Related Words:
- dead reckoning
collapse - navigation without the aid of celestial observations related words >
- aspect,
- astronavigation,
- attitude,
- azimuth,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- celestial navigation,
- chronometer,
- coastwise navigation,
- consolan,
- exposure,
- fix,
- frontage,
- lay,
- lie,
- line of position,
- loran,
- orientation,
- pilotage,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- position,
- position line,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio bearing,
- radio navigation,
- set,
- sextant,
- shoran,
- sofar,
- sonar,
- tables
- inquiry
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- a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
- a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" related words >
- amassing evidence,
- assize,
- audit,
- bone of contention,
- canvass,
- catechism,
- catechizing,
- change of venue,
- check,
- close inquiry,
- consumer research,
- consumer-preference survey,
- court-martial,
- cross-examination,
- cross-interrogatory,
- cross-question,
- debating point,
- delving,
- demand,
- department of investigation,
- detection,
- detective work,
- enquiry,
- examination,
- exhaustive study,
- exploration,
- feeler,
- hearing,
- indagation,
- inquest,
- inquirendo,
- inquisition,
- inspection,
- interrogation,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- investigation,
- investigative bureau,
- issue,
- jury trial,
- leader,
- leading question,
- legislative investigation,
- legwork,
- mistrial,
- moot point,
- opinion poll,
- perscrutation,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- poll,
- probe,
- probing,
- problem,
- public-opinion poll,
- query,
- querying,
- quest,
- question,
- question at issue,
- question mark,
- questionary,
- questioning,
- questionnaire,
- quodlibet,
- research,
- scrutiny,
- search,
- sifting,
- sleuthing,
- study,
- survey,
- topic,
- trial,
- trial balloon,
- trial by jury,
- vexed question,
- witch-hunt
- Spartan,
- a propos,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- ad rem,
- adapted,
- admissible,
- aposiopestic,
- appertaining,
- applicable,
- applying,
- apposite,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- apt,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- belonging,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- dovetailing,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitting,
- geared,
- germane,
- gnomic,
- happy,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- in point,
- involving,
- just right,
- laconic,
- likely,
- material,
- matter-of-factly,
- meshing,
- naturally,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- pat,
- pertaining,
- pertinent,
- pithy,
- plainly,
- point-blank,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- qualified,
- relevant,
- reserved,
- right,
- seasonable,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simply,
- sortable,
- succinct,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tailored,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the purpose,
- truncated,
- unaffectedly
- ask,
- ask a question,
- ask about,
- ask questions,
- awake a doubt,
- be curious,
- be diffident,
- be doubtful,
- be dubious,
- be skeptical,
- be uncertain,
- bone of contention,
- bring into question,
- burn with curiosity,
- call in question,
- catechism,
- catechize,
- challenge,
- concern,
- contest,
- cross-interrogatory,
- cross-question,
- debating point,
- demand,
- dig around for,
- dig up,
- dispute,
- distrust,
- doubt,
- dubiety,
- enquiry,
- examine,
- feeler,
- gape,
- gawk,
- greet with skepticism,
- half believe,
- harbor suspicions,
- have reservations,
- inquire,
- inquire of,
- inquiry,
- interpellate,
- interrogate,
- interrogation,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- interview,
- issue,
- leader,
- leading question,
- make inquiry,
- misgive,
- mistrust,
- moot point,
- nose around for,
- nose out,
- peer,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- problem,
- propose a question,
- propound a question,
- pump,
- put queries,
- question,
- question at issue,
- question mark,
- questioning,
- quiz,
- quodlibet,
- raise a question,
- require an answer,
- reservation,
- rubber,
- rubberneck,
- scepticism,
- scruple,
- seek,
- skepticism,
- smell a rat,
- stare,
- suspect,
- suspicion,
- test,
- throw doubt upon,
- topic,
- treat with reserve,
- trial balloon,
- uncertainty,
- vexed question,
- want to know,
- worm out of
- Anschauung,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- base,
- basis,
- coign of vantage,
- direction,
- distance,
- eye,
- footing,
- frame of reference,
- framework,
- ground,
- light,
- mental outlook,
- outlook,
- perspective,
- place,
- point of view,
- position,
- post,
- reference system,
- regard,
- respect,
- seat,
- side,
- sight,
- situation,
- slant,
- stand,
- standing,
- station,
- status,
- system,
- universe,
- vantage,
- vantage point,
- venue,
- view,
- viewpoint
- after a time,
- after a while,
- aftertime,
- afterward,
- afterwards,
- afteryears,
- anon,
- before long,
- by and by,
- by destiny,
- by-and-by,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- determinism,
- distant future,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- fatally,
- foresight,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- hereafter,
- hopefully,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- imminently,
- in aftertime,
