The

HIGHLY SELECTIVE THESAURUS

FOR THE

EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE

EUGENE EHRLICH

INTRODUCTION BY NOAH ADAMS

To my dear wife, Norma, who helped directly in the

compilation of this book and continues to give

unstinting support and wise counsel.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

The Thesaurus

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Acknowledgments

About the Author

By Eugene Ehrlich

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

PREFACE

When I was a City College freshman, voice as yet unchanged, I made the mistake of registering for a senior-level course in American literature. Imagine my consternation when I found myself the lone boy sitting in an enormous lecture hall with 299 other seats filled by men. Professor William Bradley Otis, a mythic figure to generations of CCNY students who saw Faulkner and Hemingway as their true heroes, was our lecturer.

Doc Otis tried to be nice. Whenever he noticed me he would ask, “How are you today, sonny?” Everyone else would guffaw.

I never missed a class and was rewarded by learning an important lesson, one that had nothing to do with American literature. It couldn't have been otherwise. Doc Otis never even mentioned literature during the entire term.

What I learned from Otis was the secret of success in the adult world.

It happened this way. One day, during one of the fifteen-week, three times a week digressions that constituted his enormously popular lectures, Otis used the word indigenous, whereupon a student sitting near me called out, “Doc, what does indigenous mean?”

“You don't know? I can't believe it,” said Otis.

“Jack,” he said, pointing to a burly student to his left, “Tell this ignorant basketball player what indigenous means.”

The reply came back immediately: Autochthonous.

And Otis went on with the story he was telling.

As for me, I heard not a single word more from then until the bell rang for the end of the lecture and I had to run off to another class. But that brief exchange proved more meaningful to me than any of the hundreds of literary works I read as an English major.

It gave me one of the secrets of life—never say indigenous when you can say autochthonous.

At home that fateful night, with the help of our family dictionary, I launched a collection of uncommon words I felt impelled to learn. My collection grew rapidly and has never stopped growing.

I realized that I preferred to expatiate rather than talk, that I engaged in colloquies not discussions, that I partook of collations rather than ate meals, that I could be brusque and churlish rather than gruff, and that I preferred to deprecate rather than deride.

Of course, I rarely indulged in such lofty locutions. In my old neighborhood—adjacent to the area in which the play Dead End was set—no one got away with speaking this way, and my college instructors for better reasons immediately blue-penciled pretentiousness.

Nevertheless, when we wish to characterize people who hate to part with a dollar, we can do more than call them stingy. How about avaricious, cheese-paring, chinchy, hardfisted, ironfisted, manini, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, and penurious? Nothing like having a choice.

Many writers and students consider a dictionary and a thesaurus essential elements of their reference shelves. The dictionary enables us to make certain we are using words precisely. The thesaurus, truly a treasury of words, has another function, and one that is equally vital. It stands ready when we know there's a better word to use in a sentence we are writing but cannot bring it to mind.

My goal in preparing this work for those who already know more words than they need to know was to help them jog their memories when they are searching for a special word. I hope that readers who find words here they do not already know will avoid embarrassment by checking such words in their dictionaries before putting them to use.

I found it useful to arrange the terms under the relatively common headwords, arranged alphabetically, that readers will have in mind when turning to The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate. Occasionally, I thought it helpful to supply some terms under more than a single headword. For this I make no apology.

I hope my readers will find this book useful and that many of them will suggest additional terms for future editions.

Eugene Ehrlich

February 1994

INTRODUCTION

The best words bounce and splash, dance and sparkle. They pucker our mouths, rumble our vocal chords and moisten our eyes. But above all, they satisfy. The correct word slips into its place in a sentence with a solid “ker-chunk,” much like the sound the final stone makes when it is placed in a farmer's fence. I know that many of the writers I've admired and interviewed would have made good stonemasons.

John McPhee of The New Yorker has an especially good eye. As he explains, you don't look for the showy, recondite words, but you come to a place in a sentence where only the right word will do.

Many years ago, as a Time obituary writer, he demonstrated this theory ably when he concluded that a man who had committed suicide by jumping out of a window had died of defenestration. In his Princeton, N.J. office, McPhee keeps several dictionaries at hand to aid him in his search for “the right word.” Sometimes, he turns to his “big one,” the OED, such as when he needed a word meaning neat and secure. He found it. Trig.

A playwright once told me that he refused to fit his work into some “Procrustean bed,” in order to satisfy his critics. I pretended to know the word but as soon as the interview was over, I hurried out of the studio to look it up: “Named after Procrustes, a robber in Greek legend, who fitted victims to his bed by stretching them or lopping bits off.”

And then there was the retired coal miner in Virginia I once interviewed who reintroduced me to a word I took delight in. He told me that an ongoing United Mine Workers strike had him all “bumfuzzled.” His ancestors, back in the Borders region of England and Scotland, used the same word when they were confused.

I once—by accident—made up a word that I admired. I was writing about a hornet's nest outside of my house, which I described as being “about the size of a basketball, the color of dry leaves, sworls of browns and grays and yellows.” When I presented the piece to my editor, the response was: “No such word. Let's change it to whorls.” And so we did, but to me, sworls still sounds useful as a word which exists in between swirl and whorl.

Over the years, we've had several “new word” contests on “All Things Considered,” when we ask our listeners to help us fill some odd lexicographical gap. Our most successful endeavor brought us osmyrrah. I had noticed, in writing about Martha's Vineyard, trying to describe the early morning smell of the sea and the wild roses, that there isn't a word that means “a mingling of pleasant aromas.” I mentioned this on the air and two hundred listeners sent in their ideas. We chose osmyrrah—it's from the Greek osmee, “to smell,” and smurna, “to mingle with.”

Our winning neologist, Thomas Cowdry of Tucson, Arizona, even imagined how John Milton could have used such a word in Paradise Lost: “Trapped so long beneath the surface in darkness thick with sulphur fumes he winced at the brightness as they brought him forth and gasped in the osmyrrah of the living earth.” (Milton, in a similar passage, was stuck with smell.)

Eugene Ehrlich has been the official judge for the “All Things Considered” word searches and he's honored the task with enthusiasm and humor. I've always suspected, too, that he likes the treasure-hunting aspect of reading through hundreds of entries: to use a word from The Highly Selective Thesaurus, he would find the boxes of mail we send him diamantiferous.

There are certainly acres of diamonds in this thesaurus. And it's a pleasant search; don't worry about the long (sesquipedalian) words, don't fret that you'll be accused of ornamental (churrigueresque) usage, or of being abstract (noetic) or mysterious (sibylline). Such discouragement could only come from a Pecksniff (person, hypocritically virtuous).

The proper words are collected here—the ones that can fill the empty spaces in our sentences. But once we've built the stone fence, we can leap over it and romp through the fields because the playful words are waiting for us on the other side: spillkin and wambly, callathump, flittermouse, flubdub, funambulist, zugzwang…

Enjoy.

Noah Adams

Host, “All Things Considered”

National Public Radio

A

abacus n. soroban

abandoned adj. cade, derelict, profligate

abate v. mitigate, palliate, quash

abdicate v. abjure, abnegate, demit

abject adj. craven, fawning, ignominious

able adj. habile

abnormal adj. heteroclite, preternatural

abnormality n. deuteropathy

abolish v. disestablish, extirpate

abominable adj. flagitious, odious

Abominable Snowman yeti

aborigine n. autochthon, indigenous inhabitant

abound v. exuberate

abridge v. attenuate, epitomize

abscond v. decamp

absent-minded adj. distrait, distraite

absinth n. worm-wood

absolute adj. 1. rank, unmitigated; 2. assoluta, inviolable, peremptory

absolution, grant shrive

absorbent adj. bibulous

absorption n. immersion, prepossession

abstain v. eschew, forbear

abstention n. abstemiousness

abstract adj. noetic

abstract n. compendium, epitome

abstract v. prescind

abstruse adj. involuted, recondite

absurdity n. bêtise

abundance n. cornucopia, plenitude, profligacy

abuse v. calumniate, castigate, rail, revile, traduce

abuse n. aspersion, billingsgate, calumniation, castigation, obloquy, opprobrium, traducement

academic adj. moot

accept v. stomach

accessible adj. pervious

accessory n. ancillary, appurtenance, parergon

accident n. allision, fortuity

accidental adj. adventitious, aleatory, fortuitous, serendipitous

acclaim n. éclat, kudos

accomplish v. compass, effectuate

accomplished adj. compleat, consummate

accomplishments n. res gestae

account n. hexaemeron

accrue v. redound

accumulation n. alimentation, hypertrophy

accusation n. gravamen, impeachment

accuse v. impeach, implead, inculpate, recriminate

accusing adj. accusatory, criminative

accustom v. acculturate, inure, wont

achievement n. capstone, tour de force

acknowledge v. avouch, homologate

acme n. apogee, ne plus ultra

acquiescence n. complaisance

acquit v. exculpate

acronym n. initialism

active adj. volitant

actor n. deuteragonist, onnagata, protagonist

actress n. ingénue, soubrette

actual adj. veridical

actuality n. entelechy

adage n. aphorism, apothegm

adapt v. indigenize, quadrate

adaptation n. rifacimento

added adj. postiche

addition n. 1. additament, adjunct, appendicle; 2. parogoge

additional adj. adscititious

address n. allocution, apostrophe, salutatory

address v. apostrophize

adherent n. ideologue, précisian

adhesive adj. viscid, viscoid, viscose

adjacent adj. limitrophe, vicinal

adjunct n. appanage

adjust v. collimate

administer v. adhibit

admirer n. votary

admit v. intromit

adoring adj. idolatrous, seraphic

adorn v. bedizen, emmarble, titivate

adornment n. frippery, garniture

adulation n. blandishment, fulsomeness, sycophancy

adulterated adj. adulterine

adulterer n. Ischys

adultery n. cuckoldry, fornication

advance n. anabasis

Advent n. Parousia

adventure n. emprise

adventurer n. filibuster, landloper

adviser n. consigliere, consultor

advisory adj. exhortatory, hortative, hortatory

advocate n. paladin, paraclete

affected adj. minikin, missish, niminy-piminy, précieuse, précieux, recherché

affected speech euphuism, periphrasis

affecting adj. connotative, emotive

affection n. corazón, dotage, predilection

affirm v. asseverate, predicate

affix v. adhibit

affront n. lèse majesté, lese majesty

afraid adj. disquieted, fearsome, pavid

afresh adv. de nouveau, de novo

after a death post obitum

after a meal postprandial

after a war postbellum

aftereffect n. sequela

afterlife n. futurity

aftermath n. rowen

after the fact ex post facto, post factum

after the Fall postlapsarian

after the Flood postdiluvian

agent n. comprador, éminence grise

agile adj. lissome, yare

agility n. alacrity, celerity, legerity

aging adj. senescent

agitate v. commove, discompose

agitated adj. corybantic, overwrought

agitator n. agent provocateur, incendiarist

agnosticism n. nescience

agrarian adj. agrestic, predial

agreeable adj. complaisant, consensual, consonant, conversable, ingratiating, sapid, sipid

aggressive adj. assaultive, officious

agricultural adj. geoponic, georgic

aide n. coadjutant

aimlessness n. circuity, fecklessness

air, stale fug

air hole spiracle

airs n. flubdub, hauteur, superciliousness

airy adj. ethereal, illusory

akin adj. cognate, consanguineous

alarm n. tocsin

alarmist n. Jeremiah

alchemist n. Paracelsus

alcoholic n. dipsomaniac, inebriate

alcove n. carrel, inglenook

alibi, person providing an compurgator

alien n. metic

alien adj. heterochthonous, peregrine

alignment n. syzygy

allegiance n. fealty

allied adj. connate, federate

alligator n. caiman

alluring adj. sirenic, toothsome

almond-shaped adj. amygdaline, amygdaloid

alms n. maundy money

aloofness n. froideur

alphabet n. christcross-row, Glagolitic, ogham

altar boy acolyte

altar cloth pall, pallium

alter v. bushel, jigger, sophisticate

altogether adv. holus-bolus

amalgamate v. commingle, conjoin

amalgamation n. conflation

ambassador n. chiaus, internuncio, nuncio, plenipotentiary

ambiguity, remove disambiguate

ambiguous adj. Delphic, equivocal, oracular

ambitious person arriviste

ambulance chasing barratry

ambush n./v. ambuscade

amenities n. suavities

amiss adj. catawampus, cock-a-hoop

amity n. comity

among other things inter alia

amount n. quantum, scantling, spate

amplify v. dilate, expatiate

amuse v. beguile, disport

amusing adj. amusive, divertive

anagram n. logogriph

analysis n. explication de texte

analyze v. anatomize, construe, explicate, parse

ancestor n. primogenitor, progenitor

anchor n. drogue, killich

ancient adj. centuried, grizzled, primeval

andiron n. firedog

anecdote n. exemplar

anemic adj. exsanguine

angelic adj. beatific, cherubic, seraphic

anger n. choler, dander, irascibility, petulance, rancor

angled adj. angulate

angry adj. choleric, churlish, crabbed, fractious, shirty, snappish, wroth

anguish n. angst, calvary, katzenjammer

animal, castrated spado

animal, wild wilding

animating adj. proceleusmatic

anklebone n. talus

annex v. mediatize

annihilation n. ecocide

annointing n. inunction

annotation n. scholium

announcement n. annunciation, rescript

announcing adj. internuncial

annoy v. importune, nettle, roil

annoyable adj. nettlesome

annoying adj. importunate, rebarbative

annually, occurring etesian

annuity scheme tontine

annulment n. obrogation, rescission

anonymous adj. innominate

answer n. rescript, riposte

ant n. dinergate, ergate, pismire

antagonistic adj. oppugnant

anthology n. florilegium

antic n. dido

anticipation n. prelusion, prolepsis

anticipatory adj. prevenient

anticlimax n. bathos, insipidity

antidote n. mithridate

anti-flatulent n. carminative

antiperspirant n. antisudorific

antiquated adj. antediluvian, superannuated

antisocial adj. misanthropic

ant nest formicarium, formicary

anus n. fundament

anvil n. bick-iron, stithy

anxiety n. angst, swivet

apartment n. diaconicon, oecus, pied-à-terre, sacristy

apathy n. acedia, torpor

apelike adj. pithecoid

aphorism n. gnome

aphorisms, collection of sutra

aphorist n. gnomist

apologetic adj. deprecatory

apostate n. recreant

apparent adj. ostensive, patent, prima facie, semblable

apparition n. chimera, fetch, phantasm, wraith

appeal n. adjuration, conjuration, démarche, suppliance

appearance n. guise, facies, mien, superficies

appease v. assuage, dulcify, propitiate

appendix n. allonge

appetite n. appetence, edacity

appetite, lack of inappetence

applause n. acclamation, éclat, plaudit

apples, pertaining to pomaceous

application n. 1. praxis; 2. assiduity

apportion v. admeasure

apprehensive adj. trepid, trepidant

apprenticed adj. articled, bound

appropriate adj. apposite, condign, idoneous, meet

appropriate v. arrogate, sequestrate

approve v. approbate, homologate

approving adj. approbative

aptitude n. acumen, forte, predilection, proclivity

Arab quarter medina

arbitration n. arbitrament

arboreal adj. dendrophilous

arcade n. lesche

arcane adj. recherché, recondite

arched adj. arcuate, embowed

archer n. toxophilite

archivist n. chartophylax, chartulary

area, public palestra

argue v. expostulate, remonstrate

argument n. argy-bargy, contretemps, elenchus, polemic, quodlibet, sorites, syllogism

argument, fallacious paralogism, philosophism, sophism

argumentation n. choplogic, dialectic, pilpul

aristocracy n. patriciate

aristocrat n. effendi, eupatrid, Junker

arm, of the brachial

armor, suit of panoply

armpit n. axilla, oxter

aromatic adj. odoriferous, redolent

around adv. circumferentially

around, walk circumambulate

arouse v. inspirit, titillate

arrange v. collocate, concert, concinnate

arranged in series polystichous

array n. panoply

arrogance n. contumely, hauteur, hubris

arrogant adj. fastuous

arrow-maker n. fletcher

article, introductory prolusion

artificial adj. delusory, ersatz, factitious, faux, postiche

artisan n. artificer

as adv. qua

ascent n. acclivity

ascertainment n. constatation

ascetic n. dervish, Euchite, fakir, Khylist, Nirmalin, sadhu, sannyasi, stylite

asexual adj. agamic, agamous

ash n. pozzolana

ashen adj. cinereous, pallid

ask v. adjure, impetrate

askew adj./adv. catawampus, cock-a-hoop

aspersion n. animadversion, calumniation

assailable adj. pregnable

assassin n. ninja

assembly n. agora, coven, ecclesia, gemot, ingathering, levee, synaxis, synod

assertion n. asseveration, contestation, predication

assimilate v. coopt

associate n. accessory, confrere, yokefellow

association n. concomitance, confraternity, consortium, gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, sodality

assume v. endue, hypostasize, hypothecate, posit, premise

assumed adj. suppositious

assumptions, set of donnée

astronomical almanac ephemeris

athletic club turnverein

at home en famille

atlas n. portolano, rutter

atomize v. nebulize

atoning adj. expiatory, piacular, restitutive

atrociousness n. enormity, heinousness

attached adj. sessile

attack v. aggress, asperse, deprecate, impugn, inveigh, oppugn, revile, scathe

attendants n. douzepers, famuli, Haiduks, halberdiers, lictors, pursuivants, servitors, tipstaffs, tipstaves

attention-getter n. cynosure, lodestar, polestar

attractive person peri

attribute v. adduce, ascribe, impute

auction n. outcry, vendue

audacity n. effrontery, cheek, chutzpa, temerity

audience n. durbar, levee, majlis

aura n. emanation

austere adj. astringent, monastic, Spartan

authentic adj. echt

authenticity n. bona fides

authenticity, of doubtful apocryphal

authorial adj. auctorial

authoritative adj. ex cathedra, magisterial

authority n. carte blanche, diadem, potestas, seigniory

authorization n. exequatur, nihil obstat, procuration

autistic adj. dereistic

automaton n. android, golem

autopsy n. necropsy, necroscopy

autosuggestion n. Couéism

auxiliary adj. adjuvant, ancillary

avert v. parry, ward

avoidable adj. evitable

award v. premiate, vouchsafe

aware adj. cognizant, sentient, witting

awkwardness n. gaucheness, gaucherie, infelicity, maladroitness

awning n. velarium

B

babble n. backchat, galimatias, prattle

baby v. cosset, mollycoddle

baby talk hypocorism

backbone n. chine

back door postern

backing n. aegis, auspice, auspices

backslide v. recidivate

backward, directed postrorse

backwards adv. arsy-varsy

bacon, portion or slice of rasher

bad breath halitosis, ozostomia

bad faith, in mala fide

baffle v. discomfit

bag n. ballonet, bota, chagul, poke, reticule, woolsack

baggage n. dunnage, impedimenta

baglike adj. utricular

bagpipe, play the skirl

baking soda saleratus

balance v. countervail, equilibrate

balcony n. mirador

bald adj. alopecic, calvous, glabrous

bald-headed man pilgarlic

balding n. psylosis

baldness n. alopecia, calvities

ball n. boule, masque, ridotto

ballet enthusiast balletomane

balloon n. montgolfier, sonde

ballot n. ostracon

ban n. juju, proscription

band n. annulus, armlet, brassard, girth

bandage v. swathe

bandaging n. fasciation

bandit n. bandito, brigand, pistolero

bane n. bête noire, bugbear

banish v. ostracize, proscribe, sequestrate

banker n. Lombard, shroff, soucar

banner n. gonfalon, labarum, oriflamme

banter n. badinage, chaff, persiflage, raillery

baptism n. immersion, pedobaptism

barb n. barbule, fluke, spicula, spicule

barbarism n. vox barbara

barbarous adj. gothic, hunnish, tramontane

barbecue n. babracot

barber, of a tonsorial

barefoot adj. discalced

bargain v. chaffer, higgle, truck

barge n. hoy, scow, wherry

bark v. kyoodle

barometer n. statoscope

barracks n. casern

barrel n. bota

barrel-making cooperage, coopery

barren adj. fallow, infecund

barricade n. abatis

barrier n. battlement, breastwork, campshot, palisade, portcullis

barroom n. barrelhouse, bierstube, blind tiger, cantina, dramshop, drinkery, groggery, hofbrau, pulquería, shebeen

basically adv. au fond

basics n. accidence, bedrock

basin n. aspergillum, aspersorium, bidet, cirque, font, impluvium, lavabo, piscina, sacrarium, stoup

basis n. keystone, linchpin

basket n. cesta, creel, cresset, dosser, flasket, frail, kago, kalathos, pannier, skep

bat n. flittermouse

bath n. mikvah, sudatorium, sudatory, thermae, wudu

bathhouse n. hammam

bathtub n. furo, laconicum, ofuro

batten n. splat

battle n. naumachia, rencontre, rencounter, theomachy

battleship n. dreadnought

bay n. bight, embayment, fjord, laguna

bayou n. marais

beach n. littoral, plage

beach resort lido

beacon n. balefire, pharos

bear v. farrow, fawn, fructify, kindle, whelp, yean

bear, pertaining to a ursine

beasts, having the form of theriomorphic

beat v. belabor, buffet, cudgel, flagellate, flail, fustigate, malleate, scutch, thwack, welt

beauty n. comeliness, pulchritude

bed, straw n. pallet, palliasse

bedbug n. chinch, cimex

bedpan n. jakes

bedspread n. counterpane, counterpin

bedwetting n. enuresis

beehive n. skep

beer mug seidel

beetle n. chafer, cockchafer, longicorn, rose chafer, scarab, tumblebug, weevil

before birth in utero

before the Civil War antebellum

before the Fall prelapsarian

beg v. cadge, importune, obsecrate, supplicate

beggar n. almsman, almswoman, Lazarus, qalander, sannyasi

begging adj. mendicant

begging the question petitio principii

begin v. inchoate

beginner n. abecedarian, catechumen, cheechako, postulant, tyro

beginning adj. inceptive, inchoate, nascent, primeval

behead v. decollate

behold the man! ecce homo

belch v. eruct, eructate

belief n. credendum

belief, false bugbear

belittle v. decry, deprecate, derogate

bells, ringing of tintinnabulation

bell tower belfry, campanile

bellyache n. collywobbles, gastralgia

belly dance danse du ventre

belongings n. personalia

below adv. infra

belt n. baldric, cestus, cincture

bend n. flexion, sinuosity, tortuosity

bending n. flexure, retortion, retroflexion

bends n. caisson disease

beneficent adj. benefic

beneficial adj. salutary, salutiferous

beneficial interdependence symbiosis

benign adj. benignant, salutary

bent adj. arcuate, recurvate, resupinate, tortuous, uncinate

berate v. castigate, revile

beseech v. importune, obsecrate, obtest

best man paranymph

bet v. hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture

betray v. calumniate, traduce

betrayal n. perfidy

betrayer n. Iscariot, traditor

between you and me entre nous

bevel v. chamfer

beverage n. libation

bewilder v. consternate, discomfit, obfuscate

be worthwhile behoove, beseem

beyond anything human preterhuman

bias n. penchant, proclivity

biased adj. partisan, tendentious

bicker v. controvert, pettifog

bier n. catafalque

bilingual adj. diglot

bilingualism n. diglossia

bilious adj. liverish

bimonthly adj. bimensal, bimestrial

bin n. kench

bind v. astrict, astringe, colligate, fetter, ligate, sheave, swaddle, swathe

binding adj. styptic

biographical information curriculum vitae, personalia, vita

biography n. hagiography, hagiology

bird, mythical phoenix

birth n. accouchement, arrhenotoky, conceptus, deuterotoky, geniture, naissance, parthenogenesis, parturiency, parturition, thelytoky

birthmark n. nevus, port-wine stain

bisexual adj. ambisextrous, androgynous, autoicous, epicene, hermaphroditic

bishop n. coadjutor, diocesan, eparch, exarch, metropolitan, primate, primus, suffragan

bizarre adj. antic, outré

bit n. drib, driblet, mite, scintilla, tittle, whit

bitter adj. acerbic, acrimonious, caustic, sardonic, virulent, vitriolic

bitter herbs maror

black-and-blue adj. livid

blackened adj. ustulate

blackhead n. comedo

blackmail n. chantage

blacksmith n. farrier, ironsmith

bladder, pertaining to the vesical

blame n. aspersion, calumny, obloquy, remonstrance, reprehension, reproof, revilement, traducement

blameworthy adj. culpable, reprehensible

blank adj. inane, vacuous

blanket n. kambal, manta, serape, stroud

blasphemy n. impiety, profanation, sacrilege

blatherer n. blatherskite

bleach v. agenize, blanch

bleed v. exsanguinate, phlebotomize

blemish n. ulver

blend n. amalgam, coalescence, concinnity, conflation, inosculation

bless v. beatify, hallow

blessing n. bension, kiddush

blight n. canker, scourge

blindness n. typhlosis

blindness, night nyctalopia

blinds n. jalousies, Persian blinds, persiennes

blind spot scotoma

blissful adj. Elysian, paradisiacal

blistering, causing vesicant, vesicatory

blob n. bead, dollop, globule

blockhead n. dolt, dullard, loggerhead

blood, drawing of cruor, phlebotomy, scarification, venesection, venisection

blood, feeding on hematophagous, sanguivorous

blood, living in sanguicolous

blood, pertaining to hemal, hematic, hemic

blood clot thrombus

blood poisoning pyemia, septicemia, toxemia

blood pressure, instrument for measuring sphygmomanometer

bloodthirsty adj. sanguinary, sanguinous

bloody adj. ensanguined, sanguinary, sanguinolent

bloom n. efflorescence, florescence

bloom v. burgeon

blotch n. macula

blow v. insufflate, whiffle

blueness n. cyanosis

blues n. megrim, melancholy

bluish adj. adularescent, aeruginous

blunder n. faux pas, gaffe, solecism, spoonerism

blunt v. hebetate, obtund

blur v. mackle, obfuscate

blushing adj. erubescent, rubescent

bluster n. fanfaronade

boaster n. braggart, gascon

boastful adj. bombastic, cock-a-hoop, Falstaffian, rodomontade, spread-eagle, thrasonical, vaporing

boat-shaped adj. navicular, scaphoid

bobsled n. double-ripper

bodice n. angiya, choli, taille

body, human tabernacle

body of work corpus

bodysnatching n. exhumation, resurrectionism

body types asthenic, athletic, leptosome, pyknic

bog n. fen, mire, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough, wash

boil n. furuncle

boiling adj. ebullient

boisterous adj. clamorous, rampageous, robustious, strepitous

bombastic adj. fustian, grandiloquent, magniloquent, orotund, purple

bond n. nexus, vinculum

bones, containing ossiferous

bone scraper xyster

bonfire n. balefire

bonus n. broadus, lagniappe

bony adj. osseous, osteal, sclerous

bookish adj. donnish

book section, separately bound fascicle, fasciculus

bookworm n. bibliophage

boorish adj. chuffy, churlish, loutish, vulgarian

bootlicking adj. oleaginous, smarmy, sycophantic, unctuous

border n. cincture, limes, list, orphrey, purfle

boring adj. mundane, prosaic, prosy, stodgy, yawnful

borrowing adj. eclectic

boss n. bwana, cacique, caporal, padrone, patron

bother v. discommode

bottle-shaped adj. ampullaceous

boulder n. einkanter

boundlessness n. infinitude

bounds n. purlieus

bow v. genuflect, lout, salaam

bowels n. entrails

bowl n. jorum, kantharos, kelebe, krater, kyathos, kylix, mazer, monteith, patchstand, tazza, verrière

bowlegged adj. valgus

bowler n. kegler

box n. artophorion, coffer, etui, inro, manger, papeterie, pyx, pyxis, skippet, solander, vasculum

boxing n. savate

bracket n. sconce

brag v. bukh, prate, rodomontade, vaporize, vaunt

braggart n. braggadocio, fanfaron, gascon, scaramouch

braid n. aiguillette, galloon, plait, plat, queue, soutache

brake n. sprag

branch v. divaricate, bifurcate, furcate, ramify, trifurcate

bravado n. fanfaronade, gasconade

bravery n. intrepidity, mettle, potvalor, valiancy

brawl n. bobbery, brannigan, donnybrook, shindy

bread, sacramental antidoron, azyme, eulogia, Host

bread, unleavened matzo

bread-eating adj. panivorous

breaded adj. pané

break n. caesura, entr'acte, hiatus, rupture

breakable adj. frangible

breakdown n. dégringolade

breakup n. debacle

breastplate n. pectoral

breath, foul halitosis, ozostomia

breathe v. hyperventilate, insufflate, respire, suspire

brevity n. concision, laconism

bribable adj. venal

bribe n. dash, douceur, mordida

bribe v. suborn

bribery, openness to venality

bric-a-brac stand étagère

bridegroom n. benedict

bride price lobolo

bridesmaid n. paranymph

bridle n. hackamore, headstall

brief adj. ephemeral, transitory

brigand n. klepht

bright adj. effulgent, lambent, lightsome, nitid, refulgent, relucent

brilliance n. coruscation, éclat, effulgence, reflet, refulgence

bristle n. acicula, seta

bristlelike adj. setaceous

bristling n. horripilation

bristly adj. echinate, hispid, setose

brittle adj. brickle

broad-minded adj. catholic

broker n. monger

bronze adj. aeneous

brooch n. morse, plaque

brook n. beck, quebrada, runnel

broom n. besom

brothel n. bagnio, bawdyhouse, crib, house of assignation, house of ill repute, juke house, lupanar, parlor house, sporting house, stew

brotherhood n. confraternity

brothers n. Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri), Romulus and Remus

brought-back adj. réchauffé, redux

brownish-red adj. rubiginous

bruise n. contusion

brushwood n. chaparral

brutal adj. carnal, feral, insensate, remorseless

brutalize v. imbrute

bubble v. burble, effervesce

bucket n. scuttle

bud n. gemma

Buddha n. butsu, daibutsu, Gautama

buff n. devotee, votary

buffoon n. merry-andrew

bulb n. corm

bulge v. protuberate

bulimia n. hyperphagia

bull n. gomer, male cow, toro

bullet n. dumdum, fléchette

bullfighting, art of tauromachy

bullied adj. browbeaten

bully v. browbeat, cow, hector

bumblebee n. humble-bee

bump n. mogul, thank-you-ma'am

bundle n. fagot, fardel, fasces, fascine, skein

bungle v. boggle, foozle

burden n. albatross, cumbrance, encumbrance, fardel

burden of proof onus probandi

bureaucrat n. mandarin

burglar n. raffles

burial n. deposition, sepulture

burial chamber charnel, charnel house, cist, cistvaen, cromlech, cubiculum, hypogeum, sepulcher

burial wrapping cerecloth, cerement

burn v. cauterize, combust, deflagrate, immolate, sear, smolder

burnish v. furbish

burp n. eructation

burr n. moit

burrowing adj. fossorial

burst v. dehisce, implode, irrupt

bursting adj. dissilient, erumpent, eruptive

bury v. inearth, inhume, inurn

bus n. colectivo, jitney

busy adj. assiduous, engrossed

busybody n. Nosy Parker, Paul Pry, quidnunc

butcher n. charcutier

butler n. khansamah, major-domo

buttocks n. breech, derriere, nates

buttocks, having excessively large steatopygic

buttocks, having well-shaped callipygian

buyer n. emptor

buyer, compulsive oniomaniac

by the way en passant

C

cabdriver n. jehu

cabinetmaker n. arkwright

café n. bistro, estaminet, taverna, trattoria

cage n. aviary, mew, volary

cajole v. beguile, blandish, inveigle, seduce, wheedle

calamity n. cataclysm

calendar n. menology

calf n. dogie, freemartin, leppy, maverick

calf, pertaining to a vituline

callous adj. obdurate

calm adj. halcyon, limpid, lown, pacific

calmness n. aplomb, imperturbation, sang-froid

camel n. dromedary

camp n. cantonment, étape, laager

Canadian football rouge

canal n. fosse, klong

cancel v. disestablish, expunge

candid adj. artless, guileless, ingenuous

candidate n. confirmand, postulant

candle n. bougie, paschal candle, shammes, vigil light

candleholder n. candelabrum, girandole, menorah

candlesnuffer n. douter

candlestick n. pricket, taperstick, flambeau

cane n. ferule, supplejack, whangee

cannibals n. anthropophagi, Laestrygones

canoe n. piragua, pirogue

canonization n. apotheosis

canopy n. baldachin, celure, ciborium, chuppah, ombrellino, sparver, tester

canyon n. caãada

capital letter majuscule

caprice n. crotchet, megrim, vagary

care n. husbandry, ministration, tendance

carefree behavior rhathymia

careful adj. chary, punctilious, solicitous

careless adj. derelict, improvident, prodigal, wanton

caress v. dandle

caressing, given to embracive

caretaker n. warder

carnival n. raree show

carnivorous adj. predacious, sarcophagous, zoophagous

carousel n. flying jenny

carp v. niggle

carpenter n. joiner

carping adj. picayune, querulous

carrier, disease n. Typhoid Mary

carrion n. offal

carry v. portage

cart n. cariole, dray, telega, tumbrel, tumbril, wain

carving n. churinga, glyph, glyptograph, intaglio, netsuke, petroglyph, petrograph, scrimshaw, xoanon

carving board trencher

case n. etui, theca, vasculum, vitrine

cask n. firkin, hogshead, puncheon, rundet, tierce, tun

castle land n. castellany

cast out disembogue

castrate v. caponize, desex, eunuchize, geld, neuter, unman, unsex

castration n. orchectomy, orchidectomy, orchiectomy

casual adj. adventitious, fortuitous

cat n. gib, grimalkin

cataclysmic adj. apocalyptic

catacomb, burial recess in a loculus

catalog n. bibliotheca, catalogue raisonné

catapult n. mangonal, trebuchet, trebucket

catchword n. shibboleth

cat detester ailurophobe

category n. taxon

caterpillarlike adj. eruciform

cat fancier ailurophile

cathartic n. lapactic, purgative

cathedral n. duomo, Lateran, minster

cat's scream caterwaul

cattle enclosure kraal

causation n. etiology

caustic adj. 1. escharotic; 2. scathing, mordacious, mordant, trenchant, vitriolic

cautious adj. chary, circumspective

cavalryman n. dragoon, spahi

cave n. antre, rock-shelter, subterrane

cave drawing pictograph

cave dweller n. troglobiont, troglodyte

cave-dwelling adj. cavernicolous

cave explorer spelunker

caves, study of speleology

cavity n. alveolus, antrum, caldera, calix, cecum, fossa, loculus, moulin

cease v. intermit, surcease

celebration n. callathump, callithump, Maying, potlatch

celestial adj. superlunary, supernal, superterrestrial, translunary

celibate n. brahmachari

cemetery n. God's acre, golgotha, kurgan, necropolis, potter's field, urnfield

censor v. bowdlerize, expurgate

censor n. custos morum

censorship n. Comstockery

censure v. asperse, calumniate, castigate, criminate, dispraise, excoriate, reprobate

centaur n. sagittary

centerpiece n. epergne

centrifuge n. hematocrit

ceremonies n. encaenia, maundy, Panagia

certificate n. demit, dimit

chairperson n. prolocutor

chalklike adj. cretaceous

chalky adj. calcareous

challenge v. asperse, impugn

champion n. paladin, protagonist

chance n. fortuitousness, fortuity

chance adj. adventitious, aleatory, fortuitous

changeable adj. labile, mercurial, protean, tergiversatory, versicolor

change of fortune, sudden peripeteia

changes having been made, the necessary mutatis mutandis

chant n. canticle, dhikr, dithyramb

chant v. cantillate

chaos n. babel, tohubohu

chapel n. antiparabema, chantry, oratory, sacellum

chaperon n. duenna

characteristic n. faculty, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, parameter

character witness compurgator

charcoal n. fusain

charge v. criminate

charisma n. duende

charitable adj. eleemosynary

charity n. benignity, caritas

charlatan n. empiric, quacksalver

charm n. conjuration, duende, gris-gris, juju, menat, mojo, obeah, periapt, scarab

chaste adj. continent, vestal

chastise v. castigate, scourge

chat v. confabulate, coze

chatterer n. blatherer, jay, magpie, popinjay

cheap adj. brummagem

cheat v. chouse, cozen, cully, fob, gull, thimblerig

check v. vet

check n. counterfoil

checkered adj. tesellated

cheek, of the buccal, jugal

cheerful adj. blithesome, jocund, riant, rident

cheese, like caseous

cheeselike secretion smegma

cherish v. embosom

chess n. shogi

chess move fianchetto, zugzwang

chess player patzer

chestnut n. marron

chew v. masticate, Fletcherize

chicanery n. pettifoggery

chick n. pullus

chief n. sachem, sagamore

child n. bairn, bantling, chit, chrisom child, weanling

child, mischievous hellion, jackanapes

childbearing practice couvade

childbirth n. accouchement, eutocia, parturition

childbirth, pertaining to puerperal

childish adj. callow, jejune

childlike adj. guileless, ingenuous

chilling adj. frigorific

chilly adj. algid, gelid

children's shelter crèche, protectory

chimney corner inglenook

China n. Cathay

chinked adj. rimose

chisel-shaped adj. scalpriform

choice adj. recherché

choice, no Hobson's choice

choir n. schola cantorum

choirmaster n. Kapellmeister, precentor

choral society Liederkranz

choreography n. terpsichore

chorus leader choragus, coryphaeus

Christian n. Melchite, rayah

chronic adj. inveterate

chronology n. synchronism

church bench, part of a misericord, subsellium

church fathers, of the patristic

cigar n. locofoco, Londres, maduro

cigarette n. bidi

circle n. gyre, rondure, roundet

circuitous adj. anfractuous, tortuous

circular adj. orbicular

circumciser, ritual n. mohel

circumcision, female clitoridectomy

circumcision, male Brith

citadel n. acropolis

citizenry n. civitas

city n. conurbation, cosmopolis, megacity, megalopolis, megapolis

city-state n. polis

civility n. comity

claim n. droit

clairvoyance n. clairaudience, cryptesthesia, telegnosis

clamorous adj. vociferous

clan n. gens, gotra, phyle

clandestine adj. hugger-mugger

clarification n. disambiguation, éclaircissement, explication

clarity n. perspicuity

clasp n. agraffe, chatelaine, morse

classical source locus classicus

classification n. nosology, taxonomy

classifier n. nomenclator, nosologist, taxonomist

claw n. chela, dewclaw, pounce, unguis

clay n. fango, fuller's earth, grog, sagger

clay, made of fictile

clean v. debride, mundify, scud, swingle

cleansing adj. abluent, abstergent, abstersive, detersive

clean slate tabula rasa

clear adj. lucent, luculent, limpid, pellucid, perspicuous

clear, serving to exculpatory

cleared, capable of being vindicable

cleaver n. barong

cleft n. bergschrund, crevasse

clemency n. lenity

cleverness n. acumen, acutance, piquancy

cliché n. bromide, homily, platitude, tag

cliff n. cutbank, pali, scarp

climax n. apogee, catastasis

climb v. clamber

climber n. cragsman

climbing adj. scandent, scansorial

cling v. cleave

clip v. poll

clippings n. scissel

clique v. camarilla, coterie

clitoris n. phallus

cloak n. aba, capote, chlamys, domino, paenula

clock n. clepsydra, horologe

clockmaker n. horologist

clock tower horologium

clone n. ramet

close n. obturate, occlude

closure n. cloture

cloth, ceremonial antimension, bis, bisso, bissonata

clothe v. accouter, bedizen, endue, invest

clothing, pertaining to sartorial

cloud v. obfuscate, obumbrate

cloudlike adj. nebulose, nebulous

cloven-hoofed adj. bisulcate

clown n. gracioso, Joey, merry-andrew

cloying adj. fulsome

club n. knobkerrie, pogamoggan, truncheon

clubfoot n. talipes

club-shaped adj. clavate, claviform

clump n. coagulum

clumsy adj. ambisinister, ambisinistrous, bunglesome, inapt, lubberly, oafish

clustered adj. agminate, glomerate

coal, like carbonaceous

coal, producing carboniferous

coal bucket scuttle

coal dust slack

coarse adj. Rabelaisian, rank,

coat of arms escutcheon

coax v. blandish, inveigle

code n. Bushido, omertà

coexistent adj. coeval

coffeepot n. biggin

coffee shop konditorei

coffin n. pall, sarcophagus

cognate adj. paronymous

cognitive adj. gnostic

cohabitation n. hetaerism

coherent adj. sequacious

coiled adj. spiry, tortile

coin a word neologize, neoterize

coincident adj. coeval, coextensive, conterminous,

coins, pertaining to numismatic, nummary, nummular

coitus n. coition

cold n. catarrh, coryza, rheum

cold-blooded adj. hematocryal, poikilothermal

cold cuts charcuterie

collaborator n. jackal, quisling, scalawag

collage n. papier collé

collarbone n. clavicle

colleague n. compeer

collecting n. deltiology

collection n. chrestomathy, congeries, gnomology, nomocanon, omnium-gatherum, onomasticon, patrology

