Related Words:
- pomade
collapse - hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment
- apply pomade to (hair) related words >
- anoint,
- balm,
- balsam,
- beeswax,
- brilliantine,
- chrism,
- cold cream,
- collyrium,
- cream,
- daub,
- demulcent,
- dress,
- embrocate,
- embrocation,
- emollient,
- eye-lotion,
- eyewash,
- face cream,
- glycerolate,
- grease,
- grease the wheels,
- hand lotion,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- lanolin,
- lard,
- lenitive,
- lotion,
- lubricate,
- nard,
- oil,
- ointment,
- pomatum,
- salve,
- slick,
- slick on,
- smear,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- soothing syrup,
- spikenard,
- unction,
- unguent,
- unguentum,
- wax
- articulate
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- expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
- express or state clearly related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Tullian,
- accouple,
- accumulate,
- adjust,
- agglutinate,
- amass,
- apprehensible,
- assemble,
- associate,
- audible,
- band,
- batten,
- batten down,
- bolt,
- bond,
- bracket,
- breathe,
- bridge,
- bridge over,
- buckle,
- butt,
- button,
- cement,
- chain,
- chime,
- chorus,
- clap together,
- clasp,
- clear,
- cleat,
- clip,
- cognizable,
- collect,
- combine,
- come out with,
- communicate,
- comprehensible,
- comprise,
- concatenate,
- conglobulate,
- conjoin,
- conjugate,
- connect,
- contrastive,
- convey,
- coordinate,
- copulate,
- couple,
- cover,
- definite,
- deliver,
- disclose,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- dovetail,
- easily understood,
- easy to understand,
- eloquent,
- embrace,
- emit,
- encompass,
- enunciate,
- exoteric,
- express,
- facund,
- fathomable,
- felicitous,
- fling off,
- fluent,
- formulate,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- garrulous,
- gather,
- give,
- give expression,
- give out with,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- glib,
- glue,
- harmonize,
- hasp,
- hearable,
- hi-fi,
- high-fidelity,
- hinge,
- hitch,
- hook,
- impart,
- include,
- intelligible,
- jam,
- join,
- joint,
- jointed,
- knot,
- knowable,
- latch,
- lay together,
- league,
- let out,
- link,
- lip,
- lock,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- lump together,
- marry,
- marshal,
- mass,
- meaningful,
- merge,
- methodize,
- miter,
- mobilize,
- mortise,
- nail,
- oral,
- order,
- organize,
- out with,
- outspoken,
- pair,
- peg,
- penetrable,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- piece together,
- pin,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plumbable,
- pour forth,
- prehensible,
- present,
- prolix,
- pronounce,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- put together,
- rabbet,
- raise,
- readable,
- regulate,
- relate,
- rivet,
- roll into one,
- say,
- scarf,
- screw,
- scrutable,
- set forth,
- sew,
- significant,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- skewer,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snap,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- solder,
- sonant,
- sound,
- span,
- speaking,
- spellbinding,
- splice,
- spoken,
- staple,
- stick,
- stick together,
- stitch,
- systematize,
- tack,
- take in,
- talkative,
- talking,
- tape,
- tell,
- throw off,
- tie,
- toggle,
- true-speaking,
- understandable,
- unify,
- unite,
- utter,
- venting,
- verbalize,
- viva voce,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- voiced,
- wedge,
- weld,
- well-spoken,
- whisper,
- word,
- yoke,
- zipper
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- appropriate,
- attentive,
- balanced,
- becoming,
- bland,
- civil,
- civilized,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- decent,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- fair,
- felicitous,
- fit for society,
- fitting,
- fond of society,
- friendly,
- genial,
- genteel,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- happy,
- hospitable,
- meet,
- metropolitan,
- obliging,
- poised,
- polite,
- proper,
- respectful,
- right,
- seemly,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- solicitous,
- suitable,
- tactful,
- thoughtful
- regularize
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- make regular or more regular; "regularize the heart beat with a pace maker" related words >
- adjust,
- arrange,
- array,
- assimilate to,
- balance,
- chart,
- codify,
- cool off,
- coordinate,
- damp,
- deploy,
- dispose,
- equalize,
- equilibrize,
- even,
- even up,
- fix,
- flatten,
- form,
- formalize,
- grade,
- harmonize,
- hierarchize,
- homogenize,
- integrate,
- lay out,
- level,
- line up,
- make uniform,
- marshal,
- methodize,
- normalize,
- order,
- organize,
- pacify,
- plan,
- proportion,
- proportionate,
- quiet,
- rank,
- rationalize,
- regulate,
- routinize,
- set up,
- settle,
- smooth,
- stabilize,
- standardize,
- stereotype,
- structure,
- symmetrize,
- synchronize,
- systematize,
- tranquilize,
- tune,
- tune up,
- uniformize
- crucible
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- a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions related words >
- Bunsen burner,
- Erlenmeyer flask,
- Kipp generator,
- acid test,
- affliction,
- agitator,
- alembic,
- anvil,
- aspirator,
- assay,
- beaker,
- beater,
- blank determination,
- blender,
- blowpipe,
- brouillon,
- burette,
- caldron,
- calvary,
- capillary tube,
- cement mixer,
- churn,
- condenser,
- criterion,
- cross,
- crucial test,
- deflagrating spoon,
- desiccator,
- determination,
- distiller,
- docimasy,
- eggbeater,
- emulsifier,
- engine,
- essay,
- etna,
- feeling out,
- first draft,
- kiteflying,
- lathe,
- machine,
- matrass,
- melting pot,
- mixer,
- mortar,
- motor,
- ordeal,
- pestle and mortar,
- pipette,
- precision balance,
- probation,
- proof,
- reagent bottle,
- receiver,
- retort,
- rough draft,
- rough sketch,
- sounding out,
- standard,
- still,
- test,
- test case,
- test tube,
- touchstone,
- transducer,
- transformer,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- try,
- verification,
- visitation
- civilized
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- having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
- marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" related words >
- Christian,
- abstruse,
- advanced,
- ameliorated,
- beautified,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- bettered,
- bland,
- comme il faut,
- conforming,
- converted,
- correct,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- decent,
- deep,
- delicate,
- developed,
- discriminating,
- done,
- educated,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- encyclopedic,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- erudite,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- improved,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- nice,
- pansophic,
- perfected,
- polished,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- profound,
- refined,
- reformed,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- smooth,
- sophisticated,
- studious,
- subtle,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- urbane,
- wise
- smooth
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- the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"
- lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence; "a smooth ride"
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood"
- free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negotiations" related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Mickey Mouse,
- Tullian,
- accordant,
- acomous,
- acute,
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- agreeable,
- aid,
- align,
- alike,
- all jaw,
- allay,
- ameliorate,
- appease,
- arch,
- arrowlike,
- artful,
- articulate,
- articulated,