- in the future,
- later,
- near future,
- offing,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- predictably,
- prediction,
- probability,
- probably,
- project,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- proximo,
- soon,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow
- extended
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- beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
- fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand" related words >
- accelerated,
- aggrandized,
- allegorical,
- ample,
- ampliate,
- amplified,
- amplitudinous,
- associational,
- augmented,
- beefed-up,
- bloated,
- boosted,
- broad,
- broadened,
- built-up,
- capacious,
- commodious,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- crescendoed,
- de longue haleine,
- deep,
- deepened,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elevated,
- elongate,
- elongated,
- endless,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- expanded,
- expansive,
- expressive,
- extending,
- extensional,
- extensive,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- figurative,
- filled out,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- heightened,
- hiked,
- increased,
- indicative,
- infinite,
- inflated,
- intelligible,
- intensified,
- intensional,
- interminable,
- interpretable,
- jazzed up,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- magnified,
- marathon,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- multiplied,
- overlong,
- padded,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- proliferated,
- prolix,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- raised,
- readable,
- referential,
- reinforced,
- roomy,
- scopic,
- sententious,
- significant,
- significative,
- spacious,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- stiffened,
- straggling,
- strained,
- strengthened,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- swollen,
- symbolic,
- talkative,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- tightened,
- transferred,
- unrelenting,
- upped,
- vast,
- verbose,
- voluminous,
- wide,
- widened,
- widespread,
- windy,
- wordy
- magnet
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- (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field related words >
- ambition,
- artificial magnet,
- bar magnet,
- catch,
- center of attraction,
- center of consciousness,
- center of interest,
- cynosure,
- dearest wish,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- desire,
- electromagnetic lifting magnet,
- field magnet,
- focal point,
- focus,
- focus of attention,
- forbidden fruit,
- glimmering goal,
- golden vision,
- hope,
- horseshoe magnet,
- lodestar,
- lodestone,
- magnetic needle,
- magnetite,
- paramagnet,
- plum,
- point of convergence,
- polestar,
- prime focus,
- prize,
- solenoid,
- temptation,
- trophy,
- wish
- A,
- alpha,
- base,
- basis,
- beginning,
- blast-off,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- circumscription,
- commencement,
- compass,
- confine,
- creation,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- cutting edge,
- dawn,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- edge,
- end,
- establishment,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- flying start,
- foundation,
- fresh start,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- institution,
- interface,
- jump-off,
- kick-off,
- leading edge,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- line of departure,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- new departure,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outset,
- point of departure,
- port of embarkation,
- running start,
- send-off,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- square one,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting gate,
- starting line,
- starting place,
- starting post,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit
- addicted,
- addicted to,
- asleep,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cold,
- comatose,
- dead,
- dependent,
- dependent on,
- doped,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drugged,
- elongated,
- extended,
- habituated,
- habitue,
- half-conscious,
- hooked,
- hooked on,
- in a rut,
- lengthened,
- narcotized,
- never free from,
- nirvanic,
- oblivious,
- out,
- out cold,
- out of it,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- semiconscious,
- senseless,
- spaced out,
- spun out,
- stoned,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- unconscious,
- used to,
- zonked,
- zonked out
- apropos
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- of an appropriate or pertinent nature
- by the way; "apropos, can you lend me some money for the weekend?" related words >
- a propos,
- about,
- ad rem,
- adapted,
- admissible,
- against,
- anent,
- appertaining,
- applicable,
- applying,
- apposite,
- appropriate,
- apropos of,
- apt,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- belonging,
- by the by,
- by the way,
- concerning,
- dovetailing,
- en passant,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitting,
- for example,
- geared,
- germane,
- happy,
- in passing,
- in point,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in respect to,
- incidentally,
- involving,
- just right,
- likely,
- material,
- meet,
- meshing,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- par exemple,
- parenthetically,
- pat,
- pertaining,
- pertinent,
- proper,