collective n. kibbutz, kolkhoz

college n. madrasah

collision n. allision, appulse

colony n. rookery

color, of tinctorial

color, of same isochroous

color blindness achromatopsia, daltonism

colors, of various parti-colored, versicolor

column n. atlas, stamba, telamon

columns, having many polystyle

comatose adj. torpid

comb n. currycomb, ripple

combat, futile sciamachy, sciomachy

combative adj. agonistic, truculent

combination n. conflation

combination, industrial zaibatsu

combined action synergism, synergy

comblike adj. pectinate

Comforter, the Paraclete

coming, belief in second chiliasm, millennialism

commander n. alcaide, centurion, chiliarch, condottiere, shogun

commando n. fedayee

commemorate v. enscroll, epitaph

commend v. preconize

commendation n. encomium, panegyric

commentary n. exegesis, Gemara, Masorah, midrash, talmud

commentator n. expositor, glossator, scholiast

committee n. divan

common people, the commonalty, demos

commonplace adj. banal, exoteric, platitudinous, plebeian, quotidian

commotion n. brouhaha, catouse, pother

communication, occult psychomancy

community n. kellion, khalsa, moshav, pantisocracy

compacted adj. serried

compassion n. aruna, rue, ruth

compassionate adj. ruthful

compatible adj. compossible

compensation n. redress, reparation, requital, solatium, wergild

competition n. bonspiel, concours, concours d'élégance

complaining adj. captious, carping, caviling, petulant, querulous, testy

complaint n. gravamen, jeremiad, plaint

complexity n. cat's cradle, complicacy, labyrinth

compliant adj. complaisant, deferential, obsequious, tractable

complicated adj. convoluted, involute, involuted, Rube Goldberg, tortuous, vermiculate

complication n. complicacy, nodus

component n. moiety

compose v. articulate, indite

composure n. aplomb, sang-froid

comprehension, beyond suprarational

comprehensive adj. compendious

compulsory adj. coactive, de rigueur, exigent, extortive

comrade n. compeer, cohort

conceal v. adumbrate, dissimulate, embosk, ensconce, occult

concealed adj. delitescent, perdu

concede v. truckle

conceit n. bovarism, vainglory

conceited adj. bloated, bumptious, overweening, vainglorious

conceited man cockalorum

conceivable adj. cogitable

conceive v. ideate

concentrate v. concenter, decoct

concentration n. cathexis, distillate

conception of the world Weltanschauung

concern, have reck

conciliatory adj. irenic, placative, placatory, propitiatory

conciseness n. concision, laconicism, laconism, sententiousness

conclude v. consummate, perorate

conclusion n. illation

concretion n. calculus

concubine n. hetaera, odalisque, sultana

concurrent adj. consentaneous, consentient

condemnation n. disapprobation, philippic, reprehension, reprobation

condensation n. conspectus, epitome

condescending adj. patronizing, supercilious, toplofty

condition n. fettle, fig

condition, indispensable sine qua non

conelike adj. strobilaceous

confection n. confiture

conference n. colloquium, colloquy, confabulation, indaba, palaver, parley, pourparler

confess v. disbosom

confession n. peccavi

confident adj. sanguine, sanguineous

confidentially adv. entre nous, in camera, sub rosa

confine v. fetter, immure, pinfold, trammel

confirm v. homologate

confirmed adj. inveterate

confirming adj. confirmatory, corroborant

confiscation n. sequestration

conflict n. agon, Armageddon

conformity n. congruity

confrontation n. mano a mano

confused adj. 1. addled, disjointed, flummoxed, nonplussed, skimble-scamble; 2. roiled, tumultuary, turbid

congenial adj. boon, complaisant, connate, en rapport, simpatico

conglomeration n. cento, glomeration

congratulatory adj. gratulant, gratulatory

conjugation n. zygosis

conjunction, astronomical syzygy

connect v. catenate, inosculate

connecting adj. internuncial

connection n. conjunction, nexus

connector n. copula

connoisseur n. aficionada, aficionado, cognoscente, epicurean, gastronome, oenophile

connote v. predicate

conquerable adj. expugnable, vincible

conscience n. superego

conscientious adj. punctilious, scrupulous

conscious adj. percipient, sentient, witting

consecutive adj. sequent

consent n. sufferance

conserve v. husband

consider v. cogitate, perpend, ratiocinate, ruminate

consideration n. extrospection, rumination

consign v. relegate

consistent adj. accordant, congruous, consonant

console v. condole, solace

conspicuous adj. ostensible, ostensive

conspiracy n. cabal, collusion, complot, machination

conspirator n. Catilinarian

conspire v. collude, complot

constant adj. assiduous, sedulous

constipation n. costiveness, obstipation

constituent adj. integrant

constrict v. constringe

construct v. facture

consuming adj. edacious

contact n. contiguity, contingence, osculation, taction

contemplation of one's navel omphaloskepsis

contemplative adj. cogitative, ruminant

contemporaneity n. isochrony

contemporary adj. coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous

contempt n. contumacy, contumely, lese majesty, lèse majesty, misprision

contempt, object of pilgarlic

contemptible adj. execrable, ignoble, ignominious

contemptuous adj. contumelious, derisive, snide, sniffish, sniffy, snuffy, supercilious

contemptuous treatment contumely

contention n. fliting

contention, involve in embrangle

contentious adj. litigious

contentment n. kef

contest n. agon, rencontre, rencounter, velitation

contestant n. agonist

contingent adj. aleatory

continue v. perdure, perseverate

continuing adj. perdurable, sempiternal

contort v. squinch

contraction n. constriction, stricture, syncope

contradiction n. antilogy, denegation, oxymoron

contradictory adj. antithetical, contradictious, contradictive

contrary adj. antipathetic, oppugnant

contrast n. antithesis, contradistinction, contraposition

contribute v. conduce

contributory adj. accessory, ancillary

contrive v. excogitate

control of the seas thalassocracy

controversial adj. eristic, polemical

controversy n. contestation, logomachy, polemic

controversy, engage in polemicize

convent n. mother house

convention n. convocation

conversation n. chin-chin, interlocution, tête-à-tête, trialogue

conversationalist n. deipnosophist

conversion n. metanoia, proselytism, reification

convert n. catechumen, Marrano

convex adj. gibbous

convincing adj. luculent

convivial adj. anacreontic

convocation n. esbat

convulsion n. eclampsia

cooked in paper en papillote

cooking pit imu

cooking pot marmite

cooking stove brazier, hibachi

cooperating adj. coadjutant

cooperation n. concertation

cooperative n. nokyo

cooperativeness n. collegiality

copperlike adj. cupreous, cupric

copy n. apograph, exemplar, replication

copyist n. scrivener

coral-bearing adj. coraliferous

cordiality n. gemütlichkeit

corky adj. suberose, suberous

coroner n. prosector

corpulent adj. abdominous

correct v. disabuse, emendate

correctable adj. corrigible

correction n. amendation, corrigendum, emendation

correct user of words sumpsimus

correspondence n. consonance, homology

corridor n. syrinx

corrosive adj. erosive, mordant

corrugated adj. rugose

corruptible adj. venal

corruption n. malversation, venality

cosmetics n. maquillage

costume n. raiment, trappings

cough n. tussiculation, tussis

cough, of a tussive

council n. consistory, panchayat, synod

count n. landgrave, palsgrave

counterfeit adj. ersatz, factitious, postiche

counterpoint n. polyphony

counterstroke n. riposte

countrified adj. rusticated

country, live in the ruralize, rusticate

couple n. duad

courage n. corazón, derring-do, hardihood, mettle

courageous adj. dauntless, doughty, fortitudinous, indomitable, mettlesome

courier n. estafette

court n. durbar, presbytery, quarter sessions, Sanhedrin, Star Chamber

courteous adj. deferential, urbane

courtesan n. demimondaine, hetaera

courtesy n. amenity, comity, politesse

courtyard n. garth

cover n. cloche, mantle, pall

covered entrance porte-cochere

cowardly adj. craven, dastardly, lily-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, thewless, white-livered

cowboy n. gaucho, paniolo, Pecos Bill, vaquero, wrangler

cowl-like adj. cucullate

cow stomachs abomasum, omasum, reticulum

cozy adj. gemütlich

crabby adj. cantankerous, gnarled

crabs n. pediculosis

cracked adj. rimose

crackle v. craze, crepitate

crackles n. craquelure

cracklings n. greaves

craft n. métier

craftiness n. Italian hand

crafty adj. arch, artful, disingenuous, insidious, jesuitical, Machiavellian, vulpine

cramps n. collywobbles

crane n. davit

craw n. maw

crayfish n. écrivisse

crazed adj. moon-stricken, moonstruck

creaking sound stridor

crease v. rimple, ruck

Creation, before the antemundane, premundane

Creation, six days of hexaemeron

creative adj. Promethean

creative force élan vital

creator n. demiurge

credit v. ascribe, impute

creek n. estuary, kill

creeping adj. repent, reptant, serpiginous

crescent-shaped adj. lunate, lunular, meniscus

crested adj. cristate, pileated

crevasse n. bergschrund

crevice n. interstice

cribber n. stumpsucker

crier n. muezzin

crime-producing adj. criminogenic

criminal adj. flagitious

criminal n. dacoit, malefactor

criminal, habitual recidivist

crimson adj. incarnadine, sanguinary

crisis n. conjuncture, crise, Dunkirk

criterion n. canon, gauge, touchstone

critic n. aristarch, criticaster, gadfly, hypercritic

critical adj. captious, carping, caviling, hypercritical, mordant

critical period climacteric

criticize v. animadvert, brickbat, carp, castigate, cavil, denigrate, deprecate, derogate, disparage, excoriate, flay, fustigate, indict, niggle, reprove, scourge, traduce

crooked adj. flexuous, involute, sinuous, tortuous, vermiculate

cross adj. cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, petulant

crossbow n. prodd

cross-eyed adj. strabismic, walleyed

crossroads n. carrefour

cross-shaped adj. cruciate, cruciform

crouch v. hunker, scrooch

crowlike adj. corvine

crown n. capstone, coronal, coronet, diadem, pschent

crucifix n. rood

crude adj. incondite, kutcha

crudeness n. gaucherie

cruel adj. draconian, fell, implacable, insensate, insensible, ironhearted, truculent

cruelty n. bestiality, brutishness, depravity, sadism

cruet n. caster, muffineer

crumble v. molder

crumbly adj. friable, pulverulent

crumple v. rimple

crush v. quash, quell

crushed adj. écrasé

cry n. bleat, caterwaul, cri de coeur, yawp

crypt n. undercroft

cryptic adj. elliptical, enigmatic

cube-shaped adj. cubiform

cubicle n. carrel

cuckold n. cornuto, wittol

cuckold v. cornute

cud-chewer n. ruminant

cult n. cultus, macumba

cultivation n. tillage, tilth

cultivator n. ama

culture n. eidos

cultured adj. couth

cuneiform character sphenogram

cupid n. amoretto, amorino

cup-shaped adj. poculiform, scyphate

curare n. woorali

curative adj. sanative, sanatory

curdle v. lopper

cure-all n. catholicon, elixir, panacea

curio n. bibelot

curiosities n. curiosa

curious adj. outré

currency dealer cambist

curse v. anathematize, comminate, execrate, fulminate, imprecate

curt adj. peremptory

curtain n. arras, brise-bise, lambrequin, mehitzah, parokheth, portiere, purdah, sparver

curvature n. flexure, gonycampsis, kurtosis, kyphosis, lordosis, scoliosis

curved adj. adunc, arcuate, bombé, excurved, falcate, falciform, incurvate, reclinate, recurved, retroussé

cushion n. zabuton

cushion v. buffer, mitigate

cushion-shaped adj. pulvinate

custard n. crème brûlée

customary adj. consuetudinary, quotidian, wonted

customs n. folkways, mores, praxes

customs union Zollverein

cut v. abscind, chamfer, rabbet, skive

cut n. kerf, scotch

cut across transect

cut off dock, exscind

cut open eviscerate, exenterate

cut out excide, exscind, exsect, resect

cuttable adj. sectile

cutting n. scission

cutting, technique of stereotomy

cutting off, a abscission, cloture

cycling arena velodrome

cylinder n. gabion, platen

cylindrical adj. terete

cynical adj. mordant, sardonic

cyst n. vesicle, wen

D

dabble v. dally, fiddle, smatter

dabbler n. dabster, dilettante

daddy-longlegs n. harvestman

dagger n. anlace, choora, creese, dirk, dudgeon, khanjar, kirpan, kris, main gauche, misericord, poniard, puntilla, skean, stylet

daily adj. circadian, diurnal, quotidian

dally v. coquet

dam n. weir

damages n. solatium

damaging adj. baneful, deleterious, pernicious

damned adj. dratted, infernal, reprobate

dance, manic impulse to tarantism

dance, public ridotto, Sadie Hawkins

dancer n. coryphée, kachina, nautch, ropedancer, ropewalker, terpsichorean

dancing adj. saltant

dancing girl nautch

dandruff n. furfures, scall, scurf

dandy n. Beau Brummell, coxcomb, dasher, fop, macaroni, muscadin, popinjay, précieux

dangerous adj. jeopardous, malignant, parlous

dark adj. fuliginous, fuscous, Stygian, subfuscous, swart, swarth, tenebrous

darken v. darkle, lower, obnubilate, obumbrate

darkness, causing tenebrific

darling n. mavourneen

dash v. bolt, dartle

dash n. élan

dawdle v. finick, piddle, shilly-shally

daydreamer n. lotus-eater, stargazer, Walter Mitty, woolgatherer

day of wrath dies irae

daze n. torpidity

dazed adj. narcose

dazzling adj. foudroyant, fulgent

dead adj. exanimate

deaden v. obtund, petrify

deadly adj. fell, implacable, internecine, mortiferous, virulent

dead matter, feeding on saprophagous

dealer n. monger

dear adj. boon, bosom

death n. bane, decease, dissolution, Grim Reaper, necrosis, quietus, Thanatos

death, after post obitum

death, contemplation of thanatopsis

death, near in extremis

death, reminder of memento mori

death, study of thanatology

deathblow n. coup de grâce, quietus

debate n. agon

debate point quodlibet

debauchery, place of sty

debility n. asthenia

debris n. detritus

debunk v. excoriate, lampoon

decade n. decennium

decadent adj. effete, fin de siècle

decapitate v. decollate

decay n. desuetude, putrefaction

decay, producing saprogenic

decayed adj. carious, dozy

deceitful adj. duplicitous, false-hearted, Janus-faced, perfidious

deceive v. beguile, cozen, cuckold, dissemble, dissimulate, gull

decent adj. decorous, seemly

decentralize v. demassify

deception n. chicane, chicanery, dissimulation, duplicity, gammon, imposture, Potemkin village

deceptive appearances, series of phantasmagoria

decimal adj. denary

deck out bedizen

declamation n. recitatif, recitative

declare v. asseverate, aver, enunciate

declaw v. expeditate

decline n. decadence, degeneracy, degeneration, diminution, retrogradation, retrogression, turpitude

decode v. decrypt

decorated adj. pointillé

decoration n. bocage, cuspidation, decoupage, froufrou, racinage

decorations n. regalia

decrease n. decrement, degression

decreasing adj. decrescent

decree n. decretal, diktat, irade

dedicated adj. consecrated, votive

deduce v. educe

deduction n. corollary, illation, inference

deductive adj. a priori

deeds n. res gestae

deer n. staggard

deerlike adj. cervine

defamatory adj. calumniatory, calumnious

defame v. backbite, calumniate, denigrate, derogate, revile, traduce, vilipend

default n. dereliction

defeat n. dusting, pratfall, Waterloo

defeat v. defease, unhorse, worst

defecation n. encopresis, evacuation

defending adj. phylactic

defer v. prorogue

defiant adj. contumacious, recalcitrant, refractory

deficiency n. paucity

definitely adv. categorically, unequivocally

definition n. definiens, explicans

deflective adj. refracting, refractive, refrangible, refringent

deflower v. despoil

deflowering n. defloration

defraud v. bilk, cozen, mulct, rook

deft adj. dextrous

defy v. flout

degrade v. abase, demean, vitiate

degrading adj. abjective

degree n. aegrotat

degree holder licentiate

deification n. apotheosis

deign v. condescend, vouchsafe

dejected adj. chapfallen, dour, heartsore

delay n. cunctation, moratorium, procrastination

delay, authorizing moratory

delaying adj. dilatory, Fabian

delete v. excise, expunge

deliberate adj. prepense, volitional

deliberate v. perpend

delicious adj. ambrosial, savory, succulent, toothsome

delight n. delectation, rapture, transport

delightful adj. captivating, Elysian, frabjous

delineate v. limn

deluge n. cataclysm

delusion n. ignis fatuus, lycanthropy, mare's-nest

demagogue n. firebrand

demand v. importune, postulate

demanding adj. hardscrabble

demeanor n. mien

demented person ament, dement

demolish v. raze, unbuild

demon n. afreet, afrit, Azazel, cacodemon, Danava, duende, dybbuk, eudemon, incubus, Jeh, lamia, Lilith, succuba, succubus

demonstrative adj. effusive, ostensive

demur v. scruple, stickle

denial n. abnegation, confutation, démenti, rejoinder

denouement n. anagnorisis

dense adj. spissatus

density, of equal isopycnic

denunciation n. castigation, commination, contumely, excoriation, fulmination, impugnment, objurgation, philippic, screed

deny v. abjure, abnegate, gainsay, rebuff, recant

denying adj. negatory

depart v. absquatulate, debouch, decamp, fuddle-duddle

departing adj. apopemptic, valedictory

departure n. apostasy, defection, exodos, exodus

dependence n. vassalage

depict v. delineate, epitomize, limn

depiction n. deesis

deplete v. enervate

deplorable adj. rueful, scurvy

depopulate v. depeople, dispeople, unpeople

deportation n. deracination, expatriation

depose v. defrock, discrown, unfrock, unmake, unmiter

deposit n. argol, tartar

depraved adj. miscreant, nefarious

depraved act turpitude

depreciation n. derogation, pejoration

depressed adj. disconsolate, morose

depression n. melancholia

deprivation, causing privative

deprive v. disembody, disendow

depths, out of the de profundis

deputy n. exarch, locum tenens, surrogate, vicar

deride v. banter, chaff, decry, deprecate, flout, pillory, scout

derived externally exogenous

derived internally endogenous

derogatory adj. deprecatory, derogative, pejorative

dervish n. calender, fakir, marabout, qalandar

dervishes, group of Rifa'iya

descend v. abseil, rappel

descent n. declivity, degression, descension

describe v. delineate, limn

descriptive adj. expositive

desertion n. apostasy, defection, dereliction

deserved adj. condign

designate v. denominate, denote

designation n. appellation

desire n. affinity, appetence, hankering

desire, insatiable cacoëthes

desired, something desideratum

desirous adj. appetent, covetous, rapacious

desist v. surcease

desk, writing escritoire

despicable adj. reptilian, scurvy

despise v. contemn, disprize, execrate, misprize

despised person pariah

despotism n. autarchy

dessert table Viennese table

destiny n. karma, kismet

destitute adj. impecunious, penurious

destroy v. decimate, extirpate, immolate, raze, unmake

destroyer n. iconoclast, Luddite

destruction n. apocalypse, ecocide, Götterdämmerung, menticide, Ragnarok, spoliation

destructive adj. baneful, biolytic, epiphytotic, fell, internecine, malefic, noxious

detach v. disjoin, dissociate, sunder

detached adj. dégagé

detention n. demurrage

deterioration n. dégringolade, retrogression

determined adj. iron-jawed, staunch

detestable adj. execrable, loathsome, odious

detonate v. fulminate

detraction n. derogation, disparagement, obloquy

develop v. dilate, expatiate

development n. ontogeny, phylogeny

divert v. sublimate

device n. artifice, stratagem

devil n. Beelzebub, Belial, cacodemon, Old Harry, Old Scratch, Scratch, the Tempter

devious adj. circuitous, tortuous, vermiculate

devise v. excogitate

devour v. engorge, gormandize, guttle, raven

devouring adj. edacious

devoutness n. fervency, religiosity

dexterity n. sleight

diagnosis n. pathognomy

diagonal adj. antigodlin, cater-cornered

diagram n. schema

dialect n. joual, koine, Krio, patois, pidgin

dialogue n. colloquy, duologue, interlocution, stichomythia

diamonds, like diamantine

diamonds, yielding diamantiferous

diaper cover pilch

diaphragm n. pessary

dictator n. autocrat, Caesar, caudillo, duce

dictatorial adj. imperious, overbearing

diction n. hypercorrection

dictionary n. gradus, lexicon

die v. necrotize

difference n. dissimilitude, imparity

different names, of heteronymous

different parts, having heteromerous

differing adj. discrepant

difficult adj. arcane, esoteric, impalpable, obdurate, recondite, unfathomable

difficulties, cause straiten

difficulty n. exigency, nodus, pons asinorum, strait, trilemma

diffuse v. perfuse, pervade

digest n. pandect

digestion n. dyspepsia, eupepsia

digging adj. fossorial

dignified adj. august, decorous

dignity n. exaltation, izzat

dignity, beneath infra dig

digress v. divagate, expatiate

digressive adj. circumlocutory, excursive, periphrastic

dig up disinhume, disentomb

dilated adj. distended, protuberant

diligent adj. assiduous, indefatigable, sedulous

dillydally v. procrastinate, vacillate

diluting adj. diluent, humectant

dim adj. crepuscular

diminish v. mitigate, peter, remit, scant

diminishing adj. decrescent

dimple n. fossette

dim-sighted adj. gravel-blind, purblind, sand-blind, stone-blind

dining companion commensal, convive

dining hall refectory

dining room oecus, triclinium

diocese n. bishopric, episcopate, see

dip v. bail, dap, douse, immerge

diploma, holder of diplomate

diplomat n. chargé d'affaires, nuncio, plenipotentiary

dipper n. simpulum

director n. régisseur

dirge n. coronach, epicedium, Linus, pibroch, threnody

dirt n. scud

dirty v. bemire, defile, sully

disadvantage n. disamenity, incommodity

disagreeing adj. dissentient

disagreement n. contrariety, discordance, dissidence

disappear v. evanesce, evanish, immerge, molder

disappoint v. disenchant, disenthrall, disillusionize

disappointment n. Dead Sea fruit

disapproval n. animadversion, aspersion, reprehension, reprobation

disapproving adj. deprecative, deprecatory, dyslogistic, opprobrious

disastrous adj. cataclysmic, funest

discard v. jettison

discernment n. percipience, perspicacity

discharge v. disembogue, disgorge, egest, ejaculate, exude

disciple n. chela, proselyte

disciplinarian n. martinet

discipline v. castigate, chasten

disclose v. broadcast, unbosom, unbutton, unkennel

discoloration n. foxing

disconcert v. daunt, discomfit

disconnected adj. desultory, scatterbrained

discontented adj. alienated, disaffected

discontinue v. intermit

discontinuous adj. discrete

discordant adj. cacophonous, disharmonious, inconsonant

discourage v. daunt, discountenance, dispirit

discouraged adj. crestfallen, dispirited

discourager n. Job's comforter

discourse v. dissert, dissertate

discourse n. disquisition, dissertation, exercitation, prolegomenon, screed

discourteous adj. inurbane, loutish

discovery n. anagnorisis, secernment, serendipity

discovery, encouraging heuristic

discredit v. confute, controvert

discreet adj. circumspect, meet, politic

discrepancy n. contrariety

discretion n. sophrosyne

discriminate v. discern, secern

discriminating adj. percipient

discuss v. dissertate, ventilate

discussion n. confabulation, excursus, prolegomenon

discussion, preliminary pourparler

discussion topic cheval de bataille

disdain n. hauteur, superciliousness

disease n. epizooty, gynecopathy, morbidity

disease, causing morbific

disease, predisposition to diathesis

disembowel v. draw, embowel, eviscerate, exenterate

disentangle v. disembroil, disencumber

disgorge v. regorge

disgrace n. contumely, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium

disgusting adj. abominable, ad nauseam, loathsome, odious

dish n. bonbonnière, comport, compote, compotier, coolamon, nappy, paten, porringer, ramekin, ramequin, salver, terrine, tureen

disheveled adj. raggle-taggle, ragtag, tousled

dishonesty n. improbity, mendacity, obliquity, perfidy

dishonor v. desecrate, dishallow, profane

dishonorable adj. basehearted, ignoble, ignominious, meanspirited, reptilian

disillusion v. disabuse, disenamor, undeceive

disinheritance n. disherison

disintegrate v. corrade, disgregate, molder

disinter v. disentomb

disk n. planchet

dislike n. antipathy, disesteem, disfavor, disrelish, scunner

dislocate v. luxate, splay

disloyal adj. apostate, disaffected, perfidious, recreant, seditious

dismal adj. dour, funereal, lowering, lugubrious, sepulchral

dismay v. affright, consternate, daunt, unnerve

dismiss v. cashier

dismissal n. demission

disobedient adj. contumacious, refractory

disobey v. contravene, flout, transgress

disorder n. bedlam, chaos, mayhem

disorderly adj. recalcitrant, refractory, wayward

disorderly thinking dishabille

disown v. abjure, disavow

disparaging adj. pejorative

disparate adj. discordant, incongruous

dispensation n. indult

dispersion n. diaspora

displace v. eloign, unsphere

displacement n. parallax

display n. éclat, flourish, frippery, panoply

dispossess v. expropriate

disprove v. confute, controvert, gainsay

disputation, art of eristic

disputatious adj. contradictious, polemical

dispute n. contretemps, flite, fliting, flyte, logomachy, velitation

dispute v. altercate, controvert, gainsay, oppugn

disregard v. flout, overslaugh, pretermit

disregard n. preterition

disrepute n. obloquy, odium, opprobrium

dissection n. zootomy

disseminate v. effuse

dissension n. alienation, disjunction, schism

dissenter n. apostate, dissentient, maverick

dissenting adj. dissentient, dissident

dissertation n. disquisition, lucubration

dissimilar adj. disparate, divergent

dissipated adj. dissolute, jaded, profligate, raffish, rakish, wanton

dissolving n. diffluence, deliquescence, liquefaction

dissonant adj. cacophonous

distance v. decathect

distillation n. decoction

distinct adj. manifest, patent, trenchant

distinctive adj. diacritical

distinguish v. secern, signalize

distinguished adj. distingué, distinguée, supereminent

distinguishing adj. disjunctive, precisive

distress v. beset, harrow, lacerate, rend, rive

distressing adj. afflictive, agonal

distribute v. mete, parcel

distribution center entrepôt

district n. bailiwick, bishopric, canton, catholicate, deanery, diocese, episcopate, pale, sanjak, see, vicinage, zillah

distrustful adj. chary, jaundiced

disturb v. discommode, harrow, incommode, roil

disturbance n. bobbery, catouse, foofaraw, rabblement

disuse n. desuetude

ditch n. entrenchment, fosse

diver n. ama

divergent adj. divaricate, diverse

diverse adj. heterogeneous, multifarious

diversified adj. daedal, motley, variegated

divert one's energy sublimate

divide v. Balkanize, bifurcate, cantonize, cleave, dichotomize, dissever, furcate, rend, rive, section, sunder, trifurcate

divider n. separatrix, solidus, virgule

dividing n. polytomy

divination n. aeromancy, alectryomancy, aleuromancy, aphitomancy, arithmancy, astromancy, augur, augury, auspex, auspice, belomancy, bibliomancy, chiromancy, cleromancy, geomancy, haruspicy, hydromancy, I Ching, necromancy, oneiromancy, pyromancy, rhabdomancy, scapulimancy, sortes, sortilege, zoomancy

divination, of mantic

divine adj. deiform, supernal

divine and human, both theantropic

divisible adj. discerptible, partible, scissile

division n. dichotomy, diremption, disjunction, schism, scission, trichotomy

divisive adj. dissentious, factious, schismatic

divorce n. breach, get, decree nisi

divulge v. disembosom

dizzy adj. vertiginous

doctor v. adulterate, cobble

doctrine n. canon, credo, doxy, precept

document n. papyrus

doddering adj. anile, fribbling

dog n. crackie, towser

dogged adj. mulish, tenacious

dogmatic adj. arbitrary, doctrinaire, doctrinal, oracular, pontifical, thetic

dog pack kennel

dog pound pinfold

doleful adj. lugubrious

doll n. daruma, golliwogg, kachina

domain n. seigneury

dome n. cupola, dagoba

dominating woman dominatrix

domination n. ascendancy, heteronomy, primacy

do more than required supererogate

donation n. benefaction, donative, ex-voto, oblation

donkey n. dickey, hinny, jennet, jenny

doomed adj. hapless, ill-starred

doorkeeper n. concierge, ostiary, warder

dormant adj. dormient, latent, torpid

dormitory n. dorter, rampasture

dot n. tittle

dotted adj. punctulate

double adj. diploid, duple

double v. geminate, plait

double dagger diesis

double-dealing adj. duplicitous

double-talk n. razzmatazz, gobbledegook

doubtful adj. dubitable, dubitative, moot

dough n. masa

doughnut n. fasnacht, friedcake, olykoek, sinker

dovelike adj. columbine

dowdy adj. bedraggled, draggle-tailed, frumpy

downfall n. dégringolade, labefaction, nemesis, Waterloo

downright adj. arrant

downward sloping declivent, declivitous, declivous

downy adj. comose, flossy, lanuginose, lanuginous, sericeous

dowry n. arras, dower

dowse v. water-witch, witch

dowsing n. rhabdomancy

draft v. conscribe, conscript, impress

dragon n. firedrake

dragon-like adj. draconic

drain blood exsanguinate

dramatist n. dramaturge

draw v. limn

drawbridge n. pontlevis

draw forth educe

drawing n. analytique, graffito, petroglyph, petrogram, pictograph, plumbago

drawing in intussusception, invagination

dread v. quail

dread n. angst, aversion, trepidation

dreamer n. fantast, visionary

dream interpreter oneirocritic

dreamland n. cloud-cuckooland, cloudland

dreams, interpretation of oneirology

dreams, pertaining to oneiric, onomastic

dregs n. draff, dross, fecula, lees, vinasse

drench v. imbrue, ret

dress v. accouter, bedeck, bedizen, caparison, deck, gussy, tog

dressed adj. habited

dressing n. pledget

dried-up adj. wizened

drilling machine stoper

drink, farewell doch-an-dorrach, stirrup cup

drink, medicinal ptisan

drinkable adj. potable

drinker n. bibber, compotator, convive, soaker, tippler, toper

drinking, given to potatory

drinking horn rhyton

drivel v. balderdash, gabble, gibble-gabble, gobbledegook, pablum, pabulum, pap, razzmatazz, twaddle

driver n. jehu, mahout, postilion

drizzle n. cacimbo

droll adj. waggish

drool v. drivel, slaver, slobber

droop v. flag, languish

drooping adj. flaccid, pendent, pendulous

drop n. globule, gobbet, gutta

drop-like adj. guttiform

droppings n. excreta, guano

drop-shaped adj. stilliform

drowsiness n. narcosis, oscitation

drowsiness, pertaining to hypnagogic

drowsy adj. dozy, oscitant, soporific

drudgery n. moil

drum v. rataplan

drum exercise paradiddle

drumstick n. tampon

drunken adj. bacchic, besotted, bousy, Dionysian, fuddled, sotted, sottish

dry adj. insipid, jejune, vapid

dry v. desiccate, exsiccate

dry environment, adapted to a xerothermic

dry environment, pertaining to a xeric

drying n. aridification, desiccation, exsiccation

drying adj. siccative

dualist n. Manichean

dubious adj. louche

duct n. hypocaust

dueling n. duello

dues n. pewage

dull adj. jejune, passionless, prosy, saltless, torpid, vapid

dullness n. hebetude, tedium

dunce n. dolt, dullard, dummkopf, dunderhead, pumpkin head

dune n. barchan, seif

dung, of stercoraceous, stercorous

dung-eating adj. coprophagous, merdivorous, scatophagous

dungeon n. donjon, oubliette

dunghill n. midden

dupe n. cat's-paw, gudgeon

duplicate v. geminate, replicate

duplicated, capable of being replicable, replicative

durable adj. perdurable

dusk n. crepuscule, evenfall

dusky adj. fuscous, subfusc, subfuscous

dwarf n. homunculus, hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin

dwarfism n. hypermicrosoma

dying adj. expiring, in extremis, moribund

dynamite n. gelignite

E

eagerness n. alacrity, avidity, fervor, zeal

eagle n. alerion

ear n. auricle, auricular, auriculate, auriform, concha

ear, pertaining to the otic

earache n. otalgia

earnest adj. fervid, zealous

earnestness n. unction

earring n. girandole

earth, inhabitant of tellurian, tellurion

earth, living in or on terricolous

earthenware n. faience, majolica, raku

earthly adj. secular, terrene

earthquake n. seism, temblor

earthworm, resembling the lumbricoid

earthy adj. terrene

earwax n. cerumen

ease v. assuage, disburden, palliate

eat v. chank, gormandize, ingurgitate, raven, stodge

eater, heavy trencherman

eater of raw food omophagist

eating disorders anorexia, bulimia, polyphagia

ebb n. reflux

ebbing adj. refluent

eccentric n. heteroclite

eccentricity n. crotchet, idiosyncrasy

echoic adj. onomatopoeic

economy n. niggardliness, parsimony, providence

ecstasy n. nympholepsy, raptus, ravishment

eddy v. moil, purl

edgy adj. nudgy

edible adj. comestible, esculent

edict n. bull, dictum, firman, pronunciamento, rescript, ukase

edit v. bowdlerize, emend, emendate, expunge, redact, vet

effectiveness n. efficacity, efficacy

effeminate adj. emasculate, epicene, niminy-piminy

effeminate person chulo

effigy n. simulacrum

effort n. assiduity

effrontery n. cheek, churlishness

egg case ootheca

eggs, lay oviposit

egg-shaped adj. obovoid, ovate, oviform, ovoid

egg white albumen, glair

egg yolk vitellus

egoism n. narcissism, solipsism

eighth note quaver

eighty-year old person octogenarian

eject v. ejaculate, spume

ejection n. defenestration

elation n. euphoria, transport

elder n. presbyter

elect v. coopt

elections, study of psephology

elegance n. concinnity, luxe

elegance of speech atticism

elegant adj. Chesterfieldian, featly, la-di-da

element, indispensable linchpin, sine qua non

elephant driver mahout

elephant trap kheda

elf n. leprechaun, ouphe

elicit v. educe

eliminate v. extirpate, quash

elliptical adj. vesical

elusive adj. fugitive

emaciation n. tabes

emanate v. mofette

emasculate v. eunuchize, unman

embarrassment n. abashment, discomfiture, disconcertment, mortification

embellish v. blazon, fancify

embellishment n. emblazonry, paraph, parergon

embezzlement n. defalcation, peculation

emblem n. colophon, fasces, impresa, totem

emblems n. regalia

embodiment n. avatar, elixir, quintessence

embody v. exemplify, incarnate

embolism n. embolus, occlusion

emboss v. chase, pounce

embossed adj. ciselé

embossing n. celature

embroidery frame taboret

embroil v. embrangle, mire

emerge v. debouch, emanate

emergency n. exigency

emetic adj./n. vomitory

emit v. effuse, emanate, eruct, exude

emotion n. affect

emotional adj. effusive, fervid, maudlin, mawkish

emotionless adj. callous, phlegmatic, stoical

emperor n. imperator, Negus, padishah

emphatic adj. resounding, unequivocal

empty adj. banal, delusive, vacuous, vapid

enamel n. champlevé, cloisonné

enamelware n. Fabergé

encampment n. hutment

enchanted adj. fey

enchantress n. Circe

encircle v. encincture, engirdle

enclose v. circumscribe, embosom, enswathe, enwomb, immure

enclosure n. cofferdam, enceinte, kraal

encode v. encrypt

encompass v. encincture

encore interj. bis

encounter v. rencontre, rencounter

encouragement n. fosterage

encouraging adj. exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory

encumbrances n. impedimenta

encyclopedia n. pandect

end n. expiry, omega, surcease, terminus

end v. culminate, surcease

endearing adj. hypocoristic

ending n. denouement, desinence

endowment n. dotation, dower

endure v. brook, countenance, perdure, stomach

enema n. clyster

energetic adj. indefatigable, sedulous

energizing adj. galvanic

energy n. birr, élan, verve

engaging adj. winsome

engraver n. chaser

engraver's tool graver, scauper

engraving n. chemigraphy, siderography

enjoyment, seeking apolaustic

enjoyment of life joie de vivre

enlarge v. aggrandize, dilate, eke, expatiate

enlarged adj. ampliate, turgid, varicose

enlargement n. dilatation, gynecomastia, hypertrophy

enlightening adj. luciferous

enlightenment n. Aufklärung, bodhi, prajna, satori

enmity n. acrimony, animus, rancor, venom

enough interj. basta

enrapture v. imparadise

enraptured adj. transported

enslavement n. dulosis

entangle v. embrangle, embroil

enterprising adj. venturesome, venturous

entertainer n. almah, diseur, diseuse, monologist, tummler

entertainment n. fête champêtre, kermis, masque, revue, tamasha

enthralled adj. exhilarated, rapt

enthusiasm n. fervency, Schwärmerei

enthusiastic adj. dithyrambic, ebullient, fervid, yeasty

enticer n. beguiler, pied piper

entire adj. intact, plenary

entity n. ens

entomb v. ensepulcher, immure

entrance n. adit, propylaeum

entreaty, pertaining to precatory, supplicatory

entrenchment n. vallation

enumeration n. litany

enunciate v. articulate, syllable

envelop v. environ, sheathe, shroud

environment n. ambiance, environs, milieu

environs n. purlieus

envoy n. chargé d'affaires, legate, plenipotentiary

envy v. begrudge, covet

epic n. chanson de geste, epopee, epos, Mahabharata

epicure n. mycophagist

epidemic n. epiphytotic

epigrams, make epigrammatize

epilepsy n. grand mal, petit mal

epitaph n. hic jacet

epithet n. antonomasia, appellative

equal n. compeer, peer

equal v. equiponderate

equality n. egalitarianism, isonomy

equality, lacking in inegalitarian

equilibrium n. equipoise, equiponderance, stasis

equip v. accouter, endue, invest

equipment n. accouterments, armamentarium, fitment

equivalent adj. equipollent, tantamount

equivocate v. palter, tergiversate

eradicate v. deracinate, extirpate

erasure n. effacement, expunction, extirpation, rasure

erect adj. horrent, tumescent

erection, persistent priapism

eroding adj. erodent, erosive

erosion n. corrasion, deflation

erotic adj. aphrodisiac, concupiscent, erogenous, lesbian, Paphian

errand boy lobbygow

erratic adj. capricious, vagarious

error n. barney, bloomer, catachresis, erratum, faux pas, gaffe, non sequitur, solecism

error-free adj. inerrant

error-prone adj. peccable

errors and corrections errata

erupt v. recrudesce

escape v. abscond, decamp, exfiltrate

escort n. cicisbeo, gallant, gigolo

escort v. chaperon, squire

essay n. disquisition, dissertation, prolusion

essence n. crux, pith, quintessence

essential adj. constitutive, de rigueur, integral

essential parts vitals

established adj. apodictic, inveterate

estate n. bergerie, demesne, estancia, latifundium, taluk

estranged adj. disaffected

estuary n. firth

et cetera und so weiter

eternal adj. perdurable, sempiternal

ethics n. deontology

euphoria, inducing euphoriant, euphorigenic

evaluation n. epicrisis

evasion n. circumlocution, elusion, sophistry

evasive adj. circuitous, elusive, evanescent, tortuous

evening n. crepuscule, eventide, gloaming, vespertide

even-minded adj. equable

even-tempered adj. equanimous

everlasting adj. perdurable, sempiternal

evidence, one who gives deponent

evident adj. manifest, ostensible, ostensive, palpable

evil adj. baleful, baneful, iniquitous, malign, malignant, nefarious, pernicious

evil n. depravity, gangrene, iniquity

evil, averting apotropaic

evil, doing adj. maleficent

evil, surpass in out-Herod

evolution n. orthogenesis, phylogeny, polygenism

exact adj. punctilious, scrupulous, veracious

exacting adj. exigent

exaggeration n. hyperbole, inflation, pretension, pretentiousness

exalt v. deify, ennoble, ensky

examination n. catechism, inspectum, responsions, voir dire

examine v. anatomize, dissect, vet

example n. exemplar, exemplum, paradigm

example, furnish an epitomize, exemplify

examples, set of praxis

excavation n. fosse, stope

excellence n. beau ideal, transcendence, virtu

excellent adj. estimable, inimitable, sterling

exceptional adj. anomalous, preternatural, prodigious

excerpts n. analects

excessive adj. extortionate, fulsome, inordinate, overblown, prodigal, profligate

exchangeable adj. commutable, fungible

excitable adj. combustible, volatile

excite v. adrenalize, animate, galvanize, intoxicate

exciting adj. electric, heady, rousing, spirited

exclamation n. ejaculation, expletive, vociferation

exclamatory passage apostrophe

exclude v. ostracize, preclude, proscribe

excommunicate v. unchurch

excommunication n. excision, herem

excrement n. dejecta, dejection, egesta, excreta, fecula, frass, meconium, night soil, ordure, scat

