Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/81

spud

• spud, Irish potato, Kraut, aubergine, beans, cabbage, eggplant, greens, legumes, love apple, mad apple, pieplant, potato, potherbs, produce, rhubarb, tater, tomato, vegetables, white potato

spume

• spume, aerate, air, beat, breakers, bubble, chaff, chip, cobweb, collar, cork, cream, down, dust, ether, fairy, feather, flue, fluff, foam, froth, fuzz, gossamer, head, lather, mantle, meringue, mote, mousse, offscum, plash, puff, scud, scum, sea foam, shower, slosh, soapsuds, souffle, sparge, spatter, spindrift, splash, splatter, sponge, spoondrift, spray, sprinkle, stinging, straw, sud, suds, surf, swash, thistledown, whip, whisk, white water, yeast

spunk

• spunk, German tinder, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, amadou, ambitiousness, backbone, bang, bottle, bottom, chutzpah, courage, dash, dauntlessness, doggedness, drive, dynamism, enterprise, enterprisingness, fire, force, forcefulness, gameness, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, grit, gumption, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak, hustle, initiative, intestinal fortitude, kick, marrow, mettle, mettlesomeness, moxie, nerve, pep, pepper, piss and vinegar, pith, pizzazz, pluck, pluckiness, poop, punch, punk, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, pyrotechnic sponge, resolution, resolve, sand, snap, spirit, spunkiness, stamina, starch, stout heart, thrust, tinder, tinder fungus, tinderbox, touchwood, toughness, true grit, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, verve, vim, zing, zip

spunkless

• spunkless, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, benumbed, blah, blase, chicken, comatose, coward, craven, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dull, gritless, gutless, heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, in a stupor, indifferent, insouciant, languid, lethargic, lily-livered, listless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poltroon, poltroonish, pusillanimous, resigned, slack, sluggish, soporific, spiritless, stoic, stupefied, supine, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, uncourageous, undaring, ungallant, unheroic, uninterested, unintrepid, unmanly, unsoldierlike, unsoldierly, unvaliant, unvalorous, withdrawn

spunky

• spunky, beany, bold, bulldoggish, combustible, courageous, dauntless, doughty, explosive, fearless, fiery, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hasty, high-spirited, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, mettlesome, nervy, passionate, peppery, pertinacious, plucky, quick, quick-tempered, red-blooded, resolute, short-tempered, spirited, spiritful, tenacious, tough, unfearing, volcanic

spur

• spur, accelerate, activation, actuation, aculeate, acuminate, animate, appendage, arm, arouse, awaken, barb, barbel, barbule, bill, bough, branch, brashly, breakwater, bundle, bustle, cage, cape, catalyst, cheer on, chersonese, cog, comb, coral reef, corral, countenance, crag, crest, crowd, cuspidate, delta, dispatch, drive, drive on, drove, edge, egg on, encourage, encouragement, excitant, excite, exhort, expedite, fang, favor, file, flog, foreland, forward, gad, gadfly, gaff, goad, goad on, grind, hand, harrow, haste, hasten, hasten on, hastily, head, headland, herd, hie on, hilltop, hone, hook, hound on, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, imp, impel, impetuously, impetus, impromptu, impulse, impulsively, incautiously, incentive, incitation, incite, incitement, induce, inducement, instigate, instigation, jag, joint, knoll, lash, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, lofty peak, member, motivate, motivation, motive, mountaintop, mull, naze, needle, ness, nudge, offshoot, oilstone, on the spot, organ, oxgoad, peak, pecten, peninsula, pic, pico, pike, pinion, pinnacle, point, poke, precipice, precipitate, press, pressure, prick, process, prod, projection, promontory, prompt, prompting, prong, propel, provocation, provoke, punch cattle, push, push on, push through, quicken, quill, railroad through, rake, rally, ramification, rashly, ratchet, recklessly, reef, reset, ride herd on, root on, round up, rouse, rowel, runner, rush, rush along, sandspit, sawtooth, scion, set, sharpen, shepherd, sic, snag, snaggle, speed, speed along, speed on, speed up, spiculate, spike, spine, spire, spit, spray, sprig, sprocket, spur on, stampede, steeple, stimulant, stimulate, stimulation, stimulus, sting, stir, strap, strop, suddenly, summit, switch, tail, taper, tendril, thoughtlessly, tine, tongue, tooth, tor, twig, unexpectedly, unpremeditatedly, unthinkingly, urge, urge on, urging, whet, whip, whip along, whip on, whiplash, wing, wrangle

spurious

• spurious, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, baseborn, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceitful, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fatherless, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, fraudulent, garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, inauthentic, junky, make-believe, man-made, meretricious, misbegotten, miscited, miscreated, misquoted, misreported, misstated, mock, natural, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretend, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, substitute, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, warped

spurn

• spurn, abjure, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, brush aside, brush off, cast out, chase, chase away, chase off, chuck, chuck out, cold-shoulder, contemn, contradict, cut, cut direct, decline, deny, deport, despise, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, disfellowship, dismiss, disown, disregard, drive away, drive back, except, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, fend off, flout, forswear, fugitate, fuss, hold off, humiliation, ignore, keep off, look down upon, ostracize, outlaw, pack off, pass by, pass up, pick and choose, proscribe, push aside, push back, put back, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, refuse to receive, reject, relegate, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, rusticate, scoff, scorn, scorn to receive, scout, send away, send down, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, shove away, slight, sneer, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff, snort, snub, spit upon, spurning, steer clear of, the cold shoulder, the go-by, throw away, throw out, thrust back, thrust out, transport, turn away, turn back, turn down, turn out, waive, ward off

spurned

• spurned, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsaken, forsworn, ignored, jilted, loveless, lovelorn, not considered, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, unbeloved, uncherished, unloved

spurt

• spurt, a breath, acceleration, access, ado, advance, agitation, anabasis, ascension, ascent, belch, bit, blow out, blowout, bob up, bother, botheration, break water, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bustle, canter, cascade, cast forth, chase, clamber, climb, climbing, commotion, crowd, dart ahead, dash, dash ahead, dash off, dash on, dead run, debouch, debouchment, decant, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, disgorgement, dissiliency, dogtrot, double-time, drain, drain out, effort, ejaculate, ejaculation, elevation, emission, empty, eruct, eructation, erupt, eruption, escalade, exhaust, expel, expulsion, extravasate, extravasation, feery-fary, ferment, festinate, fidgetiness, find vent, fit, flank speed, flap, flare-up, flat-out speed, float up, flow, flow out, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fly up, font, forced draft, fount, fountain, full gallop, fuss, fussiness, gallop, get going, get moving, geyser, gush, gush out, gyring up, hand gallop, hasten, headlong rush, heavy right foot, high lope, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hustle, improvement, increase, instant, interval, jet, jog trot, jump, jump up, leap, leap up, levitation, little, little bit, little while, lope, lose no time, maelstrom, make a dash, make a spurt, make haste, maximum speed, moment, mount, mounting, move quickly, no time, open throttle, outbreak, outburst, outflow, outpour, pair of winks, play, plunge, pop up, post, pother, pour, pour forth, pour out, press on, push on, race, rapids, restlessness, rise, rising, rocket, rocketing up, run, run out, rush, rush ahead, rush through, saltation, scamper, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, send forth, send out, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot up, shooting up, short spell, short time, skyrocket, sluice out, small space, soaring, span, spasm, spate, spell, spew, spew out, spit, spout, spout out, spouter, spray, spring, spring up, sprint, sprit, spritz, spurtle, squirt, start up, stew, stir, surface, surge, sweat, swirl, takeoff, taking off, tear, throw out, to-do, torrent, trot, tumult, two shakes, unquiet, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upstart, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, vault up, volcan, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, vortex, well, well out, whirl, wide-open speed, zooming

spurtle

• spurtle, condensation, condense, distill, distillation, douse, dribble, drip, dripping, dripple, drop, filter, flush, font, fount, fountain, geyser, gurgle, gush, jet, leach, leaching, lixiviate, lixiviation, percolate, percolation, plash, play, rush, seep, seepage, seeping, slop, slosh, spatter, spew, spit, splatter, splosh, splurge, spout, spouter, spray, spritz, spurt, squirt, surge, swash, sweat, sweating, trickle, tricklet, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, weep, well

sputter

• sputter, assibilate, assibilation, barrage, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beating, bicker, blubber, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bounce, brag, bravado, bully, bullying, bustle, buzz, crackle, dance, drone, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, ejaculate, eject, fanfaronade, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flurry, fluster, flutter, frication, frictional rustling, fuss, gabble, gasconade, gibber, go pitapat, gutter, heckle, hector, hectoring, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, intimidate, intimidation, jabber, lisp, maunder, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, out-herod Herod, palpitate, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, pop, pound, pounding, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, quiver, rage, rant, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rave, rhonchus, rip out, rodomontade, roister, roll, rollick, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, shake, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, side, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slang, slat, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sob, sound a tattoo, spatter, speak incoherently, spit, splatter, splutter, squash, squelch, squish, staccato, sternutation, susurrate, swagger, swashbuckle, swashbucklery, swish, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, throw out, thrum, thump, thumping, tom-tom, vapor, wave, waver, wheeze, whish, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

sputtering

• sputtering, beating, clicking, dancing, desultory, drumming, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, guttering, palpitant, pounding, spattering, spluttering, sputtery, staccato, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking, unsteady, wavering, wavery

spy

• spy, CIA man, agent, be vigilant, be watchful, beagle, behold, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, bug, case, catch sight of, clap eyes on, cloak-and-dagger operative, counterintelligence agent, counterspy, delator, descry, detect, detective, dig out, discern, discover, distinguish, double agent, espionage agent, espy, eye, eyeball, ferret out, fink, fish out, follow, gaze at, glimpse, grub up, have a looksee, have in sight, hold in view, hunt out, identify, informer, inside man, intelligence agent, investigator, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, ken, lay eyes on, look after, look at, look on, look upon, make a reconnaissance, make out, meddle, military-intelligence man, narc, naval-intelligence man, nose, notice, observe, operative, peacher, peek, peep, perceive, pick out, pick up, play the spy, pry, pry out, put under surveillance, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoiterer, regard, root out, scout, scout out, search out, secret agent, see, sense, sight, sleuth, snitch, snitcher, snoop, spook, spot, spotter, spy out, spy upon, spy-catcher, squealer, stag, stake out, stool pigeon, stoolie, take in, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, twig, undercover man, view, watch, whistle-blower, witness

spying

• spying, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, counterintelligence, detection, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence work, looking, lookout, military intelligence, note, notice, observance, observation, regard, respect, secret police, secret service, shadowing, stakeout, surveillance, tailing, trailing, viewing, watch, watching, wiretap, wiretapping, witnessing

squab

• squab, Cornish hen, avifauna, baby bird, bear, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, broiler, cage bird, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chapon, chick, chicken, crowd, crush, cygnet, dindon, diving bird, dove, duck, duckling, dumpy, eagle, eaglet, faisan, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fulmar, game bird, goose, grouse, guinea hen, insect-eating bird, jam, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, oie, oscine bird, owl, partridge, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulet, push, quail, ratite, roaster, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shore bird, slop, songbird, squash, squeeze, squish, stewing chicken, storm petrel, stormy petrel, stubby, stumpy, swan, thick, thickset, turkey, volaille, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wild duck, wildfowl

squabble

• squabble, altercate, altercation, argufy, argument, beef, bicker, bicker over, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, caterwaul, clash, contend about, contention, contest, controversy, differ, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, encounter, fall out, feud, fight, fight over, flite, fliting, fracas, fuss, hassle, have words, imbroglio, join issue, logomachy, open quarrel, polemic, quarrel, quarrel over, quibble, row, scrap, set to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spar, spat, squabble over, strife, take issue with, tiff, tussle, vendetta, words, wrangle, wrangle over

squad

• squad, KP, age group, army, army group, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, cast, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, eight, eleven, faction, field army, field train, file, first string, first team, five, fleet, flying column, force, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, junta, kitchen police, legion, maniple, mob, movement, nine, organization, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, reserves, rowing crew, salon, second string, second team, section, set, squadron, stable, string, tactical unit, task force, team, third string, train, tribe, troop, troupe, unit, varsity, wing

squadron

• squadron, KP, Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, air arm, air corps, air force, air service, argosy, armada, army, army group, battalion, battery, battle group, brigade, cadre, coast guard, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, corps, detachment, detail, division, escadrille, field army, field train, file, fleet, flight, flotilla, flying column, garrison, kitchen police, legion, maniple, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, mosquito fleet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, organization, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, rank, regiment, section, squad, strategic air force, tactical air force, tactical unit, task force, task group, train, troop, unit, wing

squalid

• squalid, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down, brutal, careless, cheesy, chintzy, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, disreputable, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, lamentable, little, loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, monstrous, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, soily, sordid, tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, ugly, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

squall

• squall, altercation, bark, battle cry, bawl, bay, beef, bell, bellow, bickering, black squall, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blizzard, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, blubber, bluster, boom, brawl, bray, breathe, breeze, breeze up, brew, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, caw, chant, cheer, chirp, come up, coo, croak, crow, cry, cry out, cyclone, dirty weather, dispute, drawl, equinoctial, exclaim, falling-out, feud, fight, flute, foul weather, freshen, gale, gasp, gather, give tongue, give voice, groan, growl, grunt, hail, half a gale, halloo, hassle, heavy blow, hiss, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, huff, hurrah, hurricane, ill wind, keen, lilt, line squall, line storm, low, make an outcry, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, pant, pipe, pipe up, puff, pule, rage, rainstorm, rallying cry, roar, rough weather, rumble, screak, scream, screech, set in, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, snowstorm, sob, squall line, squawk, squeak, squeal, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempest, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thunder, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tirade, tornado, troat, tropical cyclone, trumpet, twang, typhoon, ugly wind, ululate, violent blow, waft, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whiff, whiffle, whine, whinny, whisper, white squall, whole gale, whoop, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

squally

• squally, aeolian, airish, airy, blasty, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, breezy, brisk, castellatus, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dirty, drafty, favonian, flawy, fresh, gloomy, gusty, heavy, lenticularis, mammatus, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, overcast, overclouded, puffy, stormy, stratiform, stratous, thunderheaded, windy

squalor

• squalor, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, awfulness, baseness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, blowziness, brutality, carelessness, chintziness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crumminess, debasement, degradation, depravity, despicableness, detestableness, direness, disgustingness, dowdiness, dreadfulness, egregiousness, enormity, execrableness, filth, foulness, frowziness, frumpishness, fulsomeness, grossness, grubbiness, hatefulness, heinousness, horribleness, infamousness, littleness, loathsomeness, looseness, lousiness, lowness, meanness, messiness, miserableness, monstrousness, nastiness, nefariousness, negligence, noisomeness, notoriousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, outrageousness, paltriness, pettiness, pokiness, poorness, rankness, repulsiveness, rottenness, scabbiness, scandalousness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, seediness, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, slatternliness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenry, slumminess, sluttishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidity, squalidness, tackiness, tawdriness, terribleness, the pits, uncleanness, unneatness, untidiness, vileness, worthlessness, wretchedness

squander

• squander, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, consume, cost, cost out, decrease, deplete, depreciate, digest, disburse, dissipate, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extravagancy, finish, finish off, fool away, fork out, fritter, gamble away, go through, gobble, gobble up, hang the expense, impoverish, incur costs, ingest, invest, lavish, lavishness, lay out, open the purse, outlay, overdoing, pay, pay out, prodigality, put out, run through, scatter, schedule, seize the day, shell out, shrink, sink money in, slather, sow broadcast, spend, splurge, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, throw, throw away, throw money around, use up, waste, waste away, wastefulness, wear, wear away

squandered

• squandered, ablated, by the board, consumed, depleted, dissipated, down the drain, eroded, expended, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone to waste, irretrievable, long-lost, lost, lost to, misspent, out the window, run to seed, shrunken, spent, used, used up, wasted, worn away

square dance

• square dance, Little Joe, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, barn dance, biquadrate, country dance, dance, fancy-dress ball, four, four-part diaphony, foursome, hop, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, mixer, prom, promenade, quad, quadrangle, quadrature, quadrennium, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, record hop, rectangle, shindig, shindy, square, squaring, stag dance, tea dance, tetrad, tetragon, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody, the dansant

square dealing

• square dealing, aboveboard, authentic, bona fide, fair and square, fair-minded, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, single-hearted, sporting, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, square, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, up-and-up, veritable

square

• square, Babbitt, Little Joe, Methuselah, Middle American, Philistine, T square, aboveboard, absolutely, accommodate, accord, accordant, account with, accurate, accurately, adapt, adipose, adjust, agora, agree, agree with, alike, amortize, anal, anal character, answer to, antediluvian, antique, aplomb, arena, arrange, assent, assort with, at par, at right angles, atone, atone for, au pair, authentic, back number, back-number, balance, balanced, banal, bang, be consistent, be of one, be uniform with, beefy, behind the times, bewhiskered, biquadrate, bloated, block, blowzy, bob, bona fide, bosomy, bourgeois, brawny, bromidic, burgher, burly, button-down, buxom, buy, buy off, campo, cancel, change, check, check out, chime, chubby, chunky, cincture, city block, clean, clear, clear off, clear the board, clear up, clos, close, cohere, coincide, come to terms, commensurate, common, commonplace, compensate, comply with, compulsive, compulsive character, concordant, concur, confine, conform, conform to, conform with, conformer, conformist, conservative, consist with, constant, container, conventional, conventionalist, coop, cooperate, coordinate, corny, corpulent, correct, correspond, correspond to, correspond with, corresponding, counteract, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, counterweigh, court, courtyard, croft, cube, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, curtilage, cut-and-dried, dad, dead, decent, defensible, definitely, delicate, delimited field, deserved, dice, diced, die-hard, direct, directly, discharge, distended, dodo, dovetail, drawn, due, dumpy, elder, enclave, enclosure, equal, equalize, equalized, equate, equilateral, equiponderate, equitable, ethical, even, even stephen, even the score, even up, evenhanded, exact, exactly, expiate, express, expressly, fade, fair, fair and square, faithful, faithfully, fall in together, familiar, fat, fattish, field, fifty-fifty, filling, fine, fit, fit in, fit together, fix, fleshy, flush, fogy, fold, form fours, formalist, formalistic, forty, forum, fossil, four, four-part diaphony, foursome, foursquare, fud, fuddy-duddy, full, fusty, gee, generous, genuine, get even with, give satisfaction, go together, go with, good, good-faith, granny, green, gross, ground, hackney, hackneyed, half-and-half, hang together, harmonious, harmonize, has-been, have, healthful, healthy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hit, hold together, honest, honor, honorable, impartial, impersonal, imposing, in accord, in all respects, in every respect, in keeping, in line, in step, indemnify, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, innocent, integrate, interlock, intersect, ipsissimis verbis, jibe, just, justifiable, justified, kerplunk, knotted, kosher, kraal, lawful, lead, legal, level, lift, like, liquidate, list, literally, literatim, live down, lock, longhair, lot, lubricate, lusty, make accounts square, make amends, make compensation, make four, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make restitution, make right, make up for, market, market cross, marketplace, mart, match, mathematical, matriarch, meaty, meet, meet and right, merited, methodologist, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mid-Victorian, middle-class type, model child, modify, mossback, moth-eaten, musty, naive, nerd, nice, nip and tuck, nonpartisan, not with it, nutritious, obese, obey, objective, oblong, offset, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old hat, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-fashioned, old-timer, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, organization man, orthodox, orthogonal, out of it, outsider, overlap, overweight, pale, paling, par, parallel, parcel of land, park, parrot, patch, patch up, patriarch, paunchy, pay, pay back, pay damages, pay in full, pay off, pay old debts, pay out, pay the bill, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, pay the shot, pay up, pedant, pedantic, pen, perfectionist, perpendicularly, piazza, pinpoint, place, plastic, plastic person, plat, platitudinous, plaza, plop, plot, plot of ground, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plumb-line, plummet, plump, plunk, podgy, point-blank, poise, pop, pops, portly, positively, potbellied, precise, precisely, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, predictable, proper, propitiate, proportion, proportionate, provincial, pudgy, puffy, pursy, quad, quadrangle, quadrangular, quadrate, quadratic, quadrature, quadrennium, quadriform, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, quit, quits, reactionary, real estate, reckon with, recompense, reconcile, rectangle, rectangular, redeem, redress, refined, refund, register, register with, regular old fogy, reimburse, relic, religious, religiously exact, repair, repay, requite, respond to, retire, rhombic, rhomboid, rialto, right, right and proper, right-angled, rightful, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rigorously, roly-poly, rotund, rule, ruler, satisfy, satisfying, scientific, scientifically exact, section, set, set off, set square, settle, settle accounts with, settle with, settled, severe, sharp, sheep, sheer, sheerly, sing in chorus, single-hearted, smack, smack-dab, solid, sop, sort with, spang, square accounts, square dance, square it, square things, square up, square with, square-dealing, square-shooting, squarely, squaring, squat, squatty, stale, stalemated, stalwart, stand together, starets, stereotyped, stick-in-the-mud, stiffen, stock, stocky, stout, straight, straight-shooting, straightedge, straighten up, straightforward, strait-laced, strapping, strict, strictly, strike a balance, stuffed shirt, stuffy, substantial, subtle, suit, swollen, tailor, take up, tally, tally with, tamper with, teenybopper, tense, tetrad, tetragon, tetragonal, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody, theater, thick-bodied, thickset, threadbare, throw back, tied, timeworn, to the letter, toft, top-heavy, tract, traditionalist, trapezohedral, trapezoid, triangle, trimmer, trite, true, truistic, try square, tubby, unbiased, undeviating, undeviatingly, unerring, unerringly, unimaginative, unoriginal, unprejudiced, unsophisticated, unstinting, up and down, up-and-up, upright, uptight, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritable, village green, warmed-over, warrantable, warranted, well-fed, well-known, well-worn, word by word, word for word, worn, worn thin, yard, yes-man

squarely

• squarely, absolutely, accurately, bang, dead, definitely, directly, equally, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, fifty-fifty, flush, full, in all respects, in every respect, ipsissimis verbis, just, kerplunk, literally, literatim, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, positively, precisely, right, rigidly, rigorously, sharp, smack, smack-dab, spang, square, straight, strictly, to the letter, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word

squaring

• squaring, Little Joe, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amends, assimilation, atonement, attunement, biquadrate, coaptation, compensation, composition, compromise, coordination, expiation, expiatory offering, four, four-part diaphony, foursome, harmonization, indemnification, indemnity, integration, making amends, making good, making right, making up, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, propitiation, quad, quadrangle, quadrature, quadrennium, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, quittance, reclamation, recompense, reconcilement, reconciliation, rectangle, redemption, redress, refund, regulation, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retribution, satisfaction, square, square dance, synchronization, tetrad, tetragon, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody, timing

squash

• squash, abrade, annihilate, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, asphyxiate, assibilate, assibilation, atomize, bear, beat, black out, bottle up, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, bruise, butter, buzz, cataplasm, censor, chew, choke, choke off, clamp down on, clay, comminute, confound, confute, contradict, contriturate, controvert, cork, cork up, crack down on, cram, crash, crowd, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, cushion, cut to pieces, damp down, defeat, demolish, dental pulp, deny, diffuse, disintegrate, dismiss, disperse, dispose of, disrupt, drove, drown, dumbfound, ease, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, extinguish, finish, fission, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, floor, flour, fluff, fragment, frication, frictional rustling, gag, gentle, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, gumbo, hiss, hissing, hold down, horde, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, hushing, jam, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knead, laxate, levigate, limber, limber up, lisp, loosen, macerate, make mincemeat of, mash, massage, masticate, mellow, milden, mill, mince, mire, mollify, muck, mud, muffle, multitude, mush, muzzle, nonplus, ooze, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, paper pulp, parry, paste, pestle, pith, plaster, plump, porridge, poultice, pound, pour water on, powder, press, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpify, pulpwood, pulverize, push, put down, put out, put to silence, quash, quell, quench, quiet, quieten, rag pulp, rebut, reduce to powder, reduce to silence, refute, relax, repress, rhonchus, sauce, scatter, scrunch, settle, shake up, shard, shatter, shiver, shred, shush, shushing, shut down on, shut up, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, silence, siss, sissing, sit down on, sit on, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slime, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slush, smash, smash all opposition, smash up, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuff out, snuffle, soft-pedal, soften, soften up, spit, splinter, splutter, sponge, sputter, squab, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp out, stanch, sternutation, stertor, stifle, still, strangle, strike dumb, stultify, subdue, subvert, suffocate, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, supple, suppress, swill, swish, tenderize, throng, throttle, tone down, trample out, trample underfoot, triturate, tune down, undermine, upset, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white lead, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wood pulp, zip

squashed

• squashed, crushed, even, flat, flattened, flush, homaloidal, horizontal, level, plain, plane, quashed, quelled, repressed, rolled, smashed, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, squashed flat, squelched, stifled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, tabloid, tabular, trodden, trodden flat

squashy

• squashy, baccate, dirty, doughy, flabby, fleshy, macerated, masticated, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, oozy, pappy, pasty, pithy, plashy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, spongy, sposhy, squelchy, squishy, squushy, succulent, turbid, yielding

squat

• squat, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abide, adipose, anchor, be enfeoffed of, be possessed of, be seated, be seized of, beefy, bend, berth, big-bellied, billet at, bivouac, bloated, blocky, blowzy, boast, bob, bosomy, bow, brawny, bunk, burly, burrow, buxom, camp, chubby, chunky, claim, cohabit, colonize, come to anchor, command, corpulent, couch, couchant, cower, crawl, cringe, crouch, crouched, curtsy, debased, depressed, distended, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, drop anchor, duck, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, dwell, elfin, enjoy, ensconce, establish residence, fat, fattish, fill, flat, fleshy, full, genuflection, get down, gross, grovel, hang out, have, have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hive, hold, hug the earth, hunch, hunch down, hunker down, imposing, incipient, inhabit, keep house, knee-high, kneeling, knocked flat, kowtow, laid low, lie low, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie under, live, live at, locate, lodge, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, moor, move, nanoid, neap, nest, nod, obeisance, obese, occupy, overweight, park, paunchy, people, perch, plump, podgy, populate, portly, possess, potbellied, prone, prostration, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, recumbent, relocate, remain, reside, retrousse, reverence, roly-poly, room, roost, rotund, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, salaam, scraggy, scrouch down, scrubby, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, sit down, snub-nosed, square, squat on, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stand, stay, stay at, stocky, stoop, stooped, stout, strapping, strike root, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stunted, supination, supine, swat, swollen, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, underlie, undersize, undersized, unelevated, usucapt, wallow, well-fed, welter, wizened

squatter

• squatter, arriviste, colonial, colonist, colonizer, emigrant, gate-crasher, greenhorn, hirer, homesteader, immigrant, incumbent, intruder, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novus homo, occupant, occupier, parvenu, paying guest, pioneer, planter, precursor, recruit, renter, resident, rookie, roomer, settler, sooner, stowaway, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, tenderfoot, underlessee, upstart

squatting

• squatting, abiding, abode, adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim, cohabitation, colony, commorancy, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, dwelling, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, habitancy, habitation, having title to, hold, holding, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, living, lodging, mandate, nesting, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, residence, residency, residing, seisin, socage, sojourning, staying, staying over, stopping, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage

squaw

• squaw, Eve, Frau, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, domina, donna, dowager, feme, feme covert, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, lass, married woman, matron, milady, old lady, old woman, rib, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, woman

squawk box

• squawk box, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

squawk

• squawk, air a grievance, bark, bawl, beef, beefing, bellow, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, blare, blat, blubber, boggle, boom, boycott, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, call in question, carol, caterwaul, caw, challenge, chant, chatter, cheep, cheer, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, clamor, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, complain, complaining, complaint, compunction, coo, crab, creak, croak, cronk, crow, cry, cry out against, cuckoo, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, destructive criticism, dispute, dissent, drawl, drum, enter a protest, exception, exclaim, expostulate, expostulation, faultfinding, flute, fret, fret and fume, fuss, gabble, gaggle, gasp, gobble, grievance, grievance committee, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouch, grouse, grousing, growl, grumble, grumbling, grunt, guggle, hail, halloo, hiss, holler, hollo, honk, hoo, hoot, howl, indignation meeting, keen, kick, kicking, lilt, lodge a complaint, make a fuss, march, mumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, nonviolent protest, object, objection, pant, peep, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, picket, picketing, pip, pipe, press objections, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, quack, qualm, querulousness, raise a howl, rally, register a complaint, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, roar, roll, rumble, scold, scolding, screak, scream, screech, scruple, shout, shriek, shrill, sibilate, sigh, sing, sit in, sit-in, skirl, skreigh, snap, snarl, sniping, snort, sob, squall, squawking, squeak, squeal, state a grievance, strike, take on, teach in, teach-in, thunder, trill, trumpet, twang, tweet, twit, twitter, ululate, ululation, wail, warble, whine, whining, whisper, whistle, whoop, wrawl, yammer, yap, yapping, yawl, yawp, yell, yell bloody murder, yelp, yip, yowl