- qualified,
- re,
- regarding,
- relevant,
- respecting,
- right,
- seasonable,
- sortable,
- speaking of,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- tailored,
- to the point,
- to the purpose,
- touching,
- toward,
- with respect to
- absolutely,
- dead,
- definitely,
- directly,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- flush,
- full,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- just,
- kerplunk,
- literally,
- literatim,
- matter-of-factly,
- naturally,
- plainly,
- plop,
- plumb,
- plump,
- plunk,
- positively,
- precisely,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- simply,
- smack,
- smack-dab,
- spang,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
- to the letter,
- to the point,
- unaffectedly,
- undeviatingly,
- unerringly,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- word by word,
- word for word
- punctuation
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- the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
- the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
- something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions related words >
- alphabet,
- ampersand,
- angle brackets,
- apostrophe,
- braces,
- colon,
- comma,
- dash,
- decimal point,
- diacritical mark,
- diagonal,
- dot,
- ellipsis,
- end stop,
- exclamation mark,
- full stop,
- hyphen,
- letter,
- parens,
- parentheses,
- period,
- point,
- punctuation marks,
- question mark,
- quotation marks,
- quotes,
- reference,
- reference mark,
- semicolon,
- single quotes,
- solidus,
- stop,
- tittle,
- virgule,
- writing system,
- written character
- affectibility,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- impressibility,
- impressionability,
- interface,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- openness to sensation,
- perceptibility,
- physical sensibility,
- readiness of feeling,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- sensation level,
- sensibility,
- sensibleness,
- sentience,
- sentiency,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- susceptibility,
- susceptivity,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- threshold of sensation,
- time allotment,
- upper limit
- essential
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- basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
- absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil" related words >
- ab ovo,
- austere,
- axiom,
- bare,
- bare necessities,
- basal,
- basic,
- basilar,
- bedrock,
- bench mark,
- brass tacks,
- call for,
- called for,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- cardinal point,
- center,
- central,
- chaste,
- chief,
- chief thing,
- climax,
- condition,
- congenital,
- connate,
- constituent,
- constitutional,
- constitutive,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- crisis,
- critical point,
- crux,
- deep-seated,
- demand,
- demand for,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- element,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- elixir,
- essence,
- essential facts,
- essential matter,
- essentials,
- flower,
- focal,
- focus,
- foremost,
- fundamental,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- great point,
- gut,
- heart,
- high point,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- hypostasis,
- imperative,
- important,
- important thing,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- indicated,
- indispensable,
- indivisible,
- innate,
- inner essence,
- intrinsic,
- irreducible,
- irreductible,
- irreplaceable,
- issue,
- kernel,
- key,
- keystone,
- landmark,
- leading,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- main,
- main point,
- main thing,
- marrow,
- material,
- material point,
- meat,
- mere,
- milestone,
- monolithic,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitous,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- needed,
- needful,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- occasion,
- of a piece,
- of the essence,
- of vital importance,
- original,
- part and parcel,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plain,
- postulate,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primitive,
- principal,
- principle,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- quintessential,
- radical,
- real issue,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- right-hand,
- rudiment,
- rudimentary,
- salient point,
- sap,
- severe,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sine qua non,
- single,
- soul,
- spare,
- spirit,
- stark,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- substantive point,
- the bottom line,
- the data,
- the details,
- the dope,
- the facts,
- the information,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the particulars,
- the picture,
- the point,
- the scoop,
- the score,
- the specifics,
- the whole story,
- turning point,
- unadorned,
- uncluttered,
- underlying,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unforgoable,
- uniform,
- vital,
- want,
- wanted
- zenith
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- the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected related words >
- Olympian heights,
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- apex,
- apogee,
- authority,
- authorization,
- be-all and end-all,
- blue ribbon,
- brow,
- cap,
- capstone,
- championship,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- command,
- control,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- directorship,
