Related Words:
- fasces
collapse - bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism related words >
- armory,
- badge,
- badge of office,
- badges,
- bale,
- baton,
- bindle,
- blazonry,
- bolt,
- bouquet,
- brassard,
- budget,
- bundle,
- button,
- caduceus,
- cap and gown,
- chain,
- chain of office,
- class ring,
- cockade,
- collar,
- crook,
- crosier,
- cross,
- cross-staff,
- deck,
- decoration,
- dress,
- eagle,
- emblems,
- ensigns,
- fagot,
- fardel,
- fascine,
- figurehead,
- fleur-de-lis,
- gavel,
- hammer and sickle,
- heraldry,
- insignia,
- lapel pin,
- livery,
- mace,
- mantle,
- markings,
- medal,
- mortarboard,
- nosegay,
- old school tie,
- pack,
- package,
- packet,
- parcel,
- pin,
- portfolio,
- posy,
- quiver,
- regalia,
- ring,
- rod,
- rod of office,
- roll,
- rose,
- rouleau,
- scepter,
- school ring,
- shamrock,
- sheaf,
- sigillography,
- skull and crossbones,
- sphragistics,
- staff,
- swastika,
- tartan,
- thistle,
- tie,
- truncheon,
- truss,
- uniform,
- verge,
- wand,
- wand of office
- deflection
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- the property of being bent or deflected
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting related words >
- L,
- S-curve,
- aberration,
- angle,
- apex,
- atmospheric attenuation,
- bend,
- bending,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- blind spots,
- bow,
- bowing,
- cant,
- chevron,
- circuitousness,
- clutter,
- coin,
- conflexure,
- corner,
- crank,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- crotchet,
- declination,
- defile,
- deflexure,
- deflower,
- departing,
- departure,
- deviance,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- digression,
- dispersion,
- distortion,
- divagation,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- elbow,
- ell,
- excursion,
- false echoes,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexure,
- force,
- fork,
- furcation,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- ground clutter,
- hairpin turn,
- hook,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- inflection,
- knee,
- meander,
- nonconformity,
- nook,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- outrage,
- oxbow,
- point,
- quoin,
- ravish,
- reflection,
- refraction,
- scatter,
- sea clutter,
- skewness,
- spoil,
- squint,
- superrefraction,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- torsion,
- transverseness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twisting,
- vagary,
- veer,
- veering,
- vertex,
- violate,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- delinquent
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- a young offender
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account"
- persistently bad; "school for delinquent boys"
- guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- atrocious,
- bad person,
- behindhand,
- careless,
- criminal,
- crook,
- culprit,
- deceiver,
- defaulter,
- defaulting,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- disgraceful,
- disregardful,
- evil,
- evil man,
- evil person,
- evildoer,
- failing,
- felon,
- gangster,
- hardly the thing,
- hooligan,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- improper,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- late,
- lawbreaker,
- lax,
- levanter,
- malefactor,
- malevolent,
- malfeasant,
- malfeasor,
- miscreant,
- misdemeanant,
- misdemeanist,
- misfeasor,
- mobster,
- neglectful,
- negligent,
- nonpayer,
- nonpaying,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offender,
- out-of-line,
- outlaw,
- overdue,
- past due,
- public enemy,
- racketeer,
- regardless,
- remiss,
- roughneck,
- ruffian,
- sacrilegious,
- scandalous,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- sinner,
- slack,
- tax dodger,
- tax evader,
- terrible,
- thief,
- transgressor,
- undue,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unlawful,
- unpaid,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unsuitable,
- villain,
- welsher,
- wicked,
- worker of ill,
- wrong,
- wrongdoer,
- wrongful
- damper
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- a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace related words >
- acoustic tile,
- andiron,
- antiknock,
- arrest,
- baffler,
- bearing rein,
- bit,
- brake,
- chain,
- check,
- checkrein,
- chill,
- chock,
- clog,
- coal tongs,
- cold water,
- countercheck,
- crane,
- crepehanger,
- crook,
- curb,
- curb bit,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampener,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- discouragement,
- doorstop,
- drag,
- drag sail,
- drift anchor,
- drift sail,
- drogue,
- fetter,
- fire hook,