squawky

• squawky, brassy, brazen, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, dry, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, jarring, metallic, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, rusty, squawking, stertorous, strangled, strident, thick, throaty, tinny

squeak by

• squeak by, brush, brush by, caress, come in contact, contact, glance, graze, hit, impinge, kiss, nudge, osculate, rub, scrape, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, touch

squeak

• squeak, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, break, call, caterwaul, change, creak, cry, give tongue, give voice, grate, howl, keen, look-in, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, nark, neigh, nicker, occasion, opening, peach, pimp, pipe, pule, rat, roar, screak, scream, screech, shot, show, shriek, shrill, sing, skirl, skreigh, snitch, squall, squawk, squeal, stool, time, troat, ululate, ululation, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, whistle, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

squeaky

• squeaky, acute, argute, creaky, ear-piercing, howling, keen, keening, penetrating, piercing, piping, reedy, screaky, screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, squeaking, thin, ululant, wailing, whining, whistling

squeal

• squeal, babble, bark, battle cry, bawl, bay, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear witness against, beep, bell, bellow, betray, betray a confidence, birdies, bitch, blab, blabber, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blooping, blow, blow the horn, blow the whistle, blubber, blurping, blurt, blurt out, boom, bray, breathe, bugle, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, chant, cheer, chirp, clarion, complain, coo, creak, crow, cry, distortion, drawl, exclaim, fanfare, feedback, fink, flourish of trumpets, flute, flutter, fluttering, gasp, give away, give tongue, give voice, grate, gripe, growl, grunt, hail, halloo, hiss, hissing, holler, hollo, honk, hoot, howl, howling, hum, hurrah, inform, inform against, inform on, keen, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, lilt, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, motorboating, mumble, murmur, mutter, narc, nark, neigh, nicker, pant, peach, peal, pimp, pipe, pule, raise a howl, rallying cry, rasp, rat, reveal a secret, roar, rumble, scratching, screak, scream, screech, sell out, shall, shout, shredding, shriek, shrill, sibilate, sigh, sing, skirl, skreigh, snap, snarl, snitch, snitch on, snort, sob, sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, spill, spill the beans, squall, squawk, squeak, squeals, static, stool, talk, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattle, tattle on, tattoo, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, testify against, thunder, toot, tootle, troat, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, turn informer, twang, tweedle, ululate, ululation, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whistle, whistles, whoop, wind, woomping, wow, wowwows, wrawl, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

squealer

• squealer, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, canary, delator, fink, informer, narc, nark, peacher, snitch, snitcher, spy, stool pigeon, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tipster, whistle-blower

squeamish

• squeamish, airsick, barfy, bashful, boggling, carsick, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, demurring, difficult, diffident, dizzy, exacting, faltering, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fuddy-duddy, fuss-budgety, fussy, hard to please, hesitant, hesitating, meticulous, modest, nauseated, nauseous, nice, painstaking, particular, pawky, pernickety, persnickety, prudish, pukish, puky, punctilious, qualmish, qualmy, queasy, queer, scrupulous, seasick, shaky, shrinking, shy, stickling, unsettled, upset, vertiginous

squeeze in

• squeeze in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, break in upon, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, cram in, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, drag in, drive in, drop in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, foist in, force in, fudge in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, impact, impinge, implant in, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, inject in, insert, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, intercalate, interfere, interjaculate, interject, interlope, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, knock in, look in, lug in, obtrude, pack in, plunge in, poke in, pop in, pound in, press in, push in, put between, put in, put on, put upon, ram in, run in, rush in, sandwich, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, smuggle in, sneak in, steal in, step in, storm in, stuff in, take in, tamp in, throng in, throw in, thrust in, trench, trespass, visit, wedge in, work in, worm in

squeeze

• squeeze, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, badger, bar, barricade, bear, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear hug, bind, blackmail, bleed, block, block up, blockade, blockage, blocking, bolt, boodle, booty, bosom, broad, check, chock, choke, choke off, clamp, clamping, clamping down, clasp, clench, clinch, clip, clogging, close, close off, close tight, close up, closing up, closure, clutch, compact, complication, compress, compression, concentrate, condense, congest, consolidate, constrict, constriction, contort, contract, cram, cramp, crowd, crunch, crush, debar, decoct, delay, densen, densify, detainment, detention, distill, distort, dog, doxy, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embosom, embrace, enfold, enfoldment, ensphere, essentialize, exact, express, extort, extract, fine how-do-you-do, fixation, fold, foot-dragging, force, force from, garble, get by, get one wrong, get through, get wrong, gloss, gouge, graft, grip, hampering, haul, hell to pay, high-pressure, hindering, hindrance, hobble, hold, holdback, holdup, hot goods, hot water, how-do-you-do, hug, imbroglio, impediment, influence, infuse, inhibition, interference, interruption, jam, lean on, let, levy blackmail, lock, loot, melt down, mess, milk, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, mistake, mistranslate, mistress, misunderstand, mix, moll, morass, negativism, nip, nuisance value, obstruct, obstruction, obstructionism, occlude, occlusion, opposition, pack, parlous straits, pass, perks, perquisite, pervert, pickings, pickle, pinch, plight, plunder, pork barrel, predicament, press, press out, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, prize, pry loose from, pry out, public till, public trough, push, put pressure on, quagmire, quicksand, ram, ram down, refine, rend, rend from, render, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, rip, rip from, scrape, screw, setback, shake, shake down, shut off, shut out, shut tight, slough, snatch from, soak, solidify, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spot, squab, squash, squeak by, squeak through, squeeze shut, squeezing, squish, stealings, steep, stew, sticky wicket, stifle, stolen goods, stop up, strain the sense, strait, straits, strangle, stranglehold, strangulate, stricture, stuff, suffocate, suppression, swag, swamp, sweetheart, sweetie, take, tear, tear from, tight spot, tight squeeze, tighten, tightening, tightrope, till, torture, tricky spot, tweak, twist the words, unholy mess, urge, wad up, wedge, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, wring out

squeezed

• squeezed, badly off, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, knitted, land-poor, narrow, nipped, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched, pinched-in, poor, poorly off, puckered, pursed, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, solidified, straitened, strangled, strangulated, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

squeezing

• squeezing, abuse of terms, catachresis, clamping, clamping down, compression, concentration, contorting, crush, decoction, distillation, distortion, eisegesis, error, expression, garbling, gloss, infusion, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, nip, perversion, pinch, press, pressing, pressure, rendering, rendition, soaking, squeeze, steeping, tightening, torturing, tweak, twisting, wrenching

squelch

• squelch, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, asphyxiate, assibilate, assibilation, barb, black out, bottle up, buzz, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, comeback, complete answer, confound, confounding, confutation, confute, contradict, contradiction, controversion, controvert, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, defeat, demolish, demolition, denial, deny, discrediting, dismiss, dispose of, drown, dumbfound, effective rejoinder, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, extinguish, finish, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, floor, frication, frictional rustling, gag, gibe, hiss, hissing, hold down, hugger-mugger, humiliate, hush, hush up, hush-hush, hushing, jibe, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, lisp, muffle, muzzle, nonplus, outdo, overcome, overthrow, overthrowal, overturn, overwhelm, parry, pour water on, put down, put out, put to silence, put-down, quash, quell, quench, quiet, quieten, quip, rebut, rebuttal, reduce to silence, refutal, refutation, refute, repress, retort, rhonchus, riposte, sally, settle, shoot down, shush, shushing, shut down on, shut up, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, silence, siss, sissing, sit down on, sit on, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smash, smash all opposition, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuff out, snuffle, soft-pedal, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squish, stamp out, stanch, sternutation, stertor, stifle, still, strangle, strike dumb, stultify, subdue, subversion, subvert, suffocate, suppress, swish, throttle, trample out, trample underfoot, undermine, undermining, upset, upsetting, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wisecrack, zip

squelchy

• squelchy, baccate, dirty, doughy, flabby, fleshy, macerated, masticated, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, oozy, pappy, pasty, pithy, plashy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, spongy, sposhy, squashy, squishy, squushy, succulent, turbid, yielding

squib

• squib, Atticism, agile wit, black humor, blasting cap, burlesque, cap, caricature, comedy, detonating powder, detonator, dry wit, electric detonator, esprit, exploder, farce, fulminating mercury, fuse, hatchet job, humor, imitation, irony, lampoon, malicious parody, mercury fulminate, mockery, nimble wit, parody, pasquil, pasquin, pasquinade, pastiche, percussion cap, pleasantry, poison pen, pretty wit, primacord, primer, priming, quick wit, ready wit, salt, sarcasm, satire, savor of wit, slapstick, slapstick humor, subtle wit, takeoff, travesty, visual humor, wicked imitation, wit

squint

• squint, aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye

squinting

• squinting, agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, astigmatic, awry, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, farsighted, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, poor-sighted, presbyopic, shortsighted, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, wamper-jawed, winking, wry, yaw-ways

squire

• squire, Brahman, Casanova, Don Juan, Ganymede, Hebe, Lothario, Romeo, accompany, address, airline hostess, airline stewardess, amoroso, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, attend, attendant, baron, baronet, batman, beau, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, beneficiary, blue blood, bodyguard, bootblack, boots, boyfriend, caballero, cabin boy, caddie, cavalier, cavaliere servente, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, chaperon, chase, chore boy, companion, conduct, conductor, convoy, copyboy, count, court, cupbearer, daimio, deedholder, duenna, duke, earl, errand boy, errand girl, escort, esquire, fellow, fellow traveler, feoffee, feudatory, flame, follow, footboy, gallant, gentleman, gigolo, go with, gofer, grand duke, grandee, guard, guide, hidalgo, hostess, householder, inamorato, lace-curtain, lady-killer, laird, landgrave, landholder, landlady, landlord, landowner, lay siege to, lead, lord, lordling, love-maker, magnate, magnifico, make suit to, man, margrave, marquis, marshal, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, necker, noble, nobleman, office boy, office girl, old man, optimate, orderly, owner, page, palsgrave, patrician, pay attention to, pay court to, peer, petter, philanderer, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, pursue, rentier, safe-conduct, seducer, seigneur, seignior, serenade, sheik, shepherd, silk-stocking, spark, steward, stewardess, sue, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart, swell, take, take out, tender, thoroughbred, titleholder, trainbearer, upper-cruster, usher, viscount, wait on, waldgrave, woo, yeoman, young man

squirm out of

• squirm out of, alibi, alibi out of, apologize for, cover with excuses, creep out of, excuse, find a loophole, lie out of, make apology for, offer excuse for, plead ignorance, shuffle out of, slide out of, slip away, slip out of, slip through, sneak out of, sneak through, worm out of, wriggle out of

squirm

• squirm, agonize, burn to, chafe, fidget, flip out, flounder, flutter, freak out on, fret, fuss, get excited, get high on, glow, go pitapat, hardly wait, hasten, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, itch to, jerk, jump the gun, palpitate, pant, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shift, shiver, squiggle, stew, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, swell, swell with emotion, thrill, thrill to, throb, tingle, tingle with excitement, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tumble, turn on to, twist, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, wag, waggle, wait impatiently, wiggle, worm, wriggle, writhe

squirmy

• squirmy, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, breathless, chafing, eager, edgy, excited, fretful, fretting, hasty, hopped-up, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, on edge, restive, restless, squirming, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, wiggling, wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing, writhy

squirrel away

• squirrel away, accumulate, amass, arrange for, backlog, collect, cumulate, forearm, garner, garner up, gather into barns, heap up, hide, hoard, hoard up, hold, keep, lay by, lay up, look out for, make provision for, make sure against, pile up, prepare for, provide against, provide for, put up, save, save up, secrete, squirrel, stock up, stockpile, store up, treasure, treasure up

squirrel cage

• squirrel cage, beat, beaten path, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, daily grind, grind, groove, humdrum, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jog trot, monotony, red tape, red-tapeism, round, routine, run, rut, sameliness, sameness, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, track, treadmill, undeviation, unvariation, wearisome sameness, well-worn groove

squirt

• squirt, a nobody, a nothing, blow out, blowout, cast forth, cipher, common man, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, disgorgement, dummy, dysentery, ejaculate, ejaculation, emission, eruct, eructation, erupt, eruption, exhaust, expel, expulsion, extravasate, extravasation, figurehead, flush, flux, font, fount, fountain, geyser, gush, insignificancy, jackstraw, jet, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, outburst, outpour, pip-squeak, play, pour, pour forth, pour out, punk, pup, puppy, runs, runt, rush, scrub, send forth, send out, shits, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, spatter, spew, spit, spout, spouter, sprat, spray, sprit, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squit, stream, surge, throw out, trots, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, well, whiffet, whippersnapper

squish

• squish, assibilate, assibilation, atomize, bear, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, buzz, crash, crowd, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, demolish, diffuse, disperse, disrupt, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fission, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fragment, frication, frictional rustling, grind, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, jam, lisp, make mincemeat of, mince, pulverize, push, rhonchus, scatter, shatter, shiver, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smash, smash up, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splinter, splutter, sputter, squab, squash, squeeze, squelch, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

squishy

• squishy, baccate, dirty, doughy, flabby, fleshy, macerated, masticated, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, oozy, pasty, pithy, plashy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quaggy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, splashy, spongy, sposhy, squashy, squelchy, squushy, succulent, turbid, yielding

SRO

• SRO, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, cram-full, crammed, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, jam-packed, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful

stab

• stab, Judas kiss, abrade, abrasion, ache, acute pain, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, approach, assay, attempt, auger, barb the dart, bark, bayonet, betray, betrayal, bid, bite, blemish, blind guess, bloody, bold conjecture, bore, boring pain, break, broach, bruise, burn, chafe, charley horse, check, chip, claw, concussion, conjecture, convulse, countersink, crack, crackle, cramp, cramps, craze, crick, crucify, cut, cut up, dagger, darting pain, dig, dirk, distress, double-cross, drill, drive, duplicity, effort, empierce, endeavor, essay, excruciate, experiment, feint, fester, fix, flash burn, fling, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fulgurant pain, gall, gambit, gash, girdle pain, give pain, gnaw, gnawing, go, gore, gouge, gouge out, grate, grieve, grind, gripe, griping, guess, harm, harrow, hitch, hole, home thrust, honeycomb, hunch, hurt, hurt the feelings, impale, incise, incision, inflame, inflict pain, injure, injury, irritate, jab, jumping pain, kill by inches, kink, knife, lacerate, laceration, lance, lancinating pain, lesion, lick, lunge, maim, make mincemeat of, martyr, martyrize, maul, mortal wound, move, mutilate, mutilation, needle, nip, offer, pain, pang, paroxysm, pass, penetrate, perforate, perhaps, pierce, pin, pinch, pink, plunge, plunge in, poke, poniard, pop, prick, prolong the agony, prong, punch, puncture, put to torture, rack, ram, rankle, rasp, ream, ream out, rend, rent, riddle, rip, rough guess, rub, run, run through, rupture, saber, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, seizure, sell out, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shot, sink, skewer, skin, slap, slash, slit, sore, spasm, spear, speculation, spike, spit, sprain, stab wound, stabbing pain, stagger, step, stick, stiletto, sting, stitch, strain, stroke, strong bid, surmise, swing, sword, tap, tear, tentative, third-degree burn, thrill, throes, thrust, tormen, torment, torture, transfix, transpierce, trauma, traumatize, treachery, trepan, trephine, trial, trial and error, try, tweak, twinge, twist, twist the knife, twitch, undertaking, unverified supposition, whack, whirl, wild guess, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wring

stabbing

• stabbing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, agonizing, astringent, atrocious, bayonetting, biting, bitter, brisk, caustic, corroding, corrosive, cramping, cruel, cutting, distressing, double-edged, edged, escharotic, excruciating, fierce, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, hurtful, hurting, impalement, incisive, keen, knifelike, knifing, mordacious, mordant, painful, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rigorous, rough, scathing, scorching, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, the sword, tormenting, torturous, transfixion, trenchant, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering

stabile

• stabile, art object, brainchild, bric-a-brac, bronze, cast, classic, composition, constant, creation, design, equable, even, grotesque, kitsch, marble, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, museum piece, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, piece, piece of virtu, sculpture, stable, statue, still life, study, terra cotta, unchanging, uniform, unvarying, virtu, work, work of art

stability

• stability, abidingness, abnegation, abstinence, accordance, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness, authenticity, authoritativeness, body, bulldog tenacity, calculability, calm, calmness, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity, cohesion, concentration, concreteness, consecutiveness, conservatism, consistency, consonance, constancy, constant flow, constraint, continence, continualness, continuance, continuity, continuousness, control, cool, correspondence, defeat of time, defiance of time, density, dependability, determination, diligence, dispassion, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, engrossment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, eternalness, eternity, evenness, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, faithworthiness, featurelessness, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, foreverness, frozenness, fullness, gaplessness, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, hardening, hardness, homogeneity, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, impartiality, incessancy, indefatigability, indestructibility, industriousness, industry, infinite duration, infinity, insistence, insistency, interminability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, invincibility, jointlessness, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lastingness, lenity, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, loyalty, maintenance, mass, materiality, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monolithism, monotony, neutrality, never-endingness, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obstinacy, pacifism, palpability, patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plenitude, plodding, plugging, ponderability, predictability, preoccupation, prudence, quiescence, relentlessness, reliability, repose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, restraint, rigidity, seamlessness, secureness, security, sedulity, sedulousness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, sempiternity, serenity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, smoothness, sobriety, solidity, solidness, soundness, stableness, stamina, standing, stasis, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, steady state, stick-to-itiveness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, successiveness, survival, survivance, tangibility, temper, temperance, temperateness, tenaciousness, tenacity, timelessness, tirelessness, torpor, toughness, tranquillity, trustworthiness, unbrokenness, unceasingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, undifferentiation, unerringness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, uniformity, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unity, unrelievedness, unremittingness, unruffledness, unswerving attention, validity, via media

stabilize

• stabilize, appease, assimilate to, balance, ballast, calm, calm down, compose, cool, counterbalance, counterpoise, cradle, damp, dulcify, ease, equalize, equilibrize, equipoise, even, even out, firm, firm up, fix, flatten, freeze, gentle, harmonize, hold, homogenize, hush, immobilize, keep, level, lull, make uniform, mollify, nail down, normalize, pacify, pin down, poise, pour balm into, prop, quell, quiet, regularize, regulate, rest, retain, rock, rock to sleep, secure, set, settle, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soothe, stabilitate, standardize, steady, stereotype, stick, still, subdue, support, sustain, symmetrize, tranquilize, transfix, uniformize

stabilizer

• stabilizer, alleviative, alleviator, anodyne, assuager, balance, balance rudder, balance wheel, ballast, balm, calmative, counterbalance, counterweight, cushion, dolorifuge, fin, fixative, flywheel, governor, gyroscope, hairspring, keel, lenitive, mitigator, moderator, modulator, mollifier, mordant, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, peacemaker, pendulum, restraining hand, salve, sedative, shock absorber, soother, soothing syrup, springs, stabilizator, stiffening, tail plane, temperer, tranquilizer, wiser head

stable

• stable, Augean stables, abiding, accordant, accountable, adamantine, age group, age-long, aged, alike, ancient, antique, articulated, assiduous, automatic, balanced, band, barn, battalion, bed, beleaguer, berth, beset, besiege, bevy, billet, blockade, body, bound, box in, brigade, bulky, bunch, bunk, byre, cabal, cage, calculable, cast, catenated, ceaseless, chamber, changeless, chastened, chronic, clique, close in, cohort, company, compass, competent, complement, concatenated, connected, consistent, consonant, constant, constrained, contain, contingent, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, controlled, cool, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corps, corral, correspondent, coterie, covey, cowbarn, cowbyre, cowhouse, cowshed, crew, crowd, cyclical, deep-rooted, dense, dependable, detachment, detail, devoted, diligent, direct, diuturnal, division, dogged, domicile, domiciliate, dump, durable, encircle, enclose, encompass, endless, enduring, enshrine, entry, equable, equal, established, even, evergreen, faction, fail-safe, faithful, faithworthy, fast, favorite, featureless, fence in, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fixed, flat, fleet, frozen, gang, gapless, group, grouping, groupment, guaranteed, harbor, hard, hardy, harmless, heavy, hedge in, hem in, hole, homogeneous, house, house in, hovel, hushed, immediate, immobile, immutable, imperturbable, impound, imprison, in control, in equilibrium, in hand, in-group, inalterable, incarcerate, incessant, include, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, infrangible, insistent, intact, interminable, intransient, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, invulnerable, jail, joined, jointless, junta, kennel, lasting, leaguer, level, limited, linked, lodge, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, made of iron, marble-constant, massive, measured, mechanical, methodic, mew, mew up, mews, mob, monolithic, monotonous, movement, mudder, never-ending, never-tiring, nonstop, obstinate, of a piece, of long duration, of long standing, ordered, orderly, out-group, outfit, pack, party, patient, patient as Job, peer group, pen, pen in, perdurable, perduring, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pesthole, phalanx, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, plate horse, plater, platoon, plodding, plugging, pocket, poised, pole horse, pony, posse, predictable, preoccupied, put up, quarantine, quarter, quelled, quiescent, race horse, racer, rail in, rapt, reasonable, recurrent, regiment, regular, relentless, reliable, remaining, repetitive, resolute, responsible, restrained, rigid, riskless, robotlike, rookery, room, round-the-clock, rugged, running, safe, salon, sane, seamless, secure, sedulous, sempervirent, sensible, serried, set, shelter, shrine, shut in, shut up, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, slum, smooth, solid, sound, squad, stabile, stake horse, staker, stall, starter, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steeplechaser, stout, straight, string, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sty, subdued, substantial, sure, surefire, surround, sustained, systematic, team, tempered, tenacious, tenement, the slums, tireless, torpid, tough, tribe, troop, troupe, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, twenty-four-hour, unabating, unalterable, unaltered, unassailable, unbreakable, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undangerous, undaunted, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, unending, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unhazardous, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unperilous, unprecarious, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved, unremitting, unrisky, unruffled, unshakable, unshifting, unsleeping, unstopped, unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vital, wall in, warranteed, warren, weariless, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wing, without nerves, wrap, yard, yard up

stableman

• stableman, breaker, breeder, broncobuster, buckaroo, cattleman, cow keeper, cowman, dairy farmer, dairyman, equerry, farrier, grazier, groom, horseshoer, hostler, rancher, ranchero, ranchman, sheepman, stableboy, stock raiser, stockbreeder, stockkeeper, stockman, tamer, trainer

staccato

• staccato, a cappella, abbandono, accidental, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, arrhythmia, beat, beating, breve, brillante, cantando, capriccioso, ceaseless, ceaselessness, chattering, clicking, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, constancy, constant, constant flow, continual, continualness, continuity, crescendo, crotchet, decrescendo, demilegato, demisemiquaver, diminuendo, dolce, dominant, dominant note, double whole note, drumming, eighth note, enharmonic, enharmonic note, execution, expression, fingering, flat, flutter, fluttering, forte, fortissimo, glissando, half note, heartbeat, heartthrob, hemidemisemiquaver, incessancy, incessant, intonation, lamentabile, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, machine gun, marcando, mezzo staccato, minim, morendo, music-making, musical note, natural, noninterruption, note, oscillating, oscillation, palpitant, palpitation, parlando, patent note, perennial, performance, perpetual, perpetuity, pianism, pianissimo, piano, pitapat, pitter-patter, pizzicato, pounding, prestissimo, presto, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, quarter note, quaver, quick fire, rallentando, rapid, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, rat-a-tat, rataplan, regular, regularity, rendering, rendition, repeated, repercussion, repetition, report, responding note, rhythm, rhythmic, ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, slur, sordo, sotto voce, spattering, spiccato, spluttering, sputtering, steadiness, steady, stretto, stuttering, sustained, sustained note, sustainment, tattoo, tempo, tercet, thirty-second note, throb, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking, tone, touch, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, triplet, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unintermission, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruption, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, vibration, whole note

stack the cards

• stack the cards, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cook up, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frame, frame up, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, mulct, pack, pack the deal, pigeon, plan, plot, practice fraud upon, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, premeditate, preorder, rig, rook, scam, scheme, screw, sell gold bricks, set up, sew up, shave, shortchange, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

stack up

• stack up, admit of comparison, amount to, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, arrival, balance, bank, bank up, be commensurable, be comparable, be like, be redolent of, be so, be such, bear resemblance, blind landing, break even, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come along, come close, come near, come on, come out, come through, come to, come up to, coming in, compare, compare to, compare with, contrive, copy, correspond, counterfeit, ditto, draw, drift, equal, even, even off, evoke, fare, favor, follow, get along, get by, get on, go along, go on, heap, heap up, hill, imitate, keep pace with, knot, landing, look like, make out, manage, match, match up with, measure up to, mimic, mirror, mound, near, nearly reproduce, not compare with, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, pile, pile up, pyramid, reach, remind one of, resemble, rick, rival, run abreast, run to, savor of, seem like, shape up, simulate, smack of, sound like, stack, stack up with, suggest, take after, tie, touch, touchdown, turn out, vie, vie with

stack

• stack, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, add up, adulterate, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, agree, amass, amassment, amount, anger, anthill, archives, armory, array, arsenal, atelier, attic, backlog, bag, bale, bank, bank up, barrel, basement, batch, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, book end, book support, book table, book tray, book truck, bookcase, bookholder, bookrack, bookrest, bookshelf, bookstack, bookstand, bottle, box, budget, bundle, bunker, burden, buttery, can, cargo dock, cellar, check out, chest, chimney, clamp, closet, cock, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, compare, conservatory, considerable, cook, cornucopia, crate, crib, cumulation, cupboard, deal, deposit, depository, depot, dock, doctor, drawer, drift, dump, dune, embankment, exchequer, fake, fill, flue, flue pipe, folder, folio, freight, fumarole, funnel, glory hole, gobs, godown, good deal, great deal, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, heaps, hill, hoard, hold, host, hutch, inventory, jibe, juggle, lade, larder, lashings, library, load, loads, locker, loft, lot, lots, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, make sense, manipulate, mass, material, materials, materiel, measure up, mess, mint, molehill, mound, mountain, mow, multitude, munitions, number, office, oodles, pack, pack away, peck, pile, pile up, piles, plant, plenitude, plenty, pocket, portfolio, pot, profusion, provisionment, provisions, pyramid, quantity, quite a little, rack, raft, rafts, rage, rant, rations, repertoire, repertory, repository, reservoir, retouch, revolving bookcase, rick, rig, sack, sail loft, salt, scads, sea, shelf, ship, sight, slew, slews, smokeshaft, smokestack, snowdrift, sophisticate, spate, squirrel away, stack room, stack up, stacks, stash, stock, stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stores, stovepipe, stow, studio, study, supplies, supply, supply base, supply depot, supply on hand, swarm, tamper with, tank, throng, tidy sum, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, volume, wad, wads, warehouse, whole slew, wine cellar, workroom

stacked

• stacked, Junoesque, accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, agreeable, amassed, amply endowed, assembled, becoming, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, bunched, bundled, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, comely, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, cooked-up, cumulate, curvaceous, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, fair, fascicled, fasciculated, fixed, gathered, glomerate, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, heaped, in session, in the bag, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, likely, lovely to behold, lumped, massed, meeting, on ice, packaged, packed, personable, piled, planned, pleasing, plotted, pneumatic, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, presentable, put-up, rigged, rounded, schemed, set-up, shapely, sightly, slender, statuesque, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, wrapped up

stadium

• stadium, agora, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, chapel, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, concert hall, convention hall, course, dance hall, exhibition hall, field, floor, forum, gallery, garden, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, lecture hall, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, meetinghouse, milieu, music hall, open forum, opera house, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, sphere, spy, squared circle, stage, stage set, stage setting, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, wrestling ring

staff of life

• staff of life, French bread, Irish soda bread, Italian bread, black bread, bread, bread stick, bread stuff, brown bread, cracked-wheat bread, crust, dark bread, garlic bread, graham bread, loaf of bread, matzo, matzoth, nut bread, pain, pita, pumpernickel, raisin bread, rye bread, salt-rising bread, sourbread, sourdough bread, toast, tommy, unleavened bread, white bread, whole wheat bread