- dizzy heights,
- dominion,
- edge,
- effectiveness,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- ether,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- first place,
- first prize,
- headship,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- hegemony,
- height,
- heights,
- high noon,
- high point,
- highest,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- imperium,
- influence,
- jurisdiction,
- kingship,
- leadership,
- lift,
- limit,
- lordship,
- management,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- most,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- new high,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- palms,
- paramountcy,
- peak,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- power,
- presidency,
- primacy,
- raise,
- record,
- ridge,
- rise,
- rising ground,
- rule,
- say,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- sovereignty,
- spire,
- steep,
- stratosphere,
- summit,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top spot,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- uprise,
- utmost,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vertex,
- very top
- deadline
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- the point in time at which something must be completed related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- flex
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- the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"
- cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
- bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
- contract; "flex a muscle"
- exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility" related words >
- S-curve,
- arch,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bending,
- bow,
- bowing,
- cable,
- conflexure,
- contract,
- cord,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- deflection,
- dome,
- embow,
- exercise,
- extension,
- flection,
- flexure,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- give,
- hairpin turn,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- inflect,
- inflection,
- lead,
- loop,
- meander,
- oxbow,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- reflex,
- retroflex,
- round,
- sag,
- stretch,
- swag,
- sweep,
- tense,
- tighten,
- turn,
- turning,
- vault,
- wind,
- wire
- crystal ball
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- a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers related words >
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- astrology,
- augury,
- by-and-by,
- clairvoyance,
- course ahead,
- crystal gazing,
- determinism,
- distant future,
- divination,
- divining,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- foresight,
- fortunetelling,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- haruspication,
- haruspicy,
- hereafter,
- horoscopy,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- mantic,
- mantology,
- near future,
- offing,
- outlook,
- palm-reading,
- palmistry,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- probability,
- project,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- pythonism,
- sorcery,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow
- vantage
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- place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) related words >
- advantage,
- allowance,
- ambit,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- bailiwick,
- bulge,
- coign of vantage,
- constituency,
- deadwood,
- draw,
- drop,
- edge,
- flying start,
- footing,
- handicap,
- head start,
- inside track,
- jump,
- mental outlook,
- odds,
- orbit,
- outlook,
- point of view,
- running start,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- sphere of influence,
- stamping ground,
- standpoint,
- start,
- territory,
- turf,
- upper hand,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- viewpoint,
- whip hand
- vulnerability
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- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" related words >
- ad lib,
- assailability,
- breakability,
- breakableness,
- brittleness,
- chink,
- crackability,
- crackableness,
- crispness,
- crumbliness,
- crushability,
- crushableness,
- delicacy,
- disqualification,
- exposure,
- extemporaneousness,
- fissility,
- flimsiness,
- fracturableness,
- fragility,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- friability,
- heel of Achilles,
- improvisation,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- lacerability,
- lack of preparation,
- liability,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- openness,
- penetrability,
- planlessness,
- pregnability,
- soft spot,
- susceptibility,
- susceptivity,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unpreparedness,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vincibility,
- vulnerable point,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness
- de longue haleine,
- dragged out,
- dragging,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- endless,
- everlasting,
- extended,
- filled out,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- longsome,
- marathon,
- never-ending,
- overlong,
- padded,
- prolix,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- talkative,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- unrelenting,
- verbose,
- windy,
- wordy
- lengthen
