Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/09

bladder

• bladder, air bubble, bag, ball, balloon, bleb, blister, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulla, cap and bells, coxcomb, ellipsoid, fever blister, fob, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, motley, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pocket, poke, prolate spheroid, rondure, sac, sack, slapstick, soap bubble, sock, sphere, spheroid, spherule, vesicle

blade

• blade, Beau Brummel, Excalibur, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, ax, back, battler, bayonet, beau, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blood, boulevardier, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, clotheshorse, cold steel, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cotyledon, coxcomb, cutlass, cutlery, cutter, cutting edge, dagger, dandy, disputant, dorsum, dude, duelist, edge tools, enforcer, exquisite, fashion plate, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, fine gentleman, flag, floral leaf, foilsman, foliole, fop, fribble, frond, gallant, gamecock, gladiator, glume, goon, gorilla, hard palate, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, involucre, involucrum, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jackknife, jouster, knife, knight, lady-killer, lamina, larynx, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, lips, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, militant, naked steel, nasal cavity, needle, oral cavity, palate, penknife, petal, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, pigsticker, pile, pine needle, playboy, plug-ugly, point, poniard, puncturer, puppy, quarreler, rapier, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, runner, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, seed leaf, sepal, sharpener, shoot, sled, sleigh, snowmobile, soft palate, spark, spathe, spear, speech organ, spire, sport, squabbler, steel, stiletto, stipula, stipule, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, swell, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, thug, tilter, tip, toad sticker, tongue, tough, trusty sword, tussler, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box, weasel, whittle, wrangler

blah feeling

• blah feeling, adynamia, anemia, atony, bloodlessness, cachexia, cachexy, cowardice, debilitation, debility, dullness, etiolation, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, impotence, languishment, languor, lassitude, listlessness, prostration, sluggishness, softness, strengthlessness, weakliness, weakness, weariness

blah

• blah, Laodicean, Olympian, acedia, aloof, aloofness, apathetic, apathy, arid, ataraxia, ataraxy, balderdash, baloney, banausic, barren, benumbed, benumbedness, bilge, blah-blah, blahs, blank, blase, blather, blatherskite, bloodless, bop, bosh, broken-record, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, characterless, cold, colorless, comatose, comatoseness, crap, dead, desensitized, detached, detachment, dim, disinterest, disinterested, dismal, dispassion, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dullness, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, eyewash, fade, flapdoodle, flat, gas, guff, gup, harping, heartless, heartlessness, heavy, hebetude, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hogwash, hokum, hollow, hooey, hopeless, hopelessness, hot air, humbug, humdrum, in a stupor, inane, inappetence, indifference, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, insouciance, insouciant, invariable, jejune, jog-trot, lack of appetite, languid, languidness, leaden, lethargic, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifeless, listless, listlessness, long-winded, low-spirited, malarkey, monotone, monotonous, moonshine, nonchalance, nonchalant, numb, numbed, numbness, pale, pallid, passive, passiveness, passivity, pedestrian, phlegm, phlegmatic, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, piffle, plodding, pluckless, plucklessness, pointless, poky, ponderous, poppycock, prolix, resignation, resigned, resignedness, rot, scat, shit, singsong, slack, sloth, slow, sluggish, sluggishness, solemn, sopor, soporific, soporifousness, spiritless, spiritlessness, spunkless, spunklessness, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoic, stuffy, stupefaction, stupefied, stupor, superficial, supine, supineness, tasteless, tedious, tommyrot, torpid, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, treadmill, tripe, uncaring, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, uninterested, unlively, unvarying, vapid, wind, withdrawn, withdrawnness, wooden

blahs

• blahs, acedia, aloofness, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blue devils, blues, boredom, cheerlessness, comatoseness, detachment, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disinterest, dislike, dismals, dispassion, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dolefuls, dread, dullness, dumps, emptiness, ennui, existential woe, flatness, grimness, heartlessness, hebetude, hopelessness, inappetence, indifference, inquietude, insouciance, joylessness, lack of appetite, lack of pleasure, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, malaise, megrims, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, nausea, nonchalance, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, numbness, painfulness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, savorlessness, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spleen, spunklessness, staleness, stupefaction, stupor, sulks, supineness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, uncomfortableness, unconcern, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, withdrawnness

blame

• blame, account for, accountability, accounting for, accredit with, accrete to, accusal, accusation, accuse, accusing, acknowledge, allegation, allegement, anathema, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, answerability, application, apply to, arraign, arraignment, arrogation, ascribe to, ascription, assign to, assignation, assignment, attach to, attachment, attribute to, attribution, bill of particulars, blame for, blame on, bring home to, bringing of charges, bringing to book, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, castigation, censure, charge, charge on, charge to, complain against, complaint, condemn, condemnation, confess, connect with, connection with, count, credit, credit with, criticism, criticize, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, culpability, damn, damnation, decrial, decry, delation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, derivation from, disapprobation, disapproval, etiology, excoriation, fasten upon, father upon, fault, fix on, fix upon, flaying, fulminate against, fulmination, fustigation, guilt, hang on, hold against, honor, impeach, impeachment, implication, impugn, imputation, impute, impute to, incriminate, indict, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, inveigh against, knock, lawsuit, lay to, laying of charges, liability, objurgation, onus, palaetiology, pillorying, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, placement, plaint, point to, prosecution, rap, rebuke, recriminate, recrimination, refer to, reference to, reflect upon, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprobation, reproof, reprove, responsibility, saddle on, saddle with, saddling, scold, set down to, settle upon, shake up, skin, skinning alive, stricture, suit, taxing, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation

blamed

• blamed, absolute, accused, arraigned, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, bloody, charged, cited, complete, confounded, consummate, dadburned, damnable, danged, darn, darned, dashed, denounced, deuced, doggone, doggoned, downright, execrable, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, infernal, involved, out-and-out, perfect, rank, regular, reproached, ruddy, straight-out, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire, unmitigated

blameless

• blameless, Christian, angelic, childlike, clean, clear, creditable, decent, dovelike, erect, estimable, ethical, exemplary, fair, faultless, full of integrity, good, guiltless, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, in the clear, incorrupt, inculpable, innocent, inviolate, irreprehensible, irreproachable, just, lamblike, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lily-white, manly, moral, noble, not guilty, offenseless, prelapsarian, principled, pristine, pure, reproachless, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, sans reproche, sinless, spotless, stainless, sterling, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, unimpeachable, unlapsed, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, untouched by evil, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, with clean hands, without reproach, worthy, yeomanly

blameworthy

• blameworthy, abominable, accusable, amiss, arraignable, arrant, at fault, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameful, brutal, censurable, chargeable, contemptible, criminal, culpable, damnable, dark, delinquent, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faultful, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foolish, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, guilty, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, illaudable, impeachable, improper, imputable, indictable, infamous, iniquitous, irresponsible, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, open to criticism, outrageous, peccant, pitiable, pitiful, punishable, rank, reckless, regrettable, reprehensible, reproachable, reprobate, reprovable, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, to blame, too bad, unclean, uncommendable, unforgivable, unholy, unpardonable, unpraiseworthy, unpretty, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

blanch

• blanch, ache, achromatize, agonize, ail, anguish, bake, barbecue, baste, besnow, bleach, bleach out, blench, blush, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, chalk, change color, coddle, color, cook, crimson, curry, darken, decolor, decolorize, devil, dim, discolor, do, do to perfection, drain, drain of color, dull, etiolate, fade, fade out, feel pain, feel the pangs, fire, flinch, flush, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, frost, fry, fume, glow, griddle, grill, grimace, grizzle, grow pale, have a misery, heat, hurt, look black, lose color, mantle, oven-bake, pale, pan, pan-broil, parboil, peroxide, poach, pound, prepare, prepare food, quail, redden, roast, saute, scallop, sear, shirr, shoot, shrink, silver, simmer, smart, squinch, start, steam, stew, stir-fry, suffer, tarnish, thrill, throb, tone down, turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn white, twinge, twitch, wan, wash out, white, whiten, wince, writhe

blanched

• blanched, aghast, appalled, ashen, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, bleached, bleached white, colorless, cowed, deadly pale, decolored, decolorized, doughy, drained, drained of color, eroded, faded, frozen, gray with fear, horrified, horror-struck, intimidated, lightened, livid, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, scared stiff, scared to death, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wan, washed-out, waxen, weather-battered, weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted, weathered, weatherworn, whitened

bland

• bland, abstract, adulatory, balmy, banal, bare, barren, blah, blandishing, blank, blarneying, bleached, boring, broad, buttery, cajoling, calm, changeable, characterless, civilized, clear, collective, complimentary, composed, cool, courtierly, courtly, devoid, disarming, dull, empty, faint, fair-spoken, fawning, featureless, fine-spoken, flat, flattering, fulsome, general, generalized, generic, gentle, glib, good-natured, gushing, halfhearted, hollow, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, inane, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, insipid, insouciant, irresolute, judicious, lenient, mealymouthed, mild, mild as milk, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, mushy, namby-pamby, nebulous, neutral, nonchalant, nonspecific, nonviolent, null, null and void, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, pacifistic, peaceable, peaceful, prudent, sapless, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, sober, soft, soft-soaping, soft-spoken, soothing, suave, suave-spoken, sycophantic, tame, tasteless, temperate, uncharacterized, unctuous, undifferentiated, unemotional, uninteresting, unrelieved, unruffled, unspecified, urbane, vacant, vacuous, vague, vapid, void, waterish, watery, wheedling, white, wide, wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content

blandish

• blandish, adulate, advocate, allure, apply pressure, bait, bait the hook, banter, be hypocritical, beguile, beset, besiege, beslobber, beslubber, blarney, bug, buttonhole, cajole, call on, call upon, cant, charm, coax, compliment, con, conceit, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, dun, ensnare, entice, exert pressure, exhort, fawn upon, flatter, flirt, flirt with, give lip service, give mouth honor, give the come-on, high-pressure, importune, insist, insist upon, inveigle, jawbone, lead on, lobby, lure, make fair weather, mouth, nag, nag at, offer bait to, oil the tongue, palaver, pester, plague, play the hypocrite, plead with, ply, praise, press, pressure, push, recommend, reek of piety, render lip service, rope in, seduce, slobber over, snivel, snuffle, soft-soap, suck in, sweet-talk, tease, urge, wheedle, woo, work on

blandishment

• blandishment, adulation, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, artful endearments, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishments, blarney, bunkum, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, captivation, caress, charisma, charm, charmingness, coaxing, come-hither, compliment, conning, dunning, enchantment, endearment, engagement, enlistment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exhortation, eyewash, fair words, fascination, fawning, flattery, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, grease, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, importunateness, importunity, incense, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, jawboning, lobbying, magnetism, nagging, oil, palaver, pat, persuasion, pestering, plaguing, plying, praise, preaching, preachment, pressing, pressure, pretty lies, sales talk, salesmanship, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, selling, sex appeal, snaring, snow job, soap, soft soap, soft words, solicitation, suasion, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, tantalization, teasing, temptation, urgency, urging, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing, working on

blank check

• blank check, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, ample scope, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, carte blanche, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, clearance, commercial paper, copyright, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, dispensation, draft, due bill, elbowroom, exchequer bill, favor, field, franchise, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freedom, full authority, full power, full scope, full swing, grant, immunity, indulgence, latitude, leeway, letter of credit, liberty, license, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, money order, negotiable instrument, no holds barred, note, note of hand, open mandate, open space, paper, patent, play, postal order, privilege, promissory note, range, room, rope, scope, sea room, sight bill, sight draft, space, special favor, swing, time bill, time draft, tolerance, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant, way, wide berth

blank wall

• blank wall, bar, barricade, barrier, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, cecum, choking, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, costiveness, cul-de-sac, dead end, embolism, embolus, fence, gorge, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, roadblock, sealing off, stop, stoppage, strangulation, wall

blank

• blank, Olympian, absence, absolute, aloof, arid, awayness, backward, bald, bare, barren, bashful, bewildered, black, blah, bland, blankminded, bleached, blind, blind-alley, bloodless, box, calm, cecal, characterless, chasm, chilled, chilly, chirograph, choked, choked off, clean slate, clear, closed, cold, colorless, complete, confused, constrained, constricted, contracted, cool, dazed, dead, dead-end, deadpan, deprivation, detached, devoid, discomfited, disconcerted, discreet, dismal, distant, docket, document, dossier, downright, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, emotionless, emptiness, empty, empty space, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, etiolated, expressionless, fade, fatuous, featureless, file, fishy, flat, forbidding, form, frigid, frosty, glassy, guarded, heavy, helpless, ho-hum, hollow, holograph, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inane, inanity, incogitant, inexcitable, inexpressive, insipid, instrument, introverted, jejune, lack, leaden, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, lifeless, line, low-spirited, mindless, modest, naked, neverness, nil, nirvanic, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonplussed, nonpresence, nothing, nothingness, nowhereness, nude, null, null and void, oblivious, official document, offish, out-and-out, overlook, oversight, pale, pallid, paper, papers, parchment, passive, pedestrian, perfect, perplexed, personal file, plain, plodding, pointless, poker-faced, poky, ponderous, preterition, pure, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, regular, relaxed, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, roll, scatterbrained, scrip, script, scroll, sheer, shrinking, shut, skip, slow, solemn, space, spiritless, squeezed shut, standoff, standoffish, stark, sterile, stiff, stodgy, straight-out, strangulated, stuffy, subdued, subtraction, superficial, suppressed, tabula rasa, tasteless, tedious, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffable, unapproachable, unarrayed, uncomplicated, uncongenial, undecked, undecorated, undemonstrative, undressed, unembellished, unexpansive, unexpressive, unfurbished, ungarnished, ungenial, unideaed, unintellectual, unlively, unmixed, unoccupied, unopen, unopened, unornamented, unqualified, unreasoning, unrelieved, unsophisticated, unthinking, untrimmed, unvarnished, unvented, unventilated, utter, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vapid, void, want, white, with nothing inside, withdrawn, without content, wooden, writ, writing, zero

blanket

• blanket, across-the-board, afghan, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, apply to, becloud, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedsheet, bedspread, befog, blind, block, buffalo robe, camouflage, canopy, cap, case, casual, cloak, clothe, clothes, cloud, coat, comfort, comforter, compendious, complete, comprehensive, conceal, contour sheet, cope, counterpane, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, coverlet, coverlid, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crown, curtain, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, drape, drapery, eclipse, eiderdown, encyclopedic, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, film, fitted sheet, general, global, gloss over, guise, hanging, hide, hood, housing, imprudent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, insensitive, keep under cover, lap robe, lay on, lay over, linen, mantle, mask, muffle, nonjudgmental, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, omnibus, over-all, overcast, overlay, overspread, pall, panoramic, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, promiscuous, put on, quilt, robe, rug, screen, scum, shade, sheet, sheeting, shelter, shield, shroud, slip, slur over, spread, spread over, superimpose, superpose, sweeping, synoptic, tactless, total, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, universal, unmeticulous, unparticular, unselective, unsubtle, untactful, varnish, veil, vestment, whitewash, whole, wholesale, without exception, without omission

blankety blank

• blankety blank, absolute, blamed, blasted, blessed, blooming, confounded, cursed, cussed, dadburned, danged, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, doggoned, downright, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, out-and-out, outright, rank, ruddy, unmitigated

blankminded

• blankminded, awkward, blank, callow, calm, dumb, empty, empty-headed, fatuous, gauche, green, groping, ignorant, inane, incogitant, inexperienced, innocent, know-nothing, naive, nescient, nirvanic, oblivious, passive, quietistic, raw, relaxed, simple, strange to, tentative, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unoccupied, unposted, unreasoning, unripe, unsure, unthinking, unversed, vacant, vacuous

blare

• blare, bark, bawl, bay, beep, belch, bell, bellow, blare forth, blast, blat, blate, blaze, blaze abroad, blazing light, blazon, blazon about, bleat, blinding light, blow, blow the horn, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, bright light, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, bugle, burr, burst of light, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, caw, celebrate, chant, chirp, chirr, clamor, clang, clangor, clank, clarion, clash, coo, craunch, croak, crow, crump, crunch, cry, cry out, dazzling light, declaim, drawl, echo, effulgence, exclaim, fanfare, flamboyance, flame, flare, flood of light, flourish of trumpets, flute, fulgor, gasp, give tongue, give voice, glare, glaring light, glory, glow, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, herald, herald abroad, hiss, honk, howl, jangle, jar, keen, lilt, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, noise, pant, peal, pipe, proclaim, promulgate, pule, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, rasp, refulgence, refulgency, resonate, resound, resplendence, resplendency, reverberate, ring, roar, rumble, scranch, scrape, scratch, screak, scream, screech, scrunch, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snore, snort, sob, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, splendor, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, streaming light, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thunder, thunder forth, toot, tootle, troat, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, trumpet forth, twang, tweedle, ululate, vividness, wail, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, wind, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yowl

blaring

• blaring, atmospherics, blasting, blatant, blatting, blind spot, blustering, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, crawling, creeping, drift, earsplitting, fade-out, fading, interference, mafficking, noise, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, reception, rip-roaring, roaring, rowdy, static, stentorian, stentorious, strepitant, strepitous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferous

blarney

• blarney, adulation, banter, blandish, blandishment, bunkum, cajole, cajolement, cajolery, compliment, con, eyewash, fair words, fawning, flattery, grease, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, incense, oil, palaver, praise, pretty lies, soap, soft soap, soft-soap, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sweet-talk, sycophancy, wheedle, wheedling

blase

• blase, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, ataractic, benumbed, blah, bored, carefree, careless, casual, comatose, cool, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dead, debilitated, degage, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, disabused, disappointed, disenchanted, disillusioned, disinterested, dispassionate, dispirited, disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, easygoing, emotionless, enervated, enlightened, exanimate, experienced, fed-up, free and easy, good and tired, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, in a stupor, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, irked, jaded, knowing, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless, light-hearted, listless, lumpish, mature, matured, melancholic, melancholy, mindless, mondaine, moribund, negligent, nonchalant, not born yesterday, numb, numbed, offhand, old, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, practiced, put straight, reckless, regardless, resigned, ripe, ripened, robbed of illusion, sagacious, sated, satiated, seasoned, set right, sick, sick of, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, sophisticate, sophisticated, soporific, spiritless, splenetic, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied, supercilious, superior, supine, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, torpid, tried, tried and true, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, uncharmed, unconcerned, undeceived, undiscriminating, unimpressed, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, unspelled, vegetable, vegetative, veteran, wan, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, withdrawn, world-weary, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

blaspheme

• blaspheme, abuse, accurse, anathematize, belittle, blast, calumniate, confound, curse, damn, darn, decry, defame, deprecate, depreciate, disparage, excommunicate, execrate, fulminate against, hex, imprecate, malign, profane, put down, revile, swear, throw a whammy, thunder against, vilify

blasphemous

• blasphemous, Rabelaisian, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, disrespectful, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, foul, fulminatory, impious, imprecatory, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, maledictory, obscene, profanatory, profane, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sinful, undutiful, vile, vituperative, wicked

blasphemy

• blasphemy, abuse, affront, anathema, ban, befouling, billingsgate, blasphemousness, commination, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, desecration, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, impiety, imprecation, indignity, insult, malison, malocchio, profanation, profaneness, profanity, proscription, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scurrility, swearing, thundering, violation, vituperation, whammy

blast off

• blast off, A, alpha, altitude peak, automatic control, begin, beginning, blast away, burn, burnout, ceiling, commence, commencement, creation, cutting edge, dawn, descent, dive in, edge, end of burning, establishment, fall to, fire, flight, flying start, foundation, fresh start, get to, go ahead, head into, ignition, impact, institution, jump off, jump-off, kick off, kick-off, launch, leading edge, lift-off, new departure, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, pitch in, plunge into, project, rocket launching, running start, send off, send-off, set about, set in, set out, set sail, set to, setting in motion, setting-up, shoot, shot, square one, start, start in, start off, start out, start-off, starting point, take off, take-off, trajectory, turn to, velocity peak

blast

• blast, Bedlam let loose, accurse, aim at, anathematize, at full blast, attack, awake the dead, backfire, baffle, balk, bang, bark, barrage, bay, beat, bedlam, beep, bell, bellow, belt, blare, blaspheme, blast, blast the ear, blast-freeze, blat, blight, blitz, blot out, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow out, blow over, blow the horn, blow to pieces, blow up, blowout, blowup, bluster, bobbery, bomb, bombard, boom, brave, brawl, bray, breeze, breeze up, brew, brouhaha, bugle, bump off, burst, bust, cancer, canker, cannon, cannonade, challenge, charge, charivari, checkmate, chirm, circumvent, clamor, clangor, clap, clarion, clatter, clobber, come up, commence firing, commotion, completely, confound, confront, congeal, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crack, crash, crescendo, criticize, croak, cross, curse, damage, damn, darn, dash, deafen, defame, defeat, defy, demolish, denounce, destroy, detonate, detonation, devastate, din, discharge, discomfit, disconcert, discord, discountenance, discredit, dish, disrupt, do in, donnybrook, drub, drunken brawl, dry rot, dust, dustup, dynamite, elude, enfilade, entirely, erase, eruption, excommunicate, execrate, explode, explosion, fanfare, fill the air, fire, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, fix, flap, flare, flash, flaw, flourish of trumpets, flummox, flurry, foil, fracas, free-for-all, freeze, freeze solid, freshen, frustrate, fulguration, fully, fulminate, fulminate against, fulmination, fungus, fusillade, gale, gather, get, give the business, glaciate, glacify, go off, gun down, gunshot, gust, hell broke loose, hex, hit, honk, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, huff, hullabaloo, ice, imprecate, injure, jangle, knock the chocks, lambaste, larrup, lay out, lay waste, let off, lick, load, loud noise, maximally, mildew, mine, mold, mortar, moth, moth and rust, must, nip, noise, noise and shouting, nonplus, off, open fire, open up on, outcry, overwhelm, pandemonium, payload, peal, pepper, perplex, pest, pipe, pipe up, polish off, pop, pop at, puff, quick-freeze, racket, rage, rake, rattle, rattle the windows, refreeze, regelate, rend the air, rend the ears, report, resound, rhubarb, ring, rise, roar, rock the sky, rot, row, rub out, ruckus, ruction, ruin, rumble, rumpus, rust, sabotage, salvo, scotch, scud, set in, set off, settle, shatter, shell, shellac, shindy, shivaree, shoot, shoot at, shot, shriek, shrivel, slam, slug, smash, smut, snipe, snipe at, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, spike, split the eardrums, split the ears, spoil, spring, squall, squeal, startle the echoes, stonewall, storm, strafe, stump, stun, stunt, surge, swell, take aim at, take care of, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thoroughly, throw a whammy, thunder, thunder against, thunderclap, thwart, tintamarre, toot, tootle, torpedo, touch off, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tumult, tweedle, uproar, upset, volley, waft, wallop, warhead, waste, wham, whiff, whiffle, whistle, wind, wind gust, wipe out, wither, worm, wreck, zap, zero in on

blasted

• blasted, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blamed, blankety-blank, blessed, blighted, blown, broken, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, danged, darned, dashed, defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, deuced, devastated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty, goldanged, goldarned, gone to pot, goshdarn, gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, out of countenance, outright, overthrown, positive, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruddy, ruined, ruinous, smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked

blasting

• blasting, atmospherics, banging, blaring, blind spot, bursting, cracking, crashing, crawling, creeping, drift, exploding, explosive, fade-out, fading, flapping, interference, knocking, noise, popping, rapping, reception, slapping, slatting, static, tapping

blasty

• blasty, aeolian, airish, airy, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, breezy, brisk, drafty, favonian, flawy, fresh, gusty, puffy, squally, windy

blat

• blat, bark, bawl, bay, beep, belch, bell, bellow, blare, blast, blate, bleat, blow, blow the horn, blubber, blurt out, bolt, boom, bray, breathe, bugle, burr, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, caw, chant, chirp, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clarion, clash, coo, craunch, croak, crow, crump, crunch, cry, cry out, drawl, ejaculate, exclaim, fanfare, flourish of trumpets, flute, gasp, give tongue, give voice, grind, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, hiss, honk, howl, jangle, jar, keen, lilt, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, pant, peal, pipe, pule, rasp, roar, rumble, scranch, scrape, scratch, screak, scream, screech, scrunch, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snore, snort, sob, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thunder, toot, tootle, troat, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, twang, tweedle, ululate, wail, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, wind, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yowl

blatancy

• blatancy, arrantness, boldness, brazenness, clamorousness, colorfulness, conspicuousness, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, flagrance, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, high relief, jauntiness, jazziness, loudness, luridness, meretriciousness, noisiness, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, ostentation, outstandingness, panache, prominence, pronouncedness, salience, saliency, sensationalism, shamelessness, showiness, sportiness, strikingness, strong relief, tawdriness, vociferousness, vulgarness

