Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/82

stewardess

• stewardess, Ganymede, Hebe, aerial photographer, aircrew, aircrewman, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, avigator, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, belly gunner, black gang, boilerman, bombardier, bootblack, boots, bungs, cabin boy, caddie, chips, chore boy, commissary steward, complement, copyboy, crew, crew chief, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, errand boy, errand girl, fireman, flight attendant, flight crew, footboy, gofer, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, hostess, landing signalman, machine gunner, mail orderly, meteorologist, navigator, office boy, office girl, oiler, orderly, page, purser, radio operator, roustabout, snip, snips, sparks, squire, steward, stoker, tender, torpedoman, trainbearer, usher, watch, yeoman

stewardship

• stewardship, administration, auspices, captainship, care, chairmanship, charge, convenership, cure, custodianship, custody, dictatorship, directorate, directorship, eagle eye, foremanship, generalship, governance, government, governorship, guard, guardedness, guardianship, guidance, handling, hands, headship, intendancy, invigilation, jurisdiction, keeping, leadership, lookout, management, managership, mastership, means of dealing, ministry, monitoring, observance, overseership, oversight, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peeled eye, presidency, proctoring, proctorship, protectorship, prudence, qui vive, safe hands, sharp eye, sovereignty, superintendence, superintendency, supervisorship, surveillance, treatment, tutelage, usage, vigil, vigilance, ward, wardenship, wardship, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye, wing

stewed

• stewed, afflicted, baked, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, braised, broiled, browned, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, coddled, cooked, crocked, crocko, curried, deviled, drunken, elevated, fired, fricasseed, fried, fuddled, grilled, half-seas over, heated, high, illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muzzy, oiled, organized, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, poached, polluted, potted, raddled, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, seared, shellacked, shirred, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, steamed, stinko, swacked, tanked, tight, toasted

stick around

• stick around, 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, remain, sit tight, sit up, stay, stay up, take time, tarry, wait, wait a minute, wait and see

stick at

• stick at, back down, balance, blench, boggle, debate, deliberate, demur, falter, fear, fight shy of, flinch, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, hover, hum and haw, jib, make bones about, pause, ponder, pull back, quail, recoil, retreat, scruple, shilly-shally, shrink, shy, shy at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, think twice about, waver, wince, withdraw, yield

stick it out

• stick it out, be unflappable, bear up, come up fighting, die hard, get along, get home free, get on, go on, go on with, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, keep at it, keep up, live through it, live with it, make out, manage, never say die, not back down, not budge, not flag, not give up, not submit, not weaken, persevere, persist, remain firm, ride it out, see it out, see it through, stand fast, stand firm, stand pat, stand up, stay it out, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick fast, stick it, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, survive, sweat it out, take it, take what comes, tough it out, weather, weather the storm

stick out

• stick out, abide, aller sans dire, be conspicuous, be exposed, be manifest, be no secret, bear, bear up, beetle, bristle up, brook, cock up, come across, come up fighting, crop out, endure, extrude, glare, go, go without saying, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang out, hang over, hang tough, have high visibility, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, impend, impend over, jut, jut out, live through it, live with it, need no explanation, never say die, not give up, outstretch, overhang, poke, poke out, pouch, pout, project, project over, protrude, protuberate, push, sauter aux yeux, shoot out, shoot up, shout, speak for itself, stand, stand out, stand up, start up, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick to it, stick up, stick with it, stomach, strike the eye, support, take, thrust over, tolerate, tough it out, walk out

stick shift

• stick shift, Hydromatic, automatic transmission, cogwheel, differential, differential gear, freewheel, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, high, intermediate, low, neutral, overdrive, rack, reverse, standard transmission, synchromesh, transmission

stick together

• stick together, accouple, accumulate, adhere, agglomerate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, band, be consistent, be the case, be true, be truthful, bind, bond, bracket, braze, bridge, bridge over, bunch, cement, chain, clap together, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, cohere, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conform to fact, congeal, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, couple, cover, embrace, encompass, freeze to, fuse, gather, glue, grasp, grow together, gum, hang on, hang together, hold, hold good, hold on, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, hug, include, join, knot, lay together, league, link, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, merge, mobilize, pair, paste, persist, piece together, prove out, prove to be, prove true, put together, remain valid, roll into one, set, solder, solidify, span, splice, stand the test, stand up, stay, stay put, stick, take hold of, take in, tape, tie, unify, unite, wash, weld, yoke

stick up for

• stick up for, advocate, allege in support, answer, argue for, assert, back, back up, champion, contend for, counter, defend, espouse, get behind, get in behind, maintain, make a plea, plead for, rebut, refute, reply, respond, riposte, run interference for, say in defense, second, side with, speak for, speak up for, stand back of, stand behind, stand by, stand up for, stick by, support, sustain, take sides with, uphold, urge reasons for

stick up

• stick up, arise, boost, bristle, bristle up, buoy up, cast up, cock up, commit robbery, elevate, erect, escalate, extrude, get up, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hijack, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, jerk up, jump up, jut out, knock off, knock over, knock up, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, loot, mug, perk up, plunder, poke out, project, protrude, protuberate, raise, raise up, ramp, ransack, rear, rear up, relieve, rifle, rip off, rise, rise up, rob, set up, shoot out, shoot up, sit bolt upright, sit up, sky, stand out, stand up, start up, stick out, throw up, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, uprise, upthrow

stick

• stick, abide, abide with, abrade, acid, acuminate, addle, adhere, adhere to, advocate, affix, agglomerate, all, alpenstock, altogether, amalgamate, amaze, antidepressant, arm, articulate, assert, ataractic, athletic supporter, attach, auger, back, backbone, backcountry, backing, backwash, backwater, backwoods, baffle, balance, balk at, ballast, bamboozle, bandeau, bar, bare pole, bark, baton, batten, batten down, bayonet, be effective, be keen, be still, beam, bear, bear up, bear with, bearer, beat, beetle, beguile of, bewilder, bide, bilk, billet, bind, birch, biscuit, bite, bleed, bleed white, blemish, blind, bloke, bloody, board, boarding, boggle, bolt, bond, bone, bonnet, boondocks, booster, bore, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, branch, brassiere, brave, braze, break, bring up, bring up short, bristle with, broach, brook, brook no denial, buckle, buffalo, bulge, bunch, bunco, burden, burn, bush, butt, button, buttress, cane, capper, carrier, catch, cease fire, cement, cervix, chafe, chap, charge, cheat, check, chip, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clapboard, clasp, claw, cleat, cleave, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clip, clot, club, cluster, clutch, coagulate, coast, cog, cog the dice, cohere, come up fighting, come up short, con, confederate, confound, confuse, congeal, conglomerate, conk out, consolidate, contend, continue, cooperate, cord, cordwood, corset, counterbalance, countersink, cozen, crack, cracker, craze, crib, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, crutch, crutch-stick, cut, dagger, daze, deal, defend, defraud, deposit, diapason, diddle, die, die hard, diethyltryptamine, dig, dig in, dimethyltryptamine, dirk, display, do in, do out of, dovetail, draw up, driftwood, drill, drive, drop, dust, dwell, embrace, empierce, encumber, endure, euchre, exactly, exploit, extend, fasten, fellow, ferule, fetch up, finagle, firewood, firm, firm up, fix, flagstaff, flam, fleece, flimflam, floor, fob, foundation garment, fracture, fray, frazzle, freeze, freeze to, fret, fuddle, fudge, fulcrum, fuse, gage, gall, ganja, gash, geezer, get, girdle, glue, go dead, go through, gore, gouge, gouge out, grapple, grasp, grass, grip, gripe, grow together, gull, gum, guy, guywire, gyp, hallucinogen, halt, handstaff, hang fire, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hang tough, hardwood, hash, hashish, hasp, have, have an edge, hay, heist, hemp, hinge, hinterland, hitch, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold out, hold tight, hold together, hold up, hole, honeycomb, hook, hug, hurt, immobilize, impale, impose on, in toto, incise, ingot, injure, insert, insist, insist on, insist upon, jab, jam, jock, jockstrap, join, join forces, joint, just, jut out, kava, keep, keep hold of, keep in suspense, keep quiet, knife, lacerate, lance, last, latch, lath, lathing, lathwork, lay, lick, lie still, linger, lituus, live through it, live with it, lock, lodge, log, lumber, lump, lump it, maim, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, make mincemeat of, man, marijuana, mark time, mass, mast, maul, maze, melt, merge, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, metronome, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, misconstruction, misinterpretation, misreading, misunderstanding, miter, monochord, morning glory seeds, mortise, muddle, mug, mulct, mummy, music stand, mute, mutilate, mystify, nail, nail down, neck, needle, never let go, never say die, nip, nonplus, not back down, not breathe, not give up, not stir, not submit, obtrude, overcharge, overhang, overprice, overtax, pack the deal, paddle, pandybat, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, parchment, park, paste, pastoral staff, paterissa, peg, penetrate, perforate, perplex, persevere, persist, person, peyote, pierce, pigeon, pike, pin, pin down, pink, pitch pipe, place, plank, planking, plop, plunge, plunge in, plunk, plyboard, plywood, poke, poke out, pole, poniard, pose, posit, post, pot, practice fraud upon, press, prick, prod, profiteer, project, prop, protrude, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, pull up, punch, puncheon, puncture, purely, push, put, put up, put up with, puzzle, quarterstaff, quite, rabbet, ram, rattan, ream, ream out, reefer, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, remain, remain firm, remain motionless, rend, repose, rest, resting place, retain, rhythmometer, riddle, rigging, rip, rivet, roach, rob, rod, rook, root, ruler, run, run through, rupture, saber, saddle with, savage, scald, scam, scape, scarf, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, seat, see it through, sell gold bricks, set, sew, shaft, shake, shave, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shill, shillelagh, shingle, shortchange, shoulder, shove, shrink from, shroud, sideboard, siding, sink, skewer, skin, slab, slash, slat, slit, snap, soak, softwood, solder, solidify, sonometer, spar, spear, spike, spine, spit, splat, sprain, sprit, sputter and stop, stab, stabilitate, stabilize, stack the cards, staff, stake, stalk, stall, stand, stand by, stand fast, stand firm, stand for, stand no nonsense, stand on, stand out, stand still, stand the gaff, stand up, standing rigging, staple, station, stave, stay, stay it out, stay put, stay the distance, stay with it, steady, stem, stick at, stick by, stick close, stick fast, stick it, stick it out, stick of wood, stick out, stick to, stick to it, stick together, stick up, stick up for, stick with it, stiffener, stiletto, sting, stitch, stop, stop dead, stop short, stovewood, strain, strengthener, strike root, strip, stumble, stump, submit, suffer, support, supporter, surcharge, sustain, sustainer, swagger stick, swanking stick, swindle, switch, sword, tack, take a dive, take exception to, take hold of, take no denial, take root, take up with, take what comes, tap, tape, tarry, tea, tear, the boondocks, the bush, the country, the sticks, thimblerig, three-by-four, throw, throw a fight, thrust, tie, timber, timbering, timberwork, toggle, tolerate, tone measurer, tongue, totally, totem pole, tough it out, tranquilizer, transfix, transpierce, traumatize, tread water, tree, trepan, trephine, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, twig, two-by-four, unify, unite, upholder, urge, utterly, victimize, wait, walking stick, wand, weatherboard, wedge, weed, weigh down, weld, wholly, wire, wood, work together, wound, wrench, zipper

sticker

• sticker, Chinese puzzle, adherent, adhesive, baffling problem, barnacle, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brain twister, bramble, brand, brier, bristle, broad arrow, bulldog, burr, cachet, cactus, catchweed, cement, check, cleavers, colophon, counterfoil, countermark, crossword puzzle, crux, decal, decalcomania, docket, enigma, enigmatic question, floorer, glue, goose grass, government mark, government stamp, gunk, hallmark, imprint, jigsaw puzzle, knot, knotty point, label, leech, letterhead, limpet, logo, logotype, masthead, mind-boggler, molasses, mucilage, mystery, needle, nettle, nut to crack, paste, perplexed question, perplexity, pine needle, plaster, plate, poser, price tag, prickle, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark, quill, registered trademark, remora, running head, running title, seal, sigil, signet, sixty-four dollar question, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, stamp, stub, stumper, syrup, tag, tally, thistle, thorn, ticket, title page, token, tough proposition, trade name, trademark, trademark name, vexed question, why, yucca

