Related Words:
- advocate,
- allege in support,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- argue for,
- assert,
- be contrary to,
- belie,
- blow sky-high,
- break,
- call into question,
- challenge,
- champion,
- confound,
- confute,
- contend for,
- contest,
- contradict,
- contravene,
- controvert,
- counter,
- countercharge,
- counterclaim,
- cross,
- crush,
- defeat,
- defend,
- demolish,
- deny,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- disconfirm,
- discredit,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- disprove,
- espouse,
- evert,
- expose,
- finish,
- floor,
- gainsay,
- hold off,
- invalidate,
- keep off,
- maintain,
- make a plea,
- make a rebuttal,
- negate,
- nonplus,
- oppugn,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- parry,
- plead for,
- puncture,
- put to silence,
- rebuff,
- reduce to silence,
- refute,
- reject,
- rejoin,
- repel,
- reply,
- repulse,
- respond,
- riposte,
- ruin,
- say in defense,
- settle,
- shoot down,
- shut up,
- silence,
- smash all opposition,
- speak for,
- speak up for,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stand up for,
- stave off,
- stick up for,
- subvert,
- support,
- surrebut,
- surrejoin,
- sustain,
- traverse,
- undermine,
- uphold,
- upset,
- urge reasons for,
- ward off
- defense mechanism
collapse - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance,
- avoidance mechanism,
- avoidance reaction,
- avoiding reaction,
- blame-shifting,
- block,
- blocking,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conversion,
- decompensation,
- defence,
- defense,
- defense in depth,
- defenses,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- deterrent capacity,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- dodge,
- duck,
- ego defenses,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emotional insulation,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- guard,
- isolation,
- jink,
- mental block,
- negative taxis,
- negativism,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- overcompensation,
- prevention,
- projection,
- protection,
- psychological defenses,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- repression,
- resistance,
- self-defense,
- self-preservation,
- self-protection,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- symbolization,
- the defensive,
- the runaround,
- ward,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- zigzag
- vigil
collapse
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- a period of sleeplessness related words >
- Mass,
- alertness,
- all-night vigil,
- bedtime prayer,
- camp meeting,
- church,
- church service,
- compline,
- consciousness,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- devotions,
- divine service,
- duty,
- eagle eye,
- evening devotions,
- evensong,
- exercises,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- insomnia,
- insomniac,
- insomnolence,
- insomnolency,
- invigilation,
- lauds,
- lidless vigil,
- liturgy,
- lookout,
- matins,
- meeting,
- monitoring,
- morning devotions,
- night song,
- none,
- nones,
- novena,
- observance,
- office,
- peeled eye,
- praise meeting,
- prayer,
- prayer meeting,
- prayers,
- prime,
- prime song,
- proctoring,
- prudence,
- public worship,
- qui vive,
- restlessness,
- revival,
- revival meeting,
- sentience,
- service,
- sext,
- sharp eye,
- sleeplessness,
- stewardship,
- surveillance,
- tent meeting,
- tierce,
- tossing and turning,
- undersong,
- vesper,
- vespers,
- vigilance,
- vigils,
- wake,
- wakefulness,
- wariness,
- watch,
- watch and ward,
- watch meeting,
- watch night,
- watch-night service,
- watchful eye,
- watchfulness,
- watching,
- weather eye
- duchy
collapse
- the domain controlled by a duke or duchess related words >
- Kreis,
- ally,
- archbishopric,
- archdiocese,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- arrondissement,
- bailiwick,
- bishopric,
- body politic,
- borough,
- buffer state,
- canton,
- captive nation,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city,
- city-state,
- colony,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- commune,
- congressional district,
- constablewick,
- country,
- county,
- departement,
- diocese,
- district,
- domain,
- dominion,
- dukedom,
- earldom,
- electoral district,
- electorate,
- empery,
- empire,
- free city,
- government,
- grand duchy,
- hamlet,
- hundred,
- kingdom,
- land,
- magistracy,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- nation,
- nationality,
- oblast,
- okrug,
- parish,
- polis,
- polity,
- possession,
- power,
- precinct,
- principality,
- principate,
- protectorate,
- province,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- realm,
- region,
- republic,
- riding,
- satellite,
- seneschalty,