- fire tongs,
- firedog,
- gag,
- grate,
- grating,
- grid,
- griddle,
- gridiron,
- grill,
- griller,
- holdback,
- hushcloth,
- killjoy,
- lifter,
- martingale,
- muffle,
- muffler,
- mute,
- muzzle,
- pelham,
- pessimist,
- poker,
- pothook,
- quietener,
- remora,
- salamander,
- scotch,
- sea anchor,
- shackle,
- silence cloth,
- silencer,
- snaffle,
- soft pedal,
- sordine,
- sordino,
- sound-absorbing material,
- soundproofing,
- soundproofing insulation,
- sourdine,
- spit,
- spoilsport,
- spoke,
- stay,
- stop,
- tongs,
- trammel,
- tripod,
- trivet,
- turnspit,
- wet blanket
- traitor
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- someone who betrays his country by committing treason related words >
- Benedict Arnold,
- Brutus,
- Judas,
- Judas Iscariot,
- Quisling,
- agitator,
- apostate,
- archtraitor,
- backslider,
- betrayer,
- bolter,
- brawler,
- cockatrice,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- conniver,
- conspirator,
- conspirer,
- convert,
- convict,
- criminal,
- crook,
- deceiver,
- defector,
- deserter,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- double agent,
- double-crosser,
- double-dealer,
- extremist,
- felon,
- fifth columnist,
- frondeur,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- informer,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- intrigant,
- intriguer,
- jailbird,
- lawbreaker,
- machinator,
- malcontent,
- maverick,
- mobster,
- mugwump,
- mutineer,
- nonconformist,
- outlaw,
- plotter,
- proselyte,
- public enemy,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- rat,
- rebel,
- recidivist,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- reversionist,
- revolter,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- rioter,
- runagate,
- schemer,
- schismatic,
- scofflaw,
- scoundrel,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- separatist,
- serpent,
- snake,
- strikebreaker,
- subversive,
- swindler,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversator,
- thief,
- thug,
- timeserver,
- treasonist,
- trimmer,
- turnabout,
- turncoat,
- turntail,
- two-timer
- thief
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- a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it related words >
- Judas,
- bad person,
- bandit,
- betrayer,
- booster,
- brigand,
- buccaneer,
- burglar,
- cat burglar,
- cat man,
- charlatan,
- cheat,
- con artist,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- convict,
- corsair,
- cracksman,
- criminal,
- crook,
- cutpurse,
- dacoit,
- deceiver,
- delinquent,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- dip,
- double-dealer,
- embezzler,
- evildoer,
- felon,
- filcher,
- filibuster,
- flimflam man,
- footpad,
- freebooter,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- gunman,
- highwayman,
- hijacker,
- housebreaker,
- jailbird,
- kleptomaniac,
- larcener,
- larcenist,
- lawbreaker,
- lifter,
- malefactor,
- malevolent,
- malfeasant,
- malfeasor,
- marauder,
- misfeasor,
- mobster,
- mountebank,
- mugger,
- nip,
- outlaw,
- peculator,
- picaroon,
- pickpocket,
- pilferer,
- pirate,
- plunderer,
- poacher,
- prig,
- privateer,
- public enemy,
- purloiner,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- robber,
- ruffian,
- scofflaw,
- sea rover,
- second-story man,
- sharper,
- shoplifter,
- sinner,
- stealer,
- swindler,
- thug,
- traitor,
- transgressor,
- trickster,
- two-timer,
- villain,
- worker of ill,
- wrongdoer
- detour
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- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- travel via a detour related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- back door,
- back road,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- by-lane,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- change the bearing,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumbendibus,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- depart from,
- departure,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digress,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- go around,
- go round about,
- hairpin,
- heel,
- indirection,
- make a detour,
- obliquity,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- runaround,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- trend,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away from,
- turning,
- twist,
- variation,
- vary,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- inflection
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- deviation from a straight or normal course
- a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function related words >
- IC analysis,
- L,
- S-curve,