stickle

• stickle, abrupt, arduous, back down, balance, balk, blench, boggle, contend, contend for, debate, deliberate, demur, die hard, falter, fear, fight for, fight shy of, flinch, gag, hang back, hang off, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hold off, hold out, hover, hum and haw, jib, kick, make bones about, not budge, object, pause, persevere, ponder, precipitate, precipitous, protest, pull back, quail, recoil, retreat, scruple, sheer, shilly-shally, shrink, shy, shy at, sideling, stall, stand out, stand pat, stick, stick at, stickle for, stipulate for, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, strive for, struggle for, stumble, take no denial, think twice about, vie for, waver, wince, withdraw, yield

stickler

• stickler, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, ass, autarch, autocrat, bigot, bitter-ender, bullethead, caesar, captious critic, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, diehard, disciplinarian, dogmatist, donkey, driver, duce, fanatic, hard master, hardnose, intransigeant, intransigent, last-ditcher, martinet, maverick, mule, nitpicker, oligarch, oppressor, perfectionist, perverse fool, pharaoh, pighead, positivist, precisian, precisianist, purist, slave driver, standpat, standpatter, tyrant, usurper, warlord

stickling

• stickling, bashful, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, cautious, compunction, demur, demurral, demurring, diffidence, diffident, falter, faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, hesitation, jibbing, modest, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmish, qualmishness, recoil, scruple, scrupling, scrupulosity, scrupulous, scrupulousness, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, shyness, squeamish, sticking, straining, tentative, timid

stickpin

• stickpin, anklet, armlet, bangle, beads, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, fob, gem, jewel, locket, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, rhinestone, ring, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristband, wristlet

sticks

• sticks, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, agricultural region, antipodes, arable land, black belt, citrus belt, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, frontier, fruit belt, godforsaken place, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, highlands, jumping-off place, lowlands, meadows and pastures, moors, nowhere, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, plains, pole, prairies, province, provinces, rural district, rustic region, steppes, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the country, the moon, the soil, the sticks, the tullies, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

stickup

• stickup, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, extortion, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, mugging, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing, stickup job

sticky wicket

• sticky wicket, bind, clutch, complication, crunch, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how-do-you-do, hell to pay, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksand, scrape, slough, spot, squeeze, stew, strait, straits, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess

sticky

• sticky, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, awkward, bathed in sweat, bathetic, beaded with sweat, beery, boggy, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, clabbered, clammy, clingy, close, clotted, cloying, coagulated, curdled, damp, dampish, dank, delicate, dewy, diaphoretic, difficult, discomforting, doughy, drenched with sweat, embarrassing, fenny, formidable, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, hairy, heavy, humid, in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knotty, laborious, marshy, maudlin, mawkish, moist, mucilaginous, mucky, muggy, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obstinate, operose, oppressive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pasty, persistent, perspiring, perspiry, rainy, romantic, ropy, roric, roriferous, rough, rugged, sappy, self-adhesive, sensitive, sentimental, sentimentalized, slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy, slushy, soft, soggy, soppy, starchy, stickable, stifling, stodgy, strenuous, stringy, stubborn, stuffy, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, swampy, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, ticklish, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, tricky, uncomfortable, undried, viscid, viscose, viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wettish, wilted

stiff necked

• stiff necked, Quakerish, Victorian, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, censorious, demure, dogged, dogmatic, erect, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, house-proud, independent, intolerant, intractable, mid-Victorian, mulish, narrow, obstinate, old-maidish, opinionated, overmodest, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, prideful, priggish, prim, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, prudish, puritanical, purse-proud, refractory, restive, sanctimonious, self-confident, self-esteeming, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-sufficient, self-willed, set, smug, straitlaced, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tenacious, uncooperative, unregenerate, unyielding, willful

stiff

• stiff, Arab, Bowery bum, Latinate, a bit much, abandoned, abusive, adamant, adamantine, afflictive, alcoholic, all thumbs, aloof, arduous, arid, artificial, ashes, austere, awkward, balker, balky horse, barren, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blah, blank, blighter, blind, blind drunk, bloodless, blotto, blue-collar worker, blunderheaded, blundering, bo, body, bold, bombastic, bones, boorish, boundless, breadwinner, brisk, brittle, buckram, budmash, bum, bumbling, bummer, bungling, butterfingered, cadaver, caitiff, carcass, careless, carrion, cartilaginous, cast-iron, casual, casual laborer, ceremonious, challenging, characterless, cheapskate, chewy, chilly, clay, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cohesive, cold, colorless, common laborer, compact, cool, coriaceous, corpse, corpus delicti, costly, cramped, crock, crowbait, cruel, cumbersome, cumbrous, day laborer, dead, dead as mutton, dead body, dead man, dead person, dear, dear-bought, decedent, dense, derelict, determined, devil, difficult, dismal, distressing, dog, dogged, dogie, dour, draggy, drastic, drearisome, dreary, drifter, drunkard, dry, dry bones, dryasdust, dull, durable, dust, dusty, earth, effete, egregious, elephantine, embalmed corpse, employee, empty, energetic, enormous, etiolated, exaggerated, excessive, excruciating, exhausting, exorbitant, expensive, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, factory worker, fade, fancy, fatiguing, fibrous, fingers all thumbs, firm, fit for sea, flat, flinty, flunky, food for worms, forced, forceful, formal, free lance, free-lancer, fresh, full-time worker, fumbling, fundamentalist, gamin, gamine, garron, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gigantic, gluttonous, goat, gone to seed, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, graceless, grim, gristly, guinde, gusty, guttersnipe, hack, had, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hand, hard, hard-core, hardened, hardy, harrowing, harsh, haughty, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hidebound, high, high-priced, ho-hum, hobo, hollow, homeless waif, howling, hulking, hulky, human wreck, hurtful, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idler, immoderate, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in buckram, inane, incontinent, indomitable, industrial worker, inelastic, inelegant, inexcitable, inexorable, inflexible, inkhorn, inordinate, insipid, intemperate, intense, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, jade, jejune, jobber, jobholder, jughead, labored, laborer, laboring man, laborious, landloper, lasting, late lamented, lazzarone, leaden, leatherlike, leathery, left-hand, left-handed, lifeless, loafer, losel, loutish, low-spirited, lowlife, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, luxurious, maladroit, mannered, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, menial, merciless, migrant, miser, moiler, monstrous, mortal remains, mucker, mudlark, mummification, mummy, muscle-bound, nag, navvy, no-good, not affordable, oafish, obdurate, obstinate, of great cost, office temporary, on the downgrade, organic remains, orthodox, out, out cold, out of bounds, out of condition, out of shape, out of sight, out of training, outrageous, overbig, overcome, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpowering, overweening, overwhelming, painful, pale, pallid, paralyzed, passed out, pauvre diable, pedantic, pedestrian, petrified, piker, pilgarlic, plodding, plug, pointless, pokerlike, poky, pompous, ponderous, poor creature, poor devil, potent, powerful, premium, pricey, prim, procrustean, proletarian, punishing, punitive, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramrodlike, relentless, relics, reliquiae, remains, renitent, reserved, resistant, resolute, resolved, rich, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, roarer, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rodlike, rogue, ropy, rosinante, rough, rounder, roustabout, run to seed, rusty, sad case, sad sack, salaried worker, scalawag, sea-kindly, seaworthy, self-employed person, servant, sesquipedalian, severe, sinewy, skeleton, ski bum, skid-row bum, skinflint, slipping, sloppy, slow, snobbish, snooty, snug, soft, solemn, solid, solidified, spanking, spiritless, standoffish, starch, starched, starchy, stark, staunch, steady, steely, steep, sterile, stern, stiff as buckram, stiffened, stilted, stodgy, stone-cold, stone-dead, stoned, straightlaced, straitlaced, stray, street Arab, street urchin, stringy, strong, stubborn, stuffy, sumptuous, sundowner, superficial, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tasteless, tatterdemalion, taut, tedious, temporary, tenacious, tender, tenement of clay, tennis bum, tense, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thick, tight, tightwad, tiring, toiler, toilsome, too much, top, tormenting, torturous, tough, tough as leather, tramp, truant, turgid, turnpiker, unaffected, unalterable, unbearable, unbending, unbridled, unchangeable, uncompromising, unconscionable, uncouth, under the table, undue, unflexible, unfriendly, ungainly, ungiving, ungraceful, unhandy, unlively, unmoved, unpayable, unreasonable, unrelaxed, unrelenting, unrestrained, untiring, unwieldy, unyielding, uphill, uptight, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vapid, vaurien, vigorous, virgate, viscid, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, whistler, wiry, wooden, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, worthless fellow, wretch

stiffen

• stiffen, amplify, back, be tough, beef up, brace, brace up, buttress, case harden, charge, clot, coagulate, confirm, congeal, crystallize, electrify, endure, energize, fortify, galvanize, generate, gird, hang tough, harden, invigorate, jell, loop in, nerve, plug in, prop, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, rigidify, screw up, set, shock, shore up, short, short-circuit, solidify, steel, step down, step up, strengthen, support, sustain, switch off, switch on, tauten, temper, tense, thicken, tighten, toughen, trice up, turn off, turn on, undergird

stiffened

• stiffened, accelerated, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, backed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fossilized, granulated, hardened, heightened, hiked, hornified, increased, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, lapidified, magnified, multiplied, ossified, petrified, proliferated, raised, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, spread, steeled, strengthened, swollen, tightened, toughened, vitrified, widened

stiffness

• stiffness, adamantness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, cohesiveness, colorlessness, costliness, deadness, dearness, dignity, dismalness, dourness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, durability, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, extrinsicality, firmness, flatness, flintiness, form, formality, formalization, fundamentalism, gravity, great cost, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, heaviness, highness, hollowness, immovability, immutability, impliability, inanity, inelasticity, inexcitability, inexorability, inflexibility, infrangibility, insipidity, insipidness, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, irreconcilability, jejunity, lastingness, leadenness, leatherlikeness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, luxuriousness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, paleness, pallor, pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, precisianism, primness, purism, puritanism, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, resistance, richness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, ritual, rituality, ropiness, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, stamina, starchiness, steeliness, steepness, sterility, sternness, stiff temper, stiltedness, stodginess, strength, stringiness, stubbornness, stuffiness, stylization, sumptuousness, superficiality, tastelessness, tautness, tediousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vapidity, vapidness, viscidity, vitality, weight, woodenness

stifle

• stifle, abate, allay, alleviate, asphyxiate, assuage, attemper, bake, bank the fire, bar, barricade, be in heat, black out, blaze, block, block up, blockade, bloom, blow out, blunt, boil, bolt, bottle up, broil, burke, burn, censor, chasten, check, chock, choke, choke off, clamp down on, close, close off, close tight, close up, combust, constipate, constrain, constrict, control, cook, cork, cork up, cover up, crack down on, crowd, crush, curb, damp, damp down, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debar, demolish, destroy, diminish, dog, douse, downplay, drown, dull, dumbfound, extenuate, extinguish, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fry, gag, garrote, gasp, glow, hold back, hold down, hold in, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, incandesce, inhibit, jam, jump on, keep back, keep down, keep under, keep within bounds, kill, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, lock, mitigate, moderate, modulate, muffle, mute, muzzle, obstruct, obtund, occlude, out, pack, palliate, pant, parch, play down, pour water on, prevent, put down, put out, put to silence, quash, quell, quench, quiet, quieten, radiate heat, reduce, reduce the temperature, repress, restrain, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, shush, shut down on, shut off, shut out, shut tight, silence, simmer, sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slow down, smash, smolder, smother, snuff, snuff out, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, spark, squash, squeeze, squeeze shut, squelch, stagnate, stamp out, stanch, steam, stew, still, stop, stop the breath, stop up, strangle, strangulate, strike dumb, stultify, subdue, sublimate, suffocate, suppress, sweat, swelter, tame, temper, throttle, toast, tone down, trammel, trample out, trample underfoot, tune down, underplay, weaken, withhold

stifled

• stifled, arcane, bated, blurred, breathy, cabalistic, censored, choked, choking, classified, close, closed, concealed, croaking, crushed, cryptic, damped, dampened, dark, dead, deadened, drawling, drawly, dull, dulled, dysphonic, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, guttural, harsh, hawking, hermetic, hidden, hoarse, hush-hush, inarticulate, indistinct, latent, lisping, mispronounced, muffled, muted, muzzy, mysterious, nasal, occult, quashed, quavering, quelled, repressed, restricted, secret, shaking, shaky, smashed, smothered, snuffling, softened, sordo, squashed, squelched, strangled, subdued, suffocated, suppressed, thick, throaty, top secret, tremulous, twangy, ulterior, unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, velar

