Related Words:
- Bow Street runner,
- FBI,
- FBI agent,
- Federal,
- MP,
- Secret Service,
- Sherlock Holmes,
- T-man,
- bailiff,
- beadle,
- beagle,
- bound bailiff,
- captain,
- catchpole,
- chief of police,
- commissioner,
- constable,
- deputy,
- deputy sheriff,
- detective,
- fed,
- federal,
- flic,
- gendarme,
- government man,
- hotel detective,
- house detective,
- house dick,
- inquiry agent,
- inspector,
- investigator,
- lictor,
- lieutenant,
- mace-bearer,
- marshal,
- mounted policeman,
- narc,
- officer,
- operative,
- patrolman,
- peace officer,
- plainclothesman,
- police captain,
- police commissioner,
- police constable,
- police detective,
- police inspector,
- police matron,
- police officer,
- police sergeant,
- policeman,
- policewoman,
- portreeve,
- private detective,
- private investigator,
- reeve,
- revenuer,
- roundsman,
- sergeant,
- sergeant at arms,
- sheriff,
- sleuth,
- store detective,
- superintendent,
- tipstaff,
- tipstaves,
- treasury agent,
- trooper
- wreck
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- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck" related words >
- accident,
- assault,
- atomize,
- attack,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automobile,
- bankrupt,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- beach,
- blight,
- bloodbath,
- blow,
- blue ruin,
- boat,
- botch,
- break to pieces,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- bring to ruin,
- brutalize,
- bugger,
- buggy,
- burn,
- bus,
- butcher,
- calamity,
- car,
- carcass,
- carnage,
- carry on,
- cast away,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- cleave,
- collapse,
- collision,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- consumption,
- contretemps,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crate,
- cripple,
- damn,
- damnation,
- de-energize,
- deal destruction,
- debacle,
- debilitate,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- demolish,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desolate,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- dilapidate,
- disable,
- disassemble,
- disaster,
- disenable,
- disintegrate,
- disintegration,
- dismantle,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- do in,
- dog,
- drain,
- enfeeble,
- engorge,
- force,
- fragment,
- go on,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- grief,
- ground,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- hammer,
- hamstring,
- havoc,
- heap,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- hors de combat,
- hulk,
- ill hap,
- impose,
- inactivate,
- incapacitate,
- incinerate,
- jalopy,
- kibosh,
- lame,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- loot,
- machine,
- maim,
- make mincemeat of,
- mar,
- maul,
- mere wreck,
- misadventure,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorcar,
- motorized vehicle,
- mug,
- nasty blow,
- nervous wreck,
- perdition,
- pick to pieces,
- pile up,
- pileup,
- pillage,
- play havoc with,
- plunder,
- pull in pieces,
- pull to pieces,
- pulverize,
- put,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rattletrap,
- ravage,
- rave,
- raze,
- reduce to rubble,
- rend,
- riot,
- roar,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- ruination,
- ruins,
- run aground,
- sabotage,
- sack,
- savage,
- shambles,
- shatter,
- shipwreck,
- shock,
- skeleton,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smashup,
- sow chaos,
- spike,
- split,
- spoil,
- spoliation,
- staggering blow,
- storm,
- strand,
- subvert,
- sunder,
- swallow up,
- take apart,
- take the ground,
- tear,
- tear apart,
- tear around,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to shreds,
- tear to tatters,
- terrorize,
- throw into disorder,
- total,
- total loss,
- tragedy,
- trash,
- tub,
- unbuild,
- undermine,
- undo,
- undoing,
- unfit,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- unmake,
- upheave,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- violate,
- visit,
- voiture,
- washout,
- waste,
- weaken,
- wheels,
- wing,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wrack up,
- wreak,
- wreak havoc
- embellished
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- rich in decorative detail
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" related words >
- adorned,
- advanced,
- affected,
- ameliorated,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- beaded,
- beautified,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- bettered,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- civilized,
- colorable,
- colored,
- converted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- developed,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- educated,
- embroidered,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fancy,
- feathered,
- feigned,
- festooned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figurative,
- figured,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garbled,
- garnished,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- improved,
- jeweled,
- junky,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- perfected,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plumed,
- polished,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- purple,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refined,
- reformed,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- spurious,
- studded,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- wreathed
- A-blast,
- A-bomb shelter,
- Cloudcuckooland,
- H-blast,
- Mach front,
