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- discouraging
collapse - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- expressing disapproval related words >
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- black,
- bleak,
- cautionary,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- disheartening,
- disinclining,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- down,
- dreary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hindering,
- intimidating,
- monitory,
- oppressive,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling
- plunger
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- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains related words >
- adventurer,
- betting ring,
- bettor,
- big operator,
- boneshaker,
- cardshark,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- compulsive gambler,
- crap shooter,
- deep-sea diver,
- diver,
- free diver,
- frogman,
- gambler,
- gamester,
- gunslinger,
- hazarder,
- jumper,
- lame duck,
- margin purchaser,
- operator,
- parachute jumper,
- pearl diver,
- petty gambler,
- piker,
- player,
- punter,
- scalper,
- scuba diver,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- skin diver,
- sky diver,
- smart operator,
- snorkel diver,
- speculator,
- sport,
- sporting man,
- sportsman,
- stag,
- tinhorn,
- tipster,
- tout,
- venturer,
- wagerer
- pest
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- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
- a persistently annoying person related words >
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- ambulatory plague,
- annoyance,
- annoyer,
- bad news,
- badgerer,
- bane,
- bedevilment,
- besetment,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blast,
- blight,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- bubonic plague,
- bugbear,
- bully,
- burden,
- buttonholer,
- calamity,
- cancer,
- canker,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- crashing bore,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- destruction,
- devilment,
- difficulty,
- disease,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- drip,
- dry rot,
- dryasdust,
- dusty,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- exasperation,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- fungus,
- gadfly,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harasser,
- harassment,
- harm,
- harrier,
- harrying,
- headache,
- heckler,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hounding,
- humdrum,
- infliction,
- irritant,
- larval plague,
- mildew,
- mold,
- molestation,
- moth,
- moth and rust,
- murrain,
- must,
- nag,
- nemesis,
- nudnik,
- nudzh,
- nuisance,
- open wound,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- persecution,
- persecutor,
- pester,
- pesterer,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- pill,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- plaguer,
- pneumonic plague,
- premonitory plague,
- problem,
- proser,
- rot,
- running sore,
- rust,
- sadist,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- smut,
- tease,
- teaser,
- thorn,
- torment,
- tormentor,
- trial,
- trouble,
- tuberculosis,
- twaddler,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- visitation,
- wet blanket,
- white plague,
- woe,
- worm,
- worriment,
- worry
- trench foot
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- resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet related words >
- Minamata disease,
- altitude sickness,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthrax,
- black lung,
- caisson disease,
- chilblain,
- decompression sickness,
- frostbite,
- immersion foot,
- itai,
- jet lag,
- lead poisoning,
- mercury poisoning,
- motion sickness,
- pneumoconiosis,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- sunstroke,
- the bends
- mercury poisoning
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- a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death related words >
- Minamata disease,
- altitude sickness,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthrax,
- black lung,
- caisson disease,
- chilblain,
- decompression sickness,
- frostbite,
- immersion foot,
- itai,
- jet lag,
- lead poisoning,
- motion sickness,
- pneumoconiosis,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- sunstroke,
- the bends,
- trench foot
- radiation sickness
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- syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation" related words >
- Minamata disease,
- altitude sickness,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthrax,
- black lung,
- caisson disease,
- chilblain,
- decompression sickness,
- frostbite,
- immersion foot,
- itai,
- jet lag,
- lead poisoning,
- mercury poisoning,
- motion sickness,
- pneumoconiosis,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- sunstroke,
- the bends,
- trench foot
- jet lag
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- fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel related words >
- Minamata disease,