stifling

• stifling, airless, breathless, breezeless, choking, close, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, extinguishment, hindering, hindersome, humid, ill-ventilated, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, muggy, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, oppressive, overpowering, quashing, quenching, repressive, restrictive, smothering, smudgy, squashing, squelching, sticky, strangling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, suppression, suppressive, troublesome, unbearable, unendurable, unvented, unventilated, windless

stigma

• stigma, abscess, androecium, anther, aposteme, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bed sore, bend sinister, besmirchment, birthmark, black eye, black mark, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, boil, brand, broad arrow, bubo, bulla, bunion, calyx, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, carpel, caste mark, censure, champain, chancre, chancroid, check, checkmark, chilblain, cicatrix, cold sore, corolla, corolla tube, corona, cut, dab, dapple, daub, demerit, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, dot, earmark, engraving, epicalyx, eschar, eyesore, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, fleck, flick, flyspeck, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gash, gathering, graving, gumboil, gynoecium, hack, hemorrhoids, imputation, jot, kibe, lentigo, lesion, macula, maculation, macule, mark, mark of Cain, marking, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, mole, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, odium, onus, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, patch, perianth, petal, petechia, piles, pillorying, pimple, pistil, pock, point, point champain, polka dot, polyp, prick, puncture, pustule, receptacle, reflection, reprimand, reproach, rising, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, shame, slur, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soft chancre, sore, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stain, stamen, stigmatism, stigmatization, strawberry mark, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, torus, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, watermark, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

stigmatize

• stigmatize, advert to, allude to, attaint, band, bar, be taken as, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespangle, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, bestain, blacken, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blot, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, call names, calumniate, censure, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, cicatrize, condemn, dapple, darken, dash, daub, defame, defile, define, delimit, demarcate, denigrate, denominate, denote, denounce, depreciate, designate, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disparage, dot, emblematize, engage in personalities, engrave, expose, expose to infamy, figure, finger, flake, fleck, freckle, gash, gibbet, hang in effigy, harlequin, hatch, heap dirt upon, impress, imprint, iris, line, maculate, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, motley, mottle, muckrake, name, nick, notch, pencil, pepper, pick out, pillory, point, point at, point out, point to, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, refer to, reprimand, revile, riddle, scar, scarify, scorch, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, sear, select, singe, slander, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, soil, spangle, specify, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stand for, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, sully, symbol, symbolize, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tessellate, throw mud at, tick, tick off, trace, typify, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, vilify

stile

• stile, French door, Samson post, archway, back door, back stairs, baluster, balustrade, banister, barway, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, companion, companionway, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, escalier, fire escape, flight of steps, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, hitching post, incline, jamb, king post, landing, landing stage, lintel, milepost, mullion, perron, porch, portal, porte cochere, post, postern, propylaeum, pylon, ramp, scuttle, side door, signpost, snubbing post, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stairway, stanchion, standard, stepping-stones, steps, storm door, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, treads and risers, turnpike, turnstile, upright

still hunt

• still hunt, angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, chase, chevy, chivy, course, coursing, cynegetics, delve for, dig for, dog, domiciliary visit, dragnet, drive, exploration, falcon, falconry, fish for, flush, follow, follow the hounds, forage, fowl, fox hunting, frisk, go gunning for, go hunting, gun, gun for, gunning, hawk, hawking, hound, house-search, hunt, hunt down, hunt for, hunt up, hunting, jack, jacklight, look, look for, look up, perquisition, posse, probe, prowl after, pursue, quest, ransacking, ride to hounds, rummage, run, search, search for, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, see to, seek, seek for, shikar, shoot, shooting, sport, sporting, stalk, stalking, start, track, trail, try to find, turning over, venery

still life

• still life, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, art object, block print, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, collage, color print, composition, copy, creation, cyclorama, daub, design, diptych, engraving, fresco, grotesque, icon, illumination, illustration, image, kitsch, likeness, master, masterpiece, masterwork, miniature, mobile, montage, mosaic, mural, museum piece, nude, old master, panorama, pasticcio, pastiche, photograph, picture, piece, piece of virtu, print, representation, reproduction, stabile, stained glass window, statue, stencil, study, tableau, tapestry, triptych, virtu, wall painting, work, work of art

still

• still, Telephoto, Wirephoto, additionally, aerial photograph, aerosol, after all, again, albeit, all the same, allay, alleviate, along, already, although, appease, as well, as yet, asleep, asleep in Jesus, assuage, at a standstill, at all events, at anchor, at any rate, at rest, atomizer, awful silence, balm, becalm, bereft of life, besides, black-and-white photograph, bottling works, breathless, brewery, but, by this time, called home, calm, calm down, calmly, candid photograph, carrion, cheesecake, choke, choke off, chronophotograph, cloistered, color photograph, color print, compose, cool, cradle, croaked, dead, dead and gone, dead of night, dead-still, death-struck, deathlike, deathlike silence, deathly, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, diapositive, distiller, distillery, done for, dulcify, dumbfound, dwindling, ease, ebbing, echoless, evaporator, even, even now, even out, even so, even-tenored, exanimate, fallen, finished, fixed, flat, food for worms, for all that, furthermore, gag, gentle, golden silence, gone, gone to glory, gone west, halcyon, heliochrome, heliograph, heretofore, hereunto, howbeit, however, hush, hush as death, hush of night, hush-hush, hushed, idle, immobile, immotive, impassive, in addition, in any case, in any event, inanimate, inaudibility, inaudible, inert, isolated, just the same, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, likewise, lucid stillness, lull, martyred, moldering, mollify, montage, more, moreover, motionless, motionlessly, mousy, moveless, muffle, mug, mug shot, mum, muzzle, nevertheless, no more, noiseless, noiselessness, nonetheless, notwithstanding, out of commission, pacific, pacify, passed on, peace, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, peacefulness, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, placid, placidly, portrait, pour balm into, pushing up daisies, put to silence, quell, quiescence, quiescent, quiescently, quiet, quieten, quietly, quietness, quietude, rather, released, relieve, reposeful, reposing, rest, restful, resting, resting easy, retort, riding at anchor, rock, rock to sleep, sainted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, settle, sheltered, shot, shush, shut down on, shut up, silence, silent, silently, silentness, sleeping, slide, smitten with death, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, smoothly, snap, snapshot, so far, soft-pedal, solemn silence, soothe, soundless, soundlessness, spray, squash, squelch, stabilize, static, stationary, statuelike, steady, stifle, still as death, still more, still photograph, stillborn, stillish, stillness, stilly, stock-still, stoic, stolid, strike dumb, subaudible, subdue, subsiding, suppress, tacitness, taciturnity, taken away, taken off, telephotograph, then as previously, though, throttle, thus far, till now, to date, to this day, tomblike silence, too, tranquil, tranquilize, tranquillity, tranquilly, transparency, unagitated, unarticulated, undisturbed, unemployed, unhearable, unmoved, unmoving, unperturbed, unperturbedly, unpronounced, unruffled, unsounded, unstirring, until now, until this time, untroubled, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, up to now, vaporizer, waning, when, whisht, whist, wine press, winery, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, yet

stillborn

• stillborn, abortive, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bearing, bereft of life, bootless, born, breathless, called home, calved, carrion, cast, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dropped, exanimate, failed, failing, fallen, finished, foaled, food for worms, fruitless, futile, given birth, giving birth, gone, gone to glory, gone west, hatched, inanimate, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, lame, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, manque, martyred, miscarried, miscarrying, nee, newborn, no more, of no effect, passed on, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sleeping, smitten with death, stickit, still, successless, taken away, taken off, unfortunate, unsuccessful, useless, whelped, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions

stillness

• stillness, ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, calmness, composure, contemplation, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, imperturbability, inaudibility, lucid stillness, lull, marmoreal repose, mum, nirvana, noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, serenity, silence, silentness, silken repose, sleep, slumber, solemn silence, soundlessness, still, tacitness, taciturnity, tomblike silence, tranquillity, whisht, wise passiveness

stilted

• stilted, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous, elephantine, elevated, erect, euphuistic, exalted, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, forced, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, graceless, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, guinde, halting, heavy, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, in buckram, inflated, inkhorn, la-di-da, labored, labyrinthine, leaden, lexiphanic, lifted, lofty, lumbering, lurid, magniloquent, mannered, meretricious, mincing, muscle-bound, on stilts, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, pretentious, prim, raised, rampant, rhetorical, rigid, self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sesquipedalian, showy, solemn, sonorous, starch, starched, stiff, stuffy, sublime, swollen, tall, too-too, tortuous, tumid, turgid, ungraceful, unnatural, unwieldy, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, wooden

stimulant

• stimulant, Adrenalin, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, activator, aloes, ammonium carbonate, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, amphetamine sulphate, animator, antidepressant, arouser, benzoin, bracer, caffeine, catalyst, chocolate, cocaine, cocoa, coffee, coke, colocynth, crystal, desoxyephedrine, dextroamphetamine sulfate, draw, drive, energizer, fillip, football, goad, heart, human dynamo, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitation, incitement, jolly bean, kola, kola nut, life, methamphetamine hydrochloride, motivating force, motivation, motive power, pep pill, pick-me-up, prod, prompt, provocation, pull, purple heart, push, quinine, restorative, snow, spark plug, speed, spur, stimulator, stimulus, strychnine, tea, tonic, upper, urge

stimulate

• stimulate, activate, actuate, affect the interest, animate, animating, arouse, attract, awaken, brace, brace up, bracing, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, brisk, brisken, buck up, call forth, call out, call up, cheer, chirk up, compel, concern, cultivate, deduce, derive, drag out, draw forth, draw out, dynamize, educe, electrify, elicit, encourage, energize, enliven, enlivening, evoke, excite, excite interest, exhilarate, exhilarating, exhilarative, fascinate, fillip, fire, force, fortify, foster, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, fuel, galvanize, get from, get out of, goad, hearten, impel, incite, increase, induce, inflame, infuse life into, inspire, inspiring, inspirit, interest, intoxicating, invigorate, invite, involve in, jazz up, jolt, kindle, lively, liven, make sensitive, motivate, move, move to action, nourish, obtain, pep up, perk up, pick up, pique, procure, promote, prompt, propel, provocative, provoke, quicken, quickening, reanimate, recreate, refine, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, renew, resuscitate, revive, revivify, rouse, rousing, secure, seminal, sensibilize, sensitize, set in motion, set up, sharpen, snap up, spark, spirit up, spur, stimulating, stimulative, stir, stir up, stirring, suggestive, summon forth, summon up, tantalize, tickle, titillate, tonic, vitalize, vitalizing, vivify, wake up, waken, wangle, wangle out of, warm, whet, whip up, winkle out, worm out, worm out of, zip up

stimulated

• stimulated, actuated, agog, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bursting, carried away, ebullient, effervescent, energized, excited, exhilarated, fired, high, hopped up, impassioned, impelled, inclined, inflamed, inner-directed, invigorated, keyed up, lathered up, manic, minded, motivated, moved, other-directed, prompted, ready to burst, reanimated, recharged, recreated, refreshed, renewed, revived, roused, steamed up, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

stimulating

• stimulating, activating, agitating, alluring, analeptic, animating, animative, aphrodisiac, aphroditous, ardent, arousing, bracing, breathtaking, brisk, burning, challenging, charged, cheering, chill, chilly, cliff-hanging, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, emphatic, encouraging, energizing, enlivening, enthusiastic, eroticizing, exciting, exhilarating, exhilarative, fervent, fiery, fresh, galvanic, galvanizing, glowing, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impassioned, impressive, inflammatory, inspirational, inspiring, interesting, intoxicating, invigorating, invigorative, inviting, jarring, jolting, juicy, lively, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, prompting, provocative, provoking, quickening, racy, ravishing, readable, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, restorative, reviving, rich, roborant, rousing, soul-stirring, spicy, spirit-stirring, stimulant, stimulative, stirring, strengthening, striking, succulent, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, temperate, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thrilling, thrilly, tickling, titillating, tonic, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, urgent, vehement, venereal, viable, vitalizing, warm, zestful, zesty

stimulation

• stimulation, a high, actuation, aggravation, agitation, alpha decay, animation, arousal, arousing, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, bait, beta decay, bombardment, bracer, bracing, breeding, bribe, bullet, carrot, chain reaction, cleavage, cordial, direction, disintegration series, dissociation, electrification, emotion, encouragement, energizing, enlivenment, exacerbation, exasperation, exchange reaction, excitation, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, fillip, firing, fission, fission reaction, fomentation, galvanization, gamma decay, incentive, incitation, incitement, inducement, inflammation, influence, infuriation, inner-direction, instigation, interest, invigoration, invitation, ionization, irritation, lathering up, lure, manic state, motivation, moving, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, other-direction, payment, pep rally, pep talk, percentage, persuasive, perturbation, photodisintegration, pick-me-up, profit, prompting, proton gun, proton reaction, provocation, quickening, rabble-rousing, reanimation, recreation, refection, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement, reinvigoration, renewal, reversible reaction, revitalization, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, reward, splitting the atom, steaming up, stimulative, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, sweetener, sweetening, target, thermonuclear reaction, tonic, vitalization, vivification, whet, whipping up, working up

