Related Words:
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- air,
- bearing,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- carriage,
- conduct,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- doing,
- doings,
- folkway,
- gestures,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- pattern,
- poise,
- port,
- pose,
- posture,
- practice,
- praxis,
- presence,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- set,
- social science,
- style,
- tactics,
- tone,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- air,
- bearing,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- carriage,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- demeanor,
- doing,
- doings,
- folkway,
- gestures,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- pattern,
- poise,
- port,
- pose,
- posture,
- practice,
- praxis,
- presence,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- set,
- social science,
- style,
- tactics,
- tone,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways
- slum
collapse - a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
- visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity related words >
- Augean stables,
- Bowery,
- Chinatown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- West End,
- West Side,
- barrio,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- business district,
- central city,
- city center,
- core,
- downtown,
- dump,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- hole,
- hovel,
- inner city,
- midtown,
- muck,
- outskirts,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- rookery,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- skid,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slab,
- slums,
- stable,
- stew,
- sty,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement,
- tenement district,
- the slums,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- warren
- describe
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- give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" related words >
- be characteristic,
- bring to life,
- character,
- characterize,
- chronicle,
- construe,
- define,
- delineate,
- demarcate,
- depict,
- detail,
- diagnose,
- differentiate,
- distinguish,
- draw,
- earmark,
- evoke,
- explain,
- express,
- give words to,
- identify,
- interpret,
- keynote,
- label,
- limn,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- narrate,
- outline,
- paint,
- picture,
- portray,
- read,
- read into,
- recite,
- recount,
- relate,
- render,
- report,
- represent,
- retail,
- set apart,
- set forth,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sketch,
- sound the keynote,
- specify,
- style,
- take,
- take it that,
- take to mean,
- trace,
- traverse,
- understand,
- understand by,
- write
- slippage
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- failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage"
- a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping
- decline from a standard level of performance or achievement related words >
- avalanche,
- coast,
- comedown,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- glide,
- glissade,
- glissando,
- involution,
- landslide,
- landslip,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- regression,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- slide,
- slip,
- slither,
- slump,
- snowslide,
- snowslip,
- subsidence,
- wane
- wretch
collapse
- performs some wicked deed related words >
- Bowery bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blackguard,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- cur,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dog,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- knave,
- lowlife,
- martyr,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- object of compassion,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- prey,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- rogue,
- rotter,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- scalawag,
- scoundrel,
- scum,
- skid-row bum,
- skunk,
- snake,
- stiff,
- stinkard,
- stinker,
- sufferer,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- toad,
- tramp,
- truant,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- victim,
- villain,
- wastrel,
- worm,
- worthless fellow
- scrimmage
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- (American football) practice play between a football team's squads
- practice playing (a sport) related words >
- action,
- aerial combat,
- affray,
- armored combat,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- brush,
- bullfight,
- clash,
- clash of arms,
- cockfight,
- combat,
- conflict,
- disturbance,
- dogfight,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- embroilment,
- exchange of blows,
- fight,
- fire fight,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- ground combat,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- house-to-house combat,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- melee,
- naval combat,
- passage of arms,
- pitched battle,
- quarrel,
- riot,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- running fight,
- scramble,
- scrap,
- scuffle,
- set-to,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- stand-up fight,
- street fight,
- struggle,
- tauromachy,
- tug-of-war,
- tussle
- ado,
- agitation,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- churn,
- clamor,
- commotion,
- conturbation,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- flap,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fume,
- fuss,
- hassle,
- hubbub,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- inquietude,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- moil,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- pell-mell,
- perturbation,
- pother,
- restlessness,
- roil,
- rout,
- row,
- ruffle,
- seethe,
- seething,