staff

• staff, British Cabinet, Malacca cane, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, accouter, advisory body, advocate, alpenstock, appoint, arm, armory, assembly, association, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, badge, badge of office, badges, baluster, balustrade, bandeau, banister, bar, bar line, base, baton, bearer, bench, blazonry, board, body of advisers, borough council, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brain trust, brassard, brassiere, button, buttress, cabinet, caduceus, camarilla, cane, cap and gown, carrier, caryatid, cervix, chain, chain of office, chamber, city council, class ring, club, cockade, collar, colonnade, column, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, corset, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, crew, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, crozier, crutch, crutch-stick, dado, decoration, degree, deliberative assembly, die, diet, directory, divan, dress, eagle, emblems, employees, ensigns, equip, fasces, figurehead, fit, fit out, fit up, fleur-de-lis, footstalk, force, foundation garment, fulcrum, furnish, gang, gavel, gear, girdle, guy, guywire, hammer and sickle, handstaff, heel, help, heraldry, hired help, insignia, jack, jock, jockstrap, junta, kitchen cabinet, lapel pin, ledger line, legislature, line, lituus, livery, mace, mainstay, maintainer, man, mantle, markings, mast, medal, men, mortarboard, munition, neck, newel-post, old school tie, organization, outfit, parish council, pastoral staff, paterissa, peduncle, personnel, pier, pike, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pin, plinth, pole, portfolio, post, prepare, privy council, prop, quarterstaff, queen-post, regalia, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, retinue, rig, rig out, rig up, rigging, ring, rod, rod of office, rose, scepter, school ring, servantry, shaft, shamrock, shillelagh, shoulder, shroud, sigillography, skull and crossbones, socle, soviet, space, sphragistics, spine, sprit, stake, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standing rigging, stave, stay, stem, stick, stiffener, strengthener, subbase, support, supporter, surbase, sustainer, swagger stick, swanking stick, swastika, syndicate, synod, tartan, team, the help, thistle, tie, tribunal, truncheon, trunk, turn out, uniform, upholder, upright, verge, walking stick, wand, wand of office

stag film

• stag film, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, bawdiness, bawdry, blue movie, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, foulness, iconolagny, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scurrility, sexploitation, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, vileness

stag

• stag, Cape elk, Kaffeeklatsch, Virginia deer, adventurer, antelope, ball, big operator, billy, billy goat, blowout, boar, broad jumper, bubbly-jock, buck, bucking bronco, buckjumper, bull, bullock, camel, camelopard, caribou, chanticleer, cock, cockerel, cocktail party, coffee klatch, costume party, deer, deerlet, dinner, dinner party, doe, dog, donation party, drake, dromedary, eland, elk, entertainment, entire, entire horse, fallow deer, fawn, festivity, flea, frog, gander, garden party, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, goat, gobbler, grasshopper, gunslinger, hart, hartebeest, he-goat, hen party, high jumper, hind, hopper, house party, house-raising, housewarming, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kaama, kangaroo, lame duck, lawn party, leaper, margin purchaser, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, moose, mule deer, musk deer, okapi, operator, party, peacock, plunger, pole vaulter, ram, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rooster, salmon, scalper, shindig, shindy, shower, smart operator, smoker, speculator, springbok, stag party, stallion, steer, stot, stud, studhorse, sunfisher, surprise party, timber topper, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, vaulter, wether, wildebeest

stage fright

• stage fright, afraidness, agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bashfulness, buck fever, case of nerves, confusion, coyness, demureness, demurity, diffidence, embarrassment, excessive irritability, fear, fearfulness, fidgetiness, fidgets, jumpiness, morbid excitability, mousiness, nerves, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, panic, panickiness, self-consciousness, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shrinkingness, shyness, skittishness, spell of nerves, stagefright, stammering, startlishness, state of nerves, tic, timidity, timidness, timorousness, trepidation, twitching, uneasiness, vellication

stage manager

• stage manager, MC, auteur, ballyhoo man, barker, callboy, costume designer, costumer, costumier, director, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, impresario, makeup man, master of ceremonies, playreader, producer, prompter, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, showman, spieler, stage director, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, usher, usherer, usherette

stage presence

• stage presence, acting, buffoonery, business, characterization, gag, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, impersonation, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, representation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stunt, taking a role

stage show

• stage show, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, cosmorama, critical success, cyclorama, daytime serial, dialogue, diorama, display, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, exhibit, exhibition, experimental theater, exposition, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, georama, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legitimate drama, light show, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, myriorama, mystery, mystery play, opera, pageant, pageantry, panel show, panorama, pantomime, parade, pastoral, pastoral drama, phantasmagoria, piece, play, playlet, pomp, presentation, problem play, psychedelic show, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, representation, review, revue, sensational play, serial, shifting scene, show, sight, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

stage whisper

• stage whisper, aspiration, bated breath, breath, breathy voice, exhalation, little voice, low voice, mumble, mumbling, murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering, sigh, soft voice, still small voice, susurration, susurrus, underbreath, undertone, whisper, whispering

stage

• stage, Broadway, L, R, acting, acting area, agora, amphitheater, apron, apron stage, arena, athletic field, auditorium, autobus, back, backdrop, background, backstage, balcony, band, band shell, bandstand, be a gas, be a hit, bear garden, bed, bedding, belt, bill, board, boards, bomb, bowl, boxing ring, bridge, bring out, bull ring, burlesque, bus, cab, campus, canvas, carnival, caste, catafalque, chartered bus, circus, class, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, concoct, condition, contrive, couche, coulisse, course, dais, day, deck, devise, diligence, distance, division, do, dock, double-decker, drama, dramatize, dressing room, echafaudage, echelon, emplacement, entertainment industry, estrade, execute, exhibit, fail, fake, fateful moment, feature, field, flies, floor, flop, fly floor, fly gallery, footing, footlights, forestage, forum, gallery, give, grade, greenroom, grid, gridiron, ground, gym, gymnasium, hack, hall, headline, heliport, hierarchy, hinterland, hippodrome, hired car, hour, hustings, instant, interval, jitney, juncture, kairos, landing, landing pad, landing stage, lap, launching pad, layer, ledge, legit, legitimate stage, level, lightboard, lists, locale, mail coach, make a hit, make up, manipulate, marketplace, mat, measures, melodramatize, milieu, minute, mise-en-scene, moment, moment of truth, motor coach, motorbus, mount, notch, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, omnibus, open, open a show, open forum, orchestra, orchestra pit, order, organize, originate, overlayer, overstory, palaestra, parade ground, perform, performing area, period, phase, pit, place, platform, play, playland, podium, point, position, post coach, power structure, precedence, precinct, pregnant moment, premiere, present, preview, prize ring, produce, proscenium, proscenium stage, psychological moment, public square, pulpit, purlieu, put on, range, rank, rate, rating, rear, repertory drama, ring, rostrum, rung, scaffold, scaffolding, scenarize, scene, scene of action, scenery, seam, season, set the stage, setting, shelf, shell, show, show biz, show business, site, situation, soapbox, space, span, spell, sphere, spot, squared circle, stadium, stage left, stage right, stage set, stage setting, stage world, stagecoach, stagedom, stageland, staging, standing, star, station, status, step, step terrace, stock, story, stratum, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stretch, stump, substratum, succeed, summer stock, superstratum, switchboard, taxi, taxicab, terrace, terrain, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater, theater world, theatricalize, theatromania, theatrophobia, thickness, tier, tilting ground, tiltyard, time, time lag, topsoil, tribunal, tribune, trump up, try out, underlayer, understory, understratum, variety, vaudeville, walk, while, wings, wrestling ring, zone

stagestruck

• stagestruck, actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, film, filmic, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, operatic, overacted, overplayed, scenic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian

stagger

• stagger, affright, agitate, alarm, alternate, amaze, amble, amplitude, arrhythmia, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, back and fill, barge, be drunk, be incredible, be intoxicated, be unbelievable, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, blunder, boggle, bowl along, bowl down, bowl over, brokenness, bundle, burden, camber, capriciousness, capsize, careen, career, choppiness, clump, come a cropper, confound, crack, crankle, curdle the blood, daze, dazzle, desultoriness, devastate, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disquiet, disturb, dither, do, drag, droop, dumbfound, dumbfounder, ebb and flow, eccentricity, electrify, erraticness, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, fare, fibrillation, fill with doubt, fitfulness, fits and starts, flabbergast, flight path, floor, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, fluctuation, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, foot, footslog, fright, frighten, funk, fuss, gait, gallop, get, get a cropper, go, go through phases, halt, have two minds, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, horripilate, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jar, jerkiness, jog, jolt, jump, knock over, labor, limp, list, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, make one tremble, mince, mincing steps, muddle through, nonplus, nonuniformity, oscillate, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pace, paddle, paralyze, pass belief, pass out, patchiness, peg, pendulate, perplex, perturb, petrify, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, pitch and plunge, plod, plunge, pop, prance, puzzle, rack, raise apprehensions, rattle, rearrange, reel, ring the changes, rock, roll, roughness, ruffle, sashay, saunter, scare, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, see double, seesaw, seethe, shake, shake up, shamble, shatter, shift, shilly-shally, shock, shot, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skin effect, skin friction, skip, slap, slink, slip, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, space out, spasticity, spook, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, sprawl, spread-eagle, stab, stalk, stammer, stamp, startle, step, stir, stiver, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stroll, strolling gait, struggle, strut, stumble, stump, stun, stupefy, surprise, swagger, sway, swing, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take aback, tax, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash about, tilt, tittup, toddle, topple, topple down, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, traipse, tread, trip, trot, trouble, trudge, try, tumble, turn, turn turtle, uncertainty, unevenness, unman, unmethodicalness, unnerve, unpredictability, unsettle, unsteadiness, unstring, unsystematicness, upset, vacillate, variability, vary, velocity, volutation, waddle, walk, wallop, wallow, wamble, waver, wax and wane, weave, welter, whack, wheel, whiffle, whimsicality, whirl, wiggle, wobble, zag, zig, zigzag

staggered

• staggered, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bendy, bewildered, bewitched, bowled down, breathless, captivated, chevronwise, chevrony, confounded, crankled, crooked, curvy, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, electrified, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, flexuous, gaping, gauping, gazing, hairpin, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, jarred, jolted, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, shaken, shocked, shook, spellbound, staring, startled, stupefied, surprised, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisty, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

staggering

• staggering, amazing, ambling, ambulation, astonishing, astounding, backpacking, breathtaking, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant, confounding, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, easy, eccentric, electrifying, erratic, eye-opening, faltering, fitful, flagging, flickering, fluctuating, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle, going on foot, gradual, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, immethodical, inconstant, indolent, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jarring, jerky, jolting, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, lurching, marching, mind-boggling, miraculous, moderate, nonuniform, overwhelming, patchy, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, shocking, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spectacular, sporadic, spotty, startling, strange, strolling, stunning, surprising, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unhurried, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, waddling, walking, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wonderful, wondrous

stagnant

• stagnant, abeyant, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, contaminated, contemplative, dead, debilitated, dirty, do-nothing, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, filthy, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, idle, immobile, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish, meditative, moribund, motionless, neuter, neutral, numb, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, polluted, pooped, procrastinating, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, quiescent, quiet, quietist, quietistic, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, stagnating, stale, standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, stultified, supine, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused, unmoving, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary

stagnate

• stagnate, be a sideliner, be still, coast, constipate, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, delay, deteriorate, do nothing, drift, fust, go to pot, go to seed, hang fire, hibernate, idle, just be, languish, lie dormant, merely exist, moulder, not budge, not stir, pass the time, rest, rot, rust, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spoil, stifle, trammel, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait

stagy

• stagy, actor-proof, affected, all-star, artificial, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, film, filmic, ham, hammy, histrionic, insincere, la-di-da, legitimate, maniere, mannered, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, operatic, overacted, overdone, overplayed, pretentious, scenic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unnatural, vaudevillian

staid

• staid, arid, barren, calm, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, dry, dull, earnest, earthbound, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, infecund, infertile, literal, long-faced, moderate, mundane, no-nonsense, priggish, prim, prosaic, prosing, prosy, quiet, restrained, rigid, sedate, serious, serious-minded, smug, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, starchy, stiff, stolid, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, temperate, thoughtful, unfanciful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unsmiling, weighty

stain

• stain, apply paint, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, bastardize, baton, bedaub, bedizen, begild, bend sinister, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, birthmark, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, brush on paint, brutalize, calcimine, caste mark, censure, chalk, chalk up, champain, check, check off, checkmark, chromogen, cicatrix, cicatrize, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, contaminate, corrupt, cover, cut, dab, dapple, darken, dash, daub, dead-color, debauch, deep-dye, defame, defect, defile, define, delimit, demarcate, demoralize, deprave, dip, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discoloration, disgrace, disparage, disparagement, distemper, dot, double-dye, drier, dye, dyestuff, earmark, emblazon, enamel, engild, engrave, engraving, expose, expose to infamy, exterior paint, eyesore, face, fast-dye, flat coat, flat wash, flaw, fleck, flick, floor enamel, flyspeck, freckle, fresco, gash, gibbet, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, graving, ground, hack, hang in effigy, hatch, hue, illuminate, imbue, impress, imprint, imputation, ingrain, interior paint, japan, jot, lacquer, lay on color, lentigo, line, macula, maculation, macule, make a mark, mark, mark of Cain, mark off, mark out, marking, medium, mole, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, odium, onus, opaque color, paint, parget, patch, pencil, pepper, pervert, pigment, pillory, pillorying, point, point champain, polka dot, prick, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, reflection, reprimand, reproach, riddle, ruin, scar, scarification, scarify, scorch, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, sear, shade, shadow, shame, shellac, singe, slop on paint, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soilage, soilure, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spoil, spot, stamp, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, stipple, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tempera, thinner, tick, tick off, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, tittle, tone, trace, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, underline, underscore, varnish, vehicle, vilify, wash, wash coat, watermark, whitewash

stained

• stained, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, colored, darkened, deep, deep-colored, defiled, dirtied, discolored, drabbled, draggled, dyed, fouled, foxed, foxy, full, full-colored, hued, imbued, in Technicolor, in color, inky, murky, smirched, smoky, smudged, soiled, spotted, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied, tainted, tarnished, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, toned, wash-colored

staining

• staining, calcimining, coating, color printing, coloration, coloring, covering, dyeing, emblazonry, enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, illumination, japanning, lithography, painting, pigmentation, priming, shellacking, stippling, tinction, tinging, tinting, undercoating, varnishing, whitewashing

stainless

• stainless, Christian, absolute, beyond all praise, blameless, bleached, blotless, bright, chaste, clean, cleanly, creditable, dainty, decent, defectless, dirt-free, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, fastidious, faultless, flawless, fresh, full of integrity, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, indefective, infallible, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, just, just right, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, modest, moral, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, peerless, perfect, principled, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, ritually pure, sexually innocent, shiny, sinless, smut-free, smutless, snowy, spotless, sterling, sweet, tahar, taintless, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfaultable, unimpeachable, unmixed, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, worthy, yeomanly

stair

• stair, amount, caliber, compass, cut, degree, doorstep, extent, footrest, footstep, grade, height, interval, leap, level, mark, measure, notch, nuance, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, proportion, range, ratio, reach, remove, rest, riser, round, rundle, rung, scale, scope, shade, shadow, space, spoke, standard, stave, step, step stool, stepping-stone, stint, string, tread

stairway

• stairway, back stairs, companion, companionway, escalier, fire escape, flight of steps, incline, landing, landing stage, perron, ramp, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stepping-stones, steps, stile, treads and risers

stake out

• stake out, bound, bug, case, circle in, circumscribe, define, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, determine, enclose, fix, lay off, make a reconnaissance, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, peep, play the spy, put under surveillance, reconnoiter, rope off, scout, scout out, set the limit, specify, spy, spy out, surround, watch

stake

• stake, Derby, Kentucky Derby, Kreis, Preakness Stakes, absolute interest, allotment, allowance, angel, ante, ante up, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, at hazard, at stake, ax, back, backing, bailiwick, bank, bankroll, benefit, bet, bet on, big end, bigger half, bishopric, bit, bite, block, bond, book, borough, bottomry, budget, cage, call, canton, capitalization, capitalize, caution, caution money, chain, chance, chase, chunk, circumscribe, city, claim, close in, close off, collateral, collateral security, column, commission, common, commune, concern, concerned, confine, congressional district, constablewick, contingent, contingent interest, county, cover, cross, cut, deal, death chair, death chamber, deficit financing, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depart, departement, deposit, destiny, diocese, district, dividend, dole, drop, duchy, easement, electoral district, electorate, electric chair, emigrate, enclose, end, equal share, equitable interest, equity, estate, fade, fasten, fate, fence, finance, financial backing, financial support, financing, flat race, forfeit, fund, funding, gallows, gallows-tree, gamble, game, gas chamber, gibbet, go bail, government, grubstake, guillotine, half, halter, halver, hamlet, handbook, handicap, handicap race, handsel, harness race, hazard, helping, hem in, hemp, hempen collar, hitch, hock, holding, horse race, hot seat, hundred, hurdle race, hypothecate, impignorate, impound, in jeopardy, interest, investment, involved, involvement, jackpot, jeopardize, jeopardized, kitty, lash, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leash, leave, leg, lethal chamber, limitation, lot, magistracy, maiden, make a bet, margin, mark off, mark out, measure, meed, meet a bet, mess, metropolis, metropolitan area, migrate, modicum, moiety, mortgage, move on, noose, oblast, okrug, on the table, outline, pale, paling, palisade, parish, parlay, part, pass, patronization, patronize, pawn, pay for, peg, pen, percentage, picket, piece, pike, pile, pillar, plate race, play, play against, pledge, plunge, pole, pool, portion, post, pot, precinct, principality, proportion, provide for, province, provision of capital, pull up stakes, punt, purse race, put, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, quantum, quarter-horse race, quota, rake-off, ration, refinance, region, resettle, riding, right, right of entry, risk, risked, rope, scaffold, secure, see, segment, set up, settlement, shank, share, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shot, shrievalty, shut in, slice, small share, soke, spike, spile, sponsor, sponsorship, spout, stake out, stake race, stakes, stand pat, state, stave, steeplechase, stick, stock, strict settlement, subsidize, subsidy, support, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, territory, tether, the chair, tie up, tiger, title, town, township, tree, trotting race, trust, upright, use, venture, vested interest, village, wager, wall in, wapentake, ward

stakeout

• stakeout, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, counterintelligence, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, spying, surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping

staker

• staker, angel, backer, entry, favorite, financer, funder, grubstaker, meal ticket, mudder, patron, plate horse, plater, pole horse, pony, race horse, racer, sponsor, stable, stake horse, starter, steeplechaser, string, supporter

stale

• stale, allurement, antiquated, back-number, bait, banal, bewhiskered, blown, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliched, come-on, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dead, decoy, dilapidated, dilute, diluted, dry, dusty, enticement, fade, familiar, fetid, flat, flavorless, frowy, fusty, gamy, gone off, gone to seed, gruelly, hackney, hackneyed, hand-me-down, hardened, high, inane, indifferent, insipid, jejune, limp, mild, mildewed, milk-and-water, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mouldy, musty, noisome, off, old, old hat, old-fashioned, overused, pappy, platitudinous, pulpy, rancid, rank, reechy, reeking, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, sapless, savorless, seducement, set, shopworn, smelly, snare, sour, soured, spiceless, spoiled, square, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, stock, strong, tainted, tasteless, temptation, thin, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tired, tiresome, trap, trite, truistic, turned, unflavored, unoriginal, unsavory, vapid, warmed-over, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weary, well-known, well-worn, wilted, wishy-washy, withered, worn, worn thin

stalemate

• stalemate, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, arrest, bell, blind alley, block, box, brake, bring to, bring up short, check, checkmate, corner, cul-de-sac, cut short, cutoff, dam, dead end, dead heat, dead stop, dead-end street, deadlock, draw, draw rein, end, endgame, ending, even break, extremity, fair shake, final whistle, freeze, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, hole, impasse, knotted score, lockout, mate, neck-and-neck race, photo finish, pull up, put paid to, sit-down strike, stall, stand, stand-off, standoff, standstill, stay, stem, stem the tide, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stoppage, strike, the same, tie, walkout, work stoppage

stalk

• stalk, Maypole, amble, anthrophore, axis, baluster, balustrade, banister, bar, barge, base, beat, bole, bowl along, bundle, campaign, cane, carpophore, caryatid, caudex, caulicle, caulis, chase, circuit, clump, colonnade, column, couch, course, creep, culm, dado, die, dog, domiciliary visit, drag, dragnet, drive, droop, excursion, expedition, exploration, falcon, flagstaff, flounce, flush, follow, follow a clue, follow the hounds, follow up, foot, footslog, footstalk, forage, fowl, frisk, funicule, funiculus, gait, gallop, go hunting, grand tour, gumshoe, gun, halt, haulm, haunt, hawk, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hound, house-search, hunt, hunt down, hunting, jack, jacklight, jaunt, jog, jolt, journey, jump, junket, lay wait, leafstalk, lie in wait, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, lurk, mince, mincing steps, newel-post, nightwalk, nose, nose out, outing, pace, package tour, paddle, peacock, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg, peregrination, perquisition, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, piaffe, piaffer, pier, pilaster, pile, pilgrimage, piling, pillar, pleasure trip, plinth, plod, pole, posse, post, prance, probe, progress, prowl, prowl after, pursue, pussyfoot, queen-post, quest, rack, ransacking, reed, ride to hounds, rod, roll, round trip, rubberneck tour, rummage, run, run down, run to earth, safari, sally, sashay, saunter, scape, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seedstalk, shadow, shaft, shamble, shikar, shoot, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, skulk, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, smell out, sneak, sniff out, socle, spear, spike, spire, sport, staff, stagger, stalking, stamp, stanchion, stand, standard, start, steal, stem, step, stick, still hunt, still-hunt, stipe, stock, stomp, straddle, straggle, straw, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, subbase, surbase, swagger, swank, swash, swashbuckle, swing, tail, tigella, tiptoe, tittup, toddle, tongue, totem pole, totter, tour, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail, traipse, tread, trek, trip, trot, trudge, trunk, turn, turning over, upright, velocity, voyage, waddle, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble

stalking horse

• stalking horse, alibi, also-ran, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, apology, aspirant, baby kisser, bidet, blind, booby trap, candidate, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, cloak, color, cover, cover story, cover-up, dark horse, defeated candidate, device, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, dud, excuse, facade, favorite son, feint, fill horse, filler, front, gigster, gloss, guise, hack, hackney, handle, hopeful, hunter, jument, lame duck, lame excuse, lead, leader, locus standi, lurking hole, mask, mount, office seeker, ostensible motive, pack horse, palfrey, plow horse, pole horse, political hopeful, polo pony, poor excuse, post-horse, presidential timber, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put-off, refuge, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, running mate, saddle horse, saddler, screen, semblance, shadowing, shaft horse, sham, show, smoke screen, stratagem, subterfuge, sumpter, sumpter horse, surveillance, thill horse, thiller, trap, trick, varnish, veil, wheeler, wheelhorse, workhorse

stalking

• stalking, chase, chevy, chivy, clandestine behavior, clandestinity, coursing, covertness, cynegetics, dogging, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, falconry, follow, follow-up, following, forage, fox hunting, frisk, furtiveness, gunning, hawking, house-search, hue and cry, hunt, hunting, perquisition, posse, probe, prosecution, prowl, prowling, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, ransacking, rummage, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seeking, shadowing, shiftiness, shikar, shooting, slinkiness, slyness, sneakiness, sport, sporting, stalk, stealth, stealthiness, still hunt, surreptitiousness, tracking, tracking down, trailing, turning over, underground activity, underhand dealing, venery

stall

• stall, Fabian policy, Micawberism, Nissen hut, Quonset hut, acrobatics, aerobatics, alcove, amen corner, anxious bench, anxious seat, area, arrest, artifice, auditorium, backwardness, balcony, banking, barn, be dilatory, block, booth, box, box seat, brake, bring to, bring up, bring up short, byre, cavity, cease fire, cell, cellule, chamber, chandelle, check, checkmate, cloy, come up short, compartment, conk out, coop, corral, cote, counter, cowbarn, cowbyre, cowhouse, cowshed, crabbing, crib, crypt, cubicle, cut short, dally, dam, dawdle, deadlock, delay, die, dilatoriness, dither, dive, diving, draw rein, draw up, dress circle, enclosed space, enclosure, equivocate, fail, fauteuil, fetch up, filibuster, fill, fishtailing, flame out, fold, foot-dragging, freeze, gain time, gallery, gatehouse, glide, glut, go dead, gorge, halt, hang, hang back, hang fire, haver, hedge, hedging, hesitate, hesitation, hold, hold off, hold-off, hole, hollow, hut, hutch, interrupt, jade, kiosk, laxness, lean-to, linger, loge, loiter, lose power, make time, manger, mews, move, mugwump, news kiosk, newsstand, nigger heaven, nose dive, obstructionism, orchestra, orchestra circle, outbuilding, outhouse, pall, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, pavilion, peanut gallery, pen, penitent form, pew, pit, play for time, power dive, pretext, prevaricate, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, proscenium boxes, pull up, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, put off, put paid to, quarters, quit, remissness, rolling, ruse, sate, section, sedilia, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, shut down, sideslip, slackness, slot, slow down, slowness, space, spiral, sputter and stop, stable, stalemate, stall for time, stall off, stand, stand off, standing room, stay, stem, stem the tide, stick, stodge, stonewall, stonewalling, stooge around, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stratagem, stunting, sty, stymie, subterfuge, surfeit, suspend, table, tactical maneuvers, talk against time, temporization, temporize, theatre stall, tollbooth, tollhouse, trick, vacillate, vault, volplane, waste time, wile, zoom

stallion

• stallion, Houyhnhnm, billy, billy goat, boar, brood mare, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, chanticleer, charger, cock, cockerel, colt, courser, critter, dobbin, dog, drake, entire, entire horse, equine, filly, foal, gander, gelding, gobbler, hart, he-goat, horse, mare, mount, nag, peacock, prancer, ram, rooster, stag, steed, steer, stot, stud, studhorse, tarpan, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, war-horse, wether, wild horse

stalwart

• stalwart, Achilles, Antaeus, Atlas, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Charles Atlas, Conservative, Cyclops, David, Democrat, Goliath, Hector, Hercules, Labourite, Maecenas, Polyphemus, Republican, Roland, Samson, Superman, Tarzan, Titan, Tory, Whig, a man, abettor, able-bodied, adipose, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, apologist, athletic, audacious, backer, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bold, bold-spirited, bosomy, bouncing, brave, brawny, buff, bulldog, bully, bullyboy, burly, buxom, champion, chivalric, chivalrous, chubby, chunky, chutzpanik, colossus, corpulent, courageous, daring, dauntless, decorated hero, defender, demigod, demigoddess, dependence, determined, distended, doughty, dumpy, encourager, endorser, exponent, fan, fat, fattish, favorer, fearless, fighting cock, firm, fit, fleshy, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, friend at court, full, full-blooded, full-strength, gallant, game, gamecock, giant, good soldier, gorilla, greathearted, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, healthy, hearty, heavyset, heeler, hefty, hero, heroic, heroine, herolike, hippy, husky, imposing, indefatigable, indomitable, intrepid, iron-hard, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, lion, lionhearted, lover, loyalist, lusty, mainstay, maintainer, man of courage, manful, manly, meaty, mettlesome, mighty, muscle man, muscular, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paladin, paranymph, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, patron, paunchy, persevering, persistent, plucky, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent, powerful, powerhouse, promoter, protagonist, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, red-blooded, redoubtable, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, relentless, reliance, resolute, robust, robustious, robustuous, roly-poly, rotund, rude, rugged, second, seconder, sectary, sider, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, solid, spirited, sponsor, square, squat, squatty, standby, staunch, steadfast, steely, stocky, stout, stouthearted, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong man, strong-arm man, strong-willed, sturdy, support, supporter, sustainer, swollen, sympathizer, tenacious, the brave, the mighty, the strong, thick-bodied, thickset, tiger, tireless, top-heavy, tough, tough guy, tower of strength, trouper, tubby, unafraid, unbending, uncompromising, undaunted, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unyielding, upholder, valiant, valiant knight, valorous, vigorous, vital, votary, ward heeler, well-fed, well-wisher, wheelhorse

stamen

• stamen, androecium, anther, calyx, carpel, corolla, corolla tube, corona, epicalyx, gynoecium, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, perianth, petal, pistil, receptacle, stigma, style, torus

stamina

• stamina, application, assiduity, assiduousness, backbone, balls, bottom, bulldog tenacity, chutzpah, cohesiveness, concentration, constancy, courage, decisiveness, diligence, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, endurance, energy, engrossment, fidelity, force, fortitude, gameness, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hardiness, hardness, heart, heart of oak, heartiness, indefatigability, indomitability, industriousness, industry, infrangibility, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, lastingness, leatherlikeness, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, moxie, nerve, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pith, plodding, pluck, pluckiness, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, preoccupation, relentlessness, resistance, resolution, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, sand, sedulity, sedulousness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stability, stalwartness, starch, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, sticking power, stiffness, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, toleration, toughness, true grit, unbreakability, unbreakableness, unremittingness, unswerving attention, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, vitality

