Related Words:
- alternate,
- apostatize,
- around the bush,
- back and fill,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- change,
- choplogic,
- come round,
- desert,
- dither,
- do a flip-flop,
- do an about-face,
- dodge,
- duck,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- fence,
- fluctuate,
- have second thoughts,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hum and haw,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- oscillate,
- palter,
- parry,
- pendulate,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- rat,
- renounce,
- repudiate,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- split hairs,
- teeter,
- totter,
- turn,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- waffle,
- waver,
- weasel,
- wheel,
- wobble
- bear the palm,
- beat the game,
- beat the system,
- capture,
- carry,
- carry away,
- carry it,
- carry off,
- carry the day,
- come out first,
- come through,
- come up fighting,
- come up smiling,
- finish in front,
- fluke,
- gain,
- gain the day,
- live through,
- make a killing,
- persevere,
- take the cake,
- triumph,
- weather out,
- weather the storm,
- win,
- win the battle,
- win the laurels,
- win the palm,
- win the prize,
- win through
- bulldog
collapse - a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
- throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
- attack viciously and ferociously related words >
- Achilles,
- David,
- Hector,
- Roland,
- Samson,
- a man,
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- barnacle,
- bramble,
- brave,
- brier,
- burr,
- cement,
- chutzpanik,
- decal,
- decalcomania,
- decorated hero,
- demigod,
- demigoddess,
- fighting cock,
- gallant,
- gamecock,
- glue,
- good soldier,
- gunk,
- hero,
- heroine,
- leech,
- limpet,
- lion,
- man of courage,
- molasses,
- mucilage,
- paladin,
- paste,
- plaster,
- prickle,
- remora,
- stalwart,
- sticker,
- syrup,
- the brave,
- thorn,
- tiger,
- valiant,
- valiant knight
- warlike
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- suggesting war or military life related words >
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contending,
- contentious,
- contestant,
- contesting,
- disputant,
- enemy,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- striving,
- struggling,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- warmongering,
- warring
- firepower
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- (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target related words >
- antiaircraft fire,
- cross fire,
- curtain fire,
- direct fire,
- dry fire,
- fighting force,
- file fire,
- fire,
- fire of demolition,
- fireworks,
- firing,
- flack,
- flak,
- forces,
- ground fire,
- gunfight,
- gunfire,
- gunplay,
- hands,
- high-angle fire,
- horizontal fire,
- interdiction fire,
- machine-gun fire,
- men,
- mortar fire,
- musketry,
- percussion fire,
- personnel,
- pistol fire,
- raking fire,
- rapid fire,
- ricochet fire,
- rifle fire,
- shellfire,
- shoot-out,
- shooting,
- the big battalions,
- time fire,
- troops,
- units,
- vertical fire,
- work force,
- zone fire
- mystify
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- make mysterious; "mystify the story" related words >
- addle,
- amaze,
- around the bush,
- baffle,
- bamboozle,
- beat,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bewilder,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- buffalo,
- cavil,
- choplogic,
- complicate,
- confound,
- confuse,
- corrupt,
- daze,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- fence,
- floor,
- flummox,
- fool,
- fuddle,
- garble,
- get,
- hedge,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- jumble,
- keep in suspense,
- lick,
- make unintelligible,
- maze,
- misadvise,
- misdirect,
- miseducate,
- misguide,
- misinform,
- misinstruct,
- mislead,
- misteach,
- mix up,
- muddle,
- nitpick,
- nonplus,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- palter,
- parry,
- perplex,
- pervert,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- puzzle,
- quibble,
- scramble,
- shadow,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- split hairs,
- stick,
- stump,
- tergiversate,
- throw
- belligerent
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- engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" related words >
- acrid,
- aggressive,
- antagonist,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- ardent,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- attacking,
- battler,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bickering,
- bitter,
- blade,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- caustic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- combatant,
- combative,
- competitor,
- conflicting,
- contender,
- contentious,
- contestant,
- controversial,
- despiteful,
- disputant,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- duelist,
- enemy,
- enforcer,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- fencer,
- ferocious,
- feuder,
- fierce,
- fighter,
- fighting,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- full of fight,
- full of hate,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hateful,
- hawk,
- hawkish,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- hostile,
- hot,
- inimical,
- invading,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- jouster,
- knight,
- litigious,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- plug-ugly,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- quarreler,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- saber-rattling,
- sabreur,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrapper,
- scrappy,
- scuffler,
- set against,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- tempered,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- tussler,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- venomous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- warlike,
- warmonger,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangler,
- wrangling
- valiant
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- having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier" related words >