- stir,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- to-do,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unrest,
- uproar,
- upset,
- vortex,
- whirl,
- yeastiness
- pendulum
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- an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity related words >
- Indian file,
- array,
- articulation,
- bank,
- buzz,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- course,
- cycle,
- descent,
- drone,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- file,
- filiation,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- hum,
- line,
- lineage,
- metronome,
- monotone,
- nexus,
- oscillator,
- periodicity,
- plenum,
- powder train,
- progression,
- queue,
- range,
- rank,
- recurrence,
- reticulation,
- rocker,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- scale,
- seesaw,
- sequence,
- series,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- single file,
- spectrum,
- string,
- succession,
- swath,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- teeterboard,
- teetery-bender,
- thread,
- tier,
- train,
- vibrator,
- windrow
- line up
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- take one's position before a kick-off
- form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
- form a line; "The buildings all line up neatly" related words >
- align,
- allocate,
- allot,
- apportion,
- arrange,
- array,
- bank,
- bill,
- book,
- budget,
- calendar,
- collimate,
- collineate,
- collocate,
- compose,
- cool off,
- correspond,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deploy,
- dispose,
- distribute,
- docket,
- equate,
- equidistance,
- fall in,
- fall into line,
- fall into rank,
- fix,
- follow,
- form,
- form a line,
- get in formation,
- get in line,
- grade,
- harmonize,
- hierarchize,
- lay out,
- line,
- marshal,
- match,
- methodize,
- normalize,
- order,
- organize,
- pacify,
- parallelize,
- parcel out,
- place,
- place parallel to,
- program,
- queue,
- queue up,
- quiet,
- rally,
- range,
- rank,
- realign,
- regiment,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- routinize,
- row,
- schedule,
- set out,
- set up,
- slate,
- space,
- standardize,
- string out,
- structure,
- systematize,
- take rank,
- tranquilize
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- curio,
- dole,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- half rations,
- halfpenny,
- hardly anything,
- hill of beans,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- mere nothing,
- mere subsistence,
- minikin,
- mite,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- next to nothing,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pittance,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- scrimption,
- shit,
- short allowance,
- short commons,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- starvation wages,
- straw,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- whim-wham
- poor devil
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- someone you feel sorry for related words >
- Bowery bum,
- almsman,
- almswoman,
- bankrupt,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- casual,
- charity case,
- derelict,
- devil,
- down-and-out,
- down-and-outer,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hardcase,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- indigent,
- lowlife,
- martyr,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- object of compassion,
- pauper,
- pauvre diable,
- penniless man,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor man,
- poorling,
- prey,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- skid-row bum,
- starveling,
- stiff,
- sufferer,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tramp,
- truant,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- victim,
- wastrel,
- welfare client,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- pinprick
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- small puncture (as if made by a pin)
- a minor annoyance related words >
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- curio,
- cursoriness,
- epidermis,
- exteriority,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gloss,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hill of beans,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- mere scratch,
- minikin,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- no depth,
- no water,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- rap,
- red cent,
- rind,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- scratch,
- shallowness,
- shit,
- shoaliness,
- skin,
- slightness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- straw,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- surface,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- veneer,
- whim-wham
- prismatic
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- exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism; "prismatic light"
- of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism; "prismatic form" related words >
- bicolor,
- bicolored,
- chromatic,
- cold,
- colorful,
- colorific,
- coloring,
- colory,
- cool,
- crazy,
- daedal,
- dichromatic,
- divers-colored,
- glowing,
- harlequin,
- harmonious,
- kaleidoscopic,
- many-colored,
- matching,
- medley,
- monochromatic,
- monochrome,
- monochromic,
- motley,
- multiangular,
- multicolor,
- multicolored,
- multicolorous,
- multilateral,
- parti-color,
- parti-colored,
- pigmentary,
- polychromatic,
- polychrome,
- polychromic,
- polygonal,
- polyhedral,
- prismal,
- prismoid,
- pyramidal,
- pyramidic,
- rainbow,
- shot,
- shot through,
- spectral,
- thunder and lightning,
- tinctorial,
- tingent,
- toning,
- trichromatic,
- trichromic,
- tricolor,
- tricolored,
- two-tone,
- varicolored,
- variegated,
- versicolor,
- versicolored,
- warm
- elasticity
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- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" related words >