blatant

• blatant, arrant, barefaced, bawling, bellowing, blaring, blatting, blustering, boanergean, boisterous, bold, brassy, brawling, brazen, brazenfaced, chintzy, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, colorful, conspicuous, crude, crying, extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, hanging out, howling, impudent, in relief, in the foreground, loud, loudmouthed, lowing, lurid, mafficking, meretricious, mugient, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, notable, noticeable, notorious, obstreperous, obtrusive, obvious, openmouthed, ostensible, outstanding, overbold, overt, palpable, prominent, pronounced, puling, rackety, rip-roaring, rowdy, salient, screaming, sensational, shameless, shouting, spectacular, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, strepitant, strepitous, strident, striking, tawdry, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, ululant, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, vulgar, wailing, whining, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping

blatantly

• blatantly, abominably, agonizingly, arrantly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, boldly, brashly, brazenfacedly, brazenly, colorfully, confoundedly, conspicuously, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, flaringly, frightfully, garishly, gaudily, glaringly, gorgeously, grievously, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, luridly, markedly, miserably, nakedly, notably, noticeably, notoriously, obtrusively, openly, ostensibly, outstandingly, painfully, piteously, prominently, pronouncedly, sadly, saliently, sensationally, shamelessly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, staringly, strikingly, tawdrily, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully

blather

• blather, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, be stupid, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blatherskite, blether, blethers, blither, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunkum, burble, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, dote, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hokum, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, jazz, malarkey, maunder, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, slobber, spout, spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, yak, yakkety-yak

blaze

• blaze, Vandyke, arrow, backfire, bake, balefire, be bright, be in heat, beacon, beacon fire, beam, bedazzle, birthmark, blare, blare forth, blast, blaze a trail, blaze abroad, blaze of light, blaze up, blazing light, blazon, blazon about, blemish, blind, blinding light, blister, bloom, blotch, boil, bombard, bonfire, brand, bright light, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, broil, burn, burn in, burn off, burning ghat, burst, burst into flame, burst of light, campfire, cast, caste mark, catch, catch fire, catch on fire, cauterize, celebrate, chalk, chalk up, char, check, check off, checkmark, cheerful fire, choke, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, coal, combust, combustion, compass needle, conflagration, convulsion, cook, corposant, coruscate, cozy fire, crack, crackling fire, crematory, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cry, cry out, cupel, cut, cyclone, dapple, dash, daze, dazzle, dazzling light, death fire, declaim, define, deflagration, delimit, demarcate, depression, diffuse light, direction, direction post, discolor, discoloration, dot, earmark, effulgence, engrave, engraving, eruption, explosion, facula, fen fire, finger post, fire, fire up, fist, fit, flamboyance, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flare-up, flash, flash fire, flashing point, fleck, flick, flicker, flickering flame, flood of light, flush, forest fire, found, fox fire, freckle, fry, fulgor, fulgurate, funeral pyre, gale, gash, gasp, give light, glance, glare, glaring light, gleam, gleam of light, glint, glory, glow, graving, guide, guideboard, guidepost, gust, hack, hand, hatch, herald, herald abroad, holocaust, hour hand, hurricane, ignis fatuus, ignite, ignition, illuminate, illumine, impress, imprint, incandesce, incise, incision, indent, indentation, index, index finger, inferno, ingle, irruption, jag, jog, joggle, jot, kerf, kindle, knurl, lambent flame, lead, lentigo, light, line, lubber line, luster, machicolate, macula, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marshfire, milepost, mill, minute hand, mole, mottle, needle, nevus, nick, nock, notch, open fire, outbreak, outburst, oxidate, oxidize, pant, parch, paroxysm, patch, pencil, pepper, picot, pink, point, pointer, polka dot, prairie fire, prick, print, proclaim, promulgate, punch, punctuate, puncture, pyre, pyrolyze, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, radiate, radiate heat, raging fire, refulgence, refulgency, resplendence, resplendency, riddle, roast, scald, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scintillate, scorch, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sea of flames, seal, seam, sear, seethe, seizure, send out rays, serrate, sheet of fire, shell, shimmer with heat, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, shout, signal beacon, signboard, signpost, simmer, singe, slash, smolder, smother, smudge fire, solar flare, solar prominence, solder, spark, sparkle, spasm, speck, speckle, splash, splendor, splotch, spot, spunk up, stain, stamp, steam, stew, stifle, stigma, stigmatize, storm, strawberry mark, streak, streaming light, striate, stripe, suffocate, sweat, swelter, swinge, take, take fire, tattoo, tattoo mark, tempest, three-alarm fire, thunder, thunder forth, tick, tick off, tittle, toast, tooth, tornado, torrefy, trace, trumpet, trumpet forth, two-alarm fire, underline, underscore, upheaval, vesicate, vividness, vulcanize, watch fire, watermark, weld, whirlwind, wildfire, witch fire

blazer

• blazer, Eton jacket, Mao jacket, blouse, body coat, bolero, bomber jacket, capuchin, car coat, chaqueta, chesterfield, claw hammer, claw-hammer coat, cutaway coat, dinner jacket, doublet, dress coat, duffel, fingertip coat, fitted coat, frock, frock coat, jerkin, jumper, jupe, loden coat, mackinaw, mess jacket, midicoat, monkey jacket, parka, pea jacket, reefer, sack, san benito, ski jacket, sleeve waistcoat, smoking jacket, spiketail coat, swallowtail, tabard, tail coat, tails, watch coat, windbreaker, woolly

blazing

• blazing, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, candent, candescent, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, comburent, combustion, concremation, conflagrant, cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, fervent, fervid, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, incineration, inflamed, kindled, live, living, meteoric, on fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, perfervid, pyrolysis, red-hot, reeking, refining, scintillant, scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, smoking, smoldering, sparking, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, unextinguished, unquenched, vesication

blazon

• blazon, achievement, adorn, advertise, air, alerion, animal charge, announce, annulet, annunciate, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, array, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bend, bend sinister, billet, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon about, blazon forth, blazonry, bordure, brandish, bravura, brilliancy, broad arrow, broadcast, bruit about, cadency mark, canton, celebrate, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, color, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cry, cry out, dandify, dangle, daring, dash, deck, deck out, declaim, decorate, demonstrate, demonstration, device, difference, differencing, display, dizen, doll up, dramatics, dress, dress up, eagle, eclat, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, falcon, false front, fanfaronade, fess, fess point, field, fig out, figure, file, fix up, flair, flanch, flash, flaunt, flaunting, fleur-de-lis, flourish, fret, fur, furbish, fusil, garland, garnish, grace, griffin, gules, gussy up, gyron, hatchment, helmet, herald, herald abroad, heraldic device, histrionics, hold up, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, manifest, manifestation, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, ornament, pageant, pageantry, paint, pale, paly, parade, pean, pheon, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, purpure, put forth, put forward, quarter, quartering, redecorate, redo, refurbish, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, set off, set out, sham, shield, shout, show, showing-off, smarten, smarten up, sound, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, spread eagle, spruce up, staginess, subordinary, tenne, theatrics, thunder, thunder forth, tincture, titivate, torse, tressure, trick out, trick up, trim, trumpet, trumpet forth, unicorn, vair, vaunt, vert, wave, wreath, yale

bleach

• bleach, achromatization, achromatize, besnow, blanch, blanching, bleach out, bleacher, bleaching, bleaching agent, bleaching powder, blench, bowdlerize, chalk, change color, chlorine, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, decolor, decolorant, decoloration, decolorization, decolorize, decolorizer, decolorizing, delouse, depurate, deterge, dim, discolor, discoloration, drain, drain of color, dry-clean, dull, dust, dust off, etiolate, etiolation, expurgate, fade, fade out, fading, freshen, frost, fume, grizzle, grow pale, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, lighten, lightening, lime, lose color, lustrate, madder bleach, market bleach, nitrogen tetroxide, oxalic acid, pale, paling, peroxide, purge, purify, reform, scavenge, silver, sodium hypochlorite, sour, spruce, steam-clean, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, sweep out, sweeten, tarnish, tidy, tone down, turn pale, turn white, wan, wash out, white, white sour, whiten, whitening, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up

bleached

• bleached, bare, barren, blanched, bland, blank, bleached white, bright, characterless, clean, cleanly, clear, dainty, decolored, decolorized, devoid, dirt-free, drained, drained of color, empty, eroded, faded, fair, fastidious, featureless, fresh, hollow, immaculate, inane, insipid, kosher, lightened, nonpolluted, null, null and void, of cleanly habits, pure, ritually pure, shiny, smut-free, smutless, spotless, stainless, sweet, tahar, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant, vacuous, void, washed-out, weather-battered, weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted, weathered, weatherworn, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, with nothing inside, without content

bleachers

• bleachers, Texas tower, beacon, belvedere, bridge, conning tower, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, lighthouse, lookout, loophole, observation post, observatory, outlook, overlook, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, ringside, ringside seat, sighthole, top gallery, tower, watchtower

bleaching

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

bleak

• bleak, Siberian, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, algid, apathetic, arctic, austere, bare, barren, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, black, blown, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheerless, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, comfortless, crisp, cutting, dark, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dour, drear, drearisome, dreary, exposed, forlorn, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, funebrial, funereal, gelid, glacial, gloomy, grave, gray, grievous, grim, hard, harsh, hibernal, hiemal, hopeless, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, in despair, inclement, joyless, keen, lamentable, melancholy, mournful, moving, nipping, nippy, numbing, oppressive, painful, pathetic, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piteous, pitiable, poignant, raw, regrettable, rigorous, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, stone-cold, stringent, subzero, supercooled, touching, triste, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, weariful, wearisome, weary, windblown, windswept, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched

bleary

• bleary, all in, blear, bleared, blurred, blurry, confused, dark, depleted, dim, drained, exhausted, faint, far-gone, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, obscure, out of focus, pale, semivisible, shadowy, spent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unplain, unrecognizable, used up, vague, washed-out, weak, worn-out

bleat

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

bleb

• bleb, abscess, air bubble, aposteme, balloon, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

blebby

• blebby, beaten, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, puffed, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whipped

bleed white

• bleed white, ablate, absorb, abuse, assimilate, bleed, burn up, clip, consume, denude, deplete, deplume, despoil, digest, displume, divest, drain, drain of resources, dry, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, exploit, finish, finish off, flay, fleece, gobble, gobble up, gouge, hold up, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ingest, make use of, manipulate, milk, misuse, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pick clean, play on, pluck, presume upon, profiteer, screw, shear, skin, soak, spend, squander, stick, sting, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck dry, surcharge, swallow, swallow up, swindle, take advantage of, use, use ill, use up, victimize, waste away, wear away, work on, work upon

bleed

• bleed, abridge, abuse, ache, agonize, anguish, be sorry for, bereave, bleed for, bleed white, bloody, broach, brood over, clip, commiserate, compassionate, condole with, cup, curtail, cut off, decant, denude, deplume, deprive, deprive of, despoil, discharge, disentitle, displume, divest, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, dry, ease one of, ecchymose, effuse, emit, empty, excrete, exfiltrate, exhaust, exploit, extravasate, exudate, exude, feel for, feel sorrow for, feel sorry for, filter, filtrate, flay, fleece, fret, give a transfusion, give off, go hard with, gouge, grieve, hemorrhage, hold up, hurt, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, lament for, leach, leech, let, let blood, let out, lighten one of, lixiviate, lose blood, make use of, manipulate, milk, mine, misuse, mope, mourn, mulct, ooze, overcharge, overprice, overtax, percolate, perfuse, phlebotomize, pick clean, pine, pine away, pipette, pity, play on, pluck, presume upon, profiteer, pump, pump out, reek, rook, screw, seep, sew, shear, shed blood, siphon off, skin, soak, sorrow, spill blood, stick, sting, strain, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck, suck dry, suck out, suffer, suffer anguish, surcharge, sweat, swindle, sympathize, sympathize with, take advantage of, take away from, take from, take on, tap, transfuse, transpire, transude, use, use ill, venesect, victimize, weep, weep for, work on, work upon, writhe

bleeding heart

• bleeding heart, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos, bitterness, bowels of compassion, broken heart, brokenheartedness, cloyingness, compassionateness, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, extremity, gentleness, goo, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartbrokenness, hearts-and-flowers, heartsickness, heartsoreness, heavy heart, infelicity, lenity, maudlinness, mawkishness, melancholia, melancholy, mercifulness, misery, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, prostration, romanticism, ruthfulness, sadness, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, softheartedness, suicidal despair, sweetness and light, tearjerker, tenderness, woe, wretchedness

blemish

• blemish, abrade, abrasion, baboon, bag, bark, besmirch, birthmark, black sheep, blaze, blaze a trail, blister, bloody, blot, blotch, brand, break, bruise, bug, burn, caste mark, catch, chafe, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checkmark, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, claw, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, cut, damage, dapple, dash, deface, defect, defection, deficiency, define, deform, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, disfigure, disfigurement, disproportion, distort, dog, dot, drawback, dysphemize, earmark, engrave, engraving, erratum, error, eyesore, failing, failure, fault, faute, flash burn, flaw, fleck, flick, foible, foreign body, foreign intruder, fracture, frailty, fray, frazzle, freckle, fret, fright, gall, gargoyle, gash, graving, hack, hag, harm, harridan, hatch, hole, hurt, impair, impairment, imperfection, impress, imprint, impurity, inadequacy, incise, incision, infirmity, injure, injury, intruder, jot, kink, lacerate, laceration, lentigo, lesion, line, little problem, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, macula, maim, make a mark, make mincemeat of, mar, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, maul, mess, misfit, misshape, mole, monkey wrench, monster, monstrosity, mortal wound, mote, mottle, mutilate, mutilation, nevus, nick, no beauty, notch, oddball, offend, offend the eye, patch, pencil, pepper, pierce, pockmark, point, polka dot, prejudice, prick, print, problem, punch, punctuate, puncture, rend, rent, riddle, rift, rip, run, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scar, scarecrow, scarification, scarify, scorch, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scuff, seal, seam, second-degree burn, shortcoming, sight, skin, slash, slit, sliver, smear, snag, something missing, sore, speck, speckle, splash, splinter, split, splotch, spoil, spot, sprain, stab, stab wound, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, stone, strain, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, sully, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tear, teratism, third-degree burn, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, trauma, traumatize, truncate, twist, uglify, ugly duckling, underline, underscore, vice, vitiate, vulnerable place, warp, wart, watermark, weak link, weak point, weakness, weed, witch, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

blemished

• blemished, adulterated, bandy, bandy-legged, beautiless, bloated, blotted, bowlegged, cacophonic, cacophonous, checked, cicatrized, club-footed, cracked, crazed, damaged, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, dysphemistic, dysphemized, erroneous, fallible, faulty, flatfooted, flawed, found wanting, grotesque, homely, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inelegant, inexact, keloidal, kinked, knock-kneed, lacking, makeshift, malformed, marred, mediocre, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, mixed, monstrous, mutilated, not perfect, off, out of shape, partial, patchy, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, plain, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, short, short on looks, simous, sketchy, snub-nosed, split, spoiled, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated, twisted, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unhandsome, unlovely, unperfected, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, unsound, unthorough, wanting, warped

blench

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

blend

• blend, Anschluss, accord, add, addition, admix, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, alloy, amalgam, amalgamate, amalgamation, arrange, assimilate, assimilation, association, assonate, atone, attune, be harmonious, be in tune, bemingle, blending, cabal, cartel, centralization, chime, chord, coalesce, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, come together, commingle, commingling, commix, commixture, compose, composite, composition, compound, comprise, concoct, concoction, confection, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connect, consolidate, consolidation, conspiracy, contamination, ecumenism, embodiment, embody, emulsify, encompass, encompassment, enosis, ensemble, federalization, federation, flux, fuse, fusion, gradate, grade, graduate, harmonize, hash, homogenize, hookup, hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, immingle, immix, immixture, include, inclusion, incorporate, incorporation, integrate, integration, interblend, interfuse, interfusion, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermingling, intermix, intermixture, intertwine, interweave, join, jumble, junction, junta, knead, league, lump together, macaronic, macaronicism, magma, make one, marriage, meld, melding, melodize, melt into one, merge, merger, mingle, mingle-mangle, mingling, mix, mix up, mixture, musicalize, orchestrate, package, package deal, paste, portmanteau, portmanteau word, portmantologism, put together, reembody, roll into one, scramble, shade, shade into, shuffle, solidification, solidify, sound in tune, sound together, stir up, symphonize, synchronize, syncretism, syncretize, syndicate, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, synthesize, telescope word, throw together, tie-up, toss together, tune, unification, unify, union, unite, wedding, work

blended

• blended, accordant, according, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assimilated, assonant, assonantal, attuned, blending, chiming, combinative, combinatory, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, concordant, conglomerate, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connective, consolidated, consonant, dappled, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, fused, half-and-half, harmonic, harmonious, harmonizing, heterogeneous, homophonic, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in sync, in tune, in unison, incorporated, indiscriminate, integrated, intricate, ironic, joined, joint, jumbled, many-sided, medley, merged, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, monodic, monophonic, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, one, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, syncretic, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, thrown together, tuned, unisonant, unisonous, united, varied

bless

• bless, OK, accept, acknowledge, admire, adore, adulate, apotheosize, approve, approve of, arm, armor, beatify, belaud, bepraise, bless the Lord, bless with, blow up, boast of, brag about, canonize, celebrate, champion, cheer, cleanse, cloak, compass about, compliment, congratulate, consecrate, copyright, countenance, cover, credit, cross, cry up, cushion, dedicate, defend, deify, devote, dower, doxologize, emblazon, endorse, endow, endow with, enshrine, ensure, esteem, eulogize, exalt, extol, favor, favor with, felicitate, fence, fend, flatter, furnish, give, give benediction, give credit, give thanks, gladden, glorify, glorify the Lord, grace, grace with, gratulate, guarantee, guard, hallow, happify, harbor, haven, hero-worship, hold with, hymn, idolize, insure, invest, invoke benefits upon, keep, keep from harm, keep in countenance, laud, lay hands on, lionize, magnify, make acknowledgments of, make happy, make much of, make safe, nestle, offer thanks, overpraise, panegyrize, patent, pay tribute, police, porter aux nues, praise, praise God, protect, provide, puff, puff up, purify, recognize, register, rejoice with, render credit, render thanks, respect, return thanks, revere, ride shotgun for, safeguard, saint, salute, sanctify, sanction, screen, secure, set apart, settle on, settle upon, shelter, shield, shroud, sing praises, supply, take kindly to, thank, think well of, trumpet, underwrite, uphold, vest, vest with, view with favor

blessed event

• blessed event, accouchement, birth, birth throes, birthing, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the stork, travail

blessed with

• blessed with, enfeoffed, having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, landed, landholding, landowning, master of, occupying, owning, possessed of, possessing, propertied, property-owning, seized of, tenured, worth

blessed

• blessed, Elysian, Olympian, absolute, auspicious, beaming, beatific, beatified, beatitude, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed with luck, blessedness, bliss, blissful, blooming, canonized, capering, celestial, cheerful, chirping, confounded, consecrated, cursed, cussed, dadburned, dancing, danged, darn, darned, dashed, dedicated, deuced, devoted, doggone, doggoned, downright, ethereal, extramundane, extraterrestrial, favored, flushed with joy, fortunate, from on high, gay, glad, glorified, glowing, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, hallowed, happy, heavenly, in glory, in luck, infernal, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lucky, otherworldly, outright, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, perfect, positive, providential, purring, radiant, regular, ruddy, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, set apart, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, supernal, thrice happy, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly, unmitigated, unworldly

blessing

• blessing, Godspeed, OK, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, act of grace, act of kindness, adherence, admiration, advantage, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, asset, avail, aye, beatification, beatitude, behalf, behoof, benedicite, benediction, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, benison, best wishes, blessedness, boon, bounty, break, canonization, compliance, compliment, congratulation, connivance, consecration, consent, countenance, courtesy, dedication, devotion, eagerness, endorsement, enshrinement, esteem, exaltation, favor, favorable vote, felicitation, felicity, fluke, fortunateness, fortune, gain, gift, glorification, godsend, good, good deed, good fortune, good luck, good offices, good turn, good wishes, grace, gratulation, hallowing, happy fortune, help, interest, invocation, justification, justification by works, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, loaves and fishes, luck, luckiness, lucky break, lucky strike, manna, manna from heaven, mercy, mitzvah, nod, obligation, office, okay, permission, prayer, profit, promptitude, promptness, purification, ratification, readiness, respect, run of luck, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, sanction, seal of approval, service, setting apart, smiles of fortune, stamp of approval, state of grace, streak of luck, stroke of luck, submission, thanks, thanksgiving, the breaks, turn, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, valediction, voice, vote, welfare, well-being, willingness, world of good, yea, yea vote

blight

• blight, abnormality, abomination, abuse, acute disease, adverse circumstances, adversity, affection, afflict, affliction, aggravation, aggrieve, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, annoyance, atrocity, atrophy, bacterial disease, bad, bane, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, birth defect, blast, blast-freeze, botch, bummer, calamity, cancer, canker, cardiovascular disease, care, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condemn, condition, congeal, congenital defect, corrupt, corruption, cross, crucify, crying evil, curse, damage, dash, defect, deficiency disease, defile, defilement, deformity, degenerative disease, deprave, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detriment, difficulties, difficulty, disability, disadvantage, disease, disorder, disserve, distemper, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, downer, dry rot, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, envenom, epidemic disease, evil, freeze, freeze solid, functional disease, fungus, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, get into trouble, glaciate, glacify, grievance, handicap, harass, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harm, havoc, hereditary disease, hex, hurt, iatrogenic disease, ice, ill, illness, impair, indisposition, infect, infection, infectious disease, infest, infestation, infirmity, injure, injury, irritation, jinx, malady, malaise, maltreat, mar, menace, mildew, mischief, misfortune, mistreat, mold, molest, morbidity, morbus, moth, moth and rust, muscular disease, must, neurological disease, nip, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, outrage, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, plant disease, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, pollution, predicament, prejudice, pressure, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, quick-freeze, refreeze, regelate, respiratory disease, rigor, rockiness, rot, ruin, rust, savage, scathe, scourge, sea of troubles, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, smut, spoil, stress, stress of life, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taint, the pip, the worst, threaten, torment, torture, toxin, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, urogenital disease, vale of tears, venom, vexation, vicissitude, violate, virus disease, wasting disease, wither, woe, worm, worm disease, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

blighted

• blighted, absolute, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blessed, blown, botched, broken, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, damnable, dashed, defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, done for, done in, down-and-out, downright, execrable, fallen, finished, flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty, gone to pot, gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, infernal, irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, marred, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, out of countenance, out-and-out, overthrown, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruined, ruinous, smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, spoilt, straight-out, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked

blighter

• blighter, Bowery bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, derelict, devil, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, sad case, sad sack, skid-row bum, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tramp, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, wastrel, worm, worthless fellow, wretch

blimp

• blimp, Bourbon, Colonel Blimp, Graf Zeppelin, aerostat, airship, ballonet, balloon, bloated aristocrat, captive balloon, diehard, dirigible, dirigible balloon, dumpling, fatty, fuddy-duddy, gasbag, heavy, heavyweight, hippo, lighter-than-air craft, lump, pilot balloon, potbelly, reactionarist, reactionist, rigid airship, roly-poly, royalist, sausage, semirigid airship, ship, stuffed shirt, swagbelly, tub, tub of lard, tun, ultraconservative, weather balloon, white, zeppelin

blind alley

• blind alley, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, bar, barrier, belt highway, blank wall, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, boulevard, box, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, cecum, chaussee, choking, choking off, circumferential, clog, close, congestion, constipation, corduroy road, corner, costiveness, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, embolism, embolus, expressway, extremity, freeway, gorge, gravel road, halt, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hole, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interstate highway, jam, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, pocket, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, sealing off, secondary road, speedway, stalemate, stand, standstill, state highway, stop, stoppage, strangulation, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

blind faith

• blind faith, credulity, credulousness, disposition to believe, dotage, ease of belief, fondness, gross credulity, infatuation, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness, rash conviction, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, will to believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking

blind impulse

• blind impulse, archetypal pattern, archetype, automatic response, automatic writing, automatism, brain wave, brainstorm, collective unconscious, compulsiveness, conditioning, drive, echolalia, echopraxia, fancy, flash, fleeting impulse, gut response, id, impulse, inborn proclivity, inspiration, instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness, involuntary impulse, libido, natural impulse, natural instinct, natural tendency, notion, primitive self, quick hunch, reflex, reflex action, sheer chemistry, subconscious urge, sudden thought, unlearned capacity, unreasoning impulse, unwilledness, urge, vital impulse