- Achilles,
- David,
- Hector,
- Roland,
- Samson,
- a man,
- audacious,
- bold,
- bold-spirited,
- brave,
- bulldog,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- chutzpanik,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- decorated hero,
- demigod,
- demigoddess,
- doughty,
- fearless,
- fighting cock,
- gallant,
- gamecock,
- good soldier,
- greathearted,
- hardy,
- hero,
- heroic,
- heroine,
- herolike,
- intrepid,
- ironhearted,
- knightlike,
- knightly,
- lion,
- lionhearted,
- man of courage,
- manful,
- manly,
- paladin,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- stalwart,
- stout,
- stouthearted,
- the brave,
- tiger,
- undaunted,
- valiant knight,
- valorous
- martial
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- Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC) related words >
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brave,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- courageous,
- enemy,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- high-spirited,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- mettlesome,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spirited,
- stalwart,
- staunch,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- valiant,
- valorous,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring
- bare possibility,
- dark horse,
- doubtfulness,
- dubiousness,
- equivalent odds,
- even break,
- even chance,
- faint likelihood,
- fighting chance,
- gambling chance,
- good chance,
- hardly a chance,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- implausibility,
- improbability,
- incredibility,
- little chance,
- little expectation,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- no chance,
- odds,
- off chance,
- outside chance,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- price,
- questionableness,
- remote possibility,
- short odds,
- slim chance,
- square odds,
- unlikelihood
- hem and haw
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- utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd" related words >
- about the bush,
- back and fill,
- back down,
- balance,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- debate,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- dodge,
- duck,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- falter,
- fear,
- fence,
- halt,
- hang back,
- haw,
- hedge,
- hem,
- hesitate,
- hover,
- hum,
- hum and haw,
- jib,
- mammer,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- palter,
- parry,
- pause,
- ponder,
- prevaricate,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- recoil,
- retreat,
- scruple,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- stammer,
- step aside,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stop to consider,
- straddle the fence,
- strain at,
- stumble,
- stutter,
- swerve,
- tergiversate,
- think twice about,
- waffle,
- ward off,
- weasel,
- withdraw,
- yield
- Gurkhas,
- SS,
- Special Forces,
- Waffen-SS,
- armed force,
- armed service,
- army,
- array,
- career soldiers,
- elite corps,
- elite troops,
- fighting machine,
- forces,
- ground forces,
- ground troops,
- guardsmen,
- host,
- legions,
- marines,
- military establishment,
- occupation force,
- paratroops,
- rank and file,
- ranks,
- regular army,
- regulars,
- shock troops,
- ski troops,
- soldiery,
- special troops,
- standing army,
- the line,
- the military,
- troops
- paratroops
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- infantry trained and equipped to parachute related words >
- Gurkhas,
- SS,
- Special Forces,
- Waffen-SS,
- armed force,
- armed service,
- army,
- array,
- career soldiers,
- elite corps,
- elite troops,
- fighting machine,
- forces,
- ground forces,
- ground troops,
- guardsmen,
- host,
- legions,
- marines,
- military establishment,
- occupation force,
- rank and file,
- ranks,
- regular army,
- regulars,
- shock troops,
- ski troops,
- soldiery,
- special troops,
- standing army,
- storm troops,
- the line,
- the military,
- troops
- backward,
- balk,
- be determined,
- be in earnest,
- be resolved,
- buckle down,
- buckle to,
- conservative,
- cross the Rubicon,
- die fighting,
- die game,
- die in harness,
- fogyish,
- go for broke,
- hold out,
- mean business,
- never say die,
- nonprogressive,
- not back down,
- not budge,
- not give up,
- not submit,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fogyish,
- old-line,
- opposed to change,
- orthodox,
- persevere,
- preservative,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- remain firm,
- right,
- right of center,
- right-wing,
- stand fast,
- stand out,
- stand pat,
- standpat,
- stay it out,
- stick,
- stick fast,
- stick it out,
- stickle,
- take no denial,
- take the plunge,
- tory,
- traditionalistic,
- ultraconservative,
- unprogressive
- wild
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- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild"
- deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "he threw a wild pitch"
- in a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants"
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild talk"; "wild parties"
- in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild" related words >
- Arabia Deserta,
- Death Valley,
- Dionysiac,
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- Sahara,
- abandoned,
- absurd,
- accident-prone,
- addled,
- adventurous,
- agitated,
- agrarian,
- amok,
- anarchic,
- angry,
- animal,
- at fever pitch,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- bacchic,
- back,
- back country,
- back of beyond,
- back-country,
- backwood,
- backwoods,
- backwoodsy,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- baroque,
- barren,
- barren land,
- barrens,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bestial,
- bewildered,
- beyond belief,
- beyond control,
- bizarre,
- blatant,
- bloody,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bold,
- boondock,
- boondocks,
- borderland,
- brain-born,
- brash,
- breachy,
- breakneck,
- brush,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bush,
- bush country,