excrement, like excrementitious

excrescence n. caruncle, gall, knur, wattle

excusable adj. venial

excuse v. exculpate, extenuate, gloze

excuse n. apologia, extenuation, mitigation

execute v. dispatch, gibbet

execution n. auto-da-fé, decapitation, noyade

exegesis n. hermeneutics

exemption n. exoneration, recusal

exercise n. kata

exhalation n. effluvium, miasma, mephitis

exhausted adj. debilitated, effete, enervated, jaded

exhaustive adj. cyclopedic, encyclopedic

exhilaration n. ebullience, effusiveness

exile n. expatriation, Galuth, proscription, sequestration

exiled adj. expatriate

existence n. inherency

exit n. débouché, egress

exorbitant adj. extortionate, inordinate

exotic adj. recherché

expand v. dilate, expatiate

expandable adj. expansible, expansile, extensible

expanded adj. patulous, protuberant

expedient n. pis aller, resort

expedient adj. politic

expenditure, pertaining to sumptuary

experience, based on empirical, experiential

experienced adj. practiced, versant

experienced through others vicarious

experiences, painful via dolorosa

expiatory adj. piacular

explain v. construe, dilate, expatiate, explicate, gloss, rationalize

explanation n. éclaircissement, exegesis, explication, panchreston

explanatory adj. exegetic, explicative, hermeneutic

explode v. fulminate

exploit n. gest

explosion n. camouflet, fulmination

explosive device petard

expositor n. exegete, explicator

exposure n. exposal

expound v. asseverate, exposit

express v. asseverate, indite

expressed, clearly perspicuous

expressed, well apposite

expressible adj. effable

expressionless adj. impassive, vacant, vacuous

expressive adj. articulate, rubber-faced

expulsion n. renvoi

expurgate v. bowdlerize

exquisite adj. raffiné, soigné

extemporaneously adv. extempore

extend v. ramify

extendible adj. extensible, extensile, protrusile

extent n. ambit

exterminate v. deratize, extirpate

externalize v. exteriorize, objectivize

externally derived exogenous

extract n. citation, pericope

extraction n. exodontia, exodontics, evulsion

extraneous adj. adventitious, intervenient

extraordinary adj. egregious

extravagant adj. immoderate, improvident, prodigal, profligate

extremism n. ultraism

exuberant adj. ebullient, effusive, rank, yeasty

exult v. jubilate

exultant adj. cock-a-hoop

exultation n. jubilation

eye n. oculus

eyebrow, of the superciliary

eye for an eye lex talionis

eyelids, of the palpebral

eyelike adj. ocellate, ocellated

eye movement, rapid nystagmus, saccade

eyewash n. collyrium

F

fable n. allegory, apologue, parable

fables, collection of Jataka

fabric finishing decating

façade, deceptive Potemkin village

face, pale wheyface

face-lift n. rhytidectomy

face-to-face vis-à-vis

facing n. revers, revetment

fact, accomplished fait accompli

faction n. bloc, coterie

factional adj. partisan

factual adj. veracious

faddist n. weathercock

fading adj. evanescent

failed adj. manqué, miscarried

failure n. debacle, fiasco, miscarriage

faint adj. languid

faint n. syncope

faint-hearted adj. pusillanimous

fair adj. disinterested

fair n. feria, kermis, mela

fairly adv. equably, pari passu

fairy n. fay, leprechaun, Queen Mab, peri

faith, abandonment of apostasy

faith, bad mala fides

faith, false miscreance

faith, good bona fides

faithful adj. allegiant, staunch

faithless adj. perfidious

fake v. affect, dissemble, feign

fake adj. faux, sham

fall v. prolapse, toboggan

Fall, after the postlapsarian

Fall, before the prelapsarian

fallacious adj. delusive, sophistic

fallacy n. paralogism, sophism

fallen in social position déclassé

fallow adj. lea, ley

false adj. apocryphal, disingenuous, mendacious, papier-mâché, postiche

false hair merkin

falsehood n. mendacity, prevarication

fan n. devotee, hardboot

fan v. winnow

fanatic adj. frenetic, phrenetic, zealous

fanatical adj. doctrinaire

fancy adj. haute

fanfare n. fanfaron, tucket

fantasy n. fantasia, phantasm

faraway place, any Timbuktu

farewell n. congé

farewell, bidding valediction

farewell address valedictory

farewell drink doch-an-dorrach, stirrup cup

farm n. ejido, finca, grange

farmer n. granger, sodbuster

farming n. agronomy, ecofallow, husbandry, tillage

far-out adj. esoteric, recondite

farsighted adj. perspicacious, prescient

farsightedness n. hypermetropia, hyperopia, presbyopia

farthest point apogee

fascinating adj. mesmeric, mesmerizing, orphic

fashion n. façon, ton

fashion, out of démodé

fashion, the latest dernier cri

fashion plate Beau Brummell

fastening n. infibulation

fastidiousness n. foppishness, preciosity

fasting n. dharna, sawm, xerophagia

fat adj. abdominous, adipose, fubsy, lardy, pinguid, pursy

fat n. bard, cracklings, cracknels, lardon, schmaltz

fat, grow batten

fat, smear with tallow

fatal adj. baneful, feral, funest, mortiferous, pernicious

fat-buttocked adj. steatopygic

fate n. karma, kismet

father n. anba, genitor, paterfamilias, progenitor

fatiguing adj. debilitating, enervating, prostrating

fatness n. adiposity, corpulence

fatty adj. adipose, lardaceous, sebaceous

faucet n. cock, hosecock, petcock, stopcock

fault n. feet of clay, frailty, foible

fault, my mea culpa

faultfinding adj. captious, carping, caviling, censorious, hypercritical

faultless adj. exemplary, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, unassailable, unexceptionable

faulty adj. peccant

favorable adj. auspicious, opportune, propitious, providential

favoritism n. cronyism, nepotism

fawning adj. gnathonic, sycophantic

fawn skin nebris

fear n. collywobbles, funk, trepidation

fearless adj. dauntless, doughty, indomitable, unblinking, undaunted

fears, morbid acarophobia, acrophobia, aerophobia, agoraphobia, ailurophobia, algophobia, androphobia, anthropophobia, astraphobia, aviophobia, bacteriaphobia, batophobia, batrachophobia, bibliphobia, brontophobia, cardiophobia, chremnophobia, cibophobia, claustrophobia, coprophobia, cyberphobia, cynophobia, doraphobia, dromophobia, dysmorphobia, ergophobia, erythrophobia, felinophobia, feminophobia, gamophobia, gerontophobia, gynephobia, hemophobia, heresyphobia, homophobia, hypnophobia, logophobia, lyssophobia, monophobia, mysophobia, necrophobia, nosophobia, nyctophobia, ochlophobia, pantophobia, peccatophobia, phobophobia, photophobia, pyrophobia, scotophobia, sitophobia, stasiphobia, taphephobia, thanatophobia, taxophobia, teleophobia, thalassophobia, thanatophobia, topophobia, toxicophobia, xenophobia, zoophobia

feasible adj. practicable, viable

feast n. luau, potlatch, regale

feasting n. gourmandise

feather n. aigrette, alula, hackle, vibrissa

feather, resembling a pinnate

feathery adj. plumose, plumy

feature n. pièce de résistance

fecal matter, full of feculent

feces, pertaining to stercoraceous, stercorous

feces, resembling fecaloid

fee n. altarage, capitation, emolument, honorarium

feebleness n. decrepitude, flaccidity, impuissance, languor, lassitude

feed v. batten, browse, regale

feeding on grass graminivorous

feeding on leaves phyllophagous

feeding on one type of food monophagous

feeding on plants herbivorous, phytophagous

feeding on roots rhizophagous

feeding on sap phytosuccivorous

feelings, shared compathy, empathy

fellowship n. camaraderie, communion, esprit de corps

female adj. distaff

female in appearance gynecomorphous

fence n. brandreth, hoarding, paling, palisade, palisado, weir

fence-sitter n. dawk, mugwump

fencing n. balestra, kendo

fermentation n. zymosis

ferryman n. Charon

fertilization n. fecundation, superfecundation, superfetation

fertilize v. fructify, impregnate

fertilizer n. guano, marl, poudrette

fester v. matterate, suppurate

festoon n. swag

fetish n. amulet, juju, talisman

fetus, destruction of a feticide

fever n. ague, febricula, hyperpyrexia, hyperthermia, octan, pyrexia, quartan, quintan, quotidian

fever, producing febrifacient, febriferous, febrific

feverish adj. aguish, febrile

feverless adj. afebrile

fever preventive antipyretic

fibrous adj. filamentous

fickleness n. inconstancy, volatility

fictitious adj. feigned, fictive, mythic

fiddle n. rebab, rebec

fiddle-shaped adj. pandurate

fidelity n. fealty, troth

fidgety adj. restive

fiend n. hellhound

fierce adj. farouche, fell

fiery adj. choleric, fervid, irascible

fifteenth century quattrocento

fifteen years, pertaining to quindecennial

fight n. affray, barney, bobbery, brannigan, donnybrook, dustup

fighting with an imaginary enemy sciamachy, sciomachy

figure of speech trope

file n. dossier

film n. patina, pellicle

film fan cineast

filmy adj. diaphanous

filth, originating from pythogenic

filthy adj. Augean, dreggy

final destruction apocalypse, Götterdämmerung

financial instability Queer Street

fine adj. abstruse, impalpable, tenuous

fine v. mulct

fine point punctilio

finery n. fallal, frippery, furbelow, gaudery, regalia

finger-like adj. digitiform

fingers, condition of having extra hyperdactylia, hyperdactylism

finish v. planish

firecracker n. squib, whiz-bang

fireplace, rear of reredos

firework n. Catherine wheel, fizgig, girandole, petard, serpent, tourbillion

fireworks display pyrotechnics

firm adj. adamant, obdurate, sclerous, staunch

first among equals prima (or primus) inter pares

first draft prolusion

firsthand adj. empirical, pragmatic

first night, right of droit du seigneur

fish n. ichthyolite

fish v. dap, dib, seine, sniggle, trawl, troll

fish, pertaining to ichthyic, piscine

fish-eating adj. ichthyophagous, piscivorous

fishing, pertaining to piscatorial, piscatory

fishing grounds haaf

fishing spot piscary

fishlike adj. ichthyoid

fissure n. crevasse

fitting adj. condign, congruous, meet, seemly

five, pertaining to quinary

five-fingered adj. pentadactyl

five-year period lustrum, quinquennium

five years, occurring every quinquennial

flabby adj. flaccid, loppy, lymphatic, quaggy

flag n. banderole, burgee, fanion, guidon, Jolly Roger, pennon, standard, vexillum

flagging adj. languid

flagrant adj. egregious, flagitious

flags, pertaining to vexillary

flamboyance n. panache

flamboyant adj. florid, ostentatious

flannel n. swansdown, swanskin

flap n. codpiece, lappet

flash v. coruscate, fulgurate, fulminate

flashy adj. meretricious

flask n. alembic, costrel, fiasco, flacon

flatfoot n. splayfoot

flattened adj. oblate, planate, planiform

flatterer n. encomiast, lickspittle, sycophant, truckler

flattering adj. ingratiating, smarmy, unctuous

flattery n. blandishment, blarney, cajolery, pandering, puffery, sycophancy, toadying

flaunt v. brandish, flourish

flavor n. piquancy, sapor, savor

flavor v. imbue, infuse, lace, leaven

flavor, imparting saporific

flavorless adj. insipid, vapid

fleck v. freak

flee v. absquatulate, decamp

fleeting adj. ephemeral, evanescent, fugacious, fugitive

flesh, feeding on carnivorous, sarcophagous

flesh, pertaining to sarcous

flesh-bearing adj. carniferous

flesh-eating animal sarcophile

fleshy adj. carnose

fleshy fold dewlap, wattle

flickering adj. lambent, shimmering

flight n. exodus, hegira

flight, engaged in volitant

flighty adj. anile, capricious, mercurial, volatile

flimsy adj. gossamer, tenuous

flinch v. blanch, blench, cower, funk

flirt n. coquette, minx, philanderer, vamp

float v. waft

float n. bob, dobber

floater n. musca volitans

flood n. deluge, inundation, spate

Flood, after the postdiluvian

flooding adj. inundant

floor n. engawa, parquet

flooring n. terrazzo

flophouse n. doss house

florid adj. rubicund, ruddy

flounce n. falbala, furbelow

flourish n. paraph

flourishing adj. bounteous, halcyon, palmy

flow v. effuse, extravasate, purl, reflux

flower v. effloresce

flower arrangement ikebana

flower-eating adj. anthophagous, anthophilous

flowery adj. bombastic, florid, grandiloquent, magniloquent, rococo

flowing adj. diffluent, effluent, profluent, refluent

fluent adj. articulate, facile, voluble

fluid n. ejaculate, ichor

fluster v. commove, unnerve

flutist n. flautist

flutter n. dither, swivet

fly v. rack, scud

flyer n. broadside

flying n. volitation

foamy adj. frothy, spumescent, yeasty

fodder n. ensilage, silage, stover

fog n. brume, frost smoke, pogonip, sea smoke

foggy adj. nebulous, nubilous, turbid

foghorn n. diaphone

fold n. lappet

folded adj. plicate, replicate

folding n. plication

folk song volkslied

follow v. ensue, supervene

follower n. epigone, fidus Achates, galloglass, myrmidon, pursuivant, votary

following adj. sequacious, sequent

fond, overly uxorious

fondness n. dotage, penchant, predilection, susceptibility

font n. laver

food, animal mast

food, lacking appetite for anorectic, anorexic

food, supply with victual

food inspector mashgiah

food scrap ort

fool n. amadan, beetlehead, dunderhead, gommie, gowk, ninnyhammer, patch

fool v. confound, gudgeon, humbug

foolish adj. addlepated, anile, fatuitous, fatuous, fou, fribble, spoony, vapid

foolish person dotard, mooncalf

fool's gold pyrites

foothills, area in piedmont

footing n. scarcement

footlike adj. pediform

footstep n. footfall

foot support ottoman, suppedaneum

forbidden adj. interdicted, proscribed, verboten

forbidden, not licit

force n. dint, duress

forced feeding gavage

forceful adj. cogent

forcemeat n. farce, farcemeat

foreboding n. presage, presentiment

foreboding, having a adj. presentient

forecast v. previse

forefather n. primogenitor

foreign adj. allochthonous, heterochthonous, peregrine, tramontane

foreigner n. gaijin, outlander, tramontane, uitlander

foreigners, hatred of xenophobia

foreign exchange agiotage

forerunner n. harbinger, precursor, progenitor

foresee v. augur, forebode, portend, prefigure, previse, prevision

foreskin n. prepuce

forest n. selva, taiga

forestry n. silviculture, sylviculture

foretaste n. prelibation

forewarn v. previse

forfeit n. deodand, philopena

forfeiture n. mulct

forge n. stithy

forgetfulness n. lethe

forgetfulness, substance inducing nepenthe

forgetting n. oblivescence, oblivion

forgiving adj. clement, placable, propitious

forgo v. forbear

forked adj. furcate

form n. gestalt, modality, morphology

formal adj. punctilious, sententious, starchy

formality n. punctilio

former adj. erstwhile, quondam

formidable adj. daunting, onerous, redoubtable

formula n. mantra, precept, rubric

fort n. acropolis, citadel, fortalice, martello tower, presidio, redoubt

forte n. métier

forthcoming adj. proximate

fortitude n. mettle, stoicism

fortune, good serendipity

fortune, sudden change of peripeteia

fortune-teller n. chiromancer, mentalist, sibyl, warlock

fortune-telling n. cartomancy, chiromancy, palmistry, (see also divination)

fossil remains reliquiae

fossils, consisting of diatomaceous

foster v. embosom

foster child fosterling

foster mother metapelet

foul adj. feculent, fetid, turbid

foul language ordure

foul-smelling adj. mephitic

foundation n. fundament, substruction

foundling home crèche

fountain n. hanefiyah

fountain pen stylograph

four, group of quadriad, tetrad

four-handed adj. quadrumanous

fourteenth century trecento

four-year period quadrennium

four years, occurring every quadrennial

fowl n. poult, spatchcock

fowl, resembling adj. gallinaceous, rasorial

fox n. Reynard

fox, female vixen

fox, pertaining to a vulpecular, vulpine

fragile adj. frangible, friable

fragments n. disjecta membra, flinders, smithereens

fragrant adj. balmy, odoriferous, redolent

frail adj. slimsy

frankincense n. olibanum

frankness n. candor, guilelessness, ingenuousness, veracity

frantic adj. berserk, corybantic, frenetic

fraud n. barratry

fraudulent adj. barratrous, supposititious

freak n. anomaly, lusus naturae

freckle n. lentigo

freckled adj. lentiginous

free adj. allodial, gratuitous, unfettered, untrameled

freedom n. deliverance, manumission, uhuru

freezing n. cryonics, gelation

frenzied adj. corybantic, demoniac, madding

frenzy n. delirium, musth, nympholepsy

fret v. chafe, repine, smolder

fretful adj. petulant, querulous

friend n. Achates, alter ego, cater-cousin, compadre, compañera, compañero, confidant, confidante, convive, fidus Achates, philhellene

friendliness n. bonhomie, camaraderie, conviviality

friends, pairs of Achilles and Patroclus, Damon and Pythias, David and Jonathan, Nisus and Euryalus, Pylades and Orestes

friendship n. affinity, camaraderie, gemütlichkeit

frieze n. zophorus

frills n. flumadiddle, frippery, tomfoolery

frisk v. caper, curvet, gambol

frisky adj. feisty

frivolous adj. fribble, lunatic, mercurial, puerile, yeasty

frolicsome adj. rollicksome, rompish

frontier n. limes

frontlet n. phylactery

frost n. hoarfrost, rime

frothy adj. spumescent, yeasty

frown v. glower, lower

fruit, bear fructify

fruit, having large macrocarpous

fruit-bearing adj. fructiferous

fruit-eating adj. frugivorous

fruitless adj. abortive, ineffectual, inefficacious, unavailing

frustrate v. discombobulate, discomfit, stultify

frustrated adj. manqué

fry v. frizzle

frying pan spider

fuel n. bois de vache, buffalo chips

fugitive n. runagate

fullness n. plenitude, repletion, satiety

fumarole n. solfatara

fumigate v. sulfurize

functionary n. apparat

functionless adj. otiose

fundamental adj. basilar, primal

funeral procession cortege

funeral song dirge, epicedium, keen, threnode, threnody

funereal adj. defunctive, sepulchral

fungi, feeding on fungivorous

fungi, pertaining to fungal, fungous

fungus-eating organism mycophagist

funnel-shaped adj. infundibular, infundibuliform

Furies, the Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone

furnish v. endue, invest

furniture n. appointments, chattel, effects

furrow n. stria, sulcus, vallecula

furrowed adj. corrugated, striated

furry adj. pileous, pilose

fusion n. conflation

fuss n. foofaraw, pother

fuss v. prink

fussy adj. finical, pernickety, persnickety, picayune

futile adj. feckless, otiose, unavailing

futon n. shikibuton

G

gadget n. whigmaleerie, whim-wham

gain n. emolument, lucre, spoils

gainful adj. lucrative, remunerative

gall n. asperity, chutzpa, effrontery

gallery n. loggia

galley n. quadrireme

gallop n. tantivy

gallows n. gibbet

gang n. camorra

gangster n. yakuza

gap n. fissure, interstice, lacuna

gape v. dehisce

gape n. rictus

gaping adj. oscitant, ringent

garbage n. spilth

garden n. pleasance

garland n. festoon, lei, swag

garment, penitential sanbenito

garments, pertaining to vestiar

garnished adj. garni

gas n. flatus

gash v. score, scotch

gassy adj. flatulent

gastric adj. stomachic

gate n. decuman, lich gate, postern

gauche adj. boorish, maladroit

gaudy adj. meretricious

gauntlet n. manifer

gauze n. gossamer

gearshift n. derailleur

gem n. briolette, cabochon, chalcedony, chaton, chevee, cuvette, rhodolite, rose d'Anvers, rubellite, sard, sardine, sardius, spinel

generality n. banality, cliché, platitude, truism

generalize v. universalize

generation n. geniture

generous adj. altruistic, beneficent, bounteous, free-handed, munificent

geniality n. affability, bonhomie

genital adj. phallic

genitals, female clitoris, pudendum, vulva

genitals, male manhood, phallus, (see also penis)

gentle adj. clement, pacific, tractable

gentleman n. caballero, duniewassal

gentleness n. gentilesse, mansuetude

genuine adj. echt, pukka, unfeigned, veridical

genuine text textus receptus

geriatric adj. gerontic

geriatrics n. nostology

germinate v. pullulate

gesture, contemptuous snook

gesturing adj. gesticulant

ghost n. apparition, doppelganger, manifestation, phantasm, poltergeist, preta, revenant, shade, specter, wraith

ghosts, study of spectrology

gibberish n. galimatias, Jabberwocky

gift n. acquest, arras, benefaction, donative, dower, handsel, lagniappe, largess, mortuary

gigantic adj. Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, cyclopean, decuman, gigantean, gigantesque

gigantism n. hypermegasoma

gild v. aurify

girdle n. cestus, cincture

girdle v. ringbark

girl n. baggage, chola, criolla, gamine, giglet, gill, hoyden, Lolita, pachuca, sylph, wahine

gist n. crux, nub, purport

gizzard n. ventriculus

gladiator n. retiarius

gladly adv. fain, lief

glance n. eyebeam, leer, oeillade

glass, make into vitrify

glass, molten parison

glass, pane of quarrel, quarry

glass, pertaining to vitreous, vitric

glassworker n. gaffer, servitor

glaze n. verglas

glazed surface ciré

gleaming adj. coruscant, coruscating, refulgent, splendent

gleanings, literary analects

glib adj. facile, voluble

glide v. volplane

glide n. glissade

glimpse n. aperçu

glittering adj. clinquant, gemmy, glinting, rutilant

globe n. georama

globular adj. globate, globose, stilliform

gloomy adj. atrabilious, feral, Gothic, lowering, lowery, lugubrious, muzzy, saturnine, sepulchral, splenetic, Stygian, tenebrous

glorify v. apotheosize, canonize, venerate

glorious adj. halcyon, palmy

glory n. effulgence, refulgence

glove n. gage, gauntlet

glow n. glinn, incandescence

glowing adj. candent, candescent, fervid, florid, rutilant, suffused

glut v. pall, sate, stodge, surfeit

glut n. plethora, profusion, repletion, surfeit

gluttony n. gormandizing, gulosity

gnarled adj. knurled

go v. betake, repair, wend

goad n. ankus, gad

goad v. pique, prick

goatlike adj. caprine, hircine

goat underhair pashm

gobbledegook n. claptrap, gallimatias

goblet n. chalice

goblin n. barghest, bugbear, duende, kobold, ouphe, puca

God n. Adonai, Allah, Tetragrammaton, Yahweh, YHTD

godfather n. padrino

godlike adj. deiform

gods or goddesses daemon, demigod, demigoddess, deux ex machina, deva, faun, godling, household god, lares and penates, pantheon, yazata, zombie

God willing Deo volente

gold, made of chryselephantine

golden adj. aureate, auriferous, aurous

gold powder ormolu

gold therapy chrysotherapy

gong n. tam-tam

good adj. pukka

good, the highest summum bonum

good faith bona fides

good life, the dolce vita

goodness n. probity, rectitude

good news evangel

goose, like a anserine

goose flesh horripilation

gorge n. couloir, defile

gorge v. stodge, surfeit

gossip n. gabbler, quidnunc, rumormonger, tabby, tittle-tattle

gossip v. palaver, prate, tittle-tattle

gossipy adj. dishy, long-tongued

gourd n. calabash, cucurbit, maraca

gourmet n. bon vivant, epicure, feinschmecker, gastronome

gout n. podagra

governess n. duenna

governments, types of androcracy, diarchy, dinarchy, duarchy, dulocracy, duumvirate, ethnarchy, gerontocracy, gynarchy, gynecocracy, hagiarchy, hagiocracy, heptarchy, isocracy, kakistocracy, mediocracy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, ochlocracy, octarchy, oligarchy, pentarchy, plutocracy, polyarchy, quadrumvirate, stratocracy, thearchy, theocracy, timocracy, triarchy, triumvirate

governor n. bey, dey, harmost, hospoder, nomarch, satrap, sherif, subadar, tuchun, voivode

graceful adj. featly, lightsome, lissome

graffiti n. placas

grain, feeding on granivorous

grammar n. hypercorrection

grammar, error in solecism

grammatical subordination hypotaxis

grandmother n. babushka

grant n. demise, subvention

grape n. scuppernog

grape juice stum

graph n. nomogram

graphite n. plumbago

grasp n. intellection

grasping, adapted for prehensile

grass, clump of tussock

grass, feeding on graminivorous

grassy adj. gramineous, verdant

grating sound stridor

gratuity n. baksheesh, benefaction, broadus, cumshaw, dash, douceur, lagniappe, pilon, pourboire

grave n. cenotaph, Davy Jones's locker

grave adj. sobersided, staid

graveclothes n. cerecloths, cerements, wrappings

gravedigger n. fossarian, fossor

graverobber n. ghoul

gravy boat sauceboat

gray adj. griseous, grizzle, grizzly, hoary

grease n. schmaltz, suint

greasy adj. oleaginous, unctuous, unguinous

great work magnum opus

greedy adj. acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, esurient, mercenary, prehensile, rapacious, voracious

greedy person harpy

Greeks, friend of the philhellene

green adj. verdant, virid

greenhouse n. conservatory, orangery

greenness n. greenth, verdancy, verdure, verdurousness, viridity

grid n. grillage, grille, lattice

griddle n. comal

grief n. dolor

grievance n. gravamen

grievous adj. dolorous, flagitious, heinous

grill n. babracot

grimace n. mop, moue

grin v. fleer

grind v. comminute, kibble, levigate, masticate, triturate

grinding stone mano

grinding wheel skeif

gritty adj. sabulous

groin, of the inguinal

groove n. croze, flute, rabbet, regle, sulcus

grope v. flounder, grabble

grotesque adj. antic, baroque

grotesque person golliwogg

grouch n. crosspatch, curmudgeon

grouchiness n. mulligrubs

grouchy adj. grouty, grum, growly, morose

ground floor rez-de-chaussée

groundless adj. untenable

group n. aggregation, bevy, bloc, cabal, camarilla, cete, chiliad, clowder, collegium, cortege, coterie, coven, covey, ennead, galaxy, galère, gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, phylon, retinue

grove n. boscage, bosk, bosket, motte, shinnery

grow v. burgeon, wax

growing adj. accrescent, crescent, crescive

growl v. gnar, gnarl, wamble

growth n. accrescence, accretion, alluvion, burl, excrescence, gall, hypertrophy

growth hormone auxin

gruel n. loblolly

grumble n. susurration

guardianship n. tutelage, wardship

guerrilla fighters fedayeen, mujahedin

guess v. conjecture, peradventure

guidance n. manuduction

guide n. cicerone, docent, dragoman, lodestar, shikari, voyageur

guilty adj. culpable, felonious, nefarious

gulch n. coulee

gulf n. chasm

gullet n. esophagus, maw

gully n. arroyo, barranca, couloir, nullah, wadi

gulp v. englut, swizzle

gummy adj. mucilaginous, viscid

gurgling, intestinal borborygmus

gushing adj. effusive, scaturient

gut v. disembowel, eviscerate, exenterate

gutter n. cullis, kennel

gymnasium n. palaestra

gypsum n. gesso

Gypsy n. rye, Tzigane

gyration n. precession

H

habit n. bent, idiocracy, propensity

habitual adj. inveterate, wonted

habitué n. denizen

hackneyed adj. stereotyped

hag n.beldam, harpy, harridan, shrew, virago

haggle v. chaffer, higgle, palter, stickle

hail interj. salve

hair n. chignon, crine, cymotrichy, earlock, elflock, glochid, hackle, pile, vibrissa

hair, of pilar

hair, producing piliferous

hair, remove depilate, epilate

hair, resembling piliform

hair, study of trichology

haircutting n. tonsure

haired, straight lissotrichous

hairiness n. hypertrichosis

hairlike adj. capillaceous, trichoid

hair shirt cilice

hairsplitter n. pedant

hair tonic bandoline

hairy adj. comate, comose, crinite, crinose, hirsutulous, hirtellous, pileous, pilose, pilous

half n. moiety

half-dressed adj. en déshabillé, in dishabille

half-smoked pipe tobacco dottle

hall n. dalan, odeum, sala

hallucination n. formication, phantasm, phantasmagoria

halo n. aureole, gloriole, Heiligenschein

halter n. hackamore

ham n. gammon

hamlet n. dorp

hammer n. kevel, maul, Mjolnir

hammer v. incuse, malleate

hamper v. encumber, enmesh, fetter, straiten, throttle, trammel

hand, shaped like a maniform

handbag n. reticule

handball court sphaeristerium

handbill n. dodger

handbook n. enchiridion, vade mecum

handcuff n. bilboes, fetter, gyve, manacle

handkerchief n. pocketsquare, sudarium

handle n. ansa, bail, haft, helve

handlelike adj. ansate

handwriting, bad cacography

handwriting, beautiful calligraphy

handwriting expert graphologist

handy adj. dextrous

handyman n. factotum

hangnail n. agnail

hangover n. katzenjammer

hangover remedy hair of the dog, prairie oyster

haphazard adj. desultory, fitful

happen v. bechance, betide, eventuate

happiness n. beatitude, eudemonia, felicity

happiness, conducive to eudemoniac, felicific

happy adj. blithe, jocund

happy-go-lucky adj. heedless, improvident, insouciant

hara-kiri n. seppuku

harangue n. screed, tirade

harbor n. anchorage, port of call

hard adj. adamantine, flinty, petrosal, petrous, sclerous

hardened adj. indurate, inured, inveterate

hard-pressed adj. bedeviled, beleaguered, beset

hardship n. privation

hardtack n. sea biscuit, sea bread, ship biscuit

hard to please difficile

hardworking adj. assiduous, sedulous, zealous

hare n. leporide, leveret

harem n. seraglio

harem concubine odalisque

harem guard eunuch

harem room oda, odah

harmful adj. baleful, baneful, deleterious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious

harmless adj. benign, innocuous, innoxious

harmony n. concinnity, concord, consonance, correspondence

harness n. tack

harness maker lorimer

harpoon n. bomb lance, grains, lily iron

harsh adj. cacophonous, discordant, stridulous

harsh sound stridulation

harvest n. ingathering

hashish n. charas

haste n. celerity, hurry-scurry, precipitancy, swivet

hasten v. festinate, precipitate

hatchet n. mogo

hate v. abominate, execrate

hateful adj. execrable, flagitious, odious

hatred n. antipathy, malignity, obloquy, odium

haughtiness n. hauteur

haughty adj. cavalier, fastuous, orgulous

haunch n. huckle

having multiple meanings polysemic, polysemous

haystack n. cock, haycock, rick

hazardous adj. parlous, venturesome, venturous

hazy adj. nebulose, nebulous

head n. pate, poll, sconce

head, of the cephalic

head, shaving of the tonsure

headache n. cephalalgia, clavus, hemicrania, megrim, migraine

headband n. bandeau, diadem, snood

headcloth n. wimple

headdress n. atefcrown, chaperon, kaffiyeh, wimple

headless adj. acephalous

headlong adj. gadarene, precipitate

head of household paterfamilias

head shapes brachycephaly, dolichocephaly, mesocephaly, orthocephaly

head-to-toe adj. cap-a-pie, de haut en bas

healer n. curandero

healing adj. assuasive, emollient, palliative, sanative, sanatory

healthful adj. constitutional, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, sanatory

heap n. congeries, cumulus

hearing n. audition, clairaudience

hearing, poor paracusis

hearse n. catafalque

heart n. corazón

heart, by memoriter

heartbeat, excessively rapid tachycardia

heartburn n. pyrosis, water brash

heart-shaped adj. cordate, cordiform

heat, final qualifying in a race repechage

heat, producing calorific

heat, sexual estrus, rut

heater n. latrobe, salamander

heating adj. calefacient, calefactory, incalescent

heat-producing adj. calorifacient, euthermic

heaven n. empyrean, firmament, Hel, Kur, New Jerusalem, Niflheim, satyaloka, Zion

heavenly adj. beatific, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, seraphic, supernal

heckle v. badger, bait, hector

hedge v. equivocate, temporize, tergiversate

hedonist n. sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary

heir n. coparcener, parcener

heiress n. inheritrix

hell n. Gehenna, Hades, nether world, perdition, sheol

hell, dwelling in chthonic

hellish adj. execrable, Stygian

helmet n. armet, barbut, basinet, puggaree, sallet, topee

helmet-shaped adj. galeate, galeiform

help n. manna, succor

helpful adj. adjuvant, effectual, efficacious, implemental, salutary

helpless adj. altricial, footless, ineffectual

helpmate n. helpmeet

hemispheric adj. semispheric

hemp n. dagga

hen n. poulard, pullet

herb n. potherb

herbal remedy galenical

herbarium n. hortus siccus

herd n. gam, manada, pod, press

here and there throughout passim

heretic n. heresiarch, schismatic

hermaphrodite n. freemartin

hermaphroditic adj. androgynous, autoicous

hermit n. anchoress, anchorite, cenobite, eremite, marabout, solitudinarian, troglodyte

hesitant adj. irresolute, vacillant

hesitate v. dither, hem and haw, stickle, whiffle

hesitation n. demur, irresolution

heterogeneous adj. motley, piebald

hex n. pishogue

hiccup n. singultus

hidden adj. delitescent, perdu, turbid

hide n. kip, fell

hide v. cache, embosk, ensconce

highest good summum bonum

highest point apogee, zenith

highway n. autobahn, autoroute, autostrada

highwayman n. footpad

hinder v. cumber, embar, stultify, trammel

hip n. coxa, haunch, huckle

Hiroshima survivor hibakusha

hiss v. sibilate

hissing adj. sibilant

historian n. griot

hives n. uredo, urticaria

hoarse adj. croaky, roupy

hoax n. canard, imposture, mare's nest

hobble v. trammel

hobby n. avocation

hobo n. knight of the road

hodgepodge n. ana, farrago, gallimaufry, mingle-mangle, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche

hog n. razorback, shoat

hog, side of flitch

hole n. fenestra, foramen, fumarole, Mohole, ventage

hollow adj. sepulchral

hollowed adj. cavate

holy of holies sanctum sanctorum

holy oil oil of catechumens, oil of the sick

holy place halidom

Holy Spirit, the Paraclete

holy water, basin for stoup

homeless child street arab

homesickness n. mal du pays, nostomania

homonym n. homograph, homophone

honesty n. probity, rectitude, veracity

honey, producing melliferous

honeycombed adj. faveolate

honor n. accolade, brevet, deference, izzat, kudos

honor v. hallow, reverence, solemnize

honor, conveying honorific

honoree n. laureate

hooded garment capote, capuche, cowl

hoodlike adj. cucullate

hoofed adj. ungulate

hook n. agraffe, crampon, gaff

hook v. gaff

hook, surgeon's tenaculum

hooked adj. adunc, aquiline, falcate

hoot v. ululate

horizontal n. prone, recumbent, supine

horn n. corn, cornucopia, klaxon, shofar

horn, drinking rhyton

horned adj. corniculate

hornless adj. muley, polled

hornless animal pollard

horny adj. ceratoid, corneous, keratinous, keratoid

horror n. abomination, antipathy, Schrecklichkeit

horse n. cob, dobbin

horse, fresh remount

horse, worn-out jade, rosinante

horseflesh, eater of hippophagist

horse-lover n. hippophile

horseman n. centaur, charro, hazer

horsemanship n. equitation

horseman or horsewoman n. centaur

horses, team of three troika

horseshoe crab xiphosuran

horseshoer n. farrier

horse training dressage, manège

hospice n. imaret

hospital n. lazaret, lazaretto, leper house, leprosarium, pesthouse

hospital, pertaining to a nosocomial

hostility n. animus, hornet's nest, malevolence

hotel n. caravansary, hostelry

hotel manager hotelier

hothead n. hotspur

hotheaded adj. choleric, irascible, testy

hot springs thermae

hourly adj. horal, horary

house n. barabara, bastide, casita, chickee, columbary, crannog, dacha, earth lodge, galerie house, hale, hogan, hospitium, izba, jacal, palapa, pathan, pied-à-terre, ribat, wanigan, yurt

household n. ménage, ménage à trois

household gods lares and penates

housewife n. baleboste

howl v. caterwaul, ululate

hubbub n. charivari

huddle v. scrooch

hulk n. scow

hum v. bombinate

human being terrestrial, wight

humble v. abash, go to Canossa, mortify

humbug n. gammon

humiliating adj. contumelious, ignominious

humility n. humble pie, self-effacement

humor n. jocosity, pantagruelism, waggery

hump n. hubble

humus n. mor

hunchbacked adj. gibbous

hundredfold n. centuple

hundredth adj. centesimal

hundred-year-old n. centenarian

hunger, abnormal bulimia

hung-over adj. crapulent, crapulous

hungry adj. esurient, lupine, peckish

hunter n. chasseur, jacklighter, nimrod, pothunter

hunting, pertaining to venatic

huntress n. Diana

hurl v. jaculate

hurry v. festinate

hurry n. celerity

hurt v. aggrieve, scathe

hurtful adj. deleterious, nocuous, noxious

husband n. helpmate, helpmeet, sannup

husbands, having three trigamy (n.)