blind spot

• blind spot, ablepsia, amaurosis, atmospheric attenuation, atmospherics, authoritarianism, benightedness, bigotry, blaring, blasting, blind side, blind spots, blinders, blindfolding, blinding, blindness, blurring the eyes, cataract, cecity, closed mind, clutter, cramped ideas, crawling, creeping, darkness, deflection, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, drift, drop serene, economic blindness, ever-during dark, excecation, eyelessness, fade-out, fading, false echoes, fanaticism, glaucoma, ground clutter, gutta serena, hideboundness, hoodwinking, illiberality, insularism, insularity, interference, lack of vision, little-mindedness, littleness, making blind, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, niphablepsia, noise, odium theologicum, parochialism, partial blindness, pettiness, petty mind, provincialism, psychic blindness, purblindness, reception, reduced sight, refraction, sea clutter, shortsightedness, shut mind, sightless eyes, sightlessness, smallness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, static, stone-blindness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, superrefraction, total blindness, trachoma, uncatholicity, unenlightenment, unseeingness

blind to

• blind to, a stranger to, asleep, caught napping, dead to, deaf to, impercipient, in ignorance of, incognizant, insensible, insensible to, lost to, mindless, napping, nonconceiving, not with it, oblivious, out of it, unaware, unaware of, unconscious, unconscious of, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless

blind

• blind, ableptical, abstruse, alibi, amaurotic, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, amorphous, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, automatic, awning, back band, backstrap, bag of tricks, bamboozle, bandage, bat, be bright, beach umbrella, beacon, beam, bearing rein, becloud, beclouded, bedazzle, befog, bellyband, benight, benighted, bereft of light, bit, blank, blanket, blaze, blind drunk, blind man, blind the eyes, blind to, blind-alley, blinders, blindfold, blindfolded, blinds, blinker, blinkers, blotto, bluff, booby trap, boozy, bosey, breeching, bridle, buried, burn, camouflage, canned, caparison, catch, cavesson, cecal, checkrein, cheekpiece, chicanery, chinband, choked, choked off, chouse, cinch, clear as mud, cloak, close, closed, cloud, clouded, cloudy, collar, color, color-blind, compulsive, conceal, concealed, conditioned, conspiracy, constricted, contracted, contrivance, coup, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, covered, covert, craft, crownband, crupper, curb, curtain, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, dark, darken, daze, dazzle, dead, dead-end, deaf, deceit, deceive, deception, delusional, dense, deprive of sight, design, device, diffuse light, dim, dim-sighted, dim-witted, dirty deal, dirty trick, disguise, disguised, dissemble, distract attention from, dodge, dogmatic, drape, drapery, drunk, dull-witted, eclipse, eclipsed, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, excecate, excuse, expedient, eye patch, eyeless, facade, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, flame, flare, flash, flat, foggy, fool, forced, front, fulgurate, fuzzy, gag swivel, gambit, game, gimmick, girth, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, gloss, gloss over, glow, googly, gouge, grift, guise, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, handle, harness, hazy, headgear, headstall, heedless, helpless, hemeralopic, hid, hidden, hide, hip straps, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, imperceptive, impercipient, impervious to, impetuous, impulsive, in a cloud, in a fog, in darkness, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incandesce, incommunicado, inconsiderate, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inebriated, insensible, insensible to, insensitive, instinctive, intrigue, involuntary, irrational, jaquima, jerk line, joker, juggle, jugglery, keep under cover, knavery, lackluster, lame excuse, latent, light shield, lines, little game, locus standi, lurking hole, luster, lusterless, make blind, maneuver, martingale, mask, mat, mechanical, mind-blind, mindless, misty, mole, move, muddled, muddy, murky, muted, myopic, mysterious, nearsighted, nebulous, nonunderstanding, noseband, nyctalopic, obfuscate, obfuscated, oblivious, obscure, obscured, obtuse, occult, opaque, ostensible motive, out, out cold, overcome, overshadow, paralyzed, parasol, pass, passed out, pixilated, plastered, plot, ploy, pole strap, poor excuse, positive, preoccupied, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, purblind, put-off, racket, radiate, rash, rayless, reckless, recondite, red herring, reflex, reflexive, refuge, reins, ribbons, ruse, saddle, scam, scheme, screen, scurvy trick, secluded, secluse, secret, semblance, send out rays, senseless, sequestered, shade, shader, shadow, shadowing, shadowy, shaft tug, sham, shapeless, shift, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, short-sighted, shortsighted, show, shroud, shut, side check, sightless, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slow, slow-witted, slur over, smoke screen, snaffle, snow-blind, spiritually blind, squeezed shut, stalking-horse, stark blind, stiff, stone-blind, stoned, strangulated, stratagem, strategy, strike blind, stupid, subterfuge, sunblind, sunshade, surcingle, surveillance, tack, tackle, tactic, the blind, the sightless, the unseeing, thick, thoughtless, transcendent, trap, trappings, trick, trickery, tug, umbrella, unapprehending, unaware of, unclear, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconscious of, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under the table, under wraps, underground, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unenlightened, unintentional, unknown, unopen, unopened, unperceiving, unperceptive, unpersuadable, unplain, unreasoning, unseeing, unsighted, unthinking, unvented, unventilated, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, vague, varnish, veil, visionless, weak-minded, whitewash, wile, wily device, winker braces, wrapped in clouds, yoke

blinded

• blinded, bedazzled, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, darkened, dazed, dazzled, dim-sighted, excecate, hoodwinked, imperceptive, impercipient, insensible, mind-blind, myopic, nearsighted, nonunderstanding, obscured, purblind, shortsighted, snow-blind, snow-blinded, unapprehending, uncomprehending, undiscerning, unperceptive

blinders

• blinders, authoritarianism, back band, backstrap, bearing rein, bellyband, bigotry, bit, blind side, blind spot, blindfold, blinds, blinkers, breeching, bridle, caparison, cavesson, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, closed mind, collar, cramped ideas, crownband, crupper, curb, eye patch, fanaticism, gag swivel, girth, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, headgear, headstall, hideboundness, hip straps, illiberality, insularism, insularity, jaquima, jerk line, lines, little-mindedness, littleness, martingale, mean mind, meanness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, noseband, odium theologicum, parochialism, pettiness, petty mind, pole strap, provincialism, purblindness, reins, ribbons, saddle, shaft tug, shortsightedness, shut mind, side check, smallness, snaffle, straitlacedness, stuffiness, surcingle, tack, tackle, trappings, tug, uncatholicity, winker braces, yoke

blindfold

• blindfold, bandage, bedazzle, benight, blind, blind the eyes, blinders, blinds, blinkers, darken, daze, dazzle, deprive of sight, dim, eclipse, excecate, eye patch, glare, gouge, hoodwink, make blind, obscure, snow-blind, strike blind

blindfolded

• blindfolded, bedazzled, blind, blindfold, darkened, dazed, dazzled, dim-sighted, excecate, hoodwinked, imperceptive, impercipient, insensible, mind-blind, myopic, nearsighted, nonunderstanding, obscured, purblind, shortsighted, snow-blind, snow-blinded, unapprehending, uncomprehending, undiscerning, unperceptive

blinding

• blinding, ablepsia, absolute, amaurosis, bedazzling, benightedness, bleeding, blessed, blind side, blind spot, blindfolding, blindness, blinking, blooming, blurring the eyes, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cat-and-doggish, cataract, cecity, confounded, crude, darkness, dazzling, depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, doggone, downright, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drop serene, drumming, economic blindness, effulgent, ever-during dark, excecation, execrable, eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision, loud, lurid, making blind, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, niphablepsia, obscuring, outright, overbright, partial blindness, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, psychic blindness, rainy, rank, raw, reduced sight, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, showery, shrieking, sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stone-blindness, streaming, total blindness, trachoma, unenlightenment, unmitigated, unseeingness, vivid

blindness

• blindness, albinism, astigmatism, astigmia, bad eyesight, blurred vision, deafness, defect of vision, dim-sightedness, dogmatism, double sight, double vision, faulty eyesight, imperceptiveness, impercipience, imperfect vision, incognizance, incomprehension, insensibility, mindlessness, nearsightedness, nonrealization, nonrecognition, nonunderstanding, nystagmus, partial blindness, positiveness, purblindness, reduced sight, shortsightedness, tunnel vision, unapprehendingness, unawareness, unconsciousness, undiscerningness, unmindfulness, unperceptiveness, unpersuadableness, unwittingness

blink at

• blink at, abide with, accept, allow for, be big, be blind, be blind to, be caught out, be content with, be easy with, be inattentive, be unwary, bear, bear with, brook, condone, connive at, countenance, discount, disregard, endure, fail, forget, give no heed, go blind, have, hear nothing, hear of, ignore, indulge, judge not, lean over backwards, leave unavenged, let it go, let pass, listen to reason, live with, make allowances for, make light of, miss, not attend, not heed, not listen, not notice, not see, not write off, omit, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, pay no mind, pocket the affront, put up with, regard with indulgence, see both sides, see nothing, slight, stand for, stomach, suffer, suspend judgment, take, think little of, tolerate, view with indulgence, walk in darkness, wear blinkers, wink at

blink

• blink, albedo, avoid, bat, bat the eyes, blench, blink at, blinking, broken, carefully ignore, cast, cold-shoulder, coruscate, coruscation, cringe, cut a corner, cut corners, disregard, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, firefly, flash, flicker, flinch, fudge, funk, glance, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, glisk, glisten, glister, glitter, glittering, glowworm, half an eye, hang back, ice sky, iceblink, ignore, in disrepair, incident light, jib, move, nictitate, on the blink, on the fritz, out of order, out of whack, overlook, pass over, pass over lightly, peek, peep, pull back, quail, quick sight, rapid glance, recoil, reel back, reflectance, reflection, retreat, scamp, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, sheer off, shimmer, shimmering, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, slant, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, snowblink, spangle, spark, sparkle, squiz, start, start aside, start back, stroboscopic light, swerve, tinsel, touch upon, touch upon lightly, turn aside, twinkle, twinkling, water sky, waterblink, weasel, weasel out, wince, wink, wink at

blinker

• blinker, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blue peter, buoy, caution light, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, spar buoy, stop light, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

blinking

• blinking, absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted, bleeding, blink, blink-eyed, blinkard, blinky, blooming, complete, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable, dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids, fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing, poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel, tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering, wavery, winker, winking

blintz

• blintz, Danish pastry, French pastry, baklava, buckwheat cake, cheese blintz, chocolate eclair, cream puff, crepe, dowdy, eclair, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, palacsinta, pancake, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent, waffle

blips

• blips, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, beam, beat signal, bounces, display, double-dot display, echo, echo signal, local oscillator signal, output signal, picture, pips, radar signal, reading, reflection, return, return signal, signal, signal display, spot, target image, trace, transmitter signal, video signal

bliss

• bliss, Canaan, New Jerusalem, Zion, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, blissfulness, blitheness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, delectation, delight, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elysium, empyrean, enchantment, enjoyableness, enjoyment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicitousness, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, goodliness, goodness, graciousness, happiness, happy hunting ground, harmoniousness, harmony, heaven, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, niceness, nirvana, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, rapport, rapture, ravishment, seventh heaven, spirituality, sunshine, sweetness, transport, unalloyed happiness, welcomeness

blissful

• blissful, Elysian, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, capering, cheerful, chirping, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, dancing, desirable, divine, dulcet, empyreal, empyrean, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed with joy, gay, genial, glad, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heavenly, honeyed, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, likable, mellifluous, mellow, nice, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, saintly, satisfying, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sublime, sweet, thrice happy, welcome

blister

• blister, abscess, air bubble, aposteme, assail, attack, balloon, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, brand, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, burn, burn in, burn off, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cast, castigate, cauterize, chancre, chancroid, char, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, coal, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, cupel, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, excoriate, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flame, flange, flap, flaw, flay, found, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, fustigate, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lash, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oxidate, oxidize, papilloma, papula, papule, parch, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, pyrolyze, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, roast, scab, scar, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, scratch, sear, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, singe, skin alive, slash, soap bubble, soft chancre, solder, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, swinge, tab, torrefy, track, trounce, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicate, vesicle, vulcanize, wale, warp, wart, weal, weld, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

blistered

• blistered, adust, ashen, ashy, beaten, blebby, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burned, burnt, burnt-up, carbonated, chiffon, consumed, consumed by fire, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, gutted, incinerated, parched, puffed, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, scorched, seared, singed, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, sunburned, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whipped

blistering

• blistering, afflict, annoy, ardent, baking, beaten, blasted, blazing, blebby, bleeding, blessed, blistered, blistery, blooming, boiling, bother, branding, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning, burning hot, calcination, canicular, carbonated, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, chiffon, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, cursed, cussed, deflagration, destructive distillation, discomfort, distillation, distilling, ebullient, effervescent, execrable, fatigue, feverish, fiery, fizzy, flaming, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, incineration, infernal, irk, irritate, jade, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, oxidation, oxidization, parching, piping hot, puffed, pyrolysis, red-hot, refining, roasting, scalding, scorching, scorification, searing, seething, self-immolation, simmering, singeing, sizzling, sizzling hot, smelting, smoking hot, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, sudorific, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, the stake, thermogenesis, toasting, torrid, vesicant, vesicated, vesication, vesicatory, vesicular, wear, whipped, white-hot

blistery

• blistery, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, puffed, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whipped

blithe

• blithe, beaming, blase, blissful, blithesome, boon, bright, bright and sunny, carefree, careless, casual, cheerful, cheery, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy, delighted, detached, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, happy, happy-go-lucky, heedless, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, indifferent, insouciant, irrepressible, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, merry, mirthful, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, radiant, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, smiling, sparkling, sunny, uncaring, unconcerned, winsome

blithering

• blithering, absolute, arrested, babbling, backward, blasted, blessed, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, downright, driveling, drooling, gross, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, out-and-out, outright, positive, rank, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormal

blithesome

• blithesome, beaming, blithe, boon, bright, bright and sunny, cheerful, cheery, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, festive, flushed, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, happy, high, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, irrepressible, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, lighthearted, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, radiant, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, smiling, sparkling, sunny, winsome

blitz

• blitz, aggravated assault, aggression, aim at, air raid, ambush, amphibious attack, area bombing, armed assault, assail, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, barrage, blast, blitzkrieg, blow to pieces, blow up, bomb, bombard, bombardment, bombing, breakthrough, bushwhack, cannon, cannonade, carpet bombing, charge, come at, come down on, commence firing, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crack down on, crippling attack, dead set at, descend on, descend upon, descent on, dive-bombing, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, enfilade, fall on, fall upon, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, flank attack, frontal attack, fusillade, gang up on, gas attack, go at, go for, harry, have at, head-on attack, high-altitude bombing, hit, hit like lightning, infiltration, jump, land on, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, light into, lightning attack, lightning war, low-altitude bombing, mass attack, megadeath, mine, mortar, mug, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, open fire, open up on, overkill, panzer warfare, pepper, pitch into, pop at, pounce upon, pound, precision bombing, push, rake, run against, run at, rush, sail into, sally, saturation bombing, set on, set upon, shell, shock tactics, shoot, shoot at, shuttle bombing, skip-bombing, snipe, snipe at, sortie, spring, strafe, strafing, strategic bombing, strike, surprise, swoop down on, tactical bombing, take aim at, take the offensive, torpedo, unprovoked assault, wade into, zero in on

blitzkrieg

• blitzkrieg, aggravated assault, aggression, air raid, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, blitz, bombardment, breakthrough, cannonade, charge, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, head-on attack, infiltration, lightning attack, lightning war, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, panzer warfare, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, strafe, strafing, strike, unprovoked assault

blizzard

• blizzard, avalanche, black squall, blow, crystal, driven snow, equinoctial, flake, flurry, gale, granular snow, half a gale, heavy blow, hurricane, igloo, ill wind, line squall, line storm, mantle of snow, mogul, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy winds, strong wind, tempest, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, tropical cyclone, typhoon, ugly wind, violent blow, wet snow, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm

bloat

• bloat, accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloatedness, bloating, blotter, blow up, blowing up, boom, boozehound, boozer, breaking point, breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, develop, diastole, dilatation, dilate, dilation, distend, distension, dropsy, drunk, edema, enlarge, expand, extend, extreme tension, fill out, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gain, gain strength, gassiness, get ahead, go up, greaten, grow, guzzler, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inebriate, inflate, inflation, intensify, intumescence, lush, magnify, meteorism, mount, multiply, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, proliferate, puff, puff up, puffiness, puffing, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, rise, run up, shoot up, snapping point, snowball, soak, sot, sponge, spread, strain, straining, strengthen, stretch, stretching, sufflate, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tippler, tumefaction, tumefy, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, up, wax, widen, windiness

bloated

• bloated, accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, arrogant, augmented, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bandy, bandy-legged, beefed-up, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, blemished, bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy, bowlegged, brawny, broadened, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, club-footed, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, deepened, defaced, deformed, dilated, disfigured, distended, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, dwarfed, edematous, elated, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatfooted, flatulent, fleshy, flushed, flushed with pride, formal, full, fully, gassy, glutted, gorged, grandiloquent, gross, grotesque, heavyset, hefty, heightened, hiked, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, important, imposing, in spate, incrassate, increased, inflated, intensified, jam-packed, jammed, jazzed up, knock-kneed, lusty, magisterial, magnified, malformed, marred, meaty, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, moutonnee, multiplied, mutilated, obese, out of shape, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overgrown, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, paunchy, pigeon-toed, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, pompous, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pouching, proliferated, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug-nosed, pursy, rachitic, raised, ready to burst, reinforced, rickety, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated, saturated, self-important, simous, snub-nosed, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stiffened, stilted, stocky, stout, strapping, strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy, stumpy, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swaybacked, swelled, swelling, swollen, talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened, top-heavy, truncated, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed, widened, windy

blob

• blob, ball, balloon, bilge, bit, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, boll, bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, dab, dowel, drop, droplet, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, gout, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, prolate spheroid, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, shoulder, smidgen, smidgin, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

blobby

• blobby, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, confused, disordered, disorderly, featureless, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, misty, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, random, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unspecified, vague, veiled

bloc

• bloc, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, alliance, assemblage, association, axis, band, body, coalition, college, combination, combine, common market, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, council, credit union, customs union, economic community, faction, federation, free trade area, gang, group, grouping, league, machine, mob, partnership, party, political machine, ring, society, union

block out

• block out, adumbrate, block in, brief, carve, cast, chalk out, characterize, chisel, close, create, cut, delineate, detail, draft, efform, enumerate, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, hew, itemize, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, line, mint, model, mold, number, obstruct, outline, parse, resolve, rough in, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scan, schematize, sculpt, sculpture, set, shape, shroud, shut off, shut out, skeleton, sketch, stamp, tailor, thermoform, trace, work

block

• block, Boeotian, Dutch auction, afterthought, agate, agnosia, apply to, aquatint, arm, arrest, auction, auction block, auction sale, autolithograph, ax, balk, ball, bar, barricade, barrier, baseball bat, bat, batch, battery, battledore, bauble, beat off, bind, blank wall, blanket, blind alley, blind gut, block out, block print, block up, blockade, blockage, blocking, blocks, blot out, board lot, body, bolt, bottleneck, brake, brick, bring to, bring up short, bulk, bung, bung up, bureaucratic delay, cake, canopy, catch, caulk, cecum, censorship, check, checkerboard, checkmate, chessboard, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, chromolithograph, chunk, city block, cloak, clod, clog, clog up, clos, close, close off, close tight, close up, clothe, cloud, club, clump, cluster, cockhorse, color print, concrete, concretion, confine, congest, congestion, conglomerate, conglomeration, constipate, constipation, constrict, conversion, cope, copperplate, copperplate print, cordon, cork, costiveness, counter, cover, cover up, cowl, crayon engraving, cricket bat, croft, cross, crowd, cube, cue, cul-de-sac, curtain, cut, cut off, cut short, dam, dam up, dead end, deadlock, death chair, death chamber, debar, defense mechanism, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, deny, design, detain, detention, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dimwit, disorientation, dog, doll, doll carriage, dolt, donkey, dope, double take, drag, dragging, drawback, drive back, drop, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dummy share, dunce, eclipse, electric chair, eliminate, ell, embolism, embolus, enclave, engravement, engraving, erase, etching, even lot, exclude, extension, fend, fend off, field, fill, fill up, film, flight of ideas, forty, foul, fractional lot, freeze, full lot, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, gewgaw, gibbet, gimcrack, gob, golf club, gorge, gowk, graphotype, guillotine, hallucination, hallucinosis, halt, halter, hamper, hang-up, hazard, hemp, hempen collar, hinder, hindrance, hitch, hobbyhorse, hold at bay, hold back, hold off, hold up, holding, holdings, holdup, hood, hot seat, hunk, hurdle, impasse, impede, impediment, impress, impression, imprint, infarct, infarction, inhibition, interim, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jam, jobbernowl, joker, keep at bay, keep back, keep off, kickshaw, kit, knickknack, knot, kraal, lackwit, lag, lagging, lamebrain, lay on, lay out, lay over, lethal chamber, lightweight, linoleum-block print, lithograph, loaf, lock, logjam, looby, loon, lot, lump, maiden, make late, mantle, marble, marionette, mask, mass, mental block, mental confusion, mezzotint, mig, moratorium, muffle, negative, niais, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, node, noose, nugget, obduce, objection, obscure, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, obstructive, occlude, occult, odd lot, one small difficulty, outcry, outfit, outline, overlay, overspread, pack, pale, paper doll, paperasserie, paralogia, parcel of land, parry, pat, patch, pause, pick-up sticks, piece, pinwheel, plan, plat, plaything, plot, plot of ground, plug, plug up, preference share, prevent, print, psychological block, pull up, puppet, push back, put, put back, put on, put paid to, quad, quadrangle, quantity, racket, rag doll, real estate, rebuff, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, repel, repression, reprieve, repulse, resistance, respite, restraint, retard, retardance, retardation, roadblock, rocking horse, rope, rough out, round lot, rub, rubber-block print, scaffold, screen, scum, sealing off, section, series, set, share, shield, shut off, shut out, shut tight, sketch, slab, slacken, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snag, solid, solid body, spile, sport, spread over, square, squeeze, squeeze shut, stake, stalemate, stall, stanch, stave off, stay, stay of execution, steelie, stem, stem the tide, stench, stifle, stockholding, stockholdings, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stuff, stuff up, stumbling block, stumbling stone, stump, stupid, stymie, sublimation, suffocate, suit, suite, superimpose, superpose, suppression, suspension, symbolization, taw, teetotum, the chair, thickwit, tie-up, time lag, top, toy, toy soldier, tract, tree, trinket, turn aside, veil, vendue, vignette, wad, wait, wall, ward off, whim-wham, wing, witling, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

blockade

• blockade, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, afterthought, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arm, armor, armor-plate, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, attack, autonomic epilepsy, ban, bank, bar, bar out, barricade, barrier, barring, battle, beleaguer, beleaguerment, beset, besetment, besiege, besiegement, bind, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block up, blockade, blockading, blockage, blocking, bolt, bottleneck, bound, box in, boycott, bulwark, bung, bureaucratic delay, cage, cardiac epilepsy, castellate, catch, caulk, cecum, censorship, chamber, check, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, clog up, clogging, clonic spasm, clonus, close, close in, close off, close tight, close up, closing, closing up, closure, compass, confinement, congest, congestion, constipate, constipation, constrict, constriction, contain, convulsion, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cordoning, cork, corral, cortical epilepsy, costiveness, count out, cover, cramp, crenellate, crowd, cul-de-sac, cursive epilepsy, curtain, cut off, dam, dam up, dead end, debar, debarment, debarring, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, demarcation, detainment, detention, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dig in, diurnal epilepsy, dog, double take, dragging, drawback, eclampsia, embargo, embattle, embolism, embolus, encircle, encirclement, enclose, enclosure, encompass, encompassment, enshrine, entrench, envelop, envelopment, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, exception, exclude, exclusion, falling sickness, fence, fence in, fill, fill up, fit, fixation, focal epilepsy, foot-dragging, fortify, foul, freeze out, frenzy, garrison, gorge, grand mal, halt, hampering, hang-up, harass, harry, haute mal, hazard, hedge in, hem in, hindering, hindrance, hitch, holdback, holdup, house in, hurdle, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, ignore, immurement, impasse, impediment, impound, imprison, imprisonment, inadmissibility, incarcerate, incarceration, include, inclusion, infarct, infarction, inhibition, injunction, interference, interim, interruption, invest, investment, jail, jam, joker, keep out, kennel, lag, lagging, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lay siege to, leaguer, leave out, let, lock, lock out, lockjaw, lockout, logjam, man, man the garrison, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, mew, mew up, mine, moratorium, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, narrowing, negativism, nocturnal epilepsy, nonadmission, nuisance value, objection, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, obstructionism, obstructive, occlude, occlusion, omission, omit, one small difficulty, opposition, ostracize, pack, palisade, paperasserie, paroxysm, pass over, pause, pen, pen in, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pincer movement, plug, plug up, pocket, preclude, preclusion, prohibit, prohibition, psychic epilepsy, psychological block, psychomotor epilepsy, quarantine, rail in, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reflex epilepsy, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repression, reprieve, repudiate, repudiation, resistance, respite, restraint, restriction, retardance, retardation, retardment, roadblock, rotatoria, rub, sealing off, seizure, send to Coventry, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, setback, shrine, shut in, shut off, shut out, shut tight, shut up, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, siege, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snag, soften up, spasm, spile, squeeze, squeeze shut, stable, stanch, stay, stay of execution, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangle, stranglehold, strangulate, strangulation, stricture, stroke, stuff, stuff up, stumbling block, stumbling stone, suffocate, suppression, surround, suspension, taboo, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tie-up, time lag, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, vertical envelopment, visitation, wait, wall, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