- assimilate to,
- assuage,
- astute,
- at rest,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- automatic,
- balance,
- balanced,
- bald,
- bald-headed,
- balmy,
- bare,
- beardless,
- believable,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buff,
- burnish,
- burnished,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cagey,
- cajoling,
- calender,
- calm,
- calm down,
- candid,
- canny,
- casual,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- chatty,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- civilized,
- clean-shaven,
- clear,
- clear the way,
- clever,
- cloistered,
- coarsen,
- communicative,
- compose,
- concatenated,
- conciliate,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- connected,
- conniving,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- courteous,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cradle,
- crafty,
- credible,
- cunning,
- cursive,
- cushy,
- cute,
- cyclical,
- dab,
- dainty,
- damp,
- dead straight,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- defuse,
- delicate,
- depilated,
- depilous,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- direct,
- disarming,
- disentangle,
- downy,
- drag,
- dress,
- dub,
- dulcet,
- dulcify,
- dwindling,
- ease,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- ebbing,
- effortless,
- effusive,
- elegant,
- eloquent,
- endless,
- equable,
- equal,
- equalize,
- equilibrize,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonious,
- even,
- even out,
- even-tenored,
- expansive,
- expedite,
- explain,
- extend,
- facile,
- facilitate,
- facund,
- faint,
- fair-spoken,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- featureless,
- felicitous,
- feline,
- fell,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- fine-spoken,
- finespun,
- flat,
- flatly,
- flatten,
- flattened,
- flattering,
- flip,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- fluffy,
- flush,
- foxy,
- frank,
- free,
- fulsome,
- furbish,
- fuzzy,
- gabby,
- gapless,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- gauzy,
- gentle,
- glabrate,
- glabrescent,
- glabrous,
- glassy,
- glib,
- gloss over,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gossipy,
- graceful,
- grade,
- grain,
- granulate,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- greasy,
- gregarious,
- guileful,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- hairless,
- halcyon,
- harmonious,
- harmonize,
- harrow,
- hasten,
- help along,
- homaloidal,
- homogeneous,
- homogenize,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- horizontal,
- hush,
- hushed,
- immediate,
- immutable,
- impassive,
- in a line,
- incessant,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- interminable,
- invariable,
- inventive,
- iron,
- isolated,
- joined,
- jointless,
- knowing,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lay,
- lay down,
- lay flat,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- lay the dust,
- leiotrichous,
- lenient,
- lessen,
- level,
- light,
- lineal,
- linear,
- linked,
- long-winded,
- loose,
- loquacious,
- lubricate,
- lull,
- make clear,
- make uniform,
- make way for,
- mangle,
- mealymouthed,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- mellow,
- methodic,
- mild,
- minimize,
- mitigate,
- moldering,
- mollify,
- monolithic,
- monotonous,
- mow,
- mucoid,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- naked,
- never-ending,
- newsy,
- nonchalant,
- nonstop,
- normalize,
- nothing to it,
- obsequious,
- of a piece,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- open,
- open the way,
- open up,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- overtalkative,
- pacific,
- pacify,
- painless,
- palliate,
- pave,
- pave the way,
- pawky,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- perennial,
- perfect,
- periodic,
- persistent,
- persuasive,
- placate,
- placid,
- plain,
- plane,
- planish,
- plaster,
- plausible,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- polish,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- pour balm into,
- pour balm on,
- prepare,
- prepare the way,
- press,
- prime,
- prolix,
- propitiate,
- pubescent,
- put straight,
- quell,
- quicken,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- rase,
- raze,
- ready,
- rectify,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- recurrent,
- reduce,
- refine,
- refined,
- regular,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- remove friction,
- repetitive,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- resourceful,
- rest,
- restful,
- resting,
- rich,
- right,
- robotlike,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- roll,
- roll flat,
- rolled,
- roughen,
- round,
- round-the-clock,
- royal,
- rub up,
- ruler-straight,
- run interference for,
- running,
- sand,
- sandblast,
- sandpaper,
- satin,
- satiny,
- scheming,
- seamless,
- sebaceous,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- serpentine,
- serried,
- set straight,
- sharp,
- shave,
- shaven,
- sheltered,
- shifty,
- shine,
- shiny,
- shrewd,
- silken,
- silky,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- simplify,
- sit up,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- smooth over,
- smooth the way,
- smooth-faced,
- smooth-running,
- smooth-shaven,
- smooth-sounding,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-textured,
- smooth-tongued,
- smoothed out,
- smoothen,
- smoothened,
- smoothly,
- smug,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soap the ways,
- soapy,
- sociable,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- soften,
- soignee,
- soothe,
- soothing,
- sophistical,
- speed,
- spellbinding,
- squashed,
- squashed flat,
- stabilize,
- stable,
- stand up,
- standardize,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stealthy,
- steamroll,
- steamroller,
- stereotype,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- straightforward,
- strategic,
- streamlined,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- subdue,
- subsiding,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suety,
- supple,
- sweet,
- sycophantic,
- symmetrical,
- symmetrize,
- syrupy,
- systematic,
- tabloid,
- tabular,
- tactical,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tallowy,
- temper,
- thin-spun,
- tonsured,
- tooth,
- tranquil,
- tranquilize,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- tripping,
- trodden,
- trodden flat,
- true,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unagitated,
- unbar,
- unbend,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unblock,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- unburdensome,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unclog,
- uncluttered,
- uncomplicated,
- unconstrained,
- unctuous,
- uncurl,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undistorted,
- undisturbed,
- undiversified,
- unending,
- uneventful,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- uniform,
- uniformize,
- uniformly,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unjam,
- unkink,
- unmoved,
- unobstructed,
- unperturbed,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unrough,
- unroughened,
- unruffled,
- unsnarl,
- unstirring,
- unstopped,
- unswerving,
- untroubled,
- untroublesome,
- unturned,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- upright,
- urbane,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- verbose,
- vertical,
- voluble,
- vulpine,
- waning,
- wary,
- well-ordered,
- well-spoken,
- wheedling,
- wily,
- windy,
- winning,
- wiredrawn
- glassy
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- (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
- (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
- resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather related words >
- blank,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- clear as glass,
- cold,
- dazed,
- deadpan,
- dull,
- empty,
- expressionless,
- finished,
- fishy,
- fixed,
- furbished,
- glace,
- glass,
- glasslike,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- hyalescent,
- hyaline,
- hypnotic,
- icy,
- impassive,
- inexpressive,
- lacquered,
- lifeless,
- lustrous,
- poker-faced,
- polished,
- rubbed,
- satiny,
- sheeny,
- shellacked,
- shined,
- shining,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silky,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slippery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- staring,
- unexpressive,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- varnished,
- velvety,
- vitreous,
- vitriform,
- void,
- wooden
- vulpine
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- resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- canine,
- canny,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- doggy,
- feline,
- foxlike,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lupine,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- wary,
- wily,
- wolfish
- lull
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- a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"
- become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment"
- calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security" related words >
- abate,
- abeyance,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- anticyclone,
- appease,
- assuage,
- awful silence,
- balm,
- becalm,
- benumb,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- calm,
- calm down,
- calmness,
- cease,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- comma,
- compose,
- cool,
- cradle,
- cushion,
- day off,
- dead,
- dead calm,
- dead of night,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- deathlike calm,
- deathlike silence,
- delay,
- die down,
- diminish,
- doldrums,
- dope,
- dormancy,
- downtime,
- drop,
- drug,
- dulcify,
- dull,
- dwindle,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- ease off,
- ebb,
- enforced respite,
- entrance,
- even out,
- fall,
- fissure,
- flat calm,
- foment,
- gap,
- gentle,
- give relief,
- golden silence,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hibernation,
- holiday,
- horse latitudes,
- hush,
- hush of night,
- hypnotize,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactiveness,
- inactivity,
- inaudibility,
- inertia,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- lay,
- layoff,
- lessen,
- let up,
- letup,
- lucid stillness,
- lull to sleep,
- magnetize,
- mesmerize,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- molder,
- mollify,
- motionlessness,
- mum,
- narcotize,
- noiselessness,
- numb,
- off-time,
- oily calm,
- pacify,
- pad,
- palliate,
- pause,
- peace,
- peacefulness,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- put to sleep,
- put under,
- qualify,
- quell,
- quiesce,
- quiescence,
- quiet,
- quiet spell,
- quieten,
- quietness,
- quietude,
- recess,
- reduce,
- relief,
- relieve,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- salve,
- sedate,
- settle,
- silence,
- silentness,
- slacken,
- slake,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- soften,
- solemn silence,
- soothe,
- soundlessness,
- spell,
- stabilize,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- steady,
- still,
- stillness,
- stop,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- subside,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tacitness,
- taciturnity,
- tea break,
- temper,
- time off,
- time out,
- tomblike silence,
- trance,
- tranquilize,
- tranquillity,
- truce,
- underactivity,
- vacation,
- wane,
- whisht,
- windlessness
- explain
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- make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
- define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean" related words >
- absolve,
- account,
- account for,
- acquit,
- aid,
- allegorize,
- analyze,
- answer,
- bottom,
- break down,
- clarify,
- clear,
- clear the way,
- clear up,
- condone,
- construe,
- crack,
- cry sour grapes,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- define,
- delineate,
- demonstrate,
- demythologize,
- describe,
- destigmatize,
- detail,
- disclose,
- discourse,
- disentangle,
- divine,
- do,
- do justice to,
- dope,
- dope out,
- ease,
- elucidate,
- enlighten,
- euhemerize,
- exculpate,
- excuse,
- exemplify,
- exonerate,
- expedite,
- explain away,
- explicate,
- exposit,
- expound,
- extenuate,
- facilitate,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get across,
- get over,
- get right,
- give reason for,
- give the meaning,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- guess,
- guess right,
- harangue,
- hasten,
- have it,
- help along,
- hit it,
- hold forth,
- illuminate,
- illustrate,
- interpret,
- justify,
- lecture,
- legitimate,
- legitimatize,
- loose,
- lubricate,
- make clear,
- make it clear,
- make out,
- make plain,
- make way for,
- moralize,
- oil,
- open the lock,
- open the way,
- open up,
- palliate,
- pave the way,
- plumb,
- point a moral,
- popularize,
- preach,
- prepare the way,
- psych,
- psych out,
- purge,
- put across,
- put over,
- puzzle out,
- quicken,
- rationalize,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- read a lesson,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstate,
- remove friction,
- resolve,
- restore,
- riddle,
- run interference for,
- sermonize,
- shed light upon,
- show,
- show how,
- show the way,
- simplify,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- solve,
- sort out,
- speed,
- spell out,
- throw light upon,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- unclog,
- undo,
- unfold,
- unjam,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- vindicate,
- vulgarize,
- warrant,
- work,
- work out
- thundering
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- extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
- sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd" related words >
- Donar,
- Indra,
- Jupiter Tonans,
- Thor,
- anathema,
- ban,
- banging,
- blasphemy,
- boom,
- booming,
- bumping,
- cannonading,
- commination,
- curse,
- damnation,
- deafening,
- deep,
- denunciation,
- dread rattling thunder,
- echo,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- evil eye,
- excommunication,
- execration,
- fulminating,
- fulmination,
- growl,
- growling,
- grumble,
- grumbling,
- hex,
- imprecation,
- intense,
- lingering,
- loud,
- malison,
- malocchio,
- peal of thunder,
- pealing,
- penetrating,
- persistent,
- piercing,
- proscription,
- pungent,
- reboant,
- reboation,
- rebound,
- rebounding,
- reecho,
- reechoing,
- reeking,
- repercussive,
- resound,
- resounding,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberation,
- reverberatory,
- roaring,
- rolling,
- rumble,
- rumbling,
- slapping,
- sounding,
- spanking,
- thumping,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- thundercrack,
- thunderlike,
- thunderous,
- thunderpeal,
- thunderstorm,
- thunderstroke,
- thundery,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- undamped,
- volleying,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whaling,
- whammy,
- whopping
- slick
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- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
- made slick by e.g. ice or grease; "sidewalks slick with ice"; "roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil"
- give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair"
- make slick or smooth related words >
- Byzantine,
- Ciceronian,
- Daedalian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Tullian,
- acute,
- adept,
