Related Words:
- bad,
- bad-smelling,
- blown,
- bulldoggish,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- foul,
- frowsty,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- game,
- graveolent,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- high,
- high-tasted,
- ill-smelling,
- malodorous,
- mephitic,
- mettlesome,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- moldy,
- musty,
- nervy,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- odorous,
- off,
- offensive,
- olid,
- pertinacious,
- plucky,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- red-blooded,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- resolute,
- rotten,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- sour,
- soured,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- stinking,
- stinky,
- strong,
- strong-flavored,
- strong-tasting,
- stuffy,
- sulfurous,
- tainted,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- turned,
- vile
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- absurdity,
- abuse,
- affront,
- aggressive mimicry,
- apery,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- bagatelle,
- banter,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- booing,
- brass farthing,
- brickbat,
- burlesque,
- butt,
- button,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- caricature,
- casuistry,
- catcalling,
- cent,
- chaffing,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- crossed fingers,
- cryptic mimicry,
- curio,
- cut,
- decrial,
- derision,
- despite,
- disappointment,
- disdain,
- disingenuousness,
- disparagement,
- dump,
- dupe,
- emptiness,
- enormity,
- fair game,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- figure of fun,
- fleabite,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flout,
- flouting,
- folderol,
- fool,
- fooling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- game,
- gaud,
- gazingstock,
- gewgaw,
- gibe,
- gimcrack,
- goat,
- grinning,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hill of beans,
- hissing,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hooting,
- humiliation,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insincerity,
- insult,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jester,
- jestingstock,
- jesuitry,
- joke,
- joshing,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- lampoon,
- laugh,
- laughingstock,
- leering,
- levity,
- mimicry,
- minikin,
- miscarriage,
- mock,
- molehill,
- monkey,
- offense,
- outrage,
- panning,
- parody,
- parrotry,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pilgarlic,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- playing possum,
- protective coloration,
- put-down,
- ragging,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rap,
- razzing,
- red cent,
- ridicule,
- roasting,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- satire,
- scoff,
- scoffing,
- scorn,
- scurrility,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shit,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- snap,
- sneering,
- sneeshing,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- sophistry,
- sou,
- spoof,
- sport,
- squib,
- stock,
- straw,
- synaposematic mimicry,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- target,
- taunt,
- taunting,
- tongue in cheek,
- toy,
- travesty,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- twitting,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- unfrankness,
- victim,
- whim-wham,
- wicked imitation
- Gedankenexperiment,
- action,
- air cover,
- air raid,
- air support,
- amphibious operations,
- audition,
- bench test,
- bombing,
- combined operations,
- cover,
- flight test,
- fluid operations,
- hearing,
- logistics,
- maneuver,
- maneuvers,
- military operations,
- milk run,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- movement,
- operation,
- operations,
- overseas operations,
- pilot plan,
- practical test,
- practice,
- reconnaissance,
- reconnaissance mission,
- rehearsal,
- road test,
- scramble,
- shakedown,
- shakedown cruise,
- shuttle raid,
- sortie,
- staff work,
- strafing,
- test flight,
- test run,
- training mission,
- trial run,
- tryout,
- umbrella,
- war game,
- war plans,
- workout
- archery ground,
- athletic field,
- badminton court,
- baseball field,
- basketball court,
- billiard parlor,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- course,
- court,
- cricket ground,
- croquet ground,
- croquet lawn,
- diamond,
- fairway,
- family room,
- field,
- football field,
- game room,
- glaciarium,
- golf course,
- golf links,
- gridiron,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- ice rink,
- infield,
- links,
- outfield,
- oval,
- playground,
- playing field,
- polo ground,
- pool hall,
- poolroom,
- putting green,
- racecourse,
- racket court,
- rec room,
- recreation room,
- rink,
- rumpus room,
- skating rink,