- bushveld,
- carefree,
- careless,
- carried away,
- chaotic,
- clamorous,
- coarse,
- cockamamie,
- cocksure,
- confused,
- contumacious,
- corybantic,
- crazy,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- dashing,
- death-defying,
- debauched,
- defiant,
- delirious,
- demented,
- demoniac,
- deranged,
- desert,
- desolation,
- desperate,
- devil-may-care,
- dirty,
- disorderly,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- dream-built,
- dust bowl,
- ecstatic,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- escaped,
- extravagant,
- fanatical,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fast,
- febrile,
- feckless,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- feverish,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fighting mad,
- fire-eating,
- florid,
- foolhardy,
- foolish,
- forests,
- forward,
- fractious,
- frantic,
- free,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- frontier,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- gallant,
- gay,
- go-go,
- graceless,
- grotesque,
- haggard,
- harebrained,
- harsh,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- heath,
- hectic,
- heedless,
- hellish,
- high-flown,
- hinterland,
- hog-wild,
- hopping mad,
- hotheaded,
- howling,
- howling wilderness,
- hurried,
- hysteric,
- hysterical,
- ill-bred,
- immoderate,
- impatient of control,
- impetuous,
- impolite,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incautious,
- incontinent,
- incorrigible,
- incredible,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- indulgent,
- infatuated,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- inhuman,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insuppressible,
- intemperate,
- intoxicated,
- intractable,
- irrepressible,
- irresponsible,
- karroo,
- kill-crazy,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- knockabout,
- laughable,
- lax,
- lewd,
- licentious,
- like one possessed,
- loose,
- ludicrous,
- lunar landscape,
- lunar waste,
- mad,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maggoty,
- malign,
- malignant,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- merciless,
- mindless,
- monstrous,
- muddled,
- murderous,
- native,
- natural,
- noncivilized,
- nonrestrictive,
- nonsensical,
- notional,
- obstreperous,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- orgiastic,
- ornery,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- outback,
- outlandish,
- outpost,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- pandemoniac,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- permissive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- pitiless,
- poppycockish,
- possessed,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- preposterous,
- presumptuous,
- primitive,
- profligate,
- rabid,
- raffish,
- raging,
- rakehell,
- rakehellish,
- rakehelly,
- rakish,
- rambling,
- rambunctious,
- rampageous,
- rampant,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rash,
- ravening,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- recalcitrant,
- reckless,
- refractory,
- reinless,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- restive,
- revolutionary,
- ridiculous,
- riotous,
- rip-roaring,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- rococo,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- rough,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- ruthless,
- salt flat,
- sanguinary,
- savage,
- severe,
- shrewish,
- simmering,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- sporty,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- stormy,
- swaggering,
- sylvan,
- tameless,
- tasteless,
- tempestuous,
- terrorist,
- the bush,
- thoughtless,
- timbers,
- tornadic,
- transported,
- troglodytic,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- ultrazealous,
- unbiddable,
- unbridled,
- unchaste,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncoerced,
- uncombed,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- undomesticated,
- unforced,
- ungentle,
- ungovernable,
- ungoverned,
- uninhabited region,
- uninhibited,
- unkempt,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmoldable,
- unmuzzled,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsubmissive,
- unsuppressed,
- untamed,
- untoward,
- up-country,
- uproarious,
- upset,
- vehement,
- vicious,
- violent,
- virgin,
- virgin land,
- virgin territory,
- volcanic,
- vulgar,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- waste,
- wasteland,
- weary waste,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild West,
- wild-ass,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wilderness,
- wildness,
- wilds,
- woodland,
- woodlands,
- woods
- gladiator
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- (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat related words >
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- struggler
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- a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort related words >
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- about the bush,
- avert,
- avoid,
- bear off,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- blench,
- blink,
- cringe,
- dodge,
- draw aside,
- draw back,
- duck,
- ease off,
- edge off,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- fence,
- flinch,
- fly off,
- gee,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- hang back,
- haw,
- head off,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- jib,
- make way for,
- move aside,
- parry,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- quail,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shove aside,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- side,
- sidestep,
- sidetrack,
- sidle,
- start aside,
- start back,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- swerve,
- switch,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn back,
- veer off,
- ward off,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- wince
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- assertive,