- adipose,
- adroit,
- anal,
- anoint,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artfully,
- articulate,
- artistic,
- astute,
- astutely,
- authoritative,
- beeswax,
- blubbery,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- buff,
- buffed,
- burnish,
- burnished,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cagey,
- cagily,
- calculating,
- cannily,
- canny,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- clean,
- clever,
- cleverly,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cunningly,
- cute,
- daedal,
- daub,
- deceitful,
- deck out,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- dinky,
- diplomatic,
- doll up,
- dress,
- dress up,
- eloquent,
- embrocate,
- excellent,
- expert,
- facund,
- fancy,
- fat,
- fatty,
- felicitous,
- feline,
- finish,
- finished,
- fix up,
- foxily,
- foxy,
- furbish,
- furbished,
- glace,
- glance,
- glassy,
- glaze,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glib,
- glide,
- glissade,
- gloss,
- glossy,
- glycerolate,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- grease,
- grease the wheels,
- greased,
- greasy,
- guileful,
- guilefully,
- gussy up,
- handy,
- hep,
- imaginative,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insidiously,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- knowingly,
- lacquered,
- lard,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lubric,
- lubricate,
- lubricated,
- lubricious,
- luster,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- meretricious,
- mucoid,
- neat,
- nimble-witted,
- no mean,
- oil,
- oiled,
- oily,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- on the sly,
- pawky,
- perfect,
- plausible,
- polish,
- polished,
- politic,
- pomade,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- quite some,
- ready,
- refine,
- resourceful,
- rich,
- round,
- rub,
- rubbed,
- salve,
- satiny,
- scheming,
- scour,
- sebaceous,
- serpentine,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- shellacked,
- shiftily,
- shifty,
- shine,
- shining,
- shiny,
- shipshape,
- shrewd,
- shrewdly,
- silken,
- silky,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- skillful,
- sleek,
- slick down,
- slick on,
- sliddery,
- slip,
- slipper,
- slippery,
- slippy,
- slither,
- slithery,
- sly,
- slyly,
- smarmy,
- smart,
- smarten up,
- smear,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smoothly,
- smug,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- snug,
- soap the ways,
- soaped,
- soapy,
- some,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spellbinding,
- spiff,
- spruce,
- spruce up,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- suave,
- subtile,
- subtilely,
- subtle,
- subtlely,
- suety,
- superficial,
- supple,
- sycophantic,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- tallowy,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- tidy,
- tight,
- trickily,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trig,
- trim,
- unctuous,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- urbane,
- varnish,
- varnished,
- velvety,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- warily,
- wary,
- wax,
- well-cared-for,
- well-done,
- well-groomed,
- well-spoken,
- wilily,
- wily,
- workmanlike
- Micawberish,
- backward,
- booming,
- continuation,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- delaying,
- dilatoriness,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- dragging,
- drawn-out,
- easygoing,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- extended,
- extension,
- foot-dragging,
- goofing off,
- gradual,
- growling,
- idling,
- interminable,
- lackadaisical,
- lag,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lax,
- lazing,
- lazy,
- lengthened,
- lengthening,
- loafing,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lollygagging,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- lounging,
- marathon,
- mopery,
- overlong,
- persistent,
- procrastinating,
- procrastination,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- prolongation,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- protraction,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- reechoing,
- remaining,
- remiss,
- repercussive,
- resounding,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- rumbling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- sounding,
- spun-out,
- stretched-out,
- tarriance,
- tarrying,
- thundering,
- trifling,
- undamped,
- waiting
- Mickey Mouse
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- a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney related words >
- base,
- casual,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- clear,
- coarse,
- common,
- cushy,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- effortless,
- facile,
- fourth-class,
- glib,
- inferior,
- irregular,
- light,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- mean,
- measly,
- niggling,
- nothing to it,
- painless,
- paltry,
- peanut,
- pettifogging,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- plain,
- poor,
- punk,
- puny,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- smooth,
- soft,
- straightforward,
- tacky,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tinny,
- unburdensome,
- uncomplicated
- untroubled
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- free from turmoil or worries; "untroubled times"
- not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress; "seemed untroubled by doubts of any kind"; "untroubled sleep"; "a kind untroubled face" related words >
- at peace,
- at rest,
- bloodless,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- concordant,
- cool,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- even-tenored,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- idyllic,
- impassive,
- isolated,
- moldering,
- orderly,
- pacific,
- pastoral,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- peacetime,
- piping,
- placid,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- sheltered,
- smooth,
- soft,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- unbothered,
- undisturbed,
- unexcited,
- unflustered,
- unimpassioned,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unplagued,
- unruffled,
- unstirred,
- unstirring,
- untormented,
- unvexed,
- unworried,
- waning
- gruff
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- deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson related words >
- abrupt,
- acerb,
- acid,
- acrimonious,
- aggressive,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- biting,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- boorish,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brusque,
- cantankerous,
- caustic,
- cavalier,
- choked,
- churlish,
- coarse,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cracked,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cutting,
- deep,
- dour,
- dry,
- fierce,
- grouchy,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumbly,
- grumpish,
- grumpy,
- guttural,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- hoarse,
- husky,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- low,
- metallic,
- morose,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- querulous,
- ragged,
- rasping,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- rough,
- roupy,
- rude,
- saturnine,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- sour,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- stertorous,
- stinging,
- strangled,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- testy,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tinny,
- truculent,
- uncivil
- tabloid
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- newspaper with half-size pages related words >
- daily,
- daily newspaper,
- even,
- extra,