- altitude sickness,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthrax,
- black lung,
- caisson disease,
- chilblain,
- decompression sickness,
- frostbite,
- immersion foot,
- itai,
- lead poisoning,
- mercury poisoning,
- motion sickness,
- pneumoconiosis,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- sunstroke,
- the bends,
- trench foot
- diving
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- an athletic competition that involves diving into water related words >
- Australian crawl,
- acrobatics,
- aerobatics,
- aquaplaning,
- aquatics,
- backstroke,
- balneation,
- banking,
- bathe,
- bathing,
- breaststroke,
- butterfly,
- chandelle,
- crabbing,
- crawl,
- deep-sea diving,
- dive,
- dog paddle,
- fancy diving,
- fin,
- fishtail,
- fishtailing,
- flapper,
- flipper,
- floating,
- glide,
- high diving,
- natation,
- nose dive,
- pearl diving,
- plunging,
- power dive,
- pull-up,
- pullout,
- pushdown,
- rolling,
- sideslip,
- sidestroke,
- skin diving,
- sky diving,
- spiral,
- stall,
- stunting,
- surfboarding,
- surfing,
- swim,
- swimming,
- tactical maneuvers,
- treading water,
- volplane,
- wading,
- waterskiing,
- zoom
- snapshot
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- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" related words >
- Telephoto,
- Wirephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- black-and-white photograph,
- candid photograph,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- diapositive,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- montage,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup,
- portrait,
- shot,
- slide,
- snap,
- still,
- still photograph,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- mug shot
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- a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) related words >
- Telephoto,
- Wirephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- black-and-white photograph,
- candid photograph,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- diapositive,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- montage,
- mug,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup,
- portrait,
- shot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- funeral
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- a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral" related words >
- burial,
- burial at sea,
- burying,
- caravan,
- cavalcade,
- cinerary,
- column,
- cortege,
- cremation,
- dead march,
- deep six,
- dirge,
- dirgelike,
- dismal,
- dress parade,
- entombment,
- epitaphic,
- exequial,
- exequies,
- feral,
- flyover,
- funebrial,
- funebrious,
- funebrous,
- funeral procession,
- funerary,
- funereal,
- inhumation,
- interment,
- last post,
- line,
- march past,
- mortuary,
- motorcade,
- mournful,
- muffled drum,
- mule train,
- necrological,
- obituary,
- obsequial,
- obsequies,
- pack train,
- parade,
- pomp,
- procession,
- promenade,
- review,
- sepulchral,
- sepulture,
- skimmington,
- stream,
- string,
- taps,
- train
- cygnet
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- a young swan related words >
- avifauna,
- baby bird,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdy,
- cage bird,
- chick,
- diving bird,
- dove,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- fish-eating bird,
- fledgling,
- flightless bird,
- fowl,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- insect-eating bird,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- nestling,
- oscine bird,
- owl,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- perching bird,
- pigeon,
- ratite,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- shore bird,
- songbird,
- squab,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- swan,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- waterfowl,
- wildfowl
- waterfowl
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- freshwater aquatic bird related words >
- avifauna,
- baby bird,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdy,
- cage bird,
- chick,
- cygnet,
- diving bird,
- dove,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- fish-eating bird,
- fledgling,
- flightless bird,
- fowl,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- insect-eating bird,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- nestling,
- oscine bird,
- owl,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- perching bird,
- pigeon,
- ratite,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- shore bird,
- songbird,
- squab,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- swan,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- wildfowl
- sailing
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- the departure of a vessel from a port
- riding in a sailboat related words >
- aeronautics,
- air service,
- airline,
- astronautics,
- aviation,
- ballooning,
- blind flying,
- boating,
- canoeing,
- circumnavigation,
- cloud-seeding,
- coasting,
- commercial aviation,
- contact flying,