blockbuster

• blockbuster, astonishment, blow, bomb, bombshell, catch, earthshaker, eye-opener, joker, kicker, peripeteia, revelation, shocker, staggerer, startler, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package, surprise party, switch, thunderbolt, thunderclap

blocked

• blocked, Lethean, absentminded, amnestic, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, bound, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, congested, constipated, converted, costive, delayed, delayed-action, detained, forgetful, forgetting, foul, fouled, full, heedless, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, inclined to forget, infarcted, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, oblivious, obstipated, obstructed, overdue, packed, plugged, plugged up, repressed, retarded, slow, stopped, stopped up, stuffed, stuffed up, suppressed, tardy, unmindful, unpunctual, unready, untimely

blockhead

• blockhead, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blubberhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boor, botcher, bufflehead, bumbler, bungler, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clod, clodhead, clodhopper, clodknocker, clodpate, clodpoll, clot, clown, dimwit, dolt, dolthead, dullhead, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummy, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, fumbler, gawk, gowk, jolterhead, jughead, klutz, knucklehead, looby, lout, lubber, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, nitwit, noodlehead, numskull, oaf, ox, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, slouch, slubberer, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead, yokel

blockheaded

• blockheaded, beetleheaded, blockish, blunderheaded, boneheaded, cabbageheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, jolterheaded, joltheaded, knuckleheaded, lunkheaded, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numskulled, pumpkin-headed, sapheaded, stupid, stupidheaded, thick, thickheaded, woodenheaded

blockhouse

• blockhouse, acropolis, bastion, beachhead, box, bridgehead, bungalow, bunker, cabin, castle, chalet, citadel, cot, cote, cottage, donjon, fasthold, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold, keep, lodge, log cabin, love nest, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, pied-a-terre, pillbox, post, rath, safehold, snuggery, strong point, stronghold, tower, tower of strength, ward

blockish

• blockish, Boeotian, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockheaded, bovine, chuckleheaded, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, gross, ineducable, klutzy, lumpish, numskulled, oafish, opaque, sottish, stupid, thick, unteachable, wrongheaded

blocky

• blocky, chubby, chunky, dumpy, fat, podgy, pudgy, pug, pugged, retrousse, snub-nosed, squat, squattish, squatty, stocky, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, thickset, tubby, turned-up

bloke

• bloke, Adamite, bastard, being, bird, body, boy, buck, bugger, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earthling, feller, fellow, gee, gent, gentleman, groundling, guy, hand, he, head, homo, human, human being, individual, jasper, joker, lad, life, living soul, man, mortal, nose, one, party, person, personage, personality, single, somebody, someone, soul, stud, tellurian, terran, worldling

blond

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

blood and thunder

• blood and thunder, demonstrativeness, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, histrionics, human interest, love interest, making scenes, melodrama, melodramatics, nonrationalness, sensationalism, theatricality, theatrics, unreasoningness, visceralness, yellow journalism

blood bank

• blood bank, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, X ray, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, arterial transfusion, blood, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, blood transfusion, bloodmobile, bloodstream, charity ward, circulation, clinic, clinical dextran, consultation room, delivery room, dextran, direct transfusion, dispensary, drip transfusion, emergency, erythrocyte, examining room, exchange transfusion, exsanguination transfusion, exsanguino transfusion, fever ward, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, hospital room, humor, ichor, intensive care, isoantibody, isolation, labor room, laboratory, leukocyte, lifeblood, maternity ward, neutrophil, nursery, operating room, opsonin, perfusion, phagocyte, pharmacy, plasma, plasma substitute, plasma transfusion, prison ward, private room, reciprocal transfusion, recovery room, red corpuscle, replacement transfusion, semi-private room, serum, serum transfusion, surgery, therapy, transfusion, treatment room, type O, venous blood, venous transfusion, ward, white corpuscle

blood brother

• blood brother, aunt, auntie, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

blood money

• blood money, account, allowance, amends, assessment, atonement, bill, blackmail, compensation, consideration, damages, emolument, fee, footing, guerdon, honorarium, hush money, indemnification, indemnity, initiation fee, meed, mileage, price, quittance, reckoning, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retainer, retaining fee, retribution, return, reward, salvage, satisfaction, scot, smart money, solatium, stipend, tribute, wergild

blood relative

• blood relative, agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, near relation, next of kin, people, posterity, relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

blood

• blood, Beau Brummel, Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, acute leukemia, affiliation, agnate, agnation, alliance, ancestry, anemia, angiohemophilia, anima, animal kingdom, animating force, antibody, antigen, aplastic anemia, apparentation, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, arterial blood, atman, bane, bathmism, beating heart, beau, beverage, biological clock, biorhythm, birth, blade, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood relation, blood relationship, blood relative, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodletting, bloodline, bloodmobile, bloodshed, bloodstream, blue blood, boulevardier, bracket, braining, branch, brand, breath, breath of life, breed, brood, brotherhood, brothership, buck, cast, caste, category, character, chronic leukemia, circulation, clan, clansman, claret, class, clinical dextran, clotheshorse, cognate, cognation, collateral, collateral relative, color, common ancestry, common descent, connection, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, coxcomb, cyclic neutropenia, dandy, dealing death, deme, denomination, derivation, descent, description, designation, destruction, destruction of life, dextran, direct line, dispatch, distaff side, distant relation, distinction, divine breath, divine spark, division, drink, dude, elan vital, enate, enation, erythrocyte, erythrocytosis, essence of life, estate, euthanasia, execution, exquisite, extermination, extraction, family, fashion plate, fatherhood, feather, female line, filiation, fine gentleman, flesh, flesh and blood, flow of blood, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, folk, folks, fop, force of life, form, foul play, fraternity, fribble, gallant, genre, gens, genteelness, genus, german, globulin, gore, grade, grain, group, grouping, growth force, grume, head, heading, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemoglobinopathy, hemometer, hemophilia, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, homicide, honorable descent, house, humor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hypochromic anemia, ichor, ilk, immolation, impulse of life, infectious granuloma, inspiriting force, iron deficiency anemia, isoantibody, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jiva, jivatma, juice, kidney, kill, killing, kin, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, label, lady-killer, lapidation, latex, leukemia, leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, leukocyte, level, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, line, line of descent, lineage, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, living force, lot, lounge lizard, macaroni, macrocytic anemia, make, male line, man-about-town, manner, manslaughter, mark, martyrdom, martyrization, masher, maternity, matriclan, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, mercy killing, milk, mold, motherhood, multiple myeloma, myelogenous leukemia, nation, nature, near relation, neutropenia, neutrophil, next of kin, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, number, opsonin, order, origin, paternity, patriclan, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pedigree, people, pernicious anemia, persuasion, phagocyte, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, plasma, plasma cell leukemia, plasma substitute, plasmacytoma, pneuma, poisoning, polycythemia, position, posterity, prana, predicament, propinquity, pseudoleukemia, puppy, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, quality, race, rank, rating, red corpuscle, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, ritual killing, ritual murder, royalty, rubric, sacrifice, sap, seat of life, section, seed, semiliquid, sept, serum, set, shape, shooting, sib, sibling, sibship, sickle-cell anemia, side, sisterhood, sistership, slaughter, slaying, sort, soul, spark, spark of life, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, spirit, sport, stamp, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, stoning, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, succession, swell, sword side, taking of life, thalassemia, the like of, the likes of, ties of blood, title, totem, tribe, tribesman, type, type O, uterine kin, variety, vascular hemophilia, venous blood, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, water, whey, white corpuscle

bloodbath

• bloodbath, bloodshed, blue ruin, breakup, butchery, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, final solution, genocide, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, perdition, pogrom, race extermination, race-murder, ravage, ruin, ruination, saturnalia of blood, shambles, slaughter, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wholesale murder, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

bloodless

• bloodless, achromatic, achromic, anemic, anesthetic, arid, ashen, ashy, asthenic, at peace, barren, blah, blank, bled white, cadaverous, calm, characterless, chicken, chloranemic, cold, colorless, concordant, cowardly, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drooping, droopy, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, faintish, fallow, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy, ghastly, gone, gray, gutless, haggard, halcyon, hard, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic, idyllic, imbecile, impassible, impotent, inane, inexcitable, insensate, insensitive, insipid, jejune, lackluster, languid, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limber, limp, listless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless, lustless, marrowless, mat, mealy, muddy, nerveless, neutral, orderly, pacific, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pastoral, pasty, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, pedestrian, piping, pithless, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, powerless, quiet, restful, rocky, rubbery, sallow, sapless, serene, sickly, sinewless, slack, slow, soft, solemn, spineless, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strengthless, stuffy, superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, toneless, tranquil, uncolored, unhardened, unlively, unnerved, unstrung, untroubled, vapid, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, weakly, whey-faced, white, wooden

bloodletting

• bloodletting, aspiration, bane, bleeding, blood, bloodshed, braining, broaching, cupping, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, euthanasia, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, leeching, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, poisoning, pumping, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, siphoning, slaughter, slaying, stoning, sucking, suction, taking of life, tapping, venesection

bloodline

• bloodline, affiliation, apparentation, birth, blood, branch, breed, common ancestry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, extraction, family, female line, filiation, house, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, phylum, race, seed, sept, side, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side

bloodlust

• bloodlust, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodiness, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, furiousness, harshness, impetuosity, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, pitilessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, sharpness, terrorism, truculence, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty

bloodmobile

• bloodmobile, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, arterial transfusion, 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, blood transfusion, bloodstream, circulation, clinical dextran, dextran, direct transfusion, drip transfusion, erythrocyte, exchange transfusion, exsanguination transfusion, exsanguino transfusion, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, isoantibody, leukocyte, lifeblood, neutrophil, opsonin, perfusion, phagocyte, plasma, plasma substitute, plasma transfusion, reciprocal transfusion, red corpuscle, replacement transfusion, serum, serum transfusion, transfusion, type O, venous blood, venous transfusion, white corpuscle

bloodshed

• bloodshed, all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, bane, battle, belligerence, belligerency, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, braining, butchery, carnage, combat, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, fighting, flow of blood, genocide, gore, hostilities, hot war, immolation, kill, killing, la guerre, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, might of arms, military operations, murder, open hostilities, open war, poisoning, resort to arms, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, shooting war, slaughter, slaying, state of war, stoning, taking of life, the sword, total war, violence, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime

bloodstain

• bloodstain, bloody, blot, blotch, blur, brand, dab, daub, ensanguine, eyesore, fleck, flick, flyspeck, macula, maculation, macule, mark, patch, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish

bloodstream

• bloodstream, 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, circulation, clinical dextran, dextran, erythrocyte, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, isoantibody, leukocyte, lifeblood, neutrophil, opsonin, phagocyte, plasma, plasma substitute, red corpuscle, serum, type O, venous blood, white corpuscle

bloodsucker

• bloodsucker, barnacle, bedbug, blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist, freeloader, hanger-on, harpy, leech, lounge lizard, moocher, mosquito, parasite, predator, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, scrounge, scrounger, shakedown artist, shark, spiv, sponge, sponger, sucker, tick, vampire, vulture, wood tick

bloodthirsty

• bloodthirsty, Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, full of fight, gory, hawkish, hellish, homicidal, hostile, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, offensive, pitiless, pugnacious, quarrelsome, red-handed, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, suicidal, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wolfish

bloody minded

• bloody minded, Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, full of fight, gory, hawkish, hellish, homicidal, hostile, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, murderous, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, red-handed, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, suicidal, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wolfish

bloody

• bloody, Draconian, Tartarean, abrade, accursed, aggressive, agonize, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bark, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bleed, bleeding, blemish, blood-colored, blood-spattered, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, bloody-red, blooming, break, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, burn, cannibalistic, chafe, chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, claw, combative, complete, consummate, contentious, convulse, crack, craze, crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, cussed, cut, cutthroat, damn, damnable, damned, dashed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, ecchymose, ecchymosed, enemy, ensanguine, ensanguined, excruciate, execrable, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, gall, gash, goddamn, goddamned, gory, grim, gross, harrow, hawkish, hellish, hemorrhage, hemorrhaging, homicidal, hostile, humoral, hurt, ichorous, impale, incise, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, injure, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill by inches, kill-crazy, lacerate, lachrymal, lacrimatory, lancinate, lose blood, macerate, maim, make mincemeat of, malign, malignant, martial, martyr, martyrize, maul, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, mutilate, noncivilized, offensive, out-and-out, phlegmy, pierce, pitiless, pugnacious, puncture, punish, purulent, pussy, quarrelsome, rack, rank, red-handed, rend, rheumy, rip, ruddy, run, rupture, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanious, satanic, savage, scald, scarify, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch, scuff, self-destructive, serous, sharkish, shed blood, skin, slash, slaughterous, slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, spill blood, sprain, stab, stick, strain, subhuman, suicidal, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tameless, tear, tearlike, torment, torture, traumatize, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unmitigated, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wolfish, wound, wrench, wring

bloom

• bloom, Hygeia, advance, anthesis, attain majority, attractiveness, bake, batten, be in bloom, be in flower, be in heat, beam, bear fruit, beauteousness, beautifulness, beauty, beauty unadorned, beggar description, black spot, blaze, blooming, blooping, blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, blush, blushing, boil, boom, bring to maturity, broil, budtime, burgeon, burn, burst into bloom, burst with health, charm, choke, coloring, combust, come of age, come to fruition, come to maturity, cook, crimsoning, definition, develop, early years, effloresce, efflorescence, elegance, emotional health, enjoy good health, evolute, evolve, exquisiteness, fatten, feel fine, feel good, fieriness, fitness, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, fledge, flicker, floreate, florescence, floret, floriculture, floscule, flourish, flower, flowerage, floweret, flowering, flowering time, flush, flushing, fringe area, fry, full bloom, gardening, gasp, ghost, glow, grace, granulation, grid, grow, grow fat, grow up, handsomeness, hard shadow, health, hectic, hectic flush, horticulture, hortorium, image, incandesce, incandescence, jeunesse, juvenescence, juvenility, keep fit, knock dead, leave the nest, loveliness, mantling, maturate, mature, mellow, mental health, multiple image, my burning youth, my green age, never feel better, noise, pant, parch, physical condition, physical fitness, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, posy, prettiness, prime of life, progress, pulchritude, radiate heat, rain, reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, reddening, redness, ripe, ripen, roast, rolling, rosiness, rubefacient, rubescence, rufescence, salad days, scald, scanning pattern, scintillation, scorch, season, seedtime of life, seethe, settle down, shading, shimmer with heat, shine, simmer, smolder, smother, snow, snowstorm, spark, springtime of life, stay in shape, stay young, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, sweat, swelter, temper, tender age, tenderness, the beautiful, thrive, toast, toga virilis, unfolding, unfoldment, wax, wear well, well-being, whiteness, wildflower, young blood, youngness, youth, youthfulness, youthhead, youthhood, youthiness

blooming

• blooming, absolute, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bleeding, blinking, bloody, complete, consummate, cursed, damnable, execrable, infernal, out-and-out, outright, rank, ruddy, unmitigated

blooper

• blooper, bloomer, blunder, bobble, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, break, bull, bungle, dumb trick, faux, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul-up, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, louse-up, mistake, muck-up, pratfall, screamer, screw-up, slip, solecism, trip

blooping

• blooping, birdies, black spot, bloom, blurping, definition, distortion, feedback, flare, flutter, fluttering, fringe area, ghost, granulation, grid, hard shadow, hissing, howling, hum, image, motorboating, multiple image, noise, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, rain, rolling, rumble, scanning pattern, scintillation, scratching, shading, shredding, snow, snowstorm, squeals, static, whistles, woomping, wow, wowwows

blossom

• blossom, advance, anthesis, batten, be in bloom, be in flower, bear fruit, bloom, blooming, blossoming, blow, blowing, blush, boom, brew, bring to maturity, bud, burgeon, burst into bloom, capitulum, come to fruition, corymb, cyme, develop, effloresce, efflorescence, evolute, evolve, fatten, floreate, florescence, floret, floriculture, floscule, flourish, flower, flowerage, floweret, flowering, flush, full bloom, gardening, gather, germinate, glow, grow, grow fat, grow up, horticulture, hortorium, hypertrophy, increase, inflorescence, leaf, maturate, mature, mellow, mushroom, open, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, panicle, posy, procreate, progress, pullulate, raceme, reach its season, reach maturity, reproduce, ripe, ripen, shoot, shoot up, spike, spring up, sprout, sprout up, thrive, tower, umbel, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax, wildflower

blot out

• blot out, abate, abbreviate, abolish, abridge, annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, black out, blacken, blast, block the light, blot, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, brown, bump off, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, croak, cross out, cut, darken, darken over, dele, delete, dim, dim out, do in, eclipse, edit, edit out, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, eradicate, erase, expunge, expurgate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fix, get, give the business, gloom, gun down, hit, ice, kill, lay out, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, off, omit, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, polish off, raze, rescind, root out, rub out, rule out, scratch, scratch out, settle, shade, shadow, somber, sponge, sponge out, strike, strike off, strike out, take care of, void, waste, wipe out, zap

blot

• blot, absorb, adsorb, air-dry, anhydrate, annihilate, aspersion, assimilate, attaint, baboon, badge of infamy, bag, bake, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bend sinister, besmirch, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, bestain, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blackwash, blemish, bloodstain, blot out, blot up, blotch, blotting, blotting out, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, brush, burn, cancel, cancellation, censure, champain, charcoal, chemisorb, chemosorb, conceal, cork, cover up, cross out, cure, dab, darken, daub, deface, defame, defect, defile, dehumidify, dehydrate, dele, delete, deletion, demolish, denigrate, desiccate, destroy, digest, dim, dinge, disapprove, discolor, disfigure, disfigurement, disparage, disparagement, dog, drain, drink, drink in, drink up, dry, dysphemize, ebonize, eclipse, efface, effacement, engross, erase, erasure, err, evaporate, expose, expose to infamy, expunction, expunge, exsiccate, eyesore, filter in, fire, flaw, fleck, flick, flyspeck, freckle, fright, gargoyle, gibbet, hag, hang in effigy, harridan, hide, imbibe, imputation, infiltrate, ink, insolate, kiln, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, mar, mark, mark of Cain, melanize, mess, monster, monstrosity, mummify, murk, nigrify, no beauty, obliterate, obliteration, obscure, odium, offend, offend the eye, onus, osmose, oversmoke, parch, patch, percolate in, pillory, pillorying, point champain, raze, reflection, reprimand, reproach, rub, rub out, rule out, scar, scarecrow, scorch, scratch, scratch out, scrubbing, sear, seep in, shade, shadow, shrivel, sight, sin, slur, slurp up, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soak in, soak up, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, sorb, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spoil, sponge, sponge out, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, strike out, sully, sun, sun-dry, swab, swill up, taint, take in, take up, tarnish, teratism, torrefy, towel, transgress, uglify, ugly duckling, vilify, washing out, weazen, wipe, wipe out, wiping out, witch, wither, wizen

blotch

• blotch, band, bar, bedarken, besmirch, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, black, blacken, blackwash, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, bloodstain, blot, blur, brand, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, charcoal, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cork, cut, dab, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, darken, dash, daub, define, delimit, demarcate, denigrate, dinge, discolor, discoloration, dot, dottedness, earmark, ebonize, engrave, engraving, eyesore, flake, fleck, flick, flyspeck, freckle, freckliness, gash, graving, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, ink, iris, jot, lentigo, line, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, melanize, mole, motley, mottle, mottledness, murk, nevus, nick, nigrify, notch, oversmoke, patch, pencil, pepper, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, shade, shadow, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, spangle, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark

blotchy

• blotchy, besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, dingy, dirty, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, fuliginous, grimy, macular, maculate, maculated, muddy, murky, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, smirched, smoky, smudgy, smutty, sooty, spangled, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded

blotter

• blotter, Domesday Book, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, account book, address book, adsorbent, adsorption, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, assimilation, blankbook, bloat, blotting, blotting paper, boozehound, boozer, calendar, cashbook, catalog, chemisorption, chemosorption, classified catalog, commonplace book, court calendar, daybook, desk calendar, diary, digestion, diptych, docket, drunk, endosmosis, engagement book, engrossment, exosmosis, guzzler, inebriate, infiltration, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, lush, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, notebook, osmosis, pad, percolation, petty cashbook, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, scrapbook, scratch pad, seepage, sorption, spiral notebook, sponge, sponging, table, tablet, triptych, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

blotto

• blotto, blind, blind drunk, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, helpless, inebriated, muddled, out, out cold, overcome, paralyzed, passed out, pixilated, plastered, stiff, stoned, under the table

blow down

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

blow hot and cold

• blow hot and cold, alternate, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, chop and change, choplogic, dither, dodge, ebb and flow, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, flounder, fluctuate, go through phases, hedge, mystify, nitpick, obscure, oscillate, palter, parry, pendulate, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, ring the changes, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waver, wax and wane, wobble

blow in

• blow in, accomplish, achieve, approach, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, attain, attain to, be received, bob up, check in, clock in, come, come in, come to, come to hand, fetch, fetch up at, find, gain, get, get in, get there, get to, hit, hit town, make, make it, pop up, pull in, punch in, reach, ring in, roll in, show, show up, sign in, time in, turn up

blow off

• blow off, attenuate, beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, blow, blowhard, cast forth, clear away, crab, dilute, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, drive away, evaporate, fuss, shoot the shit, squawk, talk big, thin, thin out, volatilize, yammer, yawp

blow out

• blow out, backfire, belch, blast, blow, blow open, blow up, break out, burst, burst forth, burst out, bust, cast forth, choke, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, damp, debouch, decant, defecate, deplete, detonate, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, douse, drain, drain out, ejaculate, eject, eliminate, empty, empty out, eruct, erupt, evacuate, exhaust, expel, explode, extinguish, extravasate, find vent, fire, flow, flow out, fulminate, go off, gush, gush out, hurl forth, jet, let off, out, outflow, outpour, pour, pour forth, pour out, purge, put out, quench, remove, run out, scour out, send forth, send out, set off, shoot, slack, sluice out, smother, snuff, snuff out, spew, spew out, spout, spout out, spurt, squirt, stamp out, stifle, surge, sweep out, throw out, touch off, unclog, unfoul, vent, void, vomit, vomit forth, well, well out

blow over

• blow over, be all over, be no more, become extinct, become void, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow down, blow great guns, blow up, bluster, bowl down, bowl over, breeze, breeze up, brew, bring down, bulldog, cast down, chop down, come up, cut down, dash down, deck, die, die away, down, drop, expire, fell, fetch down, floor, freshen, gather, go out, ground, have it, have its time, hew down, huff, knock down, lapse, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, mow down, pass, pass away, pipe up, precipitate, prostrate, puff, pull down, rage, rase, raze, run its course, run out, send headlong, set in, spread-eagle, squall, storm, supinate, take down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, waft, wear away, wear off, whack down, whiff, whiffle

blow the whistle

• blow the whistle, arrest, bear witness against, betray, blab, block, brake, bring to, bring up short, call a halt, check, checkmate, cut short, dam, deadlock, draw rein, fink, freeze, halt, have had it, inform against, inform on, lose patience, narc, peach, pull up, put paid to, rat, sell out, snitch, snitch on, squeal, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stool, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, tattle, tell on, testify against, turn informer

blow up

• blow up, accelerate, add to, adulate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, apotheosize, arouse, augment, awake, awaken, backfire, be angry, be excitable, beef up, belaud, belie, bellow, bepraise, blast, bless, blitz, bloat, blow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow out, blow over, blow sky-high, blow the coals, blow to pieces, blow up, blueprint, bluster, boast of, boil, boil over, bomb, bombard, brag about, brain, breeze, breeze up, brew, bring down, bristle, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burn, burn to death, burst, bust, call forth, call up, catch fire, catch the infection, celebrate, come apart, come to nothing, come up, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, crescendo, cry up, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, deepen, deflate, deify, detonate, develop, dilate, discharge, disconfirm, discredit, disintegrate, disprove, distend, double, drop, emblazon, enhance, enkindle, enlarge, enrage, eulogize, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, excite, excite easily, expand, explode, expose, extend, extol, fail miserably, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fell, fire, fire up, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flame, flame up, flare up, flash up, flatter, flip, fly out, foment, frag, frenzy, freshen, fulminate, fume, gather, get excited, get nowhere, give the quietus, glorify, go into hysterics, go off, go phut, gun down, hang up, have a tantrum, heat, heat up, heighten, hero-worship, hike, hike up, hit the ceiling, hop up, hot up, huff, idolize, impassion, incense, incinerate, incite, increase, inflame, inflate, infuriate, intensify, invalidate, jazz up, jugulate, key up, kindle, lapidate, lather up, laud, lay low, let off, light the fuse, light up, lionize, madden, magnify, make complex, make much of, mine, misfire, move, mushroom, negate, negative, overexcite, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, pipe up, pistol, poleax, poop out, porter aux nues, praise, print, process, prove the contrary, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, puncture, rage, raise, ramify, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rarefy, rave, redouble, reinforce, riddle, rouse, run a temperature, salute, seethe, set astir, set fire to, set in, set off, set on fire, sharpen, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, show up, silence, smolder, soup up, spring, squall, stab to death, steam up, step up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stone, stone to death, storm, strengthen, stretch, strike dead, sufflate, summon up, swell, take fire, touch off, triple, trumpet, turn a hair, turn on, undercut, up, vaporize, waft, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whiff, whiffle, whip up, widen, work into, work up

