue, smoke gray, snapdragon, solferino, spatula, spray gun, stain, stammel, steel blue, steel gray, stil-de-grain yellow, stipple, straw, strawberry, stump, sulfur, sunflower yellow, suntan, tangerine, tartrazine, taupe, tawny, tea rose, tempera, tenne, terra cotta, terra sienna, terra umbra, terre-verte, thinner, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, toast, toluidine red, tone, topaz, transparent color, trypan blue, turpentine, turps, turquoise, ultramarine, umber, undercoat, undercoating, varnish, vehicle, verd gay, verdant green, verdet, verdigris, vermilionette, violet, viridian, viridine green, wash, wash coat, white lead, whitewash, wine, wine purple, woad, xanthene, xanthin, yellow madder, yellow ocher, zaffer, zinc orange, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc white

pigtail

• pigtail, braid, brush, bun, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, cavendish, chaw, chew, chewing tobacco, chignon, coil, cud, cue, cut plug, dock, eating tobacco, fantail, fid, knot, navy, navy plug, plait, queue, quid, rattail, stub, tail, tailpiece, tobacco juice, topknot, twist

pike

• pike, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, crest, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hilltop, interstate highway, knoll, lane, local road, lofty peak, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, mountaintop, parkway, pave, paved road, peak, pic, pico, pinnacle, place, plank road, point, precipice, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, spur, state highway, street, summit, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, tor, township road, turnpike, wynd

piker

• piker, Arab, adventurer, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, betting ring, bettor, bo, boneshaker, bum, bummer, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheapskate, compulsive gambler, crap shooter, dogie, drifter, floater, gambler, gamester, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hazarder, hobo, homeless waif, idler, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, losel, mudlark, niggard, penny pincher, petty gambler, pier, player, plunger, punter, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, roadster, rounder, sharp, sharper, sharpie, ski bum, skinflint, speculator, sport, sporting man, sportsman, stiff, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tightwad, tinhorn, tipster, tout, tramp, traveler, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, venturer, wagerer, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel

pilaster

• pilaster, antenna tower, arcade, atlas, baluster, balustrade, banister, barbican, base, belfry, bell tower, campanile, caryatid, colonnade, colonnette, colossus, column, cupola, dado, derrick, die, dome, fire tower, footstalk, jack, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, newel-post, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peristyle, pier, pile, piling, pillar, pinnacle, plinth, pole, portico, post, pylon, pyramid, queen-post, shaft, skyscraper, socle, spire, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe, steeple, stem, stupa, subbase, surbase, telamon, television mast, tope, tour, tower, trunk, turret, upright, water tower, windmill tower

pile drive

• pile drive, assault, bear, bear upon, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, cram, crowd, dig, drive, elbow, force, goad, hurtle, hustle, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, nudge, poke, press, prod, punch, push, ram, ram down, rattle, run, run against, shake, shoulder, shove, stress, tamp, thrust

pile it on

• pile it on, Barnumize, aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, blow, bombast, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, draw the longbow, exaggerate, go to extremes, hyperbolize, inflate, lay it on, magnify, make much of, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, pontificate, puff, stretch, stretch the truth, talk big, talk highfalutin, talk in superlatives, tout, travesty, vapor

pile up

• pile up, accumulate, amass, backlog, bank, bank up, beach, cast away, collect, cumulate, drift, garner, garner up, gather into barns, ground, heap, heap up, hide, hill, hoard, hoard up, hold, keep, lay up, mound, pile, put up, pyramid, rick, run aground, save, save up, secrete, shipwreck, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stack up, stock up, stockpile, store up, strand, take the ground, treasure, treasure up, wreck

pile

• pile, abscess, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, angina, angina pectoris, anthill, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, architecture, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, assault, assemblage, assemble, assortment, atherosclerosis, atomic pile, atrial fibrillation, attack, auricular fibrillation, back, backlog, bag, bags, baluster, balustrade, banister, bank, bank up, bankroll, barrel, base, batch, bed sore, beriberi heart, bestraddle, bestride, blade, blain, bleb, blister, board, boil, bomb, boodle, bottle, box, bract, bracteole, bractlet, breeder reactor, bricks, bristle, bristles, brush, bubo, budget, building, bulla, bundle, bunion, burden, can, canker, canker sore, capillament, carbuncle, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, caryatid, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chancre, chancroid, charge, chilblain, choke, cilium, climb on, coat, cock, cold sore, collect, collection, colonnade, column, commissariat, commissary, concentration, congenital heart disease, congeries, conglomeration, considerable, construct, construction, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, cornucopia, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, cotyledon, crate, crowd in, cumulate, cumulation, dado, deal, deposit, diastolic hypertension, die, down, drift, dump, dune, edifice, eiderdown, embankment, encased heart, endocarditis, enter, erection, eschar, establishment, exaggerate, exit, extrasystole, fabric, fast pile, fatty heart, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fibroid heart, fill, finish, fistula, flag, flask-shaped heart, fleece, floral leaf, floss, flue, fluff, foliole, footstalk, fortune, freight, frond, frosted heart, fur, furnace, furuncle, furunculus, fuzz, gathering, get in, get into, get on, glomeration, glume, go aboard, go on board, gobs, good deal, good sum, grain, granular texture, great deal, gumboil, hair, hairy heart, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, heaps, heaps of gold, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, hemorrhoids, heterogeneous reactor, high blood pressure, hill, hoard, holdings, homogeneous reactor, hop in, horsehair, house, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, intermediate pile, inventory, involucre, involucrum, ischemic heart disease, jack, jam in, jumble, jump in, jump on, kibe, knub, lade, lamina, larder, large sum, lashings, lattice, leaf, leaflet, leave, leg, lemma, lesion, ligule, lint, load, loads, loot, lot, lots, lump, mane, mass, material, materials, materiel, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, molehill, money, mound, mount, mountain, mow, much, munitions, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, nap, needle, neutron factory, newel-post, nub, nuclear furnace, oceans, oodles, overwhelm, ox heart, pack, pack away, pack in, packaged house, packet, pale, palisade, palpitation, papula, papule, paralytic stroke, paronychia, paroxysmal tachycardia, parulis, peck, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg, pelt, pericarditis, petal, petechia, picket, pier, pilaster, pile in, pile it on, pile out, pile up, piles, piling, pillar, pimple, pine needle, pit, plenitude, plenty, plethora, plinth, plush, plutonium reactor, pock, pocket, pole, polyp, post, pot, potful, power of money, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, prefab, prefabrication, premature beat, pretty penny, protuberance, provisionment, provisions, pseudoaortic insufficiency, pubescence, pubic hair, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pustule, pyramid, pyre, quantity, queen-post, quite a little, radioactive waste, raft, rafts, rations, reactor, reactor pile, repertoire, repertory, rheumatic heart disease, rick, rising, rods, roll, round heart, ruck, sack, scab, scads, sclerosis, seed leaf, sepal, setula, shaft, shag, shank, ship, shock, sight, skyscraper, slew, slews, slow pile, snowdrift, socle, soft chancre, sore, spate, spathe, spear, spile, spire, stack, stack up, stacks, staff, stake, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stellarator, stem, stigma, stipula, stipule, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, stony heart, store, stores, stow, stroke, structure, sty, subbase, superabundance, superstructure, supplies, supply, supply on hand, suppuration, surbase, surface, surface texture, swansdown, swelling, tachycardia, texture, thistledown, thousands, thrombosis, tidy sum, tons, tower, treasure, treasury, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, trunk, tubercle, tumulus, turtle heart, ulcer, ulceration, upright, uranium reactor, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, wad, wads, wale, wealth, weave, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, whole slew, windrow, woof, wool, wound

pileup

• pileup, accident, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck

pilfer

• pilfer, abstract, abuse, and, annex, appropriate, bag, befoul, boost, borrow, convert, cop, crib, debase, defalcate, defile, defraud, desecrate, divert, embezzle, extort, filch, foul, grab, hook, lift, make off with, maladminister, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, nick, nip, palm, peculate, pervert, pinch, plunder, poach, pollute, profane, prostitute, purloin, rip off, rob, run away with, rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snaffle, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, violate, walk off with

pilfering

• pilfering, abstraction, abuse, abuse of office, annexation, appropriation, befoulment, boosting, conversion, conveyance, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, filching, fouling, fraud, graft, liberation, lifting, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilferage, pinching, poaching, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, violation

pilgrim

• pilgrim, abbacomes, abbot, adventurer, alpinist, ascetic, astronaut, beadsman, brother, caloyer, camper, celibate, cenobite, climber, comers and goers, commuter, conventual, conventual prior, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, friar, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grand prior, hajji, hermit, hieromonach, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, lay abbot, lay brother, mariner, mendicant, monastic, monk, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pillar saint, pillarist, pioneer, prior, religieux, religious, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, stylite, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

pilgrimage

• pilgrimage, adventure, campaign, circuit, course, cruise, crusade, emprise, excursion, expedition, exploration, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, mission, outing, package tour, peregrinate, peregrination, pilgrim, pleasure trip, progress, quest, range the world, round trip, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, sight-see, stalk, take a trip, take the road, tour, trek, trip, turn, voyage, wayfare

pill

• pill, IUD, SOB, bag, bastard, birth control device, bolus, bore, bugger, butt, buttonholer, capsule, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, cough drop, crank, crashing bore, creep, cure, diaphragm, drag, drip, drug, dryasdust, dusty, fag, fart, flat tire, frightful bore, headache, heel, hood, hooligan, humdrum, intrauterine device, jerk, louse, lozenge, meanie, medicament, medication, medicine, mother, nuisance, oral contraceptive, pastille, pellet, pessary, pest, pharmaceutical, prophylactic, proser, rat, remedy, rubber, shit, shithead, shitheel, skin, smoke, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, stinkard, stinker, tablet, the pill, troche, turd, twaddler, wet blanket

pillage

• pillage, abduct, appropriate, arrogate, assault, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, booty, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, buccaneering, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, confiscate, defilement, demolish, demolition, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, direption, encroach, filch, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, go on, gut, hammer, invade, kidnap, lay waste, laying waste, level, lift, loot, looting, maraud, marauding, maul, mug, nab, pilfer, pillaging, pinch, piracy, plunder, plundering, prey on, purloin, rage, raid, raiding, ramp, rampage, ransack, ransacking, rant, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, rave, raven, ravish, ravishment, raze, razing, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, riot, roar, rob, robbery, ruin, sack, sacking, savage, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoliate, spoliation, storm, strip, stripping, sweep, swipe, tear, tear around, terrorize, thieve, throttle, trespass, usurp, vandalize, violate, waste, wreck

pillaging

• pillaging, assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness, violation, wolfishness

pillar of society

• pillar of society, Christian, Establishment, VIP, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, burgher, celebrity, dignitary, dignity, elder, exemplary citizen, father, figure, good citizen, good neighbor, great man, important person, interests, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, power, power elite, respectable citizen, ruling circle, sachem, somebody, something, the great, the top, top brass, top people, true Christian, tycoon, very important person, worthy

pillar

• pillar, antenna tower, arcade, arch, atlas, backbone, baluster, balustrade, banister, barbican, barrel, barrow, base, bedrock, belfry, bell tower, bole, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, campanile, caryatid, cask, cenotaph, champion, colonnade, colonnette, colossus, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cupola, cyclolith, cylinder, cylindroid, dado, defender, derrick, die, dolmen, dome, drum, fire tower, footstalk, footstone, foundation, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, jack, lantern, leader, lighthouse, mainstay, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, newel-post, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, pagoda, patron, patroness, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peristyle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pinnacle, pipe, plaque, plinth, pole, portico, post, prize, prop, protector, protectress, pylon, pyramid, queen-post, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rock, roll, roller, rostral column, rouleau, safekeeper, shaft, shrine, sinews, skyscraper, socle, spire, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe, steeple, stela, stem, stone, stupa, subbase, supporter, surbase, tablet, telamon, television mast, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tour, tower, tower of strength, trophy, trunk, tube, turret, upholder, upright, water tower, windmill tower, worthy

pillbox

• pillbox, acropolis, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bridgehead, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fasthold, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, post, rath, safehold, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, ward

pillhead

• pillhead, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, junkie, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pothead, snowbird, speed freak, tripper, user

pillory

• pillory, Oregon boat, attaint, bespatter, bilbo, blacken, blot, blow upon, bond, bonds, brand, branks, bridle, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, camisole, cast reproach upon, castigate, censure, chains, chasten, chastise, collar, correct, crank, cucking stool, cuffs, deal with, debase, defame, defile, defrock, degrade, deplume, deride, disapprove, discipline, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, displume, ducking stool, expose, expose to infamy, fetter, finger pillory, gag, gibbet, grin at, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, hang in effigy, hobbles, hold in derision, hopples, humiliate, impute shame to, inflict upon, irons, laugh at, laugh to scorn, leading strings, leash, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, manacle, masthead, muzzle, pan, penalize, point at, poke fun at, punish, put one on, put to shame, rag, razz, reflect discredit upon, reins, reprimand, reproach, restraint, restraints, ride, ridicule, roast, settle with, shackle, shame, slur, smear, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, soil, square accounts, stain, stigmatize, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, sully, taint, take to task, tarnish, tether, trammel, trammels, treadmill, trebuchet, triangle, triangles, unfrock, vilify, visit upon, whipping post, wooden horse, yoke

pillow

• pillow, afford support, air mattress, back, back up, bear, bear up, bedding, blubber, bolster, bolster up, brace, breeze, buoy up, butter, buttress, carry, clay, cradle, crutch, cushion, dough, down, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, give support, hold, hold up, innerspring mattress, kapok, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, litter, mainstay, maintain, mat, mattress, pad, pallet, plush, prop, pudding, puff, putty, reinforce, rubber, rug, satin, shore, shore up, shoulder, silk, sleeping bag, springs, stay, subsidize, subvention, support, sustain, swansdown, thistledown, underbed, underbedding, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr

pillowcase

• pillowcase, afghan, bed linen, bedclothes, 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, quilt, robe, rug, sheet, sheeting, slip, spread

pilose

• pilose, bristly, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered, woolly

pilot

• pilot, Gyropilot, aegis, aerialist, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, agent, air pilot, airman, airplanist, arm guard, astronaut, auto, automatic pilot, aviator, backstop, barnstorm, barnstormer, be responsible for, bellwether, birdman, boatheader, boatsteerer, buffer, bulwark, bumper, captain, carry on, carry out, carry through, charioteer, chart a course, cicerone, cloud seeder, commercial pilot, cond, conduct, conductor, conn, conner, contraceptive, control, copilot, copyright, courier, cowherd, cox, coxswain, crash helmet, crop-duster, cushion, cut-and-try, dashboard, deal with, dean, direct, docking pilot, dodger, doyen, dragoman, drive, driver, drover, empirical, engineer, escort, experimental, face mask, fender, finger guard, flier, fly, foot guard, functionary, fuse, goatherd, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, guide, guidepost, guider, hand guard, handle, handler, handrail, hard hat, have the conn, helm, helmet, helmsman, herd, herdsman, heuristic, hit-or-miss, hold the reins, instructor, insulation, interlock, jet jockey, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, lead, leader, licensed pilot, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, make go, manage, maneuver, manipulate, manipulator, mask, mercury, motor, mudguard, navigate, navigator, nose guard, operant, operate, operative, operator, pad, padding, palladium, patent, peel off, perform on, play, pointer, practice, preventive, probationary, probative, probatory, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, proving, provisional, rainmaker, river pilot, route, run, runner, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, sailing master, screen, seat belt, see, see to, shape a course, shepherd, shield, shin guard, show, solo, steer, steerer, steersman, stunt flier, stunt man, sun helmet, take care of, take the helm, tentative, test, test pilot, testing, tool, tour director, tour guide, trial, trial-and-error, trying, umbrella, verificatory, wheel, wheelman, windscreen, windshield, wingman, work

pilotage

• pilotage, admission, admission fee, aeronautics, air service, airline, anchorage, aspect, astronautics, astronavigation, attitude, authority, aviation, azimuth, ballooning, bearing, bearings, blind flying, brokerage, carfare, celestial navigation, cellarage, charge, charges, chronometer, cloud-seeding, coastwise navigation, command, commercial aviation, conduct, consolan, contact flying, control, cover charge, cruising, dead reckoning, demand, direction, dockage, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exposure, fare, fee, fix, flight, flying, frontage, general aviation, gliding, governance, government, guidance, handling, helmsmanship, hire, husbandry, lay, lead, leading, license fee, lie, line of position, loran, management, managery, managing, manipulation, ordering, orientation, pilotry, pilotship, plane sailing, point-to-point navigation, portage, position, position line, radar, radio beacon, radio bearing, radio navigation, regulation, running, sailing, sailplaning, salvage, scot, scot and lot, set, sextant, shoran, shot, soaring, sofar, sonar, steerage, steering, storage, tables, the conn, the helm, the wheel, toll, towage, wharfage, winging

pimp

• pimp, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, bawd, betrayer, black sheep, bully, cadet, canary, degenerate, fallen angel, fancy man, fink, gigolo, hustle, hustler, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, madam, maquereau, miscreant, nark, pander, panderer, peach, pervert, procure, procurer, procuress, profligate, prostitute, rat, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace, sing, snitch, solicit, sorry lot, squeak, squeal, stool, stoolie, trollop, white slaver, whore, whoremonger

pimping

• pimping, Mickey Mouse, harlotry, measly, niggling, paltry, pandering, peddling, piddling, piffling, prostitution, solicitation, soliciting, streetwalking, trifling, trivial, whoredom, whoremastery, whoremonging

pimple

• pimple, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, boss, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, cicatrix, coarsen, cold sore, colophon, comedo, concavity, convexity, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, dactylogram, dactylograph, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, dilatation, dilation, dint, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion, dot, edema, embossment, eruption, eschar, excrescence, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fingerprint, fistula, flaw, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gnarl, granulate, gumboil, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, horripilate, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, intumescence, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, lentigo, lesion, lump, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pad, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, paw print, pawmark, petechia, piles, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, print, pug, pugmark, pustule, rift, rising, rough, rough up, roughen, scab, scar, scratch, seal, sebaceous cyst, sigil, signet, soft chancre, sore, speckle, split, spot, sprinkle, stamp, step, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, suppuration, swell, swelling, swollenness, thumbmark, thumbprint, track, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, vestige, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

pimply

• pimply, blemished, broken, bumpy, checked, choppy, cicatrized, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cracked, crazed, cross-grained, defaced, defective, deformed, disfigured, distorted, faulty, flawed, grainy, granulated, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, keloidal, kinked, linsey-woolsey, marred, pimpled, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, shagged, shaggy, split, textured, twisted, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, warped, wimpled