- soccer field,
- squash court,
- stretch,
- tennis court,
- track,
- turf
- swan
collapse - stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains" related words >
- alabaster,
- avifauna,
- baby bird,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdy,
- cage bird,
- chalk,
- chick,
- cygnet,
- diving bird,
- dove,
- driven snow,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- fish-eating bird,
- fledgling,
- fleece,
- flightless bird,
- flour,
- foam,
- fowl,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- insect-eating bird,
- ivory,
- lily,
- maggot,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- milk,
- nestling,
- oscine bird,
- owl,
- paper,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- pearl,
- perching bird,
- pigeon,
- ratite,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- sheet,
- shore bird,
- silver,
- snow,
- songbird,
- squab,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- waterfowl,
- wildfowl
- intrigue
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- a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- a clandestine love affair
- cause to be interested or curious related words >
- Byzantine intrigues,
- absorb,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- amor,
- amour,
- angle,
- appeal,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- attract,
- backstairs influence,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- brew,
- cabal,
- captivate,
- carry away,
- cast a spell,
- charm,
- chicanery,
- cogitate,
- collogue,
- collude,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- concoct,
- confederacy,
- connections,
- connivance,
- connive,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- contrivance,
- contrive,
- contriving,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- cuckoldry,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- device,
- devise,
- disingenuousness,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- enchant,
- engineer,
- engineering,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- entanglement,
- enthrall,
- entrance,
- eternal triangle,
- excite,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- fascinate,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagle,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- forswearing,
- frame,
- frame up,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gerrymander,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hypnotize,
- illicit love,
- infatuate,
- infidelity,
- influence peddling,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- intimacy,
- intrigues,
- jockey,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lay a plot,
- liaison,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- love affair,
- machinate,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- mesmerize,
- move,
- operate,
- perjury,
- pique,
- play games,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- ploys,
- practice,
- pull strings,
- racket,
- red herring,
- rig,
- rigging,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- schemes,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- sleight,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- titillate,
- transport,
- triangle,
- trick,
- trickery,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underplot,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vamp,
- wangle,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wires,
- witch
- ambling,
- bad,
- castrated,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- crippled,
- deliberate,
- disabled,
- easy,
- emasculated,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- game,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halt,
- halting,
- hamstrung,
- handicapped,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- incapacitated,
- indolent,
- lame,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- lumbering,
- maimed,
- moderate,
- poking,
- poky,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- spavined,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- waddling
- address to,
- advert to,
- aim,
- aim at,
- allude to,
- be taken as,
- bend,
- bring to attention,
- bring to notice,
- call attention to,
- cite,
- denominate,
- denote,
- deride,
- designate,
- determine,
- direct,
- direct attention to,
- direct to,
- directionize,
- emblematize,
- figure,
- finger,
- fix,
- fix on,
- focus on,
- grin at,
- hold in derision,
- hold on,
- laugh at,
- laugh to scorn,
- level at,
- make fun of,
- make game of,
- make merry with,
- mention,
- name,
- pan,
- pick out,
- pillory,
- point,
- point out,
- point to,
- poke fun at,
- present,
- put one on,
- rag,
- razz,
- refer to,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- roast,
- select,
- set,
- sight on,
- smile at,
- snicker at,
- snigger at,
- specify,
- stand for,
- stigmatize,
- symbol,
- symbolize,
- touch on,