- adaptability,
- adjustability,
- agreeability,
- amenability,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- bendability,
- brawn,
- brawniness,
- ductibility,
- ductility,
- extendibility,
- extensibility,
- facility,
- fictility,
- flexibility,
- flexility,
- flexuousness,
- formativeness,
- give,
- heftiness,
- huskiness,
- impressionability,
- involuntary muscle,
- limberness,
- litheness,
- malleability,
- moldability,
- muscle,
- muscularity,
- musculature,
- physique,
- plasticity,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- receptiveness,
- resilience,
- responsiveness,
- rubberiness,
- sensibility,
- sensitiveness,
- sequacity,
- sinew,
- sinewiness,
- sinews,
- springiness,
- stretch,
- stretchability,
- stretchiness,
- submissiveness,
- suppleness,
- susceptibility,
- tensileness,
- tensility,
- thew,
- thewiness,
- thews,
- tolerance,
- tone,
- tractability,
- tractility,
- voluntary muscle,
- willowiness
- underplay
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- play a card lower than (a held high card) related words >
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- bank the fire,
- bedwarf,
- belittle,
- blunt,
- chasten,
- constrain,
- control,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deprecate,
- depreciate,
- detract from,
- diminish,
- downplay,
- dull,
- dwarf,
- extenuate,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- make light of,
- make little of,
- make nothing of,
- minify,
- minimize,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- obtund,
- palliate,
- play down,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- restrain,
- set at naught,
- set little by,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- stifle,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- think little of,
- think nothing of,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- weaken
- curio
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- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting related words >
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- conversation piece,
- curiosity,
- exception,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hill of beans,
- improbability,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- minikin,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- museum piece,
- nonesuch,
- oddity,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- rap,
- rarity,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- shit,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- strange thing,
- straw,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- whatnot,
- whim-wham
- uptown
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- a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
- of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas"
- toward or in the upper part of town related words >
- Bowery,
- Chinatown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- West End,
- West Side,
- barrio,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- burghal,
- business district,
- central city,
- citified,
- city,
- city center,
- civic,
- core,
- downtown,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- heavenward,
- inner city,
- interurban,
- metropolitan,
- midtown,
- municipal,
- oppidan,
- outskirts,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- skyward,
- slum,
- slums,
- suburban,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement district,
- town,
- up,
- up attic,
- up north,
- up steps,
- upalong,
- uphill,
- uphillward,
- uplong,
- upstairs,
- upstream,
- upstreamward,
- upward,
- upwards,
- upwith,
- urban,
- urban blight,
- village
- clotheshorse
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- a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) related words >
- Beau Brummel,
- arbiter of fashion,
- beau,
- blade,
- blood,
- boulevardier,
- buck,
- clubman,
- clubwoman,
- coxcomb,
- dandy,
- deb,
- debutante,
- dude,
- exquisite,
- fashion plate,
- fashionable,
- fine gentleman,
- fop,
- fribble,
- gallant,
- horse,
- jack-a-dandy,
- jackanapes,
- lady-killer,
- macaroni,
- man-about-town,
- masher,
- mondain,
- mondaine,
- puppy,
- sawbuck,
- sawhorse,
- socialite,
- spark,
- sport,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- swell,
- swinger,
- taste-maker,
- tone-setter,
- trend-setter,
- trestle,
- trestle and table,
- trestle board,
- trestle table,
- trestlework,
- trestling
- caterwaul
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- the yowling sound made by a cat in heat related words >
- bark,
- battle cry,
- bawl,
- bay,
- bell,
- bellow,
- bicker,
- blare,
- blat,
- blate,
- bleat,
- bray,
- call,
- cheer,
- creak,
- cry,
- fall out,
- give tongue,
- give voice,
- hail,
- halloo,
- holler,
- hollo,
- hoot,
- howl,
- hurrah,
- keen,
- low,
- meow,
- mew,
- mewl,
- miaow,
- moo,
- neigh,
- nicker,
- pipe,
- pule,
- rallying cry,
- roar,
- row,
- scrap,
- screak,
- scream,
- screech,
- shout,
- shriek,
- shrill,
- skirl,
- skreigh,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeal,
- tiff,
- troat,
- ululate,
- ululation,
- wail,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- whicker,
- whine,
- whinny,
- whistle,
- whoop,
- wrangle,
- wrawl,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yo-ho,
- yowl
- calcimine
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- a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings
- cover with calcimine; "calcimine the walls" related words >
- apply paint,
- bedaub,
- bedizen,
- begild,
- besmear,
- brush on paint,
- chalk,
- coat,
- color,
- complexion,
- cover,
- dab,
- daub,
- deep-dye,
- dip,
- distemper,
- double-dye,
- dye,
- emblazon,
- enamel,
- engild,
- face,
- fast-dye,
- fresco,
- gild,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- grain,
- hue,
- illuminate,
- imbue,
- ingrain,
- japan,
- lacquer,
- lay on color,
- paint,
- parget,
- pigment,
- pipe-clay,