- airborne radioactivity,
- alto-cumulus,
- alto-stratus,
- anvil cloud,
- atom blast,
- banner cloud,
- billowy cloud,
- blast wave,
- cap cloud,
- cirro-cumulus,
- cirro-fillum,
- cirro-nebula,
- cirro-stratus,
- cirro-velum,
- cirrus,
- cirrus cloud,
- cirrus haze,
- cirrus stripe,
- cloud,
- cloud band,
- cloud bank,
- cloud drift,
- cloud mass,
- cloud street,
- cloudland,
- cloudling,
- cloudscape,
- cocktail,
- cottony cloud,
- cumulo-cirro-stratus,
- cumulo-cirrus,
- cumulo-nimbus,
- cumulo-stratus,
- cumulus,
- cumulus cloud,
- curl cloud,
- dust cloud,
- fallout,
- fallout shelter,
- fission particles,
- flash burn,
- fleecy cloud,
- fractocumulus,
- ground zero,
- high fog,
- hydrogen blast,
- mackerel sky,
- mammatocumulus,
- nimbus,
- nimbus cloud,
- radioactive dust,
- rain cloud,
- scud,
- snail cloud,
- squall cloud,
- storm cloud,
- strato-cumulus,
- stratus,
- stratus cloud,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- water carrier,
- woolpack
- string quartet
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- an instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello related words >
- German band,
- Nachtmusik,
- Philharmonic,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- band,
- big band,
- brass,
- brass band,
- brass choir,
- brass quintet,
- brass section,
- brasses,
- callithumpian band,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- combo,
- composition,
- concert band,
- descant,
- desks,
- dixieland band,
- electronic music,
- ensemble,
- etude,
- exercise,
- gamelan orchestra,
- group,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- jazz band,
- jug band,
- military band,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- orchestra,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- ragtime band,
- ricercar,
- rock-and-roll group,
- score,
- sextet,
- skiffle band,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- steel band,
- street band,
- string band,
- string choir,
- string orchestra,
- strings,
- study,
- swing band,
- symphony,
- symphony orchestra,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- variation,
- waits,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind quartet,
- woodwinds,
- work
- abounding,
- abounding in riches,
- abundant,
- affluent,
- all-sufficing,
- ample,
- aplenty,
- big-rich,
- bottomless,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- comfortable,
- copious,
- deluxe,
- diffuse,
- disgustingly rich,
- effuse,
- epidemic,
- exhaustless,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fat,
- fertile,
- flush,
- frightfully rich,
- full,
- galore,
- generous,
- in clover,
- in funds,
- in plenty,
- in quantity,
- in the money,
- in velvet,
- independent,
- independently rich,
- independently wealthy,
- inexhaustible,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- loaded,
- luscious,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- made of money,
- many,
- maximal,
- moneyed,
- much,
- numerous,
- on Easy Street,
- on velvet,
- oofy,
- ostentatious,
- overflowing,
- palatial,
- plenitudinous,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- plenty,
- plush,
- pretentious,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prosperous,
- provided for,
- rampant,
- replete,
- rich,
- rich as Croesus,
- rife,
- riotous,
- rolling in money,
- running over,
- showy,
- sumptuous,
- superabundant,
- swank,
- teeming,
- wallowing in wealth,
- warm,
- wealthy,
- well provided for,
- well-fixed,
- well-found,
- well-furnished,
- well-heeled,
- well-off,
- well-provided,
- well-stocked,
- well-to-do,
- wholesale
- distraught
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- deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" related words >
- abashed,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- addled,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- astray,
- at sea,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- berserk,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- brainsick,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- delirious,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- feverish,
- flighty,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- guessing,
- hallucinated,
- harassed,
- hysterical,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lost,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- muddled,
- nervous,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonplussed,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off the track,
- overwrought,
- perturbed,
- psycho,
- put-out,
- queer,
- rambling,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- tormented,
- touched,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- upset,
- wandering,
- wild,
- without a clue,
- witless,
- worked up,
- wrought up
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- Flying Dutchman,
- Goliard,
- Meistersinger,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Parnassian,
- Ulysses,
- arch-poet,
- ballad maker,
- ballad singer,
- balladeer,
- balladist,
- balladmonger,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- bird of passage,
- bucoliast,
- drifter,
- elegist,
- epic poet,
- fili,
- floater,
- folk singer,
- folk-rock singer,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- gleeman,
- go-about,
- idyllist,
- imagist,
- itinerant,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- major poet,
- maker,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel,
- modernist,
- mover,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- poet,