hush up hugger-mugger

hut n. jacal, rancho, scherm, wickiup

hymen n. maidenhead

hymn n. canticle, doxology, kontakion, laud, Magnificat

hymn book hymnal, hymnary

hypnotize v. gorgonize, mesmerize

hypocrite n. pecksniff, pharisee, Tartuffe, whited sepulcher

hypocritical adj. canting, crocodilian, Janus-faced, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical

hypothesize v. hypothecate

hypothetical adj. suppositious, supposititious

I

ice n. frazil, pan, sérac

ice, floating floe

ice accumulation embacle

ice ax piolet

iceberg n. floeberg, growler

icy adj. gelid, glacial

ideal n. archetype, eidolon, exemplar, nonesuch, nonpareil, paradigm, paragon, touchstone

idealist n. stargazer, visionary

identical adj. congruent, congruous, identic

identical backward and forward cancrine, palindromic

idiotic adj. asinine, fatuous

idle adj. fainéant, otiose, recumbent, slothful

idleness n. dolce far niente, flânerie, idlesse, sloth, torpor

idler n. drone, fainéant, flâneur, wastrel

idol n. golden calf, joss, Juggernaut, minion, teraph

idolatry n. apotheosis, Baalism, fornication

ignorance n. crassitude, nescience

ignorant adj. benighted, crass, nescient

illegitimate child catch-colt, mamzer, natural child, nullius filius, Sunday baby, whoreson

ill-fated adj. star-crossed

illness, pretend malinger

ill-tempered adj. atrabilious

ill-timed adj. inopportune

illuminate v. miniate

illuminating adj. luciferous

illusion n. chimera, Dead Sea fruit, déja vu, fata morgana, maya, phantasm, phiphenomenon

illusions, series of phantasmagoria

illusory adj. papier-mâché, phantasmal

illustrious adj. lustrous, redoubtable, refulgent, splendent

ill will malignity, rancor, spleen

image n. eikon, icon, idolum, ikon, persona, simulacrum, xoanon

images, worship of iconolatry

imaginary adj. chimerical, fabled, illusive, notional, quixotic

imaginative adj. visionary

imagine v. envisage, ideate, prefigure

imaging, vivid in eidetic

imitation n. parody, mimesis, travesty

imitative adj. apish, emulous, ersatz, mimetic

imitator n. ape, epigone, Gongorist

immaterial adj. asomatous, incorporeal

immature adj. callow, infantine, jejune, unfledged

immaturity n. minority, nonage

immediately adv. forthwith, instanter

immense adj. Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Cyclopean, decuman

immensity n. vastitude, vastity

immerse v. submerse

imminent adj. looming, proximate

immodesty n. impudicity, temerity

immolation n. sati

immoral adj. concupiscent, dissolute, fescennine, libertine, libidinous, reprobate, scrofulous

immortality n. amrita, athanasia

immortalize v. eternize

immunization n. mithridatism

impair v. corrode, vitiate

impartially adv. disinterestedly, dispassionately, equably, pari passu

impassable adj. impervious, impractable

impassioned adj. perfervid

impassive adj. phlegmatic, stolid

impatient adj. chafing, petulant

impede v. fetter, stanch, stultify, trammel

imperative adj. peremptory

imperishable adj. perdurable

impermanence n. caducity, evanescence

impermanent adj. ephemeral, transitory

impertinent adj. forward

impervious adj. impermeable

implant v. imbue, infuse, inseminate

implication n. connotation, ramification

implore v. entreat, importune, supplicate

imply v. allude, connote, insinuate

importance n. centrality, concernment, moment

important adj. material, salient

impose v. foist

imposing adj. stately

impossible, make preclude

impostor n. Cagliostro, charlatan

impotence n. agenesis

impotent adj. impuissant

impractical adj. doctrinaire, quixotic

impregnation n. fecundation, semination, superfecundation, superfetation

impression n. percept

impressionable adj. susceptive

impressive adj. august, impactive, skookum

imprison v. immure, mure

imprisonment n. durance, duress

impromptu adj./adv. extempore

impropriety n. faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, indecorum, solecism

improve v. ameliorate, emend, meliorate

improvised adj. autoschediastic, ersatz, extemporary, extempore, jury

impudent adj. brazen, cheeky, forward, presumptuous

impulse n. impulsion, nisus

inability n. impotence, incapacity

inaction n. languor, torpor

inactive adj. abeyant, fallow, indolent

inactivity n. stasis, torpidity

inadequacy n. dearth, inefficacy

inadequate adj. insubstantial, niggardly

inane adj. fatuous, vacuous

inanimate adj. insentient, quiescent

inanity n. vacuity

inappropriate adj. inapposite, inapt, malapropos

inattentive adj. oblivious, oscitant

inaugurate v. auspicate

inborn adj. cognate, connate, immanent, ingenerate

incantation n. conjuration, mantra

incarnation n. avatar, embodiment

incense n. joss stick

incense burner n. censer, incensory, thurible

incense burner, carrier of thurifer

incentive n. goad, golden handshake

incessant adj. stanchless, unrelenting, unremitting

inchworm n. looper, measuringworm

incidental adj. fortuitous, intervenient

incineration n. immolation, sati

incipient adj. inchoate

incisive adj. aculeate, trenchant

inciting adj. proceleusmatic

inclination n. conation, penchant, predilection, proclivity, velleity

include v. comprise, embody

inclusive adj. comprising, embracing

incomparable adj. inimitable, peerless

incompatible adj. antipathetic, disparate

incompetent adj. feckless

incompetent, harmless Throttlebottom

incongruous adj. discordant, dissonant

incongruity n. disparity

inconsequential adj. nugatory

inconsistency n. solecism

inconsistent adj. capricious, discrepant

inconsolable adj. disconsolate

inconstant adj. capricious, chameleonic, mercurial, protean

inconvenient adj. incommodious, inopportune, vexatious

incorporeal adj. discarnate

incorrigible child enfant terrible

incorruptible adj. imputrescible, inviolable

increase v. eke, irrupt, wax

increasing adj. accrescent, crescent, crescive, increscent, waxing

incurable adj. immedicable, irremediable

indecent adj. blue, indecorous, ithyphallic, licentious, salacious, scabrous

indecisive adj. irresolute, vacillant

indefinable something je ne sais quoi

indefinite adj. aoristic

indent v. deboss

independent adj. autocephalous

indescribable adj. ineffable, inenarrable

indicate v. betoken, evince, forebode, portend, presage

indication n. harbinger, indicium, portent

indicative adj. evincive, indicial, precursory

indicator n. indicant

indifferent adj. affectless, apathetic, cavalier, feckless, insouciant, pococurante

indignation n. dudgeon, pique

indirect adj. circuitous, meandering, oblique, tortuous

indiscretion n. faux pas, imprudence

indiscriminate adj. desultory, wholesale

indisputable adj. irrecusable, irrefragable

indistinct adj. crepuscular, nebulous

individualize v. individuate

indivisible adj. impartible, indiscerptible

indoctrinate v. inoculate

indolent adj. fainéant

induce v. foster, occasion

induction n. investiture

inductive adj. a posteriori

indulge to excess surfeit

industrial combination cartel, zaibatsu

industrious adj. assiduous, operose, sedulous

inept adj. gauche, maladroit

inequality n. disparity, imparity

inertia n. languor

inevitable adj. ineluctable, inexorable, predestined

inexorable adj. relentless, ruthless

inexperienced adj. callow, jejune, unfledged, unversed, verdant

inexperienced person gosling, naïf

inexpressible adj. ineffable

inexpressive adj. wooden

infallible adj. inerrant, unimpeachable

infamous adj. flagitious, nefarious

infamy n. ignominy

infant n. nursling, putto

infatuate v. besot

infectious adj. infective, pestilential

infer v. educe, surmise

inference n. extrapolation, illation, surmise

inference, incorrect non sequitur

inferential adj. conjectural, illative

inferior adj. abject, base, ignoble, scrubby

infernal adj. chthonic, nether, plutonian, plutonic

infidel n. kafir

infinitive n. supine

infinity n. infinitude

inflammable adj. combustible, piceous, tindery

inflated adj. distended, flatulent

inflexible adj. adamant, inexorable, intractable, obdurate

inflict v. levy, visit, wreak

influence n. good offices, leverage

influential n. consequential

influential person éminence grise, gray eminence

infolding n. invagination

inform v. apprise

informative adj. edifying, explicative

informer n. blabbermouth

infringement n. breach, contravention, encroachment, infraction, transgression

infuse v. imbue, inculcate, ingrain

ingenious adj. daedal

ingest v. incept

ingrained adj. inveterate

ingratiating, overly saccharine

inhabitant n. denizen, habitant

inhale v. inspire

inherent adj. congenital, immanent, innate, intrinsic, inveterate

inheritance n. hereditament, patrimony

initial adj. inceptive, inchoative, nascent

initiation n. rite of passage

injure v. blight, scathe, scotch

injustice n. tort

ink n. sumi

inland adj. epeiric

inland adv. mauka

inlet n. armlet, ria

inn n. auberge, caravansary, fonda, gasthaus, khan, posada, pousada, quinta, ryokan, serai

innate adj. connate, connatural, ingenerate

innermost recesses penetralia

innkeeper n. boniface

innocent adj. dewy-eyed, ingenuous, virginal

innovation n. neoterism

innovation, hatred of misoneism

innovative adj. germinal, seminal

innuendo n. aspersion, imputation

innumerable adj. myriad

in paper, cooked en papillote

in passing en passant

inquiry n. inquest, interrogatory

inroad n. encroachment

insatiable adj. ravenous, voracious

inscription n. chronogram, colophon, epigraph, epitaph, exergue, legend, ogham

insect n. creepy-crawly, midge

insect-eating adj. entomophagous, insectivorous

insect repellent insectifuge

insensitive adj. callous, pachydermatous

insertion n. intercalation, interpolation, tmesis

insider n. arcanist

insignia n. regalia

insignificance n. nugacity

insignificant adj. manini, minuscule, picayune, piffling

insincere adj. bathetic, crocodilian, disingenuous, faux-naïf, fulsome, meretricious

insincerity n. bunkum, claptrap, dissimulation, duplicity, mendacity

insinuate v. allude, intimate

insipid adj. jejune, vapid

insistent adj. clamant, exigent

insolent adj. brazen, cheeky, contumacious, contumelious

inspiration n. afflatus, duende

inspired adj. afflated, vatic

inspiring adj. infusive, proceleusmatic

instant n. trice

instead of vice

instill v. engender, imbue, infix, infuse

instruction n. tuition, tutelage

instructions n. indicia

instructive adj. edificatory, preceptive

insubordinate adj. contumacious, disaffected

insubstantial adj. illusory

in succession en suite

insufficiency n. dearth, penury

insult v. belittle, demean, denigrate, disparage, flout, mortify

insult n. affront, contumely, Parthian shot, parting shot

insurgent n. young Turk

integrity n. probity, rectitude

intellect n. citta, nous

intellectuals n. clerisy, intelligentsia, literati, mandarins

intelligent adj. intellective, intelligential

intend v. purport, purpose

intense adj. fervent, fervid, impassioned, poignant

intensify v. aggravate, potentiate

intent n. purport, tenor

intent adj. preoccupied, rapt

intentional adj. prepense, witting

interbreeding n. miscegenation

interceder n. intercessor, paraclete

interchangeable adj. fungible

interested adj. engaged, engrossed, preoccupied

interesting adj. affecting, engaging, engrossing

interfering adj. obtrusive, officious

interject v. intercalate

interlace v. wattle

interlock v. interdigitate

intermediate adj. interjacent

intermingle v. interlace, raddle, ruddle, wattle

intermittent adj. discontinuous, intermissive

internally derived endogenous

international language Esperanto, interlanguage, interlingua

interpose v. interlay, interpolate, interstratify

interpret v. construe, explicate, expound, gloss

interpretation n. anagoge, eisegesis, exegesis, explication, gloss

interpreter n. dragoman, exegete, explicator, glossarist, glossator, glossographer, hierophant, munshi, mystagogue

interruption n. anacoluthon, aposiopesis, caesura, disrupture, pretermission

intersect v. decussate

intersecting adj. intersectant

intersection n. groining

intervening adj. intercurrent, interjacent, intervenient

interweave v. pleach

intestinal adj. enteric, splanchnic, visceral

intestinal gurgling borborygmus

intestines n. entrails, viscera

intestines, of the enteric

in the first place imprimis

in the open air alfresco, en plein air

intimacy, sense of communitas

intimate n. bosom friend, confidant, familiar

intimate v. allude, insinuate

intimidated adj. browbeaten, cowed, daunted

intolerant adj. churchy, illiberal

intoxicated adj. bacchic, besotted, fuddled, inebriated

intoxicating adj. exhilarating, heady

intricacy n. cat's cradle, involution

intricate adj. crabbed, daedal, involute, labyrinthine

intrigue n. cabal, collusion, complot, knavery

intriguer n. intrigant, Jesuit

intriguing adj. piquant

introduction n. exordium, incipit, isagoge, manuduction, prelusion, proem, prolegomenon, prolusion

introductory adj. isagogic, precursory, prelusive, prolegomenous, propaedeutic

introspective adj. idiotropic

intrude v. obtrude

intrusive adj. officious

intuition n. Anschauung, prescience

invalid n. valetudinarian, valetudinary

invalid adj. nugatory

invalidate v. vitiate

invasion n. encroachment, irruption

invective n. philippic

inventive adj. daedal, pregnant

inventor n. artificer, Daedalus

inventory control kanban

inversion n. chiasmus, hysteron proteron

investigate v. indagate

investigator n. scrutator

invigorating adj. analeptic

invincible adj. indomitable, inexpugnable

inviolable adj. infrangible, sacrosanct

involve v. embroil, inculpate

involved, morally engagé

involvement n. immixture, involution

iota n. stiver

iridescence n. reflet

iridescent adj. nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent

Irish n./adj. Hibernian, Milesian

iron, tailor's flatiron, goose, sadiron

irony n. enantiosis

irrational adj. incommensurable, surd

irregular adj. anomalous, snatchy

irregularity n. abnormity, anomaly

irrepressible adj. buoyant, ebullient

irreverent adj. profane, sacrilegious

irritable adj. captious, choleric, fractious, huffish, irascible, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snuffy, stomachy, tetchy, vexatious, waspish

irritated adj. shirty

irritating adj. chafing, rebarbative

irritation n. pinprick, vexation

island n. cay, crannog, key

isn't that so? nicht wahr?

isolate v. deracinate, sequester

isolated adj. insular

isolated person isolato

issue v. debouch

issuing adj. emanent

itch n. mange, scabies

itching n. pruritus

itemized adj. particularized

I think, therefore I am cogito ergo sum

itinerant adj. peripatetic

ivory, made of chryselephantine

J

jack-of-all-trades n. factotum, tinker

jackstraw n. spillikin

jagged adj. craggy, hackly, scraggly

jail v. immure, impound

jailer n. alcaide

jam n. conserve

jammed adj. chockablock

Japanese immigrants and their descendants Issei, Kibei, Nisei, Sansei

jar n. alabastron, albarello, amphora, aryballos, askos, cymaise, dolium, hydria, kalpis, lekythos, loutrophoros, pelike, pithos, potiche, psykter, stamnos

jar v. concuss

jargon n. argot, cant, patois, pidgin

jaundice n. icterus

jaunty adj. insouciant, rakish

javelin n. assegai, jereed, pilum

jaw n. mandible, maxilla

jawless adj. agnathous

jaws, of the gnathic

jealousy n. heartburn

jeer v. fleer, flout, gibe, scout

jerk v. flounce

jerky adj. saccadic

jest n. bon mot, jape, pleasantry, raillery, sally

jest v. jape

jester n. droll, mummer, wag, zany

jesting adj. jocose, jocular, sportive, waggish

jetty n. wing dam

jewel case minaudière

jewelry n. bijou, bijouterie, parure, rivière, rondelle

job n. billet, métier

jock itch tinea cruris

join v. conjoin, inosculate, rabbet, sypher, tenon

join, serving to adj. copulative

joint n. commissure

joke n. chestnut, jape, Joe Miller, jocosity, jocularity, raillery, waggery, wheeze

joker n. farceur, farceuse, wag

jolly adj. boon, convivial

jolt v. jounce

jostle v. elbow, justle

journey n. hegira, peregrination

jovial adj. blithe, buoyant, convivial

jowl n. dewlap, wattle

joyful adj. blithesome, buoyant, frabjous

judge n. adjudicator, archon, caid, Daniel, dayan, Deborah, deemster, dicast, hakim, puisne, qadi

judgement n. discernment, discretion

judicious adj. circumspect, discerning, sagacious

judo expert judoka

jug n. blackjack, oinochoe, puzzle jug

juicy adj. succulent

jumble v. garble, pi

jumble n. conglomeration, farrago, gallimaufry

jumbled adj. higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge

jumping adj. salient, saltant

jurisdiction n. dominion, primacy, satrapy

jurisdiction, subject to justiciable (adj.)

jurist n. jurisconsult, mufti, mujtahid, mullah

justifiable adj. tenable, warrantable

justification n. apologia, raison d'être

justify v. legitimate, validate

juvenile adj. callow, jejune, puerile

K

karate n. tae kwon do

karate expert karateka

kazoo n. mirliton

keen adj. perspicacious, trenchant

kept, well kempt

kerchief n. fichu, rumel

key n. passe-partout

kidneys n. reins

kidneys, inflammation of the nephritis

kidneys, of the nephritic, renal

kidney-shaped adj. reniform

kidney stone calculus, nephrolith

kill v. jugulate, necrotize

killer n. deicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, regicide, sororicide

killing, mercy n. euthanasia

kind adj. altruistic, benignant

king, of a regius

kingdom n. regality

kingdom, mythical Ruritania

kinship n. consanguinity, phratry, propinquity

kiss v. buss, osculate

kiss n. osculation

kissing, pertaining to oscular

kitchen n. galley

kitchen servant scullion

knapsack n. musette bag

knead v. masticate

kneecap n. patella

knickers n. plus fours

knife n. barlow, barong, basilard, bistoury, bolo, bowie knife, choora, couteau, dirk, jambiya, kindjal, kukri, kwaiken, panga, parang, scramasax, skean, skean dhu, snickersnee, trivet, ulu

knight n. ritter

knob n. boss, knop, merese, nubble, pommel

knock-kneed adj. valgus

knoll n. chenier, hummock

knotty adj. knaggy, nodose, nodous

know v. apprehend, fathom, intuit

knowable adj. cognoscible, cognoscitive

knowing adj. witting

knowledgable adj. sciential

knowledgable people cognoscenti

knowledge n. cognition, gnosis, jnana, polymathy, prajna, precognition, privity

knowledge, hatred of misology

knowledge, pertaining to cognitive, gnostic

knowledge, pretender to sciolist

knowledge, supposed sciosophy

kowtow v. fawn, truckle

L

labor n. corvée, travail

labor v. drudge, slog

labor camp gulag

laborer n. bracero, fellah, lumper, roust, roustabout

labor-inducing adj. oxytocic, parturifacient

laborious adj. onerous, Sisyphean, toilsome

labyrinthine adj. Daedalean

lacerate v. scarify

lack n. dearth, paucity

lacking, something desideratum

lacrosse stick crosse

lacy adj. filigree, gossamer

ladylove n. dulcinea

laggard adj. dilatory

lair n. couch

lake n. nyanza, salina, tarn

lake, dry playa

lake, pertaining to a lacustrine

lake-dwelling adj. limnetic

lameness n. claudication

lament v. keen, ululate

lamentation n. coronach, jeremiad, keen, threnody

lamp n. glim, lampion, Ner Tamid, sinumbra lamp, torchiere

lampoon n./v. pasquinade

lamp pedestal lampadaire

land n. castellany, demesne, terrene

land, cleared swidden

land, promised Canaan

landed adj. praedial

landlord n. boniface, zamindar

land of plenty Goshen

landowner n. patroon, squireling

land reclaimed from the sea polder

language n. fustian, ideolect, lingua franca, lingua geral, pidgin, pidgin English, vernacular

language, of a lexical

language, use of figurative tropology

lanky adj. angular, gangling, rawboned

lantern n. luminaria

lapse n. faux pas, lapsus, peccadillo

large adj. outsize

lariat n. riata

lariat eye honda

larva-eating adj. larvivarous

last but one penult, penultimate

last but two antepenult, antepenultimate

lasting adj. indefectible, perdurable

last resort pis aller

late adj. dilatory

late in appearing or developing belated, serotine, tardive

latent adj. delitescent

late riser lie-a-bed

latticework n. treillage, trelliswork

laudatory adj. eulogistic, panegyric

laugh v. cachinnate, fleer, nicker, snigger

laughable adj. farcical, risible

laughing adj. riant, rident

laughter n. risibility

launch v. auspicate

lava n. obsidian, pahoehoe

lava fragment lapillus

lavish adj. churrigueresque, Lucullan, profusive

law n. Halachah, lex talionis, ordinance, ordonnance, prescript, rogation

law, relating to juridical

lawful adj. licit

lawgiver n. Draco, solon, Solon

lawn n. greensward

lawsuit of widespread interest cause célèbre

lawyer n. advocate, barrister, counsel, counselor-at-law, faqih, jurist, King's Counsel, Portia, Queen's Counsel, solicitor, vakeel

lawyer, rascally pettifogger, shyster

laxative n. aperient, aperitive, cathartic, emetic, hydragogue, lapactic, purgative

lay adj. laic, laical, secular

layer n. lamina, stratum

layperson n. secular

laziness n. accidie, acedia, fecklessness, oscitancy, otiosity

lazy eye amblyopia, strabismus

lead, containing plumbiferous

leaden adj. plumbeous

leader n. bellwether, cock of the walk, hegemon, pendragon

leadership n. dynamism, hegemony

lead poisoning saturnism

leaf n. folio

leaf-eating animal folivore

leaflet n. handbill, broadside

leaflike adj. foliate

leafy adj. foliaceous

leaning adj. recumbent

leaning n. bent, penchant, predilection, proclivity, propensity

lean-to n. wanigan

leap n. capriole, curvet, frisk, gambado, saltation

leaping adj. salient, saltigrade

learned person polyhistor, polymath

learning n. erudition, hypnopedia, pedantry, polymathy

learning disability dyslexia

leathery adj. coriaceous, leathern

leave v. decamp

leaves, feeding on phyllophagous

leaves, of foliar

leave-taking n. congé

leavings n. residua, tailings

lecher n. Don Juan, fornicator, libertine, pander, profligate, rake, rakehell, satyr, satyromaniac, sensualist, voluptuary, whoremaster, whoremonger

lectern n. altar stand, missal stand

lecture n. oratim

lecturer n. docent, lector

ledge n. scarcement

leech n. hirudinean

left behind remanent

left-handedness n. sinistrality

left to right, moving from sinistrodextral (adj.)

legal adj. jural, juridical

legal code pandects, Salic law

legging n. gambado, puttee

leggings n. chaps, galligaskins

legislative adj. nomothetic

legislator n. solon

legislators n. conscript fathers

legs, having many polyped

legs, one's own shanks' mare

lengthy adj. prolix

leniency n. lenity

lenient adj. compassionate, forbearing

Lenten adj. Quadragesimal

leper n. lazar

leper hospital lazaretto, leprosarium

leprosy n. Hansen's disease

lesbian adj. sapphic

lesbian n. sapphist, tribade

lesion n. chancre

lessening n. attenuation, diminution, extenuation, minification, mitigation, palliation, remission

lesson n. lection, pericope

letdown n. bathos

lethargy n. hebetude, inanition, stolidity, torpor

letter n. billet-doux, missive

letter-for-letter adv. literatim

letter of ancient alphabet rune

letters, of epistolary

lewd adj. Cyprian, gamy, ithyphallic, Paphian, prurient

liar n. Ananias, fabulist, prevaricator, romancer

libel n. calumniation, calumny

libel v. asperse, calumniate

liberal adj. catholic, latitudinarian

liberal arts quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music); trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic)

liberate v. disenthrall, manumit

library n. athenaeum, bibliotheca

lice n. crabs, pediculosis

lice, infested with pediculous

lice, pertaining to pedicular

license n. imprimatur, pratique

licentious adj. Corinthian, Cyprian, fescennine

lie v. dissemble, dissimulate, palter

lie n. canard, mendacity, prevarication

lie detector polygraph

life n. anima

life-extending adj. macrobiotic

life force élan vital

life-giving adj. vitalizing

life insurance tontine

lifeless adj. azoic, defunct, exanimate, insensate

life of self-indulgence dolce vita

life prolonger elixir

lifting device gantry, lewis

light n. Baily's beads, glim

light, pertaining to photic

light, producing luminiferous

light again relume, relumine

light and shade chiaroscuro, clair-obscure

light-emitting adj. luminescent, photoluminescent

light-heartedness n. rhathymia

lighthouse n. pharos

lighting n. balisage

lightning, resembling fulgurous

likely adj. disposed, prone, verisimilar

liking n. affinity, penchant, predilection

limited adj. circumscribed, constrained, one-horse, parochial, provincial

limitless adj. illimitable, infinite

limp adj. flaccid, flaggy, lank

limping n. claudication

line, shading hachure

lined adj. lineate

line of descent strips

linguist n. linguistician, polyglot

liniment n. embrocation

lining n. brattice

link n. nexus

link v. catenate, concatenate, conjoin

linking verb copula, copulative verb

lintel n. manteltree

lionlike adj. leonine

lions, group of pride

lip n. labium, labrum

lip movement when reading mussitation

lip ornament labret

lipped adj. labiate

lipped, large- lippy

lipreader n. oralist

lips, loose n. flews

lips, of the labial

liquefy v. deliquesce

liquid, cooking blanc, court-bouillon

listening n. auscultation

listlessness n. ennui, languor, lassitude

litany n. synapte

literally adv. literatim

literary effort lucubration

literary gleanings analects

literary people republic of letters

literature n. belles-lettres

lithe adj. limber, lissome

litter n. dooly, palanquin

little man homunculus, manikin

live-bearing adj. viviparous

lively adj. blithe, mercurial, sprightly, yare

liver, pertaining to the hepatic

living adj. animate

living, capable of viable

living again redivivus (adj.)

lizard n. gecko

lizard, like a saurian

load v. lade

loaf v. lallygag, loll

loafer n. drone, flâneur, layabout, slugabed, sluggard

loan n. imprest

loathe v. abominate

loathing n. antipathy, scunner

lobotomy n. encephalotomy

lobster liver tomalley

local adj. vicinal

locale n. venue

lockjaw n. tetanus, trismus

lock of hair n. flock, forelock

locomotive n. barney, dinkey

lodging n. billet, casern

lofty adj. inflated, rarefied, supercilious, supernal, turgid

logger n. rosser

logic, employ logicize

logic, system of organon, organum

logical fallacies begging the question, ignoratio elenchi, non causa pro causa, non sequitur, petitio principii, post hoc ergo propter hoc, undistributed middle

logician n. casuist, dialectician

logic terms enthymeme, episyllogism, equivocation, polysyllogism, syllogism

loin n. noisette

loincloth n. dhoti, lungi, pagne

long for desiderate

long-headed adj. dolichocephalic

longing n. desiderium

long-lived adj. longevous, macrobiotic

long-tailed adj. longicaudal, longicaudate, macrurous

long-winded adj. discursive, prolix

long word sesquipedalian

loop n. bight, dee, picot

loosen v. slacken, unfix

loosening n. laxation

lopsided adj. antigodlin

lord n. daimyo, liege, seigneur, seignior

Lord's Prayer pater, paternoster

lore, pertaining to loral

loss n. privation

loss of will abulia

lotion n. emollient, unguent

lots, drawing of sortition

lottery n. pakapoo

loud adj. blatant, clamorous, roistering, vociferous

lounge n. greenroom

love n. cupboard love, eros, grand passion

love feast agape

love letter billet-doux

love potion philter

lovers, pairs of Daphnis and Chloe, Pyramus and Thisbe, Romeo and Juliet

love song alba

loving adj. amative, anacreontic

lowbrow n. Babbitt, philistine

lower v. vail

lower adj. nether

lowest point nadir

lowly adj. ignoble, plebeian

low-necked adj. décolleté

loyalty n. Bushido, fealty, staunchness

lozenge n. cachou, jujube, pastille, troche

lucid adj. luculent

luck n. serendipity

ludicrous adj. risible

lukewarm adj. Laodicean, tepid

lullaby n. cradlesong

luminescence n. foxfire, ignis fatuus

luminous adj. lambent, lucent, refulgent

lump n. bolus, boule, dollop, gobbet, nubble

lumpy adj. nubby

lunar month lunation

lungs, animal lights

lure n. attractant, troll

lurk v. skulk

lush adj. teeming, verdant

lust n. concupiscence, lechery

luster n. iridescence, luminosity, reflet, refulgence, schiller

lustful adj. concupiscent, goatish, lascivious, lecherous, lubricious, ruttish

lustful thoughts, having prurient

lustrous adj. iridescent, nacreous, nitid

lute player lutanist, lutenist, lutist

luxuriate v. wallow

luxurious adj. Babylonian, Corinthian, Lucullan, pharaonic, Sardanapalian, sybaritic, voluptuous

lying n. mendacity

lying adj. mendacious

lying above adj. superjacent

lying face down adj. procumbent, prone, prostrate, supine

lying down adj. decumbent, recumbent

lying on the back adj. supine

M

machine, drilling stoper

machine gun mitrailleuse

machinery, destroyer of Luddite

machines, control by cybernation

madam n. bawd

magic n. black art, conjuration, diablerie, diabolism, gramarye, necromancy, occultism, sortilege, thaumaturgy, theurgy

magical broth hellbroth

magician n. archimage, conjurer, Dactyl, illusionist, Joukahainen, magus, necromancer, prestidigitator, Prospero, shaman, thaumaturge, thaumatrope

magistrate n. burgomaster, corregidor, doge, gonfalonier, gymnasiarch, podesta, praetor, praetorian, prior, quaestor, syndic

magnanimity, display of beau geste

magnet n. lodestone

magnetism, personal n. charisma, duende

magnificent adj. palatine, resplendent

magnifying glass loupe

maid n. abigail, amah, ayah

maim v. scotch

maintain v. asseverate, postulate

maintainable adj. tenable, viable

maintenance n. alimentation, sustentation

majestic adj. august, opulent, sublime

make v. actualize, confect

make disloyal disaffect, estrange

makeshift adj. expedient, jackleg, jury-rigged

make unnecessary obviate

makeup n. maquillage

malaria n. paludism

malcontent n. frondeur

male-dominated adj. androcentric

male relative agnate

male rule androcracy

malign v. asperse, calumniate

malignant adj. baleful, virulent

man, little homunculus, manikin

man, old gaffer

manageable adj. docile, regulable, wieldy

management n. eutaxy

manager n. gerent

maneuver n. démarche, gambit, razzle-dazzle, ruse, stratagem, wile

mangle v. lacerate

mania n. cacoëthes

manifestation n. avatar, epiphany

manifesto n. pronunciamento

mannerism n. affectation, preciosity

manners n. decorum, suavities

mantra n. gayatri, om, pranava

manual n. enchiridion, vade mecum

manufactured adj. factitious

manufactured item facture

manufacturer n. fabricant

manuscript n. anopisthograph, chrysograph, opisthograph, uncial, vellum

many adj. divers, manifold, multifarious, myriad, sundry

map n. planisphere, plat

map case solander

mar v. vitiate

marauder n. mosstrooper

marble n. brocatel, cipolin

marble, like marmoreal

marble, a playing agate, dobie, immie, taw

march v. debouch

march n. anabasis, débouché, étape, katabasis

marginal adj. limbic, nugatory

marginal notes marginalia

marijuana adj. bhang, charas, dagga, ganja, sinsemilla

marine adj. thalassic

marine farming mariculture

mark v. demarcate, hachure, hatch, obelize

mark n. breve, cedilla, circumflex, dagger, diacritic, dieresis, diesis, double dagger, macron, nikkud, obelus, pilcrow, tilde

marked adj. gyrose

marker n. fanion

market n. bazaar, mercado, suk

marketplace n. agora, maidan

marriage, of hymeneal

marriage, hatred of misogamy

marriage, types of deuterogamy, digamy, endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy, levirate, mésalliance, misalliance, monandry, monogamy, monogyny, morganatic marriage, open marriage, plural marriage, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny, sororate, trigamy

marriageable adj. nubile

marriage broker shadkhan

marriage custom levirate

marriage poem epithalamion, epithalamium, protothalamion, protothalamium

married man, newly benedict

marshy adj. boggy, fenny, paludal, plashy, quaggy, Serbonian

marshy region maremma

martial art tae kwon do, t'ai chi ch'uan

martyr n. protomartyr

marvelous to relate mirabile dictu

marvels n. mirabilia

mask n. loup

masked person guisard

masochism n. algolagnia

masquerade n. mummery

mass n. concretion, petrifaction, ruck

massacre n. pogrom, Sicilian Vespers

massage n. effleurage, reflexology, shiatsu

massage v. manipulate, Rolf

massage technique tapotement

masses, the hoi polloi, plebeians, proletariat, vulgus

masterly adj. consummate

masterpiece n. chef d'oeuvre

masturbation n. onanism, self-abuse

mat n. tatami

match n. locofoco, lucifer

match v. jibe, tally

matchless adj. consummate, inimitable

material adj. corporeal

materialistic adj. banausic

materialize v. reify

mating area lek

mattock n. twibill

mattress n. futon, pallet, palliasse, shikibuton

mature adj. fledged

mature v. maturate

maxim n. aphorism, gnome, logion, saw

maxims, some Murphy's Law, Occam's razor, Parkinson's law, Peter Principle

mayonnaise n. aioli

mayor n. alcalde, podesta

mazelike adj. labyrinthine, mazy

meadow n. lea

meager adj. exiguous, jejune

meal n. collation, repast

meal, after a postprandial

meal, before a anteprandial, preprandial

mean adj. mingy, reptile, scurvy

mean n. via media

meaning n. denotation, explicans, intendment, purport, signification, tenor

meaning, hidden subaudition, subtext

meaning, relating to semantic

meanings, many different polysemy

means n. instrumentality, wherewithal

measles n. rubeola

measles, German roseola, rubella

measurable adj. mensurable

measuring n. mensuration

measuringworm n. looper, spanworm

meat, dried pemmican

meat, slice of collop

mechanical adj. banausic, perfunctory

medallion n. encolpion, panagia

medals n. exonumia

meddler n. marplot, Nosy Parker, Paul Pry

meddlesome adj. intrusive, obtrusive, officious

mediate v. intercede, intermediate

medical adj. iatric

medicinal drink ptisan

medicine n. medicament, nostrum

medicine man angakok, curandero, kahuna, shaman

meditation n. abstraction, brown study, lucubration, samadhi, sandhya, zazen

meditation room zendo

meditative adj. cogitative, contemplative

medley n. pastiche, pasticcio

meekness n. mansuetude

meerschaum n. sepiolite

meeting n. assemblage, conclave, consistory, conventicle, esbat, sabbat, séance

meeting place exedra, thingstead

megaphone n. vamphorn

melancholy adj. atrabilious

melange n. cento, potpourri, varia

melodious adj. canorous, dulcet, mellifluous

melody n. descant, lied

melt v. deliquesce, liquefy

melted adj. fondue

melting adj. liquescent

member n. apparat

membrane n. caul, chorion, goldbeater's skin, meninx, pellicle, rennet

mementos, collector of memorabiliast

memorandum n. aide-mémoire, bordereau

memorial n. cenotaph, chaitya, chorten, dagoba, stupa

memory, poor forgettery

memory aid mnemonic

memory disorder paramnesia

memory trace engram

menacing adj. darkling, minacious, minatory

mender n. tinker

men's quarters selamlik

menstruation, first menarche

mental activity cerebration, mentation

mental discomfort dysphoria

mental reservation arrière-pensée

mention beforehand prenominate

mentor n. guru, padrino, preceptor

mercenary adj. acquisitive, avaricious, venal

merchant ship argosy, carrack

merciful adj. benignant, ruthful

merciless adj. flinty, obdurate, ruthless

mercury n. hydrargyrum, quicksilver

mercy n. clemency, lenity

mercy killing coup de grâce, euthanasia

merge v. conflate, intergrade

merry adj. jocose, jocund, sportive, waggish

merrymaker n. guisard, mummer

merrymaking n. carousal, jollification

mess n. kettle of fish, shambles

messenger n. apostle, Gabriel, herald

messiah n. Mahdi

metal n. latten

metal shavings, pile of swarf

metamorphosis n. transmutation

metaphor n. catachresis

methodical adj. punctilious

meticulous adj. fastidious, scrupulous

mica n. isinglass

middle adj. mesial, midmost

middle age middlescence

middle way, a via media

mighty adj. puissant

migraine n. megrim

migrating adj. peregrine, transhumant

migration n. transhumance

migratory adj. anadromous, diadromous, emigratory

mild adj. favonian

mildness n. lenity, mansuetude

milestone n. benchmark, watershed

military, government by the stratocracy

military leader man on horseback

military post presidio

milk n. beestings, bonnyclabber, clabber, clobber, colostrum, lobber, lobbered milk

milk, of lacteal, lactic

milk-producing adj. galactophorous, lactiferous, milch

milk production lactation

milky adj. adularescent, lacteal

mill n. quern

millennium n. chiliad

millennium, believer in the chiliast, millenarian

mimicry n. mimesis, mimetism

mincing adj. niminy-piminy

mind, pertaining to the noetic

mind reader mentalist

mine n. colliery, Golconda

mine v. stope

miner n. collier

mingle v. admix, commingle, commix, immingle, immix

miniature world microcosm

minimize v. depreciate, minify

minister of state chancellor

minister's house manse

minority n. nonage

minstrel n. gleeman, jongleur, troubadour

minute adj. infinitesimal, minuscule

miracles n. mirabilia

miracles, study of thaumatology

miracles, worker of thaumatrope, thaumaturge

miraculous adj. preternatural

mirage n. Fata Morgana, looming

mirror n. speculum

misappropriation n. defalcation

misbehavior n. malversation

miscellaneous adj. divers

miscellany n. ana, varia

mischievous adj. arch, elfin, impish

mischievous child hellion

misconduct n. misprision

miser n. chuff, churl, hunks, niggard, pinchpenny

miserable adj. disconsolate, forlorn, piteous, squalid, woebegone

misery n. dystopia

misfortune n. adversity, contretemps, infelicity, misadventure

misgiving n. compunction, demur, qualm, scruple

misjudge v. misapprehend

mislead v. coffeehouse, meacon

misleading adj. delusive, dissembling

misrepresent v. belie, traduce

missing person Enoch Arden, Judge Crater

mist n. bai, brume, cacimbo, pride of the morning

mistress n. concubine, fancy woman, hetaera, paramour, sultana

mistress of a great house chatelaine

misunderstanding n. imbroglio, malentendu, misconstruction

misuse of words malapropism

misuser of words, persistent mumpsimus, Mrs. Malaprop

mitigate v. extenuate

mix v. blunge, commingle

mixture n. amalgam, commixture, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, macédoine, mélange, olio, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi

moat n. fossa

mob n. doggery, rabble

mob rule mobocracy, ochlocracy

mocking adj. derisive, sardonic

model adj. archetype, embodiment, epitome, exemplar, exemplification, exemplum, paradigm, paragon

moderate adj. centrist, temperate

moderate v. meliorate, mitigate, palliate

moderation n. continence, sophrosyne, temperance

modern adj. neoteric

modesty n. diffidence, reticence

modicum n. semblance

moisten v. sparge

moistening adj. humectant

molasses n. theriac, treacle

mold, cooking dariole

moldable adj. fictile

moldiness n. must, mustiness

molding n. bolection

mold inhibitor mycostat

moldy adj. fusty, mucedinous

mole n. melanism, nevus

mollifying adj. placative, placatory

molt v. exuviate

molting n. ecdysis

monastery n. abbey, cloister, friary, lamasery, laura, monkery, priory, stauropegion, vihara, wat

monastery room cell, misericord

monastic adj. austere, claustral, cloistral, monachal

monasticism n. monachism

money n. lucre, pelf, scrip, specie, sterling, tender, wherewithal, xenocurrency

money, expense viaticum

moneychanger n. cambist, shroff

moneylender n. Lombard, Shylock

money-lending, illegal n. feneration

monitor n. praepostor, proctor

monk n. bhikshu, bonze, caloyer, Carthusian, cenobite, Cistercian, Dalai Lama, Euchite, frère, friar, gyrovague, hegumen, hierodeacon, hieromonk, lama, marabout, monastic, rasophore, sadhu, Sesshu, votary

monkeylike adj. pithecoid

monogamous adj. monogamic, monogynous

monster n. afreet, basilisk, Charybdis, chimera, cockatrice, Gigantes, Gorgon, griffin, harpy, lamia, leviathan, manticore, Minotaur, opinicus

monstrosity n. abnormity, teratism

month, in the next proximo

monthly adj. mensal

monument n. cenotaph, chorten, Colossus of Memnon, fairy stone, gisant, henge, herm, tope, trilith, trilithon, tropaeum, tropaion, woodhenge

moody adj. churlish, doleful, dour, lugubrious, morose, saturnine

moon, the Cynthia

moon inhabitant lunarian

moralizing adj. didactic, preachy

morally involved engagé

moral virtue probity, rectitude

moreover adv. withal

morning, pertaining to matutinal

morning dress dishabille

mosaic, piece of tessera

mosque n. masjid

mother n. materfamilias

mother-of-pearl n. nacre

motionless adj. quiescent, static

motive, ulterior arrière-pensée

motiveless adj. gratuitous

motorboat n. vaporetto

mottled adj. dappled, piebald, parti-colored, pinto

mound n. agger, kitchen midden, mogul, stupa, tell, tepe

mounded adj. tumular, tumulous

mountain n. djebel

mountain, beneath a piedmont, submontane

mountain, beyond a ultramontane

mountain chain cordillera

mountain climbing alpinism

mountain peak aiguille

mountains, between intermontane

mountains, on this side of cisalpine, cismontane

mournful adj. dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, wailful

mourning n. shivah

mourning, sign of crepe

mourning garments sackcloth, weeds

mouth n. maw

mouth, of the buccal, oscular, stomatic

mouthpiece n. embouchure

mouthwash n. collutorium, collutory

move v. career, gangle, hurtle, jink, maunder, scud, tootle

movement n. peregrination, saltation, transhumance, translocation

movement by supernatural means levitation, psychokinesis, telekinesis

moving adj. ambulant, itinerant, volitant

mucus, secreting muciferous, muciparous

mud n. fango, sapropel

muddle n. farrago, fuddle, snafu

mud-dwelling adj. limicolous

muddy adj. dreggy, feculent, riley, roily, sloughy, turbid

mudhole n. loblolly

mug n. flagon, noggin, seidel, tankard, toby

mule n. hinny, sumpter

mule driver mule skinner, muleteer

multilingual adj. polyglot

munch v. champ

mundane adj. banausic

murder v. burke, remove

murderer n. Bluebeard, Cain, dacoit, femicide, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, Jael, matricide, parenticide, parricide, patricide, regicide, sororicide, tyrannicide, uxoricide, vaticide

murderous adj. internecine

murky adj. Stygian

murmur n. souffle, susurration, susurrus

murmuring sound sough

muscle n. thew

muscle pain myalgia

muscle weakness myasthenia

muse v. cogitate, ruminate

Muses, the n. Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania

mushroom fancier mycophagist

mushroom poisoning mycetism

mushy adj. pappy

musician n. Jubal, klezmer, mariachi

music-loving adj. philharmonic

musky adj. moschate

mustard plaster sinapism

musty adj. dank, frowsy, fusty

mutate v. metamorphose, transmute

muteness n. aglossia

mutilate v. grangerize

mutinous adj. insurrectionary, refractory, seditious

mutt n. feist

muttering n. murmuration, mussitation

mysterious adj. arcane, enigmatic, esoteric, numinous, occult, orphic, preternatural, runic, sibylline

mystery n. arcanum, mystique

mystic n. Hasid, Hesychast

mystical knowledge gnosis

myth destroyer mythoclast

myth interpretation solarism

myths, giving rise to mythopoeic (adj.)