- accent,
- accidence,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- angle,
- apex,
- articulation,
- bend,
- bending,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- bound morpheme,
- bow,
- bowing,
- cant,
- chevron,
- coin,
- conflexure,
- conjugation,
- corner,
- crank,
- crook,
- crotchet,
- cutting,
- declension,
- deflection,
- derivation,
- difference of form,
- dogleg,
- elbow,
- ell,
- enclitic,
- enunciation,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexure,
- fork,
- formative,
- free form,
- furcation,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- hairpin turn,
- hook,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- infix,
- infixation,
- intonation,
- intonation pattern,
- knee,
- meander,
- modulation,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- nook,
- oxbow,
- paradigm,
- pitch,
- pitch accent,
- point,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- pronunciation,
- quoin,
- radical,
- reflection,
- root,
- speech tune,
- stem,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- suprasegmental,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- theme,
- timbre,
- tonality,
- tone,
- tone of voice,
- turn,
- turning,
- veer,
- vertex,
- word-formation,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- felon
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- a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail related words >
- Judas,
- abscess,
- aposteme,
- bad person,
- bed sore,
- betrayer,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- cold sore,
- convict,
- criminal,
- crook,
- culprit,
- deceiver,
- delinquent,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- double-dealer,
- eschar,
- evildoer,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- fugitive,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- gathering,
- gumboil,
- hemorrhoids,
- jailbird,
- kibe,
- lawbreaker,
- lesion,
- malefactor,
- malevolent,
- malfeasant,
- malfeasor,
- miscreant,
- misfeasor,
- mobster,
- offender,
- outlaw,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pock,
- polyp,
- public enemy,
- pustule,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- rising,
- scab,
- scofflaw,
- sinner,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- stigma,
- sty,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- swindler,
- traitor,
- transgressor,
- tubercle,
- two-timer,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- villain,
- wale,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- worker of ill,
- wound,
- wrongdoer
- crotchet
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- a small tool or hooklike implement related words >
- L,
- accidental,
- angle,
- apex,
- bee,
- bend,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- breve,
- cant,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chevron,
- coin,
- conceit,
- corner,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- crook,
- deflection,
- demisemiquaver,
- dogleg,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eccentricity,
- eighth note,
- elbow,
- ell,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- fad,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- flat,
- flimflam,
- fool notion,
- fork,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- furcation,
- half note,
- harebrained idea,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- hook,
- humor,
- inflection,
- kink,
- knee,
- maggot,
- megrim,
- minim,
- musical note,
- natural,
- nook,
- note,
- notion,
- passing fancy,
- patent note,
- point,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- quirk,
- quoin,
- report,
- responding note,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- swerve,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- toy,
- triplet,
- twist,
- vagary,
- veer,
- vertex,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- whole note,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- convict
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- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
- find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced" related words >
- Judas,
- POW,
- acquit,
- anathematize,
- assure,
- attaint,
- be convincing,
- betrayer,
- blacklist,
- bring home to,
- bring over,
- bring round,
- bring to reason,
- cageling,
- captive,
- carry conviction,
- censure,
- chain gang,
- con,
- condemn,
- convert,
- convince,
- criminal,
- crook,
- damn,
- deceiver,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- detenu,
- doom,
- double-dealer,
- drive home to,
- ex-convict,
- excommunicate,
- felon,
- find guilty,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- inspire belief,