- cruising,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- flying,
- general aviation,
- glide,
- gliding,
- gunkholing,
- motorboating,
- navigability,
- navigating,
- navigation,
- passage-making,
- periplus,
- pilotage,
- rowing,
- sailplaning,
- sculling,
- sea travel,
- seafaring,
- skating,
- skiing,
- skim,
- sledding,
- slide,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slither,
- slithering,
- soaring,
- steaming,
- sweep,
- sweeping,
- tobogganing,
- travel by water,
- voyaging,
- water travel,
- winging,
- yachting
- beefcake
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- a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire related words >
- Telephoto,
- Wirephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- black-and-white photograph,
- candid photograph,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- diapositive,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- montage,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup,
- portrait,
- shot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- biscuit
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- small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda related words >
- Brussels biscuit,
- Melba toast,
- adobe,
- bisque,
- bone,
- bowl,
- brick,
- brownie,
- cement,
- ceramic ware,
- ceramics,
- china,
- cookie,
- cracker,
- crock,
- crockery,
- date bar,
- dust,
- enamelware,
- firebrick,
- fruit bar,
- ginger snap,
- gingerbread man,
- glass,
- graham cracker,
- hardtack,
- jug,
- ladyfinger,
- macaroon,
- mummy,
- parchment,
- pilot biscuit,
- porcelain,
- pot,
- pottery,
- pretzel,
- refractory,
- rusk,
- saltine,
- sea biscuit,
- ship biscuit,
- shortbread,
- sinker,
- soda cracker,
- stick,
- sugar cookie,
- tile,
- tiling,
- urn,
- vase,
- wafer,
- zwieback
- mourning
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- state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one related words >
- anguish,
- bemoaning,
- bereavement,
- bewailing,
- black,
- crape,
- cypress,
- cypress lawn,
- deep mourning,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despondency,
- grief,
- grieving,
- heartache,
- howling,
- in mourning,
- keening,
- lament,
- lamentation,
- lamenting,
- loss,
- melancholy,
- misery,
- moaning,
- mourning band,
- sackcloth,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- sadness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowing,
- ululation,
- wailing,
- weeds,
- weeping,
- woe,
- woefulness,
- yew
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- dark,
- darkling,
- darksome,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- dim,
- dingy,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dusky,
- foreboding,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- grave,
- grey,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- joyless,
- leaden,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- morbid,
- morose,
- mournful,
- murky,
- overcast,
- sad,
- sedate,
- serious,
- shadowy,
- sober,
- solemn,
- staid,
- subfusc,
- unhappy
- French bread,
- Irish soda bread,
- Italian bread,
- black bread,
- bread,
- bread stick,
- bread stuff,
- brown bread,
- cracked-wheat bread,
- crust,
- dark bread,
- garlic bread,
- graham bread,
- loaf of bread,
- matzo,
- matzoth,
- nut bread,
- pain,
- pita,
- pumpernickel,
- raisin bread,
- rye bread,
- salt-rising bread,
- sourbread,
- sourdough bread,
- toast,
- tommy,
- unleavened bread,
- white bread,
- whole wheat bread
- tailpiece
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- appendage added to extend the length of something related words >
- accession,
- accessory,
- accompaniment,
- addenda,
- addendum,
- additament,
- addition,
- additive,
- additory,
- additum,
- adjunct,
- adjuvant,
- afterpart,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- annex,
- annexation,
- appanage,
- appendage,
- appendant,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- attachment,
- augment,
- augmentation,
- back,
- back door,
- back seat,
- back side,
- bass passage,
- behind,
- bourdon,
- breech,
- bridge,
- brush,
- burden,
- cadence,
- cauda,
- caudal appendage,
- caudation,
- chorus,
- coda,
- complement,
- concomitant,
- continuation,
- corollary,
- cue,
- development,
- division,
- dock,
- exposition,
- extension,
- extrapolation,
- fantail,
- figure,
- fixture,
- folderol,
- harmonic close,
- heel,
- hind end,
- hind part,
- hindhead,
- increase,
- increment,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- introductory phrase,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- occiput,
- offshoot,
- ornament,
- part,
- passage,
- pendant,
- period,
- phrase,
- pigtail,
- posterior,
- postern,
- queue,
- rattail,
- rear,
- rear end,
- rearward,
- refrain,
- reinforcement,
- resolution,
- response,
- reverse,
- ritornello,
- section,
- side effect,
- side issue,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stern,
- strain,
- stub,
- supplement,
- tab,
- tag,
- tail,
- tail end,
- trail,
- trailer,