- poet laureate,
- poetress,
- rambler,
- rhapsode,
- rhapsodist,
- rhymer,
- rhymester,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- rover,
- runabout,
- satirist,
- scop,
- serenader,
- skald,
- sonneteer,
- straggler,
- street singer,
- stroller,
- strolling minstrel,
- strolling player,
- symbolist,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- visitant,
- wait,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar
- cocktail
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- an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
- a short mixed drink related words >
- Cloudcuckooland,
- Mickey,
- Mickey Finn,
- alto-cumulus,
- alto-stratus,
- anvil cloud,
- aperitif,
- banner cloud,
- billowy cloud,
- cap cloud,
- chaser,
- cirro-cumulus,
- cirro-fillum,
- cirro-nebula,
- cirro-stratus,
- cirro-velum,
- cirrus,
- cirrus cloud,
- cirrus haze,
- cirrus stripe,
- cloud,
- cloud band,
- cloud bank,
- cloud drift,
- cloud mass,
- cloud street,
- cloudland,
- cloudling,
- cloudscape,
- cottony cloud,
- cumulo-cirro-stratus,
- cumulo-cirrus,
- cumulo-nimbus,
- cumulo-stratus,
- cumulus,
- cumulus cloud,
- curl cloud,
- doch-an-dorrach,
- drink,
- eye-opener,
- fleecy cloud,
- fractocumulus,
- high fog,
- highball,
- knockout drops,
- mackerel sky,
- mammatocumulus,
- mixed drink,
- mushroom cloud,
- nightcap,
- nimbus,
- nimbus cloud,
- parting cup,
- pousse-cafe,
- punch,
- rain cloud,
- scud,
- snail cloud,
- squall cloud,
- stirrup cup,
- storm cloud,
- strato-cumulus,
- stratus,
- stratus cloud,
- sundowner,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- water carrier,
- wee doch-an-dorrach,
- woolpack
- sidetrack
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- wander from a direct or straight course related words >
- L,
- avert,
- bear off,
- branch,
- bypath,
- byway,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- deflect,
- departure,
- deviation,
- digression,
- discursion,
- distract,
- divert,
- draw aside,
- draw off,
- ease off,
- edge off,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- episode,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- fly off,
- gee,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- gravity-operated railway,
- haw,
- head off,
- horse railway,
- jib,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- make way for,
- metro,
- monorail,
- move aside,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sheer off,
- shove aside,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy off,
- side,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidestep,
- siding,
- sidle,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switch,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn back,
- turnout,
- underground,
- veer off
- Easy Street,
- affluence,
- bed of roses,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- bulla,
- check,
- cicatrix,
- clover,
- comedo,
- comfort,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- defacement,
- defect,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- distortion,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- fault,
- felicity,
- flaw,
- fleshpots,
- freckle,
- gracious life,
- gracious living,
- happiness,
- hemangioma,
- hickey,
- keloid,
- kink,
- lap of luxury,
- lentigo,
- life of ease,
- loaves and fishes,
- luxury,
- milium,
- mole,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- pustule,
- rift,
- scab,
- scar,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- security,
- split,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- success,
- the affluent life,
- the good life,
- thriving condition,
- track,
- twist,
- upward mobility,
- velvet,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- wealth,
- welfare,
- well-being,
- welt,
- wen,
- whelk,
- whelp,
- whitehead
- funny
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- experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" related words >
- Attic,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- amusing,
- anomalous,
- antic,
- biting,
- bizarre,
- brilliant,
- clever,
- comic,
- comical,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- curious,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- dotty,
- droll,
- eccentric,
- entertaining,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- facetious,
- fantastic,
- farcical,
- fey,
- flaky,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- grotesque,
- hilarious,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- hysterical,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- incongruous,
- irregular,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- ludicrous,
- maggoty,
- merry,
- mordant,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- nimble-witted,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- out,
- outlandish,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- pointed,
- priceless,
- pungent,
- puzzling,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quick-witted,
- quirky,
- quizzical,
- rapier-like,
- remarkable,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- salt,
- salty,
- scintillating,
- screaming,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- sharp,
- singular,
- slapstick,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- strange,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unnatural,
- unusual,
- uproarious,
- wacky,
- waggish,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- wondrous strange,
- zany
- Bowery,
- Chinatown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- West End,