- internee,
- jailbird,
- lag,
- lawbreaker,
- lead to believe,
- lifer,
- loser,
- mobster,
- outlaw,
- parolee,
- pass sentence,
- pass sentence on,
- penalize,
- persuade,
- political prisoner,
- prisoner,
- prisoner of war,
- pronounce judgment,
- pronounce sentence,
- proscribe,
- public enemy,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- recidivist,
- repeater,
- satisfy,
- scofflaw,
- sell,
- sell one on,
- sentence,
- stir bird,
- swindler,
- talk over,
- thief,
- thug,
- ticket-of-leave man,
- ticket-of-leaver,
- traitor,
- trusty,
- two-timer,
- win over
- deflect
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- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest related words >
- angle,
- angle off,
- anticipate,
- arch,
- avert,
- bar,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blunt,
- bow,
- change,
- chill,
- cool,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debar,
- decurve,
- deter,
- deviate,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disperse,
- distort,
- distract,
- divagate,
- diverge,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- embow,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- flex,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- hairpin,
- help,
- hold off,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- indispose,
- inflect,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- loop,
- oblique,
- obviate,
- parry,
- pivot,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- put off,
- quench,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- repel,
- retroflex,
- round,
- rule out,
- sag,
- save,
- scatter,
- sheer,
- shy,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slue,
- stave off,
- swag,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- switch,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- twist,
- vault,
- veer,
- volte-face,
- ward off,
- warp,
- wean from,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wind,
- zigzag
- Artful Dodger,
- Benedict Arnold,
- Brutus,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Judas,
- Judas Iscariot,
- Machiavel,
- Machiavelli,
- Machiavellian,
- Quisling,
- actor,
- archtraitor,
- bamboozler,
- befuddler,
- beguiler,
- betrayer,
- charmer,
- cockatrice,
- conniver,
- conspirator,
- conspirer,
- convict,
- counterfeiter,
- criminal,
- crook,
- deceiver,
- deluder,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- dodger,
- double agent,
- double-crosser,
- duper,
- enchanter,
- entrancer,
- faker,
- felon,
- fooler,
- forger,
- fugitive,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- gay deceiver,
- hoaxer,
- hypnotizer,
- informer,
- intrigant,
- intriguer,
- jailbird,
- jilt,
- jilter,
- joker,
- jokester,
- kidder,
- lawbreaker,
- leg-puller,
- machinator,
- mesmerizer,
- misleader,
- mobster,
- outlaw,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarizer,
- playactor,
- plotter,
- practical joker,
- public enemy,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- ragger,
- rat,
- role-player,
- schemer,
- scofflaw,
- seducer,
- serpent,
- snake,
- spoofer,
- swindler,
- tease,
- teaser,
- thief,
- thug,
- timeserver,
- traitor,
- treasonist,
- trimmer,
- turncoat,
- two-timer
- knee
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- the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee
- hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella related words >
- L,
- angle,
- ankle,
- apex,
- articulation,
- bayonet legs,
- bend,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- boot,
- boundary,
- bowlegs,
- butt,
- calf,
- cant,
- cervix,
- chevron,
- clinch,
- closure,
- cnemis,
- coin,
- connecting link,
- connecting rod,
- connection,
- corner,
- coupling,
- crank,
- crook,
- crotchet,
- deflection,
- dogleg,
- dovetail,
- drumstick,
- elbow,
- ell,
- embrace,
- foreleg,
- fork,
- furcation,
- gamb,
- gambrel,
- gigot,
- gliding joint,
- ham,
- hind leg,
- hinge,
- hinged joint,
- hip,
- hock,
- hook,
- inflection,
- interface,
- jamb,
- join,
- joining,
- joint,
- juncture,
- kick,
- knuckle,
- leg,
- limb,
- link,
- miter,
- mortise,
- neck,
- nook,
- pivot,
- pivot joint,
- podite,
- point,
- popliteal space,
- punt,
- quoin,
- rabbet,
- scarf,
- scissor-legs,
- seam,
- shank,
- shin,
- shoulder,
- stems,
- stitch,
- stumps,
- suture,
- swerve,
- symphysis,
- tarsus,
- tie rod,
- toggle,
- toggle joint,
- trotters,
- union,
- veer,
- vertex,
- weld,
- wrist,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- popular
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- (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
- carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; "the popular vote"; "popular representation"; "institutions of popular government"
- regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular" related words >
- Babbittish,
- Philistine,
- accepted,
- accessible,
- acclaimed,
- accustomed,
- admired,
- admitted,
- adored,
- advocated,
- all the rage,
- all the thing,
- amateur,
- applauded,
- approved,
- associated,
- average,
- backed,
- beloved,
- besetting,
- bourgeois,
- campy,
- celebrated,
- cherished,
- civil,
- collective,
- collectivistic,
- common,
- commonplace,
- communal,
- communistic,
- commutual,
- conformable,
- congregational,
- conjoint,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- cooperative,
- coveted,
- cried up,
- current,
- customary,
- darling,
- dear,
- dearly beloved,
- desired,
- distinguished,
- dominant,
- epidemic,
- established,
- esteemed,
- everyday,
- fabled,
- famed,
- familiar,
- famous,
- far-famed,
- far-heard,
- fashionable,
- favored,
- favorite,
- general,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- held dear,
- high-camp,
- highly touted,
- hip,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honored,
- hoped-for,
- hot,
- household,
- in,
- in common,
- in demand,
- in fashion,
- in favor,
- in good odor,
- in style,
- in vogue,
- inexpensive,
- joint,
- kitschy,
- laic,
- laical,
- lay,
- leading,
- legendary,
- longed-for,
- loved,
- low,
- low-camp,
- low-priced,
- marked,
- mod,
- modern,
- much acclaimed,
- mutual,
- mythical,
- new,
- newfashioned,
- nonclerical,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonreligious,
- normal,
- normative,
- notable,
- noted,
- notorious,
- obtaining,
- occupy,
- of mark,
- of note,
- ordinary,
- pandemic,
- people,
- pet,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- populate,
- precious,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- preferred,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prized,
- prominent,
- public,
- rampant,
- reasonable,
- received,
- reciprocal,
- recommended,
- regnant,
- regular,
- regulation,
- reigning,
- renowned,
- revered,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- secular,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- self-governing,
- set,
- simplified,
- smart,
- social,
- socialistic,
- societal,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stylish,
- supported,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- temporal,
- tenant,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- treasured,
- trendy,
- understandable,
- universal,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-datish,
- up-to-the-minute,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- vulgar,
- wanted,
- well-beloved,
- well-known,
- well-liked,
- well-thought-of,
- widespread,
- wished-for,
- wonted
- backbone
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- the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
- fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" related words >
- advocate,
- alpenstock,
- arm,
- athletic supporter,
- back,
- backing,
- bandeau,
- bearer,
- bottom,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- buttress,
- cane,
- carrier,
- cervix,
- chutzpah,
- corset,
- courage,
- crook,
- crutch,
- determination,
- firmness,
- fortitude,
- foundation garment,
- fulcrum,
- gameness,
- girdle,
- grit,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- guttiness,
- guy,
- guywire,
- hardihood,
- heart,
- heart of oak,
- intestinal fortitude,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mast,
- mettle,
- mettlesomeness,
- moxie,
- neck,
- nerve,
- pillar,
- pith,
- pluck,
- pluckiness,
- prop,
- purposefulness,
- rachis,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- rest,
- resting place,
- rigging,
- sand,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- spinal column,
- spine,
- spirit,
- sprit,
- spunk,
- spunkiness,
- stability,
- staff,
- stamina,
- standing rigging,
- stave,
- stay,
- staying power,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- stout heart,
- strength,
- strengthener,
- sturdiness,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- toughness,
- true grit,
- upholder,
- vertebrae,
- vertebral column,
- walking stick,
- will
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- digression
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- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a message that departs from the main subject related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- apostrophe,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digressing,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excurse,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- incident,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obiter dictum,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- parenthesis,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- upholder