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- become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen"
- make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please" related words >
- add to,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- augment,
- boost,
- broaden,
- build,
- build up,
- continue,
- dawdle,
- drag out,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dwell on,
- elongate,
- enlarge,
- exalt,
- expand,
- extend,
- fatten,
- fill out,
- hike,
- hike up,
- hold,
- increase,
- inflate,
- jack up,
- jump up,
- keep,
- keep alive,
- keep going,
- keep up,
- lengthen out,
- let out,
- linger on,
- maintain,
- maximize,
- parlay,
- perpetuate,
- preserve,
- procrastinate,
- produce,
- prolong,
- prolongate,
- protract,
- pull,
- put up,
- pyramid,
- raise,
- retain,
- spin out,
- strain,
- stretch,
- stretch out,
- string out,
- sustain,
- tauten,
- temporize,
- tense,
- thicken,
- tighten,
- up
- gravitate
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- move due to the pull of gravitation; "The stars gravitate towards each other"
- be attracted to; "Boys gravitate towards girls at that age"
- move toward; "The conversation gravitated towards politics" related words >
- bend to,
- bias,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- collapse,
- come down,
- conduce,
- contribute,
- crash,
- descend,
- dip down,
- dispose,
- down,
- drop,
- drop down,
- drop off,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall off,
- go,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- have a tendency,
- head,
- incline,
- lead,
- lean,
- look to,
- lose altitude,
- parachute,
- pitch,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- point,
- point to,
- pounce,
- pour down,
- precipitate,
- rain,
- redound to,
- serve,
- set,
- set toward,
- settle,
- show a tendency,
- sink,
- stoop,
- subside,
- swoop,
- tend,
- tend to go,
- trend,
- trend downward,
- turn,
- verge,
- warp,
- work toward
- perfect
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- precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
- make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" related words >
- KO,
- OK,
- absolute,
- accomplish,
- accomplished,
- accurate,
- achieve,
- adept,
- admitting no exception,
- adroit,
- all right,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- ameliorate,
- aorist,
- appropriate,
- apt,
- arrant,
- authentic,
- beautify,
- best,
- better,
- beyond all praise,
- blameless,
- born,
- broad-based,
- button up,
- call off,
- cancel,
- cap,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- carry to completion,
- categorical,
- chaste,
- classical,
- clean,
- clean up,
- clear,
- climax,
- close out,
- close up,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- conclude,
- conclusive,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- correct,
- crass,
- crown,
- culminate,
- cultivate,
- dead right,
- decided,
- decisive,
- deep-dyed,
- defectless,
- definite,
- definitive,
- deft,
- delete,
- determinate,
- develop,
- dispose of,
- do to perfection,
- downright,
- drop the curtain,
- durative,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- effect,
- egregious,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- emend,
- end,
- end off,
- entire,
- evolve,
- exact,
- exceed,
- excel,
- excellent,
- execute,
- exhaustive,
- experienced,
- expert,
- explicit,
- express,
- expunge,
- exquisite,
- extinguish,
- faultless,
- final,
- finalize,
- finish,
- finish off,
- finish up,
- finished,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fixed,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- flawless,
- fold up,
- fulfilled,
- full,
- fully realized,
- future,
- future perfect,
- get done,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get through,
- get through with,
- gifted,
- give the quietus,
- glaring,
- global,
- go one better,
- gross,
- historical present,
- holy,
- ideal,
- illimitable,
- immaculate,
- impeccable,
- imperfect,
- implicit,
- improve,
- improve on,
- inappealable,
- incomparable,
- indefectible,
- indefective,
- indisputable,
- infallible,
- inimitable,
- intact,
- integral,
- intensive,
- intolerable,
- irreproachable,
- just,
- just right,
- kayo,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- knock out,
- letter-perfect,
- lifelike,
- limitless,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- matchless,
- mature,
- mere,
- meticulous,
- model,
- mop up,
- needed,
- no strings,
- nonpareil,
- okay,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- open,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overpass,
- overtop,
- past,
- past perfect,
- peerless,
- peremptory,
- perfected,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plenary,
- plumb,
- pluperfect,
- point tense,
- polish,
- polish off,
- polished,
- positive,
- precious,
- precise,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- present,
- present perfect,
- preterit,
- prevail,
- professional,
- proficient,
- profound,
- progressive tense,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- pure,
- put paid to,
- put right,
- radical,
- rank,
- realize,
- rectify,
- refine,
- regular,
- reliable,
- required,
- requisite,
- right,
- righteous,
- ripen,
- round,
- round out,
- scrag,
- season,
- set right,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- shoot down,
- simple,
- sinless,
- skilled,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smooth,
- sound,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straight-up-and-down,
