Exact Match:
- gadfly
- any of various large flies that annoy livestock
Synonyms:
- abettor,
- actuator,
- animator,
- cajoler,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- firer,
- gad,
- galvanizer,
- goad,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- lash,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- oxgoad,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prick,
- prime mover,
- prod,
- prompter,
- rowel,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- spur,
- stimulator,
- sting,
- tempter,
- wheedler,
- whip,
- whiplash
Related Words:
- whiplash
collapse - an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) related words >
- troublemaker
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- someone who deliberately stirs up trouble related words >
- energizer
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- a device that supplies electrical energy
- someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people related words >
- abettor,
- activator,
- actuator,
- animator,
- arouser,
- cajoler,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- encourager,
- firer,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- human dynamo,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- life,
- motivating force,
- motive power,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- prompter,
- restorative,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulant,
- stimulator,
- stimulus,
- tempter,
- tonic,
- wheedler
- spark plug
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- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark related words >
- abettor,
- activator,
- actuator,
- animator,
- arouser,
- cajoler,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- firer,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- human dynamo,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- life,
- motivating force,
- motive power,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- prompter,
- restorative,
- spark,
- sparker,
- stimulant,
- stimulator,
- stimulus,
- tempter,
- tonic,
- wheedler
- abettor,
- actuator,
- afflatus,
- animating spirit,
- animation,
- animator,
- animus,
- cajoler,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- divine afflatus,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- enlivenment,
- exhilaration,
- fire,
- firer,
- firing,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- genius,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- infection,
- infusion,
- inspiration,
- inspirer,
- mover,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- prompter,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- tempter,
- wheedler
- abettor,
- actuator,
- agent,
- animator,
- author,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- cajoler,
- catalyst,
- causer,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- creator,
- effector,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- engenderer,
- father,
- firer,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- generator,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- instigator,
- maker,
- mother,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- originator,
- parent,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- primum mobile,
- producer,
- prompter,
- sire,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- tempter,
- wheedler
- tempter
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- a person who tempts others; "Satan is the great tempter of mankind" related words >
- Circe,
- Don Juan,
- Lorelei,
- Parthenope,
- Siren,
- abettor,
- actuator,
- animator,
- cajoler,
- charmer,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- coquette,
- enchanter,
- enchantress,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- enticer,
- femme fatale,
- firer,
- flirt,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- inveigler,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- prompter,
- seducer,
- seductress,
- siren,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- teaser,
- temptress,
- vamp,
- vampire,
- wheedler
- abettor
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- one who helps or encourages or incites another related words >
- Maecenas,
- accessory,
- accomplice,
- accomplice in crime,
- actuator,
- admirer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- angel,
- animator,
- apologist,
- backer,
- buff,
- cajoler,
- champion,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- coconspirator,
- cohort,
- confederate,
- conspirator,
- defender,
- dependence,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- energizer,
- exponent,
- fan,
- favorer,
- fellow conspirator,
- firer,