stimulus

• stimulus, activator, aggravation, agitation, animation, animator, antecedents, arousal, arouser, arousing, bait, base, basis, boost, bribe, call, carrot, catalyst, causation, cause, cause and effect, determinant, determinative, electrification, element, encouragement, energizer, etiology, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, factor, fillip, fomentation, galvanization, goad, ground, grounds, human dynamo, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitation, incitement, inducement, inflammation, infuriation, instigation, interest, invitation, irritation, lathering up, life, lure, motivating force, motivation, motive, motive power, occasion, payment, percentage, persuasive, perturbation, principle, profit, propellant, provocation, provocative, push, restorative, reward, spark plug, spur, steaming up, stimulant, stimulation, stimulative, stimulator, stirring, stirring up, sweetener, sweetening, tonic, urging, whet, whipping up, working up

sting

• sting, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, aculeus, acuminate, acumination, affect, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, astringency, auger, barb the dart, be keen, beat, beesting, beguile of, bilk, bit, bite, bite the tongue, bitterness, bleed, bleed white, borer, bristle with, bruise, bunco, burn, burning, burning pain, buzz, causticity, chafe, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clip, cog, cog the dice, come home to, con, convulse, cozen, crib, crucify, cusp, cut, cut up, dart, defraud, diddle, distress, do in, do out of, drill, edge, euchre, excruciate, exploit, fang, fester, fierceness, finagle, fire, flam, fleece, flimflam, flog, fob, fret, fudge, gad, gadfly, gall, give offense, give pain, give umbrage, gnaw, go deep, go through one, goad, gouge, grate, grieve, grind, grip, gripe, gull, gyp, harrow, harshness, have, have an edge, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, hurt, hurt the feelings, inflame, inflict pain, injure, irritate, itch, keenness, kill by inches, lacerate, lash, martyr, martyrize, melt, melt the heart, mordacity, mordancy, move, mucro, mulct, neb, needle, nettle, nib, nip, nudge, offend, outrage, overcharge, overprice, overtax, oxgoad, pack the deal, pain, paresthesia, penetrate, pierce, pigeon, pinch, pins and needles, poignancy, point, poke, practice fraud upon, prick, prickle, prickles, prickling, prod, profiteer, prolong the agony, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rigor, rip off, rob, rook, roughness, rowel, rub, scam, scratch, screw, sell gold bricks, severity, sharpness, shave, shortchange, skin, smart, smarting, snakebite, soak, soften, spur, stab, stack the cards, stick, stimulate, stinger, stinging, stir, stridency, stringency, surcharge, swindle, take a dive, tang, tartness, teeth, thimblerig, thrill, throw a fight, tingle, tingling, tip, torment, torture, touch, touch a chord, trenchancy, tweak, twist, twist the knife, urtication, vehemence, victimize, violence, virulence, whip, whiplash, wound, wring

stinging

• stinging, acanaceous, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, aculeolate, acute, afflictive, agonizing, asperous, astringent, atrocious, biting, bitter, brambly, briery, brisk, bristly, burn, burning, burning pain, buzz, caustic, chafing, corroding, corrosive, cramping, cruel, cutting, distressing, double-edged, edged, escharotic, excruciating, fierce, fire, fretting, galling, gnawing, grating, grave, grinding, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, hurtful, hurting, incisive, irritant, irritating, irritative, keen, mordacious, mordant, muricate, nose-tickling, painful, paresthesia, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, pins and needles, piquant, poignant, pricking, prickle, prickles, prickling, prickly, pricky, pungent, racking, rasping, rigorous, rough, scathing, scorching, scratchy, severe, sharp, shooting, smart, smarting, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, sting, strident, stringent, tart, thistly, thorny, thrill, tingle, tingling, tormenting, torturous, trenchant, urtication, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering

stingy

• stingy, Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, avaricious, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, costive, dwarfed, dwarfish, economical, exiguous, frugal, hardfisted, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, petty, piddling, pinchfisted, pinching, pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, save-all, scaly, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, screwy, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, thrifty, tight, tightfisted, unchivalrous, ungenerous, ungiving, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery

stink

• stink, BO, bad breath, bad smell, be aromatic, be redolent of, body odor, breathe, emit a smell, exhale, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, funk, graveolence, halitosis, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offend the nostrils, offensive odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, smell, smell bad, smell of, smell to heaven, smell up, stench, stench of decay, stink out, stink up, suck, yield an odor

stinker

• stinker, Havana, SOB, bastard, beast, belvedere, blackguard, blighter, bounder, box of cigars, bugger, bum, cad, cheroot, cigar, cigar box, cigar case, cigar cutter, cigarillo, colorado, corona, creep, cur, dastard, dog, fart, heel, hood, hooligan, humidor, jerk, knave, louse, meanie, mother, pill, polecat, rat, rogue, rope, rotten egg, rotter, scoundrel, scum, shit, shithead, shitheel, skunk, snake, sod, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinkpot, stogie, swine, trichinopoly, turd, villain, viper, wretch

stinking

• stinking, abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy, brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty, disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty, sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled, stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked, terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky

stinko

• stinko, afflicted, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, elevated, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, high, illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, swacked, tanked, tight

stint

• stint, allotment, amount, anchor watch, apportionment, assignment, begrudge, bit, bound, bout, box, box in, box up, busywork, caliber, chare, charge, check, chore, circumscribe, circumscription, commission, compass, condition, confine, confinement, constraint, contain, control, copyright, cramp, cramping, curb, cut, cut corners, day shift, degree, devoir, discipline, dogwatch, draw the line, duty, economize, errand, exercise, extent, famish, fish to fry, full time, go, grade, graveyard shift, grudge, half time, hedge about, height, hem, hem in, homework, interval, job, job of work, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, labor, leap, level, limit, limitation, live upon nothing, lobster trick, localize, make-work, mark, matters in hand, measure, mission, moderate, narrow, night shift, notch, nuance, obligation, odd job, overtime, part time, participation, pas, patent, peg, period, piece of work, pinch, pinch pennies, pitch, plane, plateau, point, project, proportion, qualification, qualify, quantity, quota, range, ratio, reach, register, relay, remove, reservation, responsibility, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, round, routine, rung, scale, scamp, scant, scope, scrape, screw, scrimp, service, shade, shadow, share, shift, short, skimp, space, spare, specialize, split schedule, split shift, stair, standard, starve, step, straiten, stretch, stricture, sunrise watch, swing shift, task, term, things to do, tighten, time, tour, tour of duty, tread, trick, turn, turn of work, watch, withhold, work, work shift

stinted

• stinted, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, boxed in, circumscribed, confined, cramped, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, icebound, impoverished, jejune, landlocked, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, qualified, restricted, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, snowbound, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery, windbound

stinting

• stinting, cheeseparing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, frugal, frugal to excess, frugality, law of parsimony, measured, moderate, overfrugal, parsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pinching, restrained, scamping, scrimping, skimping, sober, sparing, temperate, too frugal

stintless

• stintless, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, gracious, greathearted, handsome, hospitable, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, open, openhanded, openhearted, princely, profuse, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

stipend

• stipend, account, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assessment, assistance, award, bill, blackmail, blood money, bounty, compensation, consideration, depletion allowance, dole, earnings, emolument, fee, fellowship, financial assistance, financial support, footing, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, hire, hush money, income, initiation fee, mileage, old-age insurance, pay, payment, pecuniary aid, pension, price support, public assistance, public welfare, reckoning, recompense, relief, remittance, remuneration, retainer, retaining fee, retirement benefits, reward, salary, scholarship, scot, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, tax benefit, tribute, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

stipendiary

• stipendiary, allottee, almsman, almswoman, annuitant, assign, assignee, beneficiary, devisee, donee, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, endowed, feoffee, grantee, invested, legatary, legatee, patentee, pensionary, pensioner, subsidiary

stipple

• stipple, apply paint, autolithograph, band, bar, be a printmaker, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, brush on paint, burr, calcimine, carve, character, check, checker, chisel, chiseling, coat, color, complexion, cover, crease, cribble, cross-hatching, crosshatch, cut, dab, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, daub, deep-dye, demitint, dip, distemper, dot, dottedness, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, enchase, engild, engrave, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, face, fast-dye, flake, fleck, freckle, freckliness, fresco, furrow, gem-engraving, gild, glass-cutting, glaze, gloss, glyptic, grain, grave, graving, groove, half tint, harlequin, hatch, hatching, hue, illuminate, imbue, incise, incision, ingrain, inscribe, inscript, inscription, iris, japan, lacquer, lay on color, line, lining, lithograph, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make prints, marble, marbleize, mark, marking, motley, mottle, mottledness, paint, parget, patch, pepper, pigment, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prime, print, rainbow, score, scoring, scrape, scratch, scratching, sculpture, shade, shadow, shellac, slash, slashing, slop on paint, smear, spangle, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, stippledness, stippling, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, tool, tooling, type-cutting, undercoat, variegate, varnish, vein, wash, whitewash

stippled

• stippled, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, macular, maculate, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, studded

stipulate

• stipulate, agree, agree to, assign, attach a condition, bargain, bargain for, call for, compact, condition, contend for, contract, covenant, demand, denominate, designate, detail, determine, do a deal, engage, fight for, fix, guarantee, have a catch, have a joker, indicate, insist on, insist upon, make a deal, make conditional, make contingent, make reservations, mark, mention, name, particularize, pick out, pin down, point out, promise, provide, provide for, qualify, require, select, set, set conditions, set forth, set terms, signify, specialize, specifically provide, specify, state, stickle for, stipulate for, strive for, struggle for, undertake, vie for, warrant

stipulated

• stipulated, agreed, arranged, certain, compacted, conditional, contracted, covenanted, designated, engaged, fixed, given, promised, provisional, provisory, sealed, set, settled, signed, specificative, specified, stated, stipulatory, undertaken

stipulation

• stipulation, accord, agreement, allocation, arrangement, assignment, attribution, bargain, binding agreement, bond, boundary condition, cartel, catch, circumscription, clause, collective agreement, compact, condition, consortium, contract, convention, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, demand, denomination, designation, determination, dicker, donnee, employment contract, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, exception, fine print, fixing, formal agreement, given, grounds, guarantee, ironclad agreement, joker, kicker, legal agreement, legal contract, limit, limiting condition, mutual agreement, obligation, pact, paction, parameter, pinning down, precision, prerequisite, promise, protocol, provision, provisions, proviso, qualification, requirement, requisite, reservation, saving clause, selection, signification, sine qua non, small print, specification, string, strings, term, terms, transaction, ultimatum, understanding, undertaking, union contract, valid contract, wage contract, warranty, whereas

stir up

• stir up, abet, admix, aggravate, agitate, alloy, amalgamate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, bemingle, blend, blow the coals, blow up, bristle, call forth, call up, chafe, churn, churn up, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, convulse, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, embitter, emulsify, enkindle, enrage, exasperate, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, flurry, foment, frenzy, fret, fuse, hash, heat, heat up, homogenize, huff, immingle, immix, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, instigate, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, irritate, jumble, key up, kindle, knead, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, merge, miff, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, move, nettle, overexcite, paddle, peeve, perturb, perturbate, pique, provoke, put up to, raise, raise up, rally, rankle, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, scramble, set, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up, shake, shake up, shuffle, sic on, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, summon up, swirl, syncretize, throw together, tickle, toss together, trouble, turn on, upset, vex, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whisk, work, work into, work up