stammer

• stammer, balbuties, be guilty, blush, change color, color, color up, crimson, dysphemia, falter, faltering, flush, gibber, halt, hammer, haw, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hesitation, hum, hum and haw, jabber, look guilty, lurch, mammer, mantle, palilalia, pause, redden, splutter, sputter, squirm with self-consciousness, stagger, stammering, stumble, stutter, stuttering, topple, totter, traulism, turn red, wobble

stammering

• stammering, balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating, hesitation, inarticulate, macrology, mousiness, mousy, padding, palilalia, pleonasm, redundancy, self-conscious, self-consciousness, shamefaced, shamefacedness, shamefast, shamefastness, shy, shyness, skittish, skittishness, stagefright, stammer, stumbling, stutter, stuttering, tautologism, tautology, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, traulism

stamp out

• stamp out, abscind, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, blow out, bob, choke, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, damp, dock, douse, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, isolate, knock off, lop, mutilate, nip, out, pare, peel, pick out, prune, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, root out, rule out, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, silence, slack, smother, snuff, snuff out, squash, squelch, stifle, strangle, strike off, strip, strip off, suffocate, suppress, take off, take out, trample out, trample underfoot, truncate, wipe out

stamp

• stamp, John Hancock, OK, Platonic form, Platonic idea, abolish, acceptance, aesthetic form, affirmance, affirmation, amble, animus, annihilate, approbation, approval, aptitude, archetype, aroma, art form, ascender, attribute, authentication, authorization, back, badge, banner, barge, bastard type, beard, bed, belly, bent, bevel, bias, billhead, black letter, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, block, block out, blood, blotch, body, body-build, book stamp, bookplate, boss, bowl along, brand, breed, bring home to, bring out, broad arrow, build, bump, bundle, burin, cachet, cancellation, cap, capital, cartouche, carve, case, cast, casting, categorize, certification, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, characteristics, characterize, check, check off, chisel, cicatrize, clan, class, classification, classify, clomp, clop, clump, coat of arms, colophon, color, complexion, composition, concavity, configuration, confirm, confirmation, conformation, constituents, constitution, convexity, counter, counterfoil, countermark, countersignature, crasis, create, crest, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, deep-dye, define, delimit, demarcate, denominate, denomination, dent, depress, descender, description, designate, designation, destroy, device, dharma, diathesis, die, differentia, differential, dimple, dint, discolor, disposition, distinctive feature, docket, document, dot, drag, drive, drub, earmark, eccentricity, efform, eliminate, em, embed, emblem, emboss, embossment, en, end, endorsement, engraft, engrave, engrave on, engraving tool, entrench, eradicate, escutcheon, establish, etch, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, ethos, excrescence, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, face, fashion, fat-faced type, feather, feature, features, feet, fiber, figuration, figure, fingerprint, fix, flavor, fleck, flounce, font, foot, footmark, footprint, footslog, footstep, forge, form, formalize, format, formation, fossil footprint, found, frame, frank, freckle, gash, genius, genre, genus, get out, get rid of, go-ahead, government mark, government stamp, grade, grain, grave, graver, green light, groove, ground, gust, habit, hallmark, halt, hammer, hatch, hectograph, hew, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hue, humor, humors, ichnite, ichnolite, identify, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, image, impact, implant, impress, impress upon, impression, imprimatur, imprint, inclination, inculcate, indent, indentation, indention, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, infix, ingrain, initial, initials, inner form, inscribe, insignia, instill, intaglio, issue, italic, jam, jog, jolt, jump, keynote, kidney, kill, kin, kind, knead, knock out, label, last, lay out, layout, leaning, letter, letterhead, letterpress, level, lick into shape, ligature, limp, line, lineaments, lodge, log, logo, logotype, lot, lower case, lumber, lump, lunge, lurch, mackle, majuscule, make, make a mark, make it felt, makeup, manner, mannerism, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, masthead, matrix, measure, mental set, mettle, mimeograph, mince, mind, mind-set, mint, minuscule, modality, mode, model, mold, molding, monogram, mottle, mould, multigraph, name, nature, needle, negative, nick, nod, notarization, notch, note, number, odor, offcut, offprint, offset, okay, overprint, pace, pack, pad, paddle, particularity, pattern, paw print, pawmark, peculiarity, peg, pencil, pepper, permission, persuasion, phylum, physique, pi, piaffe, piaffer, pica, picture, pimple, pit, plant, plate, plod, pock, pockmark, point, postage, postage stamp, postmark, pound, prance, predilection, predisposition, preference, press in, price tag, prick, print, proclivity, proof, propensity, property, prototype, prove, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punch in, punctuate, puncture, put down, put out, put to bed, put to press, quality, quell, quirk, race, rack, ratification, recess, record, register, registered trademark, reissue, representation, representative, repress, reprint, riddle, rocker, roll, roman, root, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rubber stamp, run, run off, running head, running title, sanction, sans serif, sashay, saunter, savor, scar, scarify, score, scorper, scotch, scratch, script, scuff, scuffle, sculpt, sculpture, scuttle, seal, seam, seat, service mark, set, set back, set in, setoff, settle, shamble, shank, shape, shoe last, shuffle, sidle, sigil, sign, signal, signature, signet, significant form, single-foot, singularity, skip, slant, slink, slither, slog, slouch, smack, small cap, small capital, snuff out, somatotype, sort, specialty, species, speck, speckle, spirit, splotch, spot, squelch, stagger, stain, stalk, stamp of approval, stamp on, stamp out, stem, step, stereotype, sticker, stigmatize, stomp, straddle, straggle, strain, streak, striate, stride, strike, stripe, stroll, structure, strut, stub, stud, stump, style, subdue, subscription, suchness, suppress, sure sign, swagger, swing, symbol, symptom, system, tab, tag, tailor, taint, tally, tamp, tang, taste, tattoo, telltale sign, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, term, terminate, the like of, the likes of, the nod, thermoform, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, ticket, title page, tittup, toddle, token, tone, totter, trace, trade name, trademark, trademark name, traipse, trait, traits, tramp, trample, tread, tribe, trick, trip, trudge, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case, validation, variety, vein, vestige, visa, vise, waddle, wamble, warp, warrant, way, wedge, wiggle, wobble, work

stamped

• stamped, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, authenticated, avowed, carved, certified, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, creased, cut, enchased, endorsed, engraved, furrowed, glyphic, granted, graved, graven, grooved, impressed, imprinted, incised, inscribed, insculptured, lined, marked, notarized, printed, professed, ratified, received, recognized, sculptured, sealed, signed, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tooled, underwritten, validated, warranted

stampede

• stampede, abject fear, accelerate, affright, alarm, awe, blue funk, boggle, bolt, bundle, bustle, charge, chase, confound, consternation, cowardice, crash, crowd, dash, discomfit, dismay, dispatch, dread, drive on, expedite, fear, fight shy, flee, flight, fling, forward, fright, frighten, funk, haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on, horrification, horror, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, jib, jump, jump a mile, panic, panic fear, phobia, precipitate, press, push, push on, push through, put in fear, put to flight, put to rout, quicken, race, railroad through, rout, run, rush, rush along, scare, scatter, scattering, send scuttling, shoot, shy, skedaddle, speed, speed along, speed up, spur, start, start aside, startle, take flight, tear, terror, unholy dread, urge, whip, whip along

stamping ground

• stamping ground, ambit, bailiwick, baths, casino, club, clubhouse, constituency, footing, gambling house, gathering place, hangout, haunt, health resort, home, locality, meeting place, orbit, purlieu, rallying point, range, rendezvous, resort, site, spa, sphere of influence, springs, territory, turf, vantage, watering place

stamping

• stamping, Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, case, casemaking, casing-in, coinage, coining, collating, collating mark, counterfeiting, cover, dust cover, dust jacket, folding, footband, forgery, gathering, gluing-off, hard binding, headband, jacket, library binding, lining, lining-up, mechanical binding, mintage, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stapling, striking, tailband, tipping, trimming, wire stitching, wrapper

stance

• stance, affect, affectivity, affirmance, affirmation, air, allegation, announcement, annunciation, assertion, asseveration, assumption, attitude, averment, avouchment, avowal, bearing, beck, beckon, body language, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, charade, chironomy, climate of opinion, color, common belief, community sentiment, complexion, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, countenance, creed, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, declaration, demeanor, deportment, dictum, dumb show, emotion, emotivity, enunciation, estimate, estimation, ethos, eye, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, feeling, feeling tone, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, garb, general belief, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, guise, hand signal, hold, idea, impression, ipse dixit, judgment, kinesics, lights, lineaments, lines, locus standi, looks, manifesto, mental attitude, mien, mind, motion, movement, mystique, notion, observation, opinion, pantomime, perch, personal judgment, physiognomy, point of view, poise, popular belief, port, pose, position, position paper, positive declaration, posture, predicate, predication, presence, presumption, prevailing belief, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, psychology, public belief, public opinion, purchase, reaction, say, say-so, saying, sentiment, shrug, sight, sign language, stand, standing, standing place, standpoint, statement, theory, thinking, thought, toehold, traits, turn, utterance, view, viewpoint, visage, vouch, way of thinking, word

stanch

• stanch, arrest, asphyxiate, bar, bind, block, block up, blockade, bottle up, bung, caulk, cease, censor, check, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, clamp down on, clog, clog up, congest, constipate, cork, cork up, cover, crack down on, crush, dam, dam up, damp down, drown, end, extinguish, fill, fill up, foul, gag, halt, hold down, jam, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, muzzle, obstipate, obstruct, pack, plug, plug up, pour water on, prevent, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, smash, smother, spile, squash, squelch, staunch, stay, stem, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, strangle, stuff, stuff up, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle

stanchion

• stanchion, Samson post, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, caryatid, colonnade, column, dado, die, doorjamb, doorpost, footstalk, gatepost, hitching post, jack, jamb, king post, milepost, mullion, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, plinth, pole, post, queen-post, shaft, signpost, snubbing post, socle, staff, stalk, stand, standard, stem, stile, subbase, surbase, trunk, upright

stand aloof

• stand aloof, abrupt, abstain, abstain from, alienate, avoid, be stuck-up, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, decline, decline to accept, delete, depart, disagree, disallow, disarticulate, disclaim, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissent, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, do without, dodge, eject, eschew, estrange, expel, fight shy of, forbear, forgo, give place to, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold away from, hold back, hold out against, isolate, keep aloof, keep away, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep remote from, keep secret, leave, leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, let go by, maintain distance, make way for, negate, negative, never touch, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not make waves, not meddle with, not think of, not touch, part, pass up, pull away, pull back, pull out, refrain, refrain from, refuse, refuse comment, refuse consent, reject, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, retire, say nay, say no, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shun, shun companionship, shut off, spare, split, stand aloof from, stand apart, stand aside, stand clear of, stand mute, stand off, stay at home, stay detached from, steer clear of, step aside, subtract, throw off, throw out, turn away from, turn down, uncouple, unyoke, vote nay, vote negatively, waste no words, withdraw, withhold

stand apart

• stand apart, abrupt, alienate, be distinct, be distinguished, become an individual, cast off, cast out, clash with, conflict with, contrast with, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, depart from, deviate from, differ, disaccord with, disagree with, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, isolate, jar with, keep apart, leave, not accord with, not square with, part, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shut off, split, stand alone, stand aloof, stand aside, stand over against, step aside, subtract, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unyoke, vary, withdraw

stand aside

• stand aside, abdicate, abrupt, alienate, be pensioned, be superannuated, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, demit, depart, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, give up, isolate, leave, part, pension off, pull away, pull back, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand down, step aside, subtract, superannuate, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unyoke, vacate, withdraw, withdraw from

stand behind

• stand behind, assure, attest, back, back up, be sponsor for, bond, certify, champion, confirm, countersecure, endorse, ensure, get behind, get in behind, guarantee, guaranty, insure, run interference for, second, secure, side with, sign, sign for, sponsor, stand back of, stand by, stand up for, stick by, stick up for, subscribe to, take sides with, undersign, underwrite, warrant

stand by

• stand by, abut, abut on, adjoin, advocate, around, aye, back, back up, be contiguous, be in contact, be prepared, be ready, border, border on, butt, champion, clasp, cling to, conjoin, connect, defend, flank, follow close upon, get behind, get in behind, go with, guard, guard against, hang about, hover over, huddle, hug, hug the shore, join, keep close to, lie by, march with, neighbor, protect, run interference for, safeguard, screen, second, secure, shield, side with, stand back of, stand behind, stand ready, stay inshore, stay near, stick by, stick up for, tailgate, take sides with, verge upon

stand down

• stand down, Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, abandon, abdicate, abeyance, armistice, back out, be pensioned, be superannuated, beg off, break, breathing spell, buffer zone, caesura, cease-fire, cooling-off period, cry off, day off, demilitarized zone, demit, depart from, discard, drop, drop out, evacuate, forsake, give up, go back on, hesitation, holiday, hollow truce, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, jettison, jilt, lapse, layoff, leave, leave behind, leave flat, letup, lull, maroon, modus vivendi, neutral territory, pacification, pause, pax in bello, peace, pension off, pull out, quit, quit cold, recess, relinquish, remission, renege, renounce the throne, resign, respite, rest, retire, retire from office, say goodbye to, stand aside, stay, step aside, superannuate, suspension, suspension of hostilities, take leave of, temporary arrangement, throw over, treaty of peace, truce, vacate, vacation, withdraw, withdraw from

stand fast

• stand fast, abide, be still, be unflappable, coast, die hard, dig in, freeze, get home free, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, hold fast, hold out, hold up, keep quiet, lie still, mark time, never say die, not back down, not breathe, not budge, not give up, not stir, not submit, remain, remain firm, remain motionless, repose, rest, ride it out, stand, stand firm, stand no nonsense, stand pat, stand still, stand the gaff, stay, stay it out, stay put, stick, stick fast, stick it out, take what comes, tarry, tread water, weather, weather the storm

stand for

• stand for, abide, abide with, advert to, affirm, allege, allude to, announce, annunciate, approach anchorage, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, be taken as, bear, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, bear with, bespeak, betoken, bide, blink at, brave, breathe, brook, characterize, close with, condone, connive at, connote, contend, countenance, declare, denominate, denote, designate, differentiate, disclose, display, emblematize, endure, entail, enunciate, express, fetch, figure, finger, give evidence, give token, go aboard, go alongside, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, hear of, highlight, hint, hold, identify, imply, import, indicate, indulge, insist, involve, issue a manifesto, lay aboard, lay down, lay for, lay in, lie in, lump, lump it, maintain, make, make at, make for, manifest, manifesto, mark, mean, name, note, overlook, persevere, pick out, point at, point out, point to, predicate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put away for, put in, put into port, put it, put up with, reach, refer to, reveal, run for, sail for, say, select, set down, show, signify, speak, speak out, speak up, specify, spell, stand, stand on, state, steer toward, stick, stigmatize, stomach, submit, suffer, suggest, support, sustain, symbol, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, take up with, testify, tolerate, typify, wink at

stand in for

• stand in for, act for, answer for, appear for, back up, change places with, commission, crowd out, cut out, deputize, displace, double for, fill in for, front for, ghost, ghostwrite, pinch-hit, pinch-hit for, relieve, replace, represent, speak for, spell, spell off, subrogate, substitute for, succeed, supersede, supplant, swap places with, understudy, understudy for

stand in the way

• stand in the way, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, blast, block, block up, blockade, bolt, brave, challenge, checkmate, chock, choke, choke off, circumvent, close, close off, close tight, close up, confound, confront, constrict, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, crowd, dash, debar, defeat, defy, destroy, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt, dog, elude, flummox, foil, frustrate, jam, knock the chocks, lock, nonplus, obstruct, occlude, pack, perplex, ruin, sabotage, scotch, shut off, shut out, shut tight, spike, spoil, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stonewall, stop up, strangle, strangulate, stump, suffocate, thwart, upset

stand in

• stand in, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, assistant, attorney, backup, backup man, bit player, champion, change, changeling, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive officer, exponent, extra, fake, figurant, figurante, figurehead, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, mute, next best thing, paranymph, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, pleader, procurator, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, second, second in command, second string, secondary, sign, spares, spear-carrier, standby, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, supe, super, supernumerary, superseder, supplanter, support, supporting actor, supporting cast, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility man, utility player, vicar, vicar general, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, walk-on, walking gentleman

stand off

• stand off, bear off, decline, die away, diminish, drift away, dwindle, ebb, fade, fade away, go, go away, haul off, hold away from, keep aloof, keep away, keep away from, keep clear of, maintain distance, move away, move off, pull away, put off, recede, retire, retreat, retrocede, run from, sail away from, shove off, shrink, sink, stand aloof, stand clear of, stand from, steer away from, steer clear of, wane, widen the distance, withdraw

stand on

• stand on, abut on, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be incumbent on, be predicated on, bear on, bestraddle, bestride, brook no denial, contend, declare, depend, depend on, enunciate, express, hang, hang on, have, hinge, hinge on, hold, insist, insist on, insist upon, issue a manifesto, lay down, lean on, lie on, lie with, maintain, manifesto, perch, persist, predicate, press, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put it, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on, rest with, revolve on, ride, say, set down, sit on, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, state, stick to, straddle, stride, submit, take no denial, turn on, turn upon, urge

stand out

• stand out, aller sans dire, amount to something, appear, balk, be evident, be featured, be manifest, be no secret, be noticeable, be prominent, be revealed, be seen, be somebody, be something, be visible, beetle, bristle up, bulk, bulk large, carry weight, cock up, come across, count, cut ice, cut some ice, die hard, exceed, extrude, get top billing, glare, go without saying, hang out, hold out, import, jut, jut out, loom, loom large, matter, meet the gaze, need no explanation, not budge, outsoar, outstrip, overhang, overtop, persevere, poke, poke out, pouch, pout, project, protrude, protuberate, rear, rise above, sauter aux yeux, shine out, shine through, shoot out, shoot up, shout, show, show through, show up, signify, soar, speak for itself, stand forth, stand pat, star, start up, stick out, stick up, stickle, strike the eye, take no denial, tell, tower, tower above, transcend, weigh

stand over

• stand over, adjourn, administer, administrate, be master, boss, captain, chair, command, continue, defer, delay, direct, discipline, drag out, extend, govern, hang fire, hang up, head, hold off, hold over, hold up, keep in order, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lead, manage, officer, overlook, oversee, pigeonhole, postpone, preside over, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, regulate, reserve, ride herd on, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, stave off, stay, stretch out, superintend, supervise, suspend, table, take a recess, take care of, waive, wield authority

stand pat

• stand pat, ante, ante up, back, balk, be conservative, be unflappable, bet, bet on, call, cover, die hard, do nothing, fade, gamble, get home free, hazard, hold fast, hold out, hold up, lay, lay a wager, lay down, leave alone, let alone, let be, make a bet, meet a bet, not budge, oppose change, parlay, pass, persevere, play against, plunge, punt, remain firm, ride it out, see, stake, stand fast, stand firm, stand out, stand still, stay put, stick it out, stickle, take no denial, wager, weather, weather the storm

stand still

• stand still, abide, be conservative, be still, coast, do nothing, freeze, keep quiet, leave alone, let alone, let be, lie still, mark time, not breathe, not stir, oppose change, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stay, stay put, stick, stick fast, tarry, tread water

stand together

• stand together, accord, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, ally, amalgamate, answer to, assent, associate, assort with, band, band together, be consistent, be in cahoots, be in league, be of one, be uniform with, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cement a union, centralize, check, chime, club, club together, coact, coalesce, cohere, coincide, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, concert, concord, concur, confederate, conform, conform with, consist with, consociate, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, correspond, couple, do business with, dovetail, fall in together, federalize, federate, fit together, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, go together, go with, hang together, harmonize, hit, hold together, hook up, hook up with, interlock, intersect, jibe, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, keep together, league, league together, lock, make common cause, marry, match, merge, organize, overlap, pair, pair off, parallel, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, reciprocate, register, register with, respond to, sing in chorus, sort with, square, square with, stand up with, tally, team up, team up with, team with, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, work together

stand up for

• stand up for, advocate, allege in support, answer, argue for, assert, assure, attest, back, be sponsor for, bond, certify, champion, confirm, contend for, counter, countersecure, defend, endorse, ensure, espouse, guarantee, guaranty, insure, maintain, make a plea, plead for, rebut, refute, reply, respond, riposte, say in defense, secure, sign, sign for, speak for, speak up for, sponsor, stand behind, stick up for, subscribe to, support, sustain, undersign, underwrite, uphold, urge reasons for, warrant

stand up to

• stand up to, affront, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, challenge, complain, complain loudly, confront, contend with, dispute, dissent, face, face down, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, front, kick against, make a stand, make good, meet, meet an obligation, meet boldly, meet head-on, object, offer resistance, oppose, protest, recalcitrate, reluct, remonstrate, revolt, run the gauntlet, set at defiance, show fight, speak out, speak up, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, strive against, withstand

stand up

• stand up, answer, arise, ascend, avail, be consistent, be equal to, be erect, be proof against, be the case, be true, be truthful, bear, bear up, bear up against, bristle, cock up, come up, come up fighting, conform to fact, curl upwards, defy, disentangle, do, do it, endure, extend, fill the bill, flatten, fulfill, get by, get up, go around, go up, grow up, hack it, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold, hold fast, hold good, hold on, hold out, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, jump up, just do, keep up, levitate, live through it, live with it, loom, make the grade, meet, meet requirements, mount, never say die, not flag, not give up, not weaken, pass, pass muster, prove out, prove to be, prove true, put straight, qualify, raised, ramp, reach, rear, rear up, rebuff, rectify, remain valid, repel, repulse, resist, rise, rise up, satisfy, see it out, serve, serve the purpose, set straight, sit bolt upright, sit up, smooth, spiral, spire, stand, stand at attention, stand at ease, stand erect, stand the test, stand up straight, stand upright, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick together, stick up, stick with it, straight-up, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, stretch, suffice, surge, swarm up, sweat it out, sweep up, take it, tough it out, tower, unbend, uncurl, unkink, unsnarl, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprear, upright, uprise, upspin, upspring, upstanding, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, wash, withstand, work

stand

• stand, Anschauung, abide, abide by, abide with, accept, adhere to, advocate, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, afford, allegation, allow, allude to, ambo, anchor, angle, angle of vision, announcement, annunciation, answer, apply, arise, arrest, assertion, asseveration, attitude, avail, averment, avouchment, avowal, back, baluster, balustrade, bandstand, banister, bar, barrow, base, basis, be, be contingent on, be equal to, be erect, be extant, be found, be in existence, be located, be met with, be present, be proof against, be situated, be still, be the case, be there, bear, bear up, bear up against, bear up under, bear with, beard, beetle, belief, bell, bench, betoken, bide, billet at, bivouac, blind alley, blow, blow to, board, booking, booth, borscht circuit, box, bracket, brake, brave, breathe, brook, buffet, bulge, bum around, burrow, camp, campaign for, carry on, cart, caryatid, cessation, challenge, champion, check, checkmate, circuit, clump, coast, colonize, colonnade, color, column, combative reaction, come to anchor, complain, complain loudly, complaint, conclusion, confirm, confront, contend with, contest a seat, continue, continue to be, cope with, coppice, copse, corner, countenance, counter, counteraction, creed, crop, cul-de-sac, cutoff, dado, dais, date, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, deadlock, declaration, defeat time, defence, defend, defiance, defy, defy time, demur, depend, desk, dictum, die, dispute, dissent, dissentience, distance, do, do it, do nothing, domesticate, double for, drop anchor, dwell, dwell in, dying down, ebb, ebbing, effort, encounter, end, endgame, ending, endure, engagement, ensconce, enter the lists, enunciation, epitomize, escritoire, establish residence, exemplify, exist, experience, extend, extremity, eye, face, face down, face out, face up to, favor, feeling, fill the bill, final whistle, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, footstalk, fractiousness, frame, frame of reference, framework, freeze, front, fulfill, full stop, get by, get up, go around, go on, go treat, goof off, grinding halt, ground, grove, growth, gun, hack it, halt, handle, hang, hang around, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, happen to be, hassock, have being, have place, hive, hold, hold on, hold out, hold up, hole, idle, illustrate, impasse, indwell, inhabit, inhere, ipse dixit, jack, jilt, just do, jut out, keep, keep house, keep on, keep quiet, kick against, kiosk, last, last long, last out, laze, lazy, lectern, lie, lie around, lie in, lie still, light, line, live, live at, live on, live through, loaf, locate, lock, lockout, locus standi, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, lump, lump it, maintain, make a stand, make the grade, manifesto, mark time, mean, meet, meet head-on, meet requirements, mental outlook, mooch around, moon, moon around, moor, move, negativism, nest, newel-post, news kiosk, newsstand, noncooperation, not breathe, not stir, object, objection, obstinacy, obtain, obtrude, occur, offer resistance, opinion, oppose, opposition, outlast, outlook, overhang, park, pass, pass muster, passive resistance, pay the bill, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, people, perch, perdure, perennate, performance, persevere, persist, persist in, perspective, philosophy, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pinch-hit for, place, plantation, planting, platform, playing engagement, plinth, point of view, pole, policy, populate, position, position paper, positive declaration, post, posture, predicate, predication, prevail, proclamation, profession, project, promote, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, protrude, purchase, put, put up with, qualify, queen-post, question, quit, rack, reach, reaction, reaffirm, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrate, recalcitration, refer to, reference system, refractoriness, regard, relieve, relocate, reluct, reluctance, remain, remain motionless, remonstrance, remonstrate, renitence, renitency, repel, repellence, repellency, replace, repose, represent, repulse, repulsion, reside, resign, resist, resistance, respect, rest, revolt, rise, roost, run, run for, run for office, run on, satisfy, say, say-so, saying, seat, second, secretaire, secretary, sentiment, serve, serve the purpose, set, set up, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shaft, shout, show, show fight, side, side with, sight, signify, sit around, sit down, sit-down strike, situation, slant, slouch, slouch around, socle, spare, spare the price, spinney, sponsor, squat, staff, stage, staging, stalemate, stalk, stall, stance, stanchion, stand, stand around, stand at attention, stand at bay, stand at ease, stand behind, stand by, stand down, stand drinks, stand erect, stand fast, stand firm, stand for, stand for office, stand in, stand out, stand still, stand to, stand treat, stand up, stand up against, stand up for, stand up straight, stand up to, stand upright, standard, standing, standing place, standoff, standpoint, standstill, statement, station, status, stay, stay at, stay on, stay put, stem, step aside, stick, stick fast, stick out, stick to, stick up for, stillstand, stomach, stop, stopover, stoppage, stretch, strike, strike root, strive against, subbase, subscribe to, subsidence, subsidize, subsist, substitute for, suffer, suffice, support, surbase, survive, sustain, swallow, symbolize, sympathize with, system, table, take, take it, take residence at, take root, take up residence, take up with, tarry, thicket, tide over, toehold, tolerate, tour, tread water, treat, treat to, trunk, tuft, tussock, typify, uncooperativeness, undergo, understudy for, universe, uphold, upright, utterance, vaudeville circuit, venue, view, viewpoint, vouch, walkout, wane, waning, wear, wear well, weather, well afford, withdraw, withstand, withstanding, wood, word, work, work stoppage, workbench, writing table

standard bearer

• standard bearer, Mahdi, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, boss, cacique, charismatic leader, choirmaster, choragus, conductor, coryphaeus, duce, file leader, forerunner, fugleman, inspired leader, keynoter, leader, leader of men, man higher up, messiah, pacemaker, pacesetter, policy maker, precentor, ringleader, sachem, symphonic conductor, torchbearer

standard deviation

• standard deviation, allowance, approximation, deviation, frequency curve, frequency distribution, game theory, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incorrectness, inexactitude, inexactness, laxity, looseness, mathematical probability, negligence, operations research, predictability, predictable error, probability theory, probable error, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, statistical probability, statistics, tolerance, uncertainty principle, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unpreciseness, unrigorousness