- sublime,
- suitable,
- superb,
- superlative,
- supreme,
- surpass,
- surpassing,
- sweeping,
- taintless,
- talented,
- tense,
- terminate,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- top,
- top off,
- top out,
- total,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- true,
- trump,
- ubiquitous,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unbearable,
- unblemished,
- unbound,
- unbounded,
- unbroken,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconfined,
- unconscionable,
- uncontaminated,
- undamaged,
- undeniable,
- undiluted,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unerring,
- unexcelled,
- unfaultable,
- unflawed,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unimpaired,
- uninjured,
- universal,
- unlimited,
- unmatched,
- unmeasured,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- unspotted,
- untainted,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- veritable,
- very,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- wide-open,
- wind up,
- wipe out,
- without exception,
- without reserve,
- without strings,
- wrap up,
- zap
- unsociable
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- not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood" related words >
- Timonistic,
- aloof,
- antisocial,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- chill,
- chilly,
- close,
- cold,
- cool,
- cynical,
- disaccordant,
- disinclined to communicate,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- frosty,
- icy,
- incompatible,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insociable,
- man-hating,
- meaningless,
- misogynous,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- nongregarious,
- offish,
- reserved,
- secretive,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- sexist,
- shut-in,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- solitary,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strained,
- sullen,
- tense,
- timid,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unconversable,
- uncordial,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unsocial,
- woman-hating
- starchy
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- rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
- consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" related words >
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- curdled,
- doughy,
- firm,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- mucilaginous,
- pasty,
- pokerlike,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- ropy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- starched,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- taut,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tight,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- unrelaxed,
- virgate,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous
- bourn
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- an archaic term for a goal or destination
- an archaic term for a boundary related words >
- adolescent stream,
- anchorage,
- arroyo,
- beck,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- braided stream,
- branch,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- brook,
- brooklet,
- burn,
- ceiling,
- channel,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- creek,
- crick,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- destination,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- flowing stream,
- fluviation,
- fresh,
- freshet,
- frontier,
- gill,
- goal,
- harbor,
- haven,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kill,
- last stop,
- lazy stream,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- meandering stream,
- mete,
- midchannel,
- midstream,
- millstream,
- moving road,
- navigable river,
- port,
- race,
- racing stream,
- river,
- rivulet,
- run,
- rundle,
- runlet,
- runnel,
- sike,
- spill stream,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stop,
- stopping place,
- stream,
- stream action,
- streamlet,
- subterranean river,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal,
- terminal date,
- terminal point,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- wadi,
- watercourse,
- waterway
- exigency
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- a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency" related words >
- case of need,
- climacteric,
- clutch,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- drive,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- extremity,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- pass,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pinch,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- rub,
- strait,
- stress,
- tension,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- urge,
- urgency,
- urgent need
- rocker
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- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle related words >
- burin,
- clarifier,
- colander,
- cradle,
- cribble,
- die,
- engraving tool,
- etching ball,
- etching ground,
- etching needle,
- etching point,
- filter,
- graver,
- intaglio,
- lixiviator,
- metronome,
- needle,
- oscillator,
- pendulum,
- percolator,
- point,
- punch,
- purifier,
- refiner,
- refinery,
- riddle,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- scorper,
- screen,
- seal,
- seesaw,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- sieve,
- sifter,
- stamp,
- strainer,