- friend at court,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- lover,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- paranymph,
- partisan,
- patron,
- persuader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- promoter,
- prompter,
- protagonist,
- reliance,
- second,
- seconder,
- sectary,
- sider,
- socius criminis,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- sponsor,
- stalwart,
- standby,
- stimulator,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- sympathizer,
- tempter,
- upholder,
- votary,
- well-wisher,
- wheedler
- prompter
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- a device that displays words for people to read
- someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech related words >
- MC,
- abettor,
- actuator,
- aide-memoire,
- animator,
- auteur,
- ballyhoo man,
- barker,
- cajoler,
- callboy,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- costume designer,
- costumer,
- costumier,
- cue,
- director,
- emcee,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- equestrian director,
- exhibitor,
- firer,
- flapper,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- hint,
- impeller,
- impresario,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- jogger,
- makeup man,
- master of ceremonies,
- memorandum,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- persuader,
- playreader,
- pleader,
- prime mover,
- producer,
- prompt,
- prompting,
- remembrance,
- remembrancer,
- reminder,
- ringmaster,
- scenewright,
- set designer,
- showman,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- spieler,
- stage director,
- stage manager,
- stimulator,
- tempter,
- theater man,
- theatrician,
- ticket collector,
- tickler,
- usher,
- usherer,
- usherette,
- wheedler
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- Flying Dutchman,
- Goliard,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Ulysses,
- bat,
- bat around,
- bird of passage,
- bum,
- count ties,
- divagate,
- drift,
- drifter,
- flit,
- floater,
- gad about,
- gadabout,
- gadfly,
- gallivant,
- go about,
- go the rounds,
- go-about,
- goad,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- itinerant,
- jaunt,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- lash,
- maunder,
- meander,
- mooch,
- mover,
- nomadize,
- oxgoad,
- peregrinate,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- pererrate,
- peripatetic,
- prick,
- prod,
- prowl,
- ramble,
- rambler,
- range,
- roam,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- rove,
- rover,
- rowel,
- run about,
- run around,
- runabout,
- saunter,
- spur,
- sting,
- straggle,
- straggler,
- stray,
- stroll,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- troubadour,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- visitant,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wayfare,
- whip,
- whiplash
- abettor,
- actor,
- actuator,
- agent,
- ancestors,
- animator,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- artificer,
- artist,
- author,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- builder,
- cajoler,
- catalyst,
- causer,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- conceiver,
- constructor,
- craftsman,
- creator,
- designer,
- deviser,
- discoverer,
- doer,
- effector,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- executant,
- executor,
- executrix,
- fabricator,
- father,
- firer,
- founder,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- generator,
- grower,
- impeller,
- inaugurator,
- inducer,
- industrialist,
- initiator,
- inspirer,
- instigator,
- institutor,
- introducer,
- inventor,
- journeyman,
- maker,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- medium,
- mother,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- operant,
- operative,
- operator,
- organizer,
- originator,
- parent,
- past master,
- performer,
- perpetrator,
- persuader,
- planner,
- pleader,
- practitioner,
- precursor,
- primum mobile,
- producer,
- prompter,
- raiser,
- realizer,
- shaper,
- sire,
- smith,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- subject,
- tempter,
- wheedler,
- worker,
- wright
- abettor,
- actuator,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- amicus curiae,
- animator,
- apologete,
- apologist,
- apologizer,
- attorney,
- attorney-at-law,
- backup,
- backup man,
- barrister,
- barrister-at-law,
- cajoler,
- champion,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- counsel,
- counselor,
- counselor-at-law,
- defender,
- deputy,
- dummy,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- figurehead,
- firer,
- friend at court,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- impeller,
- inducer,
- inspirer,
- intercessor,
- justifier,
- lawyer,
- legal adviser,
- legal counselor,
- legal expert,
- legal practitioner,