N

nag v. badger, chivvy, harry, hector

nag n. harpy, scold, shrew, termagant, virago, Xanthippe

Nagasaki survivor hibakusha

nagging adj. petulant

nail-biting n. onychophagia

naive adj. credulous, dewy-eyed, guileless, ingenuous, unaffected

naked adj. au naturel, in puris naturalibus, undraped

name n. agnomen, allonym, anonym, anthroponym, antonomasia, appellation, appellative, charactonym, cognomen, dayname, denomination, epithet, eponym, font name, forename, hypocorism, matronymic, metonym, metronymic, misnomer, nom de guerre, nom de plume, nomen, patronym, patronymic, pen name, praenomen, prenomen, sobriquet, toponym, vocable, whiteacre

name v. denominate

name, wrong misnomer

named adj. yclept

name derivation eponymy

nameless adj. innominate

namely adv. scilicet, videlicet, viz.

namer n. nomenclator

names, having several polyonymous

names, pertaining to proper onomastic

naming n. appellation, compellation

nanny n. amah

nape n. nucha, nuque, scruff

napkin n. serviette

narcotic n. bhang, dagga, keef, kef, stupefacient

narrate v. recount

narration n. recital, recountal, relation

narrative n. chronicle, iliad, recital

narrow adj. parochial, provincial

narrowing n. stenosis, stricture

narrow-minded adj. illiberal, insular, myopic, parochial, picayune, provincial

nasal adj. rhinal

nationalism n. chauvinism

native adj. aboriginal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous

native n. aborigine, autochthon, indigene

natural adj. 1. intuitive, unschooled; 2. unembellished

naughty adj. willful

nausea n. wamble

nausea, experience wamble

nauseated adj. qualmish, queasy, squeamish, wambly

navel n. omphalos, umbilicus

navigate v. astrogate

navigation n. cabotage

near adj. juxtaposed

nearest adj. proximate

nearness n. apposition, juxtaposition, propinquity, proximity

nearsighted adj. myopic

neat adj. fastidious, kempt, natty, spruce

neatly adv. featly

necessarily adv. needs, perforce

necessary adj. de rigueur, exigent, imperative, requisite

necessity n. desideratum, requisite

neckband n. sautoir

necklace n. Brisingamen, choker, rivière

neckline n. décolletage

needle n. acus, bodkin, pinnacle

needlelike adj. belonoid

needless adj. gratuitous

needy adj. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous

ne'er-do-well n. rapscallion

negate v. abrogate, nullify

negative adj. negatory

neglect v. pretermit, procrastinate, scant

neglect n. dereliction, limbo, misprision, oblivion, preterition, pretermission, remissness, slackness

neglectful adj. derelict, heedless, omissive, remiss

negligee n. wrapper

negligence n. laches, oscitation

negligent adj. heedless, offhand, remiss, watchless

negotiator n. negotiant

neigh v. whicker, whinny

neighborhood n. environs, purlieu, vicinage

neighboring adj. abutting, contiguous, juxtaposed, tangent, vicinal

nemesis n. Alastor, Waterloo

neophyte n. proselyte

nerve n. cheek, chutzpa, gall

nervous adj. restive, ruffled, timorous

nervousness n. fantod, nervosity, restiveness, timorousness

nest n. aerie, eyrie, nide, nidus, vespiary

nest, build a nidificate, nidify

nest, termite termitarium

nestling n. eyas

net n. bagwig, flew, flue, lattice, malines, seine, snood, tracery

net v. ensnare, seine

netlike adj. retiary, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform

network n. graticule, plexus, reseau, rete, reticle, reticulation, reticulum

neutral adj. disinterested, dispassionate

neutral n. mugwump

nevertheless adv. withal

new adj. neoteric, vernal

newborn child neonate

newborn children, pertaining to neonatal

newcomer n. arriviste, griffin, Johnny-come-lately, malihini, outlander, parvenu

newfangled adj. neoteric

new-rich n. nouveau riche, parvenu

New Testament books homologumena

next adj. proximate

next to last penultimate

nicety n. punctilio, quiddity

nickname n. cognomen, sobriquet

night blindness nyctalopia

nightclub n. boîte

nightmare n. incubus, phantasmagoria

nightwalking n. noctambulation, noctambulism

nimble adj. lightsome, limber, lissome, lithe, volant

nine, consisting of nonary

ninety-year old nonagenarian

nipple n. dug, mammilla

nitpicker n. fussbox, fussbudget, fusspot

nobility, pertaining to nobiliary

nobleman n. boyar, grandee, hidalgo, magnifico, marchese, marquess, marquis, ritter, viscount

noblewoman n. marchesa, marchioness, marquise, viscountess

nobody n. cipher, mediocrity, nullity

nod v. nutate

nodding n. nutation

no further bets! rien ne va plus!

noise n. brattle, brontide, clamor, clangor, din, sonance

noisy adj. clamant, clamorous, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, strepitous, tin-pan, turbulent, vociferous

nominal adj. ostensible, putative

nominally adv. ostensibly, putatively

nonchalant adj. apathetic, debonair, dégagé, detached, insouciant, pococurante

nonconforming adj. raffish

nonconformist n. maverick

nonexistent adj. chimerical, illusory, insubstantial

non-Mormon n. jack Mormon

no-nonsense adj. resolute

nonsense n. amphigory, balderdash, blather, bombast, bosh, bunkum, bushwa, claptrap, codswallop, drivel, falderal, fandangle, fiddle-faddle, flimflam, flubdub, flumadiddle, flummery, fudge, galimatias, inanity, peddlery, poppycock, tomfoolery, tommyrot, trumpery, twaddle

nook n. cove, inglenook, recess

noose n. springe

nose, inflammation of the rhinitis

nosebleed n. epistaxis

nose job rhinoplasty

nostrils n. nares

notable adj. manifest, signal

notch n. crenature, crenel, crenulation, rabbet

notched adj. crenelated, crenulate, crenulated, emarginate, nock, serrate, serrated

note n. annotation, apostil, chit, scholium

notebook n. cahier

notes n. marginalia

notes, without extemporary, extempore

nothingness n. nullity

notice v. descry, espy

noticeable adj. manifest, salient

notify v. apprise

notion n. 1. whigmaleerie, whim; 2. vagary

notoriety n. ignominy, obloquy, odium, réclame

notorious adj. arrant, flagrant, infamous, patent

not wanted de trop

notwithstanding prep./conj. non obstante

noun n. bahuvrihi, substantive

nourish v. foster, suckle

nourishing adj. alimentary

nourishment n. aliment, manna, sustenance

nouveau riche arrivé, arriviste, parvenu

novel adj. singular

novice n. abecedarian, fledgling, novitiate, white belt, youngling

nuclear survivor hibakusha

nude adj. undraped (see also naked)

nudist n. naturist

nuisance n. bandersnatch, vexation

nullifying adj. defeasible, diriment

numb adj. anaesthetized, insensible, prostrate, stupefied, torpid

number n. clutch

number, large lac, legion, multitude, sea

numerous adj. manifold, multifarious, multifold, myriad

nun n. bhikshuni, Carmelite, cenobite, Cistercian, extern, votary

nurse n. amah, ayah

nursery n. crèche

nutrition, lack of innutrition

nut-shaped adj. nuciform

nymph n. dryad, hamadryad, Hyades, naiad, Nereid, Nysa, Oceanid, oread, salamander, Scylla, sylph, Syrinx, undine

O

oak, pertaining to an quercine

oar n. scull

oar-shaped adj. remiform

oath n. voir dire

oath, taking an juration

oatmeal n. flummery

obedience n. Bushido, deference

obedient adj. deferent, deferential, duteous, dutiful, malleable, obsequious, submissive, subservient, tractable

obituary n. necrology

object v. demur, expostulate, remonstrate, scruple

objectify v. 1. externalize, rationalize; 2. embody

objecting adj. exceptive

objection n. cavil, censure, demur, qualm, remonstrance, scruple

objectionable adj. noisome, odious

objective adj. disinterested

objects, everyday realia

obligated adj. beholden

obligation n. corvée, noblesse oblige, onus

obligatory adj. imperative, incumbent, irremissible, mandatory

oblige v. constrain

obliging adj. complaisant

oblique stroke solidus

oblivion n. lethe, limbo

oblivious adj. abstracted, unmindful

obnoxious adj. odious

obscene adj. blue, fescennine, ithyphallic, lascivious, prurient, raunchy, salacious, scurrilous

obscenity n. ordure, scatology, smut

obscure adj. abstruse, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, Delphic, elliptical, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, fuliginous, inglorious, inscrutable, murky, occult, oracular, recherché, recondite, tenebrous

obscure v. obnubilate

obscured adj. perdu, turbid

obscurity n. obliquity

obsequious adj. abject, deferential, fawning, groveling, menial, servile, subservient, sycophantic

obsequiously, act kowtow

obsequiousness n. obsequence

observant adj. 1. perceptive; 2. punctilious

observation n. espial, introspection

observe v. 1. espy, reconnoiter; 2. introspect, opine; 3. solemnize

obsess v. besot, preoccupy

obsession n. idée fixe

obsolete adj. superannuated

obsolete, make supersede

obstacle n. abatis, impediment, pons asinorum

obstetrician n. accoucheur, gynecologist

obstetrics n. tocology

obstinate adj. balky, crabbed, fractious, froward, intractable, mulish, obdurate, pertinacious, pervicacious, recusant, refractory, restive, stolid, unregenerate, willful

obstreperous adj. blatant, clamant, heckling, refractory, vociferous

obstruct v. encumber, filibuster, obturate, obviate, occlude, oppilate, preclude, stymie, thwart

obstruction n. embolism, embolization, embolus, encumbrance

obstructionist n. filibusterer

obtain v. beguile, exact, inveigle, wheedle

obtrusive adj. impertinent, intrusive, officious, protrusive

obtuse adj. insensitive, purblind

obvious adj. axiomatic, blatant, egregious, flagrant, manifest, obtrusive, palpable, patent, prima facie, transparent

occasionally adv. betimes

occult adj. cabalistic, metaphysical, supernatural

occult learning gramarye

occupant n. denizen

occupation n. métier

occupy v. engross, immerse

occur v. eventuate, materialize, supervene

occurrence n. contretemps, eventuality, incidence

occurring annually etesian

occurring suddenly fulminant, precipitate

ocean n. Davy Jones

ocean current El Niño

ocean farming mariculture

oceans, pertaining to pelagic

odds and ends flotsam, rummage

ode n. monody, parabasis, parodos, stasimon (see also poems and poetical terms)

odometer n. perambulator

odor n. gaminess

odorous adj. rammish, rank, redolent

off-color adj. risqué

offend v. affront, chafe, disoblige, incommode, nettle, pique

offense n. pique, umbrage

offense, apt to take umbrageous

offensive adj. crass, fetid, fulsome, invidious, mephitic, noisome, objectionable, odious, scarlet, unsavory, vexatious

offer v. bestow, proffer, propound, tender

offer n. proffer, tender

offering n. altarage, corban, oblation, offertory

offhand adj. extemporary, extempore, impromptu

office n. magistracy, pontificate, prelacy, prelature, priorate

officer n. bailiff, jemadar, justiciar, justiciary, manciple, prior, propraetor

officers, one of three triumvir

official adj. bona fide, ex officio

official n. bashaw, chamberlain, chiaus, dewan, Dogberry, functionary, gabbai, gauleiter, hayward, hierarch, induna, intendant, jemadar, Junker, macebearer, macer, mandarin, Master of the Revels, ombudsman, ombudsperson, ombudswoman, palatine, panjandrum, pasha, Pooh Bah, proconsul, procurator, prothonotary, provost, pursuivant, reeve, sacristan, steward, vizier, waldgrave

offset v. counterpoise, countervail

offspring n. get, issue, progeny

offspring, producing philoprogenitive

oil n. chrism, citronella, oil of catechumens, oil of the sick

oiliness n. lubricity, unctuousness

oily adj. lubricious, oleaginous, pinguid, unctuous, unguinous

ointment n. nard, pomade, pomatum, salve, unction, unguent

old adj. long in the tooth, patriarchal, superannuated, venerable

old, become superannuate

old age senectitude

old-fashioned adj. antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, fusty, moss-grown, obsolescent, oldfangled, passé, superannuated

old man Methuselah, patriarch, whitebeard

Old Testament Septuagint

old woman babushka, beldam, biddy, crone, dowager, Elli, matriarch

old-womanish adj. anile

olive, stuffed pimola

olive-shaped adj. olivary

omen n. augury, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, portent, presage, presentiment, prognostic

ominous adj. bodeful, direful, fateful, inauspicious, oracular, portentous, sententious, unpropitious

omission apheresis, asyndeton, elision, ellipsis, haplography, lipography, preterition, pretermission; (see also rhetorical terms)

omit v. elide, forbear, pretermit

omnipresence n. ubiquity

omniscience n. prescience

once a day, occurring circadian

onetime adj. quondam

on the contrary au contraire, per contra

ooze v. exude, transude

opaque adj. obtuse, turbid

opaque, make opacify

open adj. 1. campestral, patulous, yawning; 2. artless, avowed, blatant, bluff, candid, flagrant, guileless, ingenuous, manifest, overt, patent, pervious, unreserved; 3. moot, unresolved

open-air adj. hypaethral

open air, the plein air

open-handed adj. magnanimous, unstinting

opening n. apocope, colostomy, embrasure, fenestra, fissure, interstice, meatus, orifice, tubulure, vomitorium

opening adj. prefatory

openly adv. forthrightly, ingenuously, patently

open-minded adj. catholic, dispassionate

openness n. glasnost

open space esplanade, glade

opera n. opéra bouffe, opera buffa, opéra comique, opera seria, zarzuela

operating adj. operant

operative adj. efficacious, operatory

opiate n. anodyne, soporific

opinion n. 1. conjecture, conviction, doxy, speculation, supposition, surmise; 2. obiter dictum

opinion, express an opine

opinionated adj. pragmatic

opium n. laudanum

opium, affected by poppied

opportune adj. expedient, politic, providential, seasonable

oppose v. contravene, controvert, gainsay, recalcitrate, repugn, retroact

opposed adj. adverse, averse, disinclined, inimical, loath

opposite adj. adversative, antiphrastic, antipodal, antithetical, converse

opposite prep. vis-à-vis

opposition n. antithesis, contraposition, contrariety, contravention, recusancy

opposition, astronomical syzygy

oppress v. aggrieve, dragoon, Neroize, scourge

oppressed adj. downtrodden, overborne

oppression n. adversity, affliction, tribulation

optimist n. Dr. Pangloss, Pollyanna

optimistic adj. Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish, roseate, sanguine

optional adj. facultative

oral adj. buccal, nuncupative, viva voce

oral historian griot

orally adv. buccally, viva voce

orate v. perorate

oration n. encomium, lucubration, panegyric, peroration, valediction, valedictory

orator n. rhetor, rhetorician

oratorical adj. rhetorical

oratory n. rhetoric

orchestra n. gamelan

ordeal n. gauntlet

order n. 1. enjoinder, eutaxy, ukase; 2. kilter

order v. enjoin

orderly adj. natty, trig, trim

orderly n. peon

ordinance n. prescript

ordinary adj. banal, exoteric, mundane, quotidian, unexceptional

organism feeding on dead matter saprophyte

organization n. apparat, gemeinschaft

organize v. codify, marshal

organs, animal offal, viscera

organs as food numbles, umbles

orgiastic adj. bacchanalian, Dionysian

orgy n. bacchanal, bacchanalia, saturnalia

orifice n. aperture, foramen, meatus

origin n. genesis, inchoation, provenance, provenience, wellspring

original adj. 1. aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial, pristine, Promethean; 2. archetypal, germinal seminal

original n. archetype

original text textus receptus

originate v. emanate

ornament n. fandangle, filigree, fleurette, gaud, paillette, skeuomorph; (see also ornaments of many types)

ornament v. bedeck, bedizen, damascene, embellish, engrail, fret, garnish, purfle

ornamental adj. churrigueresque

ornamentation n. drop, gadrooning, gingerbread, guilloche, gutta, imbrex, sgraffito, smocking

ornamented adj. Alhambresque, aureate, gingerbread, resplendent, storied

ornaments of many types adorno, aigrette, ailette, anaglyph, antefix, anthemion, appliqué, arabesque, arcade, bocage, bolection, brassard, bucranium, carcanet, chevron, chinoiserie, circlet, concha, corbeil, diamanté, encarpus, epergne, gadroon, garniture, gaud, gimcrack, gimcrackery, goffer, gorget, knosp, labret, phalera, purfle, quatrefoil, rinceau, rondelle, rosace, rosette, tchotchke

ornate adj. aureate, barococo, baroque, convolute, Corinthian, florid, rococo

orphaned adj. cade

orthodox, not heterodox

oscillate v. librate

oscillation n. libration, saltus, seiche

oscillatory eye movement nystagmus

ostentation n. frippery, pretentiousness

ostentatious adj. florid, pretentious

ostrich, like an struthious

other things being equal ceteris paribus

outburst n. ebullition, fantod, paroxysm, tantrum

outcast n. anathema, Ishmael, Ishmaelite, leper, pariah, reprobate

outcasts n. Burakumin

outcome n. denouement, resolution

outcry n. cri de coeur

outdated adj. fusty, neolithic, passé

outdo v. transcend, trump

outdoor adj. alfresco

outdoor entertainment fête champêtre

outdoors adv. alfresco, en plein air, withoutdoors

outfit n. equipage

outflow n. effluence, effluent, efflux, emanation

outgoing adj. expansive

outgoing person extrovert

outgrowth n. excrescence

outhouse n. see privy

outing n. jaunt

outlaw n. brigand, cutthroat, dacoit, malefactor, marauder, pariah

outlaw v. proscribe

outline n. contour, epitome, lineation, planform, précis

outline v. adumbrate

outlying district purlieu

outmoded adj. antediluvian, démodé, demoded, passé

out of place inapposite

outpost n. barbican, outsettlement, outstation

outpouring n. spate

outrage n. affront, indignity

outrage v. aggravate, desecrate, exasperate

outrageous adj. atrocious, extravagant, immoderate, monstrous, unholy, unspeakable

outright adj. unmitigated

outside adv. without

outsider n. carpetbagger

outspoken adj. forthright, vociferous

outstanding adj. paramount, predominant, preponderant

outstrip v. eclipse

outward flow effluent, efflux

outwit v. finesse

oven n. cremator, Dutch oven, lehr, salamander, tandoor

overabundance n. embarras de richesses, nimiety, plethora, surfeit

overbearing adj. despotic, haughty, imperious

overblown adj. recherché

overcast adj. lowering

overcleverness n. ambidexterity, duplicity

overcoat n. surtout, ulster

overcome v. overwhelm, whelm

overconfident adj. cocksure, overweening, presuming, presumptuous

overcritical adj. hypercritical

overdone adj. fulsome, inordinate

overdue adj. behindhand

overemphasize v. belabor

overfeed v. cloy, satiate, surfeit

overflow v. exuberate, inundate, superabound

overflow n. alluvion, freshet, inundation

overflowing adj. effusive, inundant, superabundant

overfull adj. plethoric, surfeited

overhang v. impend, loom, overlie

overhanging adj. superincumbent

overindulgence n. crapulence, crapulousness, gourmandise

overlapping adj. accolated, imbricated, incubous

overload v. overlade, surcharge

overlord n. suzerain

overly adv. immoderately, inordinately

overlying adj. superjacent

overpowering adj. steamroller

overpraise v. belaud

overreach v. overleap

overrefined adj. tenuous

overshadow v. obumbrate

overshadowing adj. overarching

overshoe n. galosh

oversight n. inadvertence, inadvertency

oversimplification n. simplism

oversimplified adj. simplistic

overspread v. suffuse, well up

overstate v. embroider

oversubtle adj. casuistic, sophistical

oversupply n. plethora, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit

overt adj. patent

overthrow n. labefaction

overturn v. overset, subvert

overuse v. hackney

overwhelm v. glut, inundate, whelm

overwhelming adj. inundant

ox n. aurochs, banteng, bullock, gayal, urus

oxcart n. carreta

oxygen-depleting adj. eutrophic

ozone, containing ozoniferous, ozonous

P

pace n. scuttle

pacify v. assuage, conciliate, disarm, mollify, pacificate, propitiate

package n. packet

packhorse n. sumpter

packing n. dunnage

packsack n. kyack

page n. footboy

page, left-hand verso

page, right-hand recto

paid applauder claqueur

pain n. angst, mittelschmerz, pang, throe, travail

pain v. beset, scarify

pained adj. lacerated

painful adj. algetic, poignant, torturous

painkiller n. acesodyne, analgesic, anodyne, antiodontalgic

painless death euthanasia

painstaking adj. assiduous, indefatigable, sedulous, unremitting

paint v. limn

painter n. limner

painting n. bambocciata, diorama, diptych, fresco, gouache, grisaille, pointillism, sumi-e, trompe l'oeil, ukiyo-e, Yamato-e

pair n. brace, span, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, yoke

palace n. Alcázar, Alhambra, chateau, palatium, palazzo, Schloss, seraglio

palatable adj. sapid, savory, toothsome

palatial adj. Alhambresque

pale adj. cadaverous, livid, lurid, pallid, peaked, washy

pale face wheyface

paleness n. pallidness, pallor, pastiness

palindromic adj. cancrine

palm v. foist

palm branch lulav

palm-shaped adj. palmate

pamper v. coddle, cosher, cosset, dandle, indulge, mollycoddle

pamphlet n. chapbook, enchiridion, fascicle

pan n. pannikin, wok

panacea n. catholicon, elixir, nostrum

pancreas n. sweetbread

paneling n. boiserie, dado, wainscot, wainscoting

panels, connected diptych, pentaptych, polyptych, triptych

pan-fry v. sauté

panic n. consternation

panting n. polypnea

pantomime n. harlequinade

pantomimist n. harlequin, Pierrette, Pierrot

pantry n. larder

pap n. pablum, pabulum

papal adj. pontifical

paper n. foolscap, laid paper, Manila paper, papier-mâché, papillote, papyrus, rice paper, wove paper

paper, cooked in en papillote

paper-folding n. origami

papery adj. chartaceous, papyraceous

papier-mâché n. carton-pierre

parable n. allegory, apologue, fable, homily

parachute n. drogue

parade n. callathump, callithump, cavalcade, retinue

parade ground maidan

paradise n. Arcady, Eden, Elysian Fields, Elysium, nirvana, Shangri-La

paradise, like paradisal, paradisiacal

paradox n. antinomy

paragon n. phoenix

paragraph mark pilcrow

parallel adj. penciliform

paralysis n. hemiplegia, paraplegia, paresis, quadriplegia

parapet n. battlement

paraphernalia n. accouterments, appointments, appurtenances, trappings

parasite n. leech, sponge, sponger, sycophant, toady

parasitic adj. paratrophic

parasitism n. colacobiosis

parch v. torrefy, torrify

parchment n. forel, palimpsest

pardon n. absolution, remission

pardon v. absolve, condone, remit

pardon, granting a remissive

pardonable adj. venial

parent n. genitor

parish, pertaining to a parochial

parliament n. Folketing, Knesset, Lagting, Lok Sabha, majlis, Odelsting, Oireachtas, Rajya Sabha, Reichsrat, Reichstag, Rigsdag, Riksdag, Sejm, Storting

parlor n. locutorium, locutory

parochial adj. denominational

parody n. amphigory, travesty

parrot fever psittacosis

parrots, pertaining to psittacine

parry v. fend

part v. sunder

partial adj. partisan, tendentious

partiality n. predilection, predisposition, tendentiousness

participant n. participator

particle n. iota, jot, mite, moit, mote, ramentum, scintilla, tittle, whit

particular adj. fastidious, finical, finicky

particularized adj. pointillistic

particulars n. minutiae

partisan n. stalwart

partition n. brattice, bulkhead, dissepiment, septum

partition v. dismember

partner n. yokefellow

partnership n. consortium

party n. ceilidh, clambake, potlatch, Sadie Hawkins, soiree

pass n. Annie Oakley, laissez-passer

passage n. 1. conduit, cryptoporticus, foramen; 2. devolution; 3. lection, pericope

passage, commonly cited locus classicus

passage, tedious longueur

passages n. analecta, analects

passageway n. adit, allure, andron, galleria, gangway

passing adj. fugitive

passion n. concupiscence, transport

passionate adj. ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassionate, vehement, sultry, zealous

passive adj. quiescent, supine, vegetative

passive resistance satyagraha

pass over for promotion etc. overslaugh

password n. countersign, parole, shibboleth

pastor n. dominie

pastoral adj. bucolic, idyllic

pastry shop patisserie

pasture n. pasturage

pasture v. agist

patch v. cobble

patent medicine nostrum

pathetic adj. affecting, piteous, plaintive, poignant, woeful

pathway n. footway

patience n. composure, forbearance, longanimity, resignation, stoicism, sufferance

patient n. analysand

patina n. aerugo, incrustation, verdigris

patriotic adj. chauvinistic

patron n. 1. denizen, habitué; 2. Maecenas, padrino

patronage n. aegis, auspices

patronizing manner condescension

patter n. palaver

pattern n. archetype, delineator, epitome, exemplar, gestalt, paradigm, paragon, template, touchstone

paunch n. corporation

paunchy adj. stomachy, ventricose

pause n. caesura, respite

pave v. macadamize

pavement n. asarotum, macadam, pavé, pointel, telford

pavilion n. gazebo

paving n. terrazzo

paving material tarmacadam

paving stone sett

paving tool lute

pawnshop n. mont-de-piété

pay v. indemnify, recompense, requite

pay n. defrayal, emolument, honorarium, recompense

payment n. bride price, defrayal, handsel, honorarium, lobolo, quittance, scutage

peace n. concord

peace, aimed at irenic, irenical

peaceable adj. pacific

peace be with you pax vobiscum, shalom aleichem

peaceful adj. 1. clement, halcyon, irenic, irenical, pacific; 2. togated

peace of mind heartsease

peace pipe calumet

peacock, like a pavonine

peak n. acme, apogee, cusp, pinnacle, tor, vertex, zenith

peanut n. goober, groundnut, pinder

pearl n. baroque, cultured pearl, mabe pearl

pearl diver ama

pearly adj. margaritaceous, nacreous

pear-shaped adj. obpyriform, pyriform

peasant n. fellah, hind, kisan, kulak, muzhik, ryot, serf, vassal, villein

pea-shaped adj. pisiform

pebble n. einkanter

peculiarity n. anomaly, idiosyncrasy, singularity

pedantic adj. didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, preachy

peddle v. hawk

peddler n. arab, colporteur, hawker, higgler, packman

peddling n. colportage

peel v. desquamate, excoriate

peeper n. Peeping Tom, voyeur

peephole n. judas, judas hole, judas window

peers n. douzepers

peevish adj. bilious, fractious, pettish, petulant, splenetic

peg n. spile, spill

pelt n. fell

pelts n. peltry

pen n. hutch, kraal

pen, fountain stylograph

penance n. contrition, mortification, self-abasement

penance, impose shrive

pendant n. lavaliere

pendent adj. pendulous, pensile

penetrate v. permeate, transpierce

penetrating adj. poignant

peninsula n. chersonese

penis n. linga, membrum virile, phallus, pizzle, priapus

penitence n. compunction, contrition

penitent adj. contrite, rueful

penlike adj. stylar

penmanship n. cacography, calligraphy, chirography

pen name nom de plume

pennant n. ensign, guidon, jack

penniless adj. destitute, indigent, necessitous

penpoint n. nib

pension n. superannuation

people n. fry, gentry, hoi polloi, populace, rabble, vulgus

people-centered in one sense or another anthropocentric, anthropolatric, anthropomorphic, anthroponomical, anthropopathic

pep n. moxie

peppy adj. jaunty

perceive v. apprehend, descry, discern, divine, intuit

perceived notion percept

perceiver n. percipient

perceiving adj. 1. palpable; 2. percipient, sentient

perceptible adj. appreciable, cognizable

perceptible, barely liminal

perception n. Anschauung, cognition, cognizance, epiphany, telesthesia

perceptive adj. discerning, percipient, perspicacious

perching adj. insessorial

percolate v. leach

perfect adj. consummate, exemplary, impeccable, spheral, unalloyed, unmitigated

perfect v. consummate

perfect, tending to perfective

perfection n. beau ideal, consummation, fare-thee-well

perfidious adj. duplicitous, Machiavellian

perforated adj. fenestrated

perform v. concertize

performer n. artiste, geisha, vaudevillian

performers n. gagaku

perfume n. attar, frangipani, patchouli

perfume v. embalm

perfume, substance used in ambergris

perfume box pouncet box

perfumed adj. redolent

perimeter n. girth, periphery

perish v. molder

perjure v. forswear

permafrost n. pergelisol

permanence n. fixity, perdurability

permanent adj. abiding, immutable, indelible, perdurable

permeable adj. pervious

permeate v. imbrue, imbue, impregnate, inosculate, interosculate, interpenetrate, pervade, saturate, supersaturate, tincture

permeating adj. permeant

permission n. exeat, license, nihil obstat, pratique, sufferance

permissive adj. facultative, forbearing, indulgent

pernicious adj. noxious, pestiferous

perpendicular adj. plumb

perpetual adj. abiding, infinite, recurrent

perpetuate v. eternize

perplex v. nonplus

perplexed adj. confounded

perplexing adj. ambiguous, enigmatic, equivocal

persecute v. crucify

persecution n. dragonnade

perseverance n. pertinacity, resolution

persevere v. perseverate

persevering adj. assiduous, dauntless, endurant, pertinacious, sedulous, steadfast

persistence n. assiduity, incessancy, indefatigability, pertinacity

persistent adj. assiduous, continual, endurant, importunate, incessant, indefatigable, indomitable, pertinacious, resolute, tenacious, unremitting

persnickety adj. pernickety

person n. criollo, persona, wight

person, absurd Punchinello

person, acceptable persona grata

person, affected poseur

person, attractive peri

person, average everyman, everywoman

person, boorish looby, lout, lubber, philistine, yahoo

person, careless pococurante, sloven

person, clumsy gawk, lout, lummox

person, conceited coxcomb, high-muck-a-muck

person, credulous gudgeon

person, deformed lusus naturae, mooncalf

person, demented dement

person, degenerate miscreant, reprobate, wastrel

person, despicable reptile, scullion, stinkard

person, disliked bête noire, bugbear

person, dowdy frump

person, dull frump, prosaist

person, flighty flibbertigibbet, whirligig

person, foolish dotard, mooncalf

person, grasping harpy

person, grotesque golliwog

person, guilty felon, misdemeanant

person, heavy endomorph

person, honest truepenny

person, hypocritically pious tartuffe

person, hypocritically virtuous pecksniff

person, imposing magnifico

person, impotent spado

person, indispensable linchpin

person, ineffectual wimp

person, inexperienced gosling, naïf

person, influential mogul

person, insincere faux-naïf

person, intractable tartar

person, irritating gadfly

person, lazy looby, slugabed, sluggard

person, learned polyhistor, polymath

person, meddlesome kibitzer

person, naive naïf

person, objectionable rotter, wampus

person, obsequious lackey, lickspittle, toady, sycophant

person, pale wheyface

person, pompous Poo Bah

person, possessed python, pythoness

person, prominent nabob

person, quarrelsome catamaran

person, rare rara avis

person, resourceful débrouillard

person, retarded retardate

person, ribald ribald

person, saintly mahatma

person, savage tartar

person, scrawny scrag

person, self-seeking arriviste

person, self-taught autodidact

person, shabby tatterdemalion

person, short and muscular endomorph, pyknic

person, silly flibbertigibbet

person, slender asthenic, ectomorph, leptosome

person, stupid dolt, dunderhead, looby, lummox, noddy, noodle, oaf, simpleton

person, submissive uncle Tom, yeasayer

person, successful wunderkind

person, superfluous fifth wheel

person, terrible gorgon

person, ugly gorgon

person, ungrateful ingrate

person, unrivaled nonesuch, paragon

person, unwelcome persona non grata

person, vulgar vulgarian

person, wasteful wastrel

person, wealthy Croesus, Midas, nabob, nawab

person, welcome persona grata

person, wise Daniel, Solomon

person, young sapling, youngling

personality n. persona

person devoted to pleasure sybarite

person given to flaunting knowledge pedant

person given to platitudes platitudinarian

personification n. 1. avatar, embodiment, lustrum; 2. prosopopoeia

personified adj. incarnate

personify v. exemplify, personate

person eighty to eighty-nine years old octogenarian

person fifty to fifty-nine years old quinquagenarian

person forty to forty-nine years old quadragenarian

person ninety to ninety-nine years old nonagenarian

person of mixed ancestry bois brûlé, caboclo, cajan, cholo, Creole, diddikai, jackatar, mestiza, mestizo, métis, métisse, mulatto, mustee, octoroon, quadroon

person of superficial knowledge sciolist

person seventy to seventy-nine years old septuagenarian

person sixty to sixty-nine years old sexagenarian

person skilled in table talk deipnosophist

person who fears foreigners xenophobe

person who speaks many languages polyglot

perspiration n. diaphoresis, hidrosis

persuadable adj. exorable, persuasible

persuade v. wheedle

persuasion n. suasion

persuasive adj. charismatic, cogent, suasive

pertaining adj. appurtenant

pertinacious adj. importunate

pertinacity n. importunity

pertinent adj. apposite, germane, material, relevant

peruse v. vet

pervade v. interpenetrate, suffuse

perverse adj. refractory, willful, wrongheaded, wry

perversely adv. contrariwise

pervert v. 1. sophisticate, vitiate; 2. deprave, subvert

pervert n. debauchee

perverted adj. kinky

perverting adj. perversive

pesky adj. pestiferous, vexatious

pessimism, sentimental Weltschmerz

pessimist n. crapehanger, Jeremiah, misanthrope

pester v. badger, harry, hector, importune

pestle n. muller

pet v. dandle, pamper

petite adj. diminutive

petition n. entreaty, supplication

petition v. entreat, importune, solicit, supplicate

petitioner n. suppliant

pet name hypocorism

pet phrase shibboleth

petrify v. gorgonize

petrifying n. petrifaction

petty adj. fiddling, nickel-and-dime, niggling, pettifogging, picayune

petty cash imprest fund

phallic adj. priapean, priapic

phantom n. eidolon, shade, shape, specter

phantom adj. spectral

pharmacy n. apothecary

phase n. phasis

phenomenal adj. prodigious

philistine n. babbitt

philosopher n. gymnosophist, metaphysician

philosopher, inferior philosophaster, philosophe

philosophy n. anthroposophy, axiology, darshana, epistemology, existentialism, gymnosophy, Hegelianism, Heracliteanism, metaphysics, metempirics, Platonism

philosophy, false philosophism

phobias n. see fears, morbid

phony n. charlatan, dodger, mountebank, sharper

photograph n. balop, daguerreotype

photographer n. paparazzo

phrase n. hapax legomenon, locution

phrasemaker n. neologist, phrasemonger, phraseologist

phraseology n. locution

physical adj. carnal, corporal, corporeal, material, somatic

physical defect acrocephaly, acromegaly, acromicria, oxycephaly

physical love eros

physician n. extern, Galen, hakim, intern, locum tenens

physician, caused by a iatrogenic

physician, pertaining to a iatric; (see also hospital, pertaining to a)

physique n. somatotype

pick n. plectrum

picket n. pale

picket fence paling

pickle n. cornichon, gherkin

pickpocket n. dunnigan

picky adj. captious, carping, niggling

picnic n. burgoo

picture v. delineate

picture frame Lawrence frame

picture writing pictography

piddling adj. paltry, peddling

piece n. snippet

piecework n. taskwork

pier n. 1. embarcadero, jetty, quay; 2. anta, buttress, pilaster

pierce v. broach, gore, impale, lancinate, leister, pike, pink, riddle, transfix

pierced adj. abroach, cribriform

piercing adj. calliopean, poignant, strident

piety n. religiosity

piety, hypocritical sanctimony, Tartuffery

pig n. see hog

pigheaded adj. adamant, intransigent, obdurate, refractory

pig iron spiegeleisen

pigment n. colorant

pig's feet pettitoes, trotters

pile n. agglomeration, coacervation, cumulus

pilgrim n. hadji, haji, hajji, palmer, visitant

pilgrimage n. hadj, haji, hajj, ‘umrah

pilings, group of starling

pill n. bolus, pilule

pillage n. spoliation

pillager n. depredator, ravager

pillar n. atlas, cippus, pilaster, piloti, stela, stele, telamon

pillow n. bolster

pilot n. helmsman, kamikaze

pimp n. bawd, chulo, fancy man, pander, procurer, procures, whoremonger

pimping n. pandering, procuration

pimple n. pustule, whelk

pin n. bodkin

pineapple n. piña

pinwheel n. Catherine wheel

pioneer n. apostle

pious adj. rectitudinous, religiose

pious, hypocritically sanctimonious

pipe n. calabash, calumet, chibouk, chillum, churchwarden, dudeen, hookah, hubble-bubble, kalian, meerschaum, narghile, Oom Paul, water pipe

pipe tobacco, half-smoked dottle

pirate n. buccaneer, corsair, Fomorian, freebooter, picaroon, rover, sea dog, sea robber, sea rover, sea wolf

pit n. 1. sump; 2. alveola, faveolus, fossa, fovea, pock, variole

pitcher n. aquamanile, ewer, lota, oinoche, olpe, prochoos

pitcher, shaped like a urceolate

pitchman n. mountebank

pithy adj. aphoristic, sententious, succinct

pitiful adj. abysmal, affecting, piteous, plaintive

pitiless adj. callous, implacable, relentless, ruthless

pitted adj. alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, variolous

pity n. commiseration, pathos, rue, ruth

pity, object of pilgarlic

placate v. conciliate, mollify

place n. lieu, locus, niche, stead, venue

place v. appose, collocate, juxtapose, repose

place, in the first imprimis

place, secluded fastness

place name toponym

plagiarism n. plagiary

plagiarist n. plagiary

plaid n. tartan

plain adj. 1. conspicuous, manifest, patent, perspicuous, unequivocal, unvarnished; 2. austere, frugal, homely, homespun, homey, unostentatious, unpretentious

plain n. bajada, campagna, campo, champaign, grassland, llano, pampa, pampas, savanna, steppe, tundra, veldt

plaintive adj. disconsolate, doleful, plangent, rueful

plan n. schema

plan v. 1. envisage, purpose; 2. premeditate, strategize

planetary system, model of orrery

plank n. deal

planter n. lavabo

plants n. flora

plants, feeding on herbivorous, phytophagous

plant stand jardiniere

plaster of paris n. gesso

plastic adj. ductile, labile

plate n. paten, platen, trivet

plate, protective escutcheon

plateau n. fjeld, highland, mesa, paramo, puna, tableland, upland

platelike adj. lamellate, lamelliform

platform n. almemar, bema, bimah, dais, estrade, hustings, pallet, podium, rostrum, treadle, tribunal, tribune

platitude n. bromide

platitudes, given to bromidic, platitudinous

platter n. charger

plausible adj. ostensible, specious

play n. acto, masque

playboy n. Corinthian

playful adj. arch, frolicsome, gamesome, jocose, lambent, ludic, sportive, tricksy, waggish

plaza n. zócalo

plea n. entreaty, remonstration, supplication

plead v. beseech, entreat, expostulate, remonstrate, sue, supplicate

pleader against beatification defender of the faith, devil's advocate

pleader for beatification postulator

pleading n. intercession, remonstrance

pleasant adj. 1. mellifluous, sipid; 2. affable, engaging, jocund

pleasant idleness dolce far niente

pleasantries n. facetiae

pleasantry n. badinage, sally

please adv. por favor, s'il vous plaît

please v. delectate

pleasing adj. 1. euphonious, eurhythmic 2. captivating, ingratiating, palatable, taking, toothsome, winning

pleasing, superficially specious

pleasure n. 1. delectation, inclination; 2. autoeroticism, hedonism, schadenfreude

pleasure, devotion to a life of hedonism, libertinism, sensualism

pleasure, of hedonic, hedonistic

pleasure-seeker n. bon vivant, boulevardier, hedonist, libertine, sensualist

pleat v./n. plait

pleated adj. plicate

plebeian adj. unwashed

pledge n. covenant, earnest, gage, surety, warrant

pledge v. covenant, hypothecate, plight, warrant

plentiful adj. bounteous, plenteous

plenty n. copiousness, luxuriance, plenteousness, profusion

pliable adj. 1. amenable, docile, malleable, tractable; 2. ductile, flexile, limber

pliant adj. supple, willowy

plot n. 1. cabal, machination; 2. plat

plot v. 1. collude, machinate; 2. plat

plotting n. collusion

plow n. colter, lister

pluck v. 1. deplume, vellicate; 2. thrum

plucky adj. feisty, gamy

plug n. shive, tampion, tampon

plug v. tampon

plum n. damson

plumage n. swansdown

plumbing fixtures sanitary ware

plume n. panache, pompon

plumpness n. corpulence, embonpoint, portliness, rotundity

plunder v. depredate, despoil, rape, ravage, raven, sack, spoliate

plunder n. rapine, ravin, spoliation

plunderer n. freebooter, rapparee

plundering n. depredation, despoliation, predation, rapine, spoliation

plunge v. immerge, immerse, precipitate

pocket n. placket

poems and poetical terms alba, Alexandrine, antiphon, antistrophe, ballade, ballata, beginning rhyme, caesura, cantar, canto, canzone, chanson de geste, cinquain, clerihew, common rhythm, crambo, dactyl, dactylic, dimeter, dithyramb, ditty, eclogue, elegiac pentameter, elegiac stanza, elegy, epitaph, epithalamion, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epos, epyllion, eye rhyme, fabliau, falling rhythm, feminine caesura, feminine ending, feminine rhyme, free verse, full rhyme, georgic, haikai, haiku, half rhyme, heptastich, heroic couplet, heroic quatrain, heroic verse, hexameter, hexastich, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic, hypercatalectic, hypercatalexis, hypermeter, iamb, iambic, iambus, ictus, identical rhyme, idyll, iliad, imagery, imagism, imperfect rhyme, incremental repetition, initial rhyme, internal rhyme, Italian sonnet, ithyphallic, kenning, lai, lay, leonine verse, light verse, limerick, linked rhyme, linked verse, logaoedic, logaoedic verse, long measure, long meter, macaronics, madrigal, Mahabharata, masculine caesura, masculine rhyme, Mawlid, metrification, metrify, monody, monopody, monorhyme, monostich, monostrophe, mora, near rhyme, nonsense verse, octameter, open couplet, ottava rima, paeon, palinode, pantoum, pentameter, pentapody, pentastich, Petrarchan sonnet, Petrarchism, Pindaric ode, planh, poulter's measure, proceleusmatic, prothalamion, prothalamium, qasida, quatrain, redondilla, renga, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rime riche, rising rhythm, rocking rhythm, rondeau, rondel, rondelet, roundel, rove-over, Rubaiyat stanza, running rhythm, Sapphic ode, scansion, seguidilla, septenarius, septenary, sestet, sestina, sextain, Shakespearean sonnet, sight rhyme, single rhyme, sirvente, slant rhyme, society verse, Spenserian sonnet, spondaic, spondee, sprung rhythm, stacimon, stave, stich, strophe, syncopation, syzygy, tanka, telestich, tenson, tercet, terza rima, tetrabrach, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetrastich, tetrasyllable, tribrach, trimeter, triple rhyme, triple rhythm, triplet, tripody, trochaic, trochee, truncated, truncation, vers de société, verset, versicle, versification, vers libre, villanelle, virelay, waka, weak ending

poet n. balladmonger, bard, goliard, lyrist, metrician, metrist, minnesinger, poetaster, rhymester, rimer, rimester, scop, skald, troubadour, trouvère, versifier, vers-librist

poetry, pertaining to Parnassian, Pierian

poetry, a volume of divan

poignant adj. caustic, pungent

point n. cusp, nib, pricket, prickle, tang, tine

point, fine punctilio

pointed adj. 1. acuate, aculeate, cultrate, punctiform; 2. epigrammatic, incisive

pointed body spicule

pointer n. fescue

point for point punctatim

poise n. aplomb, equanimity, imperturbability, self-possession

poised adj. collected, self-possessed, urbane

poison n. antiar, bane, ratsbane, toxicant, toxin, venom, zootoxin

poison v. envenom

poison gas lewisite, sternutator

poisonous adj. baneful, malignant, mephitic, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, toxicant, venenose, venenous, venomous, virulent

poke v. dub

polar lights aurora australis, aurora borealis

pole n. manhelper, Maypole, stave, striker

polemical adj. agonistic

police n. askari, Cheka, constabulary, Gestapo, GPU, kotwal, NKVD

police officer constable, gendarme, peon, zaptiah

police station thana

polish v. burnish, furbish, levigate, schreinerize

polished adj. courtly, cultivated, genteel

polite adj. well-mannered, well-spoken

polite, overly saccharine

politeness n. civility, complaisance, deference, politesse

political organization polity

political rights, mutual isopolity

politician n. ward heeler

politics, practical realpolitik

poll tax capitation

pollute v. adulterate, defile, desecrate, pervert, sully, vitiate

polygamous adj. bigamous, trigamous, polyandrous, polygamic, polygynous

pomp n. vainglory

pomposity n. bombast, flatulence, magniloquence, orotundity, turgidity

pompous adj. bombastic, flatulent, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, orotund, pontifical, tumescent, turgid

pompous person Poo Bah

poncho n. ruana

pond-dwelling adj. limnetic

ponder v. cogitate, mull, ruminate

ponderous adj. elephantine

pool n. tarn

poor adj. distressed, hapless, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, penurious, straitened

pope, likely to become papable

populace n. demos

popular adj. demotic, exoteric

popularize v. vulgarize

popular opinion vox populi

population n. habitancy

population improvement eugenics, euthenics

porcelain n. Belleek, celadon, hard paste, Imari ware, Jesuit ware, jet-enameled ware, Kutani, nankeen, Parian ware, Sevres

porch n. galilee, mantapa, porte-cochere, salutatorium; (see also portico)

pork, salt sowbelly

porous n. cancellous, cavernous, leachy, poriferous

port n. anchorage, port of call

portable adj. portative

portal n. iwan, liwan

portend v. augur, forebode

portent n. augury, harbinger, omen, presage, presentiment

porter n. hamal, ostiary

portico n. narthex, prostoon, prostyle, stoa, xyst, xystum, xystus

portion n. collop, lot, modicum, quantum

portly adj. corpulent, plenitudinous

portray v. delineate, limn

pose v. affect, posture, posturize

poseur n. attitudinarian, philosophaster, philosophe

position n. 1. situs; 2. benefice

positive adj. categorical, peremptory, thetic

posse n. posse comitatus

possessed adj. demoniac, demoniacal, demonian, demonic

possibility n. contingency, prospect

possible adj. contingent, feasible, practicable

post n. benefice

poster n. dazibao

posterity n. futurity

postmortem examination autopsy, necropsy, necroscopy

postpone v. prorogue

postponement n. moratorium, prorogation

postulate v. hypothecate, posit

postulate n. axiom, conjecture

posy n. nosegay

pot n. bain-marie, cachepot, cassolette, cocotte, crock, cruse, daube, dixie, Dutch oven, gallipot, jardiniere, marmite, petite marmite, pipkin, pottle

pot, ornamental epergne

potent adj. puissant

potential adj. latent, quiescent

potential n. potency, puissance

pothole n. chuckhole

potion n. elixir, philter

pots, mender of tinker

pottery n. buccaro, delft, faience, gombroon, Mocha ware, rabat, Samarian ware, Satsuma ware, sgraffito, slipware, terra sigillata, Wedgwood, Yayoi ware

pottery, pertaining to fictile

pottery fragment ostracon, potsherd, shard

pouch n. alforja, burse, marsupium, sporran

pound v. pestle

pour v. decant, disembogue

pour forth effuse

pouring n. libation

pouring forth effusive (adj.)