- extra edition,
- flat,
- flattened,
- flush,
- gazette,
- homaloidal,
- horizontal,
- level,
- livid,
- lurid,
- national newspaper,
- neighborhood newspaper,
- news,
- newspaper,
- newspaper of record,
- paper,
- plain,
- plane,
- rag,
- rolled,
- sensationalistic,
- sheet,
- smooth,
- smoothed out,
- smoothened,
- special,
- special edition,
- squashed,
- squashed flat,
- sultry,
- tabular,
- trodden,
- trodden flat,
- weekly,
- weekly newspaper
- lay down
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- institute, enact, or establish; "make laws" related words >
- abdicate,
- abjure,
- acknowledge defeat,
- advance,
- affirm,
- align,
- allege,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- ante,
- ante up,
- appoint,
- argue,
- arrange in layers,
- assert,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- authorize,
- aver,
- avouch,
- avow,
- back,
- bank,
- bet,
- bet on,
- bundle away,
- cache,
- call,
- cant,
- careen,
- cease,
- cede,
- coffer,
- contend,
- cover,
- cry quits,
- declare,
- delaminate,
- demand,
- deposit,
- desist from,
- desquamate,
- dictate,
- drop,
- enunciate,
- equalize,
- even,
- exfoliate,
- express,
- fade,
- fell,
- file,
- flake,
- flatten,
- flush,
- forgo,
- forswear,
- gamble,
- give over,
- give up,
- grade,
- hand over,
- have,
- have done with,
- hazard,
- heel,
- hold,
- hutch,
- impose,
- insist,
- issue a manifesto,
- laminate,
- lay,
- lay a wager,
- lay away,
- lay flat,
- lay in,
- lay in store,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- lay up,
- layer,
- leave off,
- level,
- lie along,
- list,
- lodge,
- maintain,
- make a bet,
- make obligatory,
- manifesto,
- meet a bet,
- pack away,
- parlay,
- pass,
- pay over,
- play against,
- plunge,
- pose,
- posit,
- postulate,
- predicate,
- prescribe,
- proclaim,
- profess,
- pronounce,
- propose,
- propound,
- protest,
- punt,
- put,
- put away,
- put down,
- put it,
- put up,
- rase,
- raze,
- relinquish,
- renounce,
- repose,
- reposit,
- require,
- reservoir,
- resign,
- rest,
- roll,
- roll flat,
- salt away,
- salt down,
- say,
- scale,
- see,
- set,
- set down,
- set forth,
- smooth,
- smooth out,
- smoothen,
- speak,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- stake,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- stand pat,
- stash,
- state,
- steamroll,
- steamroller,
- store,
- store away,
- stow,
- stow away,
- stow down,
- stratify,
- submit,
- surrender,
- throw up,
- tip,
- wager,
- waive,
- warehouse,
- yield
- mediate
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- acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new" related words >
- accommodate,
- act between,
- act for,
- adjust,
- advance,
- arbitrate,
- arrange matters,
- assist,
- bargain,
- be instrumental,
- bring to terms,
- bring together,
- compose,
- compromise,
- facilitate,
- fix up,
- forward,
- go between,
- harmonize,
- heal the breach,
- intercede,
- interfere,
- intermediate,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- judge,
- make terms,
- meet halfway,
- minister to,
- moderate,
- negotiate,
- patch things up,
- promote,
- put in tune,
- reconcile,
- referee,
- represent,
- resolve,
- restore harmony,
- reunite,
- serve,
- settle,
- settle differences,
- smooth it over,
- step in,
- subserve,
- treat with,
- umpire,
- weave peace between
- homogenize
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- cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing; "homogenize the main ingredients"
- become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing; "The two liquids homogenized in the blender"
- break up the fat globules of; "homogenized milk" related words >
- admix,
- alloy,
- amalgamate,
- assimilate to,
- balance,
- bemingle,
- blend,
- coalesce,
- combine,
- commingle,
- commix,
- compose,
- compound,
- concoct,
- conglomerate,
- damp,
- emulsify,
- equalize,
- equilibrize,
- even,
- flatten,
- fuse,
- harmonize,
- hash,
- immingle,
- immix,
- integrate,
- interblend,
- interlace,
- interlard,
- intermingle,
- intermix,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- jumble,
- knead,
- level,
- make uniform,
- merge,
- mingle,
- mingle-mangle,
- mix,
- mix up,
- normalize,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- scramble,
- shuffle,
- smooth,
- stabilize,
- standardize,
- stereotype,
- stir up,
- symmetrize,
- syncretize,
- throw together,
- toss together,
- uniformize,
- work
- vocal
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- full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children"
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise"
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions" related words >
- alto,
- articulate,
- articulated,
- baritone,
- bass,
- bravura,
- choral,
- choric,
- coloratura,
- dramatic,
- eloquent,
- enunciated,
- expressed,
- expressive,
- falsetto,
- fluent,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- heroic,
- hymnal,
- intonated,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- liturgical,
- lyric,
- nuncupative,
- operatic,
- oral,
- outspoken,
- parol,
- pronounced,
- psalmic,
- psalmodial,
- psalmodic,
- round,
- sacred,
- said,
- singing,
- smooth-spoken,
- sonant,
- soprano,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- stentorian,
- tenor,
- treble,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- venting,
- verbal,
- viva voce,
- vocalized,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike
- linear
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- of or in or along or relating to a line; involving a single dimension; "a linear measurement"
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
- measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot"
- of a leaf shape; long and narrow related words >
- Plimsoll line,
- Plimsoll mark,
- arrowlike,
- catenary,
- consecutive,
- dead straight,
- direct,
- even,
- flat,
- high-water mark,
- horizontal,
- in a line,
- level,
- lineal,
- load waterline,
- ordinal,
- progressive,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- right,
- ruler-straight,
- sequent,
- sequential,
- serial,
- seriate,
- smooth,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- streamlined,
- successional,
- successive,
- tidemark,
- true,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- uninterrupted,
- unswerving,
- unturned,
- upright,
- vertical,
- waterline,
- watermark
- equable
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- not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays"
- not varying; "an equable climate" related words >
- accordant,
- alike,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- calm,
- collected,
- composed,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- cool,
- correspondent,
- dispassionate,
- easygoing,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- even,
- even-tempered,
- flat,
- homogeneous,
- immutable,
- imperturbable,
- invariable,
- level,
- level-headed,
- levelheaded,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- methodic,
- methodical,
- monolithic,
- of a piece,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- peaceful,
- persistent,
- placid,
- regular,
- reposeful,
- robotlike,
- same,
- serene,
- smooth,
- stabile,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- systematic,
- tranquil,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- unflappable,
- uniform,
- unruffled,
- unvaried,
- unvarying
- accelerate,
- advance,
- advantage,
- aid,
- barrel,
- bolt,
- boost,
- bundle,
- burn to,
- bustle,
- career,
- chafe,
- chase,
- clear the way,
- conduce to,
- contribute to,
- crack on,
- crowd,
- dart,
- dash,
- dash off,
- dash on,
- dispatch,
- double-time,
- drive on,
- ease,
- encourage,
- expedite,
- explain,
- facilitate,
- favor,