stir

• stir, action, activate, activeness, activism, activity, actuate, actuation, ado, advance, affect, agitate, agitation, amalgamate, animate, annoy, arise, arouse, ascend, awake, awaken, back, back up, be turbulent, beat, beat up, bestir, big house, blend, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, brig, broil, brouhaha, budge, burst, business, bustle, calaboose, call forth, call up, can, challenge, change, change place, chokey, churn, churn up, circle, climb, clink, come alive, come home to, commingle, commotion, confusion, conturbation, convince, convulse, cooler, coop, cultivate, descend, din, disarrange, discombobulate, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, doings, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, dustup, dynamics, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, electrify, embroilment, encourage, energize, enkindle, enrage, excite, excitement, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fire, fit, flame, flap, flow, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foam, foment, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, galvanize, get, get moving, get over, get up, glasshouse, go, go around, go deep, go round, go sideways, go through one, going, goings-on, gyrate, hassle, heat, helter-skelter, hoosegow, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, impassion, impel, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, inquietude, inspire, instigate, intermingle, jar, jitters, jolt, jug, jumpiness, keep, key up, kindle, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lather up, light the fuse, light up, look lively, madden, maelstrom, make sensitive, malaise, melee, melt, melt the heart, merge, militancy, mill, mill around, mingle, mix up, mobilization, moil, motion, motivate, motivation, mount, move, move over, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overexcite, paddle, pandemonium, pell-mell, pen, penetrate, penitentiary, persuade, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pierce, pique, plunge, pokey, political activism, pother, prison, proceedings, prod, progress, prompt, provoke, quicken, quod, racket, raise, raise up, rally, rampage, rattle, refine, regress, restlessness, resuscitate, retrogress, revive, rile, riot, ripple, rise, rock, roil, rotate, rough-and-tumble, roughen, roughhouse, rouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumple, rumpus, run, running, scramble, seethe, seething, sensibilize, sensitize, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, shake, shake a leg, shake up, sharpen, shift, shindy, shock, simmer, sink, slammer, smart, smolder, soar, soften, spasm, spin, spur, spurt, stagger, steam up, step lively, stew, stimulate, sting, stir about, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirring, stream, subside, summon up, sweat, swirl, swirling, to-do, touch, touch a chord, travel, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn on, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, uproar, upset, urge, velocity, vitalize, vortex, wake, wake up, waken, wane, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whisk, work into, work up, yeastiness

stirps

• stirps, affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, clan, class, common ancestry, consanguinity, deme, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk, gens, house, kind, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, matriclan, nation, order, patriclan, people, phratry, phyle, phylum, plant kingdom, race, seed, sept, side, spear side, species, spindle side, stem, stock, strain, succession, sword side, totem, tribe

stirred up

• stirred up, agitated, agog, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bursting, carried away, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, feverish, fidgety, fired, flurried, flustered, high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, jittery, jumpy, keyed up, lathered up, manic, moved, nervous, nervy, perturbed, ready to burst, restless, roused, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, thrilled, tingling, tingly, troubled, troublous, turbulent, turned-on, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, upset, whipped up, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

stirring

• stirring, active, afoot, agitating, alluring, ardent, astir, awe-inspiring, breathtaking, burning, bustling, challenging, charged, cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, dramatic, driving, electric, emotional, emotive, emphatic, encouraging, energizing, enthusiastic, eventful, evocative, exciting, exhilarating, exhilarative, fervent, fiery, full of incident, galvanic, galvanizing, glowing, gripping, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impassioned, impelling, impressive, in full swing, in motion, inflammatory, inspiring, inspiriting, intoxicating, inviting, jarring, jolting, maddening, melodramatic, mind-blowing, mobile, momentous, motile, motivational, motive, motor, move, movement, moving, on foot, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, phenomenal, piquant, prompting, propellant, propelling, provocative, provoking, ravishing, rousing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, spirited, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stir, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, transitional, traveling, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, urgent, vehement, warm

stirrup cup

• stirrup cup, Godspeed, Mickey, Mickey Finn, adieu, aloha, aperitif, chaser, cocktail, conge, doch-an-dorrach, drink, eye-opener, farewell, good-bye, highball, knockout drops, leave, leave-taking, mixed drink, nightcap, parting, parting cup, parting words, pousse-cafe, punch, send-off, sundowner, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum, wee doch-an-dorrach

stirrup

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

stitch

• stitch, French knot, ache, acute pain, ankle, articulate, articulation, batten, batten down, bit, bite, bolt, boring pain, boundary, buckle, butt, button, cervix, chain stitch, charley horse, chip, chunk, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, clipping, closure, collop, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, cramp, cramps, crick, cross-stitch, crumb, cut, cutting, darting pain, dollop, dovetail, elbow, embrace, end, fragment, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gliding joint, gnawing, gob, gobbet, griping, hasp, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hook, hunk, interface, jam, join, joining, joint, jumping pain, juncture, kink, knee, knuckle, lancinating pain, latch, link, lock, lump, misery, miter, modicum, moiety, morceau, morsel, mortise, nail, neck, needle, needlepoint, nip, pang, paring, paroxysm, particle, patch, peg, picot, piece, pin, pinch, pivot, pivot joint, prick, rabbet, rasher, rivet, scarf, scoop, scrap, screw, seam, seizure, sew, sew up, shard, sharp pain, shaving, shiver, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shoulder, shred, skewer, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, spasm, splinter, stab, stabbing pain, staple, stick, stockinette, stump, suture, symphysis, tack, tag, tailor, tatter, thrill, throes, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, tormen, treble, tweak, twinge, twitch, union, wedge, weld, whipstitch, wrench, wrist, zipper

stochastic

• stochastic, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, chaotic, confused, designless, disordered, driftless, dysteleological, foggy, fuzzy, general, haphazard, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, inexplicable, lax, loose, mindless, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, promiscuous, purposeless, random, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stray, sweeping, unaccountable, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, unmotivated, unplain, unspecified, vague, veiled

stock company

• stock company, Aktiengesellschaft, accident insurance, acting company, actuary, aktiebolag, annuity, assurance, aviation insurance, bail bond, body corporate, bond, business, business establishment, business life insurance, cartel, cast, cast of characters, casualty insurance, certificate of insurance, chamber of commerce, characters, chorus, circus troupe, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, corps de ballet, court bond, credit insurance, credit life insurance, deductible, diversified corporation, dramatis personae, endowment insurance, ensemble, enterprise, family maintenance policy, fidelity bond, fidelity insurance, firm, flood insurance, fraternal insurance, government insurance, health insurance, holding company, house, industrial life insurance, industry, insurance, insurance agent, insurance broker, insurance company, insurance man, insurance policy, interinsurance, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, liability insurance, license bond, limited payment insurance, major medical insurance, malpractice insurance, marine insurance, mutual company, ocean marine insurance, operating company, partnership, permit bond, plunderbund, policy, pool, public utility, repertory company, robbery insurance, social security, stock insurance company, supporting cast, syndicate, term insurance, theft insurance, trade association, troupe, trust, underwriter, utility

stock exchange

• stock exchange, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Wall Street, board, bourse, commodity exchange, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, stock market, stock ticker, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, third market, ticker, ticker tape, wheat pit

stock market

• stock market, American Stock Exchange, Amex, Wall Street, board, bourse, commodity exchange, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, stock exchange, stock ticker, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, third market, ticker, ticker tape, wheat pit

stock room

• stock room, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

stock still

• stock still, at a standstill, at anchor, dead-still, fixed, idle, immobile, immotive, motionless, moveless, out of commission, riding at anchor, static, stationary, statuelike, still, unemployed, unmoved, unmoving

stock

• stock, Animalia, Broadway, ability, abundance, acceptation, accepted, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, accustomed, acquiescence, affiliation, afford, allotment, allowance, amass, amassment, ancestor, ancestry, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, anthrophore, apparentation, appraisal, appraise, appraisement, array, assessable stock, assessed valuation, assessment, assets, assets and liabilities, assortment, assurance, assuredness, authorized capital stock, average, axis, back-number, backlog, banal, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, begetter, beginning, belief, bewhiskered, big end, big game, bigger half, birds, birth, bisque, bit, bite, blood, bloodline, blue chip, blue chip stock, bole, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, branch, breed, breeding, bromidic, brood, broth, brute creation, budget, burgoo, burlesque, butt, byword, byword of reproach, cache, cane, capacity, capital, capital stock, carnival, carpophore, carry, catalog goods, cattle, caudex, caulicle, caulis, certainty, chicken soup, chimney, chowder, chunk, chute, circumstances, circus, clam chowder, clan, class, clear soup, cliched, clothe, collect, collection, commencement, commissariat, commissary, commission, commodities, common, common ancestry, common stock, commonplace, community, conception, confidence, conformable, consanguinity, consomme, consuetudinary, consumer goods, consumer items, contingent, contribute, conventional, convertible preferred stock, cornucopia, corny, corporate stock, country rock, creator, credence, credit, credulity, culm, culture, cumulate, cumulation, cumulative preferred stock, current, current assets, customary, cut, cut-and-dried, cyclical stock, deal, deal in, defensive stock, deferred assets, deferred stock, deme, dependence, deposit, derision, derivation, descent, destiny, devices, dike, direct line, disposable resources, distaff side, dividend, dole, domestic animals, donate, drama, dump, dupe, dynasty, effects, egg drop soup, eighth stock, end, endow, entertainment industry, equal share, equities, equity, equity security, established, estimate, ethnic group, evaluation, everyday, extraction, fade, fair game, faith, familiar, family, fancies, fate, father, fauna, female line, figure of fun, filiation, fill, fill up, find, fish soup, fixed assets, floating stock, folk, fool, footstalk, forebear, forefather, forerunner, founder, frozen assets, fund, funds, funicule, funiculus, furnish, furry creatures, fusty, game, gangue, garner, garner up, gather into barns, gazingstock, gazpacho, genealogy, generally accepted, genesis, gens, give, glamour issue, goat, goods, goods for sale, grass roots, gravy soup, growth stock, guaranteed stock, gumbo, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, half, halver, handle, haulm, have, head, heap, heap up, helping, heritage, hide, high-flier, hoard, hoard up, hold, hope, horses, hot issue, house, household, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, inception, income stock, intangible assets, intangibles, interest, inventory, invest, investment, issued capital stock, jest, jestingstock, job lot, joke, judgment, julienne, keep, keep on hand, kind, kindred, larder, laughingstock, lay in, lay up, leafstalk, legit, legitimate stage, letter stock, line, line of descent, line of goods, lineage, liquid assets, livestock, loaned stock, lode, lodestuff, long stock, look at, lot, mail-order goods, maintain, make available, make provision for, male line, market, mass, material, material assets, material resources, materials, materiel, matriclan, matrix, matzo ball soup, means, measure, meed, merchandise, mess, method, mineral deposit, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mockery, modicum, moiety, monkey, moth-eaten, mulligatawny, munitions, musty, nation, nationality, nest egg, net assets, net worth, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, normal, normative, obtaining, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, offer, old, old hat, order, ordinary, ordinary shares, ore bed, origin, original, origination, ownership, oxen, oxtail soup, pale blue chip, parentage, part, participating preferred stock, patriclan, pay dirt, pedicel, pedigree, peduncle, penny stock, people, percentage, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, phratry, phyle, phylum, piece, pile, pile up, plant kingdom, platitudinous, playland, plenitude, plenty, popular, portion, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, power, precursor, predominating, preference stock, preferred stock, prepare, prescribed, prescriptive, present, prevailing, prevalent, process, procure materials, progenitor, property, proportion, protective stock, provenience, provide, provide for, provisionment, provisions, puree, put up, quantum, quarter stock, quick assets, quota, race, radical, radix, rails, rake-off, range, ration, rations, raw material, received, reception, recourses, recruit, reed, regular, regulation, reliance, reliance on, repertoire, repertory, repertory drama, replenish, reserve, reservoir, resorts, resources, reverse split, review, rick, rise, root, roots, routine, run-of-the-mill, save, save up, seasoned stock, secrete, seed, seedstalk, segment, selection, sell, sept, set, share, share ledger, shares, sheep, shoot, short stock, show biz, show business, side, sideline, size up, slice, small game, small share, society, soup, source, spear, spear side, special situation stock, specialty stock, species, speculative stock, speech community, spindle side, spire, split, square, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stake, stale, stalk, standard, standard stock, staple, staples, steels, stem, stereotyped, stipe, stirps, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, stocks, store, store up, stores, strain, straw, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stuff, subsidize, substances, succession, summer stock, supplies, supply, supply on hand, support, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, sword side, take stock, tangible assets, tangibles, taproot, target, ten-share unit stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, thick soup, thin soup, threadbare, tigella, time-honored, timeworn, tired, tomato soup, totem, toy, trade in, traditional, treasure, treasure up, treasury, treasury stock, tribe, trite, truistic, trunk, trust, turtle soup, unissued capital stock, universal, unoriginal, usual, utilities, utilize, variety, vaudeville, vegetable soup, vein, vendibles, vernacular, vichyssoise, victim, voting stock, wares, warmed-over, ways, ways and means, wealth, well-known, well-worn, wherewith, wherewithal, widespread, wild animals, wildlife, won ton soup, wonted, worn, worn out, worn thin, yield