- legalist,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- mouthpiece,
- mover,
- moving spirit,
- paranymph,
- persuader,
- pinch hitter,
- prime mover,
- proctor,
- procurator,
- prompter,
- proponent,
- proxy,
- representative,
- sea lawyer,
- second in command,
- secondary,
- self-styled lawyer,
- solicitor,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stand-in,
- stimulator,
- substitute,
- successful advocate,
- surrogate,
- tempter,
- understudy,
- utility man,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vice,
- vicegerent,
- vindicator,
- wheedler,
- whitewasher
- goad
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- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- urge with or as if with a goad related words >
- actuate,
- animate,
- assault,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- boost,
- buck,
- bull,
- bulldoze,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bunt,
- butt,
- butt against,
- cage,
- catalyst,
- coerce,
- compel,
- compulsion,
- corral,
- cram,
- crowd,
- desire,
- dig,
- drive,
- drive on,
- drove,
- egg on,
- elbow,
- exhort,
- flog,
- force,
- forward,
- gad,
- gadfly,
- give an impetus,
- give momentum,
- herd,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- impel,
- impetus,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incite,
- incitement,
- instigate,
- jab,
- jam,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- lash,
- lust,
- motivate,
- motivation,
- move,
- needle,
- nudge,
- oxgoad,
- passion,
- pile drive,
- poke,
- power,
- press,
- prick,
- prod,
- prompt,
- propel,
- punch,
- punch cattle,
- push,
- put in motion,
- ram,
- ram down,
- rattle,
- ride herd on,
- round up,
- rowel,
- run,
- run against,
- set agoing,
- set going,
- set in motion,
- shake,
- shepherd,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- sic,
- spur,
- stimulant,
- sting,
- stress,
- tamp,
- thrust,
- urge,
- whip,
- whip on,
- whiplash,
- wrangle,
- zeal
- prod
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- a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
- urge on; cause to act; "They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" related words >
- activate,
- actuate,
- annoy,
- assault,
- badger,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- bearing,
- boost,
- buck,
- bull,
- bulldoze,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bunt,
- butt,
- butt against,
- carp at,
- cavil,
- come in contact,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cue,
- dig,
- drive,
- egg on,
- elbow,
- encourage,
- excite,
- exhort,
- feel,
- feel of,
- finger,
- flick,
- flog,
- force,
- gad,
- gadfly,
- goad,
- grope,
- handle,
- harass,
- head,
- hector,
- henpeck,
- hound,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- impel,
- incite,
- instigate,
- irk,
- irritate,
- jab,
- jam,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- lash,
- manipulate,
- motivate,
- move,
- nag,
- needle,
- nudge,
- oxgoad,
- palm,
- palpate,
- paw,
- pester,
- pile drive,
- pique,
- plague,
- ply,
- poke,
- poke at,
- press,
- pressure,
- prick,
- prompt,
- propel,
- provoke,
- punch,
- push,
- quick look,
- ram,
- ram down,
- rattle,
- reminder,
- rouse,
- rowel,
- run,
- run against,
- shake,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- sic,
- signal,
- spur,
- stimulate,
- stimulus,
- sting,
- stir,
- stress,
- tamp,
- tap,
- tentative examination,
- thrust,
- thumb,
- touch,
- twiddle,
- urge,
- whip,
- whiplash,
- wield
- 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
- mover
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- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
- workman employed by a moving company; "the movers were very careful with the grand piano" related words >
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- Flying Dutchman,
- Goliard,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Ulysses,
- abettor,
- actor,
- actuator,
- agent,
- agitator,
- ancestors,
- animator,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- artificer,
- artist,
- author,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- bird of passage,
- builder,
- cajoler,
- catalyst,
- causer,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- conceiver,
- constructor,
- craftsman,
- creator,
- designer,
- deviser,
- discoverer,
- doer,
- drifter,
- effector,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- executant,
- executor,
- executrix,
- fabricator,
- father,
- firer,
- floater,
- fomenter,
- founder,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- generator,
- go-about,
- grower,
- impeller,
- inaugurator,
- inciter,
- inducer,
- industrialist,
- initiator,
- inspirer,
- instigator,
- institutor,
- introducer,
- inventor,
- itinerant,
- journeyman,