- train,
- train upon,
- turn,
- turn upon,
- typify
- tourney
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- engage in a tourney related words >
- Highland games,
- Olympiad,
- Olympic games,
- Olympics,
- battle,
- bout,
- box,
- brawl,
- broil,
- carousel,
- clash,
- close,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- concours,
- contend,
- contest,
- cut and thrust,
- derby,
- duel,
- encounter,
- engagement,
- exchange blows,
- fence,
- feud,
- field day,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- game,
- games,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- go,
- grapple,
- grapple with,
- gymkhana,
- jostle,
- joust,
- match,
- matching,
- meet,
- meeting,
- mix it up,
- quarrel,
- rally,
- rassle,
- regatta,
- rencontre,
- riot,
- run a tilt,
- scramble,
- scuffle,
- skirmish,
- spar,
- strive,
- struggle,
- test,
- the Olympics,
- thrust and parry,
- tilt,
- tournament,
- track meet,
- trial,
- tussle,
- wage war,
- war,
- wrestle
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- aligned,
- amenable,
- apt,
- apt to,
- ardent,
- arranged,
- arrayed,
- assorted,
- bent,
- calculated to,
- categorized,
- classified,
- compliant,
- composed,
- consenting,
- constituted,
- content,
- cooperative,
- disposed to,
- dispositioned,
- docile,
- eager,
- enthusiastic,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fixed,
- forward,
- game,
- given,
- given to,
- graded,
- grouped,
- harmonized,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- inclined to,
- liable,
- liable to,
- likely,
- likely to,
- marshaled,
- methodized,
- minded,
- minded to,
- normalized,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- organized,
- placed,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- predisposed to,
- prompt,
- prone,
- prone to,
- quick,
- ranged,
- ranked,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- ready to,
- receptive,
- regularized,
- regulated,
- responsive,
- routinized,
- sorted,
- standardized,
- subject,
- synchronized,
- systematized,
- tractable,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- zealous
- lookout
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- the act of looking out
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- an elevated post affording a wide view
- a person employed to watch for something to happen related words >
- Argus,
- Cassandra,
- Charley,
- Jeremiah,
- Texas tower,
- activities,
- activity,
- admonisher,
- affair,
- affairs,
- airplane spotter,
- airscape,
- alert,
- bag,
- beacon,
- belvedere,
- bleachers,
- bridge,
- business,
- cautioner,
- cityscape,
- cloudscape,
- commerce,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conning tower,
- cupola,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- difficulty,
- eagle eye,
- employ,
- employment,
- enterprise,
- espial,
- espionage,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- flagman,
- forward observer,
- function,
- gallery,
- gazebo,
- grandstand,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- headache,
- interest,
- invigilation,
- labor,
- landscape,
- lighthouse,
- lighthouse keeper,
- looking,
- lookout man,
- loophole,
- matter,
- monitor,
- monitoring,
- night watchman,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- observation post,
- observatory,
- occupation,
- outlook,
- overlook,
- palaver,
- panorama,
- patrol,
- patroller,
- patrolman,
- peanut gallery,
- peeled eye,
- peephole,
- perspective,
- pharos,
- picket,
- problem,
- proctoring,
- prophet of doom,
- prospect,
- prudence,
- qui vive,
- regard,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- ringside,
- ringside seat,
- riverscape,
- roundsman,
- scape,
- scene,
- scenery,
- scenic view,
- scout,
- seascape,
- sentinel,
- sentry,
- service,
- sharp eye,
- sight,
- sighthole,
- signaler,
- signalman,
- skyscape,
- spotter,
- spying,
- stewardship,
- surveillance,
- sweep,
- thing,
- top gallery,
- tout,
- tower,
- townscape,
- undertaking,
- vedette,
- view,
- viewing,
- vigil,
- vigilance,
- vista,
- ward,
- wariness,
- warner,
- watch,
- watch and ward,
- watcher,
- watchful eye,
- watchfulness,
- watching,
- watchkeeper,
- watchman,
- watchtower,
- waterscape,
- weather eye,
- witnessing,
- work,
- worry
- Spartan,
- acceptance,
- accepting,
- armed with patience,
- benevolence,
- benevolent,
- charitable,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- conciliatory,
- condonation,
- disciplined,
- disregard,
- easiness,
- endurance,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- forbearance,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forgiveness,
- forgiving,
- forgivingness,
- fortitude,
- generous,
- generousness,
- humility,
- indulgence,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindness,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenient,
- lenity,
- long-sufferance,
- longanimity,