stockade

• stockade, POW camp, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastille, bastion, battlement, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, breastwork, bridewell, brig, bulwark, calaboose, can, casemate, cell, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, concentration camp, condemned cell, contravallation, cooler, coop, counterscarp, curtain, death cell, death house, death row, demibastion, detention camp, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, federal prison, fence, fieldwork, forced-labor camp, fortalice, fortification, gaol, glacis, guardhouse, guardroom, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, maximum-security prison, merlon, minimum-security prison, mound, oubliette, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, portcullis, postern gate, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reform school, reformatory, sally port, scarp, sconce, sponging house, state prison, tenaille, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vallation, vallum, work

stockbreeding

• stockbreeding, animal husbandry, animal rearing, bee culture, beekeeping, breeding, cattle-ranching, chicken-farming, dairy-farming, dressage, gnotobiotics, grazing, herding, horse training, horsemanship, mink-ranching, pig-keeping, sheepherding, stock raising, thremmatology, zootechnics, zootechny

stockbroker

• stockbroker, Realtor, Wall Streeter, bill broker, bond crowd, broker, cambist, cotton broker, curb broker, dealer, diamond broker, discount broker, estate agent, floor broker, floor trader, floorman, furniture broker, grain broker, hotel broker, insurance broker, jobber, land broker, money broker, money changer, mortgage broker, note broker, odd-lot dealer, pawnbroker, pit man, real estate agent, real estate broker, registered representative, sharebroker, ship broker, specialist, stock dealer, stock-exchange broker, stockjobber, two-dollar broker

stockcar

• stockcar, Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, boxcar, caboose, car, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, covered waggon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, flat, flatcar, gondola, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, tank, tender, truck, van, waggon

stockjobbing

• stockjobbing, agiotage, arbitrage, brokerage, buying in, equity capital, flier, flutter, jobbing, legal bucketing, liquidation, plunge, profit taking, round trade, scalping, speculation, spot sale, stockbrokerage, stockbroking, stockjobbery, turn, venture, venture capital

stockpile

• stockpile, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, backlog, bank, budget, cache, chunk, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, cornucopia, cumulate, cumulation, drift, dump, garner, garner up, gather into barns, gathering, glomeration, gob, heap, heap up, hide, hill, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, hunk, inventory, keep, larder, lay up, lump, mass, material, materials, materiel, mound, mountain, munitions, nest egg, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, put up, pyramid, rations, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, rick, roll up, save, save up, savings, secrete, sinking fund, snowball, something in reserve, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, store, store up, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasure up, treasury, unexpended balance, wad

stocks and bonds

• stocks and bonds, assurance, bond, callable securities, cats and dogs, certificate of deposit, corporation securities, foreign securities, futures contract, government securities, guarantee, guaranty, indemnity, insurance, junior securities, listed securities, marketable securities, municipal securities, negotiable securities, noncallable securities, note, outstanding securities, over-the-counter securities, portfolio, securities, security, senior securities, short-term note, subject to call, surety, tie, treasury bill, treasury bond, treasury certificate, treasury note, undigested securities, unregistered securities, warrant, warranty

stocks

• stocks, Oregon boat, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, bilbo, blue chip, blue chip stock, bond, bonds, borrowed stock, branks, bridle, camisole, capital stock, chains, collar, common stock, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, crank, cucking stool, cuffs, cumulative preferred stock, cyclical stock, defensive stock, deferred stock, ducking stool, eighth stock, equities, equity, equity security, fancies, fetter, finger pillory, floating stock, gag, glamour issue, growth stock, guaranteed stock, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, high-flier, hobbles, hopples, hot issue, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, income stock, irons, issued capital stock, leading strings, leash, letter stock, loaned stock, long stock, manacle, muzzle, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, ordinary shares, pale blue chip, participating preferred stock, penny stock, pillory, preference stock, preferred stock, protective stock, quarter stock, rails, reins, restraint, restraints, reverse split, seasoned stock, shackle, share ledger, shares, short stock, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, standard stock, steels, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, ten-share unit stock, tether, trammel, trammels, treadmill, treasury stock, trebuchet, triangle, triangles, unissued capital stock, utilities, voting stock, whipping post, wooden horse, yoke

stocky

• stocky, adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, low-set, lumpish, lumpy, lusty, meaty, mesomorphic, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, short, snub-nosed, solid, squab, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, sturdy, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed

stodgy

• stodgy, Spartan, adhesive, aloof, amylaceous, apathetic, arid, banausic, barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, characterless, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cold, colorless, curdled, dead, deadly, detached, dim, dismal, doughy, dowdy, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, fogyish, frumpish, frumpy, fuddy-duddy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, indomitable, inexcitable, insipid, inspissated, jejune, jelled, jellied, jellylike, leaden, lifeless, long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous, mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale, pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy, self-controlled, senile, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, solemn, spiritless, starchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stoic, stolid, stringy, stuffy, superficial, syrupy, tacky, tasteless, tedious, tenacious, thick, thickened, tiresome, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, turgid, unassailable, unconcerned, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, wooden

stoic

• stoic, Laodicean, Olympian, Spartan, accepting, aloof, apathetic, armed with patience, at rest, benumbed, blah, blase, bovine, calm, cloistered, comatose, cool, desensitized, detached, disciplined, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, dwindling, ebbing, endurant, enduring, even-tempered, even-tenored, forbearing, halcyon, heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, hushed, impassive, imperturbable, in a stupor, indifferent, indulgent, inexcitable, inirritable, insouciant, isolated, languid, lenient, lethargic, listless, long-suffering, longanimous, man of iron, moldering, nonchalant, numb, numbed, pacific, passive, patient, patient as Job, peaceable, peaceful, persevering, philosophical, phlegmatic, placid, pluckless, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, resigned, restful, resting, secluded, self-controlled, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, slack, sluggish, smooth, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stolid, stupefied, subsiding, supine, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, torpid, tranquil, unagitated, uncaring, unconcerned, understanding, undisturbable, undisturbed, unflappable, uninterested, unirritable, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn

stoical

• stoical, apathetic, calm, cool, disciplined, dispassionate, emotionless, frigid, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, long-suffering, phlegmatic, resigned, self-controlled, self-possessed, stoic, stolid, unemotional, unflappable

stoicism

• stoicism, acceptance, ataraxia, ataraxy, austerity, backbone, bovinity, calm, calmness, coolness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, easy temper, endurance, even temper, fatalism, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, good temper, grit, guts, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbableness, indifference, indulgence, inexcitability, inexcitableness, inirritability, insensibility, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, phlegm, pluck, resignation, sand, self-control, self-possession, smooth temper, steadiness, stolidity, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, unirritableness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, waiting game, waiting it out

Stoicism

• Stoicism, Aristotelian philosophy, Aristotelianism, Christian ethics, Encratism, Epicureanism, Friday, Lenten fare, Peripatetic school, Peripateticism, Platonic philosophy, Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoic philosophy, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, altruistic ethics, aretaics, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, casuistry, categorical imperative, celibacy, chastity, comparative ethics, continence, deontology, egoistic ethics, empiricism, eschewal, ethical formalism, ethical philosophy, ethology, ethonomics, eudaemonics, evolutionism, fast, fish day, fruitarianism, golden rule, gymnosophy, hedonism, intuitionism, moral philosophy, nephalism, perfectionism, plain living, refraining, refrainment, sexual abstinence, simple diet, situation ethics, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, utilitarianism, vegetarianism

stoke

• stoke, bank, burn, chafe, coal, conflagrate, cook, detonate, electric-heat, enkindle, explode, fan the flame, feed, feed the fire, fill up, fire, fire up, foment, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, gas-heat, heat, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, mull, oil, overheat, preheat, recook, refuel, reheat, rekindle, relight, relume, set fire to, set on fire, steam, stir the fire, stoke the fire, stoke up, strike a light, superheat, tepefy, top off, torch, touch off, warm, warm over, warm up

stoker

• stoker, baggage man, bakehead, black gang, boilerman, brakeman, brakie, bungs, butcher, cabin boy, chips, commissary steward, complement, conductor, deckhand, deckie, dispatcher, fireman, footplate man, guard, gun loader, gunner, hand, hospital steward, landing signalman, lineman, mail orderly, navigator, oiler, porter, purser, radio operator, railroad man, railroader, redcap, roustabout, smoke agent, snip, snips, sparks, stationmaster, steward, stewardess, switchman, torpedoman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, watch, yardman, yardmaster, yeoman

stolen goods

• stolen goods, blackmail, boodle, bootleg liquor, booty, cigarettes, contraband, dope, drugs, graft, haul, hot goods, jewels, loot, narcotics, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, prize, public till, public trough, smuggled goods, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, swag, take, till

stolid

• stolid, aloof, apathetic, arid, at rest, barren, blunt, bored, bovine, calm, careless, cloistered, cool, dense, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, dwindling, earthbound, ebbing, even-tempered, even-tenored, fact, halcyon, heedless, hushed, impassive, imperturbable, inactive, incurious, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insouciant, isolated, lethargic, listless, literal, lumpish, mindless, moldering, mundane, obtuse, pacific, passive, patient, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, prosaic, prosing, prosy, quiescent, quiet, regardless, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, slow, smooth, staid, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stuffy, stupid, subsiding, supine, thick, tranquil, unagitated, unconcerned, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional, unfanciful, unflappable, unideal, unimaginative, uninquiring, uninspired, uninterested, uninventive, uninvolved, unirritable, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unoriginal, unpassionate, unperturbed, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn, wooden

stomach

• stomach, abatis, abdomen, abide, abomasum, accept, aftertaste, anus, appendix, appetite, bay window, bear, bear with, beard, beerbelly, belly, bitter, blind gut, blink at, bowels, brain, brains, breadbasket, brook, canine appetite, cecum, chitterlings, cockscomb, colon, condone, connive at, corporation, countenance, craving, craw, crop, desire, diaphragm, digest, disregard, down, drought, dryness, duodenum, eat, embonpoint, emptiness, empty stomach, endocardium, endure, entrails, first stomach, flavor, foregut, giblets, gizzard, go, gullet, gust, gut, guts, hankering, haslet, have, hear of, heart, hindgut, hollow hunger, honeycomb stomach, hunger, hungriness, ignore, inclination, indulge, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, longing, lung, manyplies, marrow, maw, midgut, midriff, need, omasum, overlook, palate, paunch, perineum, pocket, pocket the affront, polydipsia, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, put up with, pylorus, rectum, relish, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, second stomach, smack, small intestine, sour, spare tire, spleen, stand, stand for, stick, suffer, swagbelly, swallow, swallow an insult, sweet, sweet tooth, sweetbread, take, tang, tapeworm, taste, third stomach, thirst, thirstiness, ticker, tolerance, tolerate, tongue, tooth, torment of Tantalus, tripe, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, turn aside provocation, underbelly, venter, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, wink at, works, yearning

stomachache

• stomachache, ache, aching, angina, backache, bellyache, cephalalgia, colic, collywobbles, distress, earache, fret, gnawing, gripe, gripes, gut-ache, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, megrim, migraine, misery, odontalgia, otalgia, pyrosis, sick headache, splitting headache, throbbing pain, toothache

stomp

• stomp, amble, barge, bowl along, bundle, clop, clump, drag, drub, flounce, foot, footslog, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, jog, jolt, jump, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, rack, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, stagger, stalk, stamp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, tramp, trample, tread, trip, trudge, waddle, wamble, wiggle, wobble