pin down

• pin down, allocate, anchor, assign, balance, ballast, bind, bridle, chain, collocate, counterbalance, denominate, deploy, designate, determine, dispose, emplace, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, firm, firm up, fix, freeze, get a fix, gyve, hamper, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hold, home in on, hopple, immobilize, indicate, install, keep, lash, leash, localize, locate, make fast, manacle, mark, mention, moor, nail down, name, navigate, peg down, pick out, picket, pinion, pinpoint, place, point out, position, put in irons, put in place, restrain, retain, rope, secure, select, set, shackle, signify, situate, specialize, specify, spot, stabilitate, stabilize, state, steady, stick, stipulate, straitjacket, strap, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, transfix, triangulate, zero in on

pin on

• pin on, account for, accredit with, accrete to, accuse, acknowledge, allege, apply to, arraign, article, ascribe to, assign to, attach to, attribute to, blame, blame for, blame on, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring home to, bring to book, charge, charge on, charge to, cite, complain, confess, connect with, credit with, denounce, denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, father upon, finger, fix on, fix upon, hang on, hang something on, impeach, imply, impute, impute to, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, lay charges, lay to, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pinpoint, place upon, point to, prefer charges, press charges, put on report, refer to, report, reproach, saddle on, saddle with, set down to, settle upon, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit

pin

• pin, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ankle, anklet, arbor, armlet, armory, articulate, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, badge, badge of office, badges, bagatelle, bangle, baton, batten, batten down, bauble, bayonet legs, beads, bean, bibelot, bijou, bit, blazonry, bolt, bowlegs, bracelet, brass farthing, brassard, breastpin, broach, brooch, buckle, bung, butt, button, calf, cap and gown, cent, chain, chain of office, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, check valve, circle, clasp, class ring, cleat, clip, cnemis, cock, cockade, collar, cork, coronet, cross, crown, curio, decoration, diadem, distaff, dovetail, dress, drumstick, eagle, earring, emblems, ensigns, farce, farthing, fasces, faucet, feather, fig, figurehead, fleabite, fleur-de-lis, fob, folderol, foreleg, fribble, frippery, fulcrum, gamb, gambrel, gaud, gem, gewgaw, gigot, gimbal, gimcrack, gudgeon, hair, halfpenny, ham, hammer and sickle, hasp, heraldry, hill of beans, hind leg, hinge, hingle, hitch, hock, hook, hub, insignia, jam, jamb, jest, jewel, joint, joke, kickshaw, knee, knickknack, knickknackery, lapel pin, latch, leg, lid, limb, livery, lock, locket, mace, mandrel, mantle, markings, medal, minikin, miter, mockery, molehill, mortarboard, mortise, nail, nave, necklace, nose ring, oarlock, old school tie, peg, peppercorn, picayune, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pintle, pivot, plug, podite, pole, popliteal space, precious stone, rabbet, radiant, rap, red cent, regalia, rhinestone, ring, rivet, rose, row of pins, rowlock, rush, scarf, school ring, scissor-legs, screw, sea cock, sew, shamrock, shank, shin, shit, sigillography, skewer, skull and crossbones, snap, sneeshing, sou, sphragistics, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spindle, staff, staple, stems, stick, stickpin, stitch, stone, stop, stopgap, stopper, stopple, straw, stumps, swastika, swivel, tack, tap, tarsus, tartan, thistle, tiara, tie, toggle, torque, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, trotters, trunnion, tuppence, two cents, twopence, uniform, valve, verge, wampum, wand, wedge, whim-wham, wristband, wristlet, zipper

pinball

• pinball, bingo, card games, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, fan-tan, hazard, horse racing, keno, lotto, pitch and toss, policy, rouge et noir, roulette, shell game, sweepstake, sweepstakes, the numbers, the numbers game, trente-et-quarante

pincers

• pincers, alum, aspirator, astringent, clamp, claws, clutches, compressor, constrictor, contractor, corkscrew, crowbar, digits, extractor, fangs, fingernails, fingers, forceps, hands, hooks, jaws, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, mitts, nails, nippers, palm, pincer, pipette, pliers, pounces, press, pump, separator, siphon, styptic, styptic pencil, talons, teeth, tweezers, unguals, ungulae, vacuum pump, vise, wringer

pinch bar

• pinch bar, bar, beam, boom, cant hook, claw bar, crank, crow, crowbar, handspike, iron crow, jimmy, lever, limb, marlinespike, outrigger, peavey, pedal, prize, pry, ripping bar, spar, treadle, wrecking bar

pinch hit

• pinch hit, act for, answer for, appear for, back up, change places with, commission, crowd out, cut out, deputize, displace, double for, fill in for, front for, ghost, ghostwrite, pinch-hit for, relieve, replace, represent, speak for, spell, spell off, stand in for, subrogate, substitute for, succeed, supersede, supplant, swap places with, understudy, understudy for

pinch hitter

• pinch hitter, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, attorney, backup, backup man, champion, change, changeling, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive officer, exponent, fake, figurehead, fill-in, gate, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, next best thing, paranymph, personnel, phony, pleader, procurator, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, second in command, second string, secondary, sign, spares, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility man, utility player, vicar, vicar general, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent

pinch

• pinch, abstract, ace, acute pain, afflict, agonize, ail, alternate, alternative, and, annex, apprehend, apprehension, approach, appropriate, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, atom, backup, bag, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beat, beat to windward, beggarliness, beggary, begrudge, bind, bit, bite, boost, boring pain, borrow, breakers ahead, burglary, burn, bust, caper, capture, cardhouse, catch, cause for alarm, center, centralize, chafe, charley horse, clamp, clamping, clamping down, climacteric, close, close in, close up, close with, close-haul, clutch, collar, come together, complication, compress, compression, compulsion, concenter, concentralize, concentrate, confine, constraint, contingency, converge, convergence of events, convulse, cop, counterfeit, cramp, cramps, crib, crick, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crucify, crunch, crush, crux, cubby, cubbyhole, cut, dab, danger, dangerous ground, darting pain, defraud, deprivation, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, distress, doghouse, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drive, dummy, dwarf, economize, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embezzle, emergency, empty purse, endangerment, ensphere, equivalent, ersatz, exact, excruciate, exigency, extort, extremity, fake, fall in with, famish, farthing, fester, filch, fine how-do-you-do, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, fret, fulgurant pain, funnel, gall, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, girdle pain, give pain, gnaw, gnawing, gobbet, gouge, grab, grain, granule, grasp, grate, grind, grinding poverty, grip, gripe, griping, groat, grudge, hair, hand-to-mouth existence, handful, harrow, hazard, heist, hell to pay, high pressure, hinge, hitch, hobble, hole, homelessness, hook, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, hurt, imbroglio, imitation, imperativeness, imperilment, impoverishment, impulse, impulsion, indigence, inflame, inflict pain, intersect, iota, irritate, jam, jeopardy, job, joker, jot, jumping pain, kill by inches, kink, knock off, lacerate, lack, lancinating pain, lift, little, little bit, live upon nothing, luff, luff up, make a pinch, make off with, makeshift, martyr, martyrize, meet, menace, mendicancy, mess, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mix, mock, modicum, molecule, moneylessness, morass, mote, nab, narrow the gap, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, netting, nick, nip, nutshell, ounce, pain, palm, pang, parlous straits, paroxysm, particle, pass, pauperism, pauperization, pebble, penury, peril, phony, pickle, pickup, pierce, pigeonhole, pilfer, pinch pennies, pittance, playhouse, plight, ply, poach, point, predicament, press, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prick, privation, prolong the agony, provisional, proxy, pull in, purloin, push, put to torture, quagmire, quicksand, rack, rankle, rash impulse, rasp, reserve, rip-off, risk, rob, robbery, rocks ahead, rub, run away with, run in, run together, rustle, sail fine, save, scamp, scant, scrape, screw, scrimp, scrounge, scruple, secondary, seizure, shake, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shoplift, skimp, slough, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, snag, snare, snatch, snitch, soupcon, spare, spasm, speck, spoonful, spot, squeeze, squeezing, stab, stabbing pain, starve, steal, stew, sticky wicket, sting, stint, stitch, stopgap, storm clouds, strait, straits, stress, substitute, swamp, swindle, swipe, tad, take, take into custody, taper, taste, temporary, tension, tentative, theft, thieve, thimbleful, thin ice, threat, thrill, throes, tight spot, tight squeeze, tighten, tightening, tightrope, tiny bit, tittle, tormen, torment, torture, touch, touch the wind, tricky spot, trifling amount, trivia, turn, turning, turning point, tweak, twinge, twist, twitch, unholy mess, unite, urge, urgency, utility, vicarious, wad up, walk off with, want, whit, wound, wrench, wring

pinchbeck

• pinchbeck, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, bravery, brummagem, cheat, chiffon, clinquant, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fakement, false, falsified, feigned, festoons, fictitious, fictive, finery, folderol, foofaraw, forgery, frame-up, fraud, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, garbled, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hoax, illegitimate, imitation, impostor, junk, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, paste, perverted, phony, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queer, rip-off, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, superfluity, supposititious, swindle, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, trappings, trickery, trumpery, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, whited sepulcher

pinched

• pinched, attenuated, badly off, cadaverous, careworn, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corpselike, cramped, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, drawn, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, haggard, hard pressed, hard up, hollow-eyed, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, jejune, knitted, land-poor, marantic, marasmic, narrow, nipped, on the edge, out of pocket, peaked, peaky, pinched-in, poor, poorly off, puckered, puny, pursed, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, shriveled, skeletal, solidified, sorely pressed, squeezed, starved, starveling, straitened, strangled, strangulated, strapped, tabetic, tabid, underfed, undernourished, unmoneyed, unprosperous, up against it, wasp-waisted, wasted, weazeny, withered, wizened, worn, wraithlike, wrinkled

pinching

• pinching, Siberian, abstraction, algid, annexation, appropriation, arctic, avaricious, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boosting, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheap, cheeseparing, close, closefisted, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, conversion, conveyance, crisp, cutting, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frugality, gelid, glacial, graft, hardfisted, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, illiberal, inclement, keen, law of parsimony, liberation, lifting, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, niggardly, nipping, nippy, numbing, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penetrating, penny-pinching, piercing, pilferage, pilfering, pinchfisted, pinchpenny, poaching, raw, rigorous, save-all, scrimping, scrounging, severe, sharp, shoplifting, skimping, sleety, slushy, snappy, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, stingy, stinting, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

pindling

• pindling, cramped, dinky, exiguous, fretful, half-pint, huffy, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, peevish, petite, pettish, petulant, piddling, pint-sized, poky, prickly, puny, querulous, short, slight, small, smallish, two-by-four

pine barrens

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

pine cone

• pine cone, ament, capitulum, catkin, complex cone, cone, conelet, conoid, cop, cornet, corymb, cyme, funnel, head, ice-cream cone, panicle, raceme, spadix, spike, spikelet, strobile, thyrse, umbel, verticillaster

pine

• pine, ache, ache for, agonize, be dying for, be hurting for, bleed, break, brood, brood over, cave in, clamor for, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, crave, crumble, cry for, decline, desiccate, diminish, disintegrate, dream, droop, drop, dry up, dwindle, fade, fade away, fail, faint, fizzle out, flag, fret, gape for, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, grieve, hanker, hit the skids, hone for, hope for, hunger, itch for, languish, languish for, long for, lose strength, lust for, mope, mourn, pant for, peak, peg out, peter out, pine away, pine for, poop out, run down, sear, shrink, shrivel, sigh, sigh for, sink, sorrow, spoil for, take on, thirst, thirst for, waste, waste away, weaken, wear away, wear thin, weary for, wilt, wish for, wither, wither away, wizen, yearn, yearn for, yen for, yield

pinhead

• pinhead, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, beetleheaded, blockhead, blockheaded, blubberhead, blunderhead, bonehead, bufflehead, cabbagehead, cap, capsheaf, caput, chowderhead, chucklehead, chuckleheaded, clodhead, clodpate, clodpoll, cluck, crest, crown, crumb, dense, dimwit, dolthead, doltish, dot, drop, droplet, dullhead, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, fatheaded, featherweight, fleck, flyspeck, gnat, grain, head, heading, headpiece, iota, jolterhead, jot, jughead, knucklehead, lackwit, lunkhead, meathead, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, nitwit, noodlehead, numskull, particle, peabrain, pinbrain, pinpoint, point, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, scrap, simp, snip, snippet, speck, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tittle, topknot, tottyhead, vanishing point

pinhole

• pinhole, air hole, armhole, blowhole, bullet-hole, bunghole, cringle, deadeye, eye, eyelet, gasket, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, loop, loophole, manhole, mousehole, peephole, pigeonhole, placket, placket hole, porthole, punch-hole, spiracle, tap, vent, venthole

pining

• pining, Heimweh, aching, agony, anguish, bowed-down, care, carking care, cast down, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, dashed, decadent, declining, degenerate, dejected, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, feeling low, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, grief, hankering, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, lamentation, languishing, languishment, longing, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marcescent, misery, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pessimistic, prostration, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, sorrow, sorrowing, spiritless, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, waning, wasting, weary of life, wilting, wishful, wistful, withering, woe, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen

pinion

• pinion, anchor, appendage, arm, bind, bough, branch, bridle, chain, crest, enchain, entrammel, fasten, feather, fetter, gyve, hackle, hamper, hand, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hopple, imp, joint, lash, leash, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, make fast, manacle, member, moor, offshoot, organ, panache, peg down, picket, pin down, plume, plumule, put in irons, quill, ramification, restrain, rope, runner, scapular, scion, secure, shackle, spray, sprig, spur, straitjacket, strap, switch, tail, tendril, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, topknot, trammel, tuft, twig, wing

pink eye

• pink eye, amaurosis, blepharitis, cataract, choroiditis, conjunctivitis, cross-eye, defective vision, detached retina, esotropia, eye defect, glaucoma, gutta serena, iritis, keratitis, optic neuritis, retinoblastoma, sty, trachoma, uveitis, walleye

pink slip

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

pink

• pink, Bolshevik, India pink, Jacobin, Vandyke, Wobbly, acme, acme of perfection, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, annatto, auger, bite, blaze, blooming, bore, broach, burnt rose, chop, climax, color, consummation, coral, countersink, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crimson, culmination, cut, drill, empierce, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic, fiesta, fix, flesh, flesh color, flesh red, flush, flushed, fresh, fresh as April, gash, glow, gore, gouge, gouge out, green, healthy, hearty, height, highest pitch, hole, honeycomb, impale, in good shape, in the pink, incarnadine, incise, indent, jag, knurl, lance, last word, left-wing extremist, livid pink, lunatic fringe, machicolate, mallow pink, mantle, melon, mild radical, mildly radical, mill, moonlight, ne plus ultra, needle, nick, nihilist, nihilistic, notch, orchid rose, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, peach, peachblossom pink, peak, penetrate, perfection, perforate, picot, pierce, pink of perfection, pinkish, pinkishness, pinkness, pinko, pinky, pinnacle, prick, primrose, punch, puncture, radical, ream, ream out, red, red pink, redden, revolutionary, revolutionist, riddle, rose, rose pink, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosiness, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rouge, royal pink, ruddy, run through, salmon, sans-culotte, scallop, scarify, scarlet madder, score, scotch, serrate, shell pink, shocking pink, skewer, slash, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, subversive, summit, syndicalist, tap, tea rose, tooth, top, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, ultimate, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, up, yippie, youthful

pinko

• pinko, Bolshevik, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mild radical, nihilist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, radical, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, sans-culotte, subversive, syndicalist, ultra, ultraist, yippie

pinnacle

• pinnacle, acme, acme of perfection, all, antenna tower, apex, apogee, barbican, belfry, bell tower, brow, campanile, cap, ceiling, climax, cloud nine, colossus, column, consummation, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, cupola, derrick, dome, edge, end, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, fire tower, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, hilltop, knoll, lantern, last word, lighthouse, limit, lofty peak, martello, martello tower, mast, maximum, meridian, minaret, monument, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, nth degree, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, peak, perfection, pic, pico, pike, pilaster, pillar, pink, pink of perfection, pitch, point, pole, precipice, pylon, pyramid, ridge, seventh heaven, shaft, sky, skyscraper, spire, spur, standpipe, steeple, stupa, summit, television mast, the whole, tip, tip-top, top, tope, tor, tour, tower, turret, ultimate, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vertex, very top, water tower, windmill tower, zenith

pinpoint

• pinpoint, abode, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, allocate, apply to, area, ascribe to, assign, assign to, attach to, attribute to, bearings, bench mark, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, charge on, charge to, close, collocate, confess, connect with, constant, credit with, crumb, delicate, deploy, determinate, diagnose, direct, dispose, distinguish, district, dot, drop, droplet, emplace, emplacement, even, exact, express, faithful, fasten upon, father upon, fine, finger, fix, fix on, fix upon, fleck, flyspeck, get a fix, gnat, grain, hang on, hole, home in on, home on, identify, impute to, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, install, iota, jot, latitude and longitude, lay to, lieu, locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, map, mathematical, microbe, micrometrically precise, microorganism, microscopic, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, navigate, nice, particle, pick up, pin down, pin on, pinhead, place, place upon, placement, point, point to, position, precise, put in place, receive, recognize, refer to, refined, region, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, saddle on, saddle with, scan, scientific, scientifically exact, scrap, set down to, settle upon, severe, site, situate, situation, situs, snip, snippet, speck, spot, square, stead, strict, subtle, sweep, tittle, triangulate, trigger, tune in, undeviating, unerring, vanishing point, whereabout, whereabouts, zero in on

pinpointing

• pinpointing, allocation, assignment, automatic tracking, collocation, data transmission, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, emplacement, flector tuning, lading, loading, localization, locating, location, locking on, locking signals, mapping, packing, phase adjustment, placement, placing, positioning, posting, precision focusing, putting, radar navigation, radar-telephone relay, range finding, reposition, scan conversion, scanning, signal modulation, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, three-pointing, tracking, triangulation, triggering signals

pinprick

• pinprick, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, cursoriness, epidermis, exteriority, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gloss, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mere scratch, minikin, mockery, molehill, no depth, no water, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, rap, red cent, rind, row of pins, rush, scratch, shallowness, shit, shoaliness, skin, slightness, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, superficiality, superficies, surface, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, veneer, whim-wham

pins and needles

• pins and needles, agitation, all-overs, analgesia, anesthesia, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, buzz, callousness, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concernment, deadness, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, dullness, electronarcosis, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, inquietude, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, malaise, misgiving, narcosis, narcotization, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, numbness, obtuseness, overanxiety, paresthesia, perturbation, prickle, prickles, prickling, pucker, solicitude, stew, sting, stinging, strain, suspense, tension, thick skin, thrill, tingle, tingling, trouble, uneasiness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness, unquietness, upset, urtication, vexation, zeal

pint sized

• pint sized, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, petite, piddling, pindling, poky, puny, short, slight, small, smallish, two-by-four

pintle

• pintle, arbor, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, distaff, fulcrum, gimbal, gudgeon, hinge, hingle, hub, mandrel, nave, oarlock, pin, pivot, pole, radiant, rowlock, spindle, swivel, trunnion

pinto

• pinto, bay, bayard, buckskin, calico, calico pony, chestnut, clouded, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dun, gray, grizzle, marbled, motley, mottled, paint, painted pony, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, roan, skewbald, sorrel