- longanimous,
- lowliness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimous,
- meekness,
- overlooking,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- placable,
- resignation,
- self-control,
- self-controlled,
- sparing,
- stoic,
- stoicism,
- subduedness,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- tolerance,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- toleration,
- tolerative,
- uncomplainingness,
- understanding,
- unresentful,
- unrevengeful,
- unrevengefulness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out
- minister
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- the job of a head of a government department
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- a person appointed to a high office in the government; "Minister of Finance"
- work as a minister; "She is ministering in an old parish"
- attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time" related words >
- DD,
- Doctor of Divinity,
- Holy Joe,
- abbe,
- accommodate,
- administer the Eucharist,
- agent,
- aid,
- alderman,
- ambassador,
- ambassadress,
- anoint,
- apostolic delegate,
- archon,
- assist,
- attache,
- bailie,
- burghermaster,
- burgomaster,
- cabinet member,
- cabinet minister,
- care for,
- career diplomat,
- chancellor,
- chaplain,
- charge,
- chrism,
- churchman,
- city councilman,
- city father,
- city manager,
- clergyman,
- clergywoman,
- cleric,
- clerical,
- clerk,
- commercial attache,
- commissar,
- commissary,
- commissionaire,
- commissioner,
- confirm,
- consul,
- consul general,
- consular agent,
- councillor,
- councilman,
- councilwoman,
- county commissioner,
- county supervisor,
- curate,
- cure,
- dean,
- delegate,
- diplomat,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatic agent,
- diplomatist,
- divine,
- do duty,
- ecclesiastic,
- elder,
- emissary,
- envoy,
- envoy extraordinary,
- evangelist,
- father,
- foreign service officer,
- headman,
- help,
- herald,
- impose,
- induna,
- internuncio,
- lay hands on,
- legate,
- legislator,
- look after,
- lord mayor,
- magistrate,
- maire,
- man of God,
- mayor,
- messenger,
- military attache,
- military chaplain,
- minister of state,
- minister plenipotentiary,
- minister resident,
- minister to,
- missionary,
- nuncio,
- officiate,
- padre,
- parson,
- pastor,
- perform a rite,
- perform service,
- plenipotentiary,
- portreeve,
- preacher,
- priest,
- rector,
- reeve,
- resident,
- reverend,
- secretary,
- secretary of legation,
- secretary of state,
- see to,
- selectman,
- servant of God,
- serve,
- shepherd,
- sky pilot,
- supervisor,
- supply,
- supply clergy,
- supply minister,
- support,
- syndic,
- the Reverend,
- the very Reverend,
- tonsured cleric,
- undersecretary,
- vicar,
- vice-consul,
- vice-legate,
- wait on,
- warden
- amusement
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- a feeling of delight at being entertained related words >
- animal pleasure,
- beguilement,
- bodily pleasure,
- carnal delight,
- comfort,
- content,
- contentment,
- coziness,
- creature comforts,
- dissipation,
- distraction,
- diversion,
- divertissement,
- ease,
- endpleasure,
- enjoyment,
- entertainment,
- euphoria,
- forepleasure,
- frivolity,
- fruition,
- fun,
- game,
- glee,
- gleefulness,
- gratification,
- great satisfaction,
- gusto,
- hearty enjoyment,
- high glee,
- hilariousness,
- hilarity,
- intellectual pleasure,
- jocularity,
- jocundity,
- joie de vivre,
- joke,
- jolliness,
- jollity,
- joviality,
- joy,
- joyfulness,
- joyousness,
- keen pleasure,
- kicks,
- lark,
- laughter,
- levity,
- luxury,
- merriment,
- merriness,
- mirth,
- mirthfulness,
- pastime,
- physical pleasure,
- pleasure,
- quiet pleasure,
- recreation,
- relaxation,
- relish,
- satisfaction,
- self-gratification,
- self-indulgence,
- sensual pleasure,
- sensuous pleasure,
- sexual pleasure,
- sport,
- sweetness of life,
- titillation,
- voluptuousness,
- well-being,
- zest
- specialization
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- the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology"
- the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" related words >
- alteration,
- analysis,
- anatomization,
- area,
- art,
- atomization,
- bag,
- business,
- calling,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- change,
- craft,
- cup of tea,
- demarcation,
- desynonymization,
- differencing,
- differentiation,
- discrimination,
- disequalization,
- disjunction,
- distinction,
- distinguishment,
- diversification,
- division,
- field,
- forte,
- game,
- handicraft,
- individualization,
- individuation,
- itemization,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- localization,
- long suit,
- main interest,
- manner,
- metier,
- mission,
- modification,
- mystery,
- number,
- occupation,
- particularization,
- peculiarization,
- personalization,
- pet subject,
- practice,