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- someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" related words >
- Maecenas,
- abettor,
- admirer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- alpenstock,
- angel,
- apologist,
- approver,
- arm,
- athletic supporter,
- back,
- backbone,
- backer,
- backing,
- bandeau,
- bearer,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- buff,
- buttress,
- cane,
- carrier,
- certifier,
- cervix,
- champion,
- confirmer,
- corset,
- cosignatory,
- cosigner,
- crook,
- crutch,
- defender,
- dependence,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- exponent,
- fan,
- favorer,
- foundation garment,
- friend at court,
- fulcrum,
- girdle,
- guarantor,
- guard,
- guy,
- guywire,
- insurer,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- lover,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mast,
- neck,
- notary,
- notary public,
- paladin,
- paranymph,
- partisan,
- party,
- patron,
- promoter,
- prop,
- protagonist,
- protector,
- ratifier,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- reliance,
- rest,
- resting place,
- rigging,
- second,
- seconder,
- sectary,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- sider,
- signatory,
- spine,
- sponsor,
- sprit,
- staff,
- stalwart,
- standby,
- standing rigging,
- stave,
- stay,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- strengthener,
- subscriber,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- sympathizer,
- underwriter,
- vindicator,
- votary,
- walking stick,
- well-wisher
- ghoul
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- an evil spirit or ghost related words >
- Baba Yaga,
- Dracula,
- Frankenstein,
- Lilith,
- Wolf-man,
- afreet,
- ape-man,
- barghest,
- body snatcher,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- booster,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- cacodemon,
- chicken thief,
- con man,
- crook,
- daeva,
- demon,
- den of thieves,
- devil,
- devil incarnate,
- dybbuk,
- embezzler,
- evil genius,
- evil spirit,
- fee-faw-fum,
- fiend,
- fiend from hell,
- filcher,
- frightener,
- ganef,
- genie,
- genius,
- ghost,
- grafter,
- grave robber,
- gyre,
- harpy,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- hellkite,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- incubus,
- jewel thief,
- jinni,
- jinniyeh,
- lamia,
- land pirate,
- land shark,
- land-grabber,
- larcener,
- larcenist,
- lifter,
- monster,
- nightmare,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- peculator,
- petty thief,
- phantom,
- pilferer,
- poacher,
- prowler,
- purloiner,
- rakshasa,
- revenant,
- robber,
- satan,
- scarebabe,
- scarecrow,
- scarer,
- scrounger,
- shedu,
- shoplifter,
- sneak thief,
- specter,
- stealer,
- succubus,
- swindler,
- terror,
- the undead,
- thief,
- vampire,
- werewolf,
- white-collar thief,
- yogini
- mace
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- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- (trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization related words >
- armory,
- badge,
- badge of office,
- badges,
- bastinado,
- bat,
- baton,
- battering ram,
- billy,
- billy club,
- blackjack,
- blazonry,
- bludgeon,
- brassard,
- button,
- caduceus,
- cane,
- cap and gown,
- chain,
- chain of office,
- cheat,
- class ring,
- club,
- cockade,
- collar,
- con man,
- crook,
- crosier,
- cross,
- cross-staff,
- cudgel,
- decoration,
- diddler,
- dress,
- eagle,
- emblems,
- ensigns,
- fasces,
- ferule,
- figurehead,
- fleur-de-lis,
- flimflammer,
- gavel,
- gyp,
- hammer and sickle,
- heraldry,
- insignia,
- knobkerrie,
- lapel pin,
- life preserver,
- livery,
- mantle,
- markings,
- medal,
- morning star,
- mortarboard,
- mountebank,
- nightstick,
- old school tie,
- paddle,
- pin,
- portfolio,
- quarterstaff,
- ram,
- regalia,
- ring,
- rod,
- rod of office,
- rose,
- sandbag,
- scepter,
- school ring,
- shamrock,
- sharpie,
- shillelagh,
- sigillography,
- skull and crossbones,
- sphragistics,
- spontoon,
- staff,
- stave,
- stick,
- swastika,
- tartan,
- thistle,
- tie,
- truncheon,
- uniform,
- verge,
- wand,
- wand of office,
- war club
- Wanderjahr,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- bend,
- bias,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- elevation,
- exaltation,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- hairpin,