blow

• blow, Barnumize, Lucullan feast, accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ache, achievement, aching, act, acta, action, adventure, amplify, anthesis, astonishment, bafflement, bagpipe, balk, bang, banquet, bash, bastinado, bat, bay, be in bloom, be in flower, bean-feast, beano, bear fruit, beat it, beating, beep, bell, belt, betrayed hope, biff, black squall, blare, blast, blasted expectation, blat, blighted hope, blizzard, blockbuster, bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoming, blow, blow a horn, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow off, blow out, blow over, blow the horn, blow up, blowhard, blowing, blowout, blunder away, bluster, bobble, bomb, bombast, bombshell, bonk, boot, bop, botch, box, brag, bray, break, break down, breath, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breather, breathing space, breeze, breeze up, brew, bring to maturity, buffet, bugger up, bugle, bump, bungle, burgeon, burn out, burst, burst into bloom, bust, calamity, carillon, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, catch, chop, clarion, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, clip, clout, clump, cock-a-doodle-doo, collapse, collision, come to fruition, come up, comedown, concussion, consume, contretemps, cough, coup, crack, crack up, crack-up, cramp, crash, crow, cruel disappointment, cuff, cut, cyclone, dash, dashed hope, dealings, deed, defeat, defecate, depart, deplete, destroy, detonate, dig, ding, dint, disappointment, disaster, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, dissipate, distend, distress, dither, dog it, doing, doings, dolor, doodle, double-tongue, douse, drain, droop, drop, drop a brick, drop the ball, drub, drubbing, drumming, duck and run, duck out, duff, dynamite, earthshaker, effloresce, efflorescence, effort, eliminate, embroider, emit, empty, empty out, endeavor, enlarge, enterprise, equinoctial, evacuate, exaggerate, exhale, exhaust, exit, expand, expel, expire, explode, exploit, extinguish, eye-opener, failure, faint, fait accompli, fallen countenance, fan, fatigue, feast, feat, festal board, fiasco, fife, fizzle, flag, flare up, flaw, floreate, florescence, floret, floriculture, floscule, flourish, flower, flowerage, floweret, flowering, flub, fluff, flurry, flute, foiling, fool away, foozle, forlorn hope, foul up, freshen, fritter, frustration, fuck up, full bloom, fumble, fume, fusillade, gale, gamble away, gardening, gasconade, gasp, gather, gest, get away, get off, get tired, give off, give out, give vent to, go, go through, goof, goof up, grief, groaning board, grow up, grow weary, gulp, gust, hack, half a gale, hand, handiwork, hang the expense, heave, heavy blow, hesitate, hiccup, hit, honk, hope deferred, horticulture, hortorium, huff, hurricane, hurt, ill hap, ill wind, increase, inflate, inhale, injury, inspire, jab, jade, jar, job, joker, jolt, kicker, knock, lam, lavish, lay it on, leave, lesion, let out, letdown, lick, line squall, line storm, lip, louse up, magnify, maneuver, maturate, mature, measure, mellow, mess, mess up, mirage, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mismanage, mouth, move, muck up, muff, nasty blow, open the floodgates, open the sluices, operation, overstate, overt act, pain, pang, pant, passage, passion, peal, pelt, percussion, performance, peripeteia, peter out, pile it on, pileup, pipe, pipe up, play out, plug, plunk, poke, pontificate, poop out, posy, pound, prate, proceeding, production, puff, puff and blow, pull a boner, pull out, punch, purge, quit, rage, rap, reach its season, reach maturity, reek, remove, res gestae, respire, respite, retire, revelation, ripe, ripen, rodomontade, ruffle, run down, run out, run through, scatter, scour out, scram, screw up, scud, seize the day, set in, set up, setback, shatter, shilly-shally, shipwreck, shock, shocker, shoot the shit, short-circuit, shout, shriek, sigh, sink, skin out, slam, slap, slather, slog, slosh, slug, smack, smash, smashup, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sock, sore, sore disappointment, sore spot, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, souse, sow broadcast, spasm, spend, squall, squall line, squander, squeal, staggerer, staggering blow, stand, startler, steam, step, storm, storm wind, stormy winds, stress, stress of life, stroke, strong wind, stunt, succumb, suffering, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package, surprise party, swap, swat, sweep out, swell, swing, swipe, switch, take a powder, talk big, talk highfalutin, tantalization, tattoo, tease, tempest, tempestuous wind, ten, tender spot, thick squall, thing, thing done, throes, throw away, throw money around, throw off, throw out, thump, thunderbolt, thunderclap, thundersquall, thwack, tire, token punishment, tongue, toot, tootle, tornado, tour de force, tragedy, transaction, trifle away, triple-tongue, tropical cyclone, trumpet, turn, tweedle, typhoon, ugly wind, unclog, undertaking, unfolding, unfoldment, unfoul, vacillate, vamoose, vapor, vaunt, vent, violent blow, void, waft, wallop, waste, weary, welt, whack, wheeze, whiff, whiffle, whine, whirlwind, whistle, white squall, whole gale, whomp, whop, wildflower, williwaw, wilt, wind, wind gust, wind the horn, wind-shift line, windstorm, winnow, withdraw, work, works, wound, wreck, wrench, yerk

blower

• blower, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air filter, air passage, bellows, big mouth, blowgun, blowhard, blowpipe, blowtube, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, fanfaron, flabellum, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, punkah, rodomontade, thermantidote, ventilator, windbag, windcatcher, windjammer, windsail, windscoop, windy

blowgun

• blowgun, automatic, bellows, blower, blowpipe, blowtube, firearm, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter

blowhard

• blowhard, Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, big mouth, blower, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, fanfaron, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, rodomontade, windbag, windjammer, windy

blowhole

• blowhole, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, armhole, avenue, breathing hole, bullet-hole, bunghole, channel, chute, cringle, deadeye, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, eye, eyelet, floodgate, flume, gasket, grommet, guide, keyhole, knothole, loop, loophole, louver, louverwork, manhole, mousehole, naris, nostril, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, pore, port, porthole, punch-hole, sally port, shaft, sluice, spilehole, spiracle, spout, tap, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, ventilator, vomitory, way out, weir, wind tunnel

blown

• blown, blasted, bleak, blighted, despoiled, exposed, flyblown, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fusty, gamy, high, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, off, rancid, rank, ravaged, raw, reechy, smutted, smutty, sour, soured, stale, strong, tainted, turned, weevily, windblown, windswept, worm-eaten, wormy

blowout

• blowout, Kaffeeklatsch, Lucullan feast, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, backfire, ball, bang, banquet, bash, bean-feast, beano, blast, blow, blowup, boom, burst, carnival, cocktail party, coffee klatch, costume party, detonation, dinner, dinner party, discharge, disgorgement, do, donation party, ejaculation, emission, entertainment, eructation, eruption, explosion, expulsion, extravasation, fair, feast, festal board, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, flare, flash, fulguration, fulmination, gala, gala affair, gala day, garden party, great doings, groaning board, hen party, high jinks, house party, house-raising, housewarming, jamboree, jet, kermis, lawn party, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, outburst, outpour, party, picnic, report, shindig, shindy, shower, smoker, spout, spurt, squirt, stag, stag party, surprise party, waygoose, wayzgoose

blowpipe

• blowpipe, acetylene welder, automatic, bellows, blast lamp, blower, blowgun, blowtorch, blowtube, burner, firearm, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, torch, welder, welding blowpipe

blowtorch

• blowtorch, Jet Liner, acetylene welder, blast lamp, blowpipe, burner, business jet, jet, jet plane, multi-jet, pulse-jet, ramjet, single-jet, tailless jet, torch, turbojet, twin-jet, welder, welding blowpipe

blowup

• blowup, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, accelerando, acceleration, access, aggravation, backfire, bang, beefing-up, blast, blaze of temper, blowing up, blowout, blueprint, boom, burst, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contact printing, cyanotype, deepening, detonation, discharge, enhancement, enlargement, eruption, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, flare, flare-up, flash, fulguration, fulmination, glossy, heating-up, heightening, high words, hologram, information explosion, intensification, lantern slide, magnification, matte, microcopy, microprint, outburst, photocopy, photogravure, photostatic copy, pickup, population explosion, positive, print, projection printing, redoubling, reinforcement, report, scene, semi-matte, slide, speedup, step-up, storm, strengthening, tightening, transparency

blowy

• blowy, aeolian, airish, airy, blasty, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, breezy, brisk, drafty, favonian, flawy, fresh, gusty, puffy, squally, windy

blowzy

• blowzy, adipose, beat-up, bedraggled, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blooming, blowzed, bosomy, brawny, burly, burnt, buxom, careless, chintzy, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilapidated, distended, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, florid, flush, flushed, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full, full-blooded, glowing, gross, grubby, heavyset, hectic, hefty, hippy, imposing, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, lusty, meaty, messy, mussy, negligent, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, poky, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, ragged, raggedy, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed, roly-poly, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rotund, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, ruinous, sanguine, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, sunburned, swollen, tacky, tattered, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, well-fed

blubber

• blubber, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, boil, boil over, boohoo, boom, bray, break down, breathe, breeze, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, burble, burst into tears, butter, buzz, cackle, chant, chirp, clay, coo, crow, cry, cushion, dissolve in tears, dough, down, drawl, drone, drop a tear, effervesce, eiderdown, exclaim, feather bed, feathers, ferment, fizz, fizzle, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, flute, foam, gabble, gasp, gibber, greet, growl, grunt, guggle, gurgle, hiss, jabber, kapok, keen, lilt, maunder, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, pant, pillow, pipe, plop, plush, pudding, puff, putty, roar, rubber, rumble, satin, scream, screech, seethe, shed tears, shriek, sibilate, sigh, silk, simmer, sing, snap, snarl, snivel, snort, sob, sparkle, speak incoherently, splutter, sputter, squall, squawk, squeal, susurrate, swansdown, thistledown, thunder, trumpet, twang, velvet, wail, warble, wax, weep, whimper, whine, whisper, wool, work, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, zephyr

blubbery

• blubbery, adipose, buttery, butyraceous, chrismal, chrismatory, fat, fatty, greasy, lardaceous, lardy, mucoid, oily, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sebaceous, sleek, slick, slippery, smooth, soapy, suety, tallowy, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous

bludgeon

• bludgeon, bat, baton, be imminent, billy, billy club, blackjack, bluster, bluster out of, bounce, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, club, coerce, comminate, cow, demoralize, denounce, dragoon, forebode, harass, hector, hijack, huff, intimidate, look threatening, lower, menace, nightstick, shanghai, shillelagh, steamroller, strong-arm, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, truncheon, use violence, utter threats against, war club, warn

blue blood

• blue blood, Brahman, ancestry, archduke, aristocracy, aristocrat, aristocraticalness, armiger, baron, baronet, birth, blood, carnage, count, daimio, distinction, duke, earl, elite, esquire, flower, genteelness, gentility, gentleman, gentry, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, honorable descent, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, nobility, noble, noble birth, nobleman, nobleness, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, quality, rank, royalty, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, society, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper class, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

blue book

• blue book, Almanach de Gotha, Congressional Record, Hansard, Red Book, Royal Kalendar, Social Register, account, acquaintance, announcement, audition, briefing, bulletin, communication, communique, data, datum, directory, dispatch, enlightenment, evidence, exam, examen, examination, facts, factual information, familiarization, final, final examination, gazette, gen, genealogy, general information, great go, green book, guidebook, handout, hard information, hearing, honors, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, light, mention, message, midsemester, midterm, notice, notification, official journal, oral, oral examination, pedigree, prelim, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, quiz, release, report, sidelight, state paper, statement, studbook, take-home examination, test, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transmission, trial, tripos, viva, white book, white paper, word, written, written examination, yellow book

blue chip

• blue chip, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, blue chip stock, borrowed stock, capital stock, common stock, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, cumulative preferred stock, cyclical stock, defensive stock, deferred stock, eighth stock, equities, equity, equity security, fancies, floating stock, glamour issue, growth stock, guaranteed stock, high-flier, hot issue, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, income stock, issued capital stock, letter stock, loaned stock, long stock, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, ordinary shares, pale blue chip, participating preferred stock, penny stock, preference stock, preferred stock, protective stock, quarter stock, rails, reverse split, seasoned stock, share ledger, shares, short stock, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, standard stock, steels, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stocks, ten-share unit stock, treasury stock, unissued capital stock, utilities, voting stock

blue collar worker

• blue collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman

blue devil

• blue devil, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

blue devils

• blue devils, blahs, blue Johnnies, blues, dismals, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, dumps, frumps, grumps, megrims, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, pink elephants, pink spiders, pouts, snakes, sulks, sullens, the beezie-weezies, the heebie-jeebies, the jimjams, the screaming meemies, the shakes

blue in the face

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

blue language

• blue language, bad language, billingsgate, colorful language, cursing, cussing, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile language, vulgar language

blue movie

• blue movie, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, bawdiness, bawdry, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, foulness, iconolagny, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scurrility, sexploitation, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, vileness

blue pencil

• blue pencil, abbreviate, abridge, amend, blot out, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, correct, cross out, cut, delete, edit, edit out, emend, emendate, erase, expunge, expurgate, kill, omit, recense, rectify, redact, redraft, rescind, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, rub out, strike, strike off, strike out, void, work over

blue ribbon

• blue ribbon, acme, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, championship, command, control, cordon, cordon bleu, decoration, decoration of honor, directorship, dominion, effectiveness, first place, first prize, garter, gold star, grand cordon, headship, hegemony, height, highest, imperium, influence, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, management, mastership, mastery, maximum, most, ne plus ultra, new high, order, ornament, palms, paramountcy, power, presidency, primacy, record, red ribbon, riband, ribbon, rule, say, sovereignty, star, supremacy, sway, top spot, zenith

blue streak

• blue streak, antelope, arrow, blue darter, cannonball, courser, dart, eagle, electricity, express train, flash, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, jet plane, light, lightning, mercury, quicksilver, rocket, scared rabbit, shot, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, thought, thunderbolt, torrent, wind

blue velvet

• blue velvet, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

blue

• blue, Alice blue, Amytal, Amytal pill, Brunswick blue, Caelus, Capri blue, Chinese blue, Copenhagen blue, Demerol, Dolophine, Dresden blue, Fescennine, French blue, Gobelin blue, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Persian blue, Pompeian blue, Prussian blue, Rabelaisian, Saxe blue, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, Wedgwood blue, X, absolute, air, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, aniline blue, anodyne, aquamarine, atrabiliar, atrabilious, azo blue, azulene, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureness, azureous, azurite blue, baby blue, bad, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bawdy, benzoazurine, beryl, beryl-blue, berylline, bice, black, black stuff, bleu celeste, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue sky, blue turquoise, blue velvet, blueness, blueprint, bluish, bluishness, brine, briny, broad, cadaverous, cadet blue, caelum, calamine blue, calmative, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chloral hydrate, ciba blue, coarse, cobalt, codeine, codeine cough syrup, cold-type proof, color proof, complete, computer proof, cope, cornflower, corpselike, crestfallen, cyan, cyanean, cyanine blue, cyanosis, dark-blue, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deep, deep-blue, dejected, delft blue, depressant, depressed, depressor, despondent, dirty, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dolly, down, downcast, downer, downhearted, downright, drink, eerie, empyrean, erotic, ether, filthy, firmament, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foundry proof, fulsome, funky, galley, galley proof, garter blue, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucous blue, gloomy, glum, goofball, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hard stuff, heaven, heavens, heroin, hop, horse, hyacinth, hyaline, hypnotic, improper, impure, indecent, indelicate, indigo, indigo white, infernal, isamine blue, ithyphallic, jouvence blue, junk, knockout drops, lapis lazuli blue, laudanum, lavender blue, lewd, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, liquor, livid, lividity, lividness, lotus, low, low-spirited, lurid, macabre, madder blue, main, marine blue, melancholic, melancholy, meperidine, methadone, methylene azure, methylene blue, morose, morphia, morphine, mortuary, narcotic, nasty, navy, navy blue, new blue, obscene, off color, off-color, offensive, old blue, opiate, opium, out-and-out, pacifier, page proof, pain killer, pale, paregoric, pavonian, pavonine, peacock blue, peacock-blue, pen yan, pensive, perfect, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, plate proof, pompadour green, pornographic, positive, powder blue, press proof, progressive proof, proof, proof sheet, pull, purple, purple heart, quietener, racy, rainbow, raunchy, red, regular, repro proof, revise, ribald, risque, sad, salacious, salty, sapphire, sapphirine, scag, scurrile, scurrilous, sea, sea blue, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sexy, shady, shit, sky, sky blue, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, slip, smack, smalt, smoke blue, smoking-room, smutty, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spicy, starry heaven, steel blue, stone proof, suggestive, sultry, tar, the blue, the blue serene, titillating, tranquilizer, trial impression, tristful, trypan blue, turps, turquoise, ultramarine, uncanny, unchaste, unclean, unearthly, unhappy, unprintable, unrepeatable, vandyke, vault, vault of heaven, vile, vulgar, wan, weird, welkin, white stuff, wicked, wistful, woad, woebegone, yellow, yellow jacket, zaffer

bluejacket

• bluejacket, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Naval Reservist, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Royal Marine, Seabee, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, boot, buccaneer, cadet, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, frogman, gob, hearty, horse marine, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jolly, limey, lobsterman, marine, mariner, matelot, midshipman, midshipmite, naval cadet, navigator, navy man, pirate, privateer, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swabbie, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

blueprint

• blueprint, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, agenda, alphabet, approach, arrange, arrangement, art, attack, batting order, bill, bill of fare, blow up, blowup, blue, blueprinting, brouillon, budget, calculation, calendar, card, carte du jour, cartoon, cast, catalog, catalogue raisonne, charactering, characterization, chart, charting, choreography, cold-type proof, color proof, computer proof, conception, contact printing, contrivance, conventional representation, copy, cyanotype, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, design, develop, device, devise, diagram, disposition, docket, dope out, draft, drama, drawing, ebauche, elevation, enlarge, enlargement, enterprise, envisagement, esquisse, exemplification, figuration, figure, figuring, foresight, forethought, foundry proof, galley, galley proof, game, game plan, glossy, graph, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, hieroglyphic, hologram, house plan, ichnography, iconography, idea, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, intention, lantern slide, lay off, lay out, layout, letter, limning, lineup, list of agenda, logogram, logograph, long-range plan, map, map out, mapping, mark off, mark out, master plan, matte, menu, method, methodology, microcopy, microprint, musical notation, notation, operations research, organization, outline, page proof, pattern, photocopy, photogravure, photostatic copy, pictogram, picturization, plan, planning, planning function, plate proof, playbill, plot, plot out, portraiture, portrayal, positive, prearrangement, prefigurement, presentment, press proof, print, printing, procedure, process, profile, program, program of action, program of operation, programma, progressive proof, project, projection, projection printing, proof, proof sheet, prospectus, protocol, pull, rationalization, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, repro proof, revise, roster, rough, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, score, script, semi-matte, set out, setup, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slate, slide, slip, stone proof, strategic plan, strategy, syllabary, symbol, system, systematization, tablature, table, table of contents, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, transparency, trial impression, vandyke, way, working drawing, working plan, writing

blues

• blues, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, alba, anthem, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, balladry, ballata, barcarole, blahs, blue devils, bluegrass, blues song, boat song, border ballads, bridal hymn, brindisi, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, city blues, country blues, country music, country-and-western music, croon, croon song, dejection, depression, dirge, dismals, ditty, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, drinking song, dumps, epithalamium, ethnic music, field holler, folk song, folk songs, frumps, gloom, grumps, heavyheartedness, hymeneal, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, minstrel song, minstrelsy, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, national anthem, old-time country music, pouts, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, sulks, sullens, the blues, theme song, torch song, unhappiness, war song, wedding song, western swing

bluestocking

• bluestocking, bibliophagic, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, donnish, formalist, inkhorn, literary, pedant, pedantic, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisionist, purist, scholastic

bluff

• bluff, Herod, abrupt, act, act a part, acting, affable, affect, affectation, aggressive, appearance, approachable, artful dodge, artifice, artless, assume, attitudinizing, bag of tricks, bamboozle, barefaced, bearish, beastly, beguile, betray, biggety, blagueur, blatherskite, blind, bluff off, bluffer, bluffing, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bluster, bluster and bluff, blusterer, blustering, boastfulness, boasting, bold, bombast, born yesterday, bosey, bounce, brag, braggart, bragging, brash, bravado, bravo, breakneck, brief, broad, brusque, bucko, bullshit, bully, bullyboy, bullying, bustle, cajole, candid, catch, cavalier, charlatan, cheat on, cheating, cheeky, chicanery, childlike, chouse, churlish, chutzpadik, circumvent, cliff, cocky, color, coloring, confiding, conjure, contemptuous, counterfeit, cover up, cozen, crag, crude, crusty, curt, curve, curve-ball, deceive, deception, delude, delusion, derisive, design, device, diddle, direct, dirty deal, dirty trick, disguise, disrespectful, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulate, dissimulation, dodge, double-cross, downright, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, dupe, edgeless, escarpment, explicit, facade, face, facy, faired, fake, faker, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, fanfaron, fanfaronade, fast deal, feign, feigning, feint, fetch, ficelle, flip, flippant, flurry, fluster, fool, forestall, forthright, four-flush, four-flushing, fourflusher, frank, frankhearted, fraud, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, fresh, friendly, frighten off, front, fuss, gally, gambit, gammon, gasconade, genuine, get around, gilt, gimmick, gloss, good-natured, googly, gratuitous, gruff, guileless, gull, harsh, headland, headlong, heart-to-heart, hearty, hector, hectorer, hectoring, hoax, hocus-pocus, honest, hoodwink, hornswaggle, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, impersonator, impertinent, impostor, imposture, impudent, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, intimidate, intimidation, joke, joker, juggle, kid, laconic, let down, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, malapert, malingerer, masquerade, meretriciousness, mislead, mock, mountebank, naive, nervy, no-nonsense, obtuse, open, openhearted, ostentation, out-herod Herod, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outspoken, outward show, outwit, overreach, palisade, palisades, pass, pert, phony, pigeon, plain, plain-spoken, plainspoken, play, play a part, play one false, play possum, playact, playacting, ploy, plunging, pointless, pose, poser, poseur, posing, posture, precipice, precipitous, pretend, pretender, pretense, pretension, pretext, profess, promontory, puffery, put on, put something over, put to flight, quack, quacksalver, quackster, rage, rant, ranter, rapid, rave, raver, representation, ringer, rodomontade, roister, roisterer, rollick, rough, round, rounded, rude, ruse, saltimbanco, sassy, saucy, scar, scare away, scarp, scheme, scurvy trick, seeming, semblance, severe, sham, shammer, sharp, sheer, shift, short, show, side, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, simulacrum, simulate, simulation, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slang, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smoothed, snippety, snippy, snow, speciousness, splutter, sputter, steep, storm, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stratagem, string along, subterfuge, surly, swagger, swaggerer, swashbuckle, swashbuckler, swashbucklery, swasher, tactless, take in, tart, terse, to the point, transparent, trick, truculent, trustful, trusting, two-time, uncalled-for, unchecked, unconstrained, unedged, unequivocal, unguarded, unpointed, unreserved, unrestrained, unsharp, unsharpened, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, unwary, vapor, vaporer, varnish, vertical, wall, wile, window dressing, wise-ass

blunder upon

• blunder upon, alight upon, be all thumbs, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, boggle, botch, bumble, bump into, bungle, butcher, chance upon, come across, come on, come up against, come upon, commit a gaffe, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall in with, faux pas, flounder, fumble, happen upon, hit upon, light upon, lumber, mar, meet up with, meet with, miscue, muddle, muff, murder, play havoc with, run across, run into, run up against, slip, spoil, stumble, stumble on, stumble upon, trip, tumble on

blunder

• blunder, absurdity, act of folly, bad job, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blow, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bull, bumble, bungle, butcher, careen, career, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, dumb trick, err, error, etourderie, falter, faux pas, flounce, flounder, flub, fluff, folly, foozle, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, goof up, gum up, hash, howler, imprudence, indiscretion, labor, lapse, louse up, lumber, lurch, make a blunder, make a misstep, mar, mess, miscue, miss, miss the mark, misspeak, mistake, muddle, muff, murder, off day, pitch, pitch and plunge, play havoc with, plunge, reel, rock, roll, sad work, screw up, screw-up, seethe, slip, slip up, snapper, solecism, sottise, spoil, stagger, struggle, stumble, stupid thing, stupidity, sway, swing, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trip, tumble, unwise step, wallop, wallow, welter