pout v. glower

pout n. moue

poverty n. exigency, penury, privation, straitness

poverty-stricken adj. starveling

powder n. pounce

powder v. dredge, granulate, pestle, pounce, triturate

powdered adj. comminuted, desiccated

powdery adj. pulverulent

power n. 1. dint, leverage, puissance; 2. éminence grise, gray eminence, maya

powerful adj. omnificent, omnipotent, plenipotent, stentorian

powerful, make potentiate

powerful in sound stentorian

powerless adj. impotent, ineffectual, prostrate

powerlessness n. impotence, ineffectuality, inefficacy

power to evoke pity pathos

practicable adj. feasible, viable

practical adj. applicative, applicatory, banausic, pragmatic, viable

practical exercise practicum

practical person pragmatist

practical politics realpolitik

practice n. exercitation, externship, internship, praxis, wont

practitioner n. licentiate

praise n. doxology, encomium, eulogy, kudos, magnificat, panegyric, plaudit

praise v. eulogize, extol, panegyrize

praise, deserving laudable

praise, expressing laudatory

praise, with cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude

praiseworthy adj. exemplary, laudable, palmary

praising adj. commendatory, laudatory

prance v. caper, cavort, flounce, gambol

prank n. antic, caper, caprice, dido, shenanigan

prankish adj. tricksy

pranks n. jinks

prankster n. scourer

prawn n. langoustine

pray v. daven, supplicate

prayer n. anaphora, bination, breviary, collect, commination, compline, Confiteor, devotion, evensong, intercession, itinerarium, kaddish, litany, miserere, Nafi, night office, nocturn, nones, novena, office, orison, orthros, requiescat, salat, suffrage, supplication

prayer book euchologion, mahzor, missal, siddur

prayer device phylactery

prayer leader imam

prayer shawl tallith

prayer stick paho

pray for us ora pro nobis

preach v. evangelize, preachify

preacher n. darshan, evangelist, maggid, predicant

preaching n. kerygma

preaching adj. predicant

preaching, relating to homiletic, predicatory

preachy adj. didactic, sanctimonious, sententious

preamble n. proem

precede v. antecede, forgo

precedence n. antecedence, precession

preceding adj. antecedent, anterior, precursory, prevenient

precept n. mitzvah

precious adj. invaluable

precious-stone expert lapidary

precise adj. finical, punctilious, scrupulous

preconception n. prenotion

precook v. parboil

predatory adj. exploitive, lupine, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine

predecessor n. antecessor, precursor, progenitor

predestined adj. predestinate

predetermine v. foreordain, foreordinate, predestinate, predestine

predicament n. exigency, strait

predict v. augur, divine, foretell, portend, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

prediction n. prognostication; (see also divination)

predictive adj. prognostic

predominant adj. prepotent

preeminence n. primacy

preempt v. arrogate, coopt, preclude

preface n. proem, prolegomenon, prolusion

prefatory adj. prolegomenous, prolusive

preference n. predilection, predisposition, prepossession

pregnancy n. cyesis

pregnant adj. enceinte, gravid, hapai, impregnate, parturient

pregnant, not farrow

prejudice n. predilection, predisposition, prepossession

prejudice v. prepossess

prelate n. bishop

preliminary adj. precursory, prefatory, prolegomenous

preliminary discussion pourparler

prelude n. prelusion, proem

premature development precocity

premeditated adj. prepense

premise n. presupposition

premises, set of donnée

premonition n. foreboding, forewarning, harbinger, portent, precursor, presage, presentiment

preoccupation with bodily needs physicality

preoccupation with self solipsism

preoccupied adj. distrait, engrossed, immersed, rapt

preoccupy v. engross, immerse

preparatory adj. preparative

prepare v. preincline, unlimber

prerogative n. droit du seigneur, seigniorage

prescribed adj. prescript

prescribing adj. prescriptive

presence n. aura, carriage, charisma, mien

present v. proffer

present n. baksheesh, broadus, cumshaw, gratuity, lagniappe, largess

present occasion nonce

preserve v. ensile, husband, jerk

preserve n. confection, confiture

preserver n. conservator

press, the fourth estate

pressed adj. appressed

pressed together serried

pressing adj. clamant, exigent

prestige n. cachet, izzat

presumption n. hubris

presumptuous adj. forward, overweening

presuppose v. postulate, premise

pretend v. affect, dissemble, dissimulate, feign

pretended adj. Barmecidal, feigned, illusory, ostensible, soi-disant

pretender n. aspirant, claimant, poseur, seemer

pretender to knowledge of philosophy philosophaster, philosophe

pretend illness malinger

pretense n. artifice, charade, pretext, travesty

pretentious adj. affected, bombastic, flatulent, florid, grandiloquent, inflated, la-di-da, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, papier-mâché, recherché, tumescent, turgid

pretentiousness n. coxcombry, foppishness, kitsch

pretext n. stalking horse

pretty adj. dishy, mignon, well-favored

prevail v. predominate, preponderate

prevalent adj. pervasive, regnant, rife

prevent v. avert, forestall, forfend, obviate, occlude, parry, preclude

preventing evil apotropaic

preventive adj. preemptive, prophylactic

previous adj. antecedent, prevenient

prey n. quarry

priceless adj. inestimable

prickly adj. 1. echinate, echinulate; 2. peevish, spiky

pride n. hubris, vainglory

priest n. bacchant, bacchante, bocor, bonze, Brahman, caliph, canon, celebrant, confessor, curé, dastur, divine, dominie, epulo, flamen, haruspex, hierarch, hieromonk, honorary canon, imam, kahuna, lama, Magus, powwow, presbyter, protopresbyter, prototype, shaman, vicar

priestly adj. hieratic, sacerdotal

prim adj. missish, prissy, prudish, starched

prima donna diva

primary adj. primeval, primordial

primate n. catholicos

primer n. hornbook

primitive adj. aboriginal, antediluvian, primal, primeval, primordial, pristine

primp v. preen, prink

prince n. atheling, elector, Landgrave, mirza, princekin, princeling

princely adj. sumptuous

principle n. axiom, canon, principium, theorem

printers n. typothetae

printing n. boustrophedon, cuneiform

prior adj. antecedent, anterior

priorities, determination of triage

priority n. antecedence, precedence

prison n. Alcatraz, Attica, bagnio, barracoon, bastille, Dartmoor, gulag, oflag, Sing Sing

prisoner n. Kapo

private adj. auricular, esoteric

privately adv. sub rosa

private things, most penetralia

privilege n. birthright, droit du seigneur, prerogative

privy n. backhouse, Chic Sale, garderobe; (see also toilet)

prize, award a premiate

probability n. verisimilitude

probable adj. verisimilar

probe n. sonde

problem, insoluble tar baby

problem, intricate Gordian knot

procession n. cortege, precession

proclaim v. annunciate, blazon, emblazon, preconize

proclamation n. ban, banns, pronunciamento

procrastinator n. cunctator

procreating adj. procreant

procure v. pander

procurement n. procuration

prodigy n. portent, wunderkind

produce v. elucubrate, ingenerate, spawn

producer n. régisseur

producing adj. parturient, travailing

productive adj. fecund, generative, germinal

profane adj. 1. impious, unhallowed, unpious; 2. secular, temporal; 3. abusive

profane v. blaspheme, defile, desecrate, dishallow, unhallow

profanity n. blasphemy, execration, malediction, obloquy, sacrilege

profess v. aver, consubstantiate

profitable adj. fructuous

profiting from trade in sacred things simony

profound adj. abstruse, erudite, sagacious

profuse adj. effuse, opulent, unsparing

progressive adj. avant-garde, processive

progressive n. progressist

prohibit v. debar, enjoin, interdict, preclude, proscribe

prohibition n. debarment, embargo, enjoinder, enjoinment, interdiction, ostracism, preclusion, proscription, taboo

prohibitive adj. exorbitant, extortionate, prohibitory

project n. projet

project v. cantilever, obtrude

projecting adj. erumpent, porrect, prognathous, salient

projection n. cantilever, crenation, crenature, planisphere, prominence, promontory, relief, salience, salient

proletarian n./adj. proletary

proliferating adj. proliferous

prolific adj. fecund, generative, philoprogenitive, rank, teeming

prolong v. elongate

promenade n. paseo, pleasance

prominence n. salience, saliency

prominent adj. erumpent, protuberant, salient

promiscuous person debauchee, debaucher, lecher

promise v. bode

promise n. sponsion, troth

promising adj. auspicious, propitious, roseate

promote v. enhance, espouse, exalt, forward, foster

promotion n. exaltation, furtherance, preferment

prompt adj. expeditious

promptness n. alacrity, expedition

prone adj. procumbent, recumbent, resupine, supine

prong n. tine

pronounce adj. enounce

pronounced adj. unequivocal

pronouncement n. allocution, dictum

pronunciation n. articulation, elocution, hypercorrection, hyperform, hyperurbanism, inflection

pronunciation, study of orthoepy

proof, serving as probative

prop n. stay

propaganda n. agitprop

propagate v. engender, procreate

propagative adj. germinal, seminal

propel v. impel, scull

proper adj. comme il faut, decorous, de rigueur, meet, pukka

proper names, pertaining to onomastic

property n. chattel, personalty

property owner hidalgo

prophecy n. bodement, prevision, soothsaying, vaticination; (see also divination)

prophesy v. augur, divine, presage, previse, prognosticate, vaticinate

prophet n. augur, Cassandra, clairvoyant, divine, doomsayer, doomsdayer, doomster, oracle, pythoness, seer, sibyl, soothsayer

prophetic adj. apocalyptic, fateful, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prescient, pythonic, sibylline, vatic

prophets n. Cassandra, Daniel, Deborah, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Muhammad, Tanaquil

propitious adj. favonian

proponent n. paladin, protagonist

proportional adj. ratable

proportionate adj. accordant, commeasurable, commensurable, commensurate, consonant

proposal n. overture

propose v. proffer, propound, tender

proposition assumed as true lemma

propriety n. decorum, prudery, seemliness

prosaic adj. mundane, pedestrian, trite, vapid

prosaic expression prosaism

prosecution n. pursuance

prosecutor n. quaestor

prose narrative chantefable

prosperity n. opulence, weal

prosperous adj. bounteous, halcyon, palmy

prostitute n. bawd, bimbo, call girl, cocotte, concubine, courtesan, Cyprian, demimondaine, doxy, drab, fancy woman, fille de joie, gigolo, harlot, hetaera, lady of the evening, light-o'-love, magdalene, nightwalker, paphian, paramour, party girl, quean, roundheels, scarlet woman, slattern, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, succuba, succubus, tramp, trollop, trull, white slave

prostitute, pertaining to a meretricious, tarty

prostitute, reformed magdalen

prostitution n. harlotry

prostrate adj. recumbent, resupine, supine

protect v. forfend, harbor, husband

protecting adj. phylactic

protection n. aegis, husbandry

protective adj. 1. prophylactic; 2. tutelary

protector n. conservator, padrino

protégé n. ward

protest n. démarche, demurral, expostulation, protestation, remonstrance

protest v. asseverate, aver, demur, expostulate, inveigh, obtest, remonstrate, revile

Protestant n. Orangeman, Schwenkfelder, sectary

protocol n. 1. decorum, rubric; 2. concordat, convention

protoplasm n. sarcode

prototype n. archetype, exemplar, urtext

protracted adj. longsome, prolix

protrude v. belly, extrude, obtrude

protrusion n. prolapse, proptosis, protraction, protuberance

protuberance n. boss, gibbosity, knur, umbo

protuberant adj. gibbous, protrusive, ventricose

proud adj. disdainful, orgulous, overweening, purse-proud, pursy, vaunting

prove false confute

proverb n. adage, aphorism, apothegm, dictum, epigram, epigraph, maxim, saw

provide v. afford, fend

province n. eparchy, exarchate, eyalet, nomarchy, nome, oblast, ordinariate, presidency, satrapy, vilayet

provincial adj. parochial

provisional adj. provisory

provisioner n. sutler

provisions n. provender, sea stock, sea stores

provoke v. chafe, foment, nettle, pique, rile, rouse, ruffle, vex

provoker n. gadfly

prowess n. emprise, expertise

prowler n. mouser

proximity n. contiguity, propinquity, vicinage

prude n. bluenose, Mrs. Grundy, nice-nelly, prig

prudence n. discernment, discretion, providence, sophrosyne

prudent adj. circumspect, politic

prudish adj. blue, missish, priggish, puritanical, strait-laced, Victorian

prudishness n. Grundyism, nice-nellyism

prurient behavior priapism

pry v. prize, root

prying adj. inquisitorial

pseudonym n. anonym, nom de guerre, nom de plume

public n. great unwashed, hoi polloi

publicity n. ballyhoo, puffery, réclame

publicity, a hunger for réclame

publicize v. ballyhoo, puff

public square agora

public walk alameda

publish v. vend

pucker v. purse

puddle n. plash

Puerto Rican puertoriqueño (n.)

pugnacious adj. bellicose, contentious, truculent

pullet, fattened poularde

pull up extirpate

pulp n. pomace

pulpit n. bema, bimah, mimbar, rostrum, tribune

pulse n. sphygmus

pulverize v. comminute, pestle, triturate

pun n. double entendre, equivoque, jeu de mots, paronomasia

punch bowl monteith

pundit n. swami

pungent adj. caustic, piquant, poignant

punish v. amerce, castigate, ferule, fustigate, mulct, scourge

punishable adj. statutable

punishment n. bastinado, castigation, chastisement, cucking stool, ducking stool, garrote, gauntlet, peine forte et dure, retorsion, retortion, retributivism, strappado, visitation; (see also torture)

punishment, place in Hades for Tartarus

punitive adj. castigatory, retributive, vindicative, vindicatory

punk n. touchwood

punning n. paronomasia

pupil n. shishya

purchase n. acquest

pure adj. 1. intemerate, inviolate, vestal, virginal; 2. unalloyed, unqualified

purge v. 1. absolve, expiate; 2. extirpate, liquidate

purge n. epuration

purging n. catharsis, purgation

purification n. circumcision, depuration, elutriation, epuration, lustrum, purgation

purifier n. alembic

purify v. circumcise, depurate, elutriate, expurgate, liquate, lustrate, mundify, shrive, sublimate

purifying adj. depurative, lustral, purgatorial, purgatory, purificatory

puritanical adj. Roundheaded, strait-laced

purpose n. resolve

purposeful adj. purposive

purposeless adj. fatuous

purr v. curr

purse n. reticule

pursue v. shag

pus, discharge matterate, maturate, suppurate

push v. 1. expedite, impel; 2. jostle

push n. dynamism, enterprise, zeal

pushy adj. forward, self-assertive

puslike adj. pyoid

pussy adj. purulent, suppurative

pussyfoot v. sidestep, straddle

put on endue

putrid adj. fetid, miasmic

putrid, becoming putrescent

puzzle n. anomaly, conundrum, enigma, logogriph, paradox

puzzling adj. abstruse, enigmatic, knotty

pygmy n. manikin

pyorrhea n. Riggs' disease

Pyrrhic victory Cadmean victory

Q

Q.E.D. quod erat demonstrandum

quack n. charlatan, empiric, humbug, mountebank, quacksalver

quackery n. charlatanism, empiricism

quadrivium n. arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music

quadruple adj. quadplex

qualification n. proviso

qualification, indispensable sine qua non

qualm n. compunction

quantity n. jorum, quantum, ruck

quarrel n. dustup, fracas, ruction

quarrel v. caterwaul, pettifog

quarrelsome adj. cantankerous, contentious, dissentious

quarrelsome person catamaran

quarter n. faubourg

queen n. regina

queen, of a regnal

queer adj. oddish

quell v. placate, subdue, tranquilize

quench v. allay, slake

question n. interrogatory, koan, mondo

question v. catechize, interpellate

questionable adj. controvertible, dubitable

question-and-answer adj. catechetical

question-and-answer, instruction by catechism

questioner n. inquisitor, querist

question mark interabang, interrobang

questionnaire n. questionary

quibble n. amphibology, amphiboly, sophism

quibble v. carp, cavil, equivocate, pettifog, prevaricate

quibbler n. casuist, pettifogger, prevaricator, sophist

quibbling adj. captious, carping, niggling, pettifogging

quick adj. expeditious, feathered, precipitate

quicken v. expedite, vivify

quickly adv. chop-chop

quick-tempered adj. choleric, churlish, irascible

quiet adj. lown, reposeful

quilt n. comforter, counterpane, coverlet, crazy quilt, duvet, eiderdown, hap, kakebuton

quilting n. trapunto

quintessence n. elixir

quip n. equivocation, quibble, sally

quirk n. crotchet, idiosyncrasy, tic, vagary

quivering n. fibrillation, trepidation

quivering adj. tremulous

quixotic conduct knight-errantry

quotation n. epigraph

R

rabbit n. lapin, leporide

rabbit fever tularemia

rabbits, breeding place for warren

rabble n. canaille, riffraff, the unwashed

rabies n. hydrophobia

race v. hurtle

race, endurance enduro

racehorse n. plater

racket n. crosse

racy adj. piquant, pungent, salty

radiance n. aureole, effulgence, lambency, luminosity, refulgence

radiant adj. effulgent, lambent, luminous, refulgent

raft n. kelek

ragamuffin n. street arab, tatterdemalion

ragged adj. tatty

raid n. forage, foray, incursion, razzia, sortie

raid v. maraud, ravage

raider n. marauder, mosstrooper, reiver

rain n. cacimbo, mizzle, serien

rain v. mizzle

rain, pertaining to hyetal, pluvial, pluvious

rainbow n. fogbow, mistbow, seadog, secondary rainbow, white rainbow

rain forest selva

rain gauge pluviometer

rain map nephanalysis

rain shower scud

rainy adj. pluvial, pluvious

raise v. broach, emboss, levitate

raisin n. sultana

ram, castrated wether

ramble v. maunder

rambling adj. 1. circumlocutory, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, excursive, expatiating, garrulous, maundering, periphrastic, prolix; 2. meandering, peripatetic, skimble-scamble, tortuous

rambling n. circumlocution, discursion, discursiveness, garrulity, loquacity, maundering, periphrasis, prolixity

ramp n. gradient

rampart n. bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, vallation

ram's horn trumpet shofar

ranch n. finca

random adj. casual, desultory, fortuitous, haphazard, stochastic

range n. compass, diapason, gamut, latitude, purview, spectrum, sweep

rank n. brevet, echelon

rape v. ravish, violate

rapid n. sault

rapids n. dalles

rapport n. affinity, empathy, freemasonry

rapture n. beatitude, exaltation, raptus, transport

rapturous adj. ecstatic

rare adj. recherché, tenuous, unwonted

rare book dealer bibliopole

rarefied adj. attenuate, tenuous

rarity n. curio, rara avis, tenuity

rascal n. blaggard, miscreant, picaro, picaroon, rapscallion, reprobate, scalawag, scapegrace, scaramouch, wastrel

rascality n. roguery

rascals, of picaresque

rash adj. brash, harum-scarum, incautious, precipitate, scatterbrain, temerarious

rash n. efflorescence

rashness n. adventurism, precipitancy, temerity

raspberry n. framboise

ratify v. sanction, validate

rational adj. lucid, sagacious

rat poison ratsbane

rattle v. 1. crepitate; 2. discompose, disconcert

rattle n. 1. maraca; 2. crepitus, rale

rattlebrain n. rattlehead, rattlepate

raucous adj. strident

ravage v. despoil

ravenous adj. lupine, predatory, rapacious, ravening

ravine n. arroyo, coulee, donga, flume, gulch, kloof, nullah, quebrada, rambla

ravish v. deflower

raw food, eating of omophagia

rawhide n. parfleche, thong leather, whang

razzle-dazzle n. razzmatazz

react v. retroact

reactionary n./adj. Bourbon

read v. devour, peruse

reader n. aliterate, bibliophage, lector

reading, variant lection

reading desk lectern

readjust v. redress

ready adj. disposed

ready-to-wear adj. prêt-à-porter

real adj. echt, praedial, veritable, viable

realism n. verism

realistic adj. pragmatic

reality n. Sat-cit-anan-da

realization n. entelechy, fruition

reappearance n. emersion, recrudescence

rearrange v. permutate, permute

reason v. expostulate, intellectualize, Platonize, ratiocinate, remonstrate, syllogize

reason n. nous

reasonable adj. equitable, plausible, temperate, tenable

reasonableness n. plausibility, rationality

reasoner, fallacious sophist, sophister

reason for being raison d'être

reasoning n. casuistry, choplogic, deduction, induction, inference, intellection, ijtihad, noetics, ratiocination, sophistry, syllogism

reasoning, fallacious paralogism, sophistry

reawakening n. Renaissance, Renascence

rebel v. reluct

rebel n. frondeur, iconoclast, seditionary

rebellion n. coup d'état, insurgency, insurrection, sedition

rebellious adj. contumacious, insubordinate, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, seditionary, seditious

rebellious conduct rebeldom

rebelliousness n. contumacy, recalcitrance, seditiousness

rebirth n. renascence

reborn adj. palingenetic, renaissant, renascent

rebound v. resile, ricochet

rebuke v. censure, chide, hector, keelhaul, reproach, reprove, upbraid

rebuke n. admonition, censure, remonstrance, remonstration, reproach, reproof

recalcitrant adj. renitent

recant v. unswear

recantation n. palinode

recede v. retrocede, retrograde, revert

receipt n. chit, quittance

receivable adj. receptible

recent adj. neoteric

receptacle n. chrismatory, ciborium, cupel, font, hanaper, monstrance, ossuarium, ossuary, ostensorium, ostensory, phylactery, reliquary, stoup, theca

reception n. 1. recipience; 2. durbar, levee, soiree, vermissage

receptive adj. acceptant, amenable, susceptive

receptiveness n. recipience

recess n. 1. alcove, ambry, armarium, oriel; 2. closure, respite

recipient n. honorand

reciprocated, not unrequited

recite v. declaim, intone, recount

reckless adj. harum-scarum, heedless, imprudent, incautious, precipitate, temerarious

recklessness n. diablerie

reckless person kamikaze

reclining adj. accumbent, recumbent

recluse n. anchoress, anchorite, ascetic, cenobite, eremite, incluse, solitary, solitudinarian

recoil v. flinch, quail, resile

recollection n. anamnesis, anaphora

recompense n. quittance, solatium

recompense v. requite

reconcile v. 1. placate, propitiate; 2. resolve

reconciliation n. eirenicon, propitiation, rapprochement, syncretism

record n. chronicle, counterfoil, genealogy, menology, pictograph, procès-verbal

recoup v. indemnify, recompense

recourse n. resort

recover v. recoup, replevy

recruit v. conscribe, impress, proselytize

rectangular adj. quadrate

rectify v. amend

rectory n. presbytery

recurrent adj. nagging, unrelenting

red adj. florid, lateritious, rubicund

red, becoming rubescent (adj.); rubefaction (n.)

red, mark with rubricate

red blood cell erythrocyte

redden v. rubify, rubricate

reddening adj. erubescent

reddish adj. livid, rubrical, rufescent, rufous, sanguine

redemptive adj. salvific

red-handed adj. in flagrante delicto

redistrict v. gerrymander

redness n. erythrism

redness, causing rubefacient

red ochre ruddle

reduce v. abate, curtail, detruncate, epitomize, reduct

reduced adj. curtate, déclassé, epitomized

reduction n. ablation, decrement, detumescence, epitome

reduction to the absurd reductio ad absurdum

redundancy n. nimiety, pleonasm, superfluity, tautology

redundant adj. diffuse, excrescent, pleonastic, prolix, tautologous, verbose

reduplication n. dittography

reecho v. resound

reef n. atoll, cay

reestablish v. redintegrate

refashion v. recast

refer v. advert, allude, ascribe, impute

referee n. adjudicator, arbiter

reference n. benchmark, citation

reference book vade mecum

refine v. distill, hone, rarefy, subtilize

refined adj. courtly, cultivated, genteel, gentrified, mandarin, urbane

refined, excessively precious

refinement n. decorum, gentility, propriety, suavity, urbanity

refinement, affected preciosity

reflect v. 1. cerebrate, cogitate, ruminate; 2. redound

reform v. amend, emend, regenerate

reform, producing reformative

reformatory n. magdalen

refrain n. derry

refresh v. reanimate, reinvigorate

refreshment n. 1. refection, regale; 2. rejuvenation

refuge n. haven, oasis

refugee n. Marielito

refusal n. recusancy, repulse

refusal, expressive of declinatory

refuse v. balk, rebuff

refuse n. detritus, draff, dregs, dross, dunder, dustheap, flotsam, hards, hurds, lees, offal, rape, recrement, rejectamenta, scoria, scourings, scree, slag, spilth, strass, sullage, tailings

refuse heap midden

refutation n. confutation, elenchus, reductio ad absurdum, rejoinder

refute v. confute, rebut, repugn

regal adj. Junoesque, regnal

regard v. deem, reck

regard n. esteem

regeneration n. palingenesis

regime n. regimen

region n. oblast

register n. cadastre

regress v. backslide, recidivate, retrograde, retrogress, revert

regress n. declension, recidivism, regression, retrogradation, retrogression

regret v. bemoan, bewail, rue

regret n. compunction, contrition, qualm, scruple

regretful adj. compunctious, contrite, penitent, remorseful, rueful

regular n. denizen, habitué

regulatory adj. sumptuary

rehabilitation, road to sawdust trail

rehash n. réchauffé

reign n. dominion, sovereignty, suzerainty

reign, of a regnal

reigning adj. regnant

reimburse v. indemnify, recompense, redress, remunerate

reincarnation n. samsara

reintroduced adj. réchauffé

reiterate v. ingeminate

reject v. disavow, forswear, jettison, recuse, repudiate

rejected things rejectamenta

rejoice v. jubilate

rejuvenate v. rejuvenesce, rejuvenize

relapse v. recidivate, regress, retrogress, revert

relapse n. recidivism, regression, retrogression, reversion

relapser n. recidivist

relapsing adj. regressive, retrogressive

relate v. delineate, recapitulate, recount, retail

related adj. affined, agnate, cognate, connate, consanguineous, correlative, enate, enatic

relationship n. affinity, consanguinity, kinship

relationship, interdependent symbiosis

relative n. agnate, cognate, enate

relax v. abate, decompress, enervate, enfeeble, mitigate, unbrace, unkink, unstring

relaxation n. cessation, détente, diminution, remission

relaxed adj. slack, ungirt

relaxing n. laxation

release v. 1. effuse, eruct; 2. extricate, manumit, uncouple, unhand, unmew, unpen

release n. deliverance, manumission, remission

release from life quietus (n.)

relent v. abate, slacken

relentless adj. implacable, inexorable

relevant adj. ad rem, apposite, germane

relics, repository for martyrium, reliquary

relief n. assuagement, mitigation, succor

relieve v. allay, alleviate, assuage, disembarrass, mitigate, mollify, succor, unburden

relieving n. catharsis

relight v. reillumine, rekindle, relume, relumine

religion n. dharma, din, Jainism, Jansenism, monotheism, polytheism; (see also worship)

religious adj. conscientious, scrupulous

religious, excessively religiose

religious belief ditheism, theism

religious devotions ibada, vesper

religious instruction catechesis

relinquish v. abdicate, cede, forgo, forswear, renounce

reluctant adj. averse, disinclined, loath, reticent

remain v. abide

remainder n. dottle, fag end, overage, residuum

remaining adj. remanent

remains n. reliquiae

remark n. bon mot, gambit, mot, obiter dictum, Parthian shot

remarkable adj. bodacious, salient, singular, uncommon

remedies, various antidote, antiodontalgic, antiphlogistic, antipruritic, antipyretic, antipyrotic, antiscorbutic, antitoxin, antitussive, antivenin, arcanum, catholicon, corrective, elixir, febrifuge, medicament, medicant, nostrum, panacea, poultice, restorative, specific, vulnerary

remedy v. assuage, medicate, redress, succor

remember v. recollect, reminisce

remembrance n. anamnesis, recollection, reminiscence

reminder n. memento, memento mori, remembrancer

reminiscences n. personalia

reminiscent adj. redolent, reminiscential

remnant n. oddment, residuum

remodel v. recast

remorse n. compunction, contrition, penitence

remorseful adj. compunctious, contrite, penitent

remote adj. 1. abstracted, reclusive, seclusive, sequestered; 2. outlying

removal n. 1. dislodgment, remotion; 2. ablation, abscission, debridement, excision

remove v. 1. dislodge, doff, eloign, expurgate, subduct; 2. superannuate

remove hair depilate, epilate

renaming n. teknonymy

rendezvous n. assignation, tryst

renegade n. desperado, runagate

renegade, turn apostatize, tergiversate

renege v. fainaigue

renew v. redintegrate

renewal n. instauration, recrudescence, redintegration, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renascence

renounce v. abjure, abnegate, forswear, renege

renovate v. furbish, refurbish

renovation n. instauration, refurbishment

renowned adj. redoubted

renunciation n. abdication, abjuration, abnegation, demission, disavowal, disclamation, forgoing

reorganize v. reconstitute

repair v. bushel, vamp

repair n. instauration

repairable adj. remediable, reparable

reparation n. atonement, indemnification, redress, restitution

repay v. indemnify, recompense, requite

repayment v. amends, recompense, reparation, requital, restitution

repeal v. abrogate, rescind

repeat v. battologize, geminate, ingeminate, iterate, perseverate, reiterate, replicate, reprise, tautologize

repeating adj. iterant, reiterant

repel v. parry, rebuff

repellent adj. forbidding, rebarbative

repercussion n. afterclap

repetition n. anadiplosis, anaphora, antanaclasis, epistrophe, gemination, iterance, iteration, perseveration, replication, reprise, tautologism, tautology; (see also rhetorical terms)

repetitious adj. iterative, tautological

replace v. reposit, supersede, supplant

reply v. rejoin, retort, riposte

reply n. rejoinder, replication, responsum, retort, riposte

report n. chronicle, dossier, expertise, procés-verbal, roorback

report v. chronicle, recount

reporter n. intelligencer, rapporteur

repository n. charnel, chartophylacium, cimeliarch, cinerarium, columbarium, granary, reliquary, sacristy

reprehensible adj. culpable, flagrant, opprobrious

represent v. delineate, limn, prefigure, schematize

representation n. deesis, delineation, effigy, simulacrum

representative n. burgess, syndic

representative adj. exemplary

repress v. quash, quell, quench

reprimand n. castigation, remonstrance, remonstration, reprehension, reproof, reproval

reprimand v. admonish, castigate, chide, reprehend, reprove, upbraid

reproach n. castigation, opprobrium, reproval

reproachful adj. contumelious

reproduce v. manifest

reproduction n. 1. agamogenesis, parthenogenesis; 2. ectype

reproductive adj. germinal, progenitive, seminal

reproof n. remonstrance, reproach, reproval

reptile, flying pterodactyal, pterosaur

reptiles, study of herpetology

repudiate v. abjure, disavow

repugnance n. antipathy, aversion, contrariety, incompatibility

repulsion n. aversion

repulsive adj. fulsome, loathsome, odious, repellent, repugnant

reputed adj. putative

request v. adjure, entreat, petition, solicit, supplicate

requesting, pertaining to rogatory

requirable adj. exigible

require v. exact

required adj. de rigueur

requirement n. injunction, proviso, stipulation

rescind v. countermand, nullify, retract, unsay, unswear

rescindable adj. rescissible, rescissory

rescinding n. abrogation, nullification, rescission, retraction

rescue n. deliverance, redemption

resemblance n. semblance, similitude

resentful adj. snappish, waspish

resentment n. choler, dudgeon, huff, pique, umbrage

resentment, show bridle

reserve, lacking effusive

reserved adj. demure, indrawn, inobtrusive, starched, taciturn, unvocal

reservoir n. cenote, font, impoundment

reside v. sojourn, tenant

residence n. abode, domicile, habitation, inhabitancy, manse, prefecture, sojourn

residency n. inhabitancy

resident n. denizen, residentiary

residing adj. resident, residentiary

residual adj. remanent

residue n. caput mortuum, clinker, dottle, dregs, residuum, slurry, tailings, vinasse

residue, apple pomace

resign v. demit

resignation n. forbearance

resilient adj. buoyant

resin n. rumanite

resin, yielding resiniferous

resinlike adj. resinoid

resist v. rebuff, recalcitrate

resistance n. intransigence, renitence

resistant adj. recalcitrant, renitent

resolute adj. dauntless, doughty, purposive, stalwart, staunch, undaunted

resolution n. 1. denouement, deus ex machina; 2. resolve

resolvable adj. resoluble, resolutive

resonance n. sonority

resonant adj. canorous, plummy, sonorous

resonate v. resound

resort n. 1. lido, spa, watering place; 2. recourse, repair

resort, last pis aller

resounding adj. plangent, reboant

resource n. expedient, resort

resourceful adj. débrouillard

resourceful person débrouillard

respect n. deference, esteem, veneration

respect v. esteem, venerate

respect, commanding redoubtable, venerable

respect, implying honorific

respect, show genuflect

respected adj. redoubted

respectful adj. complaisant, courtly, decorous, deferent, deferential, dutiful, urbane

responding n. responsion

response n. 1. counterblow, rejoinder; 2. respond, responsory

responsive adj. 1. amenable, forthcoming, reflex, reflexive; 2. antiphonal

rest v. repose

rest n. hiatus

restate v. paraphrase

restatement n. paraphrase, paraphrasis

restaurant n. bistro, brasserie, carvery, chophouse, cookshop, rathskeller, trattoria

resting place lich stone

restitution n. apocatastasis

restless adj. restive

restlessness n. cabin fever, disquietude, fantod, fretfulness, inquietude, restiveness

restless person gadabout

restoration n. anastylosis, instauration, revanche

restore v. repristinate

restore courage of reman

restrain v. bridle, circumscribe, debar

restrained adj. hieratic

restraint n. bilbo, constraint, shackle

restrict v. constrain, shackle, straiten

restricting adj. constraining, limitative, straitening

restriction n. constraint, stricture

restrictive adj. stringent

result n. backwash, consequence, denouement, eventuality

result v. emanate, ensue, eventuate, redound

résumé n. curriculum vitae, dossier, vita

resurgence n. Renaissance, Renascence, risorgimento

retail v. regrate

retainers, body of retinue, suite, train

retaliate v. redress, requite

retaliation n. lex talionis, redress, reprisal, requital, retorsion, retortion, retributivism

retaliatory adj. reciprocatory, retributive

retard v. encumber

retarded person retardate, retardee

retch v. keck

reticence n. taciturnity

reticent adj. taciturn

retinue n. cortege, suite

retire v. 1. decommission, superannuate; 2. retrocede

retire, allow to superannuate

retired adj. emerita, emeritus

retiree n. retirant

retirement n. quietus, sequestration

retiring adj. seclusive, unassuming

retort n. rejoinder, riposte

retort v. recriminate

retract v. countermand, recant, rescind, unsay, unswear

retractable adj. retractile

retraction n. nullification, recantation, rescindment, revocation

retreat n. 1. katabasis, regression; 2. asylum, haven, sanctuary

retribution n. recompense, requital

retribution, act of nemesis

retroactively adv. ex post facto, retrospectively

return v. revert

return n. recession, recursion, regression, retrogression, reversion

reveal v. broadcast, disbosom, evince, manifest, unpack, unshroud

revealer n. revelator

revealing adj. revelatory

revel v. 1. luxuriate, savor, wallow; 2. caper, carouse, roister, rollick

revelation n. apocalypse, divulgation, divulgence, epiphany, eyeopener

reveler n. bacchant, bacchante, carouser, maenad

revelry n. carousal, saturnalia

revenge n. reprisal, requital, retribution, revanche

revenge v. requite

revengeful adj. malevolent, malignant

reverberate v. reverb

reverberating adj. reboant, resounding, reverberant

revere v. reverence, venerate

revered adj. hoary, venerated

reverence n. ecclesiolatry, genuflection, veneration

reverent adj. prayerful, reverential

reversal n. countermarch, chiasmus, peripeteia, reversion, volte-face

reverse n. affliction, misadventure

reverse v. countermand, rescind, unlive

reversed adj. retrograde

reversion n. atavism, recidivism, retrogression

revert v. recidivate, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress

revise v. amend, emend, redact, rescale

revision n. emendation, recension, redaction, revisal

revival n. anabiosis, metempsychosis, palingenesis, reanimation, recrudescence, renaissance, renascence, revivification, reviviscence