pinup

• pinup, Miss America, Telephoto, Wirephoto, aerial photograph, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, black-and-white photograph, bunny, candid photograph, charmer, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, cover girl, dazzler, diapositive, dream, enchantress, great beauty, heliochrome, heliograph, knockout, lady fair, looker, model, montage, mug, mug shot, paragon, peach, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup girl, portrait, pussycat, raving beauty, reigning beauty, sex kitten, shot, slick chick, slide, snap, snapshot, still, still photograph, stunner, telephotograph, transparency

pinwheel

• pinwheel, agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pick-up sticks, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sport, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, whim-wham

piny

• piny, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bushlike, bushman, bushy, citrous, clam digger, coniferous, cracker, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, desert rat, evergreen, forester, frontiersman, hardwood, hillbilly, hinterlander, mountain man, mountaineer, nondeciduous, redneck, ridge runner, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, treelike, woodlander, woodman, woodsman

pioneer

• pioneer, Seabee, actuate, advance guard, adventurer, airhead, alpinist, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, astronaut, avant-garde, battle line, be in front, be the front-runner, beachhead, begin, bellwether, blaze the trail, break ground, break the ice, break the trail, bridgehead, buccinator, bushwhacker, camper, climber, coin, colonial, colonist, colonizer, combat engineer, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, create, cruiser, develop, discover, earliest, engineer, establish, excursionist, explorer, fare, farthest outpost, first line, forebear, forefront, foregoer, forerun, forerunner, forge ahead, found, front, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, go before, goer, groundbreaker, guide, hajji, harbinger, head, head up, herald, homesteader, immigrant, inaugurate, initial, initiate, innovate, innovator, institute, introduce, introduce new blood, invent, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kick off, launch, lay the foundation, lay the groundwork, lead, lead off, lead runner, lead the way, leader, line, maiden, make innovations, mariner, messenger, mountaineer, neologize, nester, open up, original, originate, outguard, outpost, pacemaker, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pilot, planter, point, precede, precedent, precursor, predecessor, primary, prime, put in motion, railhead, revolutionize, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sapper, sapper and miner, scout, set in motion, set off, set up, settler, show the way, sightseer, sooner, spearhead, squatter, stand first, stand in front, start, stormy petrel, straphanger, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, trend-setter, trigger, tripper, usher in, van, vanguard, vaunt-courier, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

pious

• pious, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God-fearing, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, adoring, affected, angelic, assured, believing, canting, certain, confident, convinced, cultish, cultist, cultistic, dedicated, devoted, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, dutiful, faithful, false, fideistic, fraudulent, godlike, godly, good, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, holy, hypocritical, impressed with, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, moral, oily, persuaded, pharisaic, pietistic, pistic, positive, prayerful, pretended, priestly, religious, reverent, reverential, right-minded, saintly, sanctified, sanctimonious, satisfied, secure, self-righteous, seraphic, smarmy, sniveling, sold on, solemn, spiritual, sure, theistic, unctuous, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, venerational, venerative, virtuous, worshipful

piousness

• piousness, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, adoration, affectation, cant, churchgoing, conformity, cultism, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dutifulness, faith, faithfulness, false piety, falseness, goody-goodiness, hypocrisy, insincerity, love of God, mealymouthedness, mummery, observance, oiliness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, religion, religionism, religiosity, religiousness, reverence, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-righteousness, snivel, snuffle, theism, unction, unctuousness, veneration, worship, worshipfulness

pip squeak

• pip squeak, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, a nobody, a nothing, brownie, cipher, common man, dummy, dwarf, elf, figurehead, gnome, homunculus, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, manikin, mediocrity, midge, midget, nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, peewee, punk, pygmy, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, wart, whiffet, whippersnapper

pip

• pip, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, Hershey bar, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, Texas fever, abnormality, ace, acorn, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, anthrax, aphthous fever, atrophy, aviation badge, bacterial disease, badge, bar, beam, beat signal, beaut, berry, best, bighead, bird seed, birth defect, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blight, blind staggers, blips, bloody flux, bounces, broken wind, cackle, call, cardiovascular disease, carol, cash in, cattle plague, caw, charbon, chatter, check out, cheep, chevron, chicken, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chronic disease, chuck, circulatory disease, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, conk, coo, corker, crackerjack, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, daisy, dandy, darb, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, depart, die, dilly, disability, disease, disorder, display, distemper, double-dot display, down, dream, drop, drum, eagle, echo, echo signal, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epaulet, epidemic disease, flaxseed, foot-and-mouth disease, fruit, functional disease, fungus disease, gabble, gaggle, gapes, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, glanders, gobble, grain, guggle, handicap, hash mark, hayseed, heaves, hereditary disease, hog cholera, honey, honk, hoo, hoof-and-mouth disease, hoot, humdinger, hydrophobia, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, insignia of branch, kernel, kick in, kick off, killer-diller, knockout, linseed, liver rot, local oscillator signal, loco, loco disease, locoism, lollapaloosa, lulu, mad staggers, malady, malaise, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, milzbrand, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nifty, nut, nutritional disease, oak leaf, occupational disease, organic disease, organization insignia, outdo, output signal, overseas bar, pandemic disease, parachute badge, paratuberculosis, pass away, patch, pathological condition, pathology, peach, peep, picture, pipe, pippin, pips, pit, plant disease, protozoan disease, pseudotuberculosis, psychosomatic disease, quack, quarter evil, rabies, radar signal, reading, reflection, respiratory disease, return, return signal, rinderpest, rockiness, roll, rot, scabies, scold, secondary disease, seed, seediness, service stripe, sheep rot, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, sickishness, sickness, signal, signal display, signs, sing, splenic fever, spot, spread eagle, squawk, staggers, star, stone, stringhalt, stripe, submarine badge, sweetheart, swine dysentery, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, target image, the nuts, the pip, trace, transmitter signal, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, urogenital disease, video signal, virus disease, warble, wasting disease, whistle, whiz, worm disease, worst

pipe dream

• pipe dream, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, airy hope, airy nothing, autism, bad dream, be absent, bemusement, brown study, bubble, castle-building, chimera, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, deception, deluded belief, delusion, depth of thought, dereism, divagate, dream, dream of, dream vision, dreaming, dreamland, dreamworld, engrossment, false belief, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, freak out, go woolgathering, golden dream, ignis fatuus, illusion, incubus, misbelief, misconception, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, quixotic ideal, reverie, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, trance, trick, trip, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, vision, wander, woolgathering, wrong impression

pipe roll

• pipe roll, account, annals, catalog, chronicle, correspondence, documentation, history, inventory, letters, list, memorial, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, scroll, table, token, trace, vestige

pipe up

• pipe up, bellow out, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, break into music, break silence, breeze, breeze up, brew, burst into song, call out, clamor, come up, cry out, freshen, gather, holler out, huff, make an outcry, make an uproar, outcry, puff, rage, raise a clamor, say out, set in, shout out, sing out, speak out, speak up, squall, storm, strike up, take the floor, vociferate, waft, whiff, whiffle, yell out, yerk out

pipe

• pipe, English horn, Missouri meerschaum, Pandean pipe, adjutage, aerophone, anthem, aulos, bagpipe, ballad, bark, barrel, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bawl, bay, beep, bell, bellow, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, blubber, bole, bombard, bong, boohoo, boom, brass, bray, breathe, briar, briar pipe, bugle, butt, buzz, cackle, calabash, calean, call, calumet, canalize, carillon, carol, carry, cask, caterwaul, catheter, caw, channel, channelize, chant, chatter, cheep, chimera, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, choir, chorus, chuck, churchwarden, clack, clarinet, clarion, clay, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, column, conduct, conduit, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, convey, conveyor, coo, corncob, corncob pipe, creak, croak, cromorne, cronk, croon, crow, cry, cuckoo, cylinder, cylindroid, deliver, descant, do-re-mi, doodle, double bassoon, double reed, double-tongue, drainpipe, drawl, dream, drum, duct, efflux tube, embouchure, exclaim, fantasy, fife, fipple flute, fire hose, flageolet, flue pipe, flume, flute, funnel, gabble, gaggle, garden hose, gas pipe, gasp, gobble, groan, growl, grunt, guggle, hautboy, heckelphone, hiss, hogshead, honk, hoo, hookah, hoot, horn, hornpipe, hose, hosepipe, howl, hubble-bubble, hum, hush up, hymn, intonate, intone, keen, keg, key, licorice stick, lilt, line, lip, look at, main, make oneself heard, meerschaum, minstrel, moan, mouthpiece, mumble, murmur, musette, mutter, nargileh, nipple, note, notice, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, offer, organ pipe, panpipe, pant, passage, peace pipe, peal, peep, penny-whistle, piccolo, pillar, pip, pipe cleaner, pipe down, pipe rack, pipe up, pipeline, pipette, piping, pommer, psalm, put through, put through channels, quack, quaver, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reed pipe, roar, roll, roller, roulade, rouleau, rumble, sax, saxophone, say, scold, screak, scream, screech, serenade, setup, shake, shawm, shriek, shrill, shut up, siamese, siamese connection, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, single reed, single-reed instrument, siphon, skirl, skreigh, slide, snap, snarl, snorkel, snort, sob, soil pipe, sol-fa, solmizate, sonorophone, sough, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, speak up, spot, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, supply, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tap, tenoroon, thunder, tin-whistle, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, tongue, toot, tooter, tootle, traject, transmit, tremolo, trench, trill, triple-tongue, troll, trumpet, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tun, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, tweet, twit, twitter, ululate, ululation, valve, vocalize, volunteer, wail, warble, waste pipe, water pipe, weep, whine, whisper, whistle, wind, wind instrument, wind the horn, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel

pipeline

• pipeline, adjutage, bush telegraph, catheter, channel, coming, conduit, confidential information, connection, contact, conveyor, cooking, drainpipe, duct, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, flume, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hose, hosepipe, imminent, in the offing, in the works, inside dope, inside information, insider, line, main, nipple, on the way, organ pipe, origin, passage, pipe, pipette, piping, put through channels, ready, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel, soil pipe, source, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, supplier, tap, the lowdown, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, under way, waste pipe, water pipe, wellspring

pipes

• pipes, OD, bagpipe, bagpipes, boatswain, captain, chanter, chief engineer, chief mate, commander, cornemuse, deck officer, doodlesack, drone, master, mate, musette, naval officer, navigating officer, navigator, patron, quartermaster, sailing master, second mate, shipmaster, skipper, sordellina, the Old Man, union pipes, watch officer

pipette

• pipette, adjutage, aspirator, bleed, broach, catheter, corkscrew, crowbar, decant, draft, draft off, drain, drainpipe, draw, draw from, draw off, efflux tube, empty, exhaust, extractor, fire hose, flue pipe, forceps, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hose, hosepipe, let, let blood, let out, milk, nipple, organ pipe, phlebotomize, pincers, pipe, pipeline, piping, pliers, press, pump, pump out, reed, reed pipe, separator, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, siphon off, snorkel, soil pipe, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, suck, suck out, tap, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tweezers, vacuum pump, venesect, waste pipe, water pipe, wringer

piping

• piping, acute, adjutage, argute, at peace, balmy, bloodless, blooming, blossoming, booming, calm, catheter, clear, concordant, creaky, drainpipe, ear-piercing, efflux tube, exuberant, fair, fat, fire hose, flourishing, flowering, flue pipe, fruiting, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, going strong, halcyon, high, hose, hosepipe, howling, idyllic, in full swing, in good case, keen, keening, nipple, orderly, organ pipe, pacific, palmy, pastoral, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, penetrating, piercing, pipe, pipeline, pipette, prospering, quiet, reed, reed pipe, reedy, restful, rosy, screaky, screeching, screechy, serene, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, sleek, snorkel, soft, soil pipe, squeaking, squeaky, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, tap, thin, thriving, tranquil, treble, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, ululant, untroubled, vigorous, wailing, waste pipe, water pipe, whining, whistling

pippin

• pippin, ace, beaut, corker, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, darb, dilly, dream, honey, humdinger, killer-diller, knockout, lollapaloosa, lulu, peach, pip, sweetheart, the nuts, whiz

piquant

• piquant, acerbic, acid, acrid, agitating, alluring, appealing, appetizing, asperous, astringent, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, biting, bitter, blandishing, breathtaking, cajoling, captivating, catching, caustic, challenging, charged, charismatic, charming, cliff-hanging, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, cutting, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, enchanting, encouraging, energizing, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, escharotic, exciting, exhilarating, exotic, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, galvanic, galvanizing, glamorous, harsh, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, hypnotic, impressive, inflammatory, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, irritating, jarring, jolting, juicy, keen, lively, maddening, mesmeric, mind-blowing, mordant, mouth-watering, moving, nose-tickling, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, penetrating, peppery, peppy, perturbing, piercing, poignant, prepossessing, prompting, provocative, provoking, provoquant, pungent, racy, ravishing, readable, rich, rough, rousing, seducing, seductive, severe, sharp, siren, sirenic, snappy, soul-stirring, sour, sparkling, spellbinding, spellful, spicy, spirit-stirring, spirited, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stinging, stirring, striking, succulent, suspenseful, suspensive, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thrilling, thrilly, tickling, titillating, titillative, trenchant, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vitriolic, vivacious, winning, winsome, witching, zesty

pique

• pique, affect the interest, aggravate, agitate, angry look, animate, annoy, annoyance, arouse, attract, awaken, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, blow the coals, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, concern, devil, dirty look, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, dudgeon, embitter, enliven, exasperate, exasperation, excite, excite interest, exercise, exhilarate, fan, fan the flame, fascinate, fash, feed the fire, ferment, fillip, fire, foment, fret, frown, fume, galvanize, get, glare, glower, gripe, harass, harry, heat, heat up, heckle, hector, high dudgeon, hound, huff, ignite, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuse life into, instigate, interest, invigorate, invite, involve in, irk, irking, irritate, irritation, jazz up, miff, molest, motivate, move, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, offense, peeve, persecute, pester, pet, pick on, pick up, plague, pluck the beard, plume, pother, preen, prick, provocation, provoke, punch, put out, put up to, quicken, raise, raise up, rally, rankle, renew, resentment, resuscitate, revive, ride, rile, roil, rouse, ruffle, scowl, set astir, set on, set up, sharpen, sic on, snuff, stew, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir up, tantalize, tease, tickle, tiff, titillate, torment, try the patience, turn on, tweak the nose, umbrage, vex, vexation, wake up, waken, whet, whip up, work up, worry

piqued

• piqued, aggravated, angry, annoyed, attracted, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, cathectic, chafed, concerned, curious, disturbed, enthusiastic, exasperated, excited, fascinated, galled, griped, huffy, interested, irked, irritated, keen on, miffed, nettled, passionate, peeved, provoked, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, tantalized, tickled, titillated, troubled, turned-on, vexed

pirate

• pirate, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, adopt, air pirate, airplane hijacker, appropriate, assume, bluejacket, borrow, buccaneer, copy, copyright infringer, corsair, crib, cribber, deep-sea man, derive from, fair-weather sailor, filibuster, fisherman, freeboot, freebooter, hearty, imitate, infringe, infringe a copyright, infringer, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, lift, limey, literary pirate, lobsterman, make use of, mariner, matelot, mock, navigator, picaroon, pinch, plagiarist, plagiarize, plagiarizer, poach, privateer, raider, reproduce, rover, sailor, salt, sea, sea dog, sea king, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, simulate, skyjacker, steal, take, take on, take over, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

pirouette

• pirouette, Charybdis, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, crank, dizzy round, eddy, go around, go round, gurge, gyrate, gyre, maelstrom, pivot, pivoting, rat race, reel, revolution, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, surge, swing, swirl, swivel, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, twirl, twist, vortex, wamble, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, wind

piscatory

• piscatory, cynegetic, eellike, fishing, fishy, following, halieutic, hunting, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in pursuit, piscatorial, pisciform, pursuant, pursuing, questing, searching, seeking, selachian, sharkish

piss and vinegar

• piss and vinegar, aggressiveness, animal spirits, animation, bang, breeziness, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, coltishness, dash, drive, ebullience, effervescence, elan, energy, enterprise, esprit, exuberance, fire, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, ginger, gusto, heartiness, initiative, kick, life, liveliness, moxie, pep, pepper, peppiness, pizzazz, playfulness, poop, punch, push, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, snap, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spunk, starch, thrust, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

pissed off

• pissed off, angered, angry, browned-off, choleric, cross, heated, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, riled up, shirty, sore, ticked off, underworld, waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

pissed

• pissed, afflicted, angered, angry, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, browned-off, canned, choleric, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, cross, disguised, drunk, elevated, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, heated, high, illuminated, incensed, indignant, inebriated, irate, ireful, lit, lit up, livid, loaded, lubricated, lushy, mad, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed-off, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, riled up, shellacked, shirty, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, sore, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, swacked, tanked, ticked off, tight, waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

pistil

• pistil, androecium, anther, calyx, carpel, corolla, corolla tube, corona, epicalyx, gynoecium, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, perianth, petal, receptacle, stamen, stigma, style, torus

pistol whip

• pistol whip, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, horsewhip, knout, lace, lash, lay on, pommel, pummel, rawhide, scourge, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

pistol

• pistol, automatic, blow to pieces, blow up, blowgun, blowpipe, brain, bring down, burn to death, charge, cock, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, drop, eject, fell, fire, fire off, firearm, flamethrower, frag, gat, give the quietus, gun, gun down, gun for, handgun, heater, hit, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay low, let fly, let off, load, musket, peashooter, pelt, pepper, pick off, piece, plug, poleax, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, repeater, revolver, riddle, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shoot to death, shooting iron, shotgun, silence, six-gun, six-shooter, snipe, stab to death, stone, stone to death, strike, strike dead, take a potshot, torpedo, vaporize

pit against

• pit against, aggravate, alienate, bump heads, come between, confront, contend, contrapose, contraposit, contrast, counteract, disaffect, disunite, divide, estrange, face, fan the flame, front, irritate, lie opposite, light the fuse, make trouble, match, meet head-on, oppose, polarize, pose against, provoke, put in opposition, separate, set against, set at odds, set at variance, set on, set over against, sic on, sow dissension, stand opposed, stand opposite, stir up trouble, subtend