- heroism,
- high-mindedness,
- hoboism,
- idealism,
- indirection,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- nomadism,
- obliquity,
- openhandedness,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- princeliness,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sublimity,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- wanderlust,
- warp,
- wayfaring,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- gnarl
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- twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree" related words >
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- asymmetry,
- bend,
- bilge,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- blob,
- boss,
- bow,
- bubble,
- buckle,
- bulb,
- bulge,
- bulla,
- bump,
- bunch,
- burl,
- button,
- cahot,
- chine,
- clump,
- coarsen,
- color,
- condyle,
- contort,
- contortion,
- convex,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crumple,
- detorsion,
- deviation,
- disproportion,
- distort,
- distortion,
- dowel,
- ear,
- flange,
- flap,
- flush,
- frown,
- gall,
- glare,
- glower,
- granulate,
- growl,
- grumble,
- handle,
- hill,
- hiss,
- horripilate,
- hump,
- hunch,
- imbalance,
- irregularity,
- jog,
- joggle,
- knob,
- knot,
- knur,
- knurl,
- lip,
- look daggers,
- loop,
- lopsidedness,
- lower,
- lump,
- mantle,
- mole,
- mountain,
- nevus,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nubble,
- papilloma,
- peg,
- pimple,
- quirk,
- redden,
- rib,
- ridge,
- ring,
- rough,
- rough up,
- roughen,
- scowl,
- screw,
- shoulder,
- snap,
- snarl,
- spine,
- spit,
- spring,
- stud,
- style,
- tab,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- tubercle,
- tubercule,
- turn,
- turn awry,
- twist,
- unsymmetry,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- welt,
- wrench,
- wrest,
- wring,
- writhe
- Maecenas,
- abettor,
- admirer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- alpenstock,
- angel,
- apologist,
- arm,
- athletic supporter,
- back,
- backbone,
- backer,
- backing,
- bandeau,
- bearer,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- broadcast,
- buff,
- buttress,
- cane,
- canned show,
- carrier,
- cervix,
- champion,
- commercial,
- commercial program,
- corset,
- crook,
- crutch,
- defender,
- dependence,
- electrical transcription,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- exponent,
- fan,
- favorer,
- foundation garment,
- friend at court,
- fulcrum,
- girdle,
- guy,
- guywire,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- lover,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mast,
- neck,
- network show,
- newscast,
- paranymph,
- partisan,
- patron,
- promoter,
- prop,
- protagonist,
- radio fare,
- radiobroadcast,
- rebroadcast,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- reliance,
- rerun,
- rest,
- resting place,
- rigging,
- second,
- seconder,
- sectary,
- serial,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- sider,
- soap opera,
- sound effects,
- spine,
- sponsor,
- sportscast,
- sprit,
- staff,
- stalwart,
- standby,
- standing rigging,
- stave,
- stay,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- strengthener,
- support,
- supporter,
- sympathizer,
- taped program,
- upholder,
- votary,
- walking stick,
- well-wisher
- wand
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- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
- a thin supple twig or rod; "stems bearing slender wands of flowers" related words >
- Tarnkappe,
- armory,
- badge,
- badge of office,
- badges,
- baton,
- blazonry,
- brassard,
- button,
- caduceus,
- cap and gown,
- cap of darkness,
- chain,
- chain of office,
- class ring,
- cockade,
- collar,
- crook,
- crosier,
- cross,
- cross-staff,
- decoration,
- divining rod,
- doodlebug,
- dowser,
- dowsing,
- dowsing rod,
- dress,
- eagle,
- emblems,
- ensigns,
- fasces,
- fern seed,
- figurehead,
- fleur-de-lis,
- gavel,
- hammer and sickle,
- heraldry,
- insignia,
- lapel pin,
- livery,
- mace,
- magic belt,
- magic carpet,
- magic ring,
- magic spectacles,
- magic wand,
- mantle,
- markings,
- medal,
- merrythought,
- mortarboard,
- old school tie,
- pin,
- portfolio,
- regalia,
- ring,
- rod,
- rod of office,
- rose,
- scepter,
- school ring,
- seven-league boots,
- shamrock,
- sigillography,
- skull and crossbones,
- sphragistics,
- staff,
- swastika,
- tartan,
- thistle,
- tie,
- truncheon,
- uniform,
- verge,
- wand of office,
- water witch,
- water witching,
- wish-bringer,
- wish-giver,
- wishbone,
- wishing bone,
- wishing cap,
- wishing stone,
- wishing well,
- witching,
- witching stick
- bearer