- prime,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shellac,
- slop on paint,
- smear,
- stain,
- stipple,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tone,
- undercoat,
- varnish,
- wash,
- white,
- whitewash
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- comedown,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- demotion,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- dissoluteness,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- profligacy,
- regression,
- reprobacy,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- rottenness,
- slippage,
- slump,
- turpitude,
- wane
- guardhouse
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- a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- penal colony
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- a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- algorithm
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- a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem related words >
- Arabic numerals,
- MO,
- Roman numerals,
- algorism,
- applied mathematics,
- approach,
- attack,
- binary system,
- course,
- decimal system,
- duodecimal system,
- fashion,
- figures,
- form,
- guise,
- hexadecimal system,
- higher mathematics,
- line,
- line of action,
- lines,
- manner,
- manner of working,
- math,
- mathematic,
- mathematics,
- means,
- method,
- methodology,
- mode,
- mode of operation,
- mode of procedure,
- modus operandi,
- numbers,
- octal system,
- order,
- practice,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- process,
- pure mathematics,
- routine,
- style,
- system,
- tack,
- technique,
- the drill,
- the how,
- the way of,
- tone,
- way,
- wise
- jitters
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- extreme nervousness related words >
- agitation,
- all-overs,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- churn,
- cold shivers,
- cold sweat,
- commotion,
- conturbation,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- dithers,
- ebullition,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- flap,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fume,
- fuss,
- heebie-jeebies,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- inquietude,
- jimjams,
- jumpiness,
- jumps,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- moil,
- nerves,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- perturbation,
- queasiness,
- quivers,
- restlessness,
- roil,
- rout,
- row,
- seethe,
- seething,
- shakes,
- shivers,
- skittishness,
- stir,
- sweat,
- swirl,
- to-do,
- trembles,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unrest,
- upset,
- willies
- dungeon
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- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- donjon,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- stronghold,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- vault
- brig
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- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- calaboose,
- can,
- cell,
- clink,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- cooler,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- guardroom,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- bank the fire,
- bedwarf,
- belittle,
- blunt,
- chasten,
- constrain,
- control,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deprecate,
- depreciate,
- detract from,
- diminish,
- downplay,
- dull,
- dwarf,
- extenuate,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- make light of,
- make little of,
- make nothing of,
- minify,
- minimize,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mute,
- obtund,
- palliate,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- restrain,
- set at naught,
- set little by,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- stifle,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- think little of,
- think nothing of,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- underplay,
- weaken
- turbidity
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- muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended related words >
- adiaphanousness,
- agitation,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- churn,
- cloudiness,
- commotion,
- conturbation,
- darkness,
- dimness,
- dirtiness,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- ebullition,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- flap,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fume,
- fuss,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- imperviousness to light,
- inquietude,
- intransparency,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- miriness,
- moil,
- muckiness,
- muddiness,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- obscurity,
- ooziness,
- opacity,
- opaque,
- opaqueness,
- perturbation,
- restlessness,
- roil,
- roiledness,
- rout,
- row,
- seethe,
- seething,
- slabbiness,
- slobbiness,
- sloppiness,
- sloshiness,
- sludginess,
- slushiness,
- squashiness,
- squelchiness,
- stir,
- swirl,
- to-do,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidness,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unrest,
- upset
- Bedlam let loose,
- ado,
- affray,
- bedlam,
- blast,
- bobbery,
- bother,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- charivari,
- chirm,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- clap,
- clatter,
- commotion,
- din,
- discord,
- disturbance,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- drunken brawl,
- dustup,
- embroilment,
- fight,
- flap,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- fray,
- fuss,
- hassle,
- hell broke loose,
- helter-skelter,
- howl,
- hubbub,
- hue and cry,
- hullabaloo,
- jangle,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- loud noise,
- melee,
- noise,
- noise and shouting,
- outcry,
- pandemonium,
- pell-mell,
- pother,
- racket,
- rampage,
- rattle,
- rhubarb,