pit

• pit, American Stock Exchange, Amex, L, R, Wall Street, abysm, abyss, acorn, acting area, agora, alveolation, alveolus, amphitheater, antrum, apron, apron stage, arena, armpit, athletic field, audience, auditorium, auditory, background, backstage, balcony, band shell, bandstand, bank, barrow, basin, bear garden, beehive tomb, berry, bird seed, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, board, bone house, bourse, bowl, box, box grave, box seat, boxing ring, bridge, bull ring, bulla, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, campus, canvas, catacombs, cavity, cenotaph, charnel house, chasm, check, cicatrix, circus, cist, cist grave, coal mine, cockpit, coliseum, colliery, colosseum, comedo, commodity exchange, concave, concavity, congregation, corn pit, coulisse, counter, course, crack, crater, craze, crevasse, cromlech, crypt, cup, curb, curb exchange, curb market, deep, deep six, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dent, depress, depression, depth, dig, diggings, dimple, dint, dip, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dock, dokhma, dolmen, dress circle, dressing room, engrave, excavation, exchange, exchange floor, fault, fauteuil, feel, field, finish, flaw, flaxseed, flies, floor, fly floor, fly gallery, fold, follicle, forestage, forum, freckle, fruit, funnel chest, furrow, gallery, gold mine, gouge, grain, granular texture, grave, greenroom, grid, gridiron, ground, groundling, gulf, gym, gymnasium, hall, hayseed, hemangioma, hickey, hippodrome, hole, hollow, hollow shell, honeycomb, house, house of death, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, keloid, kernel, kink, knub, lacuna, last home, lentigo, lightboard, linseed, lists, locale, loge, long home, low green tent, low house, marketplace, mastaba, mat, match, mausoleum, milieu, milium, mine, mole, monstrance, mummy chamber, nap, narrow house, needle scar, nevus, nigger heaven, notch, nub, nut, open cut, open forum, opencast, orchestra, orchestra circle, orchestra pit, ossuarium, ossuary, outside market, over-the-counter market, palaestra, parade ground, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, passage grave, peanut gallery, performing area, pile, pimple, pip, place, platform, pock, pocket, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, precinct, press in, print, prize ring, proscenium, proscenium boxes, proscenium stage, protuberance, public square, punch, punch bowl, punch in, purlieu, pustule, pyramid, quarry, quotation board, range, recess, reliquary, resting place, rift, ring, scab, scar, scene, scene of action, scenery, scoop, scratch, sebaceous cyst, seed, sepulcher, set back, set in, setting, shaft, shaft grave, shag, shell, shrine, sink, sinus, site, socket, spectator, sphere, split, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage left, stage right, stage set, stage setting, stall, stamp, standing room, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, stone, strawberry mark, structure, stupa, sty, sunken part, surface, surface texture, switchboard, tamp, telephone market, terrain, texture, the Big Board, the Exchange, the boards, theater, theatre stall, third market, ticker, ticker tape, tilting ground, tiltyard, tomb, tope, tower of silence, track, trough, tumulus, twist, vault, verruca, vesicle, vie, vug, wale, walk, warp, wart, weal, weave, well, welt, wen, wheat pit, whitehead, wings, woof, workings, wrestling ring, yawning abyss

pitapat

• pitapat, arrhythmia, barrage, beat, beating, bump, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crump, dance, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, dull thud, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flick, flicker, flit, flitter, flop, flump, flutter, heartbeat, heartthrob, heaving, inquietude, pad, palpitant, palpitation, panting, paradiddle, pat, patter, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, pound, pounding, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, restlessness, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, shake, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shudder, spatter, splutter, sputter, staccato, tap, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thud, thump, thumping, tick, tinkle, tom-tom, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, tunk, twitter, unrest, waver

pitch black

• pitch black, atramentous, beamless, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, caliginous, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, deep black, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, midnight, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, rayless, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, starless, sunless, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit

pitch in

• pitch in, attack, begin, blast away, blast off, break bread, buckle down, commence, count calories, diet, dive in, dive into, eat, enter on, enter upon, fall to, fare, feed, get busy, get cracking, get going, get to, get with it, go ahead, go to it, head into, hop to it, hunger, jump in, jump off, jump to it, kick off, launch, launch into, light into, partake, partake of, pitch into, plunge into, relish, sail into, savor, send off, set about, set at, set in, set out, set sail, set to, set to work, start, start in, start off, start out, subscribe, tackle, take, take off, take on, taste, turn to, undertake, wade into

pitch into

• pitch into, accept, ambush, assail, assault, assume, attack, attempt, blitz, buckle to, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, draw first blood, embark in, embark upon, endeavor, engage in, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall on, fall to, fall upon, gang up on, get busy, get cracking, get going, get under way, get with it, go about, go at, go for, go in for, go into, go to it, go upon, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, hop to it, jump, jump to it, land on, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lay about one, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay on, light into, make war on, move into, mug, pitch in, plunge into, pounce upon, pound, proceed to, sail into, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set on, set to, set to work, set upon, square up, start in, strike, surprise, swoop down on, tackle, take on, take the offensive, take up, turn to, undertake, venture upon, wade into

pitch

• pitch, AF, French pitch, abuse, acme, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, amount, angularity, apex, apogee, ascend, asphalt, assail, assault, assist, attack, audio frequency, ballyhoo, bank, base, belabor, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bevel, bezel, bitumen, bivouac, blunder, bob, bobble, bowl, brow, buck off, build, build in, bung, caliber, camp, camp out, cannonball, cant, cap, capsize, careen, career, cascade, cast, cast up, catapult, cataract, chalk talk, change of pace, change-up, charcoal, chip in, choose, chuck, chunk, chute, classical pitch, climax, climb, cloud nine, coal, coggle, collapse, come a cropper, come down, compass, contribute, cooperate, crash, crash dive, crest, crow, crown, culmen, culmination, curve, cut, dangle, dart, dash, debate, declamation, decline, degree, depth, descend, determine, diatribe, dip, dip down, dive, down, downcurve, drive stakes, drop, drop down, drop off, easy slope, ebon, ebony, edge, elect, elevate, encamp, erect, establish, eulogy, exhortation, extent, extreme limit, extremity, fall, fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, fastball, filibuster, fire, fix, fleam, fling, flip, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, forensic, forensic address, fork, formal speech, forward pass, found, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, funeral oration, gainer, gentle slope, get a cropper, glacis, go camping, go down, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, ground, hanging gardens, harangue, harmonic, header, heave, heaven, heavens, height, helicline, help, high noon, high pitch, highest pitch, highest point, hillside, hobbyhorse, hoist, hortatory address, hurl, hurtle, inaugural, inaugural address, inclination, incline, inclined plane, incurve, inflection, ink, install, interval, intonation, intonation pattern, invective, invest, jackknife, jeremiad, jerk, jet, jump on, keel, key, knuckleball, labor, lance, lash out at, lateral, lateral pass, launch, launching ramp, lay into, lay the foundation, lean, leaning, leaning tower, leap, let fly, level, librate, lift up, light into, limit, list, lob, lose altitude, low pitch, lurch, make heavy weather, mark, maximum, measure, meridian, modulation, monotone, monotony, mountaintop, move, name, ne plus ultra, new philharmonic pitch, night, no place higher, nominate, noon, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, note, nuance, nutate, opt for, oration, oscillate, outcurve, overtone, parachute, parachute jump, partial, partial tone, pas, pass, patter, peak, peg, pelt, pendulate, pep talk, period, peroration, persuasion, philharmonic pitch, philippic, philosophical pitch, pick, pinnacle, pitch accent, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, pitch camp, pitch in, pitch into, pitchfork, pitchpole, place, plane, plant, plateau, plop, plummet, plump, plunge, plunk, point, pole, position, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pound, pour down, power dive, precipitate, prepared speech, prepared text, proportion, public speech, put, put in, put the shot, put up, rain, raise, raise aloft, raise up, rake, ramp, range, ratio, raven, reach, reading, rear, rear aloft, recital, recitation, reel, register, remove, resonate, retreat, ridge, rise, rock, roll, rough it, round, rung, running dive, sail into, sales pitch, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale, scarp, scend, scope, screed, screwball, seat, seethe, select, send, serve, service, set, set speech, set up, set upon, seventh heaven, shade, shadow, shake, shelve, shelving beach, shoot, shot-put, shy, side, sidle, sinker, skin-dive, sky, sky dive, sky-dive, slant, sleep out, slider, sling, sloe, slope, smoke, smut, snap, song and dance, soot, sound, space, speech, speech tune, speechification, speeching, spiel, spire, spitball, spitter, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stair, stand upright, standard, standard pitch, stationary dive, steep slope, step, stiff climb, stint, stoop, struggle, stumble, summit, suprasegmental, swag, swan dive, sway, swing, swoop, swoop down, take a fall, take a header, take a pratfall, talk, talkathon, talus, tar, tent, thrash about, throw, tilt, tip, tip-top, tirade, tonality, tone, tonelessness, top, topple, topple down, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tower of Pisa, tread, trend downward, trip, tumble, tune, turn turtle, unhorse, unseat, upcurve, upend, upheave, uplift, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, upraise, uprear, upright, uprise, utmost, vacillate, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vertex, very top, vest, vibrate, volutation, wag, waggle, wallop, wallow, wave, waver, welter, wobble, yaw, zenith

pitched

• pitched, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arranged, articulated, aslant, aslope, assimilated, atilt, back, barytone, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, canting, careening, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, coordinated, deliberate, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, leaning, light, lingual, liquid, listing, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, oblique, occlusive, open, organized, out of plumb, out of square, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitching, planned, posttonic, raking, recumbent, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, systematized, tense, thick, throaty, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

pitching

• pitching, archery, careening, casting, chucking, dangling, firing, flinging, gunnery, heaving, hurling, inclining, jaculation, leaning, lobbing, lurching, musketry, oblique, pitched, projection, reeling, rocking, rolling, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, sloped, sloping, swaying, swinging, throwing, tilted, tilting, tipped, tossing, trajection, trapshooting

pitchman

• pitchman, ballyhoo man, ballyhooer, barker, bunco artist, bunco steerer, canvasser, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, solicitor, spieler, tout, touter

pitchy

• pitchy, atramentous, beamless, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, caliginous, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, deep black, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, gumlike, gummous, gummy, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, midnight, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, onyx, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, raven-black, rayless, resinic, resinoid, resinous, resiny, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, starless, sunless, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit

piteous

• piteous, affecting, afflictive, beseeching, bitter, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, emotional, entreating, grievous, heartrending, imploring, joyless, lamentable, melancholy, miserable, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, regrettable, rueful, ruined, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowful, supplicating, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched

pitfall

• pitfall, Dionaea, bait, baited trap, booby trap, catch, cobweb, coral heads, danger, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, difficulty, entanglement, firetrap, flytrap, gin, hazard, ironbound coast, ledges, lee shore, lure, meshes, mine, mole trap, mousetrap, peril, pit, quicksands, rattrap, risk, rockbound coast, rocks, sandbank, sandbar, sands, set gun, shallows, shoals, snag, snare, spring gun, springe, toils, trap, trapfall, undercurrent, undertow, web

pith

• pith, affective meaning, axiom, axis, backbone, bearing, bench mark, bottom, burden, butter, cardinal point, cataplasm, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, chief thing, chutzpah, climax, coloring, connotation, consequence, core, cornerstone, courage, crisis, critical point, crush, crux, dead center, denotation, dental pulp, depth, distillate, distillation, drift, effect, elixir, epicenter, essence, essential, essential matter, essentiality, extension, fabric, flower, focal point, focus, force, fulcrum, fundamental, gameness, gist, grammatical meaning, gravamen, gravity, great point, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak, high point, hub, hypostasis, idea, impact, implication, import, importance, important thing, inner essence, intension, intestinal fortitude, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, main point, main thing, marrow, mash, material, material point, matter, meaning, meaningfulness, meat, medium, medulla, metacenter, mettle, mettlesomeness, middle, milestone, moment, momentousness, moxie, mush, nave, navel, nerve, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, overtone, paper pulp, paste, pertinence, pivot, plaster, pluck, pluckiness, point, porridge, postulate, poultice, practical consequence, principle, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, purport, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, rag pulp, range of meaning, real issue, real meaning, recap, recapitulation, reference, referent, relation, relevance, resume, rock bottom, root, run-through, rundown, salient point, sap, sauce, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, short, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, smash, soul, span of meaning, spirit, sponge, spunk, spunkiness, squash, stamina, storm center, stout heart, structural meaning, stuff, substance, substantive point, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, symbolic meaning, tenor, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, thrust, totality of associations, toughness, transferred meaning, true grit, turning point, umbilicus, unadorned meaning, undertone, upshot, value, virtuality, weight, weightiness, white lead, wood pulp

pithy

• pithy, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, baccate, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, doughy, edematous, effective, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, figurative, flabby, fleshy, forceful, formulaic, formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, gnomic, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, laconic, lean, macerated, masticated, meaning, meaningful, meaty, medullary, metaphorical, mushy, pasty, platitudinous, pointed, pregnant, proverbial, pruned, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, pungent, readable, referential, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, significant, significative, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, substantial, succinct, succulent, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, transferred, truncated

pitiful

• pitiful, abominable, affecting, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, doleful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartrending, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insignificant, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, mean, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unclean, unimportant, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

pitiless

• pitiless, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bloody, bowelless, brutal, brutish, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, inclement, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, ironhearted, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, marblehearted, merciless, murderous, noncivilized, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, stony, tameless, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungentle, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untamed, unyielding, vicious, wild, without mercy

pitilessness

• pitilessness, acuteness, animality, atrocity, barbarity, bloodlust, brutality, callosity, callousness, coldbloodedness, coldheartedness, coldness, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, fierceness, force, furiousness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, harshness, heart of stone, heartlessness, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumanity, insensitivity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, obduracy, rigor, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, terrorism, unfeeling, ungentleness, unmercifulness, unnaturalness, unresponsiveness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence

pittance

• pittance, ace, alms, alms fee, atom, bit, charity, collection, contribution, dab, dole, donation, donative, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half rations, handful, handout, inadequacy, insufficiency, iota, jot, little, little bit, mere subsistence, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, offering, offertory, ounce, particle, peanuts, pebble, pinch, point, scrap, scrimption, scruple, shoestring, short allowance, short commons, small potatoes, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, starvation wages, subscription, thimbleful, tiny bit, tithe, tittle, trace, trifling amount, trivia, votive offering, whit

pitted

• pitted, alveolar, alveolate, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corroded, corrugated, cross-grained, defaced, dented, depressed, dimpled, engraved, eroded, faveolate, grainy, granulated, homespun, honeycombed, horripilant, indented, inequal, irregular, jolty, knobbed, linsey-woolsey, marred, nappy, notched, nubbly, nubby, perforated, pierced, pily, pimply, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, potholed, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, shagged, shaggy, studded, textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled

pitter patter

• pitter patter, Scotch mist, alliteration, arrhythmia, assonance, barrage, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beating, bicker, blood rain, bump, chime, chink, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crump, dance, didder, dingdong, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, drizzle, drone, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, dull thud, evening mist, fall, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flump, flurry, flutter, go pitapat, gout of rain, gutter, harping, heartbeat, heartthrob, heaving, humdrum, inquietude, jingle, jingle-jangle, mist, misty rain, mizzle, moisture, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, pad, palpitate, palpitation, panting, paradiddle, pat, patter, pelt, pitapat, plump, plunk, pop, pound, pounding, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, precipitation, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, rain, rain tadpoles, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, restlessness, rhyme, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, shake, shakes, shaking, sheet of rain, shiver, shivers, shower, shower down, shudder, singsong, slant rhyme, slat, sound a tattoo, spatter, spit, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter, staccato, stale repetition, stream, tap, tat-tat, tattoo, tedium, tempo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thud, thump, thumping, tick, tinkle, tom-tom, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trot, tunk, twitter, unfrozen hydrometeor, unnecessary repetition, unrest, wave, waver, weep, wet

pity

• pity, abomination, acceptance, ache, atrocity, be sorry for, bleed, bleed for, chanty, clemency, clementness, commiserate, commiseration, compassion, compassionate, condole with, condolence, crime, dejection, desecration, disgrace, distress, easiness, easygoingness, feel, feel for, feel sorrow for, feel sorry for, forbearance, forbearing, gentleness, humaneness, humanity, ignominy, infamy, lament for, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, melancholy, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, misfortune, moderateness, patience, profanation, rue, ruth, sacrilege, sadness, scandal, shame, sin, softness, sorrow, sympathize, sympathize with, sympathy, tenderness, terrible thing, tolerance, violation, weep for

pitying

• pitying, bleeding, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, forbearant, gentle, human, humane, lenient, melting, merciful, ruthful, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warmhearted

pivot

• pivot, ankle, arbor, articulation, avert, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, bearing, bench mark, boundary, butt, cardinal point, center, center of action, center of gravity, centroid, centrum, cervix, chief thing, circle, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, climax, clinch, closure, come about, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, core, cornerstone, coupling, crank, crisis, critical point, crux, dead center, deflect, depend, distaff, divert, dovetail, elbow, embrace, epicenter, essence, essential, essential matter, fetch about, focal point, fulcrum, fundamental, gimbal, gist, gliding joint, go about, go around, go round, gravamen, great point, gudgeon, gyrate, gyre, hang, heart, heel, high point, hinge, hinged joint, hingle, hip, hub, important thing, interface, issue, join, joining, joint, juncture, kernel, keystone, kingpin, knee, knuckle, landmark, link, main point, main thing, mandrel, marrow, material point, meat, medulla, metacenter, middle, milestone, miter, mortise, nave, navel, neck, nub, nucleus, oarlock, omphalos, pin, pintle, pirouette, pith, pivot about, pivot joint, pole, put about, rabbet, radiant, real issue, rely, rest, resting point, revolve, rotate, round, rowlock, salient point, scarf, screw, seam, sheer, shoulder, sine qua non, spin, spindle, stitch, storm center, substance, substantive point, suture, swing, swing round, swivel, symphysis, the bottom line, the point, thole, tholepin, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trunnion, turn, turn a pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, turning point, twirl, twist, umbilicus, union, veer, veer around, volte-face, wamble, weld, wheel, wheel about, whip, whirl, wind, wrist

pivotal

• pivotal, acute, axial, behind the scenes, capital, cardinal, causal, causative, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, charged, clamorous, climacteric, compelling, concentrated, constitutive, critical, crucial, crying, decisive, determinative, effectual, emergent, essential, etiological, exigent, focal, formative, geocentric, high-pressure, high-priority, imperative, imperious, important, insistent, instant, institutive, kairotic, key, loaded, middle, middlemost, midmost, momentous, occasional, omphalic, originative, overriding, overruling, pregnant, pressing, principal, radical, ruling, significant, umbilical, urgent, vital

pivoting

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

pixie

• pixie, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob, Hobgoblin, Mab, Oberon, Puck, Titania, antic, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, booger, brownie, buffoon, bugger, cluricaune, coltish, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, dwarf, elf, elvish, enfant terrible, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, funmaker, gamesome, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hob, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, impish, joker, jokester, knave, kobold, leprechaun, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, ouphe, peri, pixieish, pixilated, poltergeist, pooka, practical joker, prankish, prankster, puca, puck, puckish, pwca, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, slyboots, sprite, sylph, sylphid, tokoloshe, wag, young devil

pixieish

• pixieish, antic, elfin, elfish, elflike, elvish, faery, fairy, fairyish, fairylike, fay, frisky, gnomelike, gnomish, impish, kittenish, mischievous, pixie, pixilated, puckish, sylphidine, sylphine, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy

pixilated

• pixilated, bedeviled, boozy, canned, demonized, devil-ridden, disguised, drunk, elvish, frolicsome, inebriated, larkish, muddled, pixie, pixieish, plastered, possessed, pranky, puckish, roguish, stoned, waggish