Stone Age man

• Stone Age man, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, man of old, missing link, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, troglodyte

stone cold

• stone cold, Siberian, algid, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, dead as mutton, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, stiff, stone-dead, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

stone faced

• stone faced, decorous, demure, earnest, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, long-faced, sedate, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, straight-faced, thoughtful, unsmiling, weighty

stone wall

• stone wall, arch dam, backstop, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, boundary, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch, earthwork, embankment, fence, gate, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, milldam, moat, mole, mound, parapet, portcullis, rail, railing, rampart, roadblock, rock-fill dam, seawall, shutter dam, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

stone

• stone, Irish confetti, Lydian stone, Tarmac, Tarvia, aa, abyssal rock, acorn, adamant, adamantine, adobe, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, anklet, anthraconite, aplite, aquamarine, arch, armlet, ashlar, asphalt, aventurine, bakestone, bangle, barrow, basalt, basanite, beads, bedrock, beetlestone, behead, berry, beryl, bijou, bird seed, bitumen, bituminous macadam, black sheep, blacktop, blemish, block lava, bloodstone, blow to pieces, blow up, board, bola, bolt, bondstone, bone, boomerang, booze up, boozify, boundary stone, bowstring, bracelet, brain, brash, brass, breastpin, breccia, brick, brickbat, bricks and mortar, brilliant, brimstone, bring down, brooch, brownstone, buhr, buhrstone, burn, burn to death, bust, cairn, cairngorm, capstone, carbuncle, carnelian, cement, cenotaph, chain, chalcedony, chalk, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, circle, citrine, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, column, concrete, conglomerate, copestone, copperplate, coral, cornerstone, coronet, countermissile, covering materials, crag, crock, cromlech, cross, crown, crucify, crystal, cup, curb, curbing, curbstone, cut down, cut to pieces, cyclolith, deal a deathblow, decapitate, decollate, defenestrate, demantoid, dendrite, diabase, diadem, diamond, disintegrate, dolmen, dolomite, doorstone, dripstone, drop, druid stone, duplicate plate, eaglestone, earring, edgestone, egg, electrocute, electrotype, emerald, emery rock, execute, face, fell, ferroconcrete, festooned pahoehoe, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flaxseed, flint, flintlike, flinty, floatstone, flooring, fob, footstone, foreign body, foreign intruder, frag, fruit, fuddle, garnet, garrote, gem, gem stone, girasol, give the quietus, glass, glaze, gneiss, goldstone, grain, granite, granitelike, granitic, grave, gravel, gravestone, grindstone, grit, gritrock, gritstone, guillotine, gun down, hairstone, harlequin opal, hayseed, headstone, heart of oak, heliotrope, hoarstone, hyacinth, igneous rock, impurity, incinerate, inflict capital punishment, inscription, intruder, iron, ironstone, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jewel, jugulate, kerb, kerbstone, kernel, keystone, lapidate, lapis lazuli, lath, lath and plaster, lava, lay low, limestone, linseed, lithic, living rock, locked-up page, locket, lodestone, macadam, magma, mantlerock, marble, marblelike, marker, masonry, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, metamorphic rock, milestone, milkstone, millstone, misfit, missile, monkey wrench, monolith, monument, moonstone, morganite, mortar, mote, mound, nails, necklace, necrology, nose ring, nut, oak, obelisk, obituary, obsidian, oddball, oilstone, onyx, opal, overtake, pahoehoe, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pellet, pelt, peridot, petrified, petrogenic, phonolite, pickle, pillar, pillow lava, pin, pip, pistol, pit, pitchstone, plank, plaque, plasma, plaster, plasters, plastic plate, plate, poleax, pollute, porphyry, precious stone, prestressed concrete, printing plate, printing surface, prize, projectile, pudding stone, pumice, put to death, pyramid, quartz, quartzite, regolith, reliquary, remembrance, rhinestone, ribbon, riddle, ring, road metal, rock, rocket, roofage, roofing, ropy lava, rose quartz, rostral column, rottenstone, rubber plate, rubble, rubblestone, rubstone, ruby, sandstone, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, seed, semiprecious stone, serpentine, shaft, shake, shale, sheathe, shelly pahoehoe, shingle, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, shrine, siding, silence, slabstone, slate, slaty, sliver, snakestone, soapstone, souse, speck, spinel, spinel ruby, splinter, stab to death, stalactite, stalagmite, starstone, steatite, steel, steel plate, stela, stepping-stone, stepstone, stereotype, stew, stickpin, stinkstone, stone to death, strangle, strike dead, stupa, swack, tablet, talus, tarmacadam, testimonial, thatch, throw stick, throwing-stick, tiara, tile, tilestone, tiling, tipsify, tomb, tombstone, topaz, tope, torpedo, torque, touchstone, trap, traprock, trophy, tufa, tuff, turquoise, typeform, vaporize, veneer, waddy, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, wampum, washboard, weatherboard, weed, whetstone, whitestone, wristband, wristlet, zincograph, zincotype

stonecutter

• stonecutter, accountant, amanuensis, archivist, bookkeeper, carver, chaser, clay modeler, clerk, documentalist, earth artist, engraver, figurer, figuriste, filing clerk, gem carver, graver, librarian, marker, mason, modeler, molder, monumental mason, notary, notary public, prothonotary, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, sculptor, sculptress, sculpturer, secretary, statuary, stenographer, timekeeper, wax modeler, wood carver

stonecutting

• stonecutting, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art, embossing, engraving, founding, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, metal sculpture, modeling, molding, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carving, xyloglyphy

stoned

• stoned, asleep, blind, blind drunk, blotto, boozy, canned, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, dead, disguised, doped, drugged, drunk, half-conscious, helpless, high, hopped-up, inebriated, muddled, narcotized, nirvanic, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, overcome, paralyzed, passed out, pixilated, plastered, semiconscious, senseless, spaced out, spaced-out, stiff, strung out, unconscious, under the table, wiped out, zonked, zonked out

stonewall

• stonewall, baffle, balk, blast, brave, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confront, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, dash, deceive, defeat, defy, destroy, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disrupt, elude, evade, flummox, foil, frustrate, get around, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go one better, knock the chocks, nonplus, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pass the buck, perplex, ruin, sabotage, scotch, spike, spoil, stump, thwart, upset, victimize

stoneware

• stoneware, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, dinnerware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, metalware, ovenware, silverware, sporting goods, tableware, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

stoning

• stoning, bane, beheading, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, burning, capital punishment, crucifixion, dealing death, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, electrocution, euthanasia, execution, extermination, flow of blood, fusillade, garrote, gassing, gore, hanging, hemlock, immolation, judicial murder, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, necktie party, poisoning, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, strangling, strangulation, taking of life, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope

stony

• stony, Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bankrupt, beat, beggared, bony, broke, busted, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, coldhearted, concrete, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, dense, destitute, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat broke, flintlike, flinty, fortuneless, frigid, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, icy, impervious, implacable, indifferent, indigent, indurated, inflexible, insensible, insensitive, intractable, inured, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, merciless, monolithic, needy, obdurate, oofless, osseous, pachydermatous, pebbled, pebbly, penniless, pitiless, poor, porphyritic, poverty-stricken, proof against, ragged, resistant, resistive, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, steeled against, steellike, steely, stone-broke, stonelike, strapped, thick-skinned, tough, trachytic, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsentimental, unsympathetic, wrinkled

stooge

• stooge, Charlie McCarthy, Roscius, act, act as foil, actor, actress, adherent, agent, also-ran, ancilla, antagonist, appear, appendage, apple-polisher, appliance, ass-licker, attendant, babe, backscratcher, backslapper, bad guy, barnstorm, barnstormer, boob, booby, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, buff, cavaliere servente, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, chump, cinch, clawback, come out, contrivance, courtier, creature, credulous person, cringer, cull, dangler, defeatee, dependent, device, disciple, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, duck, dummy, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, emote, emotionalize, fall guy, fan, fawner, feeder, feudatory, figurehead, fish, flatterer, flunky, foil, follower, following, fool, footlicker, front, front man, game loser, get top billing, gillie, go-between, gobe-mouches, good loser, good sport, goon, greener, greenhorn, greeny, groveler, gudgeon, gull, handmaid, handmaiden, handshaker, hanger-on, heavy, helot, henchman, histrio, histrion, homager, homme de cour, implement, inferior, ingenue, innocent, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jackal, juvenile, kowtower, lackey, lay figure, leadpipe cinch, led captain, lever, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, loser, man, matinee idol, mealymouth, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, mime, mimer, mimic, minion, monkey, monologist, mummer, myrmidon, nominal head, organ, pantomime, pantomimist, parasite, partisan, patsy, patter, pawn, peon, perform, pigeon, play, play the lead, playact, playactor, player, plaything, prize sap, protean actor, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, pushover, reciter, register, retainer, sap, saphead, satellite, schlemiel, sectary, serf, servant, shadow, sitting duck, sketch, slave, soubrette, spaniel, sport, stage performer, stage player, star, steal the show, straight man, stroller, strolling player, subordinate, successor, suck, sucker, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, the vanquished, theatrical, thespian, thug, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, toy, trainbearer, tread the boards, troupe, trouper, truckler, trusting soul, tufthunter, underdog, underling, understrapper, upstage, utility man, vassal, vehicle, victim, villain, votary, ward heeler, yeoman, yes-man

stool pigeon

• stool pigeon, agent provocateur, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, canary, capper, come-on man, decoy, delator, fink, informer, narc, nark, peacher, plant, shill, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tipster, whistle-blower

stool

• stool, BM, babble, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear witness against, bedpan, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, blab, blabber, bloody flux, blow the whistle, blurt, blurt out, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca, can, canary, catharsis, chamber, chamber pot, chemical closet, chemical toilet, commode, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, crapper, defecate, defecation, dejection, diarrhea, dingleberry, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuate, evacuation, feces, feculence, fink, flux, give away, guano, inform, inform against, inform on, jakes, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, leak, let drop, let fall, let slip, lientery, loose bowels, manure, movement, narc, nark, night soil, number two, ordure, peach, pimp, piss pot, potty, potty-chair, purgation, purge, rat, reveal a secret, runs, sell out, sewage, sewerage, shit, shits, sing, snitch, snitch on, spill, spill the beans, squeak, squeal, squealer, stool pigeon, take a shit, talk, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, testify against, throne, thunder mug, tipster, toilet, trots, turd, turistas, turn informer, urinal, void, voidance, water closet

stoop

• stoop, accommodate, accord, be shamed, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bob, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cannonball, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse, come down, comedown, concede, condescend, cower, crash, crash dive, crawl, creep, cringe, cringe to, crouch, crouch before, curtsy, debacle, declension, declination, defluxion, deign, derogate, descend, descending, descension, descent, dip down, dive, do homage, do obeisance, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, duck, fall, fall down, fall into disrepute, fall off, falling, favor, fawn, flatter, gainer, gallery, genuflect, genuflection, get down, go down, go downhill, gravitate, gravitation, grovel, header, hunch, hunch down, hunker down, inclination, incur discredit, incur disesteem, incur disgrace, jackknife, kneel, kneel to, kneeling, knuckle to, kowtow, lanai, lick the dust, lickspittle, lordosis, lose altitude, lose caste, lose countenance, lose credit, lose face, lower oneself, nod, nose dive, nose-dive, obeisance, oblige, parachute, parachute jump, patio, piazza, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, porch, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour down, power dive, precipitate, prostration, pull out, rain, rapids, relax, reverence, running dive, salaam, scrouch down, scrunch, sink, skin-dive, sky dive, sky-dive, sleeping porch, slouch, slouching, solarium, sound, squat, stationary dive, stooping, sun porch, supination, swan dive, swoop, swoop down, take a header, thaw, toadeat, toady, torticollis, trend downward, truckle, truckle to, unbend, veranda, vouchsafe, wallow, waterfall, welter, wryneck

stooped

• stooped, couchant, crouched, debased, depressed, flat, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, neap, prone, recumbent, runty, short, squat, squatty, stumpy, supine, unelevated

stop light

• stop light, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, spar buoy, stop-and-go light, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