- settlement,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffwick,
- shire,
- shrievalty,
- soke,
- sovereign nation,
- stake,
- state,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- territory,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- town,
- township,
- village,
- wapentake,
- ward
- county
collapse
- a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government; "the county has a population of 12,345 people"
- the largest administrative district within a state; "the county plans to build a new road" related words >
- Kreis,
- ally,
- archbishopric,
- archdiocese,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- arrondissement,
- bailiwick,
- bishopric,
- body politic,
- borough,
- buffer state,
- canton,
- captive nation,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city,
- city-state,
- colony,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- commune,
- congressional district,
- constablewick,
- country,
- departement,
- diocese,
- district,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- earldom,
- electoral district,
- electorate,
- empery,
- empire,
- free city,
- government,
- grand duchy,
- hamlet,
- hundred,
- kingdom,
- land,
- magistracy,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- nation,
- nationality,
- oblast,
- okrug,
- parish,
- polis,
- polity,
- possession,
- power,
- precinct,
- principality,
- principate,
- protectorate,
- province,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- realm,
- region,
- republic,
- riding,
- satellite,
- seneschalty,
- settlement,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffwick,
- shire,
- shrievalty,
- soke,
- sovereign nation,
- stake,
- state,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- territory,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- town,
- township,
- village,
- wapentake,
- ward
- boat
collapse
- a small vessel for travel on water
- ride in a boat on water related words >
- almadia,
- argosy,
- ark,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automobile,
- auxiliary,
- barge,
- bark,
- bottom,
- bucket,
- buggy,
- bus,
- buss,
- canoe,
- car,
- cargo boat,
- carry sail,
- cart,
- cat,
- catamaran,
- circumnavigate,
- coach,
- coast,
- cockle,
- cockleshell,
- cog,
- coracle,
- craft,
- crate,
- cross,
- cruise,
- cruiser,
- cutter,
- dinghy,
- dispatch boat,
- dray,
- drifter,
- dugout,
- ferry,
- ferryboat,
- fishing boat,
- float,
- funny,
- galley,
- gig,
- glider,
- go by ship,
- go on shipboard,
- go to sea,
- gondola,
- haul,
- heap,
- hooker,
- houseboat,
- hoy,
- hulk,
- hull,
- hydrofoil,
- hydroplane,
- jalopy,
- jolly,
- jolly boat,
- kayak,
- keel,
- knockabout,
- launch,
- leviathan,
- lifeboat,
- lighter,
- longboat,
- machine,
- mailer,
- make a passage,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorboat,
- motorcar,
- motorized vehicle,
- navigate,
- outboard,
- outrigger canoe,
- packet,
- pilot,
- pilot boat,
- pinnace,
- piragua,
- pirogue,
- ply,
- pontoon,
- post boat,
- pram,
- punt,
- racer,
- racing shell,
- raft,
- randan,
- row,
- rowboat,
- rowing boat,
- run,
- runabout,
- sail,
- sail round,
- sail the sea,
- sailboat,
- sampan,
- scooter,
- scow,
- scull,
- seafare,
- shallop,
- shell,
- ship,
- showboat,
- skiff,
- sled,
- sledge,
- small boat,
- sneakbox,
- speedboat,
- steam,
- steamboat,
- surfboat,
- take a voyage,
- towboat,
- traverse,
- trawlboat,
- trawler,
- trimaran,
- trow,
- truck,
- tub,
- tug,
- tugboat,
- van,
- vessel,
- voiture,
- voyage,
- wagon,
- wanigan,
- watercraft,
- whale-gig,
- whaleboat,
- wheelbarrow,
- wheels,
- wherry,
- wreck,
- yacht,
- yawl,
- yawl boat
- deflect
collapse
- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest related words >
- angle,
- angle off,
- anticipate,
- arch,
- avert,
- bar,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blunt,
- bow,
- change,
- chill,
- cool,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debar,
- decurve,
- deter,
- deviate,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disperse,
- distort,
- distract,
- divagate,
- diverge,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- embow,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- flex,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- hairpin,
- help,
- hold off,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- indispose,
- inflect,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- loop,
- oblique,
- obviate,
- parry,
- pivot,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- put off,
- quench,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- repel,
- retroflex,
- round,
- rule out,
- sag,
- save,
- scatter,
- sheer,
- shy,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slue,
- stave off,
- swag,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- switch,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- twist,