revive v. furbish, reanimate, recrudesce, regenerate, resuscitate, revivify

revived adj. redivivus

reviving adj. renascent, resurgent

revocable adj. ambulatory

revoke v. adeem, rescind, supersede

revolt n. intifada, jacquerie, putsch, titanism

revolutionary n. sans-culotte

reward n. desert, deserts, guerdon, palm, recompense, requital

reward v. recompense, remunerate, requite

rhetoric, teacher of rhetor, rhetorician

rhetorical adj. forensic

rhetorical terms amphibologia, anacoenosis, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anaphora, anapodoton, anastrophe, antanaclasis, antapodosis, anthimeria, antiphrasis, antipophora, antiptosis, antithesis, antonomasia, apocope, apodioxis, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asteimus, asyndeton, auxesis, bdelygmia, bomphiologia, bowdlerism, brachiepia, brachylogy, cacemphaton, cactolith, catachresis, chiasmus, commendatio, comparatio, concinnity, congeries, correctio, dehortatio, diacope, diastole, digressio, double entendre, ecphonesis, enantiosis, epanalepsis, epanaphora, epanodos, epanorthosis, epexegesis, epiphonema, epistrophe, epizeuxis, euphemism, gnome, gratiarum actio, hendiadys, homeoteleuton, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, hypotaxis, hypotyposis, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, innuendo, irony, litotes, malapropism, meiosis, metabasis, metalepsis, metaphora, metastasis, metathesis, metonymy, mimesis, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, palilogy, palindromos, paralipsis, paranomasia, paregmenon, periphrasis, peroration, personification, pleonasmus, ploce, polysyndeton, preterition, prolepsis, prosopopoeia, rhetorical question, simile, syllepsis, symploce, syncope, synecdoche, tautologia, tmesis, trope, zeugma

rhinoceros n. pachyderm

rhyme, types of see poems and poetical terms

rhythm n. cadence, pulse; (see also poems and poetical terms)

ribald adj. irreverent, risqué, scurrilous

ribaldry n. scurrility

ribbed adj. costate

ribbon n. cordon, cordon bleu, ferret, festoon, lutestring, riband, sautoir

ribs, of the costal

rice n. paddy

rich adj. Lucullan, orotund

riches n. mammon

rich person see person, wealthy

rickets n. rachitis

rickety adj. infirm

ricksha n. jinrikisha, rickshaw

riddance n. dislodgment

riddle n. anomaly, conundrum, enigma, koan, paradox

ridge n. cordillera, cuesta, escarpment, esker, hommock, kame, razorback

ridgepole n. rooftree

ridicule n. badinage, chaff, derision, irony, mockery, raillery, satire

ridicule v. banter, burlesque, chaff, deride, haze, lampoon, parodize, pillory, rally, satirize, twit

ridiculous adj. discrepant, farcical

riffraff n. canaille, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, tagrag

rifle n. Enfield rifle, Garand rifle, Spencer, Springfield rifle

rifleman n. bersagliere

right adj. congruous, decorous, dexter, meet, seemly

right n. prerogative

righteousness n. rectitude

rightful adj. due, equitable

right-handedness n. dextrality

right of the first night droit du seigneur

right-to-left, moving from dextrosinistral

rigid adj. austere, stark, unresilient, unyielding

rigidity n. rigor mortis, turgor

rigmarole n. galimatias

rigor n. stringency

rigorous adj. austere, draconian, finical

rile v. roil

rim n. chime, felloe, verge

rind n. albedo

ring n. 1. annulet, annulus, circlet, cirque, ferrule, gyre, seal ring; 2. bloc, confederacy, coterie

ring v. resound

ringed adj. annulate

ringing in the ears tinnitus

ringing sound, making a tinnient

ringleader n. bellwether

ringlike adj. annular, orbicular, orbiculate

ring-shaped adj. circinate

ringworm n. tinea

riot n. melee

riot v. carouse, revel

rioter n. frondeur

riotous adj. turbulent

ripe adj. 1. mature, seasoned; 2. opportune

ripening n. bletting, maturation

ripple v. dimple, purl, ruffle, undulate

rise v. levitate, rear

rise again resurge

rising adj. ascensive

risk n. imprudence, uncertainty

risky adj. hazardous, impolitic, imprudent, jeopardous, venturesome, venturous

risqué adj. juicy, racy, ribald, titillating

rite n. liturgy, solemnity

rites, pertaining to sacred sacral

ritual n. liturgy

ritual bath mikvah

rival n. corrival, emulator, nemesis

rival v. emulate, vie

rivalry n. contention, emulation

river, pertaining to a fluvial, fluviatile, potamic, riverine

riverbank, pertaining to a riparian

riverbed n. arroyo, cañada

river inlet ria

river mouth embouchure

rivulet n. rigolet, rill, rillet

road n. causeway, corniche

roam v. maraud, meander

roar v. bluster

roast v. decrepitate, torrefy, torrify

rob v. despoil, extort, harry, rape, rifle, sack, spoliate

robber n. brigand, dacoit, footpad, rapparee, reiver

robbery n. dacoity, depredation, larceny, rapine, ravin

robot n. automaton, android, golem

robust adj. hale, robustious, stalwart

rock n. crag, gangue, Scylla

rocket n. rockoon, sonde

rocks, living among saxatile, saxicoline, saxicolous

rock salt halite

rocky adj. craggy

rod n. burin, ferule, probang

rods n. wattles

rods, bundle of fasces

rod-shaped adj. virgate, virgulate

rogue n. blackguard, knave, mountebank, picara, picaro, picaroon, scalawag, scapegrace, scaramouch

roguish adj. jocose, jocund, picaresque, raffish, waggish

roll v. 1. gyrate, lumber, trundle; 2. furl, swathe; 3. billow, undulate, wallow, welter

roll n. 1. resonance; 2. rouleau

rolled-in adj. obvolute

roller n. platen

romantic adj. quixotic

Rome, near suburbicarian

romp v. gambol

roof n. catslide, French roof, mansard, rooftree

roof v. wattle

roofed-over adj. clithral

roofing tile imbrex

roofing tool zax

roofless adj. hypaethral

rooming house lodgment

rooms, types of alipterion, amphithalamus, andron, antehall, anteroom, anticum, arcosolium, atelier, atrium, bakehouse, boulenterion, buttery, caldarium, cella, cellule, cenacle, chancellery, cimeliarch, conservatory, cubicle, elaeothesium, epinaos, exedra, frigidarium, gallery, garde-manger, garde-robe, kiva, larder, locutorium, locutory, magazine, naos, nymphaeum, oda, odah, oecus, opisthodomos, posticum, pronaos, rotunda, sala, salon, saloon, salutatorium, scriptorium, serdab, solar, subterrane, subterranean, sudatio, sudatorium, tablinum, thalamus, tholos, tholus, unctuarium, undercroft

roomy adj. capacious, commodious, extensive

rooster n. chanticleer, gamecock

root out extirpate

roots, feeding on rhizophagous

rope n. bight, cordelle, guy, lazy guy, longe, Manila rope, mecate, painter, pigging string, prolonge, rode

rose garden rosarium

rosette n. cockade

rosin n. colophony

roster n. rota

rostrum, furnished with a rostrate (adj.)

rosy adj. roseate

rot v. decompose, molder, putrefy

rotate v. circumrotate, gyrate, pronate, supinate

rotating adj. rotatory, trochoid

rotation n. circumrotation, pronation

rotten adj. fetid, putrescent, rank

rottenness n. putrefaction, putrescence

roué n. bounder, lecher, libertine, rake, rakehell

rough adj. craggy, crenelated, hard-case, hubbly, incondite, scabrous, serrated

roughage n. stover

roughen v. asperate

roughness n. asperity

round adj. rotund

roundabout adj. ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, euphuistic, oblique, periphrastic, tortuous

rounded adj. orbicular, orbiculate

roundheaded adj. brachycephalic

roundness n. rondure

rout v. roust

routine n. regimen, rote

rove v. gad

roving adj. nomadic

row n. 1. drill, hedgerow, windrow; 2. ruckus, ruction

rowboat n. tag boat, wherry

rows, arranged in polystichous

royal adj. basilic, regnal

royal court durbar

royal rights regalia

royalty n. regality

rub v. burnish, chafe, embrocate, gall

rubber n. caoutchouc, caucho

rubbings, substance used for heelball

rubbish n. 1. balderdash, bosh, raffle, trumpery; 2. spilth

rub out efface, expunge, obliterate

ruby-colored adj. rubious

ruddy adj. florid, rubicund, sanguine

rude adj. brusque, contumelious, incult, robustious, uncivil

rudeness n. boorishness, contumely, incivility

rudimentary adj. inchoate, vestigial

ruff n. fraise

ruffian n. highbinder, myrmidon, Mohock

ruffle n. furbelow, goffering, jabot

rugged adj. craggy, ironbound

rugs, types of Aubusson, dhurrie, drugget, flokati, Ghiordes, Ispahan, kaross, Kashmir rug, kilim, Kirman, rya, Sarouk

ruin n. bane, debacle, despoliation, perdition, rack, spoliation, wrack

ruin v. spoliate

ruinous adj. calamitous, pernicious, wrackful

rule n. 1. algorithm, axiom, canon, precept; 2. androcracy, dominion, empery, hierocracy, raj, sway, tenure

rulers archon, ariki, ataman, autarch, bey, Caesar, caid, caliph, catholicos, caudillo, Dalai Lama, dato, decemvir, dey, duumvir, dynast, emir, eparch, ethnarch, exarch, exilarch, genearch, gerent, Gilgamesh, hakim, hetman, hierarch, imperator, interrex, Isobates, Jamshid, jarl, jefe, Jormunrek, kabaka, kaiser, khan, Laius, Lamus, landgrave, maharajah, margrave, Nizam, oligarch, pendragon, Pharaoh, potentate, primate, rajah, ranee, sachem, sagamore, seignior, sirdar, Soldan, sovereign, tetrarch, triumvir, voivode

rules n. sutra

ruling adj. hegemonic, regnant

ruling body duarchy, duumvirate, septemvirate, tetrarchate, tetrarchy, triumvirate

rumble v. wamble

rummage v. root, rout

rumor n. canard

rumor v. bruit

rump n. croup, nates

rumpled adj. disheveled, tousled

run v. lope, scud, scuttle, skedaddle, stot

rung n. rundle, stave

runner n. harrier, Pheidippides

running out excurrent (adj.)

rural adj. agrestic, predial, silvan, villatic

rural, make countrify, ruralize

rural life rusticity

ruse n. stratagem

rushing adj. precipitant

rustic adj. agrestic, Arcadian, bucolic, Doric, pastoral

rustic n. agrestic, country bumpkin, hind, homespun, hoosier, swain

rustling n. froufrou, susurration

rusty adj. rubiginous

ruthless adj. callous, fell, inexorable

S

saber n. yataghan

sable fur zibeline

saboteur n. ninja, Trojan Horse

sac n. follicle, vesicle

sack n. gunny-bag, gunnysack, poke, towsack

sack v. despoil, pillage

sacred adj. hallowed, sacrosanct, venerable

sacred objects, trade in simony

sacred objects, trader in simoniac

sacrifice n. corban, hecatomb, oblation, suovetaurilia, taurobolium

sacrilege n. profanation

sacristy n. diaconicon

sad adj. disconsolate, dispirited, dumpish, lugubrious, morose, woebegone

saddle n. pillion

sadism n. algolagnia

sadness, sentimental Weltschmerz

safecracker n. yegg, yeggman

safeguard n. palladium

sag v. flag, languish

saga n. roman-fleuve

sage n. graybeard, mahatma, rishi, sadhu, solon

sagging n. ptosis

sailor n. jacktar, lascar

saint, carved figure of santo

salaried workers salariat

sale n. vendition

salesperson, traveling drummer

saleswoman n. midinette

saliva n. drivel, slaver, spittle

salt n. piquancy, savor

salt, producing saliferous

salt, treat with salinize

saltworks n. salina, salten

salty, slightly brackish

salute n. obeisance, salutation

salvager n. salvor

salvation n. nirvana

salve n. unction

sanctimoniousness n. piosity

sanction n. imprimatur

sanction v. homologate

sanctuary n. adytum, bethel, refugium, sacrarium, sekos

sandal n. zori

sand bar tombolo, towhead

sand-inhabiting adj. arenicolous

sandy adj. arenaceous, arenose, sabulous

sap, feeding on phytosuccivorous

sarcasm n. sardonicism

sarcastic adj. caustic, mordant, sardonic

sash n. cummerbund, faja, obi

satanic adj. demoniac, infernal, sulfurous, sulphurous

satiation n. satiety, surfeit

satire n. burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, travesty

satirical adj. mordant, sardonic

satisfaction n. expiation, requital, schadenfreude

satisfy v. assuage, palliate, requite, sate, satiate, slake

saturate v. imbrue, infuse

saucer-shaped adj. patelliform

sauciness n. archness

savage adj. fell, feral, lupine

savage n. boor, churl

savagery n. ferity, savagism

save v. husband

save little dissave

savor v. degust

savor n. sapor

savory adj. piquant, pungent

saw, surgeon's trepan, trephine

scabby adj. scabious

scald v. blanch

scale n. analemma

scales, come off in desquamate

scaling n. escalade

scaly adj. furfuraceous, squamate

scaly, not esquamate

scaly matter scurf

scanty adj. exiguous, jejune

scapegoat n. Azazel, whipping boy

scar n. cicatrix

scarcity n. dearth, paucity, penury

scarlet fever scarlatina

scatter v. broadcast, disgregate, disject, dissipate, sparge

scatterbrain n. featherhead

scattered adj. effuse

scattering n. Diaspora, dispersion

scavenger n. bhangi

scene n. tableau, tableau vivant

scenery n. mise en scène

scent n. spoor

scheme n. cabal, machination, stratagem

scholar n. academe, ayatollah, bluestocking, demy, savant, schoolman

school n. borstal, cheder, conservatoire, dojo, lyceum, madrasah, scholasticate, ulpan, yeshiva

schoolmaster n. pedagogue, scholarch

scintillating adj. coruscating, diamanté

scintillation n. coruscation, laurence

scold v. castigate, chide, excoriate, flay, objurgate, rate, reprove, vituperate

scope n. ambit, compass, diapason, gamut, purview

scorch v. torrefy, torrify, wither

scorching n. ustulation

scored adj. gyrose

scorn n. misprision, misprize

scorn v. contemn

scornful adj. contumelious, supercilious

scour v. rake, ransack

scowl v. glower, lower

scrap n. ort

scrape v. curette, scrabble

scraper n. strigil, xyster

scraping n. ramentum

scratch v. scarify, scrabble

scratching for food, given to gallinaceous, rasorial

screen n. abat-jour, brise-soleil, iconostasis, jalee, maksoorah, mehitzah, paravent, parclose, perclose, purdah, reredos, rood screen, scherm, shoji, tatty, transenna

scribe n. scrivener, sopher

scroll n. kakemono, makimono, orihon

sculptured figure gisant, glyph, santo

scum n. dross, pellicle, scoria, sloke, spume

scurrilous adj. fescennine

sea battle, mock naumachia

seal n. bull, bulla, chop, sigil, signet

seal v. immure, lute

seal, baby whitecoat

seals, pertaining to sphragistic

seam n. commissure, juncture

sea monster kraken, leviathan

seamstress n. midinette, sempstress

sear v. cauterize

search v. ferret, rifle

seas, dominion over thallasocracy

seas, pertaining to pelagic

seasickness n. mal der mer

sea spray spindrift, spoondrift

seat n. howdah, pouf, pulvinar, misericord, sedile, subsellium

seaward adv. makai

sea water polynya

seaweed n. kelp, laver, sargassum, sloke, wrack

seclusion n. purdah, reclusion

secondary adj. ancillary

Second Coming Parousia

Second Coming, belief in chiliasm, millennialism

second-rate adj. pedestrian

second self alter ego

second sight clairvoyance

secrecy n. hugger-mugger

secret adj. back-alley, back-channel, backdoor, backstairs, back-street, recondite

secret n. arcanum, arcanum arcanorum

secretary n. amanuensis, famulus, munshi

secretion n. colostrum, milt, smegma

secretive adj. diffident, reticent

secretly adv. in petto, privily, sub rosa

secret society camorra, Carbonari

secret things penetralia

secularize v. laicize, temporalize

secure v. stanchion, undergird

sedan chair palanquin

sedition n. misprision

seditious adj. factious

seducer n. Casanova, Don Juan, lothario, Romeo

seductress n. Delilah, femme fatale, huldre, siren, vamp

see v. vide

seed n. moit

seeming adj. semblable, ostensible

seer n. maharishi, Melampus, pythoness

seething n. ebullition

seize v. gaffle, grapple

seizure n. impoundment, sequestration

select adj. esoteric

selection n. pericope

selections n. analecta, analects, excerpta, pericopae, pericopes

self-absorption n. egocentricism, solipsism

self-advertisement n. réclame

self-assertion, empty braggadocio

self-centered adj. narcissistic

self-confidence n. aplomb, hubris

self-conscious adj. diffident

self-defense n. aikido, karate, kung fu

self-denial n. asceticism, self-abnegation

self-disciplne n. ascesis

self-esteem n. amour-propre

self-evident adj. axiomatic, prima facie

self-governed adj. autocephalous

self-government n. swaraj

self-indulgence n. dolce vita, hedonism, sybaritism

self-indulgent person bon vivant, epicurean, hedonist, sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary

selfish adj. avaricious, parsimonious

selflessness n. altruism, philanthropy

self-nourishing adj. autotrophic

self-produced adj. autogenous

self-righteous adj. holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, rectitudinous, sanctimonious, sententious

self-sufficiency n. autarky

self-taught person autodidact

semantics n. semasiology

send back remand

senility n. caducity, dotage

senior person doyen, doyenne

sensation n. percept, esthesis

sense n. cogency, import, purport, sconce, significancy

sense of smell, loss of anosmia

sense of taste, abnormal parageusia

sensitive to sexual stimulation erogenous

sensitivity n. circumspection, esthesia

sensory apparatus sensorium

sensual adj. concupiscent, libidinous, Sardanapalian, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous

sentimental adj. bathetic, cloying, maudlin, mawkish, rose-water, saccharine

sentimentality n. bathos, maudlinness, mawkishness, Schwärmerei, treacle

sentry n. vedette

sentry box excubitorium

separable adj. dissociable

separate v. bifurcate, compart, decathect, dialyze, disaggregate, disgregate, dissever, dissociate, sequester, sequestrate, sunder

separate adj. discrete, disjoined

separateness n. severalty

separation n. dieresis, diremption, disjunction, dissociation, scission

septum n. dissepiment

sequence n. consecution, continuum

serenade n. belling, callathump, charivari, shivaree, skimmerton

serf n. helot, vassal, villein

series n. catena, concatenation, continuum, contravallation

series, arranged in polystichous, seriate

series, in a seriatim

seriousness n. gravitas

sermons, collection of sutra

serpent n. cockatrice, hydra

serum n. whey

servant n. au pair, batman, comprador, factotum, khansamah, mozo, retainer, scullion

servile adj. obsequious, sequacious, sycophantic

set right disabuse

settlement n. mise

settler n. sooner

sevenfold adj. septuple, septuplicate

seven-sectioned adj. septempartite

seven-sided adj. septilateral

seventeenth century seicento

seventies, person in septuagenarian

sever v. cleave, sunder

several adj. divers, sundry

severe adj. condign, draconian, hieratic, obdurate

sewage n. sulcus

sewer n. cloaca, kennel

sexton n. beadle, sacristan, shammes

sexual desire aphrodisia, concupiscence, eros

sexual desire, excessive satyriasis

sexual desire, substance promoting aphrodisiac

sexual drive libido

sexual excitement estrus, heat, rut

sexuality, concerned with priapic

sexual love, of paphian

sexually developed nubile

sexually precocious girl Lolita, nymphet

sexually stimulating erogenous, erotogenic

sexual partner catamite

sexual privilege droit du seigneur

sexual repression anaphrodisia

sexual repression, substance promoting anaphrodisiac

shabby adj. dowdy, mangy, raggle-taggle, scroungy, scruffy, tatty

shade, casting umbriferous

shading n. hachure

shadow n. penumbra, umbra

shadows, fighting with sciamachy, sciomachy

shady adj. adumbral, louche, umbrageous

shaft n. moulin, obelisk

shaggy adj. hispid, thrummy, villose

shaker n. caster, dredger, muffineer

shaking n. labefaction

shaking adj. aguish, tremulous

shallowness n. inanity, superficiality

shameful adj. discreditable, ignominious, mortifying, opprobrious

shameless adj. brazen, dissolute, flagrant, impenitent, inglorious, obdurate, profligate, reprobate, unregenerate, wanton

shantytown n. bidonville, favela

shape v. brute, malleate, scabble

shapeless adj. amorphous, anomalous

shapely adj. callipygian

shaping, capable of esemplastic

share n. moiety, quantum, stint

shared thing philopena

sharing, spirit of communitas

sharp adj. caustic, trenchant

sharpen v. subtilize

sharpened adj. acuate

sharpening implement strickle, whetstone

sharp eye gimlet eye

sharp-sighted adj. lyncean, lynx-eyed

shattering n. brisance

shaving n. ramentum

sheath n. frog, scabbard

sheathe v. invaginate, intussuscept

sheathed adj. ocreate

shed n. pandal

shed v. effuse, exuviate, mew, slough

sheeplike adj. ovine

sheepskin n. mouton, woolskin

sheer adj. diaphanous

shelf n. gradin, retable

shelf for the feet suppedaneum

shell n. carapace, coquille, cowrie

shell game thimblerig, three-card monte

shelter v. embower, ensconce

shield n. ancile, écu, escutcheon, pavis, scutum

shield-shaped adj. scutiform

shiftiness n. lubricity

shifty adj. evasive, lubricous

shilly-shally v. vacillate, whiffle

shimmer n. laurence, scintillation

shinbone n. tibia

shingles n. herpes zoster, zoster

shiver n. frisson

shocking adj. egregious, flagrant, unholy

shoddy adj. jerry-built, ramshackle, ticky-tacky

shoeless adj. discalced

shoemaker n. crispin

shoes, wearing calced

shoot n. scion

shore n. littoral, strand

shore-inhabiting adj. limicoline

shortage n. dearth, paucity

shortened adj. curtate, truncated

shorthand n. tachygraphy

short-headed adj. brachycephalic

short-lived adj. ephemeral, ephemerous, evanescent, fugitive

short-lived phenomenon ephemeron

short-winded adj. pursy

shot n. langrage

shoulder n. berm, verge

shoulder, of the humeral, scapular, scapulary

shoulder blade scapula

shout v. vociferate

show n. gaudery, ostentation, pretext

show-off n. coxcomb

show off flaunt, vaunt

showy adj. brummagem, fastuous, flaunty, meretricious

shrew n. harridan, scold, termagant, virago, Xanthippe

shrew, qualities of a viraginity

shrewd adj. coony, perspicacious

shrewdness n. acumen, perspicacity

shrill adj. clarion, strident

shrill sound, make a stridulate

shrine n. adytum, aedicule, chaitya, delubrum, Ka'ba, lararium, martyry, qubba, reliquary, sacellum, sekos

shrink v. fritter, macerate

shriveled adj. wizened

Shrove Tuesday Quinquagesima

shudder n. frisson

shun v. eschew

shut v. occlude

sick adj. crapulent

sickly adj. languid, valetudinarian

sideburns n. dundrearies

side by side pari passu

sideways adv. askance, crabwise

sideways, moving laterigrade

sieve n. riddle

sievelike adj. cribriform, cribrous

sift v. bolt, winnow

sigh n. suspiration

sighing, sound of sough

signal n. annunciator, tocsin

signature flourish, a paraph

signify v. betoken, connote, portend, presage

signs, study of semiotics

silage n. haylage

silent adj. aphonic, reticent, saturnine, taciturn

silk n. habutai, Shantung, tussah

silkworm farming sericulture

silky adj. sericate, sericeous

silly adj. anserine, asinine, fatuous, inane, witless

silt n. sullage

silver-bearing adj. argentiferous

silvery adj. argent, argental, argenteous, argentine

simian adj. simious

similar adj. semblable

simultaneousness n. contemporaneity, isochrony, simultaneity, synchronism, synchrony

sin, acknowledgment of peccavi

sin, apt to peccable

sincere adj. heart-whole, ingenuous

sincerely adv. ex animo

sinful adj. Babylonian, flagitious, peccant, piacular, profligate

singe v. genappe, swinge

singer n. cantatrice, cantor, castrato, chansonnier, chanter, chanteur, chanteuse, chantress, chorister, comprimario, precentor

sink v. bemire, founder, scuttle

sinkhole n. cenote

sins, seven deadly pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth

sinuous adj. flexuous, serpentine, sinuate, vermiculate

sisterly adj. sororal

situated above superincumbent

situation n. juncture

six, pertaining to the number senary

sixfold adj. sextuple, sextuplex

six parts, in hexamerous

sixteenth century cinquecento, cinquetist

sixteenth note semiquaver

sixty-fourth note hemidemisemiquaver

skeptic n. agnostic, doubting Thomas, nullifidian

skeptical adj. incredulous

skepticism n. Pyrrhonism

sketch n. croquis, remarque

sketcher n. limner

skid n. stillage

skier n. geländeläufer, kanone, langläufer, schusser

skillful adj. daedal, dexterous, dextrous, habile

skim v. skitter

skin n. cutis, cutis vera, integument, nebris, pellicle

skin, of the cutaneous

skin, shed exuviate

skin, through the percutaneous, transcutaneous, transdermal

skin alive flay

skinflint n. niggard, pinchpenny

skin graft dermoplasty

skinlike adj. dermatoid, dermoid

skin planing dermabrasion

skins, discarded exuviae

skin scraper strigil

skittish adj. skittery

skull n. sconce

skullcap n. calotte, kipa, pileus, yarmulke, zucchetto

sky n. firmament, welkin

slab n. stela, stele

slack adj. languid, ungirt

slanderous adj. aspersive, calumniatory, calumnious

slang n. argot, cant

slash mark separatrix, solidus, virgule

slat n. louver, spline

slate, clean tabula rasa

slaughterhouse n. abattoir, shambles

slave n. colonus, helot, hierodule, odalisque

slavery n. helotry, servitude, thrall, thralldom

slavery, release from manumit (v.), manumission (n.)

sleek adj. soigné

sleep, inducing somnifacient, somniferous, soporific

sleeplessness n. insomnolence

sleepwalking n. somnambulation, somnambulism

sleepy adj. somnolent, soporose

sled n. cariole, komatik, luge, pulka, pung, sledge

sleight of hand legerdemain, prestidigitation

slender adj. attenuate, tenuous

slenderness n. gracility, tenuity

slice n. collop

slime n. sloke

slip n. lapsus, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, parapraxis, spoonerism

slipperiness n. lubricity

slippery adj. glary, lubricious

slit n. fissure, kerf

slob n. bandersnatch

sloping adj. acclivitous, acclivous, declivitous, declivous, displuviate, quaquaversal

sloth n. accidia, acedia, anomie

slovenly adj. draggle-tailed, frowsy, slatternly

slow adj. dilatory, glacial, indolent, languid, tardigrade

slum n. barriada, bidonville, bustee, cabbagetown

sly adj. arch

sly person slyboots

small adj. bantam, diminutive, exiguous, Lilliputian, manini, mignon, mignonne

small, make micrify

smallest creature minimus

smart adj. perspicacious, sapient

smear v. bedaub, calumniate, denigrate, smirch, traduce, vilipend

smearing n. inunction

smell, pertaining to sense of olfactory

smelling n. olfaction

smelly adj. fetid, frowzy, fusty, mephitic, miasmal, noisome, odoriferous, putrescent, redolent

smiling adj. riant, rident

smoky adj. fuliginous

smooth adj. dégagé, glabrous, lubricious

smooth v. levigate

smooth-talker n. flannelmouth

smug adj. priggish, unctuous

smuggler n. pollero

smutty adj. raunchy, ribald

snack n. gorp, nosh, tapa

snail n. escargot

snail fever schistosomiasis

snake n. ophidian

snakelike adj. colubrine

snake worship ophiolatry

snare n. springe, toils

sneer v. gibe

sneezing n. sternutation

sniff v. snuffle

sniffle v. snivel

snobbishness n. condescension, illiberality

snore n. rhonchus

snorelike sounds, making stertorous

snow n. firn, névé, sastruga

snowy adj. niveous

snuff n. maccaboy, parica, rappee, snoose

soak v. imbrue, imbue, ret

soap, make into saponify

soapy adj. saponaceous

so are you! tu quoque

sober adj. abstemious, temperate

so-called adj. soi-disant

sociability, revealing phatic

social club krewe

society n. confraternity, sodality

Socratic method, of the maieutic

soften v. assuage, intenerate

softening adj. demulcent, lenitive, mollescent

soil v. befoul, drabble, draggle, smirch

soil formation pedogenesis

soil organisms edaphon

solicit v. importune, supplicate

solitary adj. sequestered

solitary person eremite, incluse

solvent n. alkahest, menstruum

somber adj. fuscous, lugubrious

sometime adj. quondam

son n. cadet, dauphin

song, marriage epithalamion, epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium

songlike adj. antiphonic, ariose

song of lamentation threnody

soothing adj. anodyne, abirritant, alleviative, assuasive, demulcent, dulcet, emollient, lenitive

sooty adj. fuliginous

sophistry n. casuistry, sophism

sorcerer n. warlock

sorcery n. diablerie, diabolism, obeah, pishogue, sortilege

sorrowful adj. lugubrious, melancholic, rueful, ruthful

sort v. lemmatize, triage

soul n. anima, gilgul, jiva, nous, pneuma

souls n. manes, shades

sound, addition of a paragoge

sound, producing soniferous

sound-and-light show son et lumière

sour adj. acetous, acidulous, verjuice

sour v. acidulate

source n. fount, fountainhead, headspring, wellspring

source and origin fons et origo

souring adj. acrescent, acidulous

southern adj. austral, meridional

souvenirs n. memorabilia

sovereignty n. autarchy

space n. interstice, Lebensraum

spacious adj. capacious, commodious

spare adj. lank

sparing adj. penurious

spark n. scintilla, scintillation

sparkling adj. coruscant, coruscating, ignescent, scintillant, scintillating

Spartan n./adj. Lacedaemonian

spasm n. clonus, throe

spatter v. asperse, bedabble

spawning ground redd

spay v. desex, geld

speak v. expatiate, perorate

speaker of many languages polyglot

speaking in tongues glossolalia

speaking tube gosport

spear n. assegai, leister, pike

specialty n. forte, province

speck n. fleck, iota, scintilla, whit

speckled adj. lentiginous

spectacle n. tamasha

spectators n. dedans

specter n. eidolon, phantasm

speculative adj. conjectural, noetic

speculator adj. arbitrager, arbitrageur

speech n. lucubration, peroration, palabra, philippic

speech, figurative tropology

speech, meaningless psittacism

speech, sudden breaking off in aposiopesis

speed n. alacrity, celerity

speed v. career

speedily adv. expeditiously, posthaste

spellbind v. mesmerize

speller, bad cacographer

speller, correct orthographer

spelling n. heterography, orthography

sphere n. bailiwick, compass, pale, province

spherical adj. orbicular, spheral

spice n. rougail, stacte

spicy adj. piquant, pungent

spider n. arachnid, orb weaver

spidery adj. arachnoid

spigot n. spile

spike n. barbule, brob, piton, spicula, spicule

spillage n. spilth

spine, curvature of the scoliosis (see also curvature)

spinning adj. vertiginous

spinning wheel charkha

spiral adj. helical

spirit contact psychomancy

spirited adj. feisty, mettlesome

spiritless adj. exanimate, muzzy

spirit of the times Zeitgeist

spirits n. Lares, lares and penates, manes

spirits, low blue funk, doldrums, megrims

spiritual adj. incorporeal, numinous, platonic, supersensual

spiteful adj. malignant, spleenful, splenetic

splendor n. refulgence, resplendence

splash n. plash, splodge

splinter n. shive, shiver, spall

splintered adj. comminuted

splinters n. flinders

split v. cleave, rive, skive, spall

split n. breach, dichotomy, schism

split adj. cleft, riven

splittable adj. fissionable, scissile

spoil v. cosset, mollycoddle

spoils n. spolia opima

spokesperson n. syndic

sponge v. cadge

spongelike adj. asconoid

spooky adj. eldritch

spoor n. piste

spot n. lentigo, macula, maculation, macule

spotted adj. foxed, lentiginous, maculate

spouse n. consort, yokefellow, yokemate

spout n. gargoyle, spile

sprain n. subluxation

sprawl v. grabble, spraddle

spray n. spindrift, spoondrift

spread v. diffuse, perfuse, pervade, suffuse

spreading adj. serpiginous

sprightly adj. jaunty, jocund

spring, of primaveral, vernal

spring up pullulate

sprinkle v. asperse, pounce, sparge

sprout v. burgeon, pullulate

sprout n. ratoon

spunky adj. feisty

spur n. gaff

spurious adj. adulterine, apocryphal, factitious, meretricious, pinchbeck, supposititious

spy n. agent provocateur

spying n. comint, elint, espial, humint, sigint

squander v. fribble, fritter, wanton

squawk v. yawp

squeeze v. scrooch, scrooge, scrunch, squinch

squint n. strabismus

squire n. armiger

stab v. dirk, lancinate, transfix

stable n. mews

stack v. cock, rick

staff n. caduceus, crosier, mace, thyrsus, tipstaff

stagecoach n. diligence

stagger v. wamble

stagnant adj. moribund

stain v. ensanguine, imbrue

stained adj. foxed, maculate

stake n. pale, paling, pike, spile

stale adj. banal, bromidic, insipid

stall v. equivocate, temporize

stamp n. chop, perfin

stamp collecting philately

stand n. jardiniere, toddy table, torchère

standard n. benchmark, criterion, numeraire, touchstone

stand-in n. locum tenens, surrogate

stand of trees chenier, sugarbush

star n. hexagram, pentacle, pentagram, pentalpha, pentangle, Solomon's seal

starchy adj. farinaceous, farinose

stare v. gawk, gawp, glower

stars, abounding in stelliferous, stellular

star-shaped adj. stellate, stelliform

starving adj. ravening, ravenous, starveling

state v. asseverate, exposit, inveigh, posit, postulate

stately adj. Junoesque

statement n. allocution, ascription

statement, dogmatic ipse dixit

state supremacy caesaropapism

statue n. butsu, colossus, daibutsu, gisant, santo

steadiness n. equipoise

steady adj. equable, resolute

steal v. filch, peculate, rustle, snaffle

stealthy adj. clandestine, surreptitious

steep adj. abrupt, declivitous, precipitous, sheer

steep v. imbue, infuse, macerate, marinate

St. Elmo's fire corposant

stench n. fetor, funk, mephitis

stepmother, like a novercal

sterile adj. effete, infecund

sterilize v. geld, spay

stern adj. austere, callous, dour, obdurate

steward n. khansamah, major-domo, manciple, seneschal

stick v. cleave, cohere

stickler n. martinet, precisian

sticks, bundle of fagot, fascine

sticky adj. glairy, viscid, viscoid, viscose, viscous

stiff adj. constrained, mannered, starchy

stiffen v. congeal, starch, tauten

stiffness n. rigor mortis

still adj. quiescent, stagnant

stilted adj. bombastic, declamatory

stimulate v. fillip, innervate, innerve, titillate

stimulating adj. excitant, excitative, galvanic

sting v. nettle, urticate

stingy adj. avaricious, cheeseparing, chinchy, hardfisted, ironfisted, manini, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious

stinker n. stinkard

stinking adj. fetid, mephitic, noisome

stipend n. emolument, honorarium, prebend

stipend, person receiving prebend, prebendary, stipendiary

stir v. roil, swizzle

stock exchange bourse

stocky adj. blocky, stumpy

stoical adj. phlegmatic

stomach n. abomasum, gizzard, maw, omasum, psalterium, reticulum, rumen

stomach pain gastralgia

stone, like petrous

stone, paving sett

stone cutter lapidary

stone heap cairn

stonelike adj. lithoid

stones, group of peristalith

stoop v. deign, lout

stop v. belay, intermit, stanch

stoppage n. stagnation, stasis

stopper n. stopple, tampion

storeroom n. chandlery, lazaret, lazaretto

storm n. borasca, haboob, neutercane

story n. gest, parable

storyteller n. griot

stout adj. corpulent, plenitudinous, rotund

stoutness n. embonpoint

stove n. chauffer, salamander

straddle v. spraddle

strainer n. mazarine, strum

straining adj. tensive

strait n. euripus

strange adj. anomalous, fey, singular

stranger n. incomer, inconnu, outlander

strange to say mirabile dictu

strangle v. garrote, throttle

strap n. bretelle, crupper, guige, latigo

straw bed pallet

strawberry n. fraise

straw-colored adj. stramineous

stray v. divagate, meander

stray animal estray, waif

straying n. divagation, divergence

streaked adj. flecked, freaked

stream of fire phlegethon

street n. close, cul-de-sac

street cleaner whitewing

strength n. sthenia, thews

stretch v. tenter

stretching oneself pandiculation (n.)