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- a messenger who bears or presents; "a bearer of good tidings" related words >
- Aquarius,
- Ganymede,
- Hebe,
- advocate,
- alpenstock,
- arm,
- athletic supporter,
- back,
- backbone,
- backing,
- bandeau,
- bheesty,
- boy,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- busboy,
- buttress,
- caddie,
- cane,
- cargo handler,
- carrier,
- carrier pigeon,
- carter,
- cervix,
- common carrier,
- conveyer,
- coolie,
- corset,
- courier,
- crook,
- crutch,
- cupbearer,
- drayman,
- emissary,
- envoy,
- express,
- expressman,
- foundation garment,
- freighter,
- fulcrum,
- girdle,
- griever,
- gun bearer,
- guy,
- guywire,
- hauler,
- homing pigeon,
- internuncio,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- keener,
- lamenter,
- letter carrier,
- litter-bearer,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mast,
- mourner,
- mute,
- neck,
- pallbearer,
- porter,
- professional mourner,
- prop,
- redcap,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- rest,
- resting place,
- rigging,
- shield-bearer,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- skycap,
- spine,
- sprit,
- staff,
- standing rigging,
- stave,
- stay,
- stevedore,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- strengthener,
- stretcher-bearer,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- the Water Bearer,
- transporter,
- truck driver,
- trucker,
- upholder,
- wagoner,
- walking stick,
- water boy,
- water carrier
- wrest
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- obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government" related words >
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- arrogate,
- asymmetry,
- avulse,
- badger,
- bend,
- blackmail,
- buckle,
- claim,
- color,
- confiscate,
- confuse,
- contort,
- contortion,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crumple,
- cut out,
- demand,
- deracinate,
- detorsion,
- deviation,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- disentangle,
- disproportion,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- elicit,
- eradicate,
- evolve,
- evulse,
- exact,
- exaction,
- excavate,
- excise,
- exsect,
- extort,
- extortion,
- extract,
- extricate,
- force from,
- garble,
- get out,
- gnarl,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- grub up,
- imbalance,
- irregularity,
- knot,
- levy blackmail,
- lopsidedness,
- mine,
- miscolor,
- pervert,
- pick out,
- pinch,
- pluck out,
- pluck up,
- pry loose from,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- quarry,
- quirk,
- rake out,
- remove,
- rend,
- rend from,
- rending,
- rip,
- rip from,
- rip out,
- ripping,
- root out,
- root up,
- screw,
- shake down,
- snatch from,
- spring,
- squeeze,
- take out,
- tear from,
- tear out,
- tearing,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- turn,
- turn awry,
- twist,
- unearth,
- unravel,
- unsymmetry,
- uproot,
- usurp,
- warp,
- weed out,
- withdraw,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrenching,
- wrest out,
- wresting,
- wring,
- wring from,
- wringing,
- writhe,
- wry
- dome
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- a hemispherical roof
- a stadium that has a roof
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward related words >
- antenna tower,
- apse,
- arcade,
- arcature,
- arch,
- arched roof,
- archway,
- barbican,
- bean,
- belfry,
- bell tower,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bonnet,
- bow,
- brow,
- camber,
- campanile,
- cap,
- ceil,
- ceilinged roof,
- coif,
- colossus,
- column,
- concameration,
- concha,
- conk,
- cork,
- cove,
- crook,
- crown,
- cupola,
- curl,
- curve,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- derrick,
- embow,
- fire tower,
- flex,
- geodesic dome,
- hat,
- head,
- headpiece,
- hood,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- igloo,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- inflect,
- keystone,
- lantern,
- lighthouse,
- loop,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- mast,
- minaret,
- monument,
- noddle,
- noggin,
- noodle,
- obelisk,
- observation tower,
- ogive,
- pagoda,
- pate,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- pinnacle,
- pole,
- poll,
- pylon,
- pyramid,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- retroflex,
- ridge,
- roof,
- roof in,
- round,
- sag,
- sconce,
- shaft,
- skewback,
- skyscraper,
- span,
- spire,
- standpipe,
- steeple,
- stopper,
- stupa,
- swag,
- sweep,
- television mast,
- tip,
- top,
- tope,
- tour,
- tower,
- turn,
- turret,
- vault,
- vaulting,
- voussoir,
- water tower,
- wind,
- windmill tower
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