- train,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- undergirding,
- variation,
- verse,
- wake
- black death
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- the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe related words >
- African lethargy,
- Asiatic cholera,
- Chagres fever,
- German measles,
- Haverhill fever,
- acute articular rheumatism,
- ague,
- alkali disease,
- ambulatory plague,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anthrax,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- black fever,
- black plague,
- blackwater fever,
- breakbone fever,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- cachectic fever,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- chicken pox,
- cholera,
- cowpox,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- defervescing plague,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diphtheria,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- elephantiasis,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- frambesia,
- glandular fever,
- glandular plague,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- jail fever,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- larval plague,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- milzbrand,
- mumps,
- murrain,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonia,
- pneumonic plague,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- premonitory plague,
- psittacosis,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- rat-bite fever,
- relapsing fever,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- scourge,
- septic sore throat,
- septicemic plague,
- shingles,
- siderating plague,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strep throat,
- swamp fever,
- tetanus,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- white plague,
- whooping cough,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster
- taps
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- (military) signal to turn the lights out related words >
- Angelus,
- Angelus bell,
- alarm,
- alarum,
- battle cry,
- bay,
- beep,
- birdcall,
- blare,
- blast,
- blat,
- bray,
- bugle call,
- burial,
- burial at sea,
- burying,
- call,
- cortege,
- dead march,
- deep six,
- dirge,
- fanfare,
- flourish of trumpets,
- funeral,
- funeral procession,
- honk,
- last post,
- moose call,
- muffled drum,
- peal,
- rallying cry,
- rebel yell,
- reveille,
- shriek,
- squeal,
- summons,
- tantara,
- tantarara,
- tarantara,
- tattoo,
- toot,
- tootle,
- trumpet,
- trumpet blast,
- trumpet call,
- tweedle,
- war cry,
- whistle
- bar,
- bind,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- bung,
- caulk,
- check valve,
- chink,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- clog,
- clog up,
- cock,
- congest,
- constipate,
- cork,
- cover,
- dam,
- dam up,
- faucet,
- fill,
- fill up,
- foul,
- jam,
- leg,
- lid,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- pack,
- pale,
- palisade,
- peg,
- picket,
- pile,
- pin,
- plug,
- plug up,
- sea cock,
- shank,
- spigot,
- spike,
- spill,
- stake,
- stanch,
- stay,
- stench,
- stop,
- stop up,
- stopgap,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- tap,
- valve
- strand
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- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
- a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) related words >
- animal fiber,
- artificial fiber,
- bank,
- beach,
- berm,
- capillament,
- cast away,
- cilium,
- cirrus,
- coast,
- coastland,
- coastline,
- cobweb,
- denier,
- embankment,
- fiber,
- fibrilla,
- filament,
- filamentule,
- flagellum,
- foreshore,
- gossamer,
- ground,
- hair,
- hank,
- ironbound coast,
- lido,
- littoral,
- pile up,
- plage,
- playa,
- riverside,
- riviera,
- rockbound coast,
- run aground,
- sands,
- sea margin,
- seabank,
- seabeach,
- seaboard,
- seacliff,
- seacoast,
- seashore,
- seaside,
- shingle,
- shipwreck,
- shore,
- shoreline,
- skein,
- submerged coast,
- suture,
- take the ground,
- tendril,
- thread,
- threadlet,
- tidewater,
- waterfront,
- waterside,
- web,
- wreck
- Photoradiogram,
- Telephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- black-and-white photograph,
- candid photograph,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- diapositive,
- facsimile,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- montage,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup,
- portrait,
- radiophotograph,
- shot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- Photoradiogram,
- Wirephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- black-and-white photograph,
- candid photograph,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- diapositive,
- facsimile,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- montage,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup,
- portrait,
- radiophotograph,
- shot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- about the bush,
- adjourn,
- appall,
- bear off,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- blind,
- blunt,
- cast off,