- maker,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- medium,
- mother,
- moving spirit,
- operant,
- operative,
- operator,
- organizer,
- originator,
- parent,
- past master,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- performer,
- peripatetic,
- perpetrator,
- persuader,
- planner,
- pleader,
- practitioner,
- precursor,
- prime mover,
- primum mobile,
- producer,
- prompter,
- raiser,
- rambler,
- realizer,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- rover,
- runabout,
- shaper,
- sire,
- smith,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- straggler,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- subject,
- tempter,
- troubadour,
- visitant,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wheedler,
- worker,
- wright
- insect
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- small air-breathing arthropod related words >
- Chilopoda,
- Chordata,
- Echiuroidea,
- Ectoprocta,
- Entoprocta,
- Lepisma,
- Monoplacophora,
- Nemertinea,
- Phoronidea,
- animal,
- ant,
- aphid,
- aphis,
- arachnid,
- arthropod,
- assassin bug,
- beast,
- bedbug,
- bee,
- beetle,
- bluebottle,
- borer,
- bug,
- butterfly,
- caddis fly,
- caterpillar,
- centipede,
- chafer,
- chigoe,
- chilopod,
- cicada,
- cicala,
- cockchafer,
- cockroach,
- crane fly,
- cricket,
- cucumber flea beetle,
- cur,
- curculio,
- daddy longlegs,
- damselfly,
- deer fly,
- diplopod,
- dobson fly,
- dog,
- dragonfly,
- drosophila,
- dung beetle,
- earwig,
- ephemerid,
- firefly,
- flea,
- fly,
- gadfly,
- glowworm,
- gnat,
- grain weevil,
- grasshopper,
- harvestman,
- hexapod,
- hornet,
- hound,
- hyena,
- jigger,
- katydid,
- kissing bug,
- lacewing,
- lady beetle,
- ladybird,
- ladybug,
- lantern fly,
- larva,
- locust,
- louse,
- maggot,
- mantis,
- mayfly,
- mealworm,
- midge,
- millepede,
- miller,
- millipede,
- mite,
- mole cricket,
- mongrel,
- mosquito,
- moth,
- nymph,
- pig,
- polecat,
- reptile,
- rice weevil,
- roach,
- scarab,
- scorpion,
- serpent,
- silverfish,
- skunk,
- snake,
- spider,
- springtail,
- squash bug,
- stag beetle,
- stinkbug,
- stone fly,
- swine,
- syrphus fly,
- tarantula,
- termite,
- tick,
- tiger moth,
- tsetse fly,
- tumblebug,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- viper,
- walkingstick,
- wasp,
- water bug,
- weevil,
- whelp,
- wood tick,
- worm,
- yellow jacket
- lash
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- leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
- bind with a rope, chain, or cord; "lash the horse"
- lash or flick about sharply; "The lion lashed its tail" related words >
- anchor,
- assail,
- attack,
- band,
- bandage,
- baste,
- bastinado,
- bawl out,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- bend,
- berate,
- bind,
- bind up,
- birch,
- blacksnake,
- blister,
- blow,
- boil,
- bolt,
- box,
- brace,
- bridle,
- buffet,
- bullwhack,
- bullwhip,
- bundle,
- cage,
- cane,
- cast anchor,
- castigate,
- cat,
- chain,
- charge,
- chase,
- chew out,
- cilia,
- cinch,
- club,
- come to anchor,
- corral,
- cowhide,
- criticize,
- crop,
- cudgel,
- cuff,
- cut,
- dash,
- disembark,
- do up,
- dock,
- drench,
- drive,
- drop the hook,
- drove,
- drub,
- enchain,
- entrammel,
- excoriate,
- fasten,
- fetter,
- fix,
- flagellate,
- flagellum,
- flail,
- flap,
- flay,
- fling,
- flog,
- fustigate,
- gad,
- gadfly,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- give a whipping,
- give the stick,
- goad,
- gyve,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- herd,
- hide,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hopple,
- horsewhip,
- jaw,
- kedge,
- kedge off,
- knout,
- kurbash,
- lace,
- lambaste,
- lash and tie,
- lather,
- lay anchor,
- lay on,
- leash,
- make fast,
- manacle,
- moor,
- needle,
- nudge,
- oxgoad,
- peg down,
- picket,
- pin down,
- pinion,
- pistol-whip,
- poke,
- pommel,
- prick,
- prod,
- pummel,
- punch cattle,
- punish,
- put in irons,
- quirt,
- race,
- rawhide,
- razor strap,
- restrain,
- ride herd on,
- roast,
- rope,
- round up,
- rowel,
- scarify,
- scathe,
- scold,
- scorch,
- scourge,
- secure,
- shackle,
- shepherd,
- shoot,
- sjambok,
- skin alive,
- slap,
- slash,
- smack,
- smite,
- spank,
- splice,
- spur,
- sting,
- straitjacket,
- strap,
- strike,
- stripe,
- stroke,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- swinge,
- switch,
- tear,
- teem,
- tether,
- thong,
- thrash,
- thump,
- thwack,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- tongue-lash,
- trammel,
- trounce,
- truncheon,
- truss,
- upbraid,
- vituperate,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wallop,
- wave,
- wear out,
- whack,
- whale,
- whip,
- whiplash,
- whop,
- wire,
- wrangle,
- wrap,
- wrap up
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