- style,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- teeterboard,
- teetery-bender,
- vibrator,
- winnow,
- winnowing basket,
- winnowing fan,
- winnowing machine
- flying start
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- a quick and auspicious beginning
- a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when they pass the starting line related words >
- A,
- advantage,
- alpha,
- beginning,
- blast-off,
- bulge,
- coign of vantage,
- commencement,
- creation,
- cutting edge,
- dawn,
- drop,
- edge,
- establishment,
- foundation,
- fresh start,
- head start,
- inside track,
- institution,
- jump,
- jump-off,
- kick-off,
- leading edge,
- new departure,
- odds,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outset,
- running start,
- send-off,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- square one,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting point,
- take-off,
- upper hand,
- vantage,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- whip hand
- affront,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- blow,
- box,
- brickbat,
- buffet,
- casus belli,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- cuff,
- cut,
- despite,
- dump,
- enormity,
- flat refusal,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gibe,
- humiliation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- mock,
- mockery,
- offense,
- outrage,
- point-blank refusal,
- provocation,
- put-down,
- raw nerve,
- rebuff,
- red rag,
- repulse,
- scoff,
- scurrility,
- short shrift,
- slap,
- smack,
- sore point,
- sore spot,
- summary negative,
- taunt,
- tender spot,
- token punishment,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- whack,
- whomp
- celestial navigation
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- navigating according to the positions of the stars related words >
- VAR,
- aspect,
- astronavigation,
- attitude,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- azimuth,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- chronometer,
- coastwise navigation,
- consolan,
- dead reckoning,
- electronic navigation,
- exposure,
- fix,
- frontage,
- lay,
- lie,
- line of position,
- loran,
- navar,
- navigation,
- omnidirectional range,
- omnirange,
- orientation,
- pilotage,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- position,
- position line,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio bearing,
- radio navigation,
- set,
- sextant,
- shoran,
- sofar,
- sonar,
- tables,
- tacan,
- teleran,
- visual-aural range
- iota
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- the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet related words >
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- ray,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit
- stiffen
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- make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
- become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room"
- restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" related words >
- amplify,
- back,
- be tough,
- beef up,
- brace,
- brace up,
- buttress,
- case harden,
- charge,
- clot,
- coagulate,
- confirm,
- congeal,
- crystallize,
- electrify,
- endure,
- energize,
- fortify,
- galvanize,
- generate,
- gird,
- hang tough,
- harden,
- invigorate,
- jell,
- loop in,
- nerve,
- plug in,
- prop,
- refresh,
- reinforce,
- reinvigorate,
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- rigidify,
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- set,
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- step up,
- strengthen,
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- switch off,
- switch on,
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- temper,
- tense,
- thicken,
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- toughen,
- trice up,
- turn off,
- turn on,
- undergird
- posteriority
collapse
- following in time
- the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end related words >
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- by-and-by,
- coming after,
- consecution,
- consecutiveness,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- descent,
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- suffixation,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow
- cutoff
collapse
- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated related words >
- air line,
- arrest,
- beeline,
- bell,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
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- bourn,
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- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
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- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- walkout,
- work stoppage
- sky
collapse
- the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth related words >
- Caelus,
- Olympian heights,
- acme,
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- air,
- apex,
- apogee,
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- steep,
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- welkin,
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- 3-D,
- Einstein theory,
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- the present,
- theory of relativity,
- three-dimensional,
- tide,
- time,
- time-space,
- timebinding,
- two-dimensional,
- volumetric,
- while
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