- battling,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- enemy,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- litigious,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rebellious,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- pipeline
collapse
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; "a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport" related words >
- adjutage,
- bush telegraph,
- catheter,
- channel,
- coming,
- conduit,
- confidential information,
- connection,
- contact,
- conveyor,
- cooking,
- drainpipe,
- duct,
- efflux tube,
- fire hose,
- flue pipe,
- flume,
- funnel,
- garden hose,
- gas pipe,
- grapevine,
- grapevine telegraph,
- hose,
- hosepipe,
- imminent,
- in the offing,
- in the works,
- inside dope,
- inside information,
- insider,
- line,
- main,
- nipple,
- on the way,
- organ pipe,
- origin,
- passage,
- pipe,
- pipette,
- piping,
- put through channels,
- ready,
- reed,
- reed pipe,
- siamese,
- siamese connection,
- siphon,
- snorkel,
- soil pipe,
- source,
- standpipe,
- steam pipe,
- stem,
- straw,
- supplier,
- tap,
- the lowdown,
- tube,
- tubing,
- tubulation,
- tubule,
- tubulet,
- tubulure,
- under way,
- waste pipe,
- water pipe,
- wellspring
- improbability
collapse
- the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences" related words >
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- bare possibility,
- conversation piece,
- curio,
- curiosity,
- dark horse,
- exception,
- fighting chance,
- gambling chance,
- hardly a chance,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- inexpectance,
- inexpectancy,
- inexpectation,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- museum piece,
- no expectation,
- nonesuch,
- nonexpectation,
- oddity,
- off chance,
- outside chance,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- rarity,
- remote possibility,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- strange thing,
- the unforeseen,
- the unlooked-for,
- unanticipation,
- unexpectedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unlikelihood,
- unpredictability,
- unpredictableness,
- unpreparedness,
- unreadiness
- action,
- all-out war,
- amphibious operations,
- appeal to arms,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- bloodshed,
- combat,
- combined operations,
- dry run,
- fighting,
- fluid operations,
- hostilities,
- hot war,
- la guerre,
- logistics,
- maneuver,
- maneuvers,
- might of arms,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- movement,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- operation,
- operations,
- overseas operations,
- resort to arms,
- shooting war,
- staff work,
- state of war,
- the sword,
- total war,
- war,
- war game,
- war plans,
- warfare,
- warmaking,
- warring,
- wartime
- Samson
collapse
- (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah related words >
- Achilles,
- Antaeus,
- Atlas,
- Briareus,
- Brobdingnagian,
- Charles Atlas,
- Cyclops,
- David,
- Goliath,
- Hector,
- Hercules,
- Polyphemus,
- Roland,
- Superman,
- Tarzan,
- Titan,
- a man,
- brave,
- bulldog,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- chutzpanik,
- colossus,
- decorated hero,
- demigod,
- demigoddess,
- fighting cock,
- gallant,
- gamecock,
- giant,
- good soldier,
- gorilla,
- hero,
- heroine,
- lion,
- man of courage,
- muscle man,
- paladin,
- powerhouse,
- stalwart,
- strong man,
- strong-arm man,
- the brave,
- the mighty,
- the strong,
- tiger,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- tower of strength,
- valiant,
- valiant knight
- Everyman,
- John Doe,
- Public,
- body politic,
- citizenry,
- common man,
- commonwealth,
- community,
- community at large,
- crew,
- employees,
- estate,
- everybody,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- fighting force,
- firepower,
- folk,
- folks,
- force,
- forces,
- gang,
- general public,
- gentry,
- hands,
- help,
- hired help,
- male sex,
- man,
- manhood,
- mankind,
- menfolk,
- menfolks,
- nation,
- nationality,
- people,
- people in general,
- personnel,
- persons,
- polity,
- populace,
- population,
- public,
- retinue,
- servantry,
- society,
- staff,
- state,
- sword side,
- the big battalions,
- the help,
- troops,
- units,
- work force,
- world,
- you and me
- doubling
collapse
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"
- increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all" related words >
- Janus,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- bush,
- bushing,
- conduplication,
- conjugation,
- copying,
- crease,
- creasing,
- crimp,
- dichotomy,
- dog-ear,
- double,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doublure,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- duplicature,
- duplicity,
- echo,
- equivocality,
- facing,
- filler,
- filling,
- flection,
- flexure,
- flounce,
- fold,
- frill,
- gather,
- gemination,
- halving,
- imitation,
- ingemination,
- inlay,
- inlayer,
- insole,
- interlineation,
- irony,
- iteration,
- lapel,
- lappet,
- liner,
- lining,
- packing,
- padding,
- pairing,
- plagiarism,
- plica,
- plication,
- plicature,
- ply,
- polarity,
- quotation,
- reappearance,
- rebirth,
- recurrence,
- redoubling,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- reiteration,
- renewal,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- replication,
- reproduction,
- resumption,
- return,
- ruche,
- ruching,
- ruffle,
- stuffing,
- tuck,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- wadding,
- wainscot
- bare possibility,
- chance,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- contingency,
- dark horse,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- fighting chance,
- gambling chance,
- good chance,
- good possibility,
- hardly a chance,
- hope,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- improbability,
- likelihood,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- off chance,
- outside hope,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- probability,
- prospect,
- remote possibility,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- small hope,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the possible,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- unlikelihood,