- vault,
- veer,
- volte-face,
- ward off,
- warp,
- wean from,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wind,
- zigzag
- ferry
collapse
- transport by boat or aircraft
- a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
- travel by ferry
- transport by ferry
- transport from one place to another related words >
- access,
- aeroplane,
- airlift,
- airplane,
- aisle,
- alley,
- almadia,
- ambulatory,
- aperture,
- arcade,
- ark,
- artery,
- auxiliary,
- avenue,
- balloon,
- barge,
- be airborne,
- bear,
- boat,
- buck,
- bus,
- buss,
- canoe,
- cargo boat,
- cart,
- cat,
- catamaran,
- channel,
- cloister,
- coach,
- cockle,
- cockleshell,
- cog,
- colonnade,
- communication,
- conduit,
- connection,
- convey,
- coracle,
- corridor,
- covered way,
- cruise,
- cruiser,
- cutter,
- defile,
- dinghy,
- dispatch boat,
- dray,
- drift,
- drifter,
- dugout,
- exit,
- ferryboat,
- fishing boat,
- flit,
- float,
- fly,
- ford,
- funny,
- gallery,
- galley,
- gig,
- glide,
- glider,
- gondola,
- haul,
- hop,
- houseboat,
- hover,
- hoy,
- hump,
- hydrofoil,
- hydroplane,
- inlet,
- interchange,
- intersection,
- ja,
- jet,
- jolly,
- jolly boat,
- junction,
- kayak,
- lane,
- launch,
- lifeboat,
- lighter,
- longboat,
- mailer,
- motorboat,
- navigate,
- opening,
- outboard,
- outlet,
- outrigger canoe,
- overpass,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pilot,
- pilot boat,
- pinnace,
- piragua,
- pirogue,
- pontoon,
- portico,
- post boat,
- pram,
- punt,
- racer,
- racing shell,
- raft,
- railroad tunnel,
- randan,
- rowboat,
- rowing boat,
- runabout,
- sail,
- sailplane,
- sampan,
- scooter,
- scow,
- scull,
- seaplane,
- shallop,
- shell,
- ship,
- showboat,
- skiff,
- sled,
- sledge,
- small boat,
- sneakbox,
- soar,
- stimulating,
- surfboat,
- take the air,
- take wing,
- towboat,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trawlboat,
- trawler,
- trimaran,
- trow,
- truck,
- tug,
- tugboat,
- tunnel,
- underpass,
- van,
- volplane,
- wagon,
- wanigan,
- whale-gig,
- whaleboat,
- wheelbarrow,
- wherry,
- wing,
- yawl,
- yawl boat
- ability,
- acropolis,
- area,
- bag,
- bastion,
- beachhead,
- blockhouse,
- bridgehead,
- bump,
- bunker,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capacity,
- castle,
- citadel,
- cogency,
- cup of tea,
- donjon,
- dower,
- dowry,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- faculty,
- fasthold,
- fastness,
- field,
- flair,
- fort,
- forte,
- fortress,
- garrison,
- garrison house,
- genius,
- gift,
- good reason,
- good reasoning,
- hold,
- instinct,
- ironclad reasoning,
- keep,
- knockdown argument,
- line,
- long suit,
- main interest,
- makings,
- manner,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- metier,
- mote,
- motte,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- parts,
- peel,
- peel tower,
- pet subject,
- pillbox,
- post,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- pursuit,
- qualification,
- rath,
- right thinking,
- safehold,
- sound evidence,
- sound reasoning,
- specialism,
- speciality,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- strong argument,
- strong flair,
- stronghold,
- style,
- talent,
- talents,
- technicality,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- thing,
- tower,
- tower of strength,
- type,
- vocation,
- ward,
- way,
- weakness,
- what it takes
- anticipate,
- arrest,
- avert,
- ban,
- bar,
- bar out,
- block,
- blockade,
- bridle,
- check,
- close out,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- count out,
- curb,
- curtail,
- cut off,
- debar,
- decelerate,
- deflect,
- deny,
- deter,
- disallow,
- discourage,
- disenable,
- dishearten,
- disqualify,
- dompt,
- embargo,
- enjoin,
- estop,
- exclude,
- exclude from,
- fend,
- fend off,
- foil,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- freeze out,
- frustrate,
- govern,
- guard,
- hamper,
- help,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- ignore,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- interdict,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep off,
- keep out,
- keep under control,
- lay under restraint,
- leave out,
- lock out,
- make impossible,
- obstruct,
- obviate,
- omit,
- ostracize,
- outlaw,
- pass over,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- proscribe,
- pull,
- pull in,
- refuse,
- rein,
- rein in,
- reject,
- relegate,
- repel,
- repress,
- repudiate,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- rule out,
- save,
- say no to,
- send to Coventry,
- set back,
- shut out,
- slow down,
- snub,
- stave off,
- stop,
- straiten,
- suppress,
- taboo,
- thwart,
- turn aside,
- ward off,
- withhold
- management
collapse
- the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?"