- festinate,
- fleet,
- fling,
- flit,
- fly,
- forward,
- foster,
- fret,
- further,
- fuss,
- gain ground,
- get excited,
- get going,
- get moving,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- hardly wait,
- haste,
- hasten on,
- help along,
- hie,
- hie on,
- hotfoot,
- hump,
- hump it,
- hurry,
- hurry along,
- hurry on,
- hurry through,
- hurry up,
- hurry-scurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- hustle up,
- impel,
- itch to,
- jump the gun,
- leap,
- lend wings to,
- loose,
- lose no time,
- lubricate,
- make clear,
- make for,
- make haste,
- make way for,
- move,
- move quickly,
- oil,
- open the throttle,
- open the way,
- open up,
- pave the way,
- pick up speed,
- plunge,
- post,
- precipitate,
- prepare the way,
- press,
- press on,
- promote,
- push,
- push forward,
- push on,
- push through,
- put forward,
- put on,
- put on steam,
- quicken,
- race,
- railroad through,
- remove friction,
- rev,
- run,
- run interference for,
- rush,
- rush along,
- rush through,
- scamper,
- scoot,
- scour,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- send,
- set forward,
- shake up,
- shoot,
- simplify,
- skedaddle,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- speed,
- speed along,
- speed up,
- sprint,
- spur,
- spurt,
- squirm,
- stampede,
- step on it,
- step up,
- stew,
- sweat,
- sweat and stew,
- sweat it out,
- tear,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- unclog,
- unjam,
- urge,
- wait impatiently,
- whip,
- whip along
- disingenuous
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- not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" related words >
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- calculating,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- designing,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feigned,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- left-handed,
- mealymouthed,
- oblique,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perjured,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- plotting,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- slick,
- sly,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- tongue in cheek,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- shave
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- the act of removing hair with a razor
- remove body hair with a razor
- touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"
- cut closely; "trim my beard"
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish"
- cut the price of related words >
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ban,
- bar,
- bate,
- beat,
- beat down,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- bob,
- boil down,
- borrow,
- break,
- brush,
- brush by,
- bunco,
- burn,
- capsulize,
- caress,
- cheapen,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- clip,
- close shave,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- come in contact,
- compress,
- con,
- condense,
- contact,
- contract,
- cozen,
- crib,
- crop,
- cull,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut out,
- cut prices,
- cut short,
- dab,
- decline,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- defraud,
- depreciate,
- derogate,
- detract,
- devaluate,
- diddle,
- diminish,
- discount,
- discount notes,
- disparage,
- dive,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dock,
- drag,
- drain,
- dress,
- dub,
- eat away,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- epitomize,
- equalize,
- eradicate,
- erode,
- euchre,
- even,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extract,
- fall,
- fall in price,
- file away,
- finagle,
- flam,
- flatten,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- foreshorten,
- fudge,
- give way,
- glance,
- gouge,
- grade,
- graze,
- grease,
- gull,
- gyp,
- harrow,
- have,
- hit,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- impair,
- impinge,
- isolate,
- jew down,
- kiss,
- knock off,
- lay,
- leach,
- lend,
- lessen,
- level,
- lop,
- lower,
- lubricate,
- mark down,
- mow,
- mulct,
- mutilate,
- narrow escape,
- narrow squeak,
- nip,
- nose-dive,
- nudge,
- oil,
- osculate,
- pack the deal,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- pigeon,
- plane,
- planish,
- plaster,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- poll,
- pollard,
- practice fraud upon,
- prune,
- purify,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refine,
- remove,
- retrench,
- rook,
- root out,
- rub,
- rub away,
- rule out,
- sag,
- scam,
- scrape,
- screw,
- sell gold bricks,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shear,
- shingle,
- shortchange,
- shorten,
- shred,
- sideswipe,
- skim,
- skirt,
- skive,
- slash,
- slump,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- snub,
- squeak by,
- stack the cards,
- stamp out,
- stick,
- sting,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- stunt,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- swindle,
- synopsize,
- take a dive,
- take away,
- take from,
- take in,
- take off,
- take out,
- telescope,
- thimblerig,
- thin,
- thin out,
- throw a fight,
- touch,
- trim,
- truncate,
- victimize,
- wear away,
- weed,
- whittle,
- wipe out,
- withdraw
- sensational
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- causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion
- relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs" related words >
- Barnumesque,
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- acid,
- affected,
- amazing,
- arresting,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- bedizened,
- beguiling,
- bewildering,
- big-sounding,
- biting,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- breathtaking,
- cloak-and-dagger,
- coarse,
- colored,
- colorful,
- conspicuous,
- convoluted,
- cool,
- corrosive,
- crashing,
- crude,
- cutting,
- dandy,
- declamatory,
- divine,
- dramatic,
- driving,
- effective,
- electrifying,
- elevated,
- emotionalistic,
- emotive,
- enigmatic,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- exceptional,
- exciting,
- exquisite,
- extraordinary,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- fulsome,
- galvanizing,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilt-edged,
- glaring,
- glorious,
- golden,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- groovy,
- gutsy,
- hair-raising,
- hammy,
- heavenly,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- hot,
- hunky-dory,
- hysteric,
- immense,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- incomprehensible,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inkhorn,
- juicy,
- keen,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- livid,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magnificent,
- magniloquent,
- marked,
- marvelous,
- matchless,
- melodramatic,
- meretricious,
- mind-blowing,
- mind-boggling,
- miraculous,
- mordant,
- nervous,
- nonpareil,
- nonrational,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outlandish,
- outstanding,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemotional,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing strange,
- pedantic,
- peerless,
- penetrating,
- phenomenal,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- powerful,
- pretentious,
- prodigious,
- prominent,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- puzzling,
- rare,
- remarkable,
- rhetorical,
- rousing,
- salient,
- screaming,
- sensationalistic,
- sensatory,
- sensitive,
- sensorial,
- sensual,
- sententious,
- shameless,
- shocking,
- showy,
- signal,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- smash,
- smashing,
- sonorous,
- spectacular,
- spine-chilling,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- staggering,
- sterling,