standard

• standard, Christian, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Procrustean law, Samson post, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Ten Commandments, Union Flag, Union Jack, Zeitgeist, accepted, accustomed, acid test, alike, amount, and blue, antetype, antitype, approved, archetype, assay, assize, authentic, authoritative, average, axiology, axiom, baluster, balustrade, banal, banderole, banister, banner, banneret, barometer, base, beau ideal, behavioral norm, belief, benchmark, besetting, binding, biotype, black flag, blank determination, blue ensign, brouillon, bunting, burgee, business ethics, caliber, canon, canonical, caryatid, cathedral, central, changeable, check, classic, classic example, coachwhip, code, code of ethics, code of morals, colonnade, color, colors, column, commandment, common, commonplace, commutable, commutative, compass, conformable, consuetudinary, convention, conventional, convertible, correct, criterion, crucial test, crucible, current, customary, cut, dado, decalogue, defined, definitive, degree, determination, dick, dictated, dictum, didactic, die, docimasy, dominant, doorjamb, doorpost, emblem, ensign, epidemic, epitome, equal, equalizing, equivalent, essay, established, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, evangelical, even, everyday, ex cathedra, example, exchanged, exemplar, exemplary, extent, faithful, familiar, feeling out, firm, first draft, flag, footing, footstalk, form, formality, formula, formulary, fugleman, fugler, fundamental, gatepost, gauge, general principle, generally accepted, genotype, give-and-take, golden rule, gonfalon, gonfanon, good example, grade, graduated scale, guide, guideline, guiding principle, guidon, habitual, hard and fast, height, hitching post, house flag, household, ideal, imitatee, imperative, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, instructive, interchangeable, interchanged, intermediary, intermediate, interval, jack, jamb, king post, kiteflying, law, law of nature, lead, leap, legal ethics, level, literal, long pennant, magisterial, man of men, mandatory, mark, maxim, mean, measure, medial, median, medical ethics, mediocre, medium, merchant flag, middle-of-the-road, milepost, mirror, mitzvah, model, moderate, moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals, mullion, mutual, national flag, new morality, newel-post, nonpareil, norm, norma, normal, normative, normative system, notch, nuance, obtaining, of the faith, official, ordeal, order of nature, ordinance, ordinary, oriflamme, original, orthodox, orthodoxical, pandemic, par, paradigm, paradigmatic, paragon, parameter, pas, pattern, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, period, permutable, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pitch, plane, plateau, plinth, point, pole, popular, post, precedent, precedential, precept, preceptive, predominant, predominating, prescribed, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, principium, principle, principles, probation, professional ethics, proof, proper, proportion, prototype, quantity, queen-post, rampant, range, rating, ratio, reach, reading, readout, received, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, recognized, red, red ensign, regnant, regular, regulation, regulative, regulatory, reigning, remove, representative, required, requirement, retaliatory, returnable, rife, right, rough draft, rough sketch, round, routine, royal standard, rubric, rule, rule of thumb, ruling, rung, running, sample, scale, scope, scriptural, set, set form, settled principle, shade, shadow, shaft, shining example, signal flag, signpost, snubbing post, social ethics, socle, sound, sounding out, space, staff, stair, stalk, stanchion, stand, standards, standing order, staple, statutory, stem, step, stereotyped, stile, stint, stock, streamer, subbase, support, surbase, swallowtail, swapped, switched, tenet, test, test case, textbook, textual, time-honored, touchstone, traded, traditional, traditionalistic, transposed, tread, trial, tricolor, true, true-blue, trunk, try, type, type species, type specimen, typical, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, universal, universal law, upright, urtext, usual, value, value system, verification, vernacular, vexillum, white, widespread, without distinction, wonted, working principle, working rule, yardstick

standardize

• standardize, adjust, arrange, array, assimilate to, balance, chart, codify, cool off, coordinate, damp, deploy, dispose, equalize, equilibrize, even, fix, flatten, form, formalize, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, homogenize, lay out, level, line up, make uniform, marshal, methodize, normalize, order, organize, pacify, plan, quiet, rank, rationalize, regiment, regularize, regulate, routinize, set up, settle, smooth, stabilize, stereotype, structure, symmetrize, synchronize, systematize, tranquilize, tune, tune up, uniformize

standby

• standby, Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, apologist, backer, bit player, buff, champion, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, exponent, extra, fan, favorer, figurant, figurante, friend at court, lover, mainstay, maintainer, mute, paranymph, partisan, patron, promoter, protagonist, reliance, second, seconder, sectary, sider, spear-carrier, sponsor, stalwart, stand-in, substitute, supe, super, supernumerary, support, supporter, supporting actor, supporting cast, sustainer, sympathizer, understudy, upholder, votary, walk-on, walking gentleman, well-wisher

standing order

• standing order, Procrustean law, SOP, act, bill, bylaw, canon, code, common practice, criterion, decree, dictate, dictation, drill, edict, enactment, form, formality, formula, formulary, guideline, institution, jus, law, law of nature, legislation, lex, matter of course, maxim, measure, norm, norma, order of nature, ordinance, ordonnance, prescribed form, prescript, prescription, principle, procedure, regulation, rubric, rule, ruling, set form, standard, standard operating procedure, standing orders, statute, universal law

standing room only

• standing room only, SRO, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, cram-full, crammed, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, jam-packed, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, soaked, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful

standing

• standing, abeyant, abidingness, age, angle, antiquity, apathetic, base, bearings, cachet, candidacy, candidature, capacity, case, caste, cataleptic, catatonic, changelessness, character, circumstance, class, condition, consequence, constancy, continuance, continued, continuing, continuous, conventional, customary, dead, defeat of time, defiance of time, dignity, distance, diuturnity, dopey, dormant, dull, durability, durableness, duration, echelon, eminence, endurance, erect, established, estate, face, firmness, fix, fixed, fixedness, flat, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, foul, frozenness, grade, groggy, ground, hardening, heavy, hierarchy, high place, hold, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, jam, kudos, languid, languorous, lastingness, latent, leaden, level, lifeless, location, locus standi, logy, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, lot, maintenance, modality, mode, motionless, normal, ongoing, order, pass, passive, perch, perdurability, perennation, permanence, permanency, permanent, perpetual, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, perspective, phlegmatic, pickle, place, plight, position, post, posture, power structure, precedence, predicament, prestige, prominence, purchase, quiescence, rank, rate, rating, regular, reputation, repute, rigidity, running, running for office, seat, sedentary, set, situation, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, solidity, sphere, spot, stability, stage, stagnant, stance, stand, standard, standing for office, standing place, stasis, state, static, station, stationary, stature, status, steadfastness, still, stratum, survival, survivance, suspended, tame, toehold, torpid, torpor, unaroused, unbroken, unchangeability, unchangingness, unmoving, unseated, upright, usual, venue, vertical, viewpoint

standoff

• standoff, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, aloof, arrest, bell, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead heat, dead stop, deadlock, distant, draw, end, endgame, ending, even break, even chance, fair shake, fifty-fifty, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, half a chance, halt, insociable, knotted score, lockout, neck-and-neck race, odds, photo finish, reserved, sit-down strike, solitary, square odds, stalemate, stand, standoffish, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, the same, tie, toss, toss-up, touch and go, uncompanionable, walkout, withdrawn, work stoppage

standoffish

• standoffish, Olympian, above all that, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, eremitic, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, haughty, highfalutin, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, insociable, introverted, lordly, misanthropic, modest, offish, pompous, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, snooty, solitary, standoff, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

standpat

• standpat, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, backward, bitter-ender, conservatist, conservative, contemplative, die-hard, diehard, do-nothing, dormant, extreme right-winger, firm, fogyish, frozen, fundamentalist, hard hat, idle, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, imperialist, inactive, inert, inflexible, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, meditative, monarchist, motionless, neuter, neutral, nonprogressive, old liner, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat, preservative, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right of center, right wing, right-wing, right-winger, rightist, rigid, royalist, social Darwinist, stagnant, stagnating, standpatter, static, stationary, tory, ultraconservative, unmovable, unmoving, unprogressive, unyielding, vegetable, vegetative

standpipe

• standpipe, adjutage, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, campanile, catheter, colossus, column, cupola, derrick, dome, drainpipe, efflux tube, fire hose, fire tower, flue pipe, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hose, hosepipe, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, nipple, obelisk, observation tower, organ pipe, pagoda, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, pole, pylon, pyramid, reed, reed pipe, shaft, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, skyscraper, snorkel, soil pipe, spire, steam pipe, steeple, stem, straw, stupa, tap, television mast, tope, tour, tower, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, turret, waste pipe, water pipe, water tower, windmill tower

standpoint

• standpoint, Anschauung, angle, angle of vision, base, basis, coign of vantage, direction, distance, eye, footing, frame of reference, framework, ground, light, mental outlook, outlook, perspective, place, point of view, position, post, reference system, regard, respect, seat, side, sight, situation, slant, stand, standing, station, status, system, universe, vantage, vantage point, venue, view, viewpoint

standstill

• standstill, arrest, bell, blind alley, box, cessation, check, checkmate, corner, cul-de-sac, cutoff, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, deadlock, dying down, ebb, ebbing, end, endgame, ending, extremity, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, hole, impasse, lock, lockout, pause, sit-down strike, stalemate, stand, standoff, stay, stillstand, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence, walkout, wane, waning, work stoppage

Stanford Binet test

• Stanford Binet test, Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet-Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein-Sheerer test, IQ, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Oseretsky test, Rorschach test, Stanford revision, Szondi test, TAT, Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale, achievement test, alpha test, apperception test, aptitude test, association test, beta test, controlled association test, free association test, inkblot test, intelligence quotient, intelligence test, interest inventory, mental test, personality test, psychological test, standardized test, thematic apperception test, word association test

stanza

• stanza, Spenserian stanza, anacrusis, antistrophe, bass passage, book, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, canto, chorus, coda, couplet, development, distich, division, envoi, epode, exposition, figure, folderol, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, line, measure, monostich, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, octastich, octave, octet, ornament, ottava rima, part, passage, pentastich, period, phrase, quatrain, refrain, resolution, response, rhyme royal, ritornello, section, septet, sestet, sextet, statement, stave, strain, strophe, syllable, tailpiece, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, triplet, tristich, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verse

stapes

• stapes, Eustachian tube, anvil, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endolymph, external ear, hammer, incus, inner ear, lobe, lobule, lug, malleus, mastoid process, middle ear, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, perilymph, pinna, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, stirrup, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vestibule

staphylococcus

• staphylococcus, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, disease-producing microorganism, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, mold, nonfilterable virus, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, spirillum, spirochete, spore, streptococcus, trypanosome, vibrio, virus

staple

• staple, anchored, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, articulate, auto show, basic, basics, batten, batten down, bazaar, boat show, body, bolt, bonanza, buckle, bulk, butt, button, catalog goods, chief, clasp, cleat, clip, commercial complex, commodities, commodity, consumer goods, consumer items, conventional, core, cornucopia, corpus, critical, customary, dovetail, drug, effects, elementary, emporium, essential, essentials, exposition, eye, fair, fastened, feature, fixed, flea fair, flea market, font, fount, fountain, fundamental, fundamentals, gold mine, goods, goods for sale, habitual, hasp, hinge, hitch, hook, indispensable, inventory, item, jam, job lot, joint, latch, lead item, leader, line, line of goods, lock, lode, loss leader, mail-order goods, main, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, mass, material resources, materials, materiel, merchandise, mine, miter, mortise, nail, necessary, necessities, normal, open market, ordinary, peg, pin, plaza, prevailing, primary, principal, product, quarry, rabbet, raw material, required, requisite, resource, rialto, ring, rivet, riveted, scarf, screw, seconds, set, settled, sew, shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, sideline, skewer, snap, source, source of supply, special, spring, standard, standard article, staple item, staples, stated, stick, stitch, stock, stock-in-trade, store, street market, stuff, substance, substances, supply, tack, toggle, trade fair, universal, usual, vein, vendible, vendibles, vital, ware, wares, wedge, well, wellspring, zipper

star crossed

• star crossed, badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal, fortuneless, funest, hapless, ill off, ill-starred, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, luckless, ominous, out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential

star spangled

• star spangled, Cynthian, ablaze, aglow, alight, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, bathed with light, bespangled, brightened, candlelit, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, enlightened, equinoctial, extragalactic, firelit, galactic, gaslit, heavenly, heliacal, illuminated, in a blaze, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, meteoric, meteoritic, moonlit, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, sidereal, solar, spangled, sphery, star-studded, starlit, starry, stellar, stellary, studded, sunlit, terrestrial, tinseled, uranic, zodiacal

star

• star, A per se, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hershey bar, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, VIP, Venus, Vesper, accent, accentuate, ace, act, act as foil, amount to something, appear, arch, aviation badge, badge, banner, bar, barnstorm, be a gas, be a hit, be featured, be prominent, be somebody, be something, belabor, big name, big shot, bill, blue ribbon, bomb, boss, brilliant, candle, capital, cardinal, carry weight, celeb, celebrated, celebrity, celestial body, central, champion, chevron, chicken, chief, cock, come first, come out, comer, comet, commander, constellation, cordon, cordon bleu, count, crackerjack, crowning, cut ice, cut some ice, cynosure, danseur noble, daystar, dean, decoration, decoration of honor, dignitary, distinguished, diva, dominant, dramatize, dwell on, eagle, electric light bulb, electronics king, eminent, emote, emotionalize, emphasize, epaulet, evening star, fail, famed, famous, feature, feature attraction, figure, fire, first, first tragedian, first-rater, fixed stars, flame, flop, focal, folk hero, foremost, fugleman, galaxy, garter, genius, get top billing, give emphasis to, glim, gold star, good hand, grand cordon, great, great man, harp on, hash mark, head, headline, headliner, headmost, heavenly body, heavy lead, hegemonic, hero, heroine, higher-up, highlight, honcho, idol, illuminant, illuminator, illustrious, immortal, import, important, important person, incandescent body, incomparable, inimitable, insignia of branch, italicize, jeune premier, king, lamp, lantern, laureate, lead, leader, leading, leading lady, leading light, leading man, light, light bulb, light source, lion, living sapphires, lodestar, luminant, luminaries, luminary, magician, magisterial, mahatma, main, major, make a hit, man of genius, man of mark, master, master hand, master spirit, mastermind, match, matchless, matter, melodramatize, mime, moon, morning star, mount, name, nonpareil, notability, notable, nova, oak leaf, open, open a show, orb, order, organization insignia, ornament, outrank, outstanding, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overruling, overseas bar, overstress, pantomime, parachute badge, paragon, paramount, past master, patch, patter, peerless, perform, person of note, personage, pip, place emphasis on, play, play first fiddle, play the lead, playact, pleiad, point up, polar star, polestar, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, practiced hand, precede, predominant, preeminent, premiere, preponderant, present, prevailing, preview, prima ballerina, prima donna, primal, primary, prime, principal, prodigy, produce, prominent, protagonist, public figure, punctuate, put on, rank, rank first, rank out, ranking, red ribbon, register, riband, ribbon, rub in, ruler, ruling, sage, scenarize, senior, service stripe, set the stage, shooting star, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, signify, singer, sketch, skilled hand, social lion, somebody, source of light, sovereign, sphere, spotlight, spread eagle, stage, stand out, starry host, stars, steal the show, stellar, stooge, stress, stripe, submarine badge, succeed, success, sun, supereminent, superior, superman, supernova, superstar, take precedence, taper, tell, the greatest, the most, theatricalize, top, top dog, topflight, topnotcher, torch, tread the boards, troupe, try out, underline, underscore, unmatched, unparalleled, upstage, victor, virtuoso, weigh, whiz, winner, wizard, wonder, worthy

starboard

• starboard, Epistle side, astarboard, clockwise, conservative, decanal side, dexter, dextrad, dextral, dextrally, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, ease the helm, ease the rudder, larboard, off, on the right, port, reactionary, recto, right, right field, right hand, right side, right wing, right-hand, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, rightward, rightwardly, rightwards, starboard tack, to the right

starch

• starch, aggressiveness, albumen, bang, batter, bonnyclabber, butter, carbohydrate, clabber, cornstarch, cream, curd, dash, dough, drive, egg white, enterprise, fire, gaum, gel, gelatin, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, glair, glop, glue, gluten, go, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hydroxy aldehyde, hydroxy ketone, initiative, jam, jell, jelly, kick, loblolly, molasses, monosaccharide, mucilage, mucus, pap, paste, pep, pepper, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, polysaccharide, polysaccharose, poop, porridge, pudding, pulp, punch, puree, push, putty, rob, saccharide, semifluid, semiliquid, size, snap, soup, spunk, sticky mess, sugar, syrup, thrust, treacle, trisaccharide, verve, vim, vitality, zing, zip

starched

• starched, buckram, firm, in buckram, pokerlike, prim, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, starch, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, stilted, taut, tense, tight, unrelaxed, virgate

starchy

• starchy, adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, mucilaginous, pasty, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starched, sticky, stiff, stiff as buckram, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, taut, tenacious, tense, thick, thickened, tight, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unrelaxed, virgate, viscid, viscose, viscous

stare down

• stare down, affront, beard, bid defiance, brave, brazen out, call out, challenge, confront, crane, crane the neck, dare, defy, double-dare, eye, face, face down, face out, front, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, glare, gloat, goggle, look, master, ogle, outbrave, outbrazen, outdare, outface, outlook, outstare, overcome, overwhelm, quell, scream defiance, show fight, stand on tiptoe, stare, stare at, stare hard, subdue, suppress

stare

• stare, be amazed, be astonished, be curious, bedroom eyes, bore, burn with curiosity, come-hither look, crane, crane the neck, dig around for, dig up, evil eye, eye, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, glad eye, glare, gloat, glower, glowering look, goggle, inquire, interrogate, look, malocchio, marvel, nose around for, nose out, ogle, peer, penetrating look, query, question, quiz, rubber, rubberneck, seek, stand aghast, stand on tiptoe, stare at, stare down, stare hard, stare openmouthed, want to know, watch, whammy, wonder

starets

• starets, Methuselah, abecedarian, angel, antediluvian, antique, authority, back number, boss, bwana, certified teacher, chef, chief, church dignitary, conservative, dad, docent, doctor, dodo, dominie, don, ecclesiarch, educationist, educator, elder, elder statesman, employer, fellow, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, goodman, granny, great soul, guide, guru, has-been, holy man, husband, illuminate, instructor, intellect, intellectual, liege, liege lord, longhair, lord, lord paramount, lover of wisdom, maestro, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, matriarch, melamed, mentor, mid-Victorian, mossback, mullah, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, oracle, overlord, padrone, pandit, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, pedagogist, pedagogue, philosopher, pop, pops, preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, rishi, sage, sahib, saint, sapient, savant, scholar, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, seer, seigneur, seignior, square, teacher, thinker, traditionalist, wise man, wise old man

stargazer

• stargazer, Chaldean, astroalchemist, astrogeologist, astrographer, astrologer, astrologian, astromancer, astronomer, astrophysicist, genethliac, horoscoper, horoscopist, radar astronomer, radio astronomer, solar physicist, uranographer, uranographist, uranologist, uranometrist

stargazing

• stargazing, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, aspect, astrodiagnosis, astrogeology, astrognosy, astrography, astrolithology, astrology, astromancy, astronomy, astrophotography, astrophysics, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, celestial mechanics, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, genethliac astrology, genethliacism, genethliacs, genethlialogy, gravitational astronomy, half-awake, horoscope, horoscopy, house, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, mansion, meditative, meteoritics, mooning, moonraking, mundane astrology, mundane house, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nativity, natural astrology, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, planetary house, preoccupation, preoccupied, radar astronomy, radio astronomy, rapt, reverie, solar physics, somewhere else, spectrography, spectroscopy, stellar photometry, study, taken up, trance, transported, unconscious, uranography, uranology, uranometry, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zodiac

staring

• staring, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, arrant, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, blatant, bold, breathless, captivated, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, confounded, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined, definite, distinct, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, evident, fascinated, flabbergasted, flagrant, gaping, gauping, gazing, glaring, hanging out, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, in focus, in relief, in the foreground, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, open-eyed, openmouthed, ostensible, outstanding, overwhelmed, patent, plain, popeyed, prominent, pronounced, puzzled, rapt in wonder, salient, spellbound, staggered, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, unmistakable, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

stark naked

• stark naked, bald, bare, bare-ass, gymnosophical, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked, naturistic, nude, nudist, peeled, raw, stripped, unclad, unclothed, undressed, with nothing on, without a stitch

stark raving mad

• stark raving mad, Dionysiac, amok, bacchic, berserk, corybantic, desperate, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, running wild, uncontrollable, violent, wild

stark

• stark, Spartan, absolute, absolutely, altogether, arrant, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, basic, blasted, bleak, blessed, blunt, candid, chaste, classical, clean, clear, clearly, cold, common, commonplace, complete, completely, confounded, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, depressing, desolate, direct, downright, drear, dreary, dry, dull, egregious, elementary, empty, entirely, essential, evident, flagrant, frank, fully, fundamental, glaring, grey, grim, gross, hard, harsh, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, infernal, inornate, intolerable, irreducible, irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, matter-of-fact, mere, monolithic, naked, natural, neat, nude, obvious, obviously, of a piece, open, out-and-out, outright, patent, perfect, perfectly, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainly, plumb, positive, primary, profound, pronounced, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quite, rank, ravaged, raw, regular, right, rustic, severe, shattering, sheer, shocking, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, spooky, stark-naked, stark-staring, straightforward, stripped, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, totally, unadorned, unaffected, unbearable, unclad, unclothed, uncluttered, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unequivocal, unfancy, unfussy, uniform, unimaginative, unmitigated, unornate, unpoetical, unqualified, unrelieved, unrelievedly, unspoiled, unvarnished, utter, utterly, vacant, vacuous, void, wholly

starless

• starless, beamless, black, black as night, caliginous, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, sunless, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit

starlike

• starlike, aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, flushing, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, shining, shiny, star-pointed, star-shaped, starbright, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny

starlit

• starlit, ablaze, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bespangled, brightened, candlelit, enlightened, firelit, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, moonlit, spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, studded, sunlit, tinseled

starry eyed

• starry eyed, airy, ape about, autistic, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, bugs on, capering, cheerful, chirping, cracked on, crazy about, dancing, dereistic, flushed with joy, freaked-out, gaga over, gay, glad, glowing, gone on, happy, hepped up over, hipped on, hot about, idealistic, impractical, in the clouds, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, mad about, nuts about, nuts on, otherworldly, poetic, purring, quixotic, radiant, romancing, romantic, romanticized, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, storybook, thrice happy, transcendental, transmundane, turned-on, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary, wild about, wish-fulfilling

starry

• starry, Cynthian, aglow, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, flushing, galactic, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, heavenly, heliacal, illuminant, incandescent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, irradiative, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, meteoric, meteoritic, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, orient, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, semilunar, shining, shiny, sidereal, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, stellar, stellary, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, terrestrial, uranic, zodiacal

Stars and Stripes

• Stars and Stripes, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, banderole, banner, banneret, black flag, blue ensign, bunting, burgee, coachwhip, colors, ensign, flag, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, house flag, jack, long pennant, merchant flag, national flag, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, red, red ensign, royal standard, signal flag, standard, streamer, swallowtail, tricolor, vexillum, white

stars

• stars, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, book of fate, constellation, cup, destination, destiny, dies funestis, doom, end, fatality, fate, foredoom, fortune, future, ides of March, inevitability, kismet, lot, moira, planets, portion, unlucky day, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven

start up

• start up, bob up, bounce, bound, break forth, break in, break water, bring up, bristle up, broach, buck, buckjump, bundle, bundle off, burst forth, capriole, christen, clear, cock up, curvet, debouch, erupt, establish, extrude, flare up, flash, float, float up, fly up, found, fountain, get going, get in there, get off, get squared away, get under way, give a start, gleam, gush, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, institute, introduce, irrupt, jet, jump, jump over, jump up, jut out, kick off, launch, leap, leap over, leap up, leapfrog, lift up, make a beginning, make a move, negotiate, overjump, overleap, overskip, poke out, pop up, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, project, protrude, protuberate, put in motion, raise, ring in, rocket, send, send forth, send off, set a course, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shoot out, shoot up, ski jump, skip, skyrocket, spring, spring up, spurt, stand out, start, start aside, start going, start off, steeplechase, stick out, stick up, surface, turn on, updive, upleap, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upstart, usher in, vault, vault up, warm up

start

• start, A, activate, advance, advantage, aid, allowance, alpha, arise, assistance, attack, avoid, backing, base, basis, be off, be startled, beat, beget, begin, beginning, beginnings, birth, blanch, blast away, blast off, blast-off, blench, blink, bob, boggle, bolt, border line, bounce, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break, break boundary, break open, break up, breakoff point, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, buck, buckjump, bulge, bundle, bundle off, burst, capriole, carry away, ceiling, chance, chase, circumscription, clear, coign of vantage, come apart, come off, come undone, come unstuck, come up, commence, commencement, commend to attention, compass, confine, constitute, course, crack, crack up, create, creation, cringe, crop up, curvet, cutoff, cutoff point, cutting edge, dart, dawn, dawning, deadline, deadwood, delimitation, depart, determinant, develop, disintegrate, dive in, dive into, division line, dodge, dog, draw, draw back, drive, drop, duck, edge, embark, embark on, emerge, emergence, encouragement, end, enter, enter on, enter upon, establish, establishment, evade, extremity, fade, falcon, fall back, fall off, fall to, fall to pieces, father, fight shy, financing, finish, fissure, flick, flinch, flip, flirt, float, floor, flounce, flush, fly apart, flying start, follow the hounds, found, foundation, founding, fowl, fracture, fresh start, frontier, genesis, get busy, get going, get loose, get off, get to, get under way, get with it, give a start, give away, give birth to, give way, go, go ahead, go forth, go hunting, go to it, go to pieces, gun, handicap, hang back, hawk, head into, head start, hedge, help, high-water mark, hippety-hop, hit the road, hitch, hop, hop to it, hound, hunt, hunt down, hurdle, inaugurate, inauguration, inception, initiate, initiation, inside track, institute, institution, interface, introduce, issue, issue forth, jack, jacklight, jar, jerk, jib, jig, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jump, jump a mile, jump off, jump over, jump to it, jump-off, kick off, kick-off, launch, launch into, lay before, lead, leading edge, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, light into, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, line of departure, low-water mark, lower limit, make a motion, march, mark, mete, moot, move, negotiate, new departure, odds, offer a resolution, oncoming, onset, open, open up, opening, opportunity, organize, origin, originate, origination, outbreak, outset, outsetting, outstart, overjump, overleap, overskip, panic, peel off, pitch in, pitch into, pluck, plunge into, point of departure, port of embarkation, pose, postulate, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prefer, proceed, propose, proposition, propound, protrude, prowl after, pull back, put forth, put forward, put in motion, put it to, quail, recoil, recommend, reel back, retreat, ride to hounds, rise, run, running start, rupture, sail into, sally, sally forth, send, send forth, send off, send-off, set about, set afloat, set agoing, set at, set before, set forth, set forward, set going, set in, set in motion, set off, set on foot, set out, set sail, set to, set to work, set up, setoff, setout, setting in motion, setting-up, sheer off, shikar, shock, shoot, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, skedaddle, ski jump, skip, snap, snatch, something extra, something in reserve, split, sponsorship, sport, spring, spring a leak, spring apart, square one, squinch, stalk, stampede, start aside, start back, start going, start in, start off, start out, start up, start-off, starting, starting gate, starting line, starting place, starting point, starting post, startle, steeplechase, stick out, still-hunt, strike out, submit, sudden pull, suggest, swerve, switch on, tackle, take off, take on, take up, take-off, takeoff, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, track, trail, turn, turn aside, turn on, turn to, tweak, twitch, undertake, unravel, updive, upleap, upper hand, upper limit, upspring, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, vault, wade into, weasel, weasel out, whip hand, wince, wrench, yank, yerk

starting point

• starting point, A, alpha, base, basis, beginning, blast-off, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, circumscription, commencement, compass, confine, creation, cutoff, cutoff point, cutting edge, dawn, deadline, delimitation, determinant, division line, edge, end, establishment, extremity, finish, floor, flying start, foundation, fresh start, frontier, hedge, high-water mark, institution, interface, jump-off, kick-off, leading edge, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, line of departure, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, new departure, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, point of departure, port of embarkation, running start, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, square one, start, start-off, starting gate, starting line, starting place, starting post, take-off, takeoff, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, time allotment, upper limit

startle

• startle, affright, alarm, alert, amaze, arouse, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, be startled, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, boggle, bolt, bowl down, bowl over, confound, cry havoc, cry wolf, curdle the blood, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discompose, dismay, disquiet, disturb, dumbfound, dumbfounder, electrify, fight shy, flabbergast, flinch, fly storm warnings, fright, frighten, funk, horripilate, jar, jib, jolt, jump, jump a mile, make one tremble, overwhelm, panic, paralyze, perplex, perturb, petrify, raise apprehensions, scare, shake, shake up, shock, shy, skedaddle, sound the alarm, sound the tocsin, spook, spring, stagger, stampede, start, start aside, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, terrify, terrorize, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstring, upset, warn

startled

• startled, affrighted, alarmed, alerted, aroused, bowled down, consternated, daunted, dismayed, disquieted, electrified, frightened, in a fright, in a funk, jarred, jolted, shaken, shocked, shook, staggered, taken aback