- riot,
- roar,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- scramble,
- scrimmage,
- shindy,
- shivaree,
- stir,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- tintamarre,
- to-do,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- turmoil,
- uproar
- apply paint,
- aurify,
- bedaub,
- bedizen,
- besmear,
- brush on paint,
- calcimine,
- coat,
- color,
- complexion,
- cover,
- dab,
- daub,
- deep-dye,
- dip,
- distemper,
- double-dye,
- dye,
- emblazon,
- enamel,
- engild,
- face,
- fast-dye,
- fresco,
- gild,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- grain,
- hue,
- illuminate,
- imbue,
- ingrain,
- japan,
- jaundice,
- lacquer,
- lay on color,
- paint,
- parget,
- pigment,
- prime,
- sallow,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shellac,
- slop on paint,
- smear,
- stain,
- stipple,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tone,
- turn yellow,
- undercoat,
- varnish,
- wash,
- whitewash,
- yellow
- bedlam
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- pejorative terms for an insane asylum related words >
- Babel,
- Bedlam let loose,
- asylum,
- blast,
- bobbery,
- brawl,
- brouhaha,
- bughouse,
- cacophony,
- chaos,
- charivari,
- chirm,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- clap,
- clatter,
- commotion,
- confusion,
- confusion of tongues,
- din,
- discord,
- donnybrook,
- drunken brawl,
- dustup,
- flap,
- fracas,
- free-for-all,
- hell,
- hell broke loose,
- howl,
- hubbub,
- hue and cry,
- hullabaloo,
- insane asylum,
- jangle,
- loud noise,
- lunatic asylum,
- madhouse,
- mental home,
- mental hospital,
- mental institution,
- noise,
- noise and shouting,
- nuthouse,
- outcry,
- padded cell,
- pandemonium,
- psychiatric ward,
- psychopathic hospital,
- racket,
- rattle,
- rhubarb,
- roar,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- shindy,
- shivaree,
- static,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- tintamarre,
- tumult,
- turmoil,
- uproar
- borstal
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- a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22 related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal institution,
- borstal school,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- remand school,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- borstal school,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reformatory,
- remand school,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school
- training school
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- a school providing practical vocational and technical training related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- borstal school,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- remand school,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth
- Bowery,
- Chinatown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- West End,
- West Side,
- bagnio,
- barrio,
- bawdyhouse,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- bordello,
- brothel,
- business district,
- cathouse,
- central city,
- city center,
- core,
- crib,
- den,
- den of vice,
- disorderly house,
- dive,
- downtown,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- house of assignation,
- house of joy,
- house of prostitution,
- inner city,
- joint,
- midtown,
- outskirts,
- panel den,
- panel house,
- residential district,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- sink of iniquity,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slum,
- slums,
- sporting house,
- stew,
- stews,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement district,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- whorehouse
- truant
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- one who is absent from school without permission
- absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" related words >
- AWOL,
- Bowery bum,
- absent,
- absent without leave,
- absentee,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- clock watcher,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dodger,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- eye-servant,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- loafer,
- loafing,
- lowlife,
- malingerer,
- malingering,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- old soldier,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- runaway,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- shirking,
- skid-row bum,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- soldier,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tax dodger,
- tramp,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- wastrel,
- welsher,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- resilience
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- the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
- an occurrence of rebounding or springing back related words >
- adaptability,
- adjustability,
- airiness,
- alterability,
- backfire,
- backlash,
- backlashing,
- boomerang,
- bounce,
- bounciness,
- bound,
- breeziness,
- buoyance,
- buoyancy,
- carefreeness,
- carom,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- changefulness,
- chirpiness,
- contrecoup,
- debonairness,
- elasticity,
- extensibility,
- flexibility,
- fluidity,
- give,
- impermanence,
- jauntiness,
- kick,
- kickback,
- levity,
- light heart,
- lightheartedness,
- lightness,
- lightsomeness,
- liveliness,
- malleability,
- mobility,
- modifiability,
- movability,
- mutability,
- nonuniformity,
- perkiness,
- permutability,
- pertness,
- plasticity,
- rebound,
- rebuff,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- repercussion,
- repulse,
- resiliency,
- responsiveness,
- ricochet,
- rubberiness,
- snap,
- spring,
- springiness,
- stretch,
- stretchability,
- stretchiness,
- suppleness,
- tone,
- tonicity,
- tonus,
- transience,
- transitoriness
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