- stilted,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- strange,
- striking,
- strong,
- stunning,
- stupendous,
- sultry,
- super,
- superb,
- supereminent,
- superexcellent,
- superfine,
- superior,
- tabloid,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- telling,
- terrific,
- theatrical,
- thrilling,
- tortuous,
- tremendous,
- trenchant,
- unbelievable,
- unheard-of,
- unimaginable,
- unique,
- unprecedented,
- unreasoning,
- very good,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- vivid,
- vulgar,
- wonderful,
- wondrous,
- yellow
- tinny
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- thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"
- of or containing tin related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- aureate,
- base,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- choked,
- coarse,
- common,
- copper,
- coppery,
- cracked,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- dry,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- flimsy,
- fourth-class,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- gruff,
- guttural,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- hoarse,
- husky,
- inferior,
- iron,
- ironlike,
- irregular,
- lead,
- leaden,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- mean,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- metallic,
- nickel,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- paltry,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- poor,
- punk,
- quicksilver,
- ragged,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- rough,
- roupy,
- rude,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- silver,
- silver-plated,
- silvery,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- steel,
- steely,
- stertorous,
- strangled,
- tacky,
- tawdry,
- thick,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- throaty,
- tin,
- twangy
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- cottony,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- downy,
- feathery,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- finished,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- furbished,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hirsute,
- lacquered,
- nappy,
- peachy,
- pinnate,
- plush,
- plushy,
- polished,
- pubescent,
- refined,
- rubbed,
- satin,
- satinlike,
- satiny,
- sericeous,
- shellacked,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silklike,
- silky,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smooth,
- soft,
- soft as silk,
- thin-spun,
- varnished,
- velutinous,
- velvetlike,
- wiredrawn
- freedom
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- the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints related words >
- arrogance,
- artlessness,
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- authority,
- authorization,
- autonomy,
- bigheartedness,
- blank check,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- boldness,
- bounteousness,
- bountifulness,
- bounty,
- brass,
- brazenness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- carte blanche,
- clarity,
- clear coast,
- clear road,
- compass,
- convenience,
- copyright,
- deliverance,
- deregulation,
- directness,
- discretion,
- dispensation,
- disrespect,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easy going,
- easy purse strings,
- effortlessness,
- emancipation,
- exemption,
- facileness,
- facility,
- favor,
- forthrightness,
- forwardness,
- franchise,
- frankness,
- free hand,
- free time,
- freehandedness,
- freeheartedness,
- freeness,
- gall,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- genuineness,
- givingness,
- goof-off time,
- graciousness,
- grant,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- highroad,
- honesty,
- hospitality,
- idle hours,
- immunity,
- impertinence,
- impudence,
- independence,
- indulgence,
- ingenuousness,
- intelligibility,
- lack of hindrance,
- largeheartedness,
- largeness,
- largess,
- latitude,
- leisure,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- liberation,
- liberty,
- license,
- magnanimity,
- manumission,
- margin,
- munificence,
- naturalness,
- nerve,
- odd moments,
- open hand,
- open heart,
- openhandedness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- patent,
- permission,
- plain dealing,
- plain sailing,
- plain speaking,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- plane sailing,
- play,
- power,
- prerogative,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- privilege,
- range,
- release,
- relief,
- repose,
- rest,
- retirement,
- right,
- roundness,
- royal road,
- scope,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-government,
- semiretirement,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- smooth road,
- smooth sailing,
- smoothness,
- spare time,
- special favor,
- straight sailing,
- straightforwardness,
- sweep,
- time,
- time to kill,
- time to spare,
- uncomplexity,
- uncomplicatedness,
- unconstraint,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unselfishness,
- warrant,
- welcome
- articulated,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- chattering,
- concatenated,
- connected,
- constant,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- cyclical,
- direct,
- endless,
- featureless,
- gapless,
- immediate,
- incessant,
- interminable,
- joined,
- jointless,
- linked,
- machine gun,
- monotonous,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- oscillating,
- perennial,
- periodic,
- perpetual,
- pulsating,
- rapid,
- recurrent,
- regular,
- repeated,
- repetitive,
- round-the-clock,
- running,
- seamless,
- serried,
- smooth,
- stable,
- staccato,
- steady,
- straight,
- stuttering,
- sustained,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchanging,
- undifferentiated,
- unending,
- uniform,
- unintermitted,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unstopped,
- unvarying,
- vibrating
- systematic
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- characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was very systematic"; "a systematic administrator" related words >
- accordant,
- alike,
- analytical,
- arranged,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- businesslike,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- equable,
- equal,
- even,
- flat,
- formal,
- habitual,
- harmonious,
- homogeneous,
- immutable,
- in hand,
- invariable,
- level,
- logical,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- methodic,
- methodical,
- monolithic,
- normal,
- of a piece,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- organized,
- persistent,
- planned,
- regular,
- regular as clockwork,
- robotlike,
- routine,
- smooth,
- stable,
- standard,
- standardized,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- symmetrical,
- systematized,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- uniform,
- unruffled,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- usual,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated
- cursive
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- having successive letter joined together; "cursive script" related words >
- Italian hand,
- Spencerian writing,
- autograph,
- autographic,
- block letter,
- bold hand,
- book hand,
- calligraphic,
- chancery hand,
- chirographic,
- copperplate hand,
- cursive hand,
- effortless,
- engrossed,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- graphic,
- graphoanalytic,
- graphologic,
- graphometric,
- holograph,
- holographic,
- in longhand,
- in shorthand,
- in writing,
- inscribed,
- italic,
- italicized,
- law hand,
- lettering,
- longhand,
- majuscule script,
- manuscript,
- minuscule script,
- on paper,
- penciled,
- penned,
- printed,
- printing,
- round hand,
- running,