startling

• startling, abrupt, alarming, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, awing, breathtaking, chilling, confounding, daunting, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, disturbing, electrifying, eye-opening, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, hasty, headlong, impetuous, impulsive, jarring, jolting, mind-boggling, nerve-shattering, overawing, overwhelming, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, scaring, scary, shocking, spectacular, speedy, staggering, stunning, sudden, surprising, swift, terrifying, unanticipated, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredicted, unsettling, upsetting

starvation

• starvation, Lenten, Spartan, absence, abstemious, abstinence from food, ascetic, asphyxiation, austere, beggary, choke, choking, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, drowning, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, famine, fasting, frugal, imperfection, impoverished, impoverishment, incompleteness, jejune, killing, lack, lean, limited, liver death, meager, mean, megadeath, miserly, narrow, need, niggardly, omission, paltry, parsimonious, poor, punishment of Tantalus, puny, restriction of intake, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serum death, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smotheration, smothering, spare, sparing, stingy, stinted, straitened, strangling, strangulation, stunted, subsistence, suffocation, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, violent death, want, wantage, watered, watery, watery grave

starve

• starve, OD, annihilate, asphyxiate, be in want, be killed, be pinched, be poor, be ravenous, begrudge, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, choke, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, drown, end, execute, exterminate, eye hungrily, famish, feel hungry, finish, finish off, go on welfare, grudge, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, immolate, kill, lack, launch into eternity, liquidate, live upon nothing, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, need, pinch, pinch pennies, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, raven, remove from life, sacrifice, scamp, scant, screw, scrimp, skimp, slay, smother, stint, strangle, suffocate, take life, take off, thirst, thirst for, want

starved

• starved, aching for, attenuated, bare-handed, beggarly, cadaverous, corpselike, craving, deprived of, desirous of, dog-hungry, dying for, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, empty, empty-handed, famished, famishing, fasting, haggard, half-famished, half-starved, hollow-eyed, hungering, hungry, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, jejune, lacking, marantic, marasmic, on short commons, pauperized, peaked, peaky, peckish, pinched, pinched with hunger, poor, puny, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, shriveled, skeletal, starveling, starving, tabetic, tabid, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wasted, weakened, weazeny, withered, wizened, wolfish, wraithlike

stash

• stash, asylum, bank, bolt-hole, bosom, bottle up, bundle away, bury, cache, coffer, conceal, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, deposit, ditch, dugout, embosom, ensconce, file, file and forget, foxhole, funk hole, hide, hide away, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hoard, hole, hutch, keep hidden, keep secret, lair, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lock up, lodge, niche, nook, pack away, plant, put away, recess, refuge, reposit, reservoir, retreat, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, screen, seal up, secret place, secrete, squirrel, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, undercovert, warehouse

stasis

• stasis, a wise passiveness, abeyance, abidingness, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, entropy, equilibrium, equipoise, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lastingness, latency, long standing, lotus-eating, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, poise, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, steadfastness, suspense, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

stat

• stat, Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, clone, contact print, copy, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, enlargement, facsimile, hectograph, hectograph copy, impress, impression, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, mimeograph copy, multigraph, negative, offprint, photocopy, photograph, photostatic copy, positive, print, proof, quadruplicate, reduplicate, reproduce, trace, transcribe, triplicate

state of affairs

• state of affairs, affairs, circumstances, concerns, condition of things, conditions, dealings, doings, goings-on, how it goes, how it is, how things are, how things stand, life, like it is, march of events, matters, proceedings, relations, run of things, status in quo, the status quo, the times, the world, what happens

state of war

• state of war, all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hostilities, hot war, la guerre, might of arms, military operations, open hostilities, open war, resort to arms, shooting war, the sword, total war, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime

state

• state, Babylonian splendor, Everyman, John Doe, Kreis, Public, affirm, air, allege, ally, announce, annunciate, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, argue, arrondissement, articulate, assert, assever, asseverate, assign, attitude, aver, avouch, avow, bailiwick, bishopric, body politic, borough, brilliance, bring out, buffer state, canton, capacity, captive nation, ceremonial, character, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chime in, circumstance, circumstances, citizenry, city, city-state, civic, civil, claim, colony, come out with, common, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, communal, commune, community, community at large, conceive, condition, conditions, confess, confirm, congressional district, constablewick, constitution, contend, cosmopolitan, couch, couch in terms, count, country, county, declare, declare roundly, delineate, deliver, denominate, departement, describe, designate, determine, dignified, diocese, district, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, elaborateness, electoral district, electorate, elegance, elucidate, embody in words, empery, empire, enunciate, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, explain, expound, express, express the belief, federal, fix, folk, folks, footing, form, formal, formality, formularize, formulate, frame, free city, general, general public, gentry, give, give expression to, give notice, give words to, glory, gorgeousness, government, governmental, grand duchy, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, hamlet, have, heraldry, hold, hundred, imperial, imposingness, impressiveness, indicate, insist, international, interpret, issue a manifesto, issue a statement, kingdom, land, lavishness, lay down, luxuriousness, luxury, magistracy, magnificence, maintain, majestic, majesty, make a statement, make an announcement, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manifesto, mark, men, mention, metropolis, metropolitan area, mode, name, narrate, nation, national, nationality, nobility, nuncupate, oblast, official, okrug, paragraph, parish, people, people in general, persons, phase, phrase, pick out, pin down, plushness, point out, polis, polity, pomp, populace, population, poshness, position, possession, posture, power, precinct, predicate, present, pride, principality, principate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protectorate, protest, proudness, province, public, publish a manifesto, puppet government, puppet regime, put, put in words, put it, quote, realm, recite, regal, region, rehearse, relate, report, republic, resplendence, rhetorize, riding, ritziness, royal, satellite, say, select, seneschalty, set, set down, set forth, set out, settlement, shape, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, signify, situation, social, societal, society, soke, solemn, solemnity, sovereign nation, speak, speak out, speak up, specialize, specify, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, stage, stake, stand, stand for, stand on, state of affairs, state of being, stateliness, stately, stature, status, stipulate, structure, style, submit, sultanate, sumptuousness, superpower, supranational, swear, tell, territory, testify, throw out, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, utter, vent, ventilate, village, voice, vow, wapentake, ward, warrant, word, world, you and me

stated

• stated, accessible, affirmed, alleged, anchored, announced, ascertained, asserted, asseverated, assured, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, broadcast, brought to notice, certain, certified, circulated, circumscribed, circumscript, common knowledge, common property, conditional, current, decided, declared, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, deposed, determinate, determined, diffused, disseminated, distributed, encircled, enunciated, established, fastened, fixed, given, guaranteed, hedged about, in circulation, in print, in the bag, made public, made sure, manifestoed, nailed down, on ice, open, open-and-shut, pledged, predicated, proclaimed, professed, pronounced, propagated, proved, provisional, provisory, public, published, reported, riveted, secure, set, settled, specific, specificative, specified, spread, staple, stipulated, stipulatory, surrounded, sworn, sworn to, telecast, televised, tested, tried, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted

stateless person

• stateless person, DP, absconder, bolter, deported population, deportee, deracine, displaced person, eloper, emigrant, emigre, escapee, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fleer, fugitive, immigrant, in-migrant, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, refugee, runagate, runaway, skedaddler, trekker, wetback

stately

• stately, Babylonian, Corinthian, aristocratic, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, barbaric, ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, courtly, decorous, deluxe, dignified, distinguished, elaborate, elegant, elevated, extravagant, fancy, fine, formal, gallant, glorious, gracious, grand, grandiose, grave, hieratic, imperial, imposing, impressive, inspiring, kingly, liturgic, lofty, lordly, luxurious, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, moving, noble, palatial, plush, pompous, posh, princely, proud, queenly, regal, ritual, ritualistic, ritzy, royal, sacerdotal, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, statuesque, striking, sublime, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, venerable, weighty, well-mannered, worthy

statement

• statement, Parthian shot, a priori principle, account, account rendered, accounting, accounts, acquaintance, acta, address, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, anacrusis, announcement, annual, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, apriorism, articulation, assertion, asseveration, assumed position, assumption, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, basis, bass passage, bill, bill of account, bill of complaint, bill of fare, bill of lading, blue book, body count, books, bourdon, bridge, brief, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, burden, cadence, capitulation, carte, categorical proposition, census, census report, check, chorus, circular, claim, coda, comment, communication, communique, complaint, compurgation, conclusion, count, crack, creed, data, datum, declaration, deposition, description, development, dictum, directory, disclosure, dispatch, division, dun, edict, election returns, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, exclamation, exposition, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, figure, first principles, folderol, foundation, gen, general information, greeting, ground, guidebook, handout, hard information, harmonic close, head count, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, incidental information, info, information, instruction, instrument in proof, intelligence, interjection, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, inventory, invoice, ipse dixit, itemized bill, knowledge, ledger, legal evidence, lemma, libel, light, major premise, manifest, manifesto, measure, mention, menu, message, minor premise, minutes, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, narratio, narrative, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, nose count, note, notice, notification, observation, ornament, part, passage, period, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, postulation, postulatum, predicate, predication, premise, presentation, presentment, presupposition, proceedings, proclamation, profession, program, programma, promotional material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, proposition, propositional function, protest, protestation, public notice, publication, publicity, question, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recounting, reflection, refrain, rehearsal, release, remark, repertory, report, resolution, response, returns, ritornello, say, say-so, saying, score, section, sentence, sidelight, stance, stand, stanza, statement of facts, strain, subjoinder, summary, summation, summing, summing up, sumption, supposal, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, tab, tailpiece, tally, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, the dope, the goods, the know, the record, the scoop, theorem, thesis, thought, transactions, transmission, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, tutti, tutti passage, ukase, utterance, variation, vent, verbalization, verse, vocalization, voice, vouch, white book, white paper, witness, word, yearbook

statesman

• statesman, Admirable Crichton, adept, artisan, artist, attache, authority, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomat, diplomatist, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, graduate, handy man, journeyman, marksman, national leader, no slouch, politician, pro, professional, professor, proficient, public man, savant, shark, sharp, solon, stateswoman, technical adviser, technician

statesmanlike

• statesmanlike, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, civic, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, geopolitical, good, goodish, governmental, graceful, handy, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat, no mean, politic, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, skillful, slick, some, statesmanly, stylish, suffragist, tactful, the compleat, the complete, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike

static

• static, Babel, abeyant, abiding, apathetic, at a standstill, at anchor, atmospherics, battery-powered, bedlam, biostatic, birdies, blaring, blasting, blind spot, blooping, blurping, cacophony, capacity, cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, character, confusion of tongues, constant, contemplative, continuing, crawling, creeping, dead, dead-still, difficulties, difficulty, distortion, do-nothing, dopey, dormant, drift, dull, durable, dynamoelectric, electric, electric-powered, electrified, electrifying, electrochemical, electrodynamic, electrokinetic, electromechanical, electrometric, electromotive, electropneumatic, electrostatic, electrothermal, enduring, fade-out, fading, feedback, firm, fixed, flak, flat, flutter, fluttering, footing, foul, frozen, galvanic, galvanometric, geostatic, groggy, heavy, hell, hissing, howling, hum, hydroelectric, idle, immobile, immotive, immovable, immutable, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, intact, interference, invariable, inviolate, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, lasting, latent, leaden, lifeless, location, locus, logy, meditative, motionless, motorboating, moveless, neuter, neutral, noise, out of commission, pandemonium, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, permanent, perpetual, persistent, phlegmatic, photoelectric, piezoelectric, place, point, position, problems, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, racket, rank, reception, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, rumble, scratching, sedentary, shredding, site, situation, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, solid, spot, squeals, stabile, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, state, station, stationary, statuelike, staying, steadfast, steady, sticky, still, stock-still, stopped, stuck, suspended, sustained, tame, torpid, trouble, unactive, unaltered, unaroused, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vegetable, vegetative, voltaic, where, whistles, woomping, wow, wowwows

statics

• statics, Newtonian physics, acoustics, aerophysics, aerostatics, applied physics, astrophysics, basic conductor physics, biophysics, biostatics, chemical physics, cryogenics, crystallography, cytophysics, dynamics, electron physics, electronics, electrophysics, electrostatics, geophysics, gyrostatics, hydrostatics, macrophysics, mathematical physics, mechanics, medicophysics, microphysics, natural philosophy, natural science, nuclear physics, optics, philosophy, physic, physical chemistry, physical science, physicochemistry, physicomathematics, physics, psychophysics, radiation physics, radionics, rheostatics, solar physics, solid-state physics, stereophysics, stereostatics, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, thermostatics, zoophysics

station

• station, angle, appoint, appointment, arable land, assign, barnyard, barton, base, bearings, berth, billet, blood, bracket, branch, case, caste, category, cattle ranch, chicken farm, circumstance, clan, class, collective farm, condition, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, depot, dignity, distance, division, dry farm, dude ranch, echelon, employment, engagement, estate, face, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fix, footing, fruit farm, fur farm, garrison, gig, grade, grain farm, grange, grassland, ground, group, grouping, hacienda, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, incumbency, install, jam, job, kibbutz, kin, kolkhoz, kudos, label, lay, level, locate, location, lot, mains, manor farm, modality, mode, moonlighting, office, opening, orchard, order, park, pass, pasture, pen, perspective, pickle, pigeonhole, place, plantation, plight, pose, posit, position, post, posture, poultry farm, power structure, precedence, predicament, prestige, put, race, ranch, rancheria, rancho, rank, rate, rating, rubric, seat, second job, section, sept, service, set, sheep farm, site, situation, sphere, spot, stage, stand, standing, state, stature, status, steading, stick, stock farm, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, submit, suborder, tenure, title, toft, truck farm, vacancy, venue, viewpoint

stationary

• stationary, abiding, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, at anchor, changeless, constant, contemplative, continuing, dead-still, do-nothing, dormant, durable, enduring, firm, fixed, frozen, idle, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, inactive, inert, inflexible, intact, inviolate, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting, meditative, motionless, moveless, neuter, neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, sedentary, solid, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, statuelike, staying, steadfast, still, stock-still, sustained, torpid, unactive, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vegetable, vegetative

stationery

• stationery, bond paper, carbon paper, cardboard, flimsy, foolscap, leaf, letter paper, note paper, pad, page, paper, papyrus, parchment, quire, ream, rice paper, scratch pad, scroll, sheet, stencil, tracing paper, vellum, writing paper

stationmaster

• stationmaster, baggage man, bakehead, brakeman, brakie, butcher, conductor, dispatcher, fireman, footplate man, guard, lineman, porter, railroad man, railroader, redcap, smoke agent, stoker, switchman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, yardman, yardmaster

statuary

• statuary, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, bust, carver, carving, casting, ceroplastics, chaser, chasing, clay modeler, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, doll, dolly, dummy, earth art, earth artist, embossing, engraving, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurer, figurine, figuriste, founding, garden sculpture, gem carver, gem-cutting, gingerbread man, glass sculpture, glyptic, graver, ivory-carving, lay figure, lost-wax process, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, marmoreal, mason, metal sculpture, model, modeler, modeling, molder, molding, monument, monumental, monumental mason, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait bust, portrait sculpture, puppet, relief, relief-carving, relievo, scarecrow, sculptitory, sculptor, sculptress, sculptural, sculpture, sculpturer, sculpturesque, sculpturing, shell-carving, snowman, statue, statuelike, statuesque, statuette, stone sculpture, stonecutter, stonecutting, wax figure, wax modeler, waxwork, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carver, wood carving, xyloglyphy

statue

• statue, art object, atlas, brainchild, bric-a-brac, bronze, bust, carving, caryatid, cast, casting, classic, colossus, composition, creation, design, doll, dolly, dummy, effigy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, gingerbread man, graven image, grotesque, icon, ikon, image, kitsch, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marble, marionette, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, model, monument, museum piece, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, piece, piece of virtu, portrait bust, puppet, representation, scarecrow, sculpture, snowman, stabile, statuary, statuette, still life, study, terra cotta, virtu, wax figure, waxwork, wood carving, work, work of art

statuelike

• statuelike, at a standstill, at anchor, dead-still, fixed, idle, immobile, immotive, marmoreal, monumental, motionless, moveless, out of commission, riding at anchor, sculptitory, sculptural, sculpturesque, static, stationary, statuary, statuesque, still, stock-still, unemployed, unmoved, unmoving

statuesque

• statuesque, Junoesque, agreeable, amply endowed, aristocratic, august, becoming, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, clean-limbed, colossal, comely, courtly, curvaceous, curvy, dignified, fair, gangling, gangly, giant, gigantic, goddess-like, good-looking, goodly, grand, grave, handsome, imposing, impressive, kingly, lank, lanky, leggy, lengthy, likely, long, long-legged, lordly, lovely to behold, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, marmoreal, monumental, noble, personable, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, princely, queenly, rangy, regal, royal, sculptitory, sculptural, sculpturesque, sedate, shapely, sightly, slender, sober, solemn, stacked, stately, statuary, statuelike, tall, trim, venerable, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, worthy

stature

• stature, altitude, authority, caliber, ceiling, consequence, dignity, elevation, eminence, exaltation, face, greatness, hauteur, height, heighth, high place, highness, importance, influence, influentialness, kudos, loftiness, merit, moment, perpendicular distance, position, precedence, pressure, prestige, priority, prominence, rank, seniority, standing, state, station, status, sublimity, tallness, toploftiness, value, virtue, weight, weightiness, worth

status

• status, angle, base, bearings, blood, bracket, branch, cachet, caliber, capacity, case, caste, category, character, circumstance, clan, class, condition, consequence, dignity, distance, distinction, division, echelon, eminence, estate, face, fix, footing, grade, ground, group, grouping, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, importance, jam, kin, kudos, label, level, location, lot, merit, modality, mode, order, part, pass, perspective, pickle, pigeonhole, place, plight, position, post, posture, power structure, precedence, predicament, prestige, prominence, quality, race, rank, rate, rating, relation, renown, reputation, repute, role, rubric, seat, section, sept, set, significance, situation, sphere, spot, stage, stand, standing, state, state of affairs, station, stature, status quo, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, title, venue, viewpoint, worth

statute

• statute, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, act, assize, ban, bill, bylaw, canon, contraband, decree, decretum, denial, dictate, dictation, disallowance, edict, embargo, enactment, exclusion, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, form, formality, formula, formulary, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, institution, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, jus, law, legislation, lex, measure, no-no, ordinance, ordonnance, precept, preclusion, prescript, prescription, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, refusal, regulation, rejection, repression, restrictive covenants, rubric, rule, ruling, ruling out, standing order, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, zoning, zoning laws

statutory

• statutory, actionable, applicable, authoritative, authorized, binding, canonical, competent, constitutional, dictated, didactic, formulary, hard and fast, instructive, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, licit, mandatory, official, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, rightful, rubric, sanctioned, standard, valid, within the law

staunch

• staunch, Sabbatarian, airtight, ardent, bigoted, calculable, close, committed, compact, consistent, constant, creedbound, dedicated, dependable, devoted, dogmatic, dustproof, dusttight, evangelical, faithful, faithworthy, fast, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fixed, flinty, fundamentalist, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, hidebound, hyperorthodox, immovable, inflexible, infrangible, invincible, liege, lightproof, lighttight, literalist, literalistic, long-lasting, loyal, made of iron, marble-constant, oilproof, oiltight, precisianist, precisianistic, predictable, purist, puristic, puritanical, rainproof, raintight, reliable, resolute, rigid, rugged, sealed, seaworthy, secure, set, settled, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, solid, sot, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, steely, stormproof, stormtight, stout, straitlaced, strict, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, surefire, tested, tight, tough, tried, tried and true, true, true-blue, trusted, trustworthy, trusty, unbending, unbreakable, undeflectable, undeviating, unfailing, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, windproof, windtight

staunchly

• staunchly, bec et ongles, bona fide, committedly, consistently, constantly, deafeningly, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, earnestly, faithfully, firmly, fixedly, forcefully, forcibly, hammer and tongs, heart and soul, heartily, imperviously, impregnably, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, in good faith, inflexibly, intensely, invincibly, invulnerably, irresistibly, like a bulldog, like a leech, loudly, loyally, lustily, mightily, obstinately, perseveringly, persistently, powerfully, pungently, purposefully, relentlessly, resistantly, resolutely, resolvedly, responsibly, robustly, ruggedly, seriously, sincerely, singlemindedly, soundly, stalwartly, steadfastly, steadily, stoutly, strongly, sturdily, tenaciously, tooth and nail, unswervingly, unyieldingly, vigorously, wholeheartedly, with a will, with constancy, with good faith, with total dedication

stave off

• stave off, adjourn, anticipate, avert, bar, beat off, block, check, continue, counter, debar, defer, deflect, delay, deter, discourage, dishearten, drag out, drive back, drive off, estop, exclude, extend, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, hang fire, hang up, help, hinder, hold at bay, hold off, hold over, hold up, keep at bay, keep from, keep off, lay aside, lay by, lay over, obstruct, obviate, parry, pigeonhole, postpone, preclude, prevent, prohibit, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, push aside, push back, put aside, put back, put off, put on ice, rebuff, rebut, recess, repel, repulse, reserve, rule out, save, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, stand over, stay, stop, stretch out, suspend, table, take a recess, turn aside, waive, ward, ward off

stave

• stave, Malacca cane, Spenserian stanza, advocate, alpenstock, antistrophe, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bar, bar line, barrel, baton, beam, bearer, billet, board, boarding, book, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, bucket, bullet, burden, buttress, cane, canto, carrier, cervix, chorus, clapboard, cord, cordwood, corset, couplet, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, crutch, crutch-stick, deal, degree, distich, doorstep, driftwood, envoi, epode, firewood, footrest, footstep, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, handstaff, hardwood, haste, hasten, heptastich, hexastich, highball, hotfoot, hustle, jock, jockstrap, lath, lathing, lathwork, ledger line, line, lituus, log, lumber, mainstay, maintainer, mast, measure, monostich, neck, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pastoral staff, paterissa, pentastich, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prop, puncheon, quarterstaff, quatrain, refrain, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rhyme royal, rigging, riser, round, rundle, rung, scale, septet, sestet, sextet, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shillelagh, shingle, shoulder, shroud, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, space, spine, splat, spoke, sprit, staff, stair, standing rigging, stanza, stay, step, step stool, stepping-stone, stick, stick of wood, stiffener, stovewood, strain, strengthener, string, strophe, support, supporter, sustainer, swagger stick, swanking stick, syllable, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tread, triplet, tristich, two-by-four, upholder, verse, walking stick, weatherboard, wood

stay in line

• stay in line, attend to orders, comply, conform, defer to, fall in with, fall into line, fit in, follow the book, follow the crowd, follow the fashion, follow the rule, get in line, go through channels, harken to, heed, keep, keep in step, listen to, mark, mind, obey, obey the rules, observe, pass muster, play the game, submit, take orders, toe the line, toe the mark

stay put

• stay put, abide, adhere, agglomerate, be still, be unflappable, bunch, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, coast, cohere, congeal, conglomerate, embrace, freeze, freeze to, get home free, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold together, hold up, hug, keep quiet, lie still, mark time, mass, not breathe, not budge, not stir, persist, remain, remain firm, remain motionless, repose, rest, ride it out, set, solidify, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stand still, stay, stick, stick fast, stick it out, stick together, take hold of, tarry, tread water, weather, weather the storm

stay up

• stay up, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, hang about, hang around, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, linger, loiter, mark time, sit tight, sit up, stay, stick around, take time, tarry, wait, wait a minute, wait and see

stay

• stay, abandon, abeyance, abide, abort, adhere, adjourn, advocate, afford support, afterthought, agglomerate, alpenstock, amnesty, anchor, arm, arrest, arrestation, athletic supporter, await, back, back up, backbone, backing, backpedal, backwater, bandeau, bar, be still, bear, bear up, bearer, bearing rein, belay, bell, berth, bide, bide the issue, billet at, bind, bit, bivouac, block, block up, blockade, blockage, bolster, bolster up, bottom, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brake, brassiere, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, bring to, bring up short, bunch, bung, bunk, buoy up, bureaucratic delay, burrow, buttress, cable, caesura, camp, cancel, cane, carrier, carry, carry on, caulk, cease, cease not, cease-fire, cervix, chain, check, checkmate, checkrein, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, cigarette break, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clip the wings, clog, clog up, clot, cluster, coagulate, coast, cocktail hour, coffee break, cohabit, cohere, colonize, column, come to anchor, confine, congeal, congest, conglomerate, constipate, continue, continue to be, cork, corselet, corset, countercheck, cover, cradle, crook, crutch, curb, curb bit, cushion, cut it out, cut short, cutoff, dally, dam, dam up, damper, dawdle, day off, dead stop, deadlock, debarment, decelerate, defeat time, defer, deferment, deferral, defy time, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, desist, detain, detention, deter, determent, deterrence, dillydally, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, discourage, discouragement, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, doorstop, doss down, double take, downtime, drag, drag on, drag out, drag sail, dragging, draw rein, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, drop, drop anchor, drop it, dwell, ease off, ease up, embrace, end, endgame, ending, endure, enforced respite, ensconce, establish, establish residence, estoppel, exemption, exist, extend, fetter, fill, fill up, final whistle, foil, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, forestay, foul, found, foundation garment, freeze, freeze to, fulcrum, full stop, gird, girdle, give over, give support, go along, go on, grasp, grinding halt, ground, grow together, gun, guy, guywire, halt, hamper, hang, hang about, hang around, hang fire, hang on, hang out, hang together, hang up, hang-up, happy hour, have done with, hesitation, hinder, hindrance, hive, hold, hold back, hold everything, hold in check, hold off, hold on, hold out, hold over, hold steady, hold together, hold up, hold your horses, holdback, holdup, holiday, hug, immunity, impede, impunity, indemnity, inhabit, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interrupt, interruption, interval, jam, jock, jockstrap, jog on, keep, keep afloat, keep back, keep going, keep house, keep on, keep quiet, keep up, knock it off, lag, lagging, lapse, last, last long, last out, lay aside, lay by, lay off, lay over, layoff, layover, leave off, lend support, let down, let up, letup, lie still, line, linger, live, live at, live on, live through, locate, lockout, lodge, logjam, loiter, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, lull, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, make late, mark time, martingale, mass, mast, moderate, moor, moratorium, move, neck, nest, never cease, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, not breathe, not stir, obstipate, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, occupy, pack, paperasserie, park, pause, pelham, people, perch, perdure, perennate, persist, pigeonhole, pillow, plug, plug up, populate, postpone, postponement, preclusion, predicate, prevail, prevent, prevention, procrastinate, prohibition, prolong, prop, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull up, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, put paid to, quit, recess, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reef, refrain, rein in, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, relax, relinquish, relocate, remain, remain motionless, remission, remora, renounce, repose, reprieve, reserve, reside, respite, rest, resting place, retard, retardance, retardation, rigging, room, roost, rope, run, run on, scotch, scrub, sea anchor, secure, set, set aside, set back, set by, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shackle, shelve, shift off, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, sit down, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, sit-down strike, slack off, slack up, slacken, sleep on, slog on, slow, slow down, slow up, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snaffle, sojourn, sojournment, solidify, spell, spile, spine, spoke, sprit, squat, staff, stagger on, stalemate, stall, stanch, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand over, stand still, stand-down, standing rigging, standoff, standstill, stave, stave off, stay at, stay of execution, stay on, stay over, stay put, stay up, stay up for, stayover, stays, stem, stem the tide, stench, stick, stick around, stick fast, stick together, stiffener, stillstand, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop over, stop short, stop up, stop-off, stopover, stoppage, stopper, stopping, stopple, strengthen, strengthener, stretch out, strike, strike root, stuff, stuff up, stymie, subsidize, subsist, subvention, support, supporter, surcease, survive, suspend, suspension, sustain, sustainer, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, table, take a recess, take hold of, take in sail, take residence at, take root, take time, take up residence, tarry, tea break, tenant, terminate, throttle down, thwart, tide over, tie-up, time lag, time out, trammel, tread water, truce, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning, underset, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, vacation, visit, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait on, wait up for, waive, walking stick, walkout, watch, watch and wait, wear, work stoppage

staying power

• staying power, application, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, concentration, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, decisiveness, diligence, dogged perseverance, doggedness, endurance, energy, engrossment, extension, fidelity, force, fortitude, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, heartiness, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, lengthening, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, maintenance, might, mightiness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, preoccupation, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, relentlessness, repetition, resolution, robustness, ruggedness, run, sedulity, sedulousness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, stability, stalwartness, stamina, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, sticking power, stoutness, straight course, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sustained action, sustenance, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, toughness, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, unswerving attention, vigor, vigorousness, vitality, way

stead

• stead, abet, abode, aid, area, assist, bearings, bench mark, district, do for, emplacement, help out, hole, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, locality, location, locus, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, whereabout, whereabouts