blunderhead

• blunderhead, addlebrain, addlehead, addlepate, beefhead, blockhead, blubberhead, blunderer, bonehead, boor, botcher, bufflehead, bumbler, bungler, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clod, clodhead, clodhopper, clodknocker, clodpate, clodpoll, clot, clown, dolt, dolthead, dullhead, dumbhead, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, fumbler, gawk, gowk, jolterhead, jughead, klutz, knucklehead, looby, lout, lubber, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, mushhead, muttonhead, noodlehead, numskull, oaf, ox, peabrain, pinbrain, pinhead, puddinghead, pumpkin head, puzzlehead, slouch, slubberer, stupidhead, thickhead, thickskull, tottyhead, yokel

blunderheaded

• blunderheaded, all thumbs, awkward, beetleheaded, blockheaded, blundering, boneheaded, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cabbageheaded, careless, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clodpated, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, dumbheaded, dunderheaded, fatheaded, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, jolterheaded, joltheaded, knuckleheaded, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, lunkheaded, maladroit, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numskulled, oafish, ponderous, pumpkin-headed, sapheaded, sloppy, stiff, stupidheaded, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy, woodenheaded

blunt

• blunt, KO, abate, abrupt, affectless, aggressive, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, anesthetized, arctic, artless, assuage, attemper, attenuate, autistic, bank the fire, bate, bearish, beastly, bedaze, benumb, besot, bluff, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, born yesterday, brash, brass, bread, brief, broad, brusque, cabbage, candid, catatonic, cavalier, chasten, childlike, chill, chilly, chips, chloroform, churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock, coldhearted, confiding, constrain, control, cool, cramp, cripple, crusty, curt, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debilitate, deflect, desensitize, deter, devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dinero, direct, disable, disaffect, discourage, discourteous, disedge, disincline, disinterest, dispassionate, distract, divert, do-re-mi, dope, dopey, downplay, downright, draw the teeth, drug, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, edgeless, efface, emotionally dead, emotionless, enervate, enfeeble, etherize, eviscerate, exhaust, explicit, extenuate, faired, fat-witted, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, genuine, gross-headed, gruel, gruff, guileless, harsh, heart-to-heart, heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, impolite, inconsiderate, indelicate, indispose, inexcitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, insensitive, insusceptible, jack, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay low, lay out, lenify, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, mull, naive, narcotize, nonemotional, numb, objective, obscure, obtund, obtuse, open, openhearted, out of touch, outspoken, palliate, palsy, paralyze, passionless, plain, plain-spoken, play down, pointless, put off, put to sleep, quench, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repel, repress, restrain, retund, rough, round, rounded, rude, sap, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sharp, short, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slacken, slow, slow down, slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, smother, snippety, snippy, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, soulless, spiritless, stifle, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stun, stupefy, subdue, suppress, surly, tame, temper, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, thoughtless, tone down, transparent, truculent, trustful, trusting, tune down, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate, unbrace, unceremonious, unchecked, uncivil, uncomplicated, uncompromising, unconstrained, undermine, underplay, undiplomatic, unedged, unemotional, unequivocal, unfeeling, ungracious, unguarded, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unman, unnerve, unpassionate, unpointed, unreserved, unresponding, unresponsive, unrestrained, unsharp, unsharpened, unsophisticated, unstrengthen, unstring, unsusceptible, unsuspicious, unsympathetic, untouchable, unwary, weaken, wean from, wooden, worn

blunted

• blunted, abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, bluntish, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, faired, obtuse, pointless, rounded, smoothed, unedged, unpointed, unsharp, unsharpened

blur

• blur, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, becloud, bedaub, bedim, befog, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black eye, black mark, blacken, blear, bleariness, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur distinctions, blurriness, brand, broad arrow, censure, champain, cloud, cloudiness, conceal, confound, confuse, dab, darken, darkness, daub, defocus, deform, dim, dimness, dirty, discolor, disorder, disparagement, distort, efface, eyesore, faintness, feebleness, film, filminess, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fog, fog up, fogginess, fuzz, fuzziness, half-visibility, haze, haziness, hide, imputation, indefiniteness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, jumble, jumble together, lose resolution, low profile, macula, maculation, macule, mark, mark of Cain, mask, mess up, mist, mistiness, mix, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, obscurity, odium, onus, overlook distinctions, pale, paleness, patch, pillorying, point champain, reflection, reprimand, reproach, scorch, sear, semivisibility, shadowiness, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soft focus, soften, soil, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, taint, tar, tarnish, tumble, uncertainty, unclearness, unform, unplainness, unshape, vague appearance, vagueness, veil, weaken, weakness

blurb

• blurb, PR, acknowledgment, appreciation, ballyhoo, boost, bright light, buildup, celebrity, commendation, common knowledge, cry, currency, daylight, eclat, exposure, fame, famousness, glare, good word, honorable mention, hoopla, hue and cry, hype, limelight, maximum dissemination, notoriety, plug, press notice, promotion, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, puffing, reclame, recognition, report, spotlight, write-up

blurred

• blurred, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurry, breathy, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, choked, choking, confused, croaking, dark, dim, disordered, disorderly, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, guttural, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hawking, hazy, hit-or-miss, hoarse, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, lisping, loose, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, mispronounced, misty, muzzy, nasal, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, out of focus, pale, quavering, random, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaking, shaky, shapeless, snuffling, stifled, stochastic, strangled, sweeping, thick, throaty, tremulous, twangy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, veiled, velar, weak

blurt

• blurt, allude to, babble, be indiscreet, be unguarded, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blurt out, burst out, call attention to, comment, disclose, divulge, ejaculate, exclaim, give away, inform, inform on, interject, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, make reference to, mention, muse, note, observe, opine, peach, rat, refer to, reflect, remark, reveal, reveal a secret, sing, speak, spill, spill the beans, squeal, stool, talk, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, utter

blush

• blush, be guilty, blanch, bloom, blossom, blushing, change color, color, color up, coloring, crimson, crimsoning, darken, fieriness, flame, flush, flushing, glow, grow red, healthy glow, hectic, hectic flush, incandescence, look black, look guilty, mantle, mantling, pale, pink, pudency, pudicity, redden, reddening, redness, rose, rosiness, rouge, rubefacient, rubescence, rufescence, squirm with self-consciousness, stammer, suffusion, turn color, turn pale, turn red, warm color, warmth, warmth of color, whiten, whiteness

bluster

• bluster, agitation, bawl, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bludgeon, bluff, bluster and bluff, bluster out of, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bobbery, boil, boiling, bombast, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, brawl, breeze, breeze up, brew, broil, brouhaha, browbeat, browned off, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, burn, bustle, cacophony, carry on, chafe, chaos, churn, clamor, come up, commotion, conceit, conturbation, cow, crow, demoralize, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dragoon, draw the longbow, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, fanfaronade, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flourish, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, freshen, fret, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, gather, go on, grandiloquence, harangue, harass, have a conniption, hector, heroics, hot air, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, inquietude, intimidate, jactation, jactitation, jitters, jumpiness, look big, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, out-herod Herod, pandemonium, passion, perturbation, pipe up, pissed off, puff, puffery, racket, rage, raging, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, raving, restlessness, rodomontade, roil, roister, rollick, rout, row, ruckus, rumpus, seethe, seething, set in, show off, side, simmer, sizzle, slang, smoke, smolder, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, squall, stew, stir, storm, storminess, storming, strut, swagger, swaggering, swashbuckle, swirl, systematically terrorize, take on, talk big, tempestuousness, terrorize, threaten, throw a fit, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waft, whiff, whiffle, wildness, zeal, zealousness

blustering

• blustering, abusive, aeolian, airish, airy, anarchic, angry, blaring, blasty, blatant, blatting, blowy, bludgeoning, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, boreal, brassy, brawling, brazen, breezy, brisk, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, comminatory, denunciatory, drafty, favonian, fear-inspiring, flawy, foreboding, frantic, frenzied, fresh, furious, gusty, hectoring, hellish, imminent, infuriate, insensate, intimidating, lowering, mad, mafficking, menacing, minacious, minatory, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, ominous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, puffy, rackety, raging, ranting, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rowdy, squally, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vociferous, wild, windy

BM

• BM, bloody flux, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca, catharsis, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation, dejection, diarrhea, dingleberry, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuation, feces, feculence, flux, guano, jakes, lientery, loose bowels, manure, movement, night soil, ordure, purgation, purge, runs, sewage, sewerage, shit, shits, stool, trots, turd, turistas, voidance

BO

• BO, bad breath, bad smell, beaded brow, beads of sweat, body odor, cold sweat, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, graveolence, halitosis, honest sweat, lather, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offensive odor, perspiration, perspiration odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, stench, stench of decay, stink, streams of sweat, sudor, sudoresis, sweat, swelter, water

boar

• boar, barrow, billy, billy goat, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, chanticleer, cock, cockerel, dog, drake, entire, entire horse, gander, gilt, gobbler, hart, he-goat, hog, peacock, pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, porker, ram, razorback, rooster, shoat, sow, stag, stallion, steer, stot, stud, studhorse, suckling pig, swine, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, tusker, wether, wild boar

board

• board, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Areopagus, British Cabinet, C ration, K ration, L, R, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, Wall Street, aboard, accommodate, accommodation, accommodations, acting area, advisers, advisory body, allotment, allowance, ambo, apron, apron stage, assembly, association, back, backstage, band shell, bandstand, bank, bar, beam, bed, bed and board, bench, bestow, bestraddle, bestride, billet, board and room, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, boarding, body of advisers, boom, border, bordure, borough council, bourse, brain trust, bread, bread and butter, break bread with, breakfast, brick, bridge, brim, brink, brow, buffet, cabinet, cadre, camarilla, care for, cast loose, chamber, cheer, cherish, city council, clap on ratlines, clapboard, clear hawse, climb on, coast, college board, comestibles, committee, commodity exchange, common council, commons, conference, congress, consultative assembly, cook out, cord, cordwood, corn pit, coulisse, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, counter, county council, court, creature comfort, cuisine, curb, curb exchange, curb market, curia, cut loose, daily bread, deal, deliberative assembly, desk, diet, dine, dine out, dinner, directorate, directors, directorship, directory, divan, dock, domicile, dressing room, driftwood, eat, eat out, eatables, edge, edibles, embark, embark on, embus, emergency rations, emplane, enplane, enter, entertain, entertainment, entrain, escalade, escritoire, exchange, exchange floor, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, face, facilities, fare, fast food, feast, featheredge, feed, field rations, firewood, flange, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, fodder, food, food and drink, foodstuff, footlights, forage, foray, forestage, forum, frame, fringe, furnish accommodations, get in, get on, glass, glaze, go aboard, go on board, go on shipboard, governing board, governing body, grass, gratify, graze, greenroom, grid, gridiron, hardwood, haul, haul down, health food, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, hem, hop in, house, hut, infrastructure, ingesta, inquisition, inroad, interlocking directorate, inundate, invade, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, jump in, junk food, junta, kedge, keep, kitchen cabinet, kitchen stuff, labellum, labium, labrum, lath, lathing, lathwork, lay, lay aloft, lectern, ledge, legislature, lightboard, limb, limbus, lip, list, live, lodge, lodgings, log, lumber, lunch, mahogany, make a raid, make an inroad, management, marge, margin, meal, meals, meat, mess, mess with, mount, nurture, on, on board, orchestra, orchestra pit, outside market, over-the-counter market, overwhelm, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, parish council, pasture, performing area, picnic, pile in, pit, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, privy council, proscenium, proscenium stage, provender, provision, provisions, puncheon, put to sea, put up, quarter, quotation board, ragged edge, raid, rations, ratline down, refection, refreshment, regale, regalement, repas, repast, revet, rim, room, satisfy, scale, school board, secretaire, secretary, selvage, shake, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shell, shingle, shore, short commons, side, sideboard, sideline, siding, skirt, slab, slat, slate, softwood, soviet, spar down, splat, spread, staff, stage, stage left, stage right, stand, stave, stay, steering committee, stick, stick of wood, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, stone, storm, stovewood, stream the log, subsistence, sup, sustain, sustenance, switchboard, syndicate, synod, table, take by storm, take ship, telephone market, tend, thatch, the Big Board, the Exchange, the Inquisition, the administration, the boards, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, the stage, theater, third market, three-by-four, ticker, ticker tape, tile, timber, timbering, timberwork, top brass, traverse a yard, treat, tribunal, trustees, tucker, two-by-four, unlash, veneer, verge, viands, victuals, vittles, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, warp, weatherboard, weigh anchor, wheat pit, wine and dine, wings, wood, workbench, writing table

boarder

• boarder, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, 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, lessee, lodger, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, paying guest, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, renter, roomer, tenant, transient, transient guest, trencherman, underlessee, vegetarian

boardinghouse

• boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fleabag, flophouse, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse, rooming house, tavern

boards

• boards, Broadway, L, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, bandstand, board, bridge, burlesque, carnival, circus, coulisse, dock, drama, dressing room, entertainment industry, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, legit, legitimate stage, lightboard, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, playland, proscenium, proscenium stage, repertory drama, shell, show biz, show business, stage, stage left, stage right, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, switchboard, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, variety, vaudeville, wings

boardwalk

• boardwalk, alameda, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, bridle path, catwalk, esplanade, fastwalk, foot pavement, footpath, footway, garden path, groove, hiking trail, mall, parade, path, pathway, prado, promenade, public walk, run, runway, rut, sidewalk, towing path, towpath, track, trail, trottoir, walk, walkway

boast of

• boast of, adulate, apotheosize, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, brag about, celebrate, cry up, deify, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, flatter, glorify, hero-worship, idolize, laud, lionize, magnify, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, salute, trumpet

boast

• boast, aggrandize, be enfeoffed of, be possessed of, be seized of, blow, bluster, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bully, catch, claim, cock-a-doodle-doo, command, conceit, crow, diamond, draw the longbow, ego-trip, enjoy, exalt, fanfaronade, fill, find, fish for compliments, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, gem, glory, godsend, good thing, gush, have, have and hold, have in hand, have no self-doubt, have tenure of, heroics, hold, jactation, jactitation, jewel, know it all, mouth, occupy, parade, pearl, pique, plum, plume, possess, prate, preen, pride, pride and joy, prize, puff, quack, rodomontade, ruffle, show off, side, speak for Buncombe, squat, squat on, swagger, swash, swashbuckle, talk big, treasure, triumph, trophy, trouvaille, usucapt, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, windfall, winner

boastful

• boastful, Gascon, arrogant, boasting, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, conceited, egotistical, exultant, fanfaron, fanfaronading, gasconading, haughty, ostentatious, pretentious, proud, rodomontade, self-advertising, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, show-off, swelled-headed, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporing, vaunting

boat

• boat, almadia, argosy, ark, auto, autocar, automobile, auxiliary, barge, bark, bottom, bucket, buggy, bus, buss, canoe, car, cargo boat, carry sail, cart, cat, catamaran, circumnavigate, coach, coast, cockle, cockleshell, cog, coracle, craft, crate, cross, cruise, cruiser, cutter, dinghy, dispatch boat, dray, drifter, dugout, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, float, funny, galley, gig, glider, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, gondola, haul, heap, hooker, houseboat, hoy, hulk, hull, hydrofoil, hydroplane, jalopy, jolly, jolly boat, kayak, keel, knockabout, launch, leviathan, lifeboat, lighter, longboat, machine, mailer, make a passage, motor, motor vehicle, motorboat, motorcar, motorized vehicle, navigate, outboard, outrigger canoe, packet, pilot, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, ply, pontoon, post boat, pram, punt, racer, racing shell, raft, randan, row, rowboat, rowing boat, run, runabout, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sailboat, sampan, scooter, scow, scull, seafare, shallop, shell, ship, showboat, skiff, sled, sledge, small boat, sneakbox, speedboat, steam, steamboat, surfboat, take a voyage, towboat, traverse, trawlboat, trawler, trimaran, trow, truck, tub, tug, tugboat, van, vessel, voiture, voyage, wagon, wanigan, watercraft, whale-gig, whaleboat, wheelbarrow, wheels, wherry, wreck, yacht, yawl, yawl boat

boating

• boating, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, gunkholing, motorboating, navigability, navigating, navigation, passage-making, periplus, rowing, sailing, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, steaming, travel by water, voyaging, water travel, yachting

boatman

• boatman, bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oar, oarsman, punter, rower, waterman, yachter, yachtsman

boatswain

• boatswain, Big Brother, OD, auditor, boss, captain, chief, chief engineer, chief mate, commander, comptroller, controller, deck officer, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, master, mate, monitor, naval officer, navigating officer, navigator, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, patron, pipes, proctor, quartermaster, sailing master, second mate, shipmaster, sirdar, skipper, slave driver, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, the Old Man, visitor, watch officer

boatyard

• boatyard, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, winery, yard, yards

bob up

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

bob

• bob, Carling float, T square, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, accost, address, amputate, angle, annihilate, bait the hook, balsa, balsa raft, ban, bar, barber, bawbee, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bending the knee, bis, bob a curtsy, bob down, bobble, boil down, boom, bounce, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bowing and scraping, bump, buoy, burden, caper, capriole, capsulize, caracole, careen, cavort, chant, chatter, chorus, clam, clip, coggle, coif, coiffure, compress, condense, conk, contract, cork, crop, crouch, crown, cull, curtail, curtsy, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut away, cut back, cut capers, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, dangle, dap, dib, dibble, didder, dipping the colors, dither, ditto, dock, dollar, drive, duck, elide, eliminate, embrace, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fall down before, falter, farthing, fish, fiver, flick, flip, flirt, float, florin, flounce, fluctuate, flutter, fly-fish, foreshorten, fourpence, fourpenny, frisk, gambado, gambol, genuflect, genuflection, gig, go fishing, greeting, grig, grimace, groat, guddle, guinea, hail, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, hand-clasp, handshake, have an ague, hello, hitch, homage, how-do-you-do, hug, hustle, inclination, isolate, jack, jacklight, jactitate, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, jump about, kiss, kneel, kneeling, knock, knock off, kowtow, lead, librate, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lop, lurch, mag, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, meg, mite, monkey, mow, mutilate, net, new pence, nip, nod, np, nutate, obeisance, obsequiousness, oscillate, p, pare, peel, pence, pendulate, penny, pick out, pitch, pluck, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plummet, poll, pollard, pompadour, pontoon, pony, pound, prance, presenting arms, process, prostration, prune, quake, quaver, quid, quiver, raft, ramp, rap, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, reel, refrain, repeat, repetend, resonate, retrench, reverence, rictus, ritornello, rock, roll, romp, root out, rule out, salaam, salutation, salute, sandbag, scrape, seine, servility, set apart, set aside, set square, shake, shave, shear, shilling, shingle, shiver, shock, shorten, shrimp, shudder, sinker, sixpence, skip, smile, smile of recognition, snatch, snub, spin, square, squat, stamp out, standing at attention, start, still-fish, stoop, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, submission, submissiveness, sudden pull, sum up, summarize, supination, surfboard, swag, sway, swing, synopsize, take in, take off, take out, telescope, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tic, torch, toss, trawl, tremble, tremor, trim, trip, troll, truncate, try square, tunk, tuppence, tweak, twitch, twitter, twopence, undersong, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, waver, weight, whale, wipe out, wobble, wrench, yank, yerk

bobble

• bobble, bad job, bevue, bitch, bitch up, bloomer, blooper, blow, blunder, bob, boggle, bollix, bonehead into it, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, botch, bounce, bugger, bugger up, bump, bungle, careen, chatter, clumsy performance, cobble, coggle, dangle, didder, dither, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dumb trick, error, etourderie, falter, flub, fluctuate, fluff, flutter, fool mistake, foozle, foul up, foul-up, fumble, gaucherie, goof, goof up, grimace, gum up, hash, hash up, have an ague, howler, hustle, jactitate, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, louse up, louse-up, lurch, mess, mess up, miscue, mistake, muck up, muck-up, muff, nutate, off day, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, pratfall, pull a boner, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, resonate, rictus, rock, roll, sad work, screamer, screw up, screw-up, shake, shiver, shock, shudder, slip, stumble, swag, sway, swing, tic, toss, tremble, tremor, trip, twitch, twitter, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, waver, wobble

bobby

• bobby, Dogberry, John Law, bluebottle, bluecoat, bull, constable, cop, copper, dick, flatfoot, flattie, gendarme, gumshoe, officer, paddy, peeler, pig, shamus, the cops, the fuzz, the law

bode

• bode, apprehend, augur, betoken, croak, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, have a premonition, have a presentiment, look black, lower, menace, omen, portend, preapprehend, presage, promise, threaten, warn

bodega

• bodega, appetizing store, bakery, bakeshop, butcher shop, creamery, dairy, deli, delicatessen, food shop, food store, fruit stand, grocery, grocery store, groceteria, health food store, meat market, pork store, superette, supermarket, vegetable store

bodiless

• bodiless, airy, asomatous, astral, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, ethereal, extramundane, ghostly, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spiritual, supernatural, transmundane, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless

bodily

• bodily, Adamic, Circean, across the board, all, all put together, altogether, animal, animalistic, as a body, as a whole, at large, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, born, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, coeval, collectively, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporal, corporately, corporeal, earthly, earthy, en bloc, en masse, entirely, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary, hylic, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in person, in propria persona, in the aggregate, in the blood, in the flesh, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic, materiate, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual, on all counts, organic, orgiastic, personally, physical, postlapsarian, primal, secular, sensual, somatic, substantial, swinish, temperamental, temporal, totally, tout ensemble, unspiritual, wholly, worldly

body build

• body build, anatomy, body, brand, build, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, crasis, dharma, diathesis, disposition, ethos, fiber, figure, form, frame, genius, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, ilk, kind, makeup, mold, nature, person, physique, property, quality, shape, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, streak, stripe, suchness, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tone, type, vein, way

body count

• body count, account, accounts, bill of mortality, capitulation, casualty list, census, count, death roll, head count, inventory, martyrology, mortuary roll, necrologue, necrology, nose count, obit, obituary, recapitulation, reckoning, recount, recounting, register of deaths, rehearsal, repertory, statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up

body language

• body language, bearing, beck, beckon, carriage, charade, chironomy, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, dumb show, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, hand signal, kinesics, motion, movement, pantomime, poise, pose, posture, shrug, sign language, stance

body odor

• body odor, BO, bad breath, bad smell, beaded brow, beads of sweat, cold sweat, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, graveolence, halitosis, honest sweat, lather, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offensive odor, perspiration, perspiration odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, stench, stench of decay, stink, streams of sweat, sudor, sudoresis, sweat, swelter, water

body politic

• body politic, Everyman, John Doe, Public, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, buffer state, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, citizenry, city-state, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, community, community at large, country, county, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, free city, general public, gentry, grand duchy, kingdom, land, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, men, nation, nationality, people, people in general, persons, polis, polity, populace, population, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, public, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, republic, satellite, seneschalty, settlement, society, sovereign nation, state, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, world, you and me

body

• body, Adamite, Bund, Festschrift, Rochdale cooperative, affiliation, age group, aggregate, alliance, amount, amplitude, an existence, ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, area, array, ascender, ashes, ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, axis, back, band, basis, bastard type, batch, battalion, beard, being, belly, best part, better part, bevel, bevy, bigness, black letter, bloc, block, bodily size, body-build, bones, branch, breadth, brigade, budget, build, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden, cabal, cadaver, cake, caliber, cap, capital, carcass, carrion, case, cast, caste, cat, chap, character, chrestomathy, church, clan, class, clay, clique, clod, clump, cluster, coalition, coarseness, cohort, collectanea, collection, college, colony, combination, combine, committee, common market, commonwealth, commune, communion, community, company, compilation, complement, concrete, concreteness, concretion, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congress, consistency, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, core, corporealize, corporify, corps, corpse, corpulence, corpus, corpus delicti, coterie, council, counter, coverage, covey, creature, credit union, crew, critter, crowbait, crowd, crux, customer, customs union, data, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, denomination, density, depth, descender, detachment, detail, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through, division, dry bones, duck, durability, dust, earth, earthling, economic class, economic community, em, embalmed corpse, embody, en, endogamous group, entelechy, entity, essence, essentials, expanse, expansion, extended family, extension, extent, face, faction, family, fat-faced type, fatness, federation, feet, fellow, fellowship, figure, firmness, fleet, flesh, florilegium, font, food for worms, form, frame, fraternity, free trade area, fullness, fund, fundamental, fuselage, gang, gauge, generality, gens, girth, gist, gravamen, greatness, groove, groundling, group, grouping, groupment, guy, hand, head, heart, height, holdings, homo, hulk, hull, human, human being, in-group, incarnate, incorporate, individual, italic, joker, junta, kinship group, knot, largeness, late lamented, league, length, letter, library, life, ligature, living soul, logotype, lot, lower case, lump, machine, magnitude, main body, major part, majority, majuscule, man, mass, masses, material body, materiality, materialize, measure, measurement, meat, menagerie, minuscule, mob, moiety, monad, mortal, mortal remains, most, movement, mummification, mummy, museum, nick, node, nose, nuclear family, number, object, offshoot, one, order, organic remains, organism, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, palpability, parcel, partnership, party, peer group, person, persona, personage, personality, personify, persuasion, phalanx, phratria, phratry, phyle, physical body, physique, pi, pica, pith, platoon, plurality, point, political machine, ponderability, posse, print, proportion, proportions, purport, quantity, quantum, radius, range, raw data, reach, reembody, regiment, reincarnate, relics, religious order, reliquiae, remains, richness, ring, roman, salon, sans serif, scale, schism, school, scope, script, sect, sectarism, segment, sense, set, settlement, shank, shape, shoulder, single, size, skeleton, small cap, small capital, social class, society, solid, solid body, solidity, soma, somebody, someone, something, soul, soundness, spread, squad, stability, stable, stamp, staple, steadiness, stem, stiff, stock, stoutness, strength, string, sturdiness, subcaste, substance, substantiality, substantialize, substantialness, substantiate, substantify, sum, tangibility, team, tellurian, tenement of clay, terran, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, the third dimension, thickness, thing, thrust, torso, total, totem, toughness, transmigrate, treasure, tribe, troop, troupe, trunk, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, union, unit, upper case, upshot, variety, version, viscosity, volume, whole, width, wing, worldling, zoo