- chill,
- cloak,
- color,
- continue,
- cool,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- dally,
- damp,
- dampen,
- defer,
- deflect,
- delay,
- deter,
- device,
- dillydally,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- disgust,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- distract,
- divert,
- dodge,
- doff,
- douse,
- drag out,
- drop,
- duck,
- embark,
- equivocate,
- excuse,
- extend,
- facade,
- feint,
- fence,
- front,
- get under way,
- give offense,
- gloss,
- go off soundings,
- go to sea,
- gross out,
- guise,
- handle,
- hang fire,
- hang up,
- haul off,
- have way upon,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hold off,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- horrify,
- indispose,
- lag,
- lame excuse,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- linger,
- locus standi,
- loiter,
- mask,
- nauseate,
- offend,
- ostensible motive,
- parry,
- pigeonhole,
- poke,
- poor excuse,
- postpone,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- procrastinate,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protestation,
- protract,
- public motive,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- push aside,
- push off,
- pussyfoot,
- put aside,
- put on ice,
- put to sea,
- quench,
- recess,
- recoil,
- refuge,
- remove,
- repel,
- reserve,
- revolt,
- run from,
- sail,
- sail away,
- sail away from,
- screen,
- semblance,
- set aside,
- set by,
- sham,
- sheer off,
- shelve,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shock,
- shove off,
- show,
- shrink,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sicken,
- sidestep,
- sleep on,
- slip out of,
- smoke screen,
- stalking-horse,
- stand from,
- stand off,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- steer away from,
- step aside,
- step out of,
- stratagem,
- stretch out,
- subterfuge,
- suspend,
- swerve,
- table,
- take a recess,
- take off,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- throw off,
- trail,
- trick,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- turn the stomach,
- undo,
- unwrap,
- varnish,
- veil,
- waive,
- ward off,
- wean from
- nebula
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- (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
- an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space
- cloudiness of the urine
- a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer related words >
- advisably,
- amelioratively,
- appropriately,
- at a profit,
- beneficially,
- congruously,
- conveniently,
- decently,
- desirably,
- effectively,
- effectually,
- efficiently,
- expediently,
- favorably,
- feasibly,
- fitly,
- fittingly,
- for money,
- functionally,
- gainfully,
- handily,
- helpfully,
- helpingly,
- in the black,
- lucratively,
- melioratively,
- opportunely,
- practically,
- profitably,
- properly,
- remuneratively,
- rightly,
- seasonably,
- serviceably,
- sortably,
- suitably,
- to advantage,
- to good effect,
- to good use,
- to profit,
- to the good,
- usefully,
- with advantage
- shortcut
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- a route shorter than the usual one related words >
- air lane,
- air line,
- axis,
- beat,
- beeline,
- bypass,
- chord,
- circuit,
- course,
- cut,
- cutoff,
- diagonal,
- diameter,
- direct line,
- directrix,
- edge,
- flight path,
- great-circle course,
- itinerary,
- line,
- normal,
- orbit,
- path,
- perpendicular,
- primrose path,
- radius,
- radius vector,
- right line,
- road,
- round,
- route,
- run,
- sea lane,
- secant,
- segment,
- shortest way,
- side,
- straight,
- straight course,
- straight line,
- straight stretch,
- straightaway,
- streamline,
- tangent,
- tour,
- track,
- trade route,
- traject,
- trajectory,
- trajet,
- transversal,
- vector,
- walk
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- dark,
- dire,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- gloomy,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- inauspicious,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- sinister,
- somber,
- threatening,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward
- skull
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- the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates related words >
- drafting
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- the craft of drawing blueprints
- writing a first version to be filled out and polished later related words >
- aspiration,
- black and white,
- bleeding,
- bloodletting,
- broaching,
- call,
- call-up,
- charcoal,
- compulsory military service,
- conscription,
- cupping,
- delineation,
- draft,
- draft call,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drawing,
- emptying,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- impressment,
- induction,
- levy,
- milking,
- mobilization,
- muster,
- phlebotomy,
- pipetting,
- press,
- pumping,
- recruiting,
- recruitment,
- selective service,
- siphoning,
- sketching,
- sucking,
- suction,
- summons,
- tapping,
- venesection
- ermine