steadfast

• steadfast, abiding, accordant, adamant, age-long, aged, alike, ancient, antique, ardent, assiduous, automatic, balanced, calculable, changeless, chronic, committed, consistent, consonant, constant, continuing, continuous, cool, correspondent, dedicated, deep-rooted, dependable, determined, devoted, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, durable, enduring, equable, equal, even, evergreen, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fixed, flat, flinty, frozen, hardy, homogeneous, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, imperturbable, in equilibrium, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inexorable, inflexible, insistent, intact, intransient, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, irremovable, lasting, level, liege, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, marble-constant, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, never-failing, never-tiring, obdurate, obstinate, of a piece, of long duration, of long standing, ordered, orderly, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, predictable, preoccupied, quiescent, rapt, regular, relentless, reliable, remaining, resolute, resolved, rigid, robotlike, secure, sedulous, sempervirent, set, settled, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sot, sound, stable, static, stationary, staunch, staying, steady, steely, stubborn, substantial, sure, surefire, sustained, systematic, tenacious, tested, tireless, torpid, tough, tried, tried and true, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, unabating, unaltered, unbending, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmovable, unnodding, unqualified, unquestioning, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unruffled, unshakable, unshaken, unshifting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vital, weariless, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, wholehearted, without nerves

steadily

• steadily, ad infinitum, always, at all times, at every turn, at regular intervals, at stated times, bec et ongles, bona fide, calmly, ceaselessly, committedly, composedly, conservatively, consistently, constantly, continually, coolly, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, dispassionately, earnestly, endlessly, equably, eternally, evenly, ever, ever and anon, everlastingly, every day, every hour, every moment, every so often, faithfully, firmly, fixedly, hammer and tongs, heart and soul, hour after hour, hourly, impassively, imperturbably, in all seriousness, in balance, in earnest, in good earnest, in good faith, in moderation, in perpetuity, in reason, incessantly, indestructibly, inexcitably, infinitely, inflexibly, inirritably, interminably, intermittently, invariably, judiciously, levelheadedly, like a bulldog, like a leech, like clockwork, loyally, methodically, moderately, month after month, never otherwise, never-endingly, night and day, obstinately, on and on, orderly, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, perseveringly, persistently, placidly, prudently, punctually, purposefully, quietly, rapidly, regularly, relentlessly, resolutely, resolvedly, responsibly, restrainedly, right along, serenely, seriously, sincerely, singlemindedly, soberly, soothingly, staunchly, steadfastly, stodgily, stoically, stolidly, stuffily, subduedly, sustainedly, systematically, temperately, tenaciously, time without end, tooth and nail, tranquilly, unceasingly, unendingly, uniformly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unswervingly, unvaryingly, unyieldingly, wholeheartedly, with a will, with constancy, with good faith, with total dedication, within bounds, within compass, within reason, without cease, without end, without exception, without letup, without stopping, world without end, year after year

steady state

• steady state, aplomb, balance, balanced personality, ceaselessness, complex variable, consecutiveness, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, continuousness, cool, endlessness, equilibrium, fastness, featurelessness, firmness, fullness, gaplessness, homeostasis, imperturbability, incessancy, invariability, jointlessness, manipulated variable, monotony, nerve, plenitude, process variable, reliability, rootedness, sang-froid, seamlessness, secureness, security, simple variable, smoothness, solidity, soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, substantiality, successiveness, transient state, unbrokenness, undeflectability, undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unrelievedness, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, variable

steady

• steady, abiding, accordant, adamantine, ageless, alike, alternate, appease, ardent, arranged, articulated, assiduous, automatic, balance, balanced, ballast, beating, beau, beloved, bovine, boyfriend, brace, bulky, businesslike, calculable, calm, calm down, captive, catch, catenated, ceaseless, certain, changeless, chattering, circling, civilized, coeternal, compose, concatenated, confirmed, connected, conquest, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, controlled, cool, coolheaded, coquette, correspondent, counterbalance, cradle, customer, cyclic, cyclical, date, dateless, dense, dependable, devoted, dignified, diligent, direct, dispassionate, dogged, down-to-earth, dulcify, dull, durable, ease, endless, enduring, epochal, equable, equal, eternal, eterne, even, even out, even-tempered, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, every other, fail-safe, faithful, faithworthy, fast, featureless, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firm up, firmly, fixed, flame, flat, flinty, flirt, formal, freeze, frequenter, gal, gapless, gentle, guaranteed, guy, habitual, habitue, hard, harmless, harmonious, hold, hold fast, homogeneous, honey, hush, immediate, immemorial, immobilize, immovable, immutable, impassive, imperturbable, in equilibrium, in hand, inalterable, inamorata, inamorato, incessant, indefatigable, indestructible, indomitable, industrious, inexcitable, infinite, inflexible, inirritable, insistent, interminable, intermittent, invariable, inveterate, invincible, invulnerable, isochronal, joined, jointless, keep, ladylove, lasting, level, level-headed, liege, linked, long-standing, lover, loyal, lull, machine gun, man, marble-constant, massive, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodical, metronomic, mollify, monolithic, monotonous, nail down, nerveless, never-ceasing, never-ending, never-failing, never-tiring, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, normal, obstinate, of a piece, olamic, ordered, orderly, oscillating, oscillatory, pacify, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perennial, periodic, periodical, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pin down, plodding, plugging, poise, poised, pour balm into, predictable, preoccupied, pulsating, pulsing, quell, quiet, rapid, rapt, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, regular, relaxed, relentless, reliable, remaining, repeated, repetitive, resolute, rest, retain, rhythmic, riskless, robotlike, rock, rock to sleep, rock-steady, rotary, round-the-clock, routine, rugged, running, seamless, seasonal, secure, sedate, sedulous, sempiternal, sensible, serial, serious, serried, set, settled, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, sober, socialize, solid, solidly, soothe, sophisticated, sot, sound, stabile, stabilitate, stabilize, stable, staccato, staid, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, steely, stick, sticking, still, stoic, stolid, stout, straight, strengthen, strong, strong-nerved, stubborn, sturdy, stuttering, subdue, substantial, support, sure, surefire, sustained, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, symmetrical, systematic, tenacious, timeless, tireless, tough, tranquilize, transfix, true, true-blue, truelove, trustworthy, trusty, twenty-four-hour, unabating, unbending, unblenching, unblinking, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconquerable, undangerous, undaunted, undeflectable, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undisturbable, undiversified, undrooping, undulant, undulatory, undying, unending, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unhazardous, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unirritable, unnervous, unnodding, unpassionate, unperilous, unprecarious, unqualified, unquestioning, unquivering, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unrelieved, unremitting, unrisky, unruffled, unshakable, unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unsleeping, unstopped, unstrained, unswerving, untiring, untremulous, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, usual, utterly attentive, vamp, vampire, vibrating, warranteed, wavelike, weariless, well-balanced, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, well-ordered, well-regulated, wheeling, wholehearted, without a tremor, without end, without nerves, woman

steak

• steak, London broil, Salisbury steak, T-bone steak, beefsteak, bifteck, chopped steak, club steak, cubed steak, fillet steak, flank steak, ground beef, ground chuck, ground round, hamburg, hamburg steak, hamburger, porterhouse steak, rib steak, round steak, rump steak, shell steak, sirloin steak, tenderloin steak

steal the show

• steal the show, act, act as foil, appear, barnstorm, come out, emote, emotionalize, get top billing, mime, pantomime, patter, perform, play, play the lead, playact, register, sketch, star, stooge, tread the boards, troupe, upstage

steal

• steal, abstract, acquire, adopt, advantageous purchase, and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, bargain, boost, borrow, burglarize, burglary, buy, cabbage, caper, catch up, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clout, clutch, collar, coon, cop, copy, couch, crawl, creep, crib, crook, defraud, derive from, drain off, draw off, embezzle, embrace, extort, filch, fleece, frisk, get, get away with, get hold of, glide, glom on to, go on tiptoe, good buy, good pennyworth, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grovel, gumshoe, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hug, imitate, inch, inch along, infringe, job, larceny, lay hands on, lay hold of, lay wait, liberate, lie in wait, lift, loot, lurk, make off with, make use of, misappropriate, mock, mooch, mouse, nab, nail, nick, nightwalk, nip, nip up, pad, palm, partake, peculate, pennyworth, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, pocket, possess, prig, prowl, purloin, purloining, pussyfoot, receive, rifle, rip-off, rob, robbery, run away with, rustle, scrabble, scramble, scrounge, seize, shadow, shanghai, shirk, shoplift, sidle, simulate, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, snap up, snare, snatch, sneak, snitch, stalk, steal along, stealage, stealing, swindle, swipe, take, take away, take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take on, take over, take possession, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, tippytoe, tiptoe, touch, usurp, vulture, walk off with, whip up, worm, worm along

stealing

• stealing, abstraction, all fours, annexation, appropriation, blackmail, boodle, boosting, booty, burglary, conversion, conveyance, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, doggo, embezzlement, filching, fraud, furtive, graft, gumshoeing, haul, hidden out, hot goods, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, loot, lurking, nightwalking, on tiptoe, padding, peculation, perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, piracy, pirating, plagiarism, plagiarizing, plunder, poaching, pork barrel, prize, prowling, public till, public trough, purloining, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, pussyfooting, robbery, robbing, scrabble, scramble, scrounging, shoplifting, sidling, skulking, slinking, snaking, snatching, sneak thievery, sneaking, snitching, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, steal, stealage, stealings, stealthy, stolen goods, surreptitious, swag, swindle, swiping, take, theft, thievery, thieving, till, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, touch, under cover, waiting concealed, worming

stealth

• stealth, Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, clandestine behavior, clandestineness, clandestinity, cleverness, covertness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship, guile, ingeniousness, insidiousness, inventiveness, one-upmanship, prowl, prowling, readiness, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, secrecy, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slinkiness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, stalking, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, trickiness, underground activity, underhand dealing, underhandedness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit

stealthy

• stealthy, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, back-door, backstairs, cagey, canny, catlike, catty, clandestine, clever, closet, covert, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, doggo, feline, foxy, furtive, guileful, hidden out, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lurking, noiseless, on tiptoe, pawky, politic, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiet, ready, resourceful, scheming, secret, secretive, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, silent, skulking, slick, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sophistical, stealing, stealthful, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, vulpine, waiting concealed, wary, wily

steam pipe

• steam pipe, adjutage, burner, caliduct, catheter, cooker, cookery, drainpipe, efflux tube, element, fire hose, flue pipe, funnel, furnace, garden hose, gas jet, gas pipe, heater, heating duct, hose, hosepipe, jet, nipple, organ pipe, pilot light, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel, soil pipe, standpipe, stem, stove, straw, tap, tewel, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tuyere, warmer, waste pipe, water pipe

steam room

• steam room, bagnio, balneae, balneum, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, baths, caldarium, lavatory, mikvah, public baths, rest room, sauna, spa, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, washroom, watering place

steam up

• steam up, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, blow the coals, blow up, call forth, call up, charge, cock, enkindle, enrage, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, get up steam, heat, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, ire, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, load, mad, madden, move, overexcite, prime, rouse, set, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, turn on, umbrage, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, warm up, whip up, wind, wind up, work into, work up

steam

• steam, Old Faithful, aerate, aerify, afterdamp, agua, amperage, aqua, armipotence, atomize, authority, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat, beef, black power, blackdamp, blanch, blaze, bloom, blow, boat, boil, boiling water, braise, breath, breathe out, brew, broil, brown, brute force, burn, canoe, carbonate, carry sail, chafe, charge, charisma, chlorinate, choke, chokedamp, circumnavigate, cloud, clout, coast, coddle, cogence, cogency, combust, compulsion, cook, cross, cruise, curry, damp, devil, dint, distill, do, do to perfection, drinking water, drive, duress, eau, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effluvium, electric-heat, emit, energy, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, fetid air, fire, fire up, firedamp, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flatus, flicker, flower power, fluid, fluidize, flush, foment, force, force majeure, forcefulness, fractionate, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, full blast, full force, fume, fumigate, gas-heat, gasify, gasp, geyser, give off, give out, give vent to, glow, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, griddle, grill, ground water, hard water, head, heat, heavy water, hot, hot spring, hot up, hot water, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, hydrogenate, hydrol, hydrometeor, hydrosphere, incandesce, influence, let out, limewater, main force, main strength, make a passage, malaria, mana, mephitis, miasma, might, might and main, mightiness, mineral water, motorboat, moxie, mull, muscle, muscle power, navigate, open the floodgates, open the sluices, oven-bake, overheat, oxygenate, pan, pan-broil, pant, parboil, parch, perfume, pizzazz, ply, poach, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, preheat, prepare, prepare food, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puff, puff of smoke, puissance, pull, punch, push, radiate heat, rain, rainwater, recook, reek, reheat, roast, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, salt water, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, scull, sea water, seafare, sear, seethe, send out, shimmer with heat, shirr, simmer, sinew, smoke, smolder, smother, smudge, soft water, spark, spray, spring water, steamboat, stew, stifle, stir-fry, stoke up, strength, strong arm, sublimate, sublime, suffocate, superheat, superiority, superpower, sweat, swelter, take a voyage, tepefy, thermae, throw off, toast, traverse, validity, vapor, vaporize, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, volatile, volatilize, voyage, warm, warm over, warm up, water, water vapor, wattage, weight, well water, wetting agent, wetting-out agent, yacht

steamboat

• steamboat, boat, canoe, carry sail, circumnavigate, coast, cross, cruise, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, make a passage, motorboat, navigate, ply, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, scull, seafare, steam, steamer, steamship, take a voyage, traverse, voyage, yacht

steamed up

• steamed up, agog, ape about, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bugs on, bursting, carried away, cracked on, crazy about, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, freaked-out, gaga over, gone on, hepped up over, high, hipped on, hopped up, hot about, impassioned, inflamed, keyed up, lathered up, mad about, manic, moved, nuts about, nuts on, ready to burst, roused, starry-eyed over, steamed up about, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, wild about, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

steamer

• steamer, Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamboat, steamship, whelk

steaming

• steaming, ablaze, aeration, aerial, aerification, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, airy, ardent, atomization, boating, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cordial, cruising, delirious, distillation, drunk, enthusiastic, ethereal, etherealization, etherification, evaporation, excited, exhalation, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, fluidization, flushed, fractionation, fumigation, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasification, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, gunkholing, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in rut, intense, intoxicated, keen, lively, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, motorboating, navigability, navigating, navigation, on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, passage-making, passionate, periplus, pneumatic, red-hot, reeking, reeky, rowing, sailing, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, seething, sexually excited, smoking, smoky, steamy, sublimation, travel by water, unrestrained, vaporing, vaporish, vaporization, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, vigorous, volatilization, voyaging, warm, water travel, yachting, zealous

steamroller

• steamroller, align, beat, beat down, big battalions, blackjack, blank, blast, blow down, bludgeon, break down, bring down, brute force, bulldoze, bulldozer, bully, burn down, cast down, cheese grater, chop down, clobber, coerce, coercive, comminutor, cream, crusher, cut down, defeat utterly, dragoon, drub, equalize, even, fell, flatten, flush, force, forcible, grade, granulator, grater, grinder, hijack, intimidate, knock down, knock over, kominuter, lambaste, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, levigator, lick, main force, masher, mill, millstone, mortar and pestle, mow down, naked force, nutmeg grater, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pestle, physical force, prostrate, pull down, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rase, raze, rock crusher, roll, roll flat, roller, rule of might, schmear, shanghai, shellac, shredder, shut out, skunk, sledgehammer, smash, smear, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, snow under, steamroll, strong-arm, take down, tear down, throw down, triturator, tyranny, ultima ratio, use violence, violent, wallop, whelm, whitewash, whomp, whop

steamy

• steamy, ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, airy, ardent, arousing, beclouded, befogged, blurred, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, clouded, cloudy, concupiscent, cordial, damp, dank, delirious, dim, drunk, ejaculatory, enthusiastic, erotic, ethereal, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, goatish, hazy, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, horny, hot, hot-blooded, humid, impassioned, in rut, intense, intoxicated, itching, keen, lascivious, libidinous, lickerish, lively, lustful, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misted, misty, moist, muggy, on fire, orgasmic, orgastic, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, passionate, pneumatic, prurient, randy, red-hot, reeking, reeky, salacious, seething, sex-starved, sexually excited, sexy, smoking, smoky, sodden, steamed up, steaming, sticky, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, vigorous, warm, wet, zealous

steed

• steed, Houyhnhnm, brood mare, charger, colt, courser, critter, dobbin, entire, entire horse, equine, filly, foal, gelding, horse, mare, mount, nag, prancer, stallion, stud, studhorse, tarpan, top horse, war-horse, wild horse

steel band

• steel band, German band, Philharmonic, band, big band, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, callithumpian band, chamber orchestra, combo, concert band, desks, dixieland band, ensemble, gamelan orchestra, group, jazz band, jug band, military band, orchestra, quartet, quintet, ragtime band, rock-and-roll group, sextet, skiffle band, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, trio, waits, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds

steel

• steel, Excalibur, Gibraltar, adamant, anneal, assessable stock, aureate, authorized capital stock, ax, bear up, beef up, bite the bullet, blade, blue chip, blue chip stock, bone, borrowed stock, brace, brace up, brass, brassy, brazen, brick, bronze, bronzy, brutalize, buck up, buttress, calcify, callous, capital stock, case harden, cement, cold steel, common stock, concrete, confirm, convertible preferred stock, copper, coppery, cornify, corporate stock, cumulative preferred stock, cupreous, cuprous, cutlery, cutter, cyclical stock, dagger, defensive stock, deferred stock, diamond, dirk, edge tools, eighth stock, equities, equity, equity security, fancies, ferrous, ferruginous, firm, flint, floating stock, fortify, fossilize, gilt, gird, glamour issue, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, granite, growth stock, guaranteed stock, harden, heart of oak, high-flier, horse, hot issue, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, income stock, indurate, insulate, inure, invigorate, iron, ironlike, issued capital stock, knife, lapidify, lead, leaden, letter stock, lion, lithify, loaned stock, long stock, marble, mercurial, mercurous, nails, naked steel, nerve, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, oak, ordinary shares, ossify, ox, pale blue chip, participating preferred stock, penny stock, petrify, pewter, pewtery, pigsticker, point, preference stock, preferred stock, prepare, prop, protect, protective stock, puncturer, quarter stock, quicksilver, rails, rally, ready, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, reverse split, rock, seasoned stock, share ledger, shares, sharpener, shore up, short stock, silver, silver-plated, silvery, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, standard stock, steels, steely, stiffen, stiletto, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stocks, stone, strengthen, support, sustain, sword, temper, ten-share unit stock, tin, tinny, toad sticker, toughen, treasury stock, trusty sword, undergird, unissued capital stock, unmeasurable, utilities, vitrify, voting stock, whittle

steeled

• steeled, Philistine, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, inured, lapidified, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened, thick-skinned, toughened, vitrified

steelworks

• steelworks, blacksmith shop, bleachworks, bloomery, bottling works, brassworks, copperworks, dye works, forge, foundry, furnace, gasworks, glassworks, ironworks, metalworks, paper works, printworks, saltworks, scrapworks, smelter, smithery, smithy, soapworks, starchworks, steel mill, stithy, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, waterworks, wireworks, works

steely

• steely, Philistine, Quaker-colored, acier, adamant, adamantine, ashen, ashy, aureate, beefy, bony, bouncing, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, callous, calloused, canescent, case-hardened, cast-iron, cement, cemental, cinereous, cinerous, concrete, constant, copper, coppery, corneous, cupreous, cuprous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dense, diamondlike, dingy, dismal, doughty, dour, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dure, dusty, ferrous, ferruginous, firm, fixed, flintlike, flinty, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, gilt, glaucescent, glaucous, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, granitelike, granitic, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hard-core, hardened, hardhearted, hardy, hearty, hefty, horny, husky, immovable, immutable, impervious, implacable, impliable, indurate, indurated, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, insensitive, intransigent, inured, iron, iron-gray, iron-hard, ironlike, irreconcilable, lapideous, lead, lead-gray, leaden, lithoid, lithoidal, livid, loyal, lusty, marble, marblelike, mercurial, mercurous, mighty, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, nervy, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, obdurate, obstinate, osseous, pachydermatous, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pewter, pewtery, potent, powerful, proof against, puissant, quicksilver, red-blooded, relentless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorous, robust, robustious, rock-ribbed, rocklike, rocky, rugged, sad, set, settled, silver, silver-gray, silver-plated, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solid, somber, sot, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, steel, steel-gray, steeled against, steellike, stern, stiff, stone-colored, stonelike, stony, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, taupe, thick-skinned, tin, tinny, tough, true, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, undeflectable, unflappable, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unshaken, unswerving, unyielding, vigorous

steep

• steep, Herculean, Olympian, Olympian heights, a bit much, abandoned, abrupt, abstruse, acme, aerial, aerial heights, airy, altitudinous, apex, arduous, ascending, aspiring, bathe, besprinkle, bluff, bold, boundless, breakneck, breathe, brew, brutal, bury, cliff, color, colossal, complex, concentrate, costly, crag, critical, dear, dear-bought, decoct, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, distill, dizzy heights, dominating, douche, douse, dredge, drench, drouk, dye, egregious, elevated, elevation, eminence, eminent, enormous, entincture, escarpment, essentialize, ether, ethereal, exacting, exaggerated, exalted, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, express, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, face, fancy, fill, flavor, flush, formidable, gigantic, gluttonous, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, haughty, headlong, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high, high-pitched, high-priced, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, imbrue, imbue, immerse, immoderate, impregnate, incontinent, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, inject, inoculate, inordinate, instill, intemperate, intricate, inundate, invest, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, lave, leach, leaven, lift, lixiviate, lofty, luxurious, macerate, marinate, mean, melt down, monstrous, monumental, mounting, no picnic, not affordable, not easy, of great cost, operose, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outtopping, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overpriced, overtopping, overweening, palisade, palisades, penetrate, percolate, permeate, perpendicular, pervade, pickle, plumb, plunging, precipice, precipitous, premium, press out, pricey, prominent, raise, rapid, refine, render, rich, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, rigorous, rinse, rise, rising ground, rough, rugged, saturate, scar, scarp, season, seethe, set with thorns, severe, sharp, sheer, sky, soak, soaring, sodden, sop, souse, spiny, spiring, stiff, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, stratosphere, strenuous, sublime, submerge, suffuse, sumptuous, superlative, supernal, temper, thorny, ticklish, tincture, tinge, toilsome, too much, top, topless, toplofty, topping, tough, towering, towery, transfuse, tricky, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable, unreasonable, unrestrained, up-and-down, uphill, uplifted, upreared, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point, vertical, wall, wash, waterlog, wet, wicked, wring, wring out, zenith

steeple

• steeple, antenna tower, barbican, belfry, bell tower, campanile, cog, colossus, column, comb, crag, cupola, derrick, dome, fang, fire tower, harrow, jag, lantern, lighthouse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, pagoda, peak, pecten, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, projection, pylon, pyramid, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, shaft, skyscraper, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, standpipe, stupa, television mast, tooth, tope, tour, tower, turret, water tower, windmill tower

steeplechase

• steeplechase, Derby, Highland fling, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and jump, bounce, bouncing, bound, bounding, broad jump, buck, buckjump, capering, capriole, chase, curvet, demivolt, flat race, flying jump, galliard, gelandesprung, grand jete, handicap, handicap race, handspring, harness race, high jump, hippety-hop, hop, hopping, horse race, hurdle, hurdle race, hurdling, jete, jig, jump, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, jumping, lavolta, leap, leapfrog, leaping, long jump, morris, plate race, pole vault, pole vaulting, pounce, prancing, purse race, quarter-horse race, running broad jump, running high jump, saltation, saut de basque, ski jump, skip, skipping, spring, springing, stake, stake race, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, the hurdles, timber topping, tour jete, trotting race, upleap, upspring, vault, vaulting

steeplechaser

• steeplechaser, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, entry, equestrian, equestrienne, favorite, gaucho, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, knight, mounted policeman, mudder, plate horse, plater, pole horse, pony, postboy, postilion, puncher, race horse, racer, rider, roughrider, stable, stake horse, staker, starter, string, trick rider, vaquero

steer clear of

• steer clear of, avert, avoid, be stuck-up, bear off, dodge, draw aside, ease off, edge off, fight shy of, fly off, gee, give place to, glance, glance off, go off, haw, head off, hold aloof, hold away from, jib, keep aloof, keep away, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep remote from, let alone, maintain distance, make way for, move aside, not meddle with, not touch, refuse to receive, sheer off, shove aside, shun, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, spurn, stand aloof, stand clear of, stand off, stay detached from, step aside, switch, turn aside, turn away, turn away from, turn back, veer off

steer

• steer, Brahman, Indian buffalo, advice, aim, alerting, aurochs, avoid, be responsible for, bear, bear for, bear up for, bear up to, beef, beef cattle, beeves, billy, billy goat, bison, boar, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, break for, bubbly-jock, buck, buffalo, bull, bullock, bum steer, calf, carabao, carry on, carry out, carry through, cattle, caution, channel, chanticleer, chart a course, circumvent, clue, cock, cockerel, cond, conduct, conduct to, conn, control, cow, coxswain, critter, cue, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dash for, deal with, direct, direct to, dispose, dodge, dog, dogie, drake, drive, entire, entire horse, escort, gander, go, go for, gobbler, guide, handle, hart, have the conn, he-goat, head, heifer, helm, herd, hit for, hold a heading, hold the reins, hornless cow, incline, keep away from, kine, lay for, lead, lead to, leppy, make for, make go, make up to, manage, maneuver, manipulate, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, monition, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, navigate, neat, office, operate, ox, oxen, passing word, peacock, perform on, pilot, play, point, point out to, point the way, pointer, practice, put right, ram, rooster, route, run, run for, sail for, see, see to, set, set out for, set right, set straight, shape a course, shepherd, show, show the way, shun, stag, stallion, steer clear of, steer for, stirk, stot, stud, studhorse, take care of, take the helm, tend, tend to go, tip, tip-off, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, trend, tup, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turn, verge, warning, wether, whisper, wisent, work, yak, yearling, zebu

steering committee

• steering committee, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, cabinet, cadre, council, directorate, directory, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, governing board, governing body, infrastructure, interlocking directorate, management, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, top brass

steering

• steering, accounting, action, agency, aim, analysis, authority, automatic electronic navigation, azimuth, bearing, bent, braking, command, computation, conduct, control, coordination, course, current, direction, direction line, drift, driving, execution, exercise, fact distribution, forecasts, functioning, governance, government, guidance, handling, heading, helmsmanship, husbandry, inclination, inspection, lay, lead, leading, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, management, managery, managing, manipulation, navigation, nonlinear calibrations, occupation, operancy, operation, ordering, orientation, output measurement, performance, performing, pilotage, piloting, point, practice, processing, quarter, range, record keeping, regulation, responsibility, run, running, set, steerage, supersonic flow detection, tendency, tenor, the conn, the helm, the wheel, track, trend, way, work, working, workings

steersman

• steersman, Gyropilot, agent, automatic pilot, boatheader, boatsteerer, cicerone, conductor, conner, courier, cowherd, cox, coxswain, docking pilot, dragoman, driver, drover, engineer, functionary, goatherd, guide, guidepost, guider, handler, helmsman, herd, herdsman, manipulator, mercury, navigator, operant, operative, operator, pilot, pointer, river pilot, runner, sailing master, shepherd, steerer, tour director, tour guide, wheelman