- profession,
- pursuit,
- racket,
- segregation,
- separation,
- severalization,
- severance,
- specialism,
- speciality,
- specialty,
- strong point,
- style,
- technicality,
- thing,
- trade,
- type,
- variation,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- way,
- weakness,
- work
- Loch Ness monster
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- a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland related words >
- Argus,
- Briareus,
- Cerberus,
- Charybdis,
- Cyclops,
- Echidna,
- Gorgon,
- Harpy,
- Hydra,
- Medusa,
- Minotaur,
- Pegasus,
- Python,
- Scylla,
- Sphinx,
- Talos,
- Typhon,
- alevin,
- benthon,
- benthos,
- centaur,
- cetacean,
- chimera,
- cockatrice,
- dolphin,
- dragon,
- drake,
- fingerling,
- fish,
- fry,
- game fish,
- griffin,
- grilse,
- hippocampus,
- kipper,
- man-eater,
- man-eating shark,
- marine animal,
- mermaid,
- merman,
- minnow,
- minny,
- nekton,
- nixie,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- panfish,
- plankton,
- porpoise,
- roc,
- salamander,
- salmon,
- satyr,
- sea horse,
- sea monster,
- sea pig,
- sea serpent,
- sea snake,
- shark,
- siren,
- smolt,
- sponge,
- troll,
- tropical fish,
- unicorn,
- vampire,
- werewolf,
- whale,
- windigo,
- xiphopagus,
- zombie
- owl
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- nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes related words >
- angry clouds,
- avifauna,
- baby bird,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdy,
- black cat,
- black clouds,
- broken mirror,
- cage bird,
- chick,
- cygnet,
- diving bird,
- dove,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- fish-eating bird,
- fledgling,
- flightless bird,
- fowl,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- gathering clouds,
- halcyon bird,
- insect-eating bird,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- nestling,
- oscine bird,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- perching bird,
- pigeon,
- rainbow,
- ratite,
- raven,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- shooting star,
- shore bird,
- songbird,
- squab,
- storm clouds,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- swan,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- waterfowl,
- wildfowl
- adventure,
- ante,
- ante up,
- back,
- bet,
- bet on,
- blind bargain,
- book,
- borderline case,
- call,
- chance,
- chance it,
- chunk,
- contingency,
- cover,
- double contingency,
- fade,
- gamble,
- gamble on,
- game,
- guess,
- handbook,
- hazard,
- lay,
- lay a wager,
- lay down,
- make a bet,
- meet a bet,
- open question,
- parlay,
- pass,
- piece of guesswork,
- play,
- play against,
- plunge,
- pot,
- punt,
- put on,
- question,
- rely on fortune,
- risk,
- run a chance,
- run the risk,
- see,
- set,
- set at hazard,
- shot,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- stake,
- stand pat,
- take a chance,
- take a flier,
- take chances,
- tempt fortune,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- trust to chance,
- try the chance,
- undecided issue,
- venture
- maneuver
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- an action aimed at evading an opponent
- a move made to gain a tactical end
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill; "he made a great maneuver"; "the runner was out on a play by the shortstop"
- a military training exercise
- act in order to achieve a certain goal; "He maneuvered to get the chairmanship"; "She maneuvered herself into the directorship" related words >
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- act on,
- act upon,
- acta,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- adventure,
- amphibious operations,
- angle,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bank,
- be responsible for,
- bear a hand,
- beguile,
- blind,
- blow,
- bold,
- brew,
- cabal,
- call the signals,
- captain,
- carry on,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- chicanery,
- collude,
- combined operations,
- command,
- complot,
- concoct,
- conduct,
- connive,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- contrivance,
- contrive,
- control,
- convoy,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- courageous,
- course of action,
- crab,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- dauntless,
- deal with,
- dealings,
- deceit,
- deed,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dip,
- direct,
- dispense,
- do something,
- do something about,
- dodge,
- doing,
- doings,
- drive,
- dry run,
- effort,
- endeavor,
- engineer,
- enterprise,
- execute a maneuver,
- expedient,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- fakement,
- fearless,
- feat,
- feather,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- fishtail,
- fluid operations,
- frame,
- frame up,
- gambit,
- game,
- gerrymander,
- gest,
- get with it,
- gimmick,
- go,
- govern,