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- mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
- the expensive white fur of the ermine related words >
- Australian seal,
- achievement,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bearskin,
- beaver,
- beaverette,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- black fox,
- black marten,
- black sable,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- brook mink,
- buckskin,
- cadency mark,
- calf,
- calfskin,
- canton,
- cap of dignity,
- cap of maintenance,
- capeskin,
- cat,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- chinchilla,
- chinchillette,
- coast seal,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- coney,
- coronet,
- cowhide,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- deerskin,
- device,
- diadem,
- difference,
- differencing,
- doeskin,
- eagle,
- electric seal,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleece,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fox,
- fret,
- fur,
- furs,
- fusil,
- garland,
- genet,
- goatskin,
- great seal,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- jaguar,
- label,
- lapin,
- leopard,
- lion,
- lozenge,
- mantling,
- marmot,
- marshaling,
- marten,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- merino,
- metal,
- mink,
- mole,
- moleskin,
- monkey,
- motto,
- mullet,
- muskrat,
- nombril point,
- nutria,
- octofoil,
- or,
- orb,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- otter,
- pale,
- paly,
- pean,
- pelts,
- pheon,
- pigskin,
- privy seal,
- purple,
- purple pall,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- rabbit,
- rabbitskin,
- raccoon,
- regalia,
- robe of state,
- rod,
- rod of empire,
- rose,
- royal crown,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scepter,
- scutcheon,
- seal,
- shagreen,
- sheepskin,
- shield,
- signet,
- skunk,
- spread eagle,
- squirrel,
- subordinary,
- tenne,
- tiara,
- tiger,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tressure,
- triple plume,
- unicorn,
- uraeus,
- vair,
- vert,
- white fox,
- wool,
- wreath,
- yale
- catastrophic
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- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" related words >
- baneful,
- black,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- grievous,
- insurrectionary,
- internecine,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- radical,
- ravaging,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- revulsionary,
- revulsive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- self-destructive,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- sweeping,
- tragic,
- transilient,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- wreckful
- pyre
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- wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite related words >
- backfire,
- balefire,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- blaze,
- bonfire,
- burning,
- burning ghat,
- campfire,
- cheerful fire,
- combustion,
- conflagration,
- corposant,
- cozy fire,
- crackling fire,
- cremation,
- crematory,
- death fire,
- fen fire,
- fire,
- flame,
- flashing point,
- flicker,
- flickering flame,
- forest fire,
- fox fire,
- funeral pile,
- funeral pyre,
- ignis fatuus,
- ignition,
- incineration,
- ingle,
- lambent flame,
- marshfire,
- open fire,
- prairie fire,
- raging fire,
- reduction to ashes,
- sea of flames,
- sheet of fire,
- signal beacon,
- smudge fire,
- three-alarm fire,
- two-alarm fire,
- watch fire,
- wildfire,
- witch fire
- wagon
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- any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor
- a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting related words >
- Black Maria,
- Conestoga wagon,
- barge,
- boat,
- bus,
- caravan,
- carryall,
- cart,
- coach,
- covered wagon,
- cruiser,
- dray,
- ferry,
- float,
- haul,
- haywagon,
- lighter,
- paddy wagon,
- patrol car,
- patrol wagon,
- police van,
- prairie schooner,
- prowl car,
- raft,
- ship,
- sled,
- sledge,
- squad car,
- truck,
- van,
- waggon,
- wain,
- wheelbarrow
- string
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- a lightweight cord
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed
- a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
- a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
- provide with strings; "string my guitar"
- thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"
- string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- move or come along related words >
- A string,
- Amati,
- Cremona,
- D string,
- E string,
- G string,
- Indian file,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- age group,
- agree,
- array,
- articulation,
- atone,
- attune,
- authority,
- band,
- bank,
- bar,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- battalion,
- be continuous,
- bevy,
- bluff,
- body,
- boundary condition,
- bow,
- braid,
- brail,
- bridge,
- brigade,
- bull fiddle,
- bunch,
- buzz,
- cabal,
- cable,
- caravan,
- cast,