bodyguard

• bodyguard, cavalier, chaperon, companion, conductor, convoy, duenna, escort, esquire, fellow traveler, gentleman-at-arms, guard, guards, guardsman, praetorian guard, safe-conduct, safeguard, shepherd, squire, swain, usher, yeoman

bog

• bog, baygall, bemire, bog down, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cesspool, cloaca, cloaca maxima, drain, dump, everglade, fen, fenland, garbage dump, glade, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, peat bog, quag, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, septic tank, sewer, sink, sink in, slob land, slough, sough, stodge, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, wash

bogey

• bogey, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mumbo Jumbo, Wolf-man, air armada, air force, bandit, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, combat plane, enemy aircraft, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, haunt, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, shade, specter, spirit, spook, succubus, terror, vampire, werewolf, wraith

bogeyman

• bogeyman, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mumbo Jumbo, Wolf-man, bogey, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire, werewolf

boggle

• boggle, addle, amaze, around the bush, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, back out, bad job, baffle, balk, bamboozle, bashfulness, be all thumbs, beat, beat about, bedaze, bedazzle, beef, beg the question, bevue, bewilder, bicker, bitch, blench, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggling, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bowl down, bowl over, boycott, buffalo, bumble, bungle, butcher, call in question, cavil, challenge, chicken, chicken out, choplogic, clumsy performance, cobble, commit a gaffe, complain, compunction, confound, cry out against, daze, dazzle, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, demurral, desert under fire, diffidence, dispute, dodge, dumbfound, dumbfounder, enter a protest, equivocate, error, etourderie, evade, evade the issue, expostulate, falter, faltering, faux pas, fence, fight shy, fight shy of, flabbergast, flinch, floor, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, fuddle, fumble, funk, funk out, gag, gaucherie, get, get cold feet, goof up, gum up, hang back, hang off, hash, have qualms, have two minds, hedge, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold off, holler, howl, jib, jump, jump a mile, keep in suspense, kick, lick, lose courage, louse up, lumber, make bones about, mar, march, maze, mess, miscue, mistake, modesty, muddle, muff, murder, mystify, nitpick, nonplus, object, objection, obscure, off day, overwhelm, palter, panic, paralyze, parry, pause, perplex, petrify, pick nits, picket, play havoc with, press objections, prevaricate, protest, pull back, pussyfoot, puzzle, quail, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, quibble, raise a howl, rally, recoil, remonstrate, sad work, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, scuttle, shift, shrink, shrinking, shuffle, shy, shy at, shyness, sidestep, sit in, skedaddle, slip, split hairs, spoil, squawk, stagger, stampede, start, start aside, startle, state a grievance, stick, stick at, stickle, stickling, strain, strike, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stumble, stump, stun, stupefy, surprise, teach in, tergiversate, throw, trip, waver, wince, yell bloody murder

boggy

• boggy, boggish, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, marshy, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky, swampish, swampy, tacky, uliginous, undried, wet, wettish

bogus

• bogus, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, fraudulent, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped

Bohemian

• Bohemian, Arab, Bedouin, Romany, Zigeuner, affable, beat, beatnik, breakaway, casual, cordial, degage, deviant, dissenter, dropout, easy, easygoing, eccentric, familiar, far out, flower child, folksy, freak, free and easy, fringy, gracious, gypsy, haymish, heretic, heretical, heterodox, hippie, homely, homey, iconoclast, informal, irregular, kinky, loose, maverick, misfit, natural, nomad, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, offhand, offhanded, original, plain, recusant, relaxed, sectarian, sectary, simple, sociable, swinger, tzigane, ugly duckling, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconforming, unconformist, unconstrained, unconventional, unfashionable, unofficial, unorthodox, unstudied, way out, yippie, zingaro

boil down

• boil down, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dock, elide, epitomize, foreshorten, mow, nip, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, shave, shear, shorten, snub, streamline, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate

boil

• boil, abscess, agitation, antisepticize, aposteme, autoclave, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat, be livid, be pissed, bed sore, blain, blanch, blaze, bleb, blister, bloom, blow up, blubber, bluster, bobbery, boil over, boiling, bolt, braise, brew, bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown, browned off, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubo, bulla, bump, bunion, burble, burn, bustle, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, carry on, casserole, chafe, chancre, chancroid, charge, chase, chilblain, chlorinate, choke, churn, coction, coddle, cold sore, combust, commotion, conturbation, cook, corn, course, cover, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, curry, cyst, dash, decoct, decoction, decontaminate, delouse, devil, dilatation, dilation, discomposure, dish, disinfect, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distension, distill, disturbance, do, do to perfection, ebullience, ebulliency, ebulliometer, ebullition, edema, effervesce, embroilment, entree, eschar, excitement, felon, ferment, fermentation, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, feverishness, fidgets, fire, fistula, fizz, fizzle, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flicker, fling, flurry, flush, fluster, flutteration, foam, foment, fret, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fulminate, fume, fumigate, furuncle, furunculus, fuss, gasp, gathering, glow, go on, griddle, grill, guggle, gumboil, gurgle, have a conniption, heat, hemorrhoids, hiss, hubbub, hurly-burly, hygienize, incandesce, inquietude, intumescence, jitters, jumpiness, kibe, lash, lesion, lump, maelstrom, main dish, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, pant, papula, papule, parboil, parch, paronychia, parulis, pasteurize, perturbation, petechia, piles, pimple, pissed off, plop, poach, pock, polyp, prepare, prepare food, pustule, race, radiate heat, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, restlessness, rising, roast, roil, rout, row, sanitate, sanitize, saute, scab, scald, scallop, scorch, sear, sebaceous cyst, seethe, seething, shimmer with heat, shirr, shoot, side dish, simmer, simmering, sizzle, smoke, smolder, smother, smoulder, soft chancre, sore, spark, sparkle, splutter, sputter, steam, sterilize, stew, stewing, stifle, stigma, stir, stir-fry, storm, sty, suffocate, suppuration, sweat, swell, swelling, swelter, swirl, swollenness, take on, tear, throw a fit, to-do, toast, trepidation, trepidity, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumor, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turmoil, twitter, ulcer, ulceration, unease, unrest, upset, wale, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, work, wound

boiler room

• boiler room, Klaxon, boiler factory, brokerage, brokerage house, brokerage office, bucket shop, bull-roarer, bunco game, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, con game, confidence game, cracker, cricket, firecracker, goldbrick, horn, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, shell game, siren, skin game, snapper, steam whistle, stockbrokerage, thimblerig, thimblerigging, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

boiling over

• boiling over, ablaze, afire, ardent, boiling, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, cordial, delirious, drunk, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, glowing, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in rut, intense, intoxicated, keen, lively, on fire, passionate, red-hot, seething, sexually excited, steaming, steamy, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, zealous

boiling

• boiling, agitation, ardent, baking, barbecuing, basting, blistering, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling over, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, bustle, canicular, carbonation, catering, churn, coction, commotion, conturbation, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, decoction, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, domestic science, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullient, ebulliometer, ebullition, effervescence, effervescency, embroilment, excitement, febrile, ferment, fermentation, fervent, fervid, fever, feverish, feverishness, fidgets, fiery, fizz, fizzle, flaming, flap, flurry, flushed, fluster, flutteration, foaming, foment, frothiness, frothing, frying, fume, fuss, glowing, grilling, heated, hectic, het up, home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hubbub, hurly-burly, in rut, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, like a furnace, like an oven, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nutrition, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, passionate, perturbation, piping hot, poaching, red-hot, restlessness, roasting, roil, rout, row, sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seethe, seething, sexually excited, shirring, simmer, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, smoldering, sparkle, spumescence, steaming, steamy, steeping, stewing, stir, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, swirl, to-do, toasting, torrid, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, warm, white-hot

boisterous

• boisterous, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, exuberant, harum-scarum, hectoring, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, lively, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raucous, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rowdyish, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, strident, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, turbulent, undisciplined, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild

bold faced

• bold faced, aweless, barefaced, blackface, bold, bold as brass, boldface, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, chromotypic, chromotypographic, forward, fresh, full-faced, impudent, lightface, lost to shame, lower-case, nervy, pert, phototypic, sassy, shameless, smart, smart-alecky, stereotypic, swaggering, typographic, unabashed, unblushing, upper-case

bold

• bold, abrupt, adventurous, arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, blatant, bluff, bold as brass, bold-spirited, boldfaced, bossed, bossy, brash, brassy, brave, brazen, brazenfaced, breakneck, bumptious, challenging, chased, cheeky, chivalric, chivalrous, clear, cocky, confident, conspicuous, contemptuous, contumelious, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, distinct, doughty, embossed, eminent, emissile, enterprising, excrescent, excrescential, exhibitionistic, extruding, fearless, fire-eating, fit for sea, flagrant, foolhardy, forward, fresh, gallant, glaring, greathearted, greatly daring, hanging out, hardy, harebrained, headlong, heroic, herolike, immodest, impertinent, impudent, in relief, in the foreground, incautious, insolent, intrepid, ironhearted, jutting, knightlike, knightly, lionhearted, lost to shame, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, manful, manly, nervy, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, ostensible, outstanding, pert, plucky, plunging, precipitous, presumptuous, procacious, prognathous, projecting, prominent, pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, raised, rapid, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, resolute, salient, sassy, saucy, sea-kindly, seaworthy, shameless, sharp, sheer, smart, smart-alecky, snug, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, staring, stark-staring, steep, sticking out, stiff, stout, stouthearted, striking, strong, swaggering, temerarious, tender, unabashed, unafraid, unashamed, unblushing, undaunted, unembarrassed, unmodest, valiant, valorous, venturesome, vertical, vigorous, vivid, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, wild, wild-ass

boldly

• boldly, arrantly, audaciously, blatantly, boldfacedly, bravely, brazenfacedly, brazenly, bulldoggishly, chivalrously, conspicuously, courageously, daringly, doughtily, fearlessly, flagrantly, gallantly, gamely, glaringly, gutsily, hardily, heroically, intrepidly, knightly, like a man, like a soldier, markedly, notably, noticeably, notoriously, obtrusively, ostensibly, outstandingly, pertinaciously, pluckily, prominently, pronouncedly, resolutely, saliently, shamelessly, spunkily, stalwartly, staringly, stoutly, strikingly, tenaciously, unblushingly, unfearfully, unfearingly, valiantly, valorously, yeomanly

bole

• bole, anthrophore, axis, barrel, cane, carpophore, cask, caudex, caulicle, caulis, column, culm, cylinder, cylindroid, drum, footstalk, funicule, funiculus, haulm, leafstalk, pedicel, peduncle, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pillar, pipe, reed, roll, roller, rouleau, seedstalk, spear, spire, stalk, stem, stipe, stock, straw, tigella, trunk, tube

boll

• boll, ball, balloon, bladder, blob, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, burr, capsule, cod, ellipsoid, follicle, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, hull, husk, knob, knot, legume, legumen, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pease cod, pellet, pericarp, pod, prolate spheroid, rondure, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, silique, sphere, spheroid, spherule

bollix up

• bollix up, ball up, bollix, bugger, bugger up, confound, confuse, cook, foul up, fumble, garble, gum up, hash up, jumble, louse up, mess up, mix up, muck up, muddle, pi, play hell with, play hob with, queer, riffle, scramble, screw up, shuffle, sink, snafu, snarl up, tumble

bollixed up

• bollixed up, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, buggered, buggered up, chaotic, confused, cooked, fouled up, galley-west, gummed up, hashed up, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a mess, jumbled, loused up, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, queered, scattered, screwed up, shot, skimble-skamble, snafu, snafued, snarled up, sunk, topsy-turvy, upside-down

bologna

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

Bolshevik

• Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Communist sympathizer, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Stalinist, Titoist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, avowed Communist, bolshie, bonnet rouge, commie, comrade, criminal syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist, fellow traveler, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mild radical, nihilist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, rebel, red, revisionist, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, ultra, ultraist, yippie

bolster

• bolster, advance, affirm, afford support, aid, air mattress, assist, assure, attest, authenticate, back, back up, bear, bear out, bear up, bedding, bolster up, brace, brace up, buck up, buoy up, buttress, carry, certify, cheer, circumstantiate, confirm, corroborate, cradle, crutch, cushion, document, embolden, encourage, finance, fortify, fund, further, give support, hearten, help, hold, hold up, innerspring mattress, inspire, inspirit, keep, keep afloat, keep up, lend support, litter, mainstay, maintain, mat, mattress, nerve, pad, pallet, pillow, probate, prop, prop up, prove, ratify, reassure, reinforce, rug, shore, shore up, shoulder, sleeping bag, springs, stay, strengthen, subsidize, substantiate, subvention, subventionize, support, sustain, underbed, underbedding, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold, upkeep, validate, verify, warrant

bolt hole

• bolt hole, asylum, back door, back stairs, back way, cache, concealment, corner, cover, covert, covert way, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, dugout, ejection seat, emergency exit, escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, fire escape, foxhole, funk hole, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, inflatable slide, lair, life buoy, life net, life raft, lifeboat, lifeline, niche, nook, recess, refuge, retreat, sally port, sanctuary, secret exit, secret passage, secret place, secret staircase, side door, slide, stash, undercovert, underground, underground railroad, underground route

bolt

• bolt, AWOL, French leave, Irish confetti, Jupiter Fulgur, Thor, abscond, absence without leave, absquatulate, absquatulation, apostacize, apostasy, apostatize, arrow, arrowhead, articulate, assort, attach, backsliding, bale, ball lightning, bang, bar, barb, barricade, barrier, batten, batten down, beat a retreat, betray, betrayal, bindle, blat, block, block up, blockade, blow, blurt out, bobtailed arrow, boil, bola, bolt down, bolt of lightning, bolt upright, bomb, bombshell, boomerang, bouquet, break away, breakaway, brickbat, buckle, budget, bundle, burn out, butt, button, button up, career, catch, categorize, chain lightning, change sides, charge, chase, chested arrow, chock, choke, choke off, clap, clarify, clasp, classify, clear, clear out, cleat, clip, close, close off, close tight, close up, cloth yard shaft, coil, collate, connect, constrict, contain, contract, cordon, cordon off, countermissile, cover, cram, crowd, cry out, cull out, cut and run, dark lightning, dart, dash, dash off, debar, decamp, decampment, deck, decrassify, defect, defection, depart, depurate, dereliction, desert, deserter, desertion, devour, disappearance, disappearing act, disloyalty, distill, divide, dog, dovetail, edulcorate, ejaculate, elope, elopement, elute, engorge, erect, escape, essentialize, exit, extract, eye-opener, fagot, faithlessness, fall away, fall off, fardel, fasces, fascine, fasten, filter, filtrate, fireball, firebolt, fix, flee, flight, fling, fly, flying flame, fold, fold up, forked lightning, fugitate, fugitation, fulguration, fulmination, ghettoize, gluttonize, go AWOL, go over, gobble, going over, gorge, gormandize, gradate, grade, group, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hasp, haste, hasten, hasty retreat, hegira, hie, hinge, hitch, hook, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, ingurgitate, insulate, jam, joint, jump, jump bail, keep apart, keep aside, key, lash, latch, lay aside, leach, length, let down, levant, levin bolt, lightning, live to eat, lixiviate, lock, lock out, lock up, make haste, make off, missile, miter, mortise, nail, nosegay, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, obstruct, occlude, pack, package, packet, padlock, parcel, part, peg, percolate, pick out, piece, pin, plumb, poop out, portion, post, posy, projectile, pull out, purify, put aside, quarantine, quarrel, quick exit, quiver, rabbet, race, rank, rat, ratting, raven, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, rectify, reed, refine, revelation, riddle, rigidly, rivet, rock, rocket, rod, roll, rouleau, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, run out on, running away, rush, scamper, scarf, schism, scoot, scour, scram, scramble, scramming, screen, screw, scud, scurry, scuttle, seal, seal off, seal up, secede, secession, seclude, secure, segregate, sell out, separate, set apart, set aside, sew, shaft, sheaf, sheet lightning, shock, shocker, shoot, show the heels, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, sieve, sift, size, skedaddle, skedaddling, skewer, skip, skip out, slam, slip the cable, slop, slosh, snap, sort, sort out, spiritualize, spring, squeeze, squeeze shut, staple, startle, step on it, stick, stiffly, stifle, stitch, stone, stop up, straight, strain, strangle, strangulate, strip, stroke of lightning, stuff, sublimate, sublime, subordinate, suffocate, surprise, swallow whole, switch, switch over, tack, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, tear, thrash, thresh, throw stick, throwing-stick, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderstroke, toggle, torpedo, treason, truss, try, turn cloak, turn tail, turning traitor, volley, waddy, walkout, wedge, winnow, wolf, wolf down, zip up, zipper

bolus

• bolus, ball, balloon, bite, bladder, blob, boll, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, capsule, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cud, ellipsoid, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnash, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, lozenge, morsel, mouthful, munch, nibble, nip, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pill, prolate spheroid, quid, rondure, snap, sphere, spheroid, spherule, swallow, tablet, troche

bomb

• bomb, A-bomb, Grand Guignol, H-bomb, Passion play, Tom show, aerial bomb, antimasque, antipersonnel bomb, astonishment, atom-bomb, atomic bomb, audience success, ballet, batter, be a gas, be a hit, bill, blast, blitz, blockbuster, blow, blow to pieces, blow up, bombard, bombshell, broadcast drama, burlesque show, bust, cannonade, carcass, catch, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, concussion grenade, crap out, critical success, daytime serial, depth bomb, depth charge, dialogue, dive-bomb, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, dramatize, draw a blank, drop a bomb, drop the ball, dud, dull thud, duodrama, duologue, earthshaker, epic theater, experimental theater, explosive, extravaganza, eye-opener, fail, failure, fall flat, fan, feature, fire bomb, fireball, fizzle, flat failure, flop, floperoo, flummox, fold, fold up, frost, fusion bomb, gas grenade, gasser, get left, giveaway, glide-bomb, grenade, hand grenade, happening, headline, hit, hit show, hydrobomb, hydrogen bomb, improvisational drama, incendiary, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, joker, kicker, lay an egg, legitimate drama, lemon, lose out, loser, make a hit, masque, melodrama, melodramatize, mine, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, mount, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, not hack it, not make it, open, open a show, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, peripeteia, petard, piece, pipe bomb, play, playlet, plutonium bomb, premiere, present, preview, problem play, produce, psychodrama, put on, quiz show, radio drama, razon bomb, revelation, review, revue, robot bomb, roc, rocket bomb, satchel charge, scenarize, sensational play, serial, set the stage, shell, shocker, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skip-bomb, skit, smoke bomb, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, spring, stage, stage play, stage show, staggerer, star, startler, stench bomb, stink bomb, straight drama, strike out, succeed, success, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package, surprise party, suspense drama, switch, tableau, tableau vivant, take the count, talk show, tear-gas bomb, tear-gas grenade, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, theatricalize, thermonuclear bomb, thunderbolt, thunderclap, time bomb, total loss, total theater, try out, turkey, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wall grenade, washout, wear thin, whiff, word-of-mouth success, work

bombard

• bombard, accelerate, activate, aim at, assail, assault, atomize, attack, barrage, batter, besiege, blast, blitz, blow to pieces, blow up, bomb, cannon, cannonade, cleave, commence firing, cross-bombard, enfilade, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, fission, fusillade, mine, mortar, nucleize, open fire, open up on, pepper, pop at, rake, set upon, shell, shoot, shoot at, smash the atom, snipe, snipe at, spring, strafe, strike, take aim at, torpedo, zero in on

bombardier

• bombardier, aerial photographer, aircrew, aircrewman, artillerist, artilleryman, avigator, belly gunner, bomb thrower, bomber, cannoneer, crew, crew chief, flight attendant, flight crew, gunner, hostess, machine gunner, meteorologist, navigator, steward, stewardess

bombardment

• bombardment, air raid, alpha decay, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, blitz, blitzkrieg, breeding, broadside, bullet, burst, cannonade, chain reaction, cleavage, disintegration series, dissociation, drumfire, exchange reaction, fission, fission reaction, fusillade, gamma decay, hail, ionization, lightning attack, lightning war, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, salvo, shower, splitting the atom, stimulation, strafe, strafing, target, thermonuclear reaction, volley

bombast

• bombast, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool, fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flatulence, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade, gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, grandiloquence, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, lexiphanicism, magniloquence, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, orotundity, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, puffery, pyrotechnics, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, sesquipedality, show, side, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, trash, trumpery, tumidity, turgidity, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling

bombastic

• bombastic, Latinate, aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose, guinde, halting, heavy, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering, magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, pretentious, self-important, sesquipedalian, solemn, sonorous, stiff, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tall, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, unwieldy, windy

bomber

• bomber, Mafioso, Young Turk, alarmist, annihilator, arsonist, artillerist, artilleryman, assassin, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, biblioclast, bomb thrower, bombardier, brute, burner, cannoneer, demolisher, demon, destroyer, devil, dragon, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunner, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, incendiary, killer, machine gunner, mad dog, madcap, monster, mugger, nihilist, rapist, revolutionary, ruiner, savage, scaremonger, she-wolf, spitfire, syndicalist, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, vandal, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrecker

bombing

• bombing, air cover, air raid, air support, area bombing, blitz, carpet bombing, cover, dive-bombing, dry run, high-altitude bombing, low-altitude bombing, milk run, mission, precision bombing, reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission, saturation bombing, scramble, shuttle bombing, shuttle raid, skip-bombing, sortie, strafing, strategic bombing, tactical bombing, training mission, umbrella

bombshell

• bombshell, aerial bomb, antipersonnel bomb, astonishment, blockbuster, blow, bomb, carcass, catch, concussion grenade, depth bomb, depth charge, earthshaker, eye-opener, fire bomb, gas grenade, grenade, hand grenade, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, joker, kicker, peripeteia, petard, revelation, shock, shocker, staggerer, startler, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package, surprise party, switch, tear-gas grenade, thunderbolt, thunderclap, time bomb, wall grenade

bon mot

• bon mot, aphorism, apothegm, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, conceit, crack, epigram, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, gibe, happy thought, mot, nasty crack, persiflage, play of wit, pleasantry, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, scintillation, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, stroke of wit, turn of thought, wisecrack, witticism

bon ton

• bon ton, conformity, consuetude, convention, currency, custom, established way, etiquette, fashion, fashionableness, folkway, haute couture, high fashion, manner, manners, mode, modishness, mores, observance, popularity, practice, praxis, prescription, prevailing taste, prevalence, proper thing, ritual, social convention, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, stream of fashion, style, stylishness, swim, time-honored practice, tradition, trend, usage, use, vogue, voguishness, way, what is done, wont, wonting

bon vivant

• bon vivant, Brillat-Savarin, Cyrenaic, Heliogabalus, Lucullus, Sardanapalus, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, board-and-roomer, boarder, boon companion, cannibal, carnivore, carpet knight, clubman, clubwoman, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, connoisseur of food, consumer, critic, dilettante, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, epicurean, excellent companion, expert, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, good company, good fellow, good judge, good mixer, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, hearty, hedonist, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, joiner, jolly fellow, judge, lactovegetarian, luncher, man-about-town, man-eater, maven, meat-eater, mixer, mouth, nightclub habitue, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, playboy, pleasant company, pleasure-seeker, pot companion, predacean, refined palate, sensualist, sensuist, social lion, swine, sybarite, trencherman, vegetarian, virtuoso, voluptuary