strict adherent precisian

strictness n. punctilio, punctiliousness, rigorism

strike v. buffet, fillip, percuss, pommel, pummel

string of beads chaplet, rosary

strip v. cannibalize, denudate, denude, despoil, devoid, excoriate, flay, flense

striped adj. lineate, striated, vittate

stripper n. ecdysiast

strive v. moil

striving n. conation, conatus, nisus

stroke, oblique solidus

stroking n. effleurage

stroll v. ambulate, perambulate, saunter

strong adj. puissant, robustious

stronghold n. bastion, fastness, redoubt

structure n. contexture, morphology

structure, stone nuraghe

struggle v. reluct, scrabble

strut v. feist

stub n. counterfoil, nubbin

stubborn adj. fractious, froward, intractable, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, pertinacious, pervicacious, refractory

stucco n. albarium

student n. decretist, sadhaka, sadhika, scholastic, shishya, softa

studio n. atelier, bottega

study v. excogitate, expertize

study n. cogitation, lucubration, rumination

study, course of scholasticate

study, critical epicrisis

stuff v. cloy, jade, slake, steeve, stodge

stunning adj. foudroyant

stupefy v. besot, gorgonize, lethargize, narcotize, obfuscate

stupefying adj. stupefacient, stupefactive

stupid adj. asinine, blockish, doltish, fatuitous, fatuous, witless

stupidity n. bêtise, crassitude, fatuity

sturdy adj. indomitable, sthenic

stuttering n. psellism

sty n. chalazion, hordeolum

style n. panache

stylishness n. ton

suave adj. Chesterfieldian, silky, sleeky

subdue v. mitigate, quash

subject n. rayah, vassal

subjugation n. Carthaginian peace

sublimate v. subtilize

sublime adj. august, resplendent

submissive adj. deferential, fawning, obsequious, uxorious

submit v. grovel, truckle

subordinate adj. ancillary, subaltern

subordinate n. minion, understrapper

subordination, grammatical hypotaxis

subsequent adj. succedent

subsidence n. detumescence

subsidiary adj. succursal

subsidy n. subvention

substance, lacking in facile

substantiating adj. evidential, probative

substitute n. locum tenens, simulacrum, succedaneum, surrogate, vicar

subterranean adj. chthonian, hypogeal

subtle adj. elusive, finespun, subtile, tenuous

subtlety n. Italian hand

subtract v. subduct

succession n. consecution

successive adj. sequent

successor n. epigone

succinct adj. laconic, sententious

sucking, adapted for suctorial

sudden adj. precipitant, precipitate

sue v. implead

sufferer n. agonist

suffering n. calvary, gethsemane

suffering, causing tortuous

suffocation n. apnea, asphyxia

suffuse v. perfuse

sugar n. demerara, jaggery, muscovado, panocha, penuche

sugar, convert into saccharify, saccharize

sugarcane residue bagasse

suggest v. opine

suggestive adj. allusive, evocative, pregnant, significative

suicide n. felo-de-se, hara-kiri, seppuku

suitability n. convenance, expediency

suitable adj. apposite, condign, meet, propitious

suitcase n. gladstone

suited adj. accordant, consentaneous

sulfur n. brimstone

sulfur, containing sulfureous

sullen adj. beetle-browed, dour, farouche, lowering, petulant

summary n. catechism, compendium, conspectus, epitome, excerpta, précis, quintessence, summa, synaxarion, synaxarium

summer v. estivate

summer, appropriate to estival

summer, pertaining to late serotinal

summerhouse n. belvedere, bower, gazebo

summon v. conjure, preconize

summoner n. muezzin

summons n. azan, beck

sumptuous adj. Lucullan

sum up perorate

sun n. Phoebus

sundial n. horologe

sun hat topee

sunny side adret

sunstroke n. siriasis

sun worship heliolatry

superabundance n. plethora

superb adj. consummate

superficial adj. cosmetic, facile, peripheric

superfluous adj. excrescent, gratuitous, otiose, pleonastic

superfluous person or thing fifth wheel

superiority n. meliority

superman n. Übermensch

supernatural adj. fey, numinous, preternatural, supranatural

superpower n. imperium

supplement n. addendum, adjunct, codicil

supplemental adj. accessorial, adscititious, ancillary

supplementary matter paralipomena

supplication n. conjuration, entreaty, rogation

supply, inexhaustible widow's cruse

support n. aegis, aliment, auspices, bulwark, nurturance

support v. abet, bolster, buttress, inspirit, subvene, undergird

supposed adj. putative, supposititious

suppress v. burke, elide, quash

supreme adj. assoluta, hegemonic, paramount

supreme power imperium

surface n. superficies

surfeit n. de trop, plethora, superabundance

surging rise and fall gurgitation

surly adj. churlish, irascible

surmountable adj. superable

surname n. cognomen

surpassing adj. transcendent

surplus n. plethora, superabundance, surfeit

surprise n. peripeteia, surprisal

surrender n. capitulation, cession

surreptitious adj. subreptitious

surround v. circumfuse, circumscribe, encincture, engirdle, environ

surrounding adj. circumambient, circumjacent

surveillance n. invigilation

survey n. conspectus

survivor n. hibakusha, relict

suspend v. intermit, pretermit, prorogue

suspenders n. braces, galluses

suspension n. abeyance, hiatus

sustenance n. sustentation

svelte adj. lithe, willowy

swagger n. panache

swaggering adj. huffish, swashbuckling

swallowing n. aerophagia, deglutition

swamp n. fen, marais, quagmire

swamps, growing in uliginose, uliginous

swampy adj. founderous, sloughy

swan n. cob, cygnet, pen

swarm v. pullulate

swarthy adj. dusky, swart

swastika n. fylfot, hakenkreuz

sway v. careen

swear v. imprecate

sweating n. hidropoiesis, hidrosis, hyperhidrosis, hypohidrosis

sweating, inducing diaphoretic, sudatory, sudoriferous, sudorific, sudoriparous

sweet adj. cloying, doux, saccharine

sweetbread n. pancreas

sweeten v. dulcify

sweetened adj. mellifluous

sweetheart n. dulcinea, gill

sweet-sounding adj. dulcet, Lydian, mellifluent

swell v. distend, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

swelling n. dilation, edema, gibbosity, hydrops, intumescence, tumescence, wheal

swift adj. feathered, tantivy

swiftness n. celerity

swimmer n. mermaid, merman, natator

swimming n. natation

swimming pool natatorium

swindle n. bunko game, pigeon drop, Ponzi, shell game, thimblerig

swindler n. blackleg, rook, sharper, thimblerigger

swine n. gilt

swine, pertaining to porcine

swing v. librate, oscillate

swollen adj. distended, gouty, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid, ventricose

sword-shaped adj. ensiform, xiphoid

swordsman n. swashbuckler

syllogism n. enthymeme, episyllogism, polysyllogism

symbol n. device, glyph, grammalogue, ideogram, ideograph, logogram, logograph, pictogram, pictograph

symbolism n. iconology

symbols, set of syllabary

symposium, participant in a symposiast

symposium director symposiarch

symptom n. prodrome, sequela

syndrome n. symptomatology

synopsis n. conspectus, epitome, précis

synthesize v. synthetize

syphilis n. lues, treponemiasis

syphilitic adj. luetic

T

table linen napery

taciturn adj. dour, reticent, saturnine

tact n. circumspection, finesse, savoir-faire

tactful adj. politic

tactless adj. gauche, maladroit

tag n. aglet, aiguillette

tail n. appendage, extremity, scut

tailless adj. excaudate

tailor n. bushelman

tailors, pertaining to sartorial

tainted adj. scrofulous

take v. accroach, expropriate

take in incept, ingest

tale n. fabliau

talk v. descant, expatiate, maunder, palaver, palter, prate

talk n. causerie, coze, galimatias, palabra

talkative adj. garrulous, loquacious, voluble

tameness n. mansuetude

tangential adj. digressive, peripheral

tangible adj. palpable, tactile

tank n. cistern, impluvium

tape n. inkle

tapering adj. acuminate, attenuate, terete

tardy adj. belated, cunctatious, cunctative, cunctatory

tartar n. calculus

taste v. degust

taste, abnormal sense of parageusia

taunt n. raillery

tavern n. gasthaus, heurige

tawdry adj. garish, meretricious

tawny adj. fulvous

tax n. capitation, Danegeld, exaction, gabelle, impost, jizyah, octroi, Peter's pence, taille, tallage, tribute

tax collector publican, tahsildar, zamindar

taxi n. jitney, público

tea n. tisane

teach v. catechize, inculcate, inoculate

teacher n. catechist, darshan, guru, khoja, maharishi, melamed, pedagogue, pir, rabban, rhetor, sensei, sophist, starets, swami

teaching n. andragogy, dharma, pedagogy

tear v. dilacerate, rend, rive, sunder

tear n. rent, rift

tearful adj. lachrymose

tearing apart of live victims sparagmos

tears, pertaining to lachrymal, lachrymatory, lacrimal, lacrimatory

tease v. chaff, coquet

techniques n. armamentarium

tediousness n. operoseness, prosiness, tedium

teem v. abound, pullulate

teeth, grinding of bruxism

teething n. dentition, odontiasis

temper n. dander, spleen

tempered, foul splenetic

temple n. delubrum, Ephesus, fane, gurdwara, hieron, mandira, naos, pantheon, vihara, wat, ziggurat

temple vestibule epinaos

temporarily adv. pro tempore

temporary adj. ephemeral, fugitive, jackleg, pro tempore, transitory

temptation n. blandishment, seduction, tantalization

temptress n. Delilah

tenacious adj. pertinacious

tenant n. leud, socager, sokeman

tenant farmer métayer

Ten Commandments Decalogue

tendency n. bent, habitude, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, propensity

tenement house rookery, warren

tenfold adj. decimal, decuple, denary

tennis elbow epicondylitis

tension n. fantod

tent n. yurt

tenth part tithe

termination n. desinence, dissolution, expiry

termite nest termitarium

term of respect honorific

terrarium n. vivarium, Wardian case

terrestrial adj. tellurian, tellurion

territory n. nizamate, pashalik

terrorist n. Molly Maguire, plastiqueur

terse adj. aphoristic, epigrammatic

test n. assay, pons asinorum, touchstone

testes n. stones (see also testis)

testify v. depone, depose

testimony n. attestation, deposition

testis n. gonad, mountain oyster, prairie oyster, Rocky Mountain oyster

test word shibboleth

testy adj. irascible, tetchy

text, genuine textus receptus

texture n. woof

thanksgiving n. Eucharist

that is to say id est

theatrical adj. campy, histrionic

theorem n. lemma

theorist n. ideologue

theorist, pedantic doctrinaire

thereby adv. ipso facto

therefore adv. ergo

thicken v. inspissate

thicket n. coppice, covert, mogote

thick-skinned adj. pachydermatous

thief n. Autolycus, ladrone, nightwalker, picaroon, picklock, rustlet

thievery n. cleptobiosis

thighbone n. femur

thin adj. attenuated, diaphanous, tenuous

thing done fait accompli

thing given in return for another quid pro quo

thing of little value pittance, stiver

things added paralipomena

things being equal, other ceteris paribus

think v. cerebrate, cogitate, excogitate, ideate, ratiocinate, rationalize, ruminate

thinness n. tenuity

third in rank ternary

thirteen n. baker's dozen, long dozen

thirty-second note, a demisemiquaver

thong n. babiche, whang

thorny adj. spiniferous, spinose, spinous

thorough adj. cyclopedic, encyclopedic, exhaustive

though conj. albeit

thought n. intellection, lucubration

thoughtful adj. cogitative, contemplative, reflective

thoughtless adj. incogitant, indiscriminate, unreflective

thousandth adj./n. millesimal

thousand years millennium

thrash v. larrup, whale

thread n. babiche, cannetille, cordonnet, douppioni, inkle

thread, pertaining to a filar

thread holder looper

threadlike adj. filate, filiform, filose

threat n. commination, sword of Damocles

threatening adj. comminatory, fraught, lowering, lowery, minacious, minatory

three, set of tern, ternion

threefold adj. ternary

three years, period of triennial, triennium

threshing instrument flail, swingle, swipple

threshold n. limen

thrift n. husbandry

thriftless adj. improvident

thrifty adj. frugal, provident

thrill n. frisson

thrive v. batten

throne n. cathedra, musnud, tribune

throw v. jaculate

throwback n. atavism, reversion

thrust v. detrude, exsert, obtrude

thumb n. pollex

thumb the nose cock a snook

thunderbolt n. coup de foudre

thus adv. sic

tidal wave bore, tsunami

tidbit n. bonne bouche, kickshaw

tide n. agger

tidy v. redd

tie n. nexus, vinculum

tie v. ligate

tightrope walker equilibrist, funambulist

tile n. favus, imbrex, pantile

tile, resembling a tegular

tilled land tillage, tilth

tilt v./n. cant, heel

time nonexistent Greek calends

timeworn adj. antiquated, hackneyed

timid adj. diffident, fearsome, pavid, pusillanimous, thewless, timorous

tin n. stannum

tinfoil n. tain

tin plate latten

tinsel n. clinquant

tint v. tinct

tiny adj. Lilliputian, minuscule

tip v. cant, careen, heel

tip n. baksheesh, broadus, cumshaw, douceur, lagniappe

tirade n. philippic

tiredness n. debility, languor

tireless adj. indefatigable, resolute

tiresome adj. insipid, prosaic, vapid

title n. appellation, cognomen, rubric

toast n. l'chaim, prosit, prost, salud, salute, wassail

toastmaster n. symposiarch

tobacco n. caporal, cavendish, kinnikinnick, perique

toe, big hallux

toes n. pettitoes

toga n. himation, praetexta, toga virilis

toil v. grub, moil

toilet n. fontange, jakes

token n. earnest, jetton, vecture

tokens n. exonumia

tolerant adj. forbearing, latitudinarian

tolerate v. brook, stomach

tomb n. charnel, cistvaen, cromlech, cubiculum, marabout, mastaba, sepulcher, sepulture, tholos, tholus

tomboy n. hoyden

tongues, speaking in glossolalia

tongue-shaped adj. linguiform

too much de trop

toothless adj. edentulous

toothlike adj. dentoid, odontoid

topmost adj. culminant

torch n. flambeau, link

torture v. excruciate, lacerate

torture n. bastinado, iron maiden of Nuremberg, pilliwinks, strappado

tossing n. jactitation

total v. summate

totem pole xat

touch, of the sense of haptic, tactile

touching adj. abutting, contiguous, tangent

touchy adj. irascible, petulant

toughen v. anneal, inure, temper

tow n. cordelle

toweling n. huckabuck

tower n. bastide, broch, donjon, minah, minaret, peel, sikhara, talayot

to wit scilicet

town n. bastide, vill

townsman n. oppidan

toy top dreidel, teetotum

trace n. engram, scintilla, simulacrum, spoor, wrack

trace v. delineate

track-layer n. gandy dancer

trade n. métier

trader n. comanchero

traditional adj. consuetudinary, traditive

tragedy n. cothurnus

trail n. piste, spoor

train v. espalier, longe

train n. coffle, gotrain

traitor n. Judas, quisling, recreant, runagate

tranquillity n. ataraxia, kef

transcendence n. transcension

transcript n. apograph

transfer n. conveyance, devolution, translocation

transformation n. metamorphosis, metanoia, metastasis, sea change, transfiguration, transmogrification, transmutation

transient adj. ephemeral, evanescent, fugitive, volatile

transition n. saltation, saltus

transitional period liminality

transitory adj. ephemeral, evanescent

translation n. metaphrase, rendering

translator n. metaphrast

translucent adj. diaphanous, limpid

transmigration n. metempsychosis

transmission n. filiation

transparent adj. pellucid, transpicuous

transposition n. metathesis, paralexia, spoonerism

trap n. bobèche, gin, lime twig, springe, trou-de-loup

trapper n. coureur de bois

trappings n. accouterments, caparison, regalia

trash n. spilth

travel v. itinerate, peregrinate

travel n. jornada, odyssey, peregrination

travel allowance viaticum

traveler n. viator, wayfarer

travesty n. mockery, perversion, sham

tray n. salver, waiter

treacherous adj. insidious, perfidious, serpentine, specious

treason n. lese majesty, lèse majesté

treasurer n. bursar

treasury n. coffers, exchequer, fisc

treatise n. disquisition, lucubration, pandect, prolegomena

treaty n. concordat, convention, covenant, protocol

tree, sheared pollard

treelike adj. dendroid

tree trunk bole

trellis n. espalier, treillage

trembly adj. dithery, tremulant, tremulous

tremor n. temblor

trial n. assize, crucible

trial balloon ballon d'essai

triangular adj. cuneate, leg-of-mutton, trigonal, trigonous

triannual adj. triennial

tribe n. phyle

tribunal n. Sanhedrin

tribute n. encomium, laudation

trick n. artifice, imposture, stratagem, subterfuge, wile

trick v. bamboozle, befool, cozen, euchre, gudgeon, gull, humbug

trickery n. chicanery, conjuration, cozenage, dodgery, hokey-pokey, legerdemain, skulduggery, tortuosity

trickle v. exude

trifler n. fribble

trifling adj. niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling

trim v. bedeck, flounce

trimming n. passement, passementerie, rickrack, ruche, ruching

trinket n. bibelot, breloque, gaud, gimcrack, tchotchke

tripod n. brandreth

trite adj. bathetic, bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous

triumphal column manubial column

triviality n. nugacity

trivialize v. banalize

trivium n. grammar, rhetoric, and logic

trouble v. discommode, importune, incommode

troublemaker n. firebrand, rabble-rouser

troublesome adj. pestiferous, pestilential, plaguesome, vexatious

trough n. manger

trounce v. castigate

trousers trews

truce n. modus vivendi, stand-down

true adj. apodictic, veracious

truism n. bromide, platitude, saw

truncate v. decollate

trunk n. wanigan

trustworthy adj. staunch

truthfulness n. veracity, veridicality

trying experiences via dolorosa

tryst n. assignation

tub n. firkin

tube n. pipette, tubule

tuberculosis n. consumption, phthisis

tuft n. floccus, flock, penicil

tumor n. myeloma, myxoma, neoplasm, neuroma, sarcoma, scirrhus

tumult n. bedlam, rabblement

tuneful adj. dulcet

tuning fork diapason

tunnel n. cuniculus

turban n. pugree

turbulent adj. roily, tumultuary

turf n. greensward, sward, swarth

turmoil n. moil, welter

turnabout n. volte-face

turn aside prescind

turned backward retrorse

turned in obvolute

turned up retroussé

turning n. obversion

turning point solstice, watershed

turn inside out evaginate

turn of events peripeteia

turn outward evert, extrovert

turret n. bartizan, mirador, tourelle

tutelage n. pupilage

tutor n. docent, mentor, preceptor

twelfth adj. dozenth

twentieth adj. vigesimal

twentieth anniversary vigentennial

twenty, pertaining to vicenary

twenty years, occurring every vicennial

twig n. moit, scion, withe, withy

twilight n. crepuscule, gloaming

twin n. freemartin

twin adj. didymous, geminate

twinkle v. scintillate

twins n. Castor and Pollux, Romulus and Remus

twisted adj. convoluted, intorted, tortile

twitching n. fibrillation, jactitation

two-faced adj. janiform, Janus-faced

twofold adj. diploid, duple

two-headed adj. bicephalous, bicipital, dicephalous

two parts, in dimerous, dimorphous

tying n. ligation, ligature

typify v. adumbrate

tyrannical adj. pharaonic

tyrannize v. Neronize

U

ulcer n. chancre

umbilicus n. omphalos

unalterable adj. immutable, inexorable

unanimous adj. consentaneous, consentient

unanswerable adj. irrecusable, irrefragable

unappeasable adj. implacable

unatonable adj. inexpiable

unattractive adj. rebarbative, unprepossessing

unavailing adj. bootless, ineffectual, inutile, nugatory, Sisyphean

unavoidably adv. ineluctibly, ineludibly, perforce

unaware adj. incognizant, unwitting

unbalance v. disequilibrate

unbecoming adj. indecorous

unbeliever n. infidel, kafir

unbending adj. adamant, flinty

unbiased adj. unjaundiced

unbleached adj. greige

unbraid v. unplait

unbreakable adj. infrangible, inviolable

unbroken adj. inviolate

unburden v. disembosom

uncanny adj. preternatural

uncanonical adj. apocryphal

uncertainty n. incertitude, irresolution

unchain v. unfetter

unchallengeable adj. incontrovertible, irrefragable, peremptory

unchangeable adj. immutable, incommutable

unchecked adj. arrant, rampant, unbridled

uncle-like adj. avuncular

unclothe v. denude, divest

uncomfortable adj. discomfited

uncommonness n. singularity

uncommunicative adj. reserved, taciturn

uncomplaining adj. forbearing

uncompliant adj. recusant

uncomplimentary adj. denigratory

uncomprehension n. anoesis

uncompromising adj. intractable, intransigent, steadfast

unconcealed adj. patent

unconcern n. insouciance

unconcerned adj. apathetic, dispassionate, impassive, insouciant

unconditional adj. categorical

unconquerable adj. indomitable, inexpugnable

unconscious adj. inanimate, inconscient

uncontestable adj. apodictic, irrefragable

uncontrolled adj. capricious, unbridled

unconventional adj. idiosyncratic, outré

uncouth adj. agrestic, boorish, loutish

uncover v. decorticate

uncultivated adj. fallow

undecided adj. moot, pendent

undecisive adj. irresolute, vacillating

under adj. nether

underground adj. hypogeal, subterrestrial

underhand adj. clandestine, surreptitious

underling n. henchman, spear carrier

underlying adj. subjacent

understand v. apperceive, assimilate

understandable adj. apprehensible, perspicuous, scrutable

understanding n. apprehension, discernment, intellection, prehension

understanding, lacking imperceptive, impercipient

understatement n. litotes, meiosis (see also rhetorical terms)

understood adj. tacit

understood, easily perspicuous

undertone, in an sotto voce

underworld n. antipodes

undeveloped adj. inchoate, incipient

undiminished adj. undamped

undisciplined adj. fractious, indocile, obstreperous

undisclosed adj. in petto

undisturbed adj. inviolate

undress n. disarray, dishabille

undulant fever brucellosis

undulating adj. fluctuant

unearth v. disinhume

unearthly adj. preternatural, spectral

uneasiness n. disquietude, dysphoria, inquietude

uneasy adj. restive

unemotional adj. bloodless, phlegmatic, stolid

unenthusiastic adj. apathetic, dispirited

unequaled adj. nonpareil, peerless

unerasable adj. inexpungible, inextirpable

unethical adj. meretricious

uneven adj. erose, hubbly

unexciting adj. drab, lackluster

unexpected adj. fortuitous

unfailing adj. boundless, staunch, unflagging

unfaithful adj. adulterous, recreant

unfathomable adj. inscrutable

unfavorable adj. inauspicious, unpropitious, untoward

unfeeling adj. callous, imperceptive, indurate, insensate

unflappable adj. imperturbable

unforceful adj. ineffectual, toothless

unforgiving adj. unrelenting, vindictive

unfortunate adj. hapless, inauspicious

unfriendly adj. disaffected, estranged, inimical

unfruitful adj. infecund, sterile

unfulfilled adj. manqué

ungenuine adj. fictive

ungodly adj. impious, profane, sacrilegious

ungrammatical adj. solecistic

unguarded adj. guileless, incautious

unhappy adj. dispirited, infelicitous

unhealthy adj. deleterious, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, pernicious

unify v. coalesce

unifying adj. unific

unifying, capable of esemplastic

unimportant adj. nugatory

uninformed adj. jejune

unintelligent adj. vacuous

unintentional adj. indeliberate, unwitting

uninteresting adj. drab, insipid, torpid, vapid

uninviting adj. forbidding

uninvolved adj. apathetic, dégagé

union n. Anschluss, conjuncture

unique adj. nonpareil, sui generis

unisex adj. androgyne, androgynous, hermaphrodite, pseudohermaphrodite

unite v. catenate, coalesce, colligate, concatenate, concorporate, consubstantiate, inosculate

united adj. conjoined, conjunct, osculant

uniting adj. copulative

unkempt adj. blowzy, tatterdemalion

unkind adj. incogitant, inhumane

unknowing adj. unwitting

unleash v. vent, wreak

unlikeness n. dissimilitude

unlucky adj. hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, sinistrous, woebegone

unmanageable adj. refractory, restive

unmannerly adj. incondite, loutish

unmethodical adj. desultory

unmindful adj. heedless, oblivious

unmistakable adj. blatant, resounding

unmixable adj. immiscible, nonmiscible

unmixed adj. homogeneous, unalloyed

unnamed adj. innominate

unnatural adj. factitious, perverse

unnecessary adj. extrinsic, pleonastic

unnecessary, make obviate

unnerved adj. discomposed, unhinged, unstrung

unorthodox adj. avant-garde, bohemian

unparalleled adj. unexampled

unpartitioned adj. indiscrete

unperceptive adj. impercipient

unperforated adj. imperforate

unplanned adj. extemporary, extempore, fortuitous

unpleasant adj. repugnant, woeful

unpleasant, something wormwood

unpleasant word dysphemism

unpolished adj. incondite, incult

unpolluted adj. pristine

unpredictable adj. aleatory, fitful

unprofitable adj. bootless

unpublished literary works inedita

unquenchable adj. insatiable, insatiate

unraveling n. denouement

unreal adj. aeriform, delusive, delusory, fatuous, illusory, illusive, irreal

unrelenting adj. implacable, inexorable, unremitting

unreliable adj. perfidious

unrelieved adj. unmitigated

unrepentant adj. impenitent, obdurate, unregenerate

unrestrained adj. corybantic, intemperate, unbridled

unrestrained behavior, places for fleshpots

unrewarding adj. hardscrabble

unrivaled adj. inimitable, nonesuch, nonpareil

unruffled adj. phlegmatic

unruly adj. fractious, indocile, refractory, restive, wayward

unscrupulous adj. jackleg, meretricious, unprincipled

unselfish adj. altruistic, philanthropic

unsettle v. disconcert, nettle, unhinge

unskilled adj. jackleg

unsocial adj. dissocial

unsolvable adj. irresoluble

unsophisticated adj. guileless, ingenuous

unspeakable adj. execrable, heinous

unspoiled adj. pristine

unstable adj. vertiginous

unsteadiness n. titubation, wamble

unsteady adj. capricious, fluctuant, labile

unsubstantiated adj. tenuous

unsuccessful adj. bootless, ineffectual, manqué

unsuitable adj. unmeet

untactful adj. gauche, indecorous

untamed adj. feral

unteachable adj. indocile

untimely adj. inopportune

untiring adj. assiduous, indefatigable, sedulous

untruthfulness n. inveracity, mendacity

unusual adj. anomalous, singular

unutterable adj. ineffable

unwarranted adj. gratuitous

unwholesome adj. insalubrious, noxious

unwillingness n. disinclination

unwise adj. impolitic, injudicious

unworldly adj. ingenuous, provincial

unworthy adj. ignoble, unseemly

unwritten adj. nuncupative

unyielding adj. inductile, obdurate

upheaval n. cataclysm, welter

uprightness n. probity, rectitude

uproar n. bedlam, geschrei, hullabaloo, katzenjammer

uproot v. deracinate

upset v. discombobulate, discomfit

up-to-date adj. au courant

urban adj. oppidan

urbane adj. Chesterfieldian, cosmopolitan

urchin n. gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, street arab

urgent adj. clamant, compelling, exigent, importunate

urination n. diuresis, dysuria, emiction, enuresis, micturition, polyuria, strangury

urn n. samovar, situla

useful adj. efficacious, utile

useless adj. bootless, inutile, nugatory

usual adj. wonted

usurp v. arrogate

usury n. gombeen

utopian adj. idyllic

utopian community pantisocracy

utter adj. unqualified, veritable

utterance n. dixit, ejaculation

V

vacancy n. voidance

vacant adj. bereft, devoid

vacation v. estivate

vacillating adj. dithering, pendulous, tremulous

vagabond n. picara, picaro, picaroon, piepowder, runagate

vagueness n. nebulosity, tenuity

vain person coxcomb, popinjay

valet n. batman, lackey

valiant adj. dauntless, doughty

validity n. cogency, effectuality

valley n. bolson, coulee, dell, dingle, droke, wadi

valor n. arete, intrepidity

vampire n. lamia

vanish v. evanesce

vanity n. amour propre, narcissism, self-love, vainglory

vapor n. effluvium

variable adj. capricious, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, protean

variegated adj. motley, parti-colored, varicolored, versicolor

variety n. multiformity, multiplicity, smorgasbord

various adj. divers, sundry

varnish n./v. japan

vase n. amphora, lachrymatory, potiche, pseudoamphora, situla

vassal n. daimyo, feodary, feudatory, leud, palatine, vavasor

vat n. cistern, kier

vaulted adj. alveated, embowed

vegetable cultivation olericulture

vegetarian n. lactovegetarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, ovolactarian, ovolacto-vegetarian, vegan

vehement adj. fervid, impassioned

velvet n. velure

velvety adj. velutinous

veneration n. dulia, hyperdulia

vengeance n. requital, retribution, revanche

vengeful adj. vindictive

venomous adj. acerb, malignant, rancorous, splenetic, venenose, viperine

vent n. fumarole, mofette, solfatara

veranda n. dalan, lanai, piazza

verbatim adv./adj. ipsissima verba, letter-perfect

verbose adj. diffuse, pleonastic, prolix

vernacular adj. demotic

vernacular n. parlance

versatile adj. protean

version, revised recension

verve n. panache

vespers n. hesperinos

vessel n. alembic, autoclave, cuvette, gallipot, jorum, monstrance, mortar, pyx, retort, stoup

vestibule n. epinaos, exonarthex, galilee, mantapa, narthex, opistodomos, posticum, pronaos, propylaeum, propylon, prostas

vestments n. pontificals

vestry n. sacristy

veto n. liberum veto

viable adj. fecund, proliferous

vibrating adj. vibratile

viceroy n. nabob, nawab

vicinity n. environs, vicinage

victim n. gull

victory, costly Cadmean victory, Pyrrhic victory

vigil n. watch and ward

vigilant adj. circumspect

vigor n. birr, brio, verdure

vigor, drain of etiolate

vigorous adj. sinewy, youngblood

vigorously adv. roundly

vile adj. debased, ignominious

vilify v. asperse, calumniate, revile, traduce, vilipend, vituperate

villa n. dacha

village n. bustee, dorp, encomienda, kampong, kraal, shtetl, vill

villainy n. miscreancy

vindicating adj. exculpatory

vindictive adj. rancorous, splenetic

vineyard n. cru

vintage n. récolte

violate v. breach, infract

violated, capable of being violable

violation n. desecration, profanation

violent adj. rampageous, tempestuous, wroth

violin n. Cremona, Stradivarius

violin maker luthier

virtue n. arete, dharma

viscera n. offal

visceral adj. splanchnic

viscous adj. glairy, glutinous, viscose

visionary n. fantast

visionary adj. quixotic, translunary

visit v. interpellate

visitor n. habitué, interpellator, visitant

visual deception trompe l'oeil

visualize v. envisage, ideate

vituperation n. calumniation, opprobrium, vilification

vituperative adj. opprobrious

vivacious adj. buoyant, ebullient

vivacity n. élan

vivid adj. eidetic, stark

vocation n. métier, niche

vociferous adj. clamant, strident

voice of the people vox populi

voices, of many polyphonic

void v. abrogate, rescind

void adj. inoperative

volcanic ash pozzolana

volcanic glass obsidian

volcanic material tephra

volition n. velleity

voluptuous adj. Lydian, toothsome

vomit v. disgorge, regurgitate

vomit n. emesis, vomitus

vomiting, causing emetic

voodoo n. vodun

voracious adj. edacious, rapacious

vulgar adj. colloquial, demotic, vernacular

vulgarity n. billingsgate, indelicacy, invective, scurrility

vulnerable adj. effete, pregnable

vulnerable area underbelly

vultures, pertaining to vulturine

W

waffle v. equivocate

wag n. farceur, farceuse

wages n. emolument

wagon maker wainwright

wail v. caterwaul, keen, ululate

waiter n. garçon, mozo, steward

waive v. forgo, remit

wake n. rooster tail, train

walk n. ambulation, constitutional, cultus coolee, deambulation

walking adj. deambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic

walking on the toes digitigrade (adj.)

wall n. bailey, ballium, enceinte, revetment

wall opening gunport, hagioscope, squint

wallow v. welter

wampum n. peag, seawan, seawant, sewan, wampumpeag

wan adj. pallid, lurid

wander v. divagate, meander, traipse

wanderer n. drifter, itinerant, vagabond

wandering adj. desultory, digressive, excursive, itinerant, peripatetic, vagarious

want n. beggary, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury, privation

war, an act precipitating casus belli

warden n. alcaide

warding off evil apotropaic (adj.)

warlike adj. bellicose, martial

warlord n. daimyo, tuchun

warehouse n. entrepôt, godown

warm-blooded adj. hematothermal, homoiothermal

warmed-over adj. réchauffé

warming adj. calefacient, calefactory, calescent

warmth n. affability

warmth, producing calefacient, calefactory

warn v. chide, monish, premonish

warning n. admonition, augury, caveat, injunction, monition, portent, premonition

warning adj. admonitory, auguring, exemplary, monitory, premonitory, presaging

war of words, literary fliting

wart n. furuncle, pustule, verruca

warty adj. verrucose, verrucous

wash v. deterge, lave

washbowl n. lavabo, laver

washing n. ablution, lavage, lavation, maundy

wasps, of vespine

wasp's nest vespiary

waste v. fribble, macerate

wasteful adj. improvident, prodigal

waste matter dejecta, dejection, dockage, excreta, rejectamenta

wasting n. cachexia, marasmus, tabescence

watch, keep vigilate

watchdog n. hellhound

watchful adj. Argus-eyed, circumspect, wary

watchfulness n. weather eye

watchword n. countersign, shibboleth

water, search for dowse (v.), water-witch (v.)

water, stagnant pokelogan

water carrier bheesty

waterfall n. cascade, cataract, sault

water hole charco

water jar hydria, kalpius

water on the brain hydrocephalus

water pipe hookah, narghile

water sprite ondine, undine

waterwheel n. noria

watery adj. serous, sodden

wattle n. caruncle

wavy adj. repand, undulate, undulating, undulatory

wavy-haired adj. cymotrichous

wax n. cerumen, cutin, klister

waxed adj. cerated

wax-trap n. bobéche

waxy adj. ceraceous

way, by the en passant

way, the middle via media

wayfarer n. viator

weaken v. attenuate, disempower, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, flag, mitigate, sap, unbrace, vitiate

weakening n. labefaction

weakness n. Achilles' heel, adynamia, asthenia, claudication, foible, hypodynamia, hyposthenia, impuissance

wealth n. chattels, mammon, pelf

wealthy person Croesus, Dives, Midas, nabob, nawab

wean v. ablactate

weaponry n. matériel, ordnance

weariness n. languor, lassitude

wearing away detrition

wearisome adj. operose

weary v. enervate, fag, jade, sap

weather vane weathercock, wind tee, wind vane

webbing n. macramé

web-making adj. retiary

wedding n. confarreation

wedge-shaped adj. cuneate, cuneiform, sphenoid

weekly adj. hebdomadal

weep v. snivel, snuffle

weepy adj. lachrymose

weighty adj. magisterial

weird adj. eldritch, preternatural

welcome v. espouse

welcome adj. opportune, propitious

welcoming address salutatory

well n. cenote

well adj. asymptomatic

well-being n. eudemonia, weal

well-deserved adj. condign

well-groomed adj. soigné

well-informed adj. au courant

well-wisher n. congratulant

werewolf n. lycanthrope

wet nurse amah

whale n. cachalot, cetacean

whalebone n. baleen

whales, of cetacean, cetaceous

wheat field trigo

wheel n. roulette, rundle

wheel-shaped adj. rotate, rotiform

wheeze n. rhonchus

whimper v. pule

whimsical adj. baroque, capricious, fey

whining adj. puling, querulous, sniveling

whip n. chabouk, flail, knout, kurbash, pizzle, quirt, scorpion, scourge, sjambok

whirling adj. gyral, gyratory, vertiginous, vortical, vorticose, vortiginous

whirlpool n. Charybdis, gurge, maelstrom

whirlwind n. tourbillion

whiskers n. burnsides, dundrearies, muttonchops, vibrissae

whiskey n. poteen, spiritus frumenti, usquebaugh

whisper n. sussuration, sussurrus

whispering adj. susurrant

white adj. alabastrine, hoary

white-hot adj. candent, candescent

whiten v. blanch, etiolate

whitening adj. albescent

whitewash v. extenuate, palliate

whitish adj. albescent

whole adj. integral

wholesale adv. en bloc

wholesome adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous

whooping cough pertussis

whorish adj. meretricious

wickedness n. dissoluteness, execrableness, flagitiousness, improbity, iniquity, profligacy, turpidity

wicked place Bablyon, Gomorrah, Sodom

wide-eyed adj. moon-eyed

widened adj. évasé

widespread adj. pandemic, pervasive

widow n. dowager, relict, sati

widowhood n. viduity

wife n. helpmate, helpmeet

wife, ill-tempered Xanthippe

wife, submissive toward one's uxorious

wife, typical of a uxorial

wig n. bagwig, buzzwig, periwig, peruke, postiche

wig stand demoiselle

wild adj. dissolute, prodigal, profligate

wild animal wilding

wildness n. ferity

wile n. artifice, stratagem

will v. bequeath, devise

willful adj. perverse, refractory

willingly adv. ad libitum, fain, lief

will-o'-the-wisp n. friar's lantern, ignis fatuus

willpower, loss of abulia

willy-nilly adv. nolens volens

wimp n. milksop, milquetoast

wince v. blench, quail

wind-blown adj. aeolian

windfall n. godsend, bonanza

wind gauge anemometer

winding n. convolution, copping, quilling, sinuosity, whorl

windowed adj. fenestrated

windowpane n. windowlight

windpipe n. trachea

winds n. bore, chinook, flaw, foehn, gale, ghibli, grégal, gregale, gregau, harmattan, khamsin, kona, levanter, libeccio, mistral, pampero, puna, scirocco, simoom, simoon, sirocco, tramontana, williwaw

wine, pertaining to vinaceous, vineal, vinic, vinous

wine bag bota

wine bottle balthazar, jereboam, magnum, methuselah, nebuchadnezzar, rehoboam, salmanazar

wine connoisseur oenophile

wine cooler psykter

wineglass n. roemer

winemaker n. vigneron, vintner

winemaking n. viniculture, vinification, vintage

wine steward sommelier

wing n. airfoil, ala, alette, pennon

winged adj. alate, pennate

wingless adj. apterous

winglike adj. alar, aliform

wink v. nictitate

winning adj. disarming, winsome

winterly adj. hibernal

winter quarters hibernaculum

wintry adj. brumal, hibernal, hiemal

wisdom n. acuity, acumen, discernment, enlightenment, perspicacity, perspicuity, sagacity, sapience

wise adj. erudite, perspicacious, perspicuous, prescient, sagacious, sapient, sapiential

wise person hakim, magus, pandit, pundit

wish n. velleity

wish, expressing a volitive

wit n. Attic salt, badinage, coruscation, raillery, repartee

witch n. enchantress, hex, pythoness, sibyl, siren, sorceress

witchcraft n. diablerie, diabolism, pishogue

witch doctor n. conjure man, conjurer

witches, assembly of coven, sabbat

withdrawal n. decathexis, exodus, extraction, recession, subduction

withdrawn adj. aloof, introverted

withdraw savings dissave

withered adj. sapless, sere, wizen, wizened

withhold v. forbear, scant

without prep. sans

without preamble in medias res

witticism n. bon mot, epigram, mot

witticisms n. facetiae

witty adj. epigrammatic, piquant, salty, scintillating

wizard n. conjurer, necromancer, thaumaturge

wobble v. vacillate

woe n. tribulation

wolf, resembling a lupine

wolf-hunter n. wolver

wolfish adj. rapacious

woman-hater n. misogynist

wonder n. veneration

wonderful adj. prodigious, wondrous

wonderful to relate mirabile dictu

wood n. coppice, copse, thicket

wood, boring into xylotomous

wood, feeding on xylophagous

wood, living on xylophilous

wood, made of treen

wood-eating adj. dendrophagous, lignivorous, xylophagous

wooded adj. arboreous, bosky, sylvan, sylvatic

wooden adj. impassive, inexpressive, stolid

woodlands, growing in silvicolous

woodlike adj. ligniform

woodpile n. rick

woods, inhabiting the silvicolous, sylvan, sylvatic

woodsman n. voyageur

woodworking n. joinery

woody adj. ligneous, suffrutescent

wool-bearing adj. laniferous

wool fibers gare

woolly adj. lanate, lanose

word, alteration of a Hobson-Jobson, spoonerism

word, the last dernier cri

word blindness alexia, dyslexia

word formation, of rhematic

word lover logophile

word reading the same backward and forward, a palindrome

word-related adj. lexical

words abraxas, dysphemism, etymon, gayatri, ghost word, heteronym, holophrase, homograph, homophone, inkhorn term, jussive, mantra, metonym, neologism, neology, neoterism, nonce word, palabra, portmanteau word, sesquipedalian, vocable, vox barbara

words, debate over logomachy

words, expert user of wordsmith

words, misuse of catachresis, malapropism

words, study of lexicology

words, war of fliting

word to the wise is sufficient, a verbum sap

wordy adj. bombastic, circumlocutory, discursive, effusive, fustian, inflated, loquacious, maundering, mouthy, pleonastic, prolegomenous, prolix, turgid, voluble

work n. chef d'oeuvre, magnum opus, oeuvre, opus, opuscule, opusculum

work v. grub, elucubrate, lucubrate, moil

work, additional parergon

work, body of corpus

workable adj. practicable, viable

worker n. artisan, wright

worker, servile drudge, jackal

workers, unskilled lumpenproletariat

working together synergetic

workmanlike adj. yeoman

workshop n. atelier

work stoppage hartal

world in miniature microcosm

worldly adj. blasé, cosmopolitan, urbane

worldwide adj. ecumenical

worm n. annelid, helminth, trichna

worm-eaten adj. vermiculate

wormlike adj. helminthoid, vermian, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiform

worms, substance that expels anthelmintic, vermifuge

worms, substance that kills vermicide

worn adj. abraded, attrite, attrited

worn down detrited

worn-out adj. effete, enervated

worried adj. distraught, hagridden

worry n. apprehension, disquiet, presentiment, solicitude

worse, so much the tant pis

worsen v. exacerbate, retrogress

worsening adj. ingravescent

worship v. adulate, venerate

worship, house of tabernacle

worshiper n. congregant, votary

worthless adj. brummagem, drossy, fustian, nugatory

worthless, act of estimating as floccinaucinihilipilication

worthy adj. estimable, exemplary

wound v. lacerate, mortify, pike, transfix

woven fabric weft

wrap v. swaddle, swathe

wreath n. chaplet

wreck v. wrack

wreckage n. flotsam, wrack

wrench v. wrest, wrick

wrestling, pertaining to palestrian

wretched adj. calamitous, hapless, scurvy, whoreson, woebegone, woeful

wring v. wrest

wrinkled adj. rugate, rugged, rugose

write v. expatiate, indite, lucubrate, prose

writhe v. welter

writing n. glyph, hieroglyph, lipogram, pictogram, pictograph, uncial

writing, unit of grapheme

writing desk escritoire, scrutoire

writing material, erased palimpsest

writing systems, study of grammatology

writing tablet diptych, triptych

writings of doubtful authenticity apocrypha, pseudepigrapha

written on one side of a page anopisthographic

wrong adj. agley, awry

wrongdoer n. malefactor, miscreant, transgressor

Y

yachtsman n. Corinthian

yap v. kyoodle

yarn n. cordonnet, crewel, hank, poil, skein

yawning n. oscitation

yaws n. frambesia

yearn v. hanker, pine

year of travel Wanderjahr

yellow adj. vitelline, xanthous

yellowish adj. flavescent, flaxen, stramineous, xanthic

yielding adj. cringing, obsequious, submissive

yoke n. clevis

yokel n. hayseed, rustic, yahoo

yolk n. vitellus

young adj. juvenescent

young, animal whelp, yeanling, youngster

young again, becoming rejuvenescent (adj.)

young man ephebe, ephebus

you're one too! tu quoque

youth n. minority, viridity

youth, gilded jeunesse dorée

youthful adj. vernal, yeasty, youngblood, youngling

youthful inexperience, a time of salad days

youthfulness n. juvenescence

Z

zeal n. ardor, fervor

zealous adj. fervid

zero n. aught, cipher, naught, null

zest n. brio, gusto, panache, piquancy, tang, verve

zone, small zonule

zones, marked with zonate

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to acknowledge my debt to my two brothers. All three of us attended the College of the City of New York and benefited from our undergraduate work at what was in our time a tuition-free institution. Leonard, Class of 1934, went on to serve generations of children as a wise and kind pediatrician until the day of his death in 1992. Albert, Class of 1938, went on to study law and to this day maintains his practice of law in New York City, putting to good use his gift for language, especially a fluency in Spanish, which he first studied in the public schools and continued to study at college.

Beyond an abiding interest in language, we shared the deep love of brothers. For this I will always be grateful.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eugene Ehrlich, formerly a member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the coeditor of The Oxford American Dictionary and the author of dozens of books, including Veni, Vidi, Vici and the classic bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat and More. The entire Highly Selective series is available from PerfectBound ebooks, which includes: The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate; The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate; and The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.

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THE HIGHLY SELECTIVE DICTIONARY OF GOLDEN ADJECTIVES

FOR THE EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE

THE HIGHLY SELECTIVE THESAURUS FOR THE EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE

THE HIGHLY SELECTIVE DICTIONARY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE

AMO, AMAS, AMAT AND MORE

VENI, VIDI, VICI

LES BON MOTS

THE INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS OF QUOTATIONS

(WITH MARSHALL DEBRUHL)

THE HARPER DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN TERMS, 3RD EDITION

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THE HIGHLY SELECTIVE THESAURUS FOR THE EXTRAORDINARILY LITERATE. Copyright © 1994 by Eugene Ehrlich. Introduction copyright © 1994 by Noah Adams. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter G

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter N

Chapter O

Chapter P

Chapter Q

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter U

Chapter V

Chapter W

Chapter Y

Chapter Z

Acknowledgments

About the Author

By Eugene Ehrlich

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