- West Side,
- art center,
- auto show,
- barrio,
- bazaar,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- boat show,
- business district,
- capital,
- central city,
- city center,
- commercial complex,
- core,
- downtown,
- emporium,
- exposition,
- fair,
- flea fair,
- flea market,
- garment center,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- inner city,
- manufacturing center,
- market,
- market overt,
- marketplace,
- mart,
- medical center,
- metropolis,
- midtown,
- open market,
- outskirts,
- plaza,
- railroad center,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- rialto,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shipping center,
- shopping mall,
- shopping plaza,
- show,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slum,
- slums,
- staple,
- street market,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement district,
- tourist center,
- trade center,
- trade fair,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- urban center
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- balmy,
- bananas,
- barmy,
- bats,
- batty,
- beany,
- besotted,
- bespangled,
- blotched,
- blotchy,
- bonkers,
- buggy,
- bughouse,
- bugs,
- crackers,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crotchety,
- cuckoo,
- daffy,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- dippy,
- divergent,
- dotted,
- eccentric,
- enamored,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- fantastic,
- fey,
- flaky,
- flea-bitten,
- flecked,
- fleckered,
- flipped,
- freaked-out,
- freakish,
- frecked,
- freckled,
- freckly,
- fruitcakey,
- fruity,
- funny,
- gaga,
- goofy,
- haywire,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- infatuate,
- insane,
- irregular,
- just plain nuts,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loony,
- loopy,
- macular,
- maculate,
- maculated,
- maggoty,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off the hinges,
- off the track,
- off the wall,
- patchy,
- peculiar,
- peppered,
- pocked,
- pockmarked,
- pocky,
- pointille,
- pointillistic,
- polka-dot,
- potty,
- preposterous,
- punctated,
- queer,
- quirky,
- round the bend,
- screwball,
- screwballs,
- screwy,
- singular,
- slaphappy,
- spangled,
- specked,
- speckled,
- speckledy,
- speckly,
- splotched,
- splotchy,
- spotted,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stippled,
- strange,
- studded,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unnatural,
- wacky,
- whimsical
- metro
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- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'" related words >
- Amtrak,
- L,
- baggage train,
- branch,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- choo-choo,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric,
- electric railway,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- express,
- express train,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- flier,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- goods train,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- interurban,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- line,
- local,
- main line,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railroad train,
- railway,
- rattler,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rolling stock,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- special,
- streamliner,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- train,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground,
- way train
- Amtrak,
- L,
- baggage train,
- branch,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- choo-choo,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- electric,
- electric railway,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- express,
- express train,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- flier,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- goods train,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- interurban,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- line,
- local,
- main line,
- metro,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railroad train,
- railway,
- rattler,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rolling stock,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- special,
- streamliner,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- train,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground,
- way train
- monorail
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- a railway having a single track related words >
- Amtrak,
- L,
- baggage train,
- branch,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- choo-choo,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric,
- electric railway,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- express,
- express train,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- flier,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- goods train,
- gravity-operated railway,
- horse railway,
- interurban,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- line,
- local,
- main line,
- metro,
- milk train,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railroad train,
- railway,
- rattler,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rolling stock,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- special,
- streamliner,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- train,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turnout,
- underground,
- way train
- Don Quixote,
- Meistersinger,