- those in charge of running a business related words >
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- acme,
- action,
- administration,
- agency,
- archon,
- auspices,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- authority,
- authorization,
- be-all and end-all,
- blue ribbon,
- board,
- board of directors,
- board of regents,
- board of trustees,
- bosses,
- bureaucracy,
- cabinet,
- cadre,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- championship,
- chancellor,
- charge,
- chariness,
- chief executive,
- chief executive officer,
- civil government,
- command,
- commission,
- completion,
- conduct,
- control,
- council,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- dean,
- directing,
- direction,
- directorate,
- directors,
- directorship,
- directory,
- discharge,
- discipline,
- dispatch,
- dispensation,
- disposition,
- dominion,
- driving,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- effectiveness,
- effectuation,
- empery,
- empire,
- employment,
- enactment,
- execution,
- executive,
- executive arm,
- executive committee,
- executive director,
- executive hierarchy,
- executive officer,
- executive secretary,
- executives,
- exercise,
- exploitation,
- false economy,
- first place,
- first prize,
- forehandedness,
- form of government,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- functioning,
- good management,
- governance,
- governing board,
- governing body,
- government,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- handling,
- hands,
- headship,
- hegemony,
- height,
- hierarchy,
- higher echelons,
- higher-ups,
- highest,
- husbandry,
- imperium,
- implementation,
- influence,
- infrastructure,
- intendance,
- interlocking directorate,
- jurisdiction,
- keeping,
- kingship,
- lead,
- leadership,
- leading,
- lordship,
- magistrate,
- managery,
- managing,
- managing director,
- manipulation,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- maximum,
- means of dealing,
- ministry,
- most,
- ne plus ultra,
- new high,
- occupation,
- officer,
- official,
- officialdom,
- operancy,
- operation,
- ordering,
- oversight,
- palms,
- paramountcy,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- performance,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- pilotage,
- political organization,
- polity,
- power,
- practice,
- prefect,
- prelacy,
- presidency,
- president,
- prexy,
- primacy,
- protectorship,
- providence,
- provost,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- record,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- reign,
- responsibility,
- rule,
- ruling class,
- ruling classes,
- running,
- safe hands,
- say,
- secretary,
- sovereignty,
- sparingness,
- steerage,
- steering,
- steering committee,
- stewardship,
- superintendence,
- superintendency,
- supervision,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- system of government,
- the Establishment,
- the administration,
- the authorities,
- the brass,
- the conn,
- the executive,
- the helm,
- the ingroup,
- the interests,
- the people upstairs,
- the power elite,
- the power structure,
- the top,
- the wheel,
- them,
- they,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- top brass,
- top spot,
- transaction,
- treasurer,
- treatment,
- tutelage,
- unwastefulness,
- usage,
- using,
- utilization,
- vice-chancellor,
- vice-president,
- ward,
- warden,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- wing,
- work,
- working,
- workings,
- zenith
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