pizzazz

• pizzazz, aggressiveness, amperage, animation, armipotence, authority, bang, beef, black power, breeziness, briskness, brute force, bubbliness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dash, dint, drive, duress, ebullience, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effervescence, energy, enterprise, fire, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, get-up-and-go, ginger, influence, initiative, kick, life, liveliness, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, pep, pepper, peppiness, piss and vinegar, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, sinew, snap, spirit, spiritedness, sprightliness, spunk, starch, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, thrust, validity, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, wattage, weight, zing, zip

pizzeria

• pizzeria, automat, beanery, 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, quick-lunch counter, restaurant, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

pizzicato

• pizzicato, a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, brillante, cantando, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, decrescendo, demilegato, diminuendo, dolce, execution, expression, fingering, forte, fortissimo, glissando, intonation, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, marcando, mezzo staccato, morendo, music-making, parlando, performance, pianism, pianissimo, piano, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, rendering, rendition, repercussion, ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, slur, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando

placard

• placard, advertise, affiche, ballyhoo, bark, bill, boost, build up, bulletin, circularize, cry up, establish, give a write-up, give publicity, handbill, plug, post, post bills, post up, poster, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, sell, spiel, write up

placate

• placate, allay, appease, assuage, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool, defuse, dulcify, lay, lay the dust, mollify, pacify, pour balm on, propitiate, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize

placation

• placation, United Nations troops, appeasement, calming, conciliation, detente, dulcification, easing of relations, mediation, mollification, pacification, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, propitiation, relaxation of tension, soothing, tranquilization

place

• place, Anschauung, Autobahn, OK, US highway, a leg up, abiding place, abode, address, advance, agora, airspace, align, all right, all set, allegiance, alley, alleyway, allocate, allot, alphabetize, amphitheater, analyze, angle, angle of vision, anoint, antepast, apartment, apply, appointment, apportion, appropriate, approximate, area, arena, arise, arrange, array, arrive, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, ascribe, assign, assigned task, associate, assort, athletic field, attach, attribute, auditorium, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, awkward, background, basis, bear garden, bearings, belt, belt highway, bench mark, berth, billet, blind alley, boulevard, bounden duty, bout, bowl, boxing ring, bracket, break down, bring down, bull ring, bung, burden, burden with, business, buy in, buy into, bypass, byway, call, call of duty, camino real, campo, campus, cantonment, canvas, capacity, carriageway, case, caste, catalog, categorize, causeway, causey, chair, chance, character, charge, chaussee, chore, circumferential, circumstance, circumstances, circus, city, class, classify, clear stage, close, cockpit, codify, coliseum, collocate, colosseum, come about, commitment, compose, concern, condition, confines, connection, consider, continental shelf, continuity, corduroy road, correct, corridor, country, county road, course, court, cover, crash pad, crescent, crib, crown, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, deal, deal out, dedication, deference, degree, demand, department, deploy, deposit, dessert, determinate, devoir, devotion, diagnose, digest, diggings, digs, dike, dirt road, dish, dispose, distinguish, distribute, district, divide, division, domicile, domus, drive, driveway, duties and responsibilities, duty, dwelling, dwelling place, echelon, embarrass, emplace, emplacement, employment, engagement, enjoin, enthrone, entree, entremets, environs, establish, estate, ethics, exact, expressway, eye, fair field, fair game, farmstead, fasten upon, fealty, field, file, financier, finger, fitting, fix, flat, floor, flourish, footing, forum, frame of reference, framework, freeway, freight with, function, get a fix, get ahead, gig, give, go, go on, go places, good form, gradation, grade, grange, gravel road, ground, group, gym, gymnasium, habitation, hacienda, hall, hamlet, happen, have, heartland, help, helping, hierarchy, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hinterland, hippodrome, hole, homage, home, home in on, home place, homecroft, homestead, house, house and grounds, house and lot, humble, identify, imperative, impose, impose on, impose upon, improper, impute, in order, in place, in situ, inappropriate, inaugurate, incumbency, index, induct, inflict on, inflict upon, inning, innings, install, instate, interstate highway, invest, invest in, jam, job, judge, know, know again, land, lane, latitude and longitude, lay, lay on, lay out money, levy, liberty, lieu, light, line, line of duty, line up, list, lists, livelihood, local road, locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, lodging, lodging place, lodgings, lodgment, lot, loyalty, main drag, main road, make a splash, make an investment, make good, make out, market, market cross, marketplace, marshal, mart, mat, mental outlook, messuage, mews, milieu, misplaced, mission, modality, mode, moonlighting, mortify, motorway, must, nail, navigate, neighborhood, nest, niche, obligation, occasion, occupation, occur, office, offshore rights, okay, onus, open forum, opening, opportunism, opportunity, order, ought, out of place, outlook, pad, palaestra, parade ground, parcel out, park, parkway, part, parts, pass, pave, paved road, peg, piazza, pickle, pigeonhole, pike, pin down, pinpoint, pit, place in office, place to live, placement, plank road, plate, platform, plaza, plight, plow back into, plunge, point, point of view, portion, pose, posit, position, post, posture, power structure, precedence, precinct, precincts, predicament, premises, primary highway, private road, prize ring, proper, prosper, province, public square, purlieu, purlieus, purpose, put, put down, put in, put in place, put on, put out, put upon, quarter, quarters, rally, ranch, rancho, range, rank, rate, rating, ready, realize, recall, recall knowledge of, reckon, recognize, refer, reference system, regard, regiment, region, reidentify, reinvest, relief, remember, residence, respect, responsibility, rialto, right, right-of-way, ring, ring road, risk, road, roadbed, roadway, role, roof, room, rooms, round, route nationale, row, royal road, saddle with, salient, say, scene, scene of action, scenery, scope, seat, second helping, second job, secondary road, section, see, self-imposed duty, sequence, serial order, service, serving, set, set out, set up, setting, settle, side, sight, sink, sink money in, site, situate, situation, situs, slant, slot, soil, sort, space, speculate, speedway, spell, sphere, spot, square, squared circle, squelch, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stand, standing, standpoint, state, state highway, station, status, stead, steading, stepping-stone, stick, street, strike it rich, subdivide, subject to, submit, subordination, succeed, suitable, superhighway, system, tabulate, take place, task, tax, tell, tenure, terrace, terrain, territory, theater, thoroughfare, three-mile limit, thrive, throne, through street, thruway, tilting ground, tiltyard, time, time at bat, toft, toll road, town, township road, tract, transpire, triangulate, turn, turnpike, twelve-mile limit, type, uncomfortable, universe, unsuitable, vacancy, venture, vicinage, vicinity, view, viewpoint, village, walk, weight down with, whack, where, whereabout, whereabouts, wrestling ring, wrong, wynd, yoke with, zero in on, zone

placed

• placed, aligned, arranged, arrayed, assigned, assorted, cataloged, categorized, classified, composed, constituted, deployed, disposed, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established, filed, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, hierarchic, indexed, installed, located, marshaled, methodized, normalized, on file, ordered, orderly, organized, pigeonholed, planted, positioned, posted, pyramidal, ranged, ranked, rated, regularized, regulated, routinized, seated, set, settled, situate, situated, sorted, spotted, standardized, stationed, stratified, synchronized, systematized, tabular

placement

• placement, abode, accedence, accession, accounting for, allocation, allotment, analysis, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment, area, arrangement, array, arraying, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, assortment, attachment, attribution, bearings, bench mark, blame, cataloging, categorization, charge, classification, codification, collation, collocation, connection with, constitution, coronation, credit, culling, deployment, deposit, deposition, derivation from, disposal, disposition, distribution, district, division, emplacement, employment, engagement, enthronement, etiology, filing, form, formation, formulation, gradation, grading, grouping, hiring, hole, honor, imputation, inauguration, indexing, induction, installation, installment, instatement, investiture, lading, latitude and longitude, lieu, loading, locale, locality, localization, locating, location, locus, marshaling, order, ordering, organization, packing, palaetiology, pigeonholing, pinpoint, pinpointing, place, placing, point, position, positioning, posting, putting, ranging, ranking, rating, reference to, regimentation, region, reposition, responsibility, saddling, screening, selection, sifting, site, situation, situs, sorting, sorting out, spot, spotting, stationing, stead, storage, stowage, stratification, structuring, subdivision, subordination, syntax, tabulation, taking office, taxonomy, triage, typology, whereabout, whereabouts

placid

• placid, affliction, at rest, bane, besetment, bother, botheration, calm, cloistered, collected, composed, cool, coolheaded, curse, detached, disease, dwindling, easy, easygoing, ebbing, epidemic, even-tenored, exasperation, halcyon, hushed, impassive, inexcitable, infestation, invasion, irenic, irritant, isolated, moldering, nuisance, outbreak, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pes, pest, pestilence, philosophical, plague, poised, quiescent, quiet, rash, ravage, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, scourge, secluded, self-possessed, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning

placidly

• placidly, calmly, composedly, coolly, dispassionately, impassively, imperturbably, inexcitably, inirritably, levelheadedly, peacefully, quiescently, quietly, serenely, smoothly, steadily, still, stilly, stodgily, stoically, stolidly, stuffily, tranquilly, unperturbedly

placket

• placket, air hole, armhole, blowhole, bullet-hole, bunghole, cringle, deadeye, eye, eyelet, gasket, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, loop, loophole, manhole, mousehole, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket hole, porthole, punch-hole, spiracle, tap, vent, venthole

plage

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

plagiarism

• plagiarism, adoption, appropriation, assumption, autoplagiarism, borrowed plumes, borrowing, copying, counterfeiting, cribbing, derivation, deriving, doubling, duplication, echo, emulation, fakery, following, forgery, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, infringement, infringement of copyright, infringing, lifting, literary piracy, mimesis, mirroring, mocking, onomatopoeia, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, piracy, pirating, plagiarizing, plagiary, purloining, quotation, reappearance, rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regurgitation, reincarnation, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, reproduction, resumption, return, simulation, stealing, takeoff, taking, theft, thievery, usurpation

plagiarist

• plagiarist, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, actor, ape, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, copyright infringer, counterfeiter, cribber, cuckoo, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, echo, echoer, echoist, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, gay deceiver, hoaxer, hypnotizer, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, leg-puller, literary pirate, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, parrot, phony, pirate, plagiarizer, playactor, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, practical joker, ragger, role-player, seducer, sheep, simulator, spoofer, tease, teaser

plagiarize

• plagiarize, act like, adopt, affect, appropriate, assume, borrow, chorus, come again, copy, counterfeit, crib, derive from, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, duplicate, echo, fake, forge, go like, hoke, hoke up, imitate, infringe, infringe a copyright, make like, make use of, mirror, mock, parrot, pirate, quote, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflect, regurgitate, reincarnate, renew, repeat, reproduce, revive, say again, simulate, steal, take, take on, take over

plagiarized

• plagiarized, counterfeit, doubled, duplicated, echoed, ersatz, fake, forged, hokey, hot, imitation, mock, phony, pilfered, pirated, pseudo, purloined, quasi, quoted, rechauffe, redoubled, reduplicated, reechoed, regurgitated, reiterate, reiterated, repeated, reproduced, retold, sham, stolen, synthetic, twice-told, warmed up

plague

• plague, afflict, affliction, aggravate, aggravation, ail, ambulatory plague, anguish, annoy, annoyance, apply pressure, badger, bait, bane, be at, be the matter, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bevy, bitch, black death, black plague, blandish, blight, bother, bristle, brown off, bubonic plague, bug, bugbear, bullyrag, burden, burn up, buttonhole, cajole, calamity, cellulocutaneous plague, chafe, charm, chevy, chivy, cloud, coax, complicate matters, concern, covey, crawl with, creep with, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague, destruction, devil, discommode, discompose, disease, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, drag, dun, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, exasperate, exercise, exert pressure, fash, flight, flock, fret, gaggle, gall, get, glandular plague, gnaw, grievance, gripe, harass, harm, harry, hassle, haunt, headache, heckle, hector, hemorrhagic plague, hive, hound, importune, inconvenience, infest, infestation, infliction, invade, invasion, irk, irritate, irritation, larval plague, lousiness, miff, molest, murmuration, murrain, nag, nag at, needle, nemesis, nettle, nudzh, nuisance, open wound, overrun, overrunning, overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, pandemia, pandemic, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pest, pester, pesthole, pestilence, pick on, pique, plague spot, pluck the beard, ply, pneumonic plague, pother, premonitory plague, press, pressure, provoke, push, put out, put to it, puzzle, ravage, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, running sore, scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, skein, spring, swarm, swarm with, swarming, tease, teeming, thorn, torment, torture, trouble, try the patience, tuberculosis, tweak the nose, urge, vex, vexation, visitation, watch, wheedle, white plague, woe, work on, worry

plagued

• plagued, annoyed, anxious, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bothered, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, distressed, dogged, embarrassed, fretted, grubby, harassed, harried, haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, inconvenienced, infested, irked, lousy, mindful, nagged, needled, nipped at, obsessed, pedicular, pediculous, persecuted, perturbed, pestered, picked on, put to it, puzzled, ragged, rankled, ratty, ravaged, remembering, sore beset, teased, teeming, tormented, troubled, unable to forget, vexed, wormy, worried, worried sick, worried stiff

plaguing

• plaguing, aggravating, annoying, blandishment, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, chafing, coaxing, demanding, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dunning, exasperating, fretting, galling, harassing, importunate, importunateness, importune, importunity, insistent, irking, irksome, irritating, nagging, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plying, pressing, pressure, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, urgency, urgent, urging, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedling, worrisome, worrying

plaid

• plaid, check, checked, checker, checkerboard, checkered, checkerwork, chessboard, colors in patches, crazy-work, harlequin, marquetry, mosaic, parquet, parquetry, patchwork, tartan, tessellate, tessellated, tessellation, tesserae, variegated pattern

plain English

• plain English, austerity, baldness, bareness, candor, clarity, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, common speech, connectedness, consistency, crystallinity, definition, directness, distinctness, explicitness, frankness, homespun, household words, leanness, limpidity, lucidity, matter-of-factness, naturalness, openness, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, prosaicness, prosiness, restrainedness, rustic style, severity, simpleness, simplicity, soberness, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness, structure, transparency, transpicuity, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, unequivocalness, unimaginativeness, unmistakableness, unpoeticalness, vernacular

plain folks

• plain folks, bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, peasantry, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

plain speech

• plain speech, clarity, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, connectedness, consistency, crystallinity, definition, directness, distinctness, explicitness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain English, plain style, plainness, simplicity, straightforwardness, structure, transparency, transpicuity, unadorned style, unambiguousness, unequivocalness, unmistakableness

plain spoken

• plain spoken, Spartan, articulate, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, common, commonplace, direct, downright, dry, dull, eloquent, explicit, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded, genuine, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, ingenuous, lean, loud-speaking, loud-spoken, matter-of-fact, natural, neat, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plain-speaking, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, round, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sincere, sober, soft-speaking, soft-spoken, spare, speaking, stark, straight, straight-out, straightforward, talkative, talking, transparent, true-speaking, unadorned, unaffected, unchecked, unconstrained, unequivocal, unguarded, unimaginative, unpoetical, unreserved, unrestrained, unvarnished, well-spoken

plain

• plain, Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Lebensraum, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apparent, arable land, articulate, artless, ascetic, audible, austere, back country, bald, bare, baseborn, basic, beautiless, below the salt, billiard table, black belt, blemished, blotted, bluff, blunt, born, born yesterday, bowling green, broad, broad-based, brusque, cacophonic, cacophonous, campestral, campestrian, campo, candid, casual, champaign, chaste, cheerful, childlike, citrus belt, classic, classical, clean, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear space, clear-cut, clearance, clearing, cockney, coherent, colorless, comfortable, common, commonplace, comprehensive, confiding, congenital, connected, consistent, conspicuous, consummate, contrastive, cordial, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, cozy, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead flat, dead level, deep-dyed, defaced, defined, definite, degage, desert, direct, discernible, discreet, disfigured, distant prospect, distinct, distinctive, down, downright, drab, dry, dull, dust bowl, dyed-in-the-wool, dysphemistic, dysphemized, earth, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, effortless, egregious, elegant, elementary, empty view, esplanade, essential, even, everyday, evident, exhaustive, explicit, express, facile, familiar, farm belt, farm country, farmland, featureless, finished, flat, flatland, flattened, floor, flush, folksy, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free and easy, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, fruit belt, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, genuine, glade, glaring, glib, graceful, gracile, gracious, graphic, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, ground, guileless, haymish, hearable, heart-to-heart, heath, hi-fi, high-fidelity, highlands, homaloid, homaloidal, homelike, homely, homespun, homey, homish, homogeneous, honest, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, household, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, humdrum, ill-favored, in focus, indisputable, indivisible, indubitable, inelegant, informal, ingenu, ingenuous, inglorious, innocent, innocuous, insipid, intelligible, intensive, intimate, irreducible, irregular, irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, least, ledge, legible, level, level line, level plane, light, limpid, living space, llano, loose, loud and clear, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowlands, lowliest, lowly, lucid, luminous, manifest, marred, matter-of-fact, mead, meadows and pastures, mean, mean sea level, mere, modest, monolithic, moor, moorland, moors, mundane, muted, naive, natural, neat, nonclerical, nondescript, nothing to it, noticeable, observable, obvious, of a piece, offhand, offhanded, omnibus, omnipresent, open, open country, open space, open-and-shut, openhearted, ordinary, out-and-out, outback, outright, outspoken, painless, palpable, pampas, parterre, pasture, patent, peaceful, pedestrian, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perfect, perfectly, perspicuous, pervasive, plain as day, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plains, plane, plateau, platform, plebeian, plumb, poetryless, polished, poor, prairie, prairies, primal, primary, prominent, pronounced, prosaic, prose, prosing, prosy, province, provinces, pure, pure and simple, quite, radical, refined, regular, relaxed, restrained, right, rolled, round, rude, rural district, rustic, rustic region, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, severe, shabby-genteel, sheer, short, short on looks, simon-pure, simple, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single, single-hearted, single-minded, small, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, snug, sober, sociable, soft, spare, spartan, spoiled, squashed, squashed flat, staring, stark, steppe, steppes, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sweeping, table, tabloid, tabular, tangible, tasteful, teachable, terrace, terrain, territory, terse, the country, the soil, the sticks, third-estate, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tiresome, to be seen, tobacco belt, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, trodden, trodden flat, trustful, trusting, tundra, ubiquitous, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unadorned, unadulterated, unaesthetic, unaffected, unalluring, unambiguous, unassuming, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, unburdensome, unceremonious, unchecked, uncluttered, uncomely, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconditional, unconfused, unconstrained, unconventional, undecorated, understandable, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, undistinguished, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unequivocal, unfeigned, ungarnished, ungenteel, unguarded, unhandsome, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimportant, universal, univocal, unlabored, unlovely, unluxurious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unofficial, unornamented, unostentatious, unpleasing, unpoetic, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unpretty, unqualified, unrelievedly, unremarkable, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unromantic, unsightly, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, uplands, utter, vapid, veld, veldt, veritable, visible, vivid, vulgar, water level, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, wheat belt, wholesale, wide-open spaces, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields, workaday, workday, yokeldom