bona fide

• bona fide, aboveboard, attested, authentic, candid, card-carrying, consistently, constantly, devotedly, dinkum, fair and square, faithfully, firmly, following the letter, foursquare, genuine, good, good-faith, honest, honest-to-God, in good faith, inartificial, indubitable, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyally, natural, naturalistic, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, original, pure, real, realistic, responsibly, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, sterling, straight, straight-shooting, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, with good faith, word-for-word

bonanza

• bonanza, Eldorado, Golconda, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, copiousness, cornucopia, eldorado, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, font, fount, fountain, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, gold mine, gravy train, great abundance, great plenty, gush, house, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lode, lots, luxuriance, maximum, mine, mine of wealth, more than enough, mother lode, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, quarry, repleteness, repletion, resource, rich harvest, rich lode, rich uncle, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, shower, source, source of supply, spate, spring, staple, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, teemingness, treasure, treasure trove, treasury, vein, wealth, well, wellspring

bond

• bond, Fannie Mae, Federal Agency bond, Ginnie Mae, Oregon boat, Series E bond, Series H bond, accident insurance, accord, accouple, accumulate, actuary, addition, adherence, adhesion, adhesive, adjunct, adjustment bond, affairs, affiliation, affinity, affixation, agglomeration, agglutinate, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, allegiance, alliance, amass, annexation, annuity, annuity bond, appreciation bond, approximation, arrangement, articulate, articulation, assemblage, assemble, assented bond, associate, association, assumed bond, assurance, assure, attachment, attest, aviation insurance, baby bond, back, bail, bail bond, band, bargain, be sponsor for, bearer bond, bearer certificate, bilbo, bind, binding, binding agreement, bona fides, bond anticipation note, bonds, bonne foi, bottomry, bracket, bracketing, bridge, bridge over, bridle, business life insurance, callable bond, camisole, cartel, casualty insurance, cement, certificate of insurance, certify, chain, chains, checks, clap together, clasping, cling, clinging, closeness, clustering, cohere, coherence, cohesion, collar, collateral trust bond, collect, collective agreement, combination, combine, communication, compact, comprise, concatenate, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confirm, confluence, congeries, conglobulate, conglomeration, conjoin, conjugate, conjugation, conjunction, connect, connectedness, connection, connective, consolidated annuities, consolidated stock, consols, consortium, constancy, constraints, contiguity, contract, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, contrariety, controls, convention, convergence, convertible bond, convertible debenture, copulate, copulation, cords, corporate bond, corporation stock, countersecure, couple, coupling, coupon bond, coupon rate, court bond, covenant, covenant of indemnity, covenant of salt, cover, credit insurance, credit life insurance, cuffs, current income bond, current yield, deal, dealings, debenture, debenture bond, deductible, deduction, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, deep-discount bond, defense bond, deferred bond, definitive bond, deposit, devotedness, devotion, dicker, discount bond, disjunction, earnest, earnest money, embrace, employment contract, encompass, endorse, endowment insurance, engagement, ensure, equipment bond, equipment note, equipment trust, equipment trust bond, equipment trust certificate, escrow, extended bond, faith, faithfulness, family maintenance policy, fastener, fastening, fealty, fetter, fetters, fidelity, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, filiation, firmness, first mortgage bond, firsts, flood insurance, formal agreement, formal contract, fraternal insurance, gag, gage, gather, gathering, general mortgage bond, general obligation bond, girding, glue, go bail, good faith, government bond, government insurance, group policy, guarantee, guaranteed bond, guaranty, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, handsel, health insurance, high-grade bond, hobbles, hock, hold together, homage, homology, hooking, hookup, hopples, hostage, hypothecate, impignorate, implied contract, include, income bond, indemnity, indent, indenture, industrial life insurance, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, insure, interchangeable bond, intercommunication, intercourse, interim bond, interinsurance, interlinking, interrelationship, intimacy, ironclad agreement, irons, join, joinder, joining, joint bond, jointure, junction, knot, knotting, lashing, lay together, leading strings, league, leash, legal agreement, legal contract, liability insurance, liaison, license bond, ligament, ligation, ligature, limited payment insurance, link, linkage, linking, loyalty, lump together, mainprise, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, manacle, marine insurance, marriage, marry, marshal, mass, meeting, merge, merger, merging, mobilize, mortgage, mortgage bond, mortgage deed, municipal bond, mutual agreement, mutual attraction, mutual company, muzzle, nearness, negotiable bond, nexus, nominal rate, nonnegotiable bond, ocean marine insurance, optional bond, pact, paction, pair, pairing, par bond, parol contract, participating bond, pawn, permit bond, perpetual bond, piece together, pignus, pillory, pledge, policy, post, premium bond, promise, promissory note, propinquity, protocol, proximity, purchase money bond, put in hock, put in pawn, put together, put up, rapport, recognizance, refunding bond, registered bond, registered certificate, reins, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, replevin, replevy, restraint, restraints, revenue bond, robbery insurance, roll into one, ropes, savings bond, second mortgage bond, seconds, secure, secured bond, security, shackle, shackles, sign, sign for, similarity, small bond, social security, solder, span, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, splice, sponsor, spout, stake, stand behind, stand up for, state bond, staunchness, steadfastness, stick, stick together, sticking, stipulation, stock company, stocks, stocks and bonds, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, subscribe to, surety, symbiosis, sympathy, take in, tape, tax anticipation note, tax-free bond, term insurance, tether, theft insurance, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tieing, ties, title deed, token payment, trammel, trammels, transaction, treasury bond, treaty, troth, true blue, trueness, trust indenture, trustee mortgage bond, undersign, understanding, undertaking, underwrite, underwriter, unification, unify, union, union contract, unite, unsecured bond, vadimonium, vadium, valid contract, vinculum, voting bond, wage contract, war bond, warrant, warranty, weld, yield to maturity, yoke, yoking, zipping

bondage

• bondage, absolutism, bond service, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke

bondsman

• bondsman, bailsman, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondswoman, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, concubine, debt slave, galley slave, godfather, godparent, guarantee, guarantor, guaranty, helot, homager, insurer, liege, liege man, liege subject, mainpernor, mortgagor, odalisque, peon, serf, servant, slave, sponsor, subject, surety, theow, thrall, underwriter, vassal, villein, warrantor

bone of contention

• bone of contention, apple of discord, bone to pick, casus belli, catechism, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crow to pick, crow to pluck, debating point, demand, feeler, grounds for war, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, issue, leader, leading question, moot point, point at issue, point in question, problem, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, rub, sore point, tender spot, ticklish issue, topic, trial balloon, vexed question

bone

• bone, adamant, aitchbone, anklebone, anvil, backbone, bill, biscuit, bony, breastbone, brick, buck, calcaneus, cannon bone, carpal, cartilage, cement, chine, clavicle, coccyx, collarbone, con, concrete, contemplate, cracker, cranium, cubes, cuboid, diamond, dice, dig, drill, dust, elucubrate, examine, fibula, fish, flint, frogskin, funny bone, go over, granite, grind, hammer, heart of oak, hyoid bone, incus, iron, ivory, jawbone, kneecap, ligament, lucubrate, malleus, mandible, marble, maxilla, maxillary, metacarpal, metatarsal, mummy, nails, nasal bone, oak, occipital bone, osseous, ossicle, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, parchment, patella, pelvis, peruse, phalanges, phalanx, plunge into, pore over, practice, pubis, rachidial, rachis, radius, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, rib, rock, sacrum, scaphoid, scapula, sesamoid bones, shinbone, shoulder blade, skin, skull, smacker, sphenoid, spinal column, spine, stapes, steel, sternum, stick, stirrup, stone, study, swot, talus, tarsus, temporal bone, tendon, thighbone, ulna, vertebra, vertebral column, vet, wade through, wishbone, wristbone, zygomatic bone

bonehead

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

boner

• boner, bad job, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, botch, break, bull, bungle, clumsy performance, dumb trick, error, etourderie, faux, flub, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul-up, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hash, howler, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, louse-up, mess, miscue, mistake, muck-up, muff, off day, pratfall, sad work, screamer, screw-up, slip, solecism, stumble, trip

bones

• bones, anatomy, appendicular skeleton, ashes, axial skeleton, battery, being, bells, bird cage, body, bosom, breast, cadaver, carcass, carrion, castanets, celesta, chaff, chime, chimes, clappers, clay, clod, corpse, corpus, corpus delicti, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crash cymbal, crooked dice, crowbait, cubes, culm, cymbals, dead body, dead man, dead person, deadwood, decedent, dice, die, dishwater, draff, dregs, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, esprit, exoskeleton, figure, filings, finger cymbals, flesh, food for worms, form, frame, gamelan, garbage, gash, glockenspiel, gong, guts, handbells, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, hogwash, hulk, husks, idiophone, inmost heart, inmost soul, innermost being, ivories, late lamented, leavings, lees, loaded dice, lyra, maraca, marimba, material body, metallophone, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, offal, offscourings, orchestral bells, organic remains, orts, parings, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, person, physical body, physique, poker dice, potsherds, rags, raspings, rattle, rattlebones, refuse, relics, reliquiae, remains, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, secret places, shards, shavings, sizzler, skeleton, slack, slag, slop, slops, snappers, soma, soul, spirit, stiff, stubble, sweepings, swill, tam-tam, tares, teeth, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, tintinnabula, tonitruone, torso, triangle, trunk, tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, viscera, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, xylophone

bonhomie

• bonhomie, affability, amiability, ardency, cordiality, friendliness, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good disposition, good humor, good nature, good temper, goodnaturedness, goodtemperedness, graciousness, heartiness, hospitableness, hospitality, lenity, liberality, mildness, neighborliness, open door, openheartedness, receptiveness, sweetness, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth

bonkers

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

bonny

• bonny, Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, auspicious, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, boulevardier, braw, bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, cogent, comely, commendable, curvaceous, curvy, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, grand, handsome, healthy, helpful, high liver, kind, laudable, likely, lovely, lovely to behold, man-about-town, nice, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, pretty, profitable, pulchritudinous, regal, royal, shapely, sightly, skillful, slender, sound, splendid, sport, stacked, statuesque, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

bonus

• bonus, Trinkgeld, balance, bonus system, bounty, bribe, buried treasure, compensation, consideration, decoration, discovery, dividend, donative, double time, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fee, filigree, filling, fillip, find, finding, flourish, foundling, frill, fringe benefit, gratuity, gravy, grease, hand-out, honorarium, incentive pay, inducement, lagniappe, largess, largesse, leftover, liberality, margin, ornament, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, overtime pay, padding, palm oil, perk, perks, perquisite, perquisites, plus, pourboire, premium, remainder, remuneration, reward, salve, solatium, something extra, spare, sportula, stuffing, superaddition, surplus, surplusage, sweetener, tip, treasure trove, trimming, trouvaille, trove, twist, waifs, waifs and strays, windfall, windfall money, windfall profit, wrinkle

bony

• bony, angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight

boo boo

• boo boo, bad job, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boob stunt, boot, botch, break, bungle, clumsy performance, dumb trick, error, etourderie, faux, flub, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul-up, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hash, howler, impropriety, indecorum, louse-up, mess, miscue, mistake, muck-up, muff, off day, pratfall, sad work, screamer, screw-up, slip, solecism, stumble, trip

boo

• boo, Bronx cheer, Mary Jane, bird, booing, cannabis, catcall, give the bird, give the raspberry, grass, hiss, hissing, hoot, pooh, pooh-pooh, pot, raspberry, razz, tea, the bird, weed, whistle at

boob

• boob, Babbitt, Philistine, asshole, babe, bag, boeotian, boobs, booby, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, chest, chump, cinch, credulous person, crop, cull, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dolthead, dug, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fathead, fish, fool, galoot, gobe-mouches, goof, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, knockers, leadpipe cinch, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, middlebrow, monkey, mutt, nenes, nipple, oaf, pap, papilla, patsy, pigeon, pigeon breast, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, toy, trusting soul, udder, victim

booby trap

• booby trap, Dionaea, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, baited trap, blind, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, firetrap, flytrap, gin, lurking hole, mine, mole trap, mousetrap, pitfall, rattrap, set gun, shadowing, spring gun, springe, stalking-horse, surveillance, trap, trapfall

booby

• booby, also-ran, asshole, bag, boob, boobs, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, chest, chump, crop, defeatee, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dolthead, duck, dug, fall guy, fathead, galoot, game loser, good loser, good sport, goof, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, knockers, loser, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, mutt, nenes, nipple, oak, pap, papilla, pigeon breast, prize sap, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, sport, stooge, teat, the vanquished, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, udder, underdog, victim

boodle

• boodle, beat, bilk, blackmail, blunt, bomb, booty, brass, bread, bribe, bribe money, bucks, bundle, cabbage, campaign contribution, campaign fund, chips, chisel, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, dinero, do, dough, flimflam, gelt, gilt, graft, gratification, gratuity, grease, green, green stuff, haul, hot goods, hush money, jack, kale, loot, mazuma, mint, moolah, mopus, nepotism, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, packet, payoff, payola, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, plunder, pork barrel, pot, prize, protection, public till, public tit, public trough, rhino, rocks, roll, shekels, simoleons, slush fund, sop, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoils system, spondulics, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, sugar, swag, take, the needful, till, tin, wad, wampum

boogie woogie

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

book collector

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

book value

• book value, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, bullish prices, call price, closing price, decline, face value, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, high, issue par, issue price, low, market price, market value, nominal value, offering price, opening price, par, par value, parity, price, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, settling price, stated value, swings

book

• book, Holy Writ, Scripture, Spenserian stanza, accuse, airing, allege, ante, antistrophe, arraign, article, back matter, balance, balance the books, bandying, bespeak, bet, bill, booklet, brief, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, broadcast, broadcasting, brochure, bruiting, bruiting about, budget, burden, calendar, canto, capitalize, carry, carry over, carve, cast up accounts, catalog, chalk, chalk up, chapter, charge, charge off, check in, chorus, chronicle, chunk, circulation, cite, clause, close out, close the books, codex, column, compendium, complain, continuity, couplet, credit, cue, cut, debit, denounce, denunciate, diffusion, display, dissemination, distich, docket, earmark, employ, engage, engrave, enlist, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, envoi, epode, evulgation, fascicle, fasten on, fasten upon, file, fill out, finger, folder, folio, front matter, gathering, grave, handbook, hang something on, hazard, heptastich, hexastich, hire, impanel, impeach, imply, impute, incise, index, indict, inform against, inform on, inscribe, insert, insinuate, installment, inventory, issuance, issue, itemize, jot down, journalize, keep books, keep score, laws, lay charges, leaflet, libretto, line, line up, lines, list, livraison, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, log, lyrics, magazine, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, manual, mark down, matriculate, measure, minute, monograph, monostich, note, note down, novel, number, octastich, octave, octet, order, ottava rima, page, pamphlet, paperback, paragraph, parlay, part, passage, pentastich, periodical, phrase, pigeonhole, pin on, place upon record, play, playbook, poll, post, post up, preengage, prefer charges, press charges, printing, program, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on report, put on tape, quatrain, record, recruit, reduce to writing, refrain, register, regulations, report, reproach, reserve, retain, rhyme royal, scenario, scene plot, schedule, score, script, scroll, section, sentence, septet, serial, sestet, set down, sextet, sheet, shooting script, shot, side, sign on, sign up, sign up for, signature, slate, soft-cover, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, stake, stanza, stave, strain, strike a balance, strophe, syllable, tabulate, take down, take into employment, take on, take to task, tally, tape, tape-record, task, taunt with, tax, telecasting, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, textbook, ticket, tome, tract, treatise, triplet, tristich, twit, ventilation, verse, videotape, volume, wager, words, work, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

bookbinding

• bookbinding, Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookcase, case, casemaking, casing-in, collating, collating mark, cover, dust cover, dust jacket, folding, footband, gathering, gluing-off, hard binding, headband, jacket, library binding, lining, lining-up, mechanical binding, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stamping, stapling, tailband, tipping, trimming, wire stitching, wrapper

bookcase

• bookcase, Smyth sewing, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backing, bank, basement, bay, bibliopegy, bin, binder board, binding, bonded warehouse, book cloth, book cover, book end, book jacket, book support, book table, book tray, book truck, bookbinding, bookholder, bookrack, bookrest, bookshelf, bookstack, bookstand, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, case, casemaking, casing-in, cellar, chest, closet, collating, collating mark, conservatory, cover, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, dust cover, dust jacket, exchequer, folder, folding, folio, footband, gathering, glory hole, gluing-off, godown, hard binding, headband, hold, hutch, jacket, library, library binding, lining, lining-up, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mechanical binding, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding, portfolio, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, revolving bookcase, rick, rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, shelf, side sewing, signature, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stack, stack room, stamping, stapling, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tailband, tank, tipping, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trimming, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar, wire stitching, wrapper

bookdealer

• bookdealer, baker, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, butcher, cataloger, chandler, chief librarian, clothing merchant, college editor, confectioner, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, draper, drysalter, editor, editor-in-chief, executive editor, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, ironmonger, jeweler, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, liquor merchant, managing editor, newsdealer, perfumer, permissions editor, philobiblist, poulterer, printer, production editor, publisher, reference editor, reference librarian, saddler, stationer, textbook editor, tobacconist, trade editor, vintner, wine merchant

booked

• booked, billed, documented, down, enrolled, entered, filed, indexed, inscribed, legal, logged, minuted, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, posted, recorded, registered, scheduled, slated, to come, written down

booking

• booking, appointment, bespeaking, borscht circuit, briefing, cataloging, chronicling, circuit, date, employment, engagement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, hiring, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, logging, matriculation, playing engagement, posting, preengagement, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reservation, retainment, run, stand, tabulation, taking on, tour, vaudeville circuit

bookish

• bookish, academic, autodidactic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, booky, college-bred, collegiate, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, graduate, highbrow, inkhorn, learned, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedantic, postgraduate, professorial, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate

bookkeeper

• bookkeeper, CA, CPA, abacist, accountant, accountant general, actuary, amanuensis, archivist, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, bursar, calculator, cashier, cashkeeper, certified public accountant, chamberlain, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, curator, depositary, depository, documentalist, engraver, estimator, figurer, filing clerk, financial officer, journalizer, librarian, liquidator, marker, notary, notary public, paymaster, prothonotary, purse bearer, purser, receiver, reckoner, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, statistician, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, timekeeper, treasurer, trustee

booklover

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

bookmaker

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

books

• books, account, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bill, bill of fare, bill of lading, card ledger, carte, cashbook, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, daybook, factory ledger, inventory, invoice, journal, ledger, log, logbook, manifest, menu, passbook, purchase ledger, record book, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, statement, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger

bookseller

• bookseller, baker, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookworm, butcher, cataloger, chandler, chief librarian, clothing merchant, college editor, confectioner, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, draper, drysalter, editor, editor-in-chief, executive editor, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, ironmonger, jeweler, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, liquor merchant, managing editor, newsdealer, perfumer, permissions editor, philobiblist, poulterer, printer, production editor, publisher, reference editor, reference librarian, saddler, stationer, textbook editor, tobacconist, trade editor, vintner, wine merchant

bookstore

• bookstore, antique store, apothecary, automobile showroom, book club, bookshop, bookstall, bookstand, bootery, candy store, chemist, cigar store, clothiers, clothing store, confectionery, dress shop, drugstore, dry goods store, florists, fur salon, furniture store, gift shop, haberdashery, hardware store, hat shop, hobby shop, ironmongery, jewelers, jewelry store, leather goods store, librairie, liquor store, luggage shop, milliners, novelty shop, package store, pharmacy, saddlery, schlock house, schlock shop, secondhand shop, secondhand store, shoe store, smoke shop, specialty shop, sporting goods store, stationers, stationery store, sweater shop, sweet shop, thrift shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, toy shop, trimming store, used-car lot

bookworm

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

boom

• boom, Carling float, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumulate, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciate, appreciation, arch dam, ascent, augmentation, awake the dead, backfire, backstop, ball the jack, balloon, ballooning, balsa, balsa raft, bamboo curtain, bang, bank, bar, bark, barrage, barrel, barrier, batten, bawl, be reflected, be sent back, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, bellow, birr, blare, blast, blast the ear, blat, bloat, bloating, bloom, blossom, blowout, blowup, blubber, board, bob, bombilate, bombinate, boom, booming, booming economy, boost, bottoming out, bounce back, bowl along, bray, breakwater, breastwork, breathe, breed, breeze, breeze along, brick wall, broaden, broadening, brush, buffer, buildup, bulkhead, bull market, bulwark, bum, buoy, burgeon, burgeoning, burr, burst, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, buzz, cackle, cannonade, cant hook, cast loose, chant, chirp, clap, clap on ratlines, claw bar, clear hawse, clip, cofferdam, coo, cooling off, cork, crack, crank, crash, crescendo, crisis, crow, crowbar, cut along, cut loose, dam, deafen, defense, depression, detonation, develop, development, dike, din, discharge, ditch, downturn, drawl, drone, earthwork, echo, echo back, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edema, elevation, embankment, enlargement, exclaim, expanding economy, expansion, explode, explosion, extension, fatten, fence, fill the air, flare, flash, fleet, flit, float, flood, flourish, flower, flute, fly, fly low, foot, fulguration, fulmination, gain, gain strength, gasp, gate, get ahead, go fast, go up, gravity dam, greatening, groin, grow, grow fat, growl, growling, growth, grumble, grumbling, grunt, gush, handspike, haul, haul down, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, high growth rate, highball, hike, hiss, hum, hydraulic-fill dam, increase, increment, inflation, intensify, iron crow, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jimmy, jump, kedge, keen, land-office business, lay, lay aloft, leap, leaping weir, levee, lever, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lilt, limb, log, logjam, low, make knots, market expansion, marlinespike, milldam, moat, mole, mound, mount, mounting, multiplication, multiply, mumble, murmur, mutter, nip, outrigger, outstrip the wind, pant, parapet, peak, peaking, peal, peavey, pedal, pinch bar, pipe, pontoon, portcullis, pour it on, prize, productiveness, profitability, progress, proliferate, proliferation, prosper, prosperity, prosperousness, pry, purr, raft, raise, rampart, ratline down, rattle the windows, reboation, rebound, recession, recovery, reecho, rend the air, rend the ears, report, resonate, resound, resounding, return, reverberate, reverberation, ring, rip, ripping bar, rise, roadblock, roar, roaring trade, rock the sky, rock-fill dam, roll, rumble, rumbling, run up, scorch, scream, screech, seawall, send back, shoot up, shriek, shutter dam, sibilate, sigh, sing, sizzle, skim, slam, slowdown, slump, smash, snap, snarl, snort, snowball, snowballing, sob, sound, spar, spar down, speed, split the eardrums, split the ears, spread, squall, squawk, squeal, startle the echoes, stone wall, storm along, stream the log, strengthen, stun, surfboard, surge, sweep, swell, swelling, tear, tear along, thrive, thrum, thunder, thunder along, thundering, traverse a yard, treadle, trumpet, tumescence, twang, unlash, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, wail, wall, warble, warp, wax, waxing, weir, wham, whine, whir, whisk, whisper, whiz, wicket dam, widen, widening, work, wrecking bar, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, zing, zip, zoom

boomerang

• boomerang, Irish confetti, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bola, bolt, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, brickbat, cannon, cannon off, carom, comeback, contrecoup, counter, counterblast, counterblow, countermissile, counterstroke, exchange, fly back, give-and-take, have repercussions, interchange, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, miscarry, missile, projectile, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, reciprocation, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, reply, repulse, resile, resilience, retaliation, retort, return, ricochet, rock, rocket, snap back, spring, spring back, stone, throw stick, throwing-stick, torpedo, waddy

booming

• booming, balmy, birring, blooming, blossoming, bombilation, bombinating, bombination, boom, burring, buzzing, cannonade, cannonading, clear, deafening, droning, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, exuberant, fair, fat, flourishing, flowering, forte, fortissimo, fruiting, full, fulminating, going strong, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, halcyon, hum, humming, in full swing, in good case, lingering, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, low rumbling, palmy, peal, pealing, persistent, piercing, piping, plangent, prospering, prosperous, purring, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, roar, roaring, robust, roll, rolling, rosy, rumble, rumbling, sleek, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thrifty, thriving, thrumming, thunder, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vigorous, volleying, whirring, whizzing, window-rattling

boon

• boon, advantage, avail, award, behalf, behoof, benediction, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benison, blessing, blithe, blithesome, compliment, convivial, favor, festive, free and easy, gain, gay, gift, gleeful, godsend, good, grace, gratuity, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, interest, jocund, jolly, jovial, largess, loaves and fishes, manna, manna from heaven, mirthful, present, profit, reward, welfare, well-being, world of good

boondocks

• boondocks, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, afforestation, antipodes, arboretum, back country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwoods, boondock, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, godforsaken place, greenwood, hanger, hinterland, index forest, jumping-off place, jungle, jungles, national forest, nowhere, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, pole, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubland, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sticks, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the bush, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, timber, timberland, timbers, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woods