- grift,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handle,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- head,
- head up,
- heave in together,
- improvisation,
- intrepid,
- intrigue,
- jig,
- job,
- jockey,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- keep in formation,
- keep pointed,
- keep station,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- lay a plot,
- lead,
- lead on,
- lift a finger,
- little game,
- logistics,
- loop,
- machinate,
- machination,
- maintain position,
- make go,
- make the rules,
- makeshift,
- manage,
- maneuvers,
- manful,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- mastermind,
- means,
- measure,
- military operations,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- move,
- movement,
- navigate,
- officer,
- operate,
- operation,
- operations,
- order,
- overseas operations,
- overt act,
- passage,
- perform on,
- performance,
- pilot,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- play,
- play games,
- plot,
- plow,
- ploy,
- ply,
- porpoise,
- practice,
- prescribe,
- procedure,
- proceed,
- proceed with,
- proceeding,
- production,
- pull out,
- pull strings,
- pull the strings,
- pull up,
- push down,
- quarterback,
- racket,
- red herring,
- regulate,
- res gestae,
- resort,
- resource,
- rig,
- roll,
- run,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- see to,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- skipper,
- sleight,
- solution,
- spin,
- spiral,
- staff work,
- steam in line,
- steer,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strike a blow,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- stunt,
- subterfuge,
- swing,
- tactic,
- take a hand,
- take action,
- take care of,
- take command,
- take measures,
- take steps,
- take the lead,
- temporary expedient,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- turn,
- unafraid,
- undaunted,
- undertaking,
- undulate,
- valiant,
- valorous,
- wangle,
- war game,
- war plans,
- wield,
- wile,
- wily device,
- work,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- works,
- yaw
- expedient
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- a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
- serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
- appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- agency,
- answer,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- behind-the-scenes influence,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- blind,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- chicanery,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- congruous,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- convenient,
- correct,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- decent,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- design,
- desirable,
- device,
- devices,
- dodge,
- effective,
- effort,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expediency,
- expedients,
- fair,
- fakement,
- famous,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- feint,
- felicitous,
- fetch,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- fructuous,
- functional,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- going between,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grift,
- happy,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hope,
- improvisation,
- influence,
- instrument,
- instrumentality,
- intermediation,
- intrigue,
- judicious,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- kind,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- laudable,
- likely,
- little game,
- lucky,
- machination,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanism,
- mediation,
- medium,
- meet,
- move,
- nice,
- noble,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- opportune,
- pertinent,
- pis aller,
- pleasant,
- plot,
- ploy,
- politic,
- political influence,
- possible,
- practicable,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- prudent,
- racket,
- recommendable,
- recommended,
- recourse,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- regal,
- resort,
- resource,
- right,
- ripe,
- royal,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- service,
- serviceable,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- skillful,
- sleight,
- solution,
- sortable,
- sound,
- splendid,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- suitable,
- tactic,
- tactical,
- tactical maneuvers,
- tactics,
- temporary expedient,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-timed,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wise,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- worthwhile
- waiting game
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- a strategy of delay related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- acceptance,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- endurance,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- fortitude,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indolence,