plainclothesman

• plainclothesman, Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Secret Service, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, detective, dick, fed, hawkshaw, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, investigator, narc, operative, police detective, private detective, private investigator, revenuer, sleuth, store detective, tec, treasury agent

plainly

• plainly, all joking aside, alone, aloud, apparently, apprehensibly, articulately, artlessly, audibly, barely, bluffly, bluntly, broadly, brusquely, candidly, casually, clearly, coherently, commonly, commonplacely, comprehensibly, conspicuously, definitely, directly, discernibly, distinctly, en famille, evidently, exclusively, explicitly, expressly, familiarly, frankly, genuinely, glaringly, guilelessly, in all conscience, in all seriousness, in plain English, in plain terms, in plain words, informally, ingenuously, intelligibly, just, limpidly, lucidly, manifestly, markedly, matter-of-factly, merely, naturally, noticeably, observably, obviously, offhand, offhandedly, only, openheartedly, openly, ordinarily, out, out loud, outspokenly, palpably, patently, pellucidly, perceivably, perceptibly, perspicuously, plain-spokenly, point-blank, prominently, pronouncedly, prosaically, purely, recognizably, relaxedly, roundly, sans ceremonie, seeably, simply, simply and solely, sincerely, singly, solely, staringly, starkly, straightforwardly, to the point, unaffectedly, unambiguously, unassumingly, unceremoniously, unconcealedly, unconstrainedly, understandably, undisguisedly, unequivocally, unmistakably, unofficially, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, visibly, with clarity, with no nonsense, without ceremony

plainness

• plainness, Atticism, Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, apparentness, approachability, appropriateness, artlessness, atmospheric visibility, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, cacophony, candidness, candor, casualness, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear-cutness, clearness, clumsiness, coherence, comeliness, common speech, common touch, commonness, commonplaceness, communicativeness, connectedness, consistency, conspicuity, conspicuousness, conversableness, cordiality, correctness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, defacement, definiteness, definition, dignity, directness, discrimination, disfigurement, distinction, distinctness, dullness, dysphemism, ease, easiness, easygoingness, elegance, elegancy, elementarity, evidence, evidentness, explicitness, extroversion, familiarity, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flatness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, folksiness, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, fundamentality, genuineness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracelessness, gracility, graciousness, guilelessness, high visibility, homeliness, homespun, homeyness, homogeneity, household words, humbleness, humility, ill-favoredness, inelegance, informality, informalness, ingenuousness, ingloriousness, innocence, innocuousness, insipidness, integrity, irregularity, leanness, limpidity, looseness, low visibility, lowlihood, lowliness, lucidity, manifestness, matter of fact, matter-of-factness, meanness, meekness, modesty, monism, naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness, neatness, obviousness, offhandedness, oneness, openheartedness, openness, openness to sight, outgoingness, outspokenness, overtness, palpability, patentness, pellucidity, percipi, perspicuity, plain English, plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainspokenness, polish, poorness, prominence, propriety, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, purity, refinement, relaxedness, restrainedness, restraint, roundness, rustic style, seeing, seemliness, severity, shapelessness, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness, singleness of heart, smallness, smoothness, soberness, sociability, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness, structure, submissiveness, talkativeness, tangibility, taste, tastefulness, teachableness, terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trustfulness, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unadulteration, unaestheticness, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, unceremoniousness, uncomeliness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, unembellishedness, unequivocalness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unguardedness, unhandsomeness, unidealism, uniformity, unimaginativeness, unimportance, unity, unmistakableness, unmixedness, unpleasingness, unpoeticalness, unpretentiousness, unprettiness, unquestionability, unrepression, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint, unrestriction, unreticence, unromanticism, unsecretiveness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuppression, unsuspiciousness, untaciturnity, unwariness, vapidity, vernacular, visibility, visibility unlimited, visibility zero

plaint

• plaint, accusal, accusation, accusing, allegation, allegement, arraignment, bawl, bill of particulars, blame, bringing of charges, bringing to book, charge, complaint, count, cry, delation, denouncement, denunciation, dolorous tirade, groan, howl, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, jeremiad, keen, lament, lawsuit, laying of charges, moan, murmur, mutter, outcry, planctus, prosecution, reproach, scream, sob, suit, taxing, tirade, true bill, ululation, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, wail, wail of woe, whimper, whine, yawp, yowl

plaintiff

• plaintiff, accessory, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, bitter-ender, brawler, claimant, complainant, defendant, delator, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, libelant, litigant, litigationist, litigator, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, panel, parties litigant, party, petitioner, prosecutor, protester, quarreler, resister, scrapper, suitor, the prosecution, witness, wrangler

plaintive

• plaintive, Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, careworn, complaining, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable, lamenting, lamentive, lugubrious, moanful, mournful, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiful, plangent, plunged in grief, puling, querulous, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, ululant, wailful, wailing, whimpering, whining, whiny, woeful

plaintively

• plaintively, brokenheartedly, complainingly, dolefully, dolorously, fretfully, grieffully, grievously, groaningly, lamentingly, moanfully, mournfully, peevishly, petulantly, querulously, ruefully, sorrowfully, tearfully, wailfully, woefully

plait

• plait, accordion pleat, box pleat, braid, bun, chignon, coat, coating, coil, collop, covering, crease, crimp, crisp, cue, cut, deal, disk, dog-ear, double, double over, enfold, enlace, entwine, feuille, film, flap, flounce, flute, foil, fold, fold over, frill, gather, infold, interfold, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, knife pleat, knit, knot, lace, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lap over, leaf, loom, loop, mat, membrane, net, noose, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, pigtail, plank, plat, plate, plating, pleach, pleat, plicate, ply, plywood, queue, quill, raddle, rasher, rattail, ruff, ruffle, safety glass, scum, sheet, skin, slab, slat, slice, splice, table, tablet, tail, tissue, topknot, tuck, turn over, twill, twine, twist, veneer, wafer, wattle, weave, web, wreath, wreathe, wreathwork

plaited

• plaited, braided, creased, crimped, dog-eared, doubled, enlaced, entwined, flexible, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, fretted, gathered, handwoven, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, knit, laced, loomed, platted, pleached, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated, plicatile, quilled, raddled, ruffled, textile, tucked, twilled, twined, woven, wreathed

plan

• plan, action, adjust, affair, aim, aim at, alphabet, ambition, anagnorisis, anatomy, angle, animus, anticipate, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrange, arrangement, art, aspiration, aspire after, aspire to, atmosphere, attempt, await, background, be after, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, beget, blueprint, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, building, business, calculate, call into being, cast, catalog, catalogue raisonne, catastrophe, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, clear for action, clear the decks, codify, coin, color, come, come on, commitment, complication, composition, conceive, conception, concert, concoct, conformation, constitution, construction, contemplate, continuity, contract, contrivance, contrive, conventional representation, cook up, coordinate, counsel, course of action, creation, cure, cut out, dance notation, deal, delineate, delineation, demonstration, denouement, depiction, depictment, deploy, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, destine, determination, determine, develop, development, device, devise, diagram, discover, drama, draw near, draw on, drawing, dream up, dress, drive at, effect, effort, engagement, engender, enterprise, envisage, envision, episode, evolve, exemplification, expect, fable, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, falling action, fashion, fashioning, figuration, figure, fix, fix up, fixed purpose, forecast, foresee, foretell, forethink, forging, form, format, formation, formula, frame, frame up, function, game plan, generate, get ready, getup, gimmick, give being to, give rise to, go for, graph, ground plan, harbor a design, harmonize, hatch, have every intention, hieroglyphic, hope, iconography, idea, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, improvise, incident, intend, intendment, intent, intention, invent, lay down, lay out, lay plans, layout, letter, lie ahead, limning, line, local color, logogram, logograph, look for, look forward to, loom, make, make a projection, make arrangements, make do with, make preparations, make ready, make up, makeup, making, manufacture, map, map out, mature, mean, meaning, means, method, methodize, mind, mint, mobilize, mold, molding, mood, motif, motive, movement, musical notation, mythos, near, nisus, normalize, notation, notion, object, obligation, operation, orderliness, organic structure, organism, organization, organize, originate, outline, pack, pack the deal, pattern, patterning, peripeteia, physique, pictogram, picturization, plan ahead, platform, plot, point, policy, portraiture, portrayal, prearrange, preconcert, preconsider, precontrive, predesign, predetermine, predict, prefigurement, premeditate, preorder, prep, prepare, preresolve, presentment, pretreat, printing, procedure, process, procreate, production, program, project, projection, prophesy, proposal, propose, proposition, prospectus, provide, purport, purpose, put in shape, rationalize, ready, ready up, realization, recognition, regularize, regulate, rendering, rendition, representation, resolution, resolve, rig, rising action, routinize, sake, scenario, schedule, schema, schematize, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, set, set up, settle, settle preliminaries, setup, sew up, shape, shaping, sketch, slant, spawn, stack the cards, standardize, story, strategy, strike out, striving, structure, structuring, study, subject, subplot, switch, syllabary, symbol, synchronize, system, systematize, tablature, table, table of contents, tan, task, tectonics, texture, thematic development, theme, think, think out, think up, threaten, tissue, tone, topic, treat, trim, try out, tune, tune up, twist, undertaking, venture, view, warp and woof, way, weave, web, will, work, work out, work out beforehand, work up, writing

plane

• plane, aeroplane, aircraft, airliner, airplane, alabaster, amount, aspire, avion, beading plane, become airborne, bench plane, billiard table, block plane, bowling alley, bowling green, caliber, capping plane, claw skyward, compass, core-box plane, cut, dab, dado plane, dead flat, dead level, degree, dovetail plane, downy, drag, dress, dub, earth, edge plane, equalize, esplanade, even, extent, flat, flatland, flatten, flattened, float, floor, flush, fly, fly aloft, flying machine, fore plane, gain altitude, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, grade, grease, grooving plane, ground, hang, harrow, heavier-than-air craft, height, homaloid, homaloidal, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, hover, ice, interval, ivory, jack plane, jet plane, jointer, kite, lay, leap, leave the ground, ledge, leiotrichous, level, level line, level plane, lubricate, mahogany, marble, mark, mean sea level, measure, mow, notch, nuance, oil, parterre, pas, peg, period, pitch, plain, planer, planing machine, planish, plaster, plateau, platform, point, poise, prairie, proportion, rabbet plane, range, ratio, reach, reed plane, regular, remove, rolled, round, routing plane, rung, sash plane, satin, scale, scope, scraper plane, scrub plane, sea level, sea of grass, shade, shadow, shave, ship, silk, skate, skid, skim, slide, slip, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, soar, space, spire, squashed, squashed flat, stair, standard, step, steppe, stint, suave, table, tabloid, tabular, take off, tennis court, terrace, thumb plane, tread, trenching plane, trodden, trodden flat, trying plane, unbroken, uniform, uninterrupted, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, velvet, water level, zoom

planet

• planet, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, asteroid, globe, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer, world

planetarium

• planetarium, Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, coelostat, coronagraph, coronograph, heliostat, observatory, orrery, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, reflector, refractor, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, telescope

planetary

• planetary, Antaean, Cynthian, aberrant, aberrative, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, catholic, celestial, circuitous, circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, cyclopean, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, ecumenic, ecumenical, elephantine, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial, errant, erratic, excursive, extragalactic, galactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly, heliacal, immense, indirect, intercosmic, international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, jumbo, labyrinthine, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mazy, meandering, meteoric, meteoritic, monumental, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, nondenominational, nonsectarian, out-of-the-way, planetal, planetarian, planetesimal, rambling, roving, semilunar, serpentine, shifting, sidereal, snaky, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stray, swerving, terrestrial, total, turning, twisting, undirected, universal, uranic, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, world-wide, worldwide, zigzag, zodiacal

plangent

• plangent, Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, booming, careworn, complaining, consonant, deafening, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, faultfinding, forte, fortissimo, fretful, full, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable, lamentive, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lugubrious, mellow, moanful, mournful, orotund, pealing, peevish, petulant, piercing, plaintive, plunged in grief, puling, pulsing, querulous, resonant, resonating, resounding, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, rueful, sonorous, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, tearful, throbbing, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, ululant, vibrant, vibrating, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, window-rattling, woeful

planimetry

• planimetry, altimetry, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartography, chorography, craniometry, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mensuration, metrology, oceanography, psychometrics, psychometry, stereometry, surveying, topography

plank

• plank, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape, band, bandage, batten, beam, belt, billet, board, boarding, brick, cast, cellophane tape, chuck, clap, clapboard, cloth tape, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, declaration of policy, disk, driftwood, face, fascia, feuille, fillet, film, firewood, flap, fling, foil, fold, friction tape, girdle, glass, glaze, hardwood, hurl, issue, keynote address, keynote speech, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, ligula, ligule, list, log, lumber, masking tape, membrane, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, party platform, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, planking, plastic tape, plate, platform, plating, plop, plump, plunk, ply, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, program, puncheon, rasher, revet, ribband, ribbon, safety glass, scum, shake, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, shred, sideboard, siding, skin, slab, slap, slat, slate, slice, slip, softwood, spill, splat, spline, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, strake, strap, strip, strop, table, tablet, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, thatch, three-by-four, throw, thrust, ticker tape, tile, timber, timbering, timberwork, toss, two-by-four, veneer, wafer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard, wood

planking

• planking, bank, beam, billet, board, boarding, border, broadside, cheek, chop, clapboard, coast, cord, cordwood, deal, driftwood, firewood, flank, hand, handedness, hardwood, haunch, hip, jowl, laterality, lath, lathing, lathwork, log, lumber, many-sidedness, multilaterality, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, plank, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, profile, puncheon, quarter, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shore, side, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, temple, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, unilaterality, weatherboard, wood

plankton

• plankton, Iceland moss, Irish moss, Loch Ness monster, alevin, benthon, benthos, brown algae, cetacean, conferva, dolphin, dulse, fingerling, fish, fry, fucoid, fucus, game fish, green algae, grilse, gulfweed, kelp, kipper, lichen, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, nekton, panfish, phytoplankton, pond scum, porpoise, red algae, reindeer moss, rockweed, salmon, sargasso, sargassum, scum, sea monster, sea moss, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, sea wrack, seaweed, shark, smolt, sponge, tropical fish, whale, wrack

planless

• planless, aimless, amorphous, capricious, casual, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, erratic, fitful, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, irregular, meaningless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, promiscuous, random, senseless, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering

planned

• planned, advised, aimed, aimed at, all ready, all set, approaching, armed, armed and ready, arranged, blueprinted, booted and spurred, briefed, calculated, charted, coached, cocked, coming, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, deliberate, deliberated, designed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devised, emergent, envisaged, envisioned, equipped, eventual, extrapolated, familiarized, fatal, fated, fatidic, figured, fixed, forthcoming, future, futuristic, good and ready, groomed, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the bag, in the saddle, in the works, informed, intended, intentional, knowing, later, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, meant, meditated, methodized, mobilized, nearing, of design, on ice, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the mark, on the tapis, organized, packed, plotted, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, predicted, premeditated, preordered, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, probable, projected, prophesied, proposed, prospective, provided, psyched up, purposed, purposeful, purposive, put-up, rationalized, ready, ready for anything, rigged, ripe, scheduled, schematized, schemed, set, set-up, shaped, stacked, strategetic, strategic, studied, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, to come, to-be, ultimate, up in arms, vigilant, voluntary, well-prepared, willful, witting, worked out

planner

• planner, a, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, contriver, craftsman, creator, designer, developer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, enterpriser, entrepreneur, executor, executrix, father, founder, framer, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, organizer, originator, past master, precursor, prime mover, producer, projector, promoter, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, strategian, strategist, tactician, wright

planning

• planning, adjustment, approach, arrangement, attack, basic training, blueprint, blueprinting, briefing, calculation, charting, clearing the decks, codification, conception, contrivance, coordination, design, device, disposition, enterprise, envisagement, equipment, familiarization, figuring, fixing, foresight, forethought, foundation, frame-up, game, graphing, ground plan, groundwork, guidelines, harmonization, idea, intention, layout, lineup, long-range plan, makeready, making ready, manufacture, mapping, master plan, method, methodization, methodology, mobilization, normalization, operations research, ordination, organization, packed deal, packed jury, plan, planning function, plotting, prearrangement, preconcertedness, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, premeditation, preordering, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, procedure, processing, program, program of action, propaedeutic, provision, put-up job, rationalization, readying, regularization, regulation, rigged jury, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scheming, setup, spadework, stacked deck, strategic plan, strategy, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, training, treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, way, working plan

plant eater

• plant eater, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, predacean, trencherman, vegetarian

plant

• plant, accouterments, adulterate, agent provocateur, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, aquatic plant, armament, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, assign, atomic energy plant, base, bed, biennial, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bosom, bottle up, brewery, brickyard, broadcast, build, build in, bury, bush, cache, cannery, capper, clawed, colonize, come-on man, conceal, confirm, conveniences, cook, cosmopolite, cover, creamery, cutting, dairy, deciduous plant, decoy, deep-dye, defense plant, define, denizen, deposit, dibble, dicot, dicotyledon, disseminate, distillery, dockyard, doctor, drill, duffel, dust, embed, embosom, empeople, engraft, engrave, entomb, entrench, ephemeral, equipage, equipment, establish, etch, evergreen, exotic, facilities, facility, factory, factory belt, factory district, fake, feeder plant, file and forget, fittings, fix, fixtures, flour mill, flower, flowering plant, footed, forest, found, foundry, fungus, furnishings, furniture, gametophyte, gear, ground, gymnosperm, herb, hide, hide away, hoofed, hydrophyte, impact, impedimenta, implant, impress, imprint, industrial park, industrial zone, infix, informant, informer, ingrain, inhabit, inhume, inject, inscribe, inseminate, insinuate, install, installations, inter, introduce, invest, jam, juggle, keep hidden, keep secret, kit, lay away, lay the foundation, load, lock up, lodge, machinery, main plant, manipulate, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, materiel, mill, mint, monocot, monocotyl, munition, munitions, munitions plant, occult, oil refinery, outfit, pack, packing house, paraphernalia, pedal, people, perennial, pitch, place, plantar, plumbing, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, populate, position, pot, pottery, power plant, print, production line, push-button plant, put, put away, put in, put up, refinery, reforest, reset, retimber, retouch, rig, rigging, root, salt, sawmill, scatter, scatter seed, screen, seal up, seat, secret agent, secrete, seed, seed down, seed plant, seedling, seminate, set, set in, set out, set up, settle, settle in, shill, shipyard, shop, shrub, situate, sophisticate, sow, sow broadcast, spermatophyte, sporophyte, spy, stack, stamp, stash, station, stereotype, stock-in-trade, stool pigeon, stoolie, store away, stow away, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tackle, taloned, tamper with, tannery, thallophyte, things, toed, tomb, transplant, tree, triennial, ungulate, utensils, vascular plant, vegetable, vest, vine, wedge, weed, winery, works, yard, yards