- Parnassian,
- Quixote,
- addict,
- arch-poet,
- ballad maker,
- ballad singer,
- balladeer,
- balladmonger,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- bucoliast,
- bug,
- collector,
- daydreamer,
- demon,
- dreamer,
- dreamer of dreams,
- eager beaver,
- elegist,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- epic poet,
- escapist,
- faddist,
- fanatic,
- fiend,
- fili,
- folk singer,
- folk-rock singer,
- freak,
- gleeman,
- great one for,
- hobbyist,
- hound,
- idealist,
- idyllist,
- imagist,
- infatuate,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- lotus-eater,
- major poet,
- maker,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel,
- modernist,
- nut,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- poet,
- poet laureate,
- poetress,
- prophet,
- pursuer,
- rhapsode,
- romancer,
- romantic,
- romanticist,
- satirist,
- scop,
- seer,
- serenader,
- skald,
- sonneteer,
- street singer,
- strolling minstrel,
- sucker for,
- symbolist,
- troubadour,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- utopian,
- utopianist,
- utopianizer,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- visionary,
- wait,
- wandering minstrel,
- wishful thinker,
- zealot
- ticker tape
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- a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written related words >
- American Stock Exchange,
- Amex,
- Mystik tape,
- Scotch tape,
- Wall Street,
- adhesive tape,
- band,
- bandage,
- batten,
- belt,
- board,
- bourse,
- bulletin board,
- card,
- catalog card,
- cellophane tape,
- cloth tape,
- commodity exchange,
- corn pit,
- curb,
- curb exchange,
- curb market,
- disc,
- exchange,
- exchange floor,
- fascia,
- file,
- filing card,
- fillet,
- film,
- friction tape,
- girdle,
- index card,
- lath,
- library catalog,
- ligula,
- ligule,
- list,
- magnetic tape,
- masking tape,
- microcard,
- microdot,
- microfiche,
- microfilm,
- motion-picture film,
- outside market,
- over-the-counter market,
- phonograph record,
- pit,
- plank,
- plastic tape,
- platter,
- quotation board,
- ribband,
- ribbon,
- scoreboard,
- scorecard,
- scoresheet,
- shred,
- slat,
- slip,
- spill,
- spline,
- stock exchange,
- stock market,
- stock ticker,
- strake,
- strap,
- strip,
- strop,
- taenia,
- tape,
- tape measure,
- tapeline,
- telephone market,
- the Big Board,
- the Exchange,
- third market,
- ticker,
- videotape,
- wheat pit
- dike
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- enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" related words >
- Autobahn,
- US highway,
- abatis,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- advanced work,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- aqueduct,
- arch dam,
- arroyo,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- artificial lake,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- backstop,
- balistraria,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- banquette,
- bar,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barrage,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bayou lake,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- belt highway,
- blind alley,
- boom,
- bore,
- boulevard,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- burrow,
- bypass,
- byway,
- camino real,
- canal,
- canalization,
- canalize,
- canyon,
- carriageway,
- carve,
- casemate,
- causeway,
- causey,
- cavity,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chap,
- chasm,
- chaussee,
- check,
- cheval-de-frise,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chisel,
- chute,
- circumferential,
- circumvallation,
- cistern,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- close,
- clough,
- cofferdam,
- col,
- contravallation,
- corduroy road,
- corrugate,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- counterscarp,
- country rock,
- county road,
- court,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crescent,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crimp,
- cul-de-sac,
- curtain,
- cut,
- cwm,
- dado,
- dam,
- dead water,
- dead-end street,
- defense,
- defile,
- dell,
- delve,
- demibastion,
- deposit,
- dig,
- dig out,
- dirt road,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawbridge,
- dredge,
- drill,
- drive,
- driveway,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- enclosure,
- engrave,
- entanglement,
- entrenchment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- etang,
- excavate,
- excavation,
- expressway,
- farm pond,
- fault,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fishpond,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- flute,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fosse,
- fracture,
- freeway,
- freshwater lake,
- furrow,
- gangue,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gate,
- glacial lake,
- glacis,
- goffer,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- gravel road,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- groove,
- grub,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gutter,
- ha-ha,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- hole,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- incise,
- incision,
- inland sea,
- interstate highway,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- joint,
- kennel,
- kloof,
- lagoon,
- laguna,
- lake,
- lakelet,
- landlocked water,
- lane,
- leak,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- linn,
- local road,
- loch,
- lode,
- lodestuff,
- logjam,
- loophole,
- lough,