- scriptorial,
- scriptural,
- shorthand,
- smooth,
- stylographic,
- text hand,
- uncial,
- written
- persistent
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- never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" related words >
- abiding,
- accordant,
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- age-long,
- aged,
- alike,
- ancient,
- antique,
- archaic,
- assiduous,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- beaten,
- booming,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulldoggy,
- bullheaded,
- changeless,
- chronic,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clingy,
- committed,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- crying,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- demanding,
- determined,
- devoted,
- diligent,
- diuturnal,
- dogged,
- draining,
- durable,
- earnest,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- enduring,
- equable,
- equal,
- even,
- evergreen,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- faithful,
- fast,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flat,
- frequent,
- frozen,
- gluey,
- glutinous,
- grasping,
- growling,
- gummy,
- habitual,
- hackneyed,
- hardy,
- haunting,
- homogeneous,
- immobile,
- immutable,
- importunate,
- inalterable,
- incessant,
- indefatigable,
- indelible,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inflexible,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intact,
- interminable,
- intransient,
- invariable,
- inveterate,
- invincible,
- inviolate,
- lasting,
- level,
- lingering,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- loud,
- loyal,
- macrobiotic,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- methodic,
- monolithic,
- nagging,
- never-tiring,
- obdurate,
- obsessive,
- obstinate,
- of a piece,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- pressing,
- purposeful,
- quiescent,
- rapt,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reechoing,
- regular,
- relentless,
- remaining,
- repercussive,
- repetitive,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- resounding,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- rigid,
- robotlike,
- routine,
- rumbling,
- sedulous,
- self-adhesive,
- sempervirent,
- serious,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- smooth,
- solid,
- sounding,
- stable,
- static,
- stationary,
- staunch,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stereotyped,
- stickable,
- sticking,
- sticky,
- stubborn,
- sustained,
- systematic,
- tacky,
- taxing,
- tenacious,
- thundering,
- tireless,
- torpid,
- tough,
- trite,
- unabating,
- unaltered,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- unconquerable,
- undamped,
- undaunted,
- undestroyed,
- undeveloped,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiscouraged,
- undiversified,
- undrooping,
- undying,
- unending,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unforgettable,
- uniform,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unruffled,
- unshakable,
- unshifting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- urgent,
- utterly attentive,
- viscid,
- vital,
- weariless,
- well-trodden,
- well-worn,
- wholehearted
- cagey
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- characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- canny,
- chary,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- distrustful,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- evasive,
- feline,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- leery,
- malingering,
- mistrustful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- plausible
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- apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"
- given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar" related words >
- acceptable,
- admissible,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- believable,
- casuistic,
- cogent,
- cogitable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conceivable,
- conceivably possible,
- contingent,
- credible,
- creditable,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- fiduciary,
- gilded,
- hollow,
- humanly possible,
- illusive,
- imaginable,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- just,
- justifiable,
- legitimate,
- likely,
- logical,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- philosophistic,
- possible,
- potential,
- presentable,
- probable,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reliable,
- sane,
- seeming,
- sensible,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- sound,
- specious,
- tenable,
- thinkable,
- tinsel,
- trustworthy,
- trusty,
- unexceptionable,
- unimpeachable,
- unquestionable,
- well-argued,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- wholesome,
- worthy of faith
- acid test,
- article,
- assay,
- autograph,
- blank determination,
- brainchild,
- brouillon,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- copy,
- criterion,
- crucial test,
- crucible,
- determination,
- docimasy,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- fair copy,
- feeling out,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- flimsy,
- holograph,
- kiteflying,
- letter,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucubration,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- nonfiction,
- opus,
- ordeal,
- original,
- paper,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poem,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- probation,
- production,
- proof,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- rough draft,
- rough sketch,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sounding out,
- standard,
- test,
- test case,
- the written word,
- touchstone,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- trial,
- try,
- typescript,
- verification,
- version,
- work,
- writing
- fortissimo
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- chiefly a direction or description in music
- a direction in music; to be played very loudly related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- aloud,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- booming,
- brillante,
- capriccioso,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- crescendo,
- deafening,
- decrescendo,
- diminuendo,
- dolce,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- forte,
- fortemente,
- full,
- in full cry,
- lamentabile,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- loudly,
- lustily,
- marcando,
- morendo,
- noisily,
- parlando,
- pealing,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- piercing,
- pizzicato,
- plangent,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rallentando,
- resounding,
- resoundingly,
- ringing,
- ringingly,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- sonorous,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stretto,
- thunderous,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- uproariously,
- window-rattling
- ivory
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- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses related words >
- alabaster,
- alabastrine,
- albescent,
- billiard table,
- bones,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- chalk,
- cream,
- creamy,
- cubes,
- dice,
- driven snow,
- dun-white,
- eggshell,
- fair,
- flat,
- fleece,
- flour,
- foam,
- glass,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- gray-white,
- ice,
- ivory-white,
- level,
- light,
- lily,
- lint-white,
- maggot,
- mahogany,
- marble,
- milk,
- off-white,
- pale,
- paper,
- pearl,
- pearly,
- pearly-white,
- plane,
- satin,
- sheet,
- silk,
- silver,
- slide,
- smooth,
- snow,
- swan,
- tennis court,
- velvet,
- whitish,
- whity
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