- virtuality,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be
- bare possibility,
- chance,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- contingency,
- dark horse,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- fighting chance,
- gambling chance,
- good chance,
- good possibility,
- hardly a chance,
- hope,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- improbability,
- likelihood,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- probability,
- prospect,
- remote possibility,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- small hope,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the possible,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- unlikelihood,
- virtuality,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be
- dust bowl
collapse
- a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s related words >
- Arabia Deserta,
- Death Valley,
- Sahara,
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- barren,
- barren land,
- barrens,
- black belt,
- brush,
- bush,
- citrus belt,
- corn belt,
- cotton belt,
- countryside,
- desert,
- desolation,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- heath,
- highlands,
- howling wilderness,
- karroo,
- lowlands,
- lunar landscape,
- lunar waste,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- outback,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- salt flat,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- waste,
- wasteland,
- weary waste,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- wild,
- wilderness,
- wilds,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- packing
collapse
- carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"
- the enclosure of something in a package or box related words >
- air express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- allocation,
- asportation,
- assignment,
- bearing,
- bottling,
- boxing,
- bush,
- bushing,
- canning,
- carriage,
- carry,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- collocation,
- conveyance,
- crating,
- deployment,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- disposition,
- doubling,
- doublure,
- drayage,
- emplacement,
- encasement,
- expressage,
- facing,
- ferriage,
- filler,
- filling,
- freight,
- freightage,
- gasket,
- gland,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- inlay,
- inlayer,
- insole,
- interlineation,
- lading,
- lighterage,
- liner,
- lining,
- loading,
- localization,
- locating,
- location,
- lugging,
- package,
- packaging,
- padding,
- pinpointing,
- placement,
- placing,
- portage,
- porterage,
- positioning,
- posting,
- putting,
- railway express,
- reposition,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- situation,
- spotting,
- stationing,
- stopping,
- storage,
- stowage,
- stuffing,
- tampon,
- telpherage,
- tinning,
- toting,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transshipment,
- truckage,
- wadding,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage,
- wainscot
- pugnacious
collapse
- ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" related words >
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brawling,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- enemy,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fight,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- litigious,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- quarrelsome,
- rebellious,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- self-assertive,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contestant,
- corrival,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- emulator,
- enforcer,
- entrant,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- knight,
- militant,
- player,
- plug-ugly,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- the field,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- vier,
- wrangler
- Kilkenny cats,
- argument,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- blood feud,
- brawl,
- broil,
- cat-and-dog life,
- combat,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- falling-out,
- feud,
- fight,
- fighting,
- fliting,
- fracas,
- fuss,
- hostility,
- imbroglio,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- open quarrel,
- paper war,
- polemic,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsomeness,
- scrapping,
- sharp words,
- slanging match,
- snarl,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- struggle,
- tiff,
- tussle,
- vendetta,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- around the bush,
- atomize,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- change,
- chop logic,
- choplogic,
- contradistinguish,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- desynonymize,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- discriminate,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- divide,
- dodge,
- draw the line,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- fence,
- hedge,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- make a distinction,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- palter,
- parry,
- particularize,
- personalize,
- pick nits,
- pick out,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- refine a distinction,
- screen,
- screen out,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- sever,
- severalize,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- sort,
- sort out,
- specialize,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- tergiversate,
- vary,
- winnow
- be safe,
- be unflappable,
- beat the game,
- beat the system,
- bounce back,
- come around,
- come back,
- come round,
- come through,
- come to,
- come up fighting,
- come up smiling,
- get about,
- get home free,
- get over,
- get well,
- hold fast,
- hold out,
- hold up,
- keep safe,
- live through,
- make a comeback,
- make heavy weather,
- not budge,
- outride,
- persevere,
- pull round,
- pull through,
- rally,
- recover,
- remain firm,
- revive,
- ride,
- ride it out,
- ride out,
- stand fast,
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