plantation

• plantation, anchorage, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, clump, collective farm, colonization, cotton plantation, croft, crop, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, empeoplement, establishment, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fixation, foundation, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, growth, hacienda, hassock, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, inauguration, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, lodgment, mains, manor farm, mooring, orchard, pasture, pen, peoplement, peopling, planting, population, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, settlement, settling, sheep farm, stand, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm, tuft, tussock

planted

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

planter

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

planting

• planting, broadcast, broadcasting, clump, crop, dissemination, growth, hassock, insemination, plantation, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, seeding, semination, setting, sowing, stand, transplantation, tuft, tussock

plantlike

• plantlike, botanic, bulbous, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, leguminose, leguminous, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy

plaque

• plaque, arch, award, badge, barrow, boundary stone, brass, brooch, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, honor, inscription, insignia, marker, mausoleum, medal, medallion, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, panel, patch, pillar, pin, plaquette, plate, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, slab, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy

plash

• plash, artificial lake, babble, bayou lake, brash, bubble, burble, burst of rain, cistern, cloudburst, dam, dead water, deluge, dike, douse, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, etang, farm pond, fishpond, flood, foam, freshwater lake, froth, glacial lake, guggle, gurgle, gushing rain, heavy rain, inland sea, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lap, lapping, linn, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, pond, pondlet, pool, pour, puddle, purl, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, reservoir, ripple, salina, salt pond, scud, shower, slop, slosh, soaker, soaking rain, sparge, spate, spatter, spindrift, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, spout, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, stagnant water, standing water, still water, sump, swash, swish, tank, tarn, tidal pond, torrent of rain, trill, volcanic lake, wash, washing, water hole, water pocket, waterspout, well

plashy

• plashy, aquatic, aqueous, dirty, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, liquid, miry, mucky, muddy, oozy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, swashy, turbid, waterish, watery

plasma

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

plaster

• plaster, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Portland cement, Spackle, adherent, adhesive, adhesive tape, adobe, application, ashlar, band, bandage, bandaging, barnacle, bathe, bedaub, besmear, binder, booze up, boozify, brace, bramble, brick, bricks and mortar, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, care for, cast, cataplasm, cement, chinking, clay, clinker, coat, composition, compress, concrete, cotton, court plaster, cover, covering materials, cravat, crock, crush, cure, dab, daub, decal, decalcomania, dental pulp, diagnose, doctor, drag, dress, dressing, dub, elastic bandage, epithem, equalize, even, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flatten, flooring, flux, four-tailed bandage, fuddle, gauze, give care to, glue, grade, grease, grout, gunk, harrow, heal, lath and plaster, lay, leech, level, limpet, lint, lubricate, mash, masonry, massage, mastic, minister to, molasses, mortar, mow, mucilage, mush, nurse, oil, operate on, overlay, overtake, paper pulp, parget, paste, patching plaster, pavement, paving, paving material, physic, pickle, pith, plane, planish, plaster cast, plasters, pledget, pollute, porridge, poultice, prestressed concrete, prickle, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, purge, rag pulp, remedy, remora, roller, roller bandage, roofage, roofing, roughcast, rub, rubber bandage, sauce, shave, siding, size, sling, smarm, smash, smear, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smudge, souse, spackling compound, splint, sponge, spread, squash, stew, sticker, stone, strap, stucco, stupe, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, superimpose, swack, syrup, tampon, tape, tent, thorn, tile, tiling, tipsify, tourniquet, treat, triangular bandage, walling, white lead, wood pulp

plastered

• plastered, afflicted, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, elevated, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, high, illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, stoned, swacked, tanked, tight

plastic person

• plastic person, Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, pedant, perfectionist, precisian, precisianist, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, yes-man

plastic surgery

• plastic surgery, antiseptic surgery, aseptic surgery, balanoplasty, batrachoplasty, blepharoplasty, bronchoplasty, canthoplasty, chiroplasty, colpoplasty, cosmetic operation, cryosurgery, cystoplasty, dental surgery, electrosurgery, general surgery, genyoplasty, heart surgery, heteroplasty, labioplasty, major surgery, mammilloplasty, minor surgery, neurosurgery, open-heart surgery, operation, operative surgery, oral surgery, organ transplantation, orthopedic surgery, otoplasty, plastic operation, prosthetics, radiosurgery, reconstructive operation, reconstructive surgery, reparative surgery, rhinoplasty, surgery, thoracic surgery, urological surgery, veterinary surgery

plastic

• plastic, Bakelite, Buna, Celluloid, Formica, Lucite, Mylar, PVC, Perspex, Plexiglas, Styrofoam, Teflon, able to adapt, acaroid resins, accessible, accordant, acetate, acetate nitrate, acquiescent, acrylic, adaptable, adaptive, adhesive, adjustable, alkyd, alterable, alterative, amber, amenable, aminoplast, anal, apt, artificial, average, bendable, bending, biddable, bogus, bourgeois, bright, casein plastic, cast plastic, cellophane, cellulose acetate, cellulose ether, cellulose nitrate, cellulose plastic, cellulosic, changeable, cheap, checkered, chintzy, clayey, clever, colophony, common, commonplace, complaisant, compliant, compulsive, concordant, conformable, conformist, conventional, corresponding, coumarone resins, coumarone-indene, counterfeit, crummy, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, epoxy, ersatz, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, extruded plastic, fabricable, facile, fake, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid, fluorocarbon plastic, formable, formal, formalistic, formational, formative, fossil resins, furane, garden, garden-variety, giving, gum rosin, gums, harmonious, imitation, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inexperienced, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, kaleidoscopic, kosher, lac resins, laminate, lignin, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lot, malleable, manageable, many-sided, melamine, meretricious, metabolic, metamorphic, middle-class, mobile, modifiable, moldable, molded plastic, molding compounds, morphotic, motivated, movable, multiresin, mutable, neoprene, nitrate, no great shakes, nonuniform, normal, nylon, obedient, open, open-minded, ordinary, orthodox, other-directed, parcel, paste, pedantic, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, phenolic urea, pinchbeck, pine resins, plasmatic, plasmic, plat, pliable, pliant, plot, polyester, polymer, polymeric amide, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, precisianistic, protean, proteiform, protein plastic, protoplasmic, quick, ready, receptive, regular, resilient, resin, resin plastic, resina, resinate, resinoid, responsive, ripe for instruction, rosin, rubbery, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, sham, shapable, shapeable, shoddy, silicone resin, soft, springy, square, straight, stuffy, suasible, submissive, suburban, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, synthetic, synthetic fabric, synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, teachable, tetrafluoroethylene, thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, thirsty for knowledge, tract, tractable, tractile, traditionalist, trainable, transient, transitory, unexceptional, unformed, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, uptight, urea, urea formaldehyde, usual, variable, vegetable resins, vinyl, waxy, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, workable, yielding

plasticity

• plasticity, adaptability, adjustability, agreeability, agreeableness, alterability, amenability, aptitude, aptness, bendability, biddability, brightness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, cleverness, compliableness, docility, ductibility, ductility, educability, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility, facility, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, fluidity, formativeness, give, impermanence, impressionability, intelligence, limberness, litheness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, moldability, motivation, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, pliability, pliancy, quickness, readiness, receptiveness, receptivity, resilience, responsiveness, rubberiness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, springiness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, tractability, tractility, trainableness, transience, transitoriness, willingness, willowiness, yieldingness

plat

• plat, accordion pleat, acres, block, box pleat, chattels real, clearing, clos, close, corn field, crease, crimp, crisp, croft, cultivated land, demesne, dog-ear, domain, double, double over, enclave, enfold, field, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, forty, frill, gather, grounds, hayfield, honor, infold, interfold, knife pleat, kraal, land, landed property, lands, lap over, lot, lots, manor, messuage, paddy, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, piece of land, plait, pleat, plicate, plot, plot of ground, ply, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, quill, real estate, real property, realty, rice paddy, ruff, ruffle, section, square, tenements, toft, tract, tuck, turn over, twill, wheat field

plate

• plate, Chateaubriand, alveolar ridge, anodized aluminum, antepast, armor, backing, bibliofilm, billhead, bipack, black-and-white film, blade roast, book stamp, bookplate, brand, breast, bridgework, brisket, broad arrow, cachet, cartridge, charger, check, chitin, chromium plate, chromium-plate, chuck, chuck roast, clod, coat, coating, cold cuts, collop, colophon, color film, color negative film, copperplate, cortex, counterfoil, countermark, course, cover, covering, cut, deal, dental bridge, dentition, denture, dessert, dish, disk, docket, dope, dry plate, duplicate plate, electrocoating, electroplate, electroplating, electrotype, elytron, emulsion, entree, entremets, episperm, face, false teeth, feuille, filet mignon, film, flank, flap, foil, fold, frame, galvanize, gold plate, government mark, government stamp, gums, hallmark, help, helping, illustration, imprint, ivories, knuckle, label, lamella, lamina, laminate, laminated glass, laminated wood, lamination, lap, layer, leaf, letterhead, locked-up page, logo, logotype, loin, lorica, lorication, mail, masthead, membrane, microfilm, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, negative, nickel plate, orthochromatic film, overlay, pack, panchromatic film, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, pericarp, periodontal tissue, photographic paper, picture, place, plait, plank, plastic plate, plate piece, plating, platter, ply, plywood, portion, pot roast, price tag, print, printing paper, printing plate, printing surface, protective covering, rack, rasher, registered trademark, rib roast, ribs, roast, roll, rolled roast, round, rubber plate, rump, rump roast, running head, running title, saddle, safety glass, scum, scute, scutum, seal, second helping, service, serving, set of teeth, shank, sheet, shell, shield, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, sigil, signet, silver plate, sirloin, skin, slab, slat, slice, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, stamp, steel plate, stereotype, sticker, stone, stub, table, tablet, tag, tally, teeth, tenderloin, test, testa, thick skin, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trencher, tripack, typeform, uppers and lowers, vehicle, veneer, wafer, zincograph, zincotype

plateau

• plateau, alkali flat, alluvial plain, amount, basin, bench, bottomland, break, bushveld, caliber, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, coffee break, compass, cut, degree, delta, desert, down, downs, downtime, extent, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grade, grass veld, grassland, half time, half-time intermission, heath, height, highland, holiday, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, lande, leap, letup, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lull, lunar mare, mare, mark, measure, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, notch, nuance, off-time, open country, pampa, pampas, pas, pause, peg, peneplain, period, pitch, plain, plains, plane, playa, point, point of repose, prairie, proportion, quiet spell, range, ratio, reach, recess, relief, remove, respite, resting point, round, rung, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, scale, scope, sebkha, shade, shadow, space, stair, standard, step, steppe, stint, table, table mountain, tableland, time off, time out, tread, tree veld, tundra, upland, vacation, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

platform

• platform, address, agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, balcony, bear garden, bench mark, billiard table, bookmark, bowl, bowling green, boxing ring, bull ring, cairn, campus, canvas, catafalque, catstone, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, creed, dais, dead flat, dead level, declaration of policy, deliver an address, discourse, earth, emplacement, esplanade, estrade, field, flat, flatland, floor, forum, gallery, give a talk, ground, guiding principles, gym, gymnasium, hall, heliport, hippodrome, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, hustings, issue, keynote address, keynote speech, landing, landing pad, landing stage, landmark, launching pad, ledge, level, level line, level plane, lighthouse, lightship, line, lists, locale, mark, marker, marketplace, mat, mean sea level, menhir, milepost, milestone, milieu, monument, open forum, palaestra, parade ground, parterre, party line, party platform, pharos, pit, place, plain, plan of action, plane, plank, podium, policy, polity, position paper, prairie, precinct, principles, prize ring, procedure, program, public square, pulpit, purlieu, range, ring, rostrum, scene, scene of action, scenery, sea level, sea of grass, seamark, setting, site, soapbox, speak, speechify, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stand, step terrace, steppe, stump, table, take the floor, take the stump, talk, tenets, terrace, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, tower, tribunal, tribune, walk, watchtower, water level, wrestling ring

plating

• plating, anodized aluminum, chromium plate, coat, coating, collop, copperplate, covering, cut, deal, disk, electrocoating, electroplating, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, gold plate, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, membrane, nickel plate, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, plate, ply, plywood, rasher, safety glass, scum, sheet, silver plate, skin, slab, slat, slice, table, tablet, veneer, wafer

platinum blond

• platinum blond, ash blond, ash-blond, bleached blond, bleached-blond, blond, blond-haired, blond-headed, brunet, carrottop, flaxen-haired, golden-haired, goldilocks, honey blond, honey-blond, peroxide blond, peroxide-blond, redhead, strawberry blond, towhead, towheaded

platitude

• platitude, abstraction, banality, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying, inanity, insipidity, lieu commun, locus communis, mawkishness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, sentimentality, shibboleth, stereotyped saying, sweeping statement, tag, tired cliche, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, vapidity

platitudinous

• platitudinous, aphoristic, axiomatic, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, bromidic, common, commonly known, commonplace, corny, crisp, current, cut-and-dried, epigrammatic, fade, familiar, formulaic, formulistic, fusty, gnomic, hackney, hackneyed, household, moth-eaten, musty, notorious, old hat, overworked, pithy, pointed, proverbial, public, pungent, sententious, set, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, succinct, talked-about, talked-of, terse, threadbare, timeworn, trite, truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn, worn thin

Platonic love

• Platonic love, Amor, Christian love, Eros, abstinence, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, celibacy, charity, conjugal love, continence, continency, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, intactness, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, love, lovemaking, maidenhead, maidenhood, married love, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, virginity, weakness, worship, yearning

Platonic

• Platonic, Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonistic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Socratic, Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, abstinent, animist, animistic, celibate, continent, idealist, idealistic, immaterialist, intact, maidenly, panpsychist, panpsychistic, pre-Socratic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic, vestal, virgin, virginal

platoon

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

platter

• platter, bulletin board, card, catalog card, disc, dish, file, filing card, film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, plate, salver, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, server, slip, tape, ticker tape, tray, videotape

platypus

• platypus, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Indian buffalo, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, ass, aurochs, badger, bandicoot, bassarisk, bat, bear, beaver, bettong, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blue fox, bobcat, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, coon, coon cat, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, deer, deer tiger, dingo, dog, donkey, dormouse, dromedary, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, eyra, fallow deer, ferret, field mouse, fisher, fitch, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giraffe, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, hippopotamus, hog, horse, hyena, hyrax, ibex, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lion, llama, lynx, mammoth, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meerkat, mink, mole, mongoose, moose, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, peludo, phalanger, pig, pine mouse, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, pronghorn, puma, rabbit, raccoon, rat, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, rhinoceros, roe, roe deer, roebuck, sable, serval, sheep, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, skunk, sloth, snowshoe rabbit, springbok, squirrel, stoat, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, tree shrew, urus, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

plaudit

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

plausibility

• plausibility, acceptability, admissibility, apparent soundness, believability, believableness, casuistry, circularity, color, common sense, conceivability, credibility, credit, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, justifiability, justness, logic, logicality, logicalness, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibleness, rationality, rationalization, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reliability, sense, sensibleness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, sound sense, soundness, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, subtlety, sweet reason, tenability, trustworthiness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning

plausible

• plausible, acceptable, admissible, apparent, apparently sound, believable, casuistic, cogent, cogitable, colorable, colored, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, creditable, deceitful, deceptive, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, fiduciary, gilded, hollow, humanly possible, illusive, imaginable, insincere, jesuitic, just, justifiable, legitimate, likely, logical, meretricious, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic, possible, potential, presentable, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, sane, seeming, sensible, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, sound, specious, tenable, thinkable, tinsel, trustworthy, trusty, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, worthy of faith

play around with

• play around with, assay, be abstracted, bring to test, brood, chew the cud, confirm, consider, contemplate, cut and try, debate, deliberate, digest, essay, experiment, give a try, give a tryout, have a go, introspect, meditate, muse, perpend, play with, ponder, practice upon, prove, put to trial, reflect, research, road-test, ruminate, run a sample, sample, shake down, speculate, study, substantiate, taste, test, toy with, try, try it on, try out, validate, verify, weigh

play around

• play around, cast coquettish glances, coquet, dabble, dally, eye, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, gallivant, gold-dig, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, loiter, look sweet upon, make eyes at, mess, mess around, monkey, monkey around, ogle, philander, piddle, play, play with, potter, putter, run around, smatter, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, twiddle, womanize

play ball

• play ball, act in concert, act together, affiliate, ally, amalgamate, associate, band, band together, be in league, club together, coact, coalesce, collaborate, collude, combine, concert, concord, concur, confederate, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, do business with, federate, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together, harmonize, hold together, hook up, join, join in, join together, keep together, league, league together, make common cause, merge, partner, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, stand together, team up, throw in together, tie in, tie up, unite, unite efforts, work together

play by ear

• play by ear, accompany, ad-lib, be caught napping, be surprised, be taken unawares, be unprepared, chord, concertize, cook up, dash off, do, do offhand, execute, extemporize, fake, go off half-cocked, have no plan, improvisate, improvise, interpret, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, make music, make up, perform, play, render, scrap the plan, strike off, symphonize, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, vamp, whip up, whomp up, wing it

play down

• play down, abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bedwarf, belittle, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deprecate, depreciate, detract from, diminish, downplay, dull, dwarf, extenuate, keep within bounds, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mute, obtund, palliate, reduce, reduce the temperature, restrain, set at naught, set little by, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, think little of, think nothing of, tone down, tune down, underplay, weaken

play dumb

• play dumb, be mute, be silent, bosom, classify, conceal, file and forget, forswear speech, hold out on, in petto, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep quiet, keep secret, keep silent, keep snug, keep still, keep under wraps, make no sign, never let on, not give away, not tell, say nothing, secrete, shut up, stand mute, veil, withhold

play havoc with

• play havoc with, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, be all thumbs, befoul, bewitch, blight, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, commit a gaffe, condemn, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, envenom, faux pas, flounder, fumble, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, impair, infect, injure, jinx, lumber, maltreat, mar, menace, miscue, mistreat, molest, muddle, muff, murder, outrage, persecute, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, ruin, savage, scathe, slip, spoil, stumble, taint, threaten, torment, torture, trip, violate, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

play off

• play off, bout, contest, decathlon, double-header, doubles, event, foursome, game, games of chance, go, match, meet, pentathlon, play, race, runoff, singles, sport, threesome, twosome

play on words

• play on words, abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, be merry with, calembour, corruption, crack a joke, crack wise, equivocality, equivoque, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, jeu de mots, joke, josh, kid, kid around, logogram, logogriph, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, malapropism, metagram, missaying, mock, palindrome, paronomasia, poke fun at, pun, punning, quip, ridicule, scintillate, scoff at, sparkle, spoonerism, utter a mot, wisecrack, wordplay

play on

• play on, abuse, bleed, bleed white, deceive, drain, exploit, foist on, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, make use of, manipulate, milk, misuse, pass off on, pass the buck, presume upon, put across, put on, put over, put upon, shift the blame, shift the responsibility, stroke, suck dry, take advantage of, use, use ill, work on, work upon