stop

• stop, English horn, abandon, abjure, abort, afterthought, allophone, alveolar, anchorage, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrest, arrestation, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, awe, baffle, ban, bar, barricade, barrier, bassoon, bearing rein, beat off, belay, bell, bilabial, bind, bit, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block flute, block up, blockade, blockage, blocking, bombard, bottleneck, boundary, bourdon, bourn, box, brake, break, break of, break off, break the habit, bring to, bring up, bring up short, bung, bureaucratic delay, cacuminal, caesura, call on, call upon, calm, calm down, cancel, caulk, cease, cease fire, cecum, cello, cerebral, cessation, chain, check, check valve, checkmate, checkrein, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, claribel, clarinet, clarion, clog, clog up, close, close off, close up, closing, closing up, cock, colon, come off, come up short, comma, concert flute, conclude, conclusion, confine, congest, congestion, consonant, constipate, constipation, continuant, cork, corner, cornet, cornopean, costiveness, counter, countercheck, cover, cromorna, cul-de-sac, curb, curb bit, cure, cushion, cut it out, cut off, cut out, cut short, cutoff, cymbel, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, damper, daunt, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, deaden, deadlock, deafen, debarment, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, dental, depot, desist, desist from, desistance, destination, detain, detention, deter, determent, determine, deterrence, diacritical mark, diapason, die down, diphthong, disaccustom, discontinuance, discontinue, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, dissimilation, disuse, doorstop, double take, drag, drag sail, dragging, draw rein, draw up, drift anchor, drift sail, drive back, drogue, drop, drop in, drop it, dulciana, dull, dwindle, dying down, ebb, ebbing, embolism, embolus, end, end stop, endgame, ending, epenthetic vowel, estoppel, explosive, extremity, faucet, faze, fence, fend, fend off, fetch up, fetter, fill, fill up, final whistle, finish, finish up, flute stop, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, forswear, foul, foundation stop, fourniture, freeze, full stop, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, give over, give up, glide, glottal, glottalization, goal, gorge, grinding halt, gun, guttural, halt, hang fire, hang-up, harbor, harmonic flute, have done with, haven, hinder, hindrance, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold off, hold up, holdback, holdup, hole, hybrid stop, impasse, impede, impediment, infarct, infarction, interim, interrupt, jam, jam up, juncture, keep at bay, keep back, keep off, kick, knock it off, koppel flute, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lag, lagging, larigot, laryngeal, last stop, lateral, lay off, lay over, layover, leave off, let go, lid, lingual, liquid, lock, lockout, lodge, logjam, look in, lull, make late, manner of articulation, martingale, melodia, mixture, modification, molder, monophthong, moratorium, morphophoneme, muffle, mutation stop, mute, nasal, nazard, nol-pros, not pursue with, oboe, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, occlusive, octave, organ stop, overawe, pacify, pack, pack in, palatal, paperasserie, parasitic vowel, parry, pause, pay a visit, peak, peg, pelham, period, perorate, peter out, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, piccolo, pin, plein jeu, plosive, plug, plug up, point, port, posaune, preclusion, prevent, prevention, principal, prohibition, prothetic vowel, pull up, punctuation, punctuation marks, push back, put back, put behind one, put paid to, put up, quiesce, quiet, quieten, quint, quintaten, quit, rank, ranket, rebuff, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reed stop, reference, reference mark, refrain, refrain from, register, relinquish, remora, renounce, repel, reprieve, repulse, resign, resolve, respite, rest, restrain, retard, retardance, retardation, retroflex, roadblock, rohr flute, run in, scotch, scrap, scratch, scrub, sea anchor, sea cock, sealing off, see, segmental phoneme, semicolon, semivowel, sesquialtera, shackle, shake, shawm, sit-down strike, slacken, slow, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snaffle, soft-pedal, soften, sojourn, sojournment, sonant, sonority, soothe, speech sound, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spitz flute, spoke, stage, stalemate, stall, stanch, stand, standoff, standstill, station, staunch, stave off, stay, stay of execution, stay over, stayover, stem, stem the tide, stench, stick, stillstand, stop by, stop cold, stop dead, stop off, stop over, stop short, stop up, stop-off, stopgap, stopover, stoppage, stopped diapason, stopped flute, stopper, stopping, stopping place, stopple, strangulation, strike, string diapason, string stop, stuff, stuff up, stymie, subdue, subside, subsidence, suppress, surd, suspension, swear off, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, take a break, take the pledge, tap, tarry, terminal, terminal point, terminate, termination, terminus, throw off, thwart, tie-up, tierce, time lag, tittle, tone down, trammel, tranquilize, transition sound, tremolo, triphthong, trombone, trumpet, turn aside, twelfth, unda maris, valve, velar, vibrato, viola, visit, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, voix celeste, vowel, vox angelica, vox humana, wait, waive, walkout, wall, wane, waning, ward off, wean, wind up, work stoppage

stopgap

• stopgap, action, ad hoc, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, ad-libbing, alternate, alternative, answer, arrangement, artifice, backup, band-aid, bung, check valve, cock, contrivance, cork, counterfeit, countermove, coup, course of action, demarche, dernier ressort, device, dodge, dummy, effort, emergency, equivalent, ersatz, expediency, expedient, extemporaneous, extemporaneousness, extemporariness, extemporary, extempore, extemporization, fake, faucet, gimmick, imitation, impromptu, improvisation, improvisational, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improvision, improviso, jury-rig, jury-rigged, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lid, makeshift, makeshifty, maneuver, means, measure, mock, move, off-the-cuff, offhand, peg, phony, pin, pinch, pis aller, playing by ear, plug, pro tempore, provisional, proxy, recourse, refuge, reserve, resort, resource, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, sea cock, secondary, shake-up, shift, solution, spare, spigot, spike, spile, spill, step, stop, stopper, stopple, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, tactic, tap, temporary, temporary arrangement, temporary expedient, temporary measure, tentative, token, trick, trump, unrehearsed, utility, valve, vicarious, working hypothesis, working proposition

stoppage

• stoppage, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, Z, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, afterthought, akinetic epilepsy, apodosis, apoplexy, arrest, arrestation, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bar, barrier, bell, bind, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, cardiac epilepsy, catastrophe, ceasing, cecum, cessation, check, checkmate, choking, choking off, clog, clonic spasm, clonus, coda, conclusion, congestion, constipation, consummation, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, costiveness, crack of doom, cramp, cul-de-sac, culmination, cursive epilepsy, curtain, curtains, cutoff, dead end, dead stop, deadlock, death, debarment, decease, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, denouement, destination, destiny, detention, determent, deterrence, discouragement, diurnal epilepsy, doom, double take, dragging, eclampsia, effect, embolism, embolus, end, end point, endgame, ending, envoi, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epilogue, eschatology, estoppel, expiration, falling sickness, fate, final solution, final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fit, focal epilepsy, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, frenzy, full stop, goal, gorge, grand mal, grinding halt, gun, halt, hang-up, haute mal, hindrance, holdup, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interim, izzard, jam, lag, lagging, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latent epilepsy, latter end, lockjaw, lockout, logjam, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, moratorium, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, obviation, occlusion, omega, paperasserie, paroxysm, pause, payoff, period, peroration, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, quietus, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reflex epilepsy, reprieve, resolution, respite, resting place, retardance, retardation, rotatoria, sealing off, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sit-down strike, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, spasm, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stay of execution, stop, stopping, stopping place, strangulation, strike, stroke, suspension, swan song, tardy epilepsy, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tie-up, time lag, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, visitation, wait, walkout, windup, work stoppage

stopped

• stopped, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrested, articulated, assimilated, back, backward, barytone, behindhand, belated, bilabial, blocked, bound, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close, congested, consonant, consonantal, constipated, continuant, costive, delayed, delayed-action, dental, detained, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, foul, fouled, front, full, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, held up, high, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, infarcted, intonated, jammed, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, late, lateral, latish, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, moratory, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, never on time, obstipated, obstructed, occlusive, open, overdue, oxytone, packed, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plugged, plugged up, posttonic, retarded, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, slow, soft, sonant, stopped up, stressed, strong, stuffed, stuffed up, surd, syllabic, tardy, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unpunctual, unready, unrounded, unstressed, untimely, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

stopper

• stopper, KO, bar, bind, block, block up, blockade, bonnet, bung, cap, caulk, ceil, check valve, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, clincher, clog, clog up, close, cock, coif, congest, constipate, cork, cover, crown, crusher, dam, dam up, death stroke, deathblow, dome, end-all, ender, faucet, fill, fill up, final stroke, finisher, finishing stroke, foul, hat, hood, jam, kayo, kayo punch, knockout, knockout blow, last dab, lid, obstipate, obstruct, occlude, operculum, pack, peg, pin, plug, plug up, quietus, roof, roof in, sea cock, settler, sockdolager, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stanch, stay, stench, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopple, stuff, stuff up, tap, tip, top, valve

stopping place

• stopping place, Z, anchorage, apodosis, bourn, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, harbor, haven, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, payoff, period, peroration, port, quietus, resolution, resting place, stop, stoppage, swan song, term, terminal, terminal point, termination, terminus, windup

stopple

• stopple, bar, bind, block, block up, blockade, bung, caulk, check valve, chink, choke, choke off, choke up, clog, clog up, cock, congest, constipate, cork, cover, dam, dam up, faucet, fill, fill up, foul, jam, lid, obstipate, obstruct, pack, peg, pin, plug, plug up, sea cock, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stanch, stay, stench, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopper, stuff, stuff up, tap, valve

storage

• storage, RAM, admission, admission fee, allocation, anchorage, archives, armory, arsenal, assignment, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, brokerage, bunker, buttery, carfare, cargo dock, cellar, cellarage, charge, charges, chest, closet, cold storage, collocation, conservation, conservatory, cover charge, crate, crib, cupboard, custody, dead storage, demand, deployment, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, disk memory, disposition, dock, dockage, drawer, drum memory, dry storage, dues, dump, emplacement, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exchequer, fare, fee, glory hole, godown, guardianship, high-speed memory, hire, hold, hutch, lading, library, license fee, loading, localization, locating, location, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, memory, memory tubes, packing, pilotage, pinpointing, placement, placing, portage, positioning, posting, preservation, putting, rack, repertory, reposition, repository, reservoir, rick, safekeeping, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shelf, shelf-room, shot, situation, spotting, stack, stack room, stationing, stock room, storage space, storage system, storage unit, store, storehouse, storeroom, stowage, supply base, supply depot, tank, tape memory, toll, towage, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, warehousing, wharfage, wine cellar

store

• store, Indian reservation, acceptation, acception, accommodate, accumulate, accumulation, acquiescence, afford, aggregate, amass, archives, armory, arsenal, assemble, assurance, assuredness, attic, backlog, bag, bank, bank on, barrel, basement, bay, belief, believe in, bestow, bin, bird sanctuary, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bosom, bottle, bottle up, bought, boughten, boutique, box, bundle away, bunker, burden, bury, buttery, cache, can, canned foods, capital gains, cargo dock, cellar, certainty, chain store, chest, cleanup, clear profit, closet, clothe, co-op, coffer, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, concession, confidence, conservatory, contribute, cooperative, count on, countinghouse, country store, crate, credence, credit, credulity, crib, cumulate, cupboard, dehydrated foods, delay, department store, depend on, dependence, deposit, depository, depot, dime store, discount house, discount store, dividends, dock, donate, drawer, dump, earnings, embosom, emporium, endow, establishment, exchequer, faith, file, file and forget, fill, fill up, filthy lucre, find, five-and-ten, food supply, forest preserve, freight, fresh foods, frozen foods, fund, furnish, gain, gains, game reserve, general store, get, gettings, give, gleanings, glory hole, godown, groceries, grocery, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide away, hoard, hold, hope, house, hutch, income, interest, inventory, invest, keep, keep hidden, keep secret, killing, lade, larder, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay down, lay in, lay in store, library, load, lock up, locker, lodge, lucre, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mail-order house, maintain, make available, make provision for, makings, market, mart, mass, material resources, materials, materiel, museum, national forest, national park, neat profit, nest, net, net profit, outlet, pack, pack away, paper profits, paradise, park, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pigeonhole, pile, pile up, plant, pocket, post, postpone, prepare, present, preserve, proceeds, process, procure materials, profit, profits, provender, provide, provide for, provisions, push aside, put aside, put away, put by, put in mothballs, rack, rake-off, raw material, ready-made, ready-to-wear, receipts, reception, recruit, reliance, reliance on, rely on, repertory, replenish, reposit, repository, reservation, reserve, reservoir, retail store, retailer, return, returns, rick, sack, salon, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, seal up, secrete, set aside, set by, shelf, shelve, ship, shop, sideline, stack, stack room, staple, stash, state forest, stock, stock room, stock up, stockpile, storage, store away, store-bought, storehouse, storeroom, stores, stow, stow away, stow down, stuff, subsidize, substances, supermarket, supplies, supply, supply base, supply depot, support, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, table, table the motion, take, take-in, tank, trading post, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trust, trust in, utilize, value, variety shop, variety store, vat, vault, warehouse, wareroom, wealth, wholesale house, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, wine cellar, winnings, yield

stored

• stored, accumulated, amassed, backlogged, collected, extra, fresh, garnered, gathered, held back, held in reserve, held out, hoarded, in abeyance, in hand, laid up, mint, new, original, pristine, put aside, put by, reserve, saved, spare, stockpiled, suspended, to spare, treasured, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived

storehouse

• storehouse, Fort Knox, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, bursary, buttery, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, cellar, chest, closet, coffer, coin box, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depositary, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, fisc, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, money chest, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, till, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

storekeeper

• storekeeper, caterer, chandler, commissariat, commissary, dealer, distributor, donor, furnisher, importer, jobber, manciple, marketer, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, patron, provider, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, steward, stock clerk, supplier, sutler, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, victualer, vivandier, wholesaler

storeroom

• storeroom, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, attic room, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, cockloft, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, garret, glory hole, godown, hayloft, hold, hutch, junk room, kitchen, library, locker, loft, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, sky parlor, smoking room, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

stork

• stork, accouchement, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the stork, travail

storm cellar

• storm cellar, abri, air-raid shelter, basement, bomb shelter, bombproof, bunker, cave, cellar, cellarage, coal bin, concealment, cover, covert, coverture, cyclone cellar, dugout, earth, fallout shelter, foxhole, funk