Steinway

• Steinway, Klavier, baby grand, cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern, clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, concert grand, cottage piano, couched harp, dulcimer harpsichord, grand, grand piano, hammer dulcimer, harmonichord, harpsichord, manichord, manichordon, melodion, melopiano, monochord, pair of virginals, parlor grand, pianette, pianino, piano, piano-violin, pianoforte, sostinente pianoforte, spinet, square piano, upright, upright piano, violin piano, virginal

stela

• stela, arch, barrow, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, pillar, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy

stellar

• stellar, Cynthian, actor-proof, all-star, anagalactic, arch, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, ballet, balletic, banner, capital, cardinal, celestial, central, champion, chief, cinematic, cinematographic, circumplanetary, cislunar, cock, crowning, dominant, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, film, filmic, first, focal, foremost, galactic, gleaming, great, ham, hammy, headmost, heavenly, hegemonic, heliacal, histrionic, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, leading, legitimate, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, magisterial, main, major, master, melodramatic, meteoric, meteoritic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, operatic, outstanding, overacted, overplayed, overruling, paramount, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, ruling, scenic, semilunar, shining, sidereal, solar, sovereign, spectacular, sphery, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, star, star-spangled, star-studded, starlike, starring, starry, starstruck, stellary, supereminent, terrestrial, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, topflight, twinkling, underacted, underplayed, uranic, vaudevillian, zodiacal

stem

• stem, IC analysis, Maypole, V, accidence, accrue from, adjutage, advance, affiliation, affix, affixation, affront, allomorph, animal kingdom, ankle, antagonize, anthrophore, apparentation, arise, arise from, arrest, ascender, axis, back, baluster, balustrade, banister, bar, base, bastard type, battle, bayonet legs, be contingent on, be due to, beak, beard, beat against, beat up against, beginning, belly, bevel, bifurcate, birth, black letter, block, blood, bloodline, body, bole, bound morpheme, bow, bowlegs, bows, bowsprit, brake, branch, branch out, brave, breast, breast the wave, breed, bring before, bring forward, bring to, bring up, bring up short, brood, buck, bud from, buffet, buffet the waves, calf, cane, cap, capital, carpophore, caryatid, case, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, challenge, check, checkmate, clan, class, close with, cnemis, colonnade, column, combat, come, come along, come from, come on, come out of, commencement, common ancestry, compete with, conception, confront, confront with, conjugation, consanguinity, contend against, contest, control, counter, cover ground, crotch, crutch, culm, curb, cut short, cutting, dado, dam, dare, deadlock, declension, defy, delta, deme, depend on, derivation, derive, derive from, descend, descend from, descender, descent, develop, die, difference of form, diminish, direct line, distaff side, divaricate, drainpipe, draw rein, drumstick, efflux tube, em, emanate, emanate from, emerge from, en, enclitic, encounter, ensue from, envisage, extraction, face, face with, family, fan, fat-faced type, feet, female line, fight, fight against, figurehead, filiation, fire hose, flagstaff, flow, flow from, flue pipe, folk, follow from, font, footstalk, forecastle, foredeck, foreleg, forepeak, fork, formative, free form, freeze, front, funicule, funiculus, funnel, furcate, furcula, furculum, gain ground, gamb, gambrel, garden hose, gas pipe, gather head, gather way, generate, genesis, gens, germinate from, get ahead, get along, gigot, go, go ahead, go along, go fast, go forward, go on, grapple with, grass roots, groin, groove, grow, grow from, grow out of, halt, ham, hang on, haulm, head, hind leg, hinge on, hock, hose, hosepipe, house, immediate constituent analysis, inception, infix, infixation, inflection, inguen, issue, issue from, italic, jack, jamb, jib boom, join battle with, kind, knee, labor against, lay before, leafstalk, leg, lessen, letter, ligature, limb, line, line of descent, lineage, logotype, lower case, majuscule, make good time, make head against, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, male line, matriclan, meet, meet squarely, militate against, minuscule, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, move, move forward, nation, newel-post, nick, nipple, nose, offer resistance, offshoot, order, organ pipe, origin, original, originate, originate in, origination, paradigm, pass along, pass on, patriclan, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, people, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, phratry, phyle, phylum, pi, pica, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, place before, plant kingdom, plinth, podite, point, pole, popliteal space, post, prefix, prefixation, present to, prevail over, print, proceed, proceed from, proclitic, progress, prong, prore, provenience, prow, pull up, put it to, put paid to, queen-post, quell, race, radical, radix, ramification, ramify, reduce, reed, reed pipe, reluct, reluctate, resist, result, retard, rise, rival, rod, roll, roman, root, rostrum, sans serif, scape, scissor-legs, script, seed, seedstalk, sept, set before, shaft, shank, shin, shoot, shoulder, siamese, siamese connection, side, siphon, slow, small cap, small capital, snorkel, socle, soil pipe, source, spear, spear side, species, spindle side, spire, spring, spring from, sprout, sprout from, staff, stalemate, stalk, stall, stamp, stanch, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe, staunch, stay, steam pipe, stem from, stem the tide, stems, step forward, stick, stipe, stirps, stock, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, strain, straw, strive against, struggle against, stumps, subbase, succession, suffix, suffixation, suppress, surbase, sword side, take on, tap, taproot, tarsus, theme, tigella, tongue, totem, totem pole, travel, tribe, trident, trifurcate, trotters, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, turn on, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, upright, vie with, waste pipe, water pipe, wishbone, withstand, word-formation

stench

• stench, aroma, bar, bind, block, block up, blockade, breath, bung, caulk, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, clog, clog up, congest, constipate, cork, cover, dam, dam up, definite odor, detectable odor, effluvium, emanation, essence, exhalation, fetor, fill, fill up, flavor, foul, foul odor, fragrance, fume, funk, jam, mephitis, noisomeness, obstipate, obstruct, odor, pack, plug, plug up, redolence, reek, savor, scent, smell, spile, spoor, stanch, stay, stink, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, stuff, stuff up, subtle odor, trace, trail, whiff

stencil

• stencil, abstract, abstraction, albertype, altarpiece, block print, book printing, cameography, cartoon, chalk, charcoal, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collage, collotype, color, color print, color printing, copy, crayon, crosshatch, cyclorama, dash off, daub, decal, decalcomania, delineate, depict, design, diagram, diptych, doodle, draft, draw, electronography, electrostatic printing, engraving, fresco, glass printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, hatch, history of printing, icon, illumination, illustration, image, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, likeness, limn, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, miniature, monotype, montage, mosaic, mural, offset, offset lithography, onset, paint, paint a picture, palaeotypography, panorama, pencil, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photograph, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, picture, picturize, planographic printing, planography, portray, print, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, relief printing, representation, reproduction, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, scratch, scumble, serigraphy, shade, sheetwork, sketch, stained glass window, still life, tableau, tapestry, three-color printing, tint, trace, triptych, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wall painting, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

stenographer

• stenographer, accountant, amanuensis, archivist, bookkeeper, brachygrapher, clerk, documentalist, engraver, filing clerk, librarian, marker, notary, notary public, phonographer, prothonotary, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, stonecutter, tachygrapher, timekeeper

stentorian

• stentorian, blaring, boanergean, booming, brazen-mouthed, clamorous, deafening, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earsplitting, earthshaking, forte, fortissimo, full, full-throated, gravelly, loud, loud-sounding, loud-voiced, loudish, loudmouthed, orotund, pealing, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, rough, sonorous, stentoraphonic, stentorious, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, trumpet-tongued, trumpet-voiced, vociferous, window-rattling

step aside

• step aside, abdicate, about the bush, abrupt, alienate, avert, be pensioned, be superannuated, bear off, beat around, beg the question, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, demit, depart, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, dodge, draw aside, duck, ease off, edge off, eject, equivocate, estrange, expel, fence, fly off, gee, give up, glance, glance off, go off, haw, head off, hedge, hem and haw, isolate, jib, leave, make way for, move aside, parry, part, pension off, pull away, pull back, pull out, pussyfoot, put off, quit, recoil, relinquish, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sheer off, shift, shift off, shove aside, shrink, shunt, shut off, shy, shy away, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stand down, steer clear of, subtract, superannuate, swerve, switch, throw off, throw out, turn aside, turn away, turn back, uncouple, unyoke, vacate, veer off, ward off, withdraw, withdraw from

step by step

• step by step, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, by stages, consecutively, degreewise, drop by drop, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, hand running, hierarchically, in Indian file, in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column, in file, in order, in sequence, in series, in single file, in succession, in turn, inch by inch, inchmeal, little by little, progressively, running, sequentially, serially, seriatim, slowly, successively, turn about

step down

• step down, abridge, amplify, charge, compress, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, diminish, downgrade, electrify, energize, galvanize, generate, lessen, loop in, lower, pare, plug in, reduce, retrench, roll back, scale down, shock, short, short-circuit, shorten, simplify, step up, stiffen, switch off, switch on, take from, tune down, turn off, turn on

step forward

• step forward, advance, come along, come forward, come on, cover ground, gain ground, gather head, gather way, get ahead, get along, go, go ahead, go along, go fast, go forward, go on, make good time, make head against, make headway, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, move, move forward, need no prodding, pass along, pass on, proceed, progress, roll, stem, travel, volunteer

step in

• step in, act between, admit, arbitrate, bargain, barge in, be admitted, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, call, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come by, come in, come over, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop, drop in, edge in, enter, gain admittance, get in, go between, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, insert, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intervene, intrude, irrupt, jam in, judge, jump in, look in, make terms, mediate, meet halfway, moderate, negotiate, pack in, pop in, press in, push in, put in, referee, represent, set foot in, slip in, squeeze in, take in, thrust in, treat with, umpire, visit, wedge in, work in

step lively

• step lively, bound, canter, drive, drive on, forge ahead, fox-trot, gallop, get, git, go ahead, go all out, hightail, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hustle, leap, lope, make things hum, make tracks, press on, push, run, scramble, shoot ahead, spring, sprint, step, step along, trip, trot

step on it

• step on it, accelerate, bolt, career, crack on, dart, dash, fling, gain ground, get cracking, haste, hasten, hie, hop to it, hotfoot, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry up, hurtle, make haste, open the throttle, pick up speed, post, put on, put on steam, quicken, race, rev, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shag ass, shake it up, shoot, skedaddle, snap to it, speed up, step up, tear, tear ass

step out

• step out, carouse, cast off, celebrate, cut loose, debauch, doff, douse, drop, hell around, jollify, jolly, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, make merry, make whoopee, put off, raise hell, remove, revel, roister, see life, skylark, slip out of, spree, step out of, take off, throw off, undo, unwrap, wanton, whoop it up

step up

• step up, accelerando, accelerate, acceleration, accost, advance, aggravate, aggravation, amplify, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, beef up, beefing-up, blow up, blowing up, blowup, charge, close, close in, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, complicate, concentrate, concentration, condensation, condense, confront, consolidate, consolidation, crack on, deepen, deepening, double, draw near, draw nigh, drive, electrify, encounter, energize, enhance, enhancement, exacerbate, exacerbation, exaggerate, exaggeration, explosion, gain ground, gain upon, galvanize, generate, getaway, hasten, heat up, heating-up, heighten, heightening, hop up, hot up, hurry, hurry up, impetus, information explosion, intensification, intensify, jazz up, key up, loop in, magnification, magnify, make complex, narrow the gap, near, open the throttle, pick up speed, pickup, plug in, population explosion, proximate, put on, put on steam, quicken, quickening, race, ramify, redouble, redoubling, reinforce, reinforcement, rev, shake up, sharpen, shock, short, short-circuit, sidle up to, soup up, speed up, speedup, step down, step on it, stiffen, strengthen, strengthening, switch off, switch on, thrust, tightening, triple, turn off, turn on, whet

step

• step, abdicate, accelerate, accomplished fact, accomplishment, according to, ace, achievement, act, acta, action, activity, ad hoc measure, adventure, amble, ambulate, amount, ankle, answer, appraise, appreciate, approach, appropriate to, arabesque, artifice, assay, assess, attempt, band, be alert, be careful, be cautious, bed, bedding, belt, bestride, bid, bit, blow, boost, boss, bound, bow out, bowshot, brief span, bump, bypass, calculate, caliber, calibrate, caliper, canter, career, chasse, check a parameter, circumambulate, clip, clop, close quarters, close range, colophon, compass, compute, concavity, consecutive intervals, consistent with, contrivance, conventional, convexity, couche, countermove, coup, coupe, course, course of action, crack, cross, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dealings, deck, decrease, deed, degree, demarche, dent, device, dial, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, diminish, dint, direction, divide, do something, dodge, doing, doings, doorstep, drag, droop, earreach, earshot, eccentric, effort, embossment, endeavor, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, enterprise, escalate, essay, estimate, evaluate, excrescence, exercise care, expedient, experiment, exploit, extent, fait accompli, fathom, feat, fifth, fingerprint, fling, floor, flounce, foot, foot it, footfall, footmark, footprint, footrest, footstep, ford, fossil footprint, fourth, fox-trot, gait, gallery, gallop, gambade, gambado, gambit, gauge, gest, get, get ahead of, gimmick, git, go, go across, go by, go out, gradation, grade, gradually, graduate, grapevine, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half step, halftone, hand, handiwork, hasten, height, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoof it, hoofbeat, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hurry up, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, improve, improvisation, in keeping with, in step with, inch, increase, indent, indentation, indention, initiative, intensify, intercede, interfere, interval, intervene, jaywalk, job, jog, jog on, journey, journeying, jump, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kinky, last expedient, last resort, last shift, layer, leap, leave, ledge, leg, leg it, less semitone, level, lick, limp, little, little ways, lock step, look, lope, lump, lurch, make haste, make tracks, makeshift, maneuver, mark, means, measure, measures, melodic interval, mensurate, mete, meter, mince, mincing steps, motion, move, movement, notch, note, nuance, octave, offbeat, offer, operation, overlayer, overstory, overstride, overt act, pace, pad, paddle, parallel octaves, pas, pass, pass by, pass over, passage, path, paw print, pawmark, pedestrianize, peg, perambulate, performance, period, peripateticate, piaffer, pimple, pis aller, pistol shot, pitch, plane, plateau, plumb, point, prance, print, prize, probe, procedure, proceed, proceeding, process, production, progress, progression, proportion, pug, pugmark, quantify, quantize, quickstep, quit, rack, raise, range, rate, ratio, reach, reduce, remove, res gestae, resign, resort, resource, rest, retire, riser, roll, round, route, routine, run, rundle, rung, saunter, scale, scope, scuttle, seal, seam, secede, second, semitone, seventh, shade, shadow, shake-up, shamble, shelf, shift, shoot ahead of, short distance, short piece, short way, shot, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, sigil, signet, single-foot, sixth, size, size up, skip, slink, slither, slouch, slowly, slowness, socialize, solution, sound, space, span, speed up, spitting distance, spoke, spoor, spring, sprint, stab, stage, stagger, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, stalk, stamp, standard, stave, steadily, step along, step by step, step down, step in, step lively, step on it, step out, step stool, step up, stepladder, stepping-stone, steps, stint, stoop, stopgap, story, straddle, stratagem, stratum, stride, string, stroke, stroke of policy, stroll, strolling gait, strong bid, strut, stud, stump it, stunt, substratum, superstratum, survey, swagger, swing, tactic, take a reading, take care, take heed, take steps, temporary expedient, tentative, thickness, thing, thing done, third, thumbmark, thumbprint, tier, toddle, tone, topsoil, totter, tour de force, trace, track, tract, traditional, traipse, transaction, travel, travels, tread, trial, trial and error, triangulate, trick, trip, troop, trot, trump, try, turn, unconventional, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertaking, unison interval, up, valuate, value, velocity, vestige, waddle, walk, way, weigh, whack, whole step, withdraw, work, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, zone

stepchild

• stepchild, child, daughter, descendant, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heiress, offspring, scion, son, son and heir, sonny, stepbrother, stepdaughter, stepfather, stepmother, stepsister, stepson

stepmother

• stepmother, dam, foster mother, genetrix, ma, mam, mama, mammy, mater, materfamilias, maternal ancestor, matriarch, mom, mommy, mother, mummy, stepbrother, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepfather, stepsister, stepson, the old woman

steppe

• steppe, Lebensraum, agricultural region, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, back country, basin, billiard table, black belt, bottomland, bowling green, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dead flat, dead level, delta, desert, distant prospect, down, downs, dust bowl, earth, empty view, esplanade, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, floor, fruit belt, glade, grass, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing, grazing region, ground, haugh, haughland, heath, highlands, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, lande, lea, ledge, level, level line, level plane, living space, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, meadows and pastures, mean sea level, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, open space, outback, pampa, pampas, park, parterre, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, range, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, sebkha, steppeland, steppes, swale, table, tableland, terrace, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, veld, water level, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

stepper

• stepper, Jehu, ambler, cob, flier, gaited horse, galloper, goer, hell-driver, high-stepper, horse racer, hummer, hustler, jockey, pacer, pad, padnag, prancer, racer, racker, runner, scorcher, side-wheeler, single-footer, sizzler, speed demon, speeder, trotter, turfman

stepping stone

• stepping stone, Bifrost, a leg up, back stairs, bascule bridge, bateau bridge, bridge, cantilever bridge, catwalk, chance, clear stage, companion, companionway, doorstep, drawbridge, escalier, fair field, fair game, fire escape, flight of steps, floating bridge, flyover, footbridge, footrest, footstep, gangboard, gangplank, gangway, incline, landing, landing stage, liberty, lift bridge, occasion, opening, opportunism, opportunity, overbridge, overcrossing, overpass, perron, place, pontoon bridge, ramp, rest, riser, room, rope bridge, round, rundle, rung, scale, scope, span, spiral staircase, spoke, stair, staircase, stairs, stairway, stave, step, step stool, stepping-stones, steps, stepstone, stile, string, suspension bridge, swing bridge, time, toll bridge, tread, treads and risers, viaduct

steps

• steps, back stairs, companion, companionway, escalier, fire escape, flight of steps, forearming, forehandedness, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, forethoughtfulness, incline, insurance, landing, landing stage, measures, perron, precaution, precautions, precautiousness, preventive measure, protection, providence, provision, ramp, safeguard, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stairway, stepping-stones, steps and measures, stile, treads and risers

stereo

• stereo, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

stereoscopic

• stereoscopic, 3-D, cubic, dimensional, flat, fourth-dimensional, microscopic, proportional, space, space-time, spatial, spatiotemporal, spherical, superficial, surface, telescopic, three-dimensional, two-dimensional, volumetric

stereotype

• stereotype, assimilate to, automatism, autotype, bad habit, balance, bed, characteristic, confirm, creature of habit, custom, damp, deep-dye, define, duplicate plate, electrotype, embed, engraft, engrave, entrench, equalize, equilibrize, establish, etch, even, fix, flatten, force of habit, found, ground, habit, habit pattern, habitude, harmonize, homogenize, impact, implant, impress, imprint, infix, ingrain, inscribe, jam, keyboard, level, linotype, locked-up page, lodge, make uniform, monotype, normalize, pack, palaeotype, pattern, peculiarity, plant, plastic plate, plate, practice, praxis, print, printing plate, printing surface, regularize, regulate, root, rubber plate, seat, second nature, set, set in, settle, smooth, stabilize, stamp, standardize, stereotyped behavior, stone, symmetrize, trick, typeform, uniformize, usage, use, way, wedge, wont, zincograph, zincotype

stereotyped

• stereotyped, alike, automatic, average, back-number, banal, beaten, besetting, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliche, cliched, common, commonplace, constant, corny, current, cut-and-dried, dominant, epidemic, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, interchangeable, moth-eaten, musty, normal, old hat, ordinary, overworked, pandemic, persistent, platitudinous, popular, predominant, predominating, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, recurrent, recurring, regnant, regular, reigning, repetitive, rife, routine, ruling, running, set, square, stale, standard, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, truistic, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, unoriginal, usual, warmed-over, well-known, well-trodden, well-worn, without distinction, worn, worn thin, worn-out

sterile

• sterile, abortive, acarpous, antiseptic, arid, aseptic, bare, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, boiled, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, decontaminated, desert, desolate, disinfected, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, gainless, gaunt, gelded, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hygienic, impotent, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid, issueless, jejune, leached, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, menopausal, noncreative, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory, of no force, otiose, pale, pallid, pasteurized, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, profitless, prophylactic, pure, rewardless, sanitary, sine prole, slow, solemn, spiritless, stale, sterilized, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, sucked dry, superficial, tasteless, tedious, teemless, unavailing, uncontaminated, uncreative, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, uninfected, uninspired, uninventive, unlively, unplowed, unpolluted, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsown, untilled, useless, vain, vapid, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, wooden, worn-out

sterility

• sterility, aridity, asepsis, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, characterlessness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, colorlessness, contraception, daintiness, deadness, dearth, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dry womb, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, family planning, famine, fastidiousness, flatness, freshness, heaviness, hollowness, hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, pureness, purity, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterileness, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, tidiness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness, unspottedness, vapidity, vapidness, whiteness, withered loins, woodenness

sterilize

• sterilize, alter, antisepticize, autoclave, boil, castrate, change, chlorinate, clean, cleanse, decontaminate, delouse, demasculinize, depurate, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disinfect, effeminize, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, exhaust, fix, fumigate, geld, hygienize, mutilate, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitate, sanitize, spay, unman, unnerve, unsex

sterling

• sterling, Christian, admirable, and pence, authentic, blameless, bona fide, candid, capital, card-carrying, cash, circulating medium, clean, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, creditable, currency, decent, dinkum, divine, dollars, emergency money, erect, estimable, ethical, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fair, filthy lucre, financial, fine, first-class, fiscal, following the letter, fractional currency, full of integrity, genuine, gilt-edged, glorious, gold, golden, good, hard cash, hard currency, heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honest-to-God, honorable, immaculate, immense, inartificial, incomparable, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lawful, legal tender, legitimate, lifelike, literal, lucre, magnificent, mammon, managed currency, manly, marvelous, matchless, medium of exchange, mintage, monetary, money, moral, natural, naturalistic, necessity money, noble, nonpareil, numismatic, nummary, original, pecuniary, peerless, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, principled, pure, real, realistic, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rightful, scrip, sensational, shillings, silver, simon-pure, simple, sincere, soft currency, specie, splendid, splendiferous, spotless, stainless, sumptuary, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, superlative, sure-enough, terrific, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, tremendous, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unblemished, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited, undefiled, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsynthetic, untarnished, unvarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, very good, virtuous, wonderful, word-for-word, worthy, yeomanly

stern

• stern, Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, afterpart, afterpiece, arse, ascetic, ass, astringent, austere, authoritarian, back, back door, back seat, back side, backside, beam, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, can, cast-iron, cheeks, churlish, counter, crabbed, crabby, critical, crusty, demanding, derriere, determined, dour, exacting, exigent, fanny, fantail, firm, flinty, forbidding, frowning, gloomy, grave, grim, gruff, hard, hard-core, harsh, heel, hind end, hind part, hindhead, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, keister, lugubrious, meticulous, mortified, obdurate, occiput, poop, posterior, postern, prat, rear, rear end, rearward, relentless, resolute, reverse, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rough, rudderpost, rugged, rump, rusty-dusty, saturnine, serious, severe, sour, steadfast, steely, stiff, stony, strict, stringent, taciturn, tail, tail end, tailpiece, tough, tuchis, tush, tushy, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unforgiving, ungentle, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unremitting, unsparing, unsympathetic, unyielding

sternway

• sternway, Brownian movement, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, career, climbing, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, driftway, ebbing, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, headway, lapse, leeway, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, progress, radial motion, random motion, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reentry, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, rising, rollback, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, steerageway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, upward motion, way

stertor

• stertor, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, buzz, cough, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, expiration, exsufflation, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, rhonchus, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, suspiration, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

stertorous

• stertorous, asthmatic, brassy, brazen, breathing, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, dry, errhine, expiratory, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, heaving, hoarse, huffing, husky, inspiratory, metallic, nasal, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, ragged, raucid, raucous, respiratory, rhinal, rough, roupy, rude, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, squawking, squawky, sternutatory, strangled, thick, throaty, tinny, wheezing, wheezy

stevedore

• stevedore, Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, bearer, bheesty, busboy, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon, carter, common carrier, conveyer, coolie, cupbearer, docker, dockhand, drayman, express, expressman, freighter, gun bearer, hauler, homing pigeon, letter carrier, litter-bearer, loader, longshoreman, porter, redcap, roustabout, shield-bearer, skycap, stretcher-bearer, the Water Bearer, transporter, truck driver, trucker, wagoner, water boy, water carrier, wharf hand

stew

• stew, B-girl, Cyprian, Irish stew, Paphian, ado, agitation, agonize, all sorts, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apply the mind, apprehension, apprehensiveness, assemblage, assortment, baffle, bafflement, bagnio, bake, barbecue, baste, bawdy house, bawdyhouse, be in heat, be livid, be pissed, befuddlement, bewilderment, bind, blanch, blaze, bloom, bluster, boil, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bordello, bother, botheration, bottle sucker, bouillabaisse, braise, breathless impatience, brew, broad spectrum, broil, brothel, brown, bum, burn, burn to, burst, bustle, call girl, cankerworm of care, care, carry on, cathouse, chafe, chafing, chaos, choke, chowder, churn, clip joint, cloud, clutch, coddle, combust, commotion, complication, concern, concernment, confoundment, confusion, conglomeration, cook, crib, crock, crunch, curry, daughter of joy, daze, den, den of thieves, den of vice, devil, dilemma, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disorder, disorderly house, disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distill, distress, disturbance, dither, dive, do, do to perfection, dread, dudgeon, dump, eagerness, elbow bender, embarrassing position, embarrassment, enigma, erring sister, etuvee, excitement, fallen woman, fear, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fille de joie, fine how-do-you-do, fire, fit, fix, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, fleshpots, flicker, flummox, flurry, flush, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness, foam, fog, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fret and fume, fretfulness, fretting, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, fussiness, gallimaufry, gasp, get excited, ginhound, glow, go on, goulash, griddle, grill, gyp joint, hammer at, hammer away at, hardly wait, harlot, hash, haste, hasten, have a conniption, haze, heat, hell to pay, high dudgeon, hobble, hodgepodge, hole, hooch hound, hooker, hot water, hotchpot, hotchpotch, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, how-do-you-do, hubbub, huff, hullabaloo, hustler, imbroglio, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incandesce, inquietude, itch to, jam, joint, jumble, jump the gun, lair, lather, lush, lusher, maelstrom, magpie, malaise, mash, maze, meat stew, medley, melange, meretrix, mess, miff, mingle-mangle, miscellany, misgiving, mishmash, mist, mix, mixed bag, mixture, morass, muddle, muddlement, mulligan, mulligan stew, mystery, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nonplus, odds and ends, olio, olla, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, oven-bake, overanxiety, overtake, oyster stew, paella, painted woman, pan, pan-broil, panel den, panel house, pant, parboil, parch, parlous straits, pass, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, perplexity, perturbation, pet, pickle, pinch, pins and needles, pique, pissed off, plaster, plight, poach, pollute, pother, potpourri, poule, predicament, prepare, prepare food, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, prostitute, pucker, puzzle, puzzle over, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quicksand, radiate heat, rage, ragout, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, red-light district, restiveness, restlessness, riddle, roast, ruffle, rum hound, rummy, salad, salmagundi, sauce, saute, scald, scallop, scarlet woman, scorch, scramble, scrape, sear, seethe, seraglio, shimmer with heat, shirr, shuffle, simmer, sink of iniquity, sizzle, slough, smoke, smolder, smother, smoulder, soak, solicitude, souse, spark, spasm, sponge, sporting, sporting house, spot, spurt, squeeze, squirm, state, steam, stew over, stews, sticky wicket, stifle, stir, stir-fry, stone, storm, strain, strait, straits, streetwalker, suffocate, suspense, swack, swamp, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, swelter, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, swirl, swivet, take on, tenderloin, tense readiness, tension, think hard, throw a fit, tiff, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tipsify, tizzy, to-do, toast, tricky spot, trouble, tumult, turmoil, twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, uneasiness, unfortunate woman, unholy mess, unpatientness, unquiet, unquietness, unsettlement, upset, vexation, vortex, wait impatiently, what you will, whirl, white slave, whore, whorehouse, wino, worry, zeal

steward

• steward, Federal, Ganymede, Hebe, MC, accountant, aerial photographer, agent, air warden, aircrew, aircrewman, airline hostess, airline stewardess, amanuensis, attendant, attorney, auditor, avigator, baggage agent, bailiff, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, belly gunner, black gang, boilerman, bombardier, bookkeeper, bootblack, boots, bungs, bursar, business agent, butler, cabin boy, caddie, care for, caretaker, cashier, cashkeeper, castellan, caterer, chamberlain, chandler, chips, chore boy, claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commissariat, commissary, commissary steward, commission agent, complement, comptroller, conservator, consignee, contend with, controller, cope with, copyboy, crew, crew chief, croupier, cupbearer, curator, custodian, customer agent, deal with, deckhand, deckie, depositary, depository, do with, donor, dupe, emcee, errand boy, errand girl, factor, fed, federal agent, financial officer, fireman, flight attendant, flight crew, footboy, forest ranger, freight agent, functionary, furnisher, game warden, gamekeeper, general agent, gofer, governor, guardian, guardian angel, gun loader, gunner, hand, handle, hospital steward, hostess, house steward, housekeeper, implement, instrument, insurance agent, janitor, keeper, land agent, landing signalman, landreeve, law agent, librarian, lifeguard, lifesaver, liquidator, literary agent, loan agent, machine gunner, mail orderly, majordomo, manage, manciple, master of ceremonies, merchant, meteorologist, navigator, news agent, next friend, office boy, office girl, official, oiler, orderly, page, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, patron, paymaster, press agent, prochein ami, proctor, procurator, provider, provisioner, puppet, purchasing agent, purse bearer, purser, purveyor, quartermaster, radio operator, ranger, real estate agent, receiver, retailer, roustabout, sales agent, secretary, seneschal, shepherd, snip, snips, sparks, special agent, squire, station agent, stewardess, stock clerk, stoker, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, tender, theatrical agent, ticket agent, tool, torpedoman, trainbearer, travel agent, treasurer, treat, trustee, use, usher, victualer, vivandier, walking delegate, warden, warder, watch, yeoman