- lower,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- main drag,
- main road,
- mantelet,
- matrix,
- mere,
- merlon,
- mews,
- milldam,
- millpond,
- millpool,
- mine,
- mineral deposit,
- moat,
- mole,
- motorway,
- mound,
- notch,
- nullah,
- nyanza,
- opening,
- ore bed,
- outwork,
- oxbow lake,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- parkway,
- pass,
- passage,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pay dirt,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- plash,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pond,
- pondlet,
- pool,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- puddle,
- quarry,
- rabbet,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- ravine,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- rent,
- reservoir,
- rifle,
- rift,
- right-of-way,
- rime,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadblock,
- roadway,
- rock-fill dam,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- rupture,
- rut,
- salina,
- sally port,
- salt pond,
- sap,
- scarp,
- scissure,
- sconce,
- scoop,
- scoop out,
- score,
- scrabble,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- seam,
- seawall,
- secondary road,
- shoot,
- shovel,
- shutter dam,
- sink,
- slit,
- slot,
- spade,
- speedway,
- split,
- stagnant water,
- standing water,
- state highway,
- still water,
- stock,
- stockade,
- stone wall,
- streak,
- street,
- striate,
- sump,
- sunk fence,
- superhighway,
- tank,
- tarn,
- tenaille,
- terrace,
- thoroughfare,
- through street,
- thruway,
- tidal pond,
- toll road,
- township road,
- trench,
- trough,
- tunnel,
- turnpike,
- vallation,
- valley,
- vallum,
- vein,
- void,
- volcanic lake,
- wadi,
- wall,
- water hole,
- water pocket,
- weir,
- well,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- wrinkle,
- wynd
- boy
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- (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man; "get out of my way, boy"
- a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys" related words >
- American Indian,
- Amerind,
- Australian aborigine,
- Bushman,
- Caucasian,
- Indian,
- Malayan,
- Mister Charley,
- Mongolian,
- Negrillo,
- Negrito,
- Negro,
- Oriental,
- Red Indian,
- WASP,
- black,
- black man,
- blackfellow,
- bloke,
- brown man,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- bud,
- buddy,
- burrhead,
- chauffeur,
- coachman,
- colored person,
- colt,
- coon,
- cub,
- darky,
- driver,
- equerry,
- fellow,
- fledgling,
- gamin,
- gardener,
- gee,
- gent,
- gentleman,
- gillie,
- goody,
- gook,
- guy,
- he,
- hobbledehoy,
- honky,
- houseboy,
- houseman,
- jigaboo,
- jungle bunny,
- lad,
- laddie,
- lord-in-waiting,
- man,
- manchild,
- manservant,
- master,
- muchacho,
- nigger,
- niggra,
- ofay,
- paleface,
- pup,
- puppy,
- pygmy,
- ragamuffin,
- red man,
- redskin,
- schoolboy,
- slant-eye,
- small fry,
- son,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- spade,
- street arab,
- stripling,
- tad,
- the Man,
- urchin,
- valet,
- valet de chambre,
- whelp,
- whippersnapper,
- white,
- white man,
- whitey,
- yellow man,
- young man,
- youth
- curious
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- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
- deadlock
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- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" related words >
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
- arrest,
- bell,
- blind alley,
- block,
- box,
- brake,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- cessation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- condition,
- corner,
- cul-de-sac,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- dam,
- dead end,
- dead heat,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- dead-end street,
- dilemma,
- draw,
- draw rein,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- even break,
- extremity,
- fair shake,
- final whistle,
- freeze,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hole,
- impasse,
- knotted score,
- lock,
- lockout,
- neck-and-neck race,
- photo finish,
- plight,
- posture,
- predicament,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- quandary,
- sit-down strike,
- situation,
- slow down,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- stand-off,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- state,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- stymie,
- subsidence,
- the same,
- tie,
- walkout,
- wane,
- waning,
- work stoppage
- anarchy,
- ball up,
- bitch,
- bitch up,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blow,
- bobble,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- bonehead into it,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob stunt,
- boot,
- bugger,
- bugger up,
- butterfingers,
- chaos,
- clumsy,
- complicate,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- cook,
- crab,
- cramp,
- crimp,
- drop a brick,
- drop the ball,
- dub,
- duff,
- duffer,
- dumb trick,
- embrangle,
- entangle,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- flub,
- fluff,
- fool mistake,
- foozle,
- foozler,
- fumble,
- fumble-fist,
- garble,
- goof,
- goof up,
- goofball,
- goofer,
- gum,
- gum up,
- hash up,
- hassle,
- hick,
- howler,
- implicate,
- involve,
- jumble,
- knot,
- license,
- louse up,
- louse-up,
- lummox,
- lump,
- mess up,
- misrule,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- morass,
- muck up,
- muck-up,
- muddle,
- muff,
- muffer,
- perplex,
- pi,
- play hell with,
- play hob with,
- pratfall,
- pull a boner,