play out

• play out, blow, break down, burn out, collapse, crack up, droop, drop, faint, fatigue, flag, gasp, get tired, give out, grow weary, jade, pant, peter out, poop out, puff, puff and blow, run down, run out, sink, succumb, tire, weary, wheeze, wilt

play safe

• play safe, clear the decks, consider every angle, forearm, guard against, hedge, leave out nothing, make sure, make sure against, overlook no possibility, prepare for, protect, provide a hedge, provide against, provide for, reef down, save, shorten sail, take measures, take precautions, take steps

play the game

• play the game, act well, be good, be nice, behave, conform, do right, fall in with, fall into line, fit in, follow the crowd, follow the fashion, follow the rule, get in line, go through channels, keep in step, observe the proprieties, pass muster, play fair, stay in line, toe the mark

play the market

• play the market, be caught short, be short, belong, bucket, bucketshop, deposit margin, go long, hold on, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, plunge, pyramid, scalp, scoop the market, speculate, stag, stag the market, take a flier, trade on margin, venture

play up to

• play up to, act up to, agree to anything, approach, blarney, break the ice, brown-nose, butter, butter up, court, cultivate, curry favor, dance attendance on, fall all over, fall over, fawn upon, get around, handshake, honey, jolly, kid along, lay it on, make advances, make court to, make up to, oil, overdo it, pay addresses to, pay court to, polish the apple, run after, shine up to, soap, soft-soap, soften up, string along, stroke, suck up to

play with fire

• play with fire, bell the cat, brave, chance, court danger, court destruction, dare, defy danger, face up to, flirt with death, forget the odds, gamble, go for broke, hazard, play Russian roulette, risk, run the chance, run the risk, take a chance, take chances, tempt Providence

play

• play, ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, abuse, accentuate, accompany, act, act a part, act as, act as foil, act out, act up, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, ad lib, affect, agree, air space, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, ample scope, amuse, amusement, angular data, ante, ante up, antic, antimasque, ape, appear, apple-polish, appliance, application, article, artifice, assembler, assume, attention, audience success, autograph, back, ball, ballet, barnstorm, be effective, be in action, be occupied with, be responsible for, be unfaithful, beguile, behave, behavior, belittle, belly laugh, bet, bet on, betting, bicker, big time, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, blank check, blue story, bluff, bomb, book, bout, brainchild, broadcast drama, brown-nose, bug, build up, burlesque show, butter up, byte, calculated risk, call, call attention to, caper, caracole, cardsharping, carouse, carry on, carry out, carry through, carte blanche, cast lots, casting lots, cause trouble, cavort, challenge, chance, charade, chord, chunk, clearance, cliff hanger, closet drama, come out, comedy drama, command pulses, commands, compete with, compiler, composition, computer code, computer language, computer printout, computer program, concertize, conduct, consider, contend with, contest, control signals, controlled quantity, cooperate, copy, coquet, correcting signals, counterfeit, court, cover, cover up, coverage, critical success, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut lots, cut the cards, cut up, dabble, dally, dance, dancing, data, daytime serial, de-emphasize, deal with, decathlon, decry, delay, delectation, delight, demeanor, depict, deportment, deprecate, device, dialogue, dido, diminish, direct, dirty joke, dirty story, discourse, disparage, disport, dissemble, dissimulate, diversion, divert, do, do a bit, do with, document, documentary drama, doing, double entendre, double-header, doubles, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, dramatize, draw lots, draw straws, drive, duodrama, duologue, edited version, elbowroom, emote, emotionalize, emphasize, employ, employment, enact, engage, engage in, engrossment, enjoyment, entertain, entertainment, epic theater, error, error signals, essay, ethnic joke, event, execute, exercise, exert, experimental theater, exploit, extemporize, extravaganza, fade, failure, fair copy, fake, feedback pulses, feedback signals, feign, feint, fiction, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget, fidget with, field, film data, final draft, finesse, finger with, finished version, first draft, flatter, flexibility, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flier, flimsy, flirt, flop, flounce, flutter, fluttering, fool, fool around, fool with, fortune, four-flush, foursome, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freedom, fribble, frisk, frivol, frivolity, frolic, full scope, full swing, fun, fun and games, function, functioning, funmaking, funny story, gag, gambit, gamble, gambling, gambol, game, games of chance, gaming, gammon, gasser, get top billing, gimmick, give, giveaway, glancing light, go, go along with, good one, good story, good time, great fun, gush, handbook, handle, happening, have effect, have free play, have fun, have play, hazard, hazarding, headroom, hesitate, hexadecimal system, high old time, high time, highlight, histrionize, hit, hit show, holograph, horse around, horseplay, howler, idle, impersonate, impose on, improvisational drama, improvise, information, input data, input quantity, instructions, interpret, jape, jerk off, jest, jestbook, jet, jockey, join in, joke, kid around, lambency, latitude, laugh, laughs, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leeway, legitimate drama, let on, let on like, letter, light show, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, loiter, long rope, looseness, lot, lovely time, luck, lucubration, machine language, make, make a bet, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make go, make light of, make like, make music, make out like, make use of, malfunction, manage, maneuver, maneuvering space, manipulate, manuscript, margin, masque, masquerade as, match, match coins, matter, meet, meet a bet, melodrama, merrymaking, mess around, mess with, message, militate, mime, mimic, minimize, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, misbehave, misuse, monkey, monkey around, monkey business, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, motion, move, movement, movements, multiple messages, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, no holds barred, noise, nonfiction, numeric data, occupation, octal system, open space, opera, operate, operation, operations, opus, original, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, overact, pageant, panel show, panic, pantomime, paper, parchment, parlay, participate, participate in, pass, pass for, pastoral, pastoral drama, patter, pentathlon, percolate, perform, perform on, perk, personate, philander, picnic, piddle, piece, piece of writing, pilot, place, play a part, play a scene, play against, play around, play at dice, play ball, play by ear, play down, play for time, play of light, play on, play possum, play the game, play the lead, play the ponies, play up, play up to, play with, play-off, playact, playing, playlet, pleasant time, pleasure, ploy, plunge, ply, poem, point, polar data, portray, pose as, potter, practice, praxis, pretend, pretend to be, printed matter, printout, problem play, proceed, procrastinate, production, profess, psychodrama, punch-card data, punt, put, put on, put on airs, putter, quiver, quivering, quiz show, race, radio drama, raffle off, random data, range, reading matter, recension, recreate, recreation, rectangular data, reference quantity, register, render, revelry, review, revue, rib tickler, riot, risk, risking, rival, rollick, romp, room, room to spare, rope, ruly English, run, run around, runoff, scope, scream, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sea room, second draft, see, see to, sensational play, serial, serve, set, sham, shoot craps, shot, show, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, signals, simulate, single messages, singles, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skip, skit, skylarking, sleep around, smatter, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, soft-soap, sortition, space, spare room, spectacle, speculate, speculation, spew, spit, sport, sporting, sportiveness, spotlight, spout, spray, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stage play, stage show, stake, staking, stall for time, stand pat, star, steal the show, steer, stooge, story, straight drama, stratagem, stress, success, suck up to, surge, suspense drama, swing, symphonize, tableau, tableau vivant, take, take advantage of, take care of, take effect, take off, take on, take part in, take up, talk show, tease, teleplay, television drama, television play, temporize, the written word, theater of cruelty, think about, think nothing of, threesome, tick, tinker, toady to, tolerance, tomfoolery, toss, total theater, toy, toy with, trade on, transcript, transcription, tread the boards, treatment, trifle, trifle with, trip, troupe, truckle to, tug the heartstrings, twiddle, twosome, typescript, uncertainty, underline, underscore, undertake, unorganized data, upstage, use, utilize, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, venture, version, vie with, visible-speech data, visual joke, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, wager, wagering, waver, way, wear, well, wheeze, wide berth, wield, wile, wing it, womanize, word-of-mouth success, work, work together, working, workings, wow, writing, yarn

playa

• playa, alkali flat, alluvial plain, bank, basin, beach, berm, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coast, coastal plain, coastland, coastline, delta, desert, down, downs, embankment, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foreshore, grass veld, grassland, heath, ironbound coast, lande, level, lido, littoral, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plage, plain, plains, plateau, prairie, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sands, savanna, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, sebkha, shingle, shore, shoreline, steppe, strand, submerged coast, table, tableland, tidewater, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, waterfront, waterside, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

playacting

• playacting, acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gag, gilt, gloss, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, imposture, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, projection, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, varnish, window dressing

playactor

• playactor, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Roscius, actor, actress, affecter, antagonist, bad guy, bamboozler, barnstormer, befuddler, beguiler, character, character actor, character man, character woman, charmer, child actor, counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, dramatizer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, fake, faker, feeder, foil, fooler, forger, fraud, gay deceiver, heavy, histrio, histrion, hoaxer, hollow man, hypnotizer, impersonator, ingenue, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, juvenile, kidder, leg-puller, man of straw, mannerist, matinee idol, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, misleader, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, paper tiger, performer, phony, plagiarist, plagiarizer, player, practical joker, pretender, protean actor, ragger, reciter, role-player, seducer, soubrette, spoofer, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straw man, stroller, strolling player, tease, teaser, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

playbill

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

playbook

• playbook, best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, continuity, cue, definitive work, folio, great work, hardback, juvenile, juvenile book, libretto, limp-cover book, lines, magnum opus, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paperback, picture book, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, scenario, scene plot, score, script, serial, shooting script, side, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, storybook, text, title, tome, trade book, volume, work, writing

playboy

• playboy, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, bon vivant, carouser, clubman, clubwoman, contestant, cutup, debauchee, excellent companion, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, gamboler, gay dog, good company, good mixer, joiner, lady-killer, man-about-town, merrymaker, mixer, nightclub habitue, player, pleasant company, pleasure-seeker, pleasurer, pleasurist, rake, reveler, rollicker, roue, skylarker, social lion, wolf, womanizer

played out

• played out, all in, ausgespielt, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, burned-out, bushed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, devitalized, disabled, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled, eviscerated, exhausted, fagged out, far-gone, fatigued, frazzled, gone, incapacitated, jaded, knocked out, laid low, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, run-down, sapped, shotten, spent, tired, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, wasted, weakened, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn, worn-out

player

• player, Roscius, actor, actress, adventurer, amateur athlete, antagonist, archer, artist, artiste, athlete, bad guy, ballplayer, barnstormer, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, betting ring, bettor, blocking back, boneshaker, bowman, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, carouser, catcher, center, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, coach, competitor, compulsive gambler, concert artist, contender, contestant, corrival, crap shooter, cricketer, cutup, defensive lineman, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, emulator, end, entertainer, entrant, executant, feeder, foil, footballer, frisker, frolicker, funmaker, gambler, gamboler, games-player, gamester, guard, hazarder, heavy, histrio, histrion, impersonator, infielder, ingenue, instrumentalist, interpreter, jock, jumper, juvenile, lineman, maestro, matinee idol, merrymaker, mime, mimer, mimic, minstrel, minstrelsy, monologist, mummer, music maker, musician, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, pantomime, pantomimist, participant, performer, petty gambler, piker, playactor, playboy, pleasure-seeker, pleasurer, pleasurist, plunger, poloist, professional athlete, protean actor, pugilist, punter, quarterback, racer, reciter, reveler, rival, rollicker, sharp, sharper, sharpie, skater, skylarker, soloist, soubrette, speculator, sport, sporting man, sportsman, sportswoman, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, tackle, tailback, the field, theatrical, thespian, tinhorn, tipster, tout, toxophilite, trouper, tunester, utility man, venturer, vier, villain, virtuosa, virtuoso, wagerer, wingback, wrestler

playful

• playful, animated, antic, arch, blithe, capersome, cheerful, coltish, dashing, devilish, elfish, elvish, exuberant, facetious, foolish, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of mischief, fun-loving, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hearty, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, impish, jesting, jocund, joking, jolly, jovial, kittenish, knavish, larking, larkish, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, mischief-loving, mischievous, pixie, pixieish, pixilated, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, roguish, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scampish, scapegrace, skittish, spirited, sportful, sportive, sprightly, teasing, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vital, vivacious, waggish, whimsical, wicked, zestful, zippy

playfulness

• playfulness, animal spirits, animation, capersomeness, coltishness, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, elan, elfishness, esprit, exuberance, flippancy, foolishness, friskiness, frivolity, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, gusto, heartiness, high spirits, impishness, levity, life, liveliness, merriment, mischief, mischievousness, piss and vinegar, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, roguery, roguishness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, scampishness, skittishness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, trickery, trickiness, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, waggery, waggishness, youthful spirits, zest, zestfulness, zip

playground

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

playhouse

• playhouse, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, amphitheater, arena theater, auditorium, cabaret, circle theater, club, concert hall, cubby, cubbyhole, doghouse, hall, hole, house, little theater, music hall, night spot, nightclub, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, pigeonhole, pinch, showboat, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, tight spot, tight squeeze

playing cards

• playing cards, ace, best bower, bower, cards, clubs, deck, deuce, diamonds, dummy, face cards, flush, full house, hand, hearts, jack, joker, king, knave, left bower, pack, pair, picture cards, queen, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, singleton, spades, straight, trey, trick, trump

playing field

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

playing

• playing, acting, aflicker, aping, betting, bickering, blinking, buffoonery, business, cardsharping, casting lots, characterization, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dancing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, fiddling, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, flirtation, fluttering, fluttery, fooling, fooling around, gag, gambling, gaming, ham, hammy acting, hazarding, hoke, hokum, idling, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, jerking off, kidding around, lambent, loitering, masquerade, messing around, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, monkeying, monkeying around, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, piddling, play, playacting, playing around, portrayal, posing, pottering, projection, puttering, quivering, quivery, representation, risking, slapstick, smattering, sortition, speculation, sporting, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, staking, stroboscopic, stunt, taking a role, tinkering, toying, trifling, wagering, wavering, wavery

playmate

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

playroom

• playroom, archery ground, athletic field, badminton court, baseball field, basketball court, billiard parlor, bowling alley, bowling green, course, court, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, diamond, fairway, family room, field, football field, game room, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, gridiron, gym, gymnasium, ice rink, infield, links, outfield, oval, playground, playing field, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, putting green, racecourse, racket court, rec room, recreation room, rink, rumpus room, skating rink, soccer field, squash court, stretch, tennis court, track, turf

plaything

• plaything, Charlie McCarthy, agate, agent, ancilla, appliance, babe, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, boob, checkerboard, chessboard, chump, cinch, club, cockhorse, contrivance, creature, credulous person, cricket bat, cue, cull, device, die, doll, doll carriage, dummy, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fish, fool, game, gewgaw, gimcrack, go-between, gobe-mouches, golf club, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, handmaid, handmaiden, hobbyhorse, implement, innocent, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, leadpipe cinch, lever, marble, marionette, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, mig, minion, monkey, organ, paper doll, pastime, patsy, pawn, pick-up sticks, pigeon, pinwheel, pretty, prize sap, puppet, pushover, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sap, saphead, schlemiel, servant, sitting duck, slave, sport, steelie, stooge, sucker, taw, teetotum, tool, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, trusting soul, vehicle, victim, whim-wham

playwright

• playwright, choreographer, comedian, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge, farcer, farceur, farceuse, farcist, gagman, joke writer, jokesmith, librettist, melodramatist, mimographer, monodramatist, play doctor, play fixer, playwriter, scenario writer, scenarioist, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter, tragedian

plaza

• plaza, agora, auto show, bazaar, boat show, campo, commercial complex, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market, forum, green, market, market cross, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, piazza, place, rialto, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, square, staple, street market, trade fair

plea

• plea, adjuration, alibi, answer, apology, appeal, application, argument, argumentum, beseechment, bid, call, case, clamor, cons, consideration, counterstatement, cry, defence, defense, demurrer, denial, elenchus, entreaty, exception, excuse, explanation, extenuation, ignoratio elenchi, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, invocatory plea, justification, mitigation, objection, obsecration, obtestation, out, overture, palliation, petition, plaidoyer, pleading, pleadings, prayer, pretext, pros, pros and cons, reason, rebuttal, refutation, reply, request, response, right, riposte, rogation, solicitation, special demurrer, special pleading, statement of defense, suit, supplication, talking point, vindication

pleach

• pleach, braid, enlace, entwine, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, knit, lace, loom, loop, mat, net, noose, plait, raddle, splice, tissue, twill, twine, twist, wattle, weave, web, wreathe

plead guilty

• plead guilty, acknowledge, admit, admit everything, allow, apologize, avow, beg pardon, come clean, concede, confess, cop a plea, do penance, grant, let on, open up, out with it, own, own up, reform, repent, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell all, tell the truth, think better of

plead

• plead, adduce, adjure, advance, advocate, affirm, allege, appeal, appeal to, apply to, argue, argufy, array, ask, ask for, assert, aver, avow, bandy words, beg, beseech, bicker, blandish, brace, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear, cajole, call for help, call on, call upon, cavil, choplogic, clamor for, coax, conduct pleadings, conjure, contend, contest, crave, cross swords, cry for, cry on, cry to, cut and thrust, declare, demand, deploy, discept, dispute, entreat, exhort, give and take, hassle, have it out, high-pressure, impetrate, implead, implore, importune, imprecate, insist, insist upon, invoke, jawbone, join issue, kneel to, lobby, lock horns, logomachize, maintain, make a plea, marshal, moot, nag, obtest, offer, petition, pettifog, plead for, plead with, polemicize, polemize, pray, present, press, pressure, produce, push, put forward, quibble, rally, recommend, request, rest, run to, say, seek, soft-soap, solicit, spar, supplicate, swear, sweet-talk, take sides, thrash out, try conclusions, urge, wheedle, work on, wrangle

pleader

• pleader, abettor, actuator, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, animator, apologete, apologist, apologizer, attorney, attorney-at-law, backup, backup man, barrister, barrister-at-law, cajoler, champion, coax, coaxer, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, defender, deputy, dummy, encourager, energizer, executive officer, exponent, figurehead, firer, friend at court, gadfly, galvanizer, impeller, inducer, inspirer, intercessor, justifier, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, mouthpiece, mover, moving spirit, paranymph, persuader, pinch hitter, prime mover, proctor, procurator, prompter, proponent, proxy, representative, sea lawyer, second in command, secondary, self-styled lawyer, solicitor, spark, spark plug, sparker, stand-in, stimulator, substitute, successful advocate, surrogate, tempter, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent, vindicator, wheedler, whitewasher

pleading

• pleading, adjuratory, answer, appealing, argument, argumentum, bar, begging, beseeching, case, cons, consideration, counsel, counterstatement, defense, demurrer, denial, elenchus, entreating, exception, ignoratio elenchi, imploring, legal profession, objection, plaidoyer, plea, pleadings, precative, precatory, pros, pros and cons, reason, rebuttal, refutation, reply, representation, response, riposte, special demurrer, special pleading, statement of defense, talking point