- catch,
- catches,
- catena,
- catenate,
- catenation,
- catgut,
- cavalcade,
- cello,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- chaplet,
- cheat,
- choker,
- chord,
- clause,
- clique,
- cohort,
- collaborate,
- column,
- command,
- company,
- complement,
- concatenate,
- concatenation,
- concur,
- condition,
- conditions,
- connect,
- connect up,
- connection,
- consecution,
- contingent,
- continuate,
- continue,
- continuum,
- contrabass,
- control,
- cord,
- corps,
- cortege,
- coterie,
- course,
- covey,
- crew,
- crowd,
- cycle,
- deceive,
- delay,
- dernier ressort,
- descent,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dominate,
- domination,
- donnee,
- doorstep,
- double bass,
- drag out,
- drape,
- dress parade,
- drone,
- dupe,
- echelon,
- eight,
- eleven,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- entry,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- exception,
- exert influence,
- expedient,
- extend,
- faction,
- favorite,
- festoon,
- fiddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fiddlestring,
- filament,
- file,
- filiation,
- fine print,
- fingerboard,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- fleet,
- flyover,
- follow,
- fool,
- footrest,
- footstep,
- form a series,
- funeral,
- gamut,
- gang,
- given,
- go along with,
- gradation,
- grounds,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- hang,
- hoax,
- hold the reins,
- horsehair,
- hum,
- in-group,
- join,
- joker,
- junta,
- jurisdiction,
- kicker,
- kit,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- lead,
- leader,
- leash,
- ligament,
- ligation,
- ligature,
- limitations,
- limiting condition,
- line,
- lineage,
- linguistic act,
- link,
- locution,
- loop,
- lynch,
- maintain continuity,
- makeshift,
- manipulate,
- march past,
- mastery,
- might,
- mob,
- monotone,
- motorcade,
- movement,
- mudder,
- mule train,
- necklace,
- nexus,
- nine,
- nylon string,
- obligation,
- operate,
- order,
- out-group,
- outfit,
- pack,
- pack train,
- parade,
- parameter,
- parol,
- parole,
- party,
- peer group,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- phalanx,
- phonation,
- plate horse,
- plater,
- platoon,
- plenum,
- pole horse,
- pomp,
- pony,
- posse,
- postpone,
- powder train,
- prerequisite,
- procession,
- progression,
- promenade,
- protract,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- pull the strings,
- put in tune,
- qualification,
- queue,
- race horse,
- racer,
- range,
- rank,
- reach,
- recourse,
- recurrence,
- refuge,
- regiment,
- requisite,
- reservation,
- reserves,
- resort,
- rest,
- reticulation,
- review,
- riser,
- rope,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- rowing crew,
- run,
- run on,
- rundle,
- rung,
- salon,
- saving clause,
- scale,
- scroll,
- second string,
- second team,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- sequence of phonemes,
- series,
- set,
- shift,
- sine qua non,
- single file,
- skimmington,
- sling,
- small print,
- soundboard,
- speaking,
- specification,
- spectrum,
- speech act,
- spin out,
- spoke,
- spun yarn,
- squad,
- stable,
- stair,
- stake horse,
- staker,
- starter,
- stave,
- steel string,
- steeplechaser,
- step,
- step stool,
- stepping-stone,
- stipulation,
- stipulations,
- stopgap,
- strand,
- stream,
- stretch,
- string along,
- string out,
- string together,
- string up,
- strings,
- strip,
- stripe,
- substitute,
- succession,
- suspend,
- swath,
- sway,
- team,
- tendon,
- tenor violin,
- term,
- terms,
- the spoken word,
- third string,
- thong,
- thread,
- tier,
- tone down,
- tone up,
- tongue,
- train,
- tread,
- tribe,
- trick,
- troop,
- troupe,
- tune,
- tune up,
- tuning peg,
- twine,
- twist,
- ultimatum,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- varsity,
- viola,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta,
- vocable,
- voice,
- whereas,
- windrow,
- wing,
- wire,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wound string,
- wreath,
- yarn
- Cosa Nostra,
- Mafia,
- badger game,
- black market,
- blackmail,
- bloodsucking,
- bootlegging,
- extortion,
- gambling,
- gray market,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- loan-sharking,
- moonshining,
- narcotics traffic,
- organized crime,
- prostitution,
- racket,
- shady dealings,
- shakedown,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- traffic in women,
- usury,
- vampirism,
- white slavery
- bakehead,
- black gang,
- boilerman,
- brass pounder,
- bungs,
- cabin boy,
- chips,
- commissary steward,
- complement,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- dit-da artist,
- fireman,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- hand,
- hospital steward,
- landing signalman,
- mail orderly,
- navigator,
- oiler,
- purser,
- radio operator,
- radiotelegrapher,
- roustabout,
- snip,
- snips,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stoker,
- telegraph operator,
- telegraphist,
- torpedoman,
- watch,
- wireman,
- yeoman
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