- indulgence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- meditation,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- perseverance,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- self-control,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- stoicism,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting it out,
- watching and waiting
- abide,
- bear up,
- beat the game,
- beat the system,
- bide,
- carry on,
- come through,
- come up fighting,
- come up smiling,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go on,
- hang in,
- hang in there,
- hang on,
- hang tough,
- hold,
- hold fast,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hold up,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through it,
- live with it,
- maintain,
- never say die,
- not give up,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persevere,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stand up,
- stay,
- stay it out,
- stay on,
- stay the distance,
- stay with it,
- stick,
- stick it,
- stick it out,
- stick out,
- stick to it,
- stick with it,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- tough it out,
- triumph,
- wear,
- wear well,
- weather out,
- weather the storm,
- win out,
- win through
- extortion
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- the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
- unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"
- an exorbitant charge related words >
- armed robbery,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- badger game,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- blackmail,
- bloodsucking,
- call,
- call for,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- claim,
- contribution,
- demand,
- demand for,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- exaction,
- exploitation,
- extortionate demand,
- heavy demand,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- holdup,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- insistent demand,
- levy,
- loan-sharking,
- mugging,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- order,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- pocket picking,
- protection racket,
- purse snatching,
- rending,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- ripping,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- rush,
- rush order,
- shakedown,
- shylocking,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- surcharge,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tearing,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- usury,
- vampirism,
- warning,
- wrench,
- wrenching,
- wrest,
- wresting,
- wring,
- wringing
- chancellor
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- the honorary or titular head of a university
- the person who is head of state (in several countries) related words >
- JA,
- academic dean,
- administration,
- administrator,
- alderman,
- ambassador,
- ambassadress,
- amicus curiae,
- apostolic delegate,
- archon,
- assessor,
- attache,
- bailie,
- barmaster,
- burghermaster,
- burgomaster,
- cabinet member,
- cabinet minister,
- career diplomat,
- charge,
- chief executive,
- chief executive officer,
- chief of state,
- circuit judge,
- city councilman,
- city father,
- city manager,
- commercial attache,
- commissar,
- commissioner,
- consul,
- consul general,
- consular agent,
- councillor,
- councilman,
- councilwoman,
- county commissioner,
- county supervisor,
- dean,
- dean of men,
- dean of women,
- dewan,
- diplomat,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatic agent,
- diplomatist,
- doge,
- elder,
- emissary,
- envoy,
- envoy extraordinary,
- executive,
- executive director,
- executive officer,
- executive secretary,
- foreign service officer,
- grand vizier,
- head of state,
- headman,
- headmaster,
- headmistress,
- induna,
- internuncio,
- judge advocate,
- judge ordinary,
- jurat,
- justice in eyre,
- justice of assize,
- lay judge,
- legal assessor,
- legate,
- legislator,
- lord mayor,
- magistrate,
- maire,
- management,
- managing director,
- master,
- mayor,
- military attache,
- military judge,
- minister,
- minister of state,
- minister plenipotentiary,
- minister resident,
- nuncio,
- officer,
- official,
- ombudsman,
- ordinary,
- plenipotentiary,
- police judge,
- portreeve,
- prefect,
- premier,
- president,
- presiding judge,
- prexy,
- prime minister,
- principal,
- probate judge,
- provost,
- puisne judge,
- recorder,
- rector,
- reeve,
- resident,
- secretary,
- secretary of legation,
- secretary of state,
- selectman,
- supervisor,
- syndic,
- the administration,
- treasurer,
- undersecretary,
- vice-chancellor,
- vice-consul,
- vice-legate,
- vice-president,
- warden
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