- queer,
- ramify,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- rube,
- scramble,
- screamer,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- shuffle,
- sink,
- slob,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- stumblebum,
- stumblebunny,
- tangle,
- tumble
- thwart
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- a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- annul,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat,
- bench,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bilk,
- blast,
- block,
- brace,
- brave,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- cast down,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- come to nothing,
- confound,
- confront,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- curb,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- diagonal,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foul up,
- frustrate,
- gum up,
- hinder,
- impede,
- invalidate,
- kittycorner,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nonplus,
- nullify,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- obstruct,
- offset,
- oppose,
- overthwart,
- perplex,
- queer,
- restrain,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- short-circuit,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stultify,
- stump,
- style,
- stymie,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- undo,
- upset,
- vitiate,
- void
- journalism
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- the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
- newspapers and magazines collectively related words >
- AP,
- Associated Press,
- Fleet Street,
- Reuters,
- UPI,
- United Press International,
- advice,
- artistry,
- authorcraft,
- authorship,
- automatic writing,
- book publishing,
- broadcast journalism,
- cacoethes scribendi,
- communications,
- communications industry,
- composition,
- creative writing,
- drama-writing,
- editorial-writing,
- essay-writing,
- expository writing,
- facility in writing,
- feature-writing,
- fourth estate,
- graphomania,
- graphorrhea,
- graphospasm,
- inditement,
- information,
- intelligence,
- libretto-writing,
- literary artistry,
- literary composition,
- literary power,
- literary production,
- literary talent,
- magazine publishing,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- novel-writing,
- pen,
- pencraft,
- playwriting,
- press association,
- print medium,
- public press,
- public print,
- publishing,
- publishing industry,
- radio,
- ready pen,
- reportage,
- rewriting,
- short-story writing,
- skill with words,
- technical writing,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- verse-writing,
- wire service,
- word,
- writing
- illegitimate
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- contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful related words >
- actionable,
- affected,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bantling,
- bar sinister,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bastard child,
- bastardy,
- black-market,
- bogus,
- bootleg,
- brummagem,
- by-blow,
- chargeable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- criminal,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- felonious,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegal,
- illegitimacy,
- illegitimate child,
- illicit,
- imitation,
- impermissible,
- improper,
- incorrect,
- invalid,
- irregular,
- junky,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- love child,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- misbegotten,
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- mock,
- natural,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
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- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- punishable,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- triable,
- twisted,
- unallowed,
- unauthentic,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- ungenuine,
- unlawful,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unreal,
- unstatutory,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrongful
- tin
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- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- aureate,
- bag,
- barrel,
- basket,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bottle,
- box,
- box up,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- brummagem,
- can,
- capsule,
- carton,
- case,
- cask,
- colorable,
- colored,
- copper,
- coppery,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crate,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- distorted,
- do up,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encase,
- encyst,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- hamper,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- iron,
- ironlike,
- jar,
- junky,
- lead,
- leaden,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- mock,
- nickel,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- pack,
- package,
- parcel,
- perverted,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pot,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put up,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- sack,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- silver,
- silver-plated,
- silvery,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- steel,
- steely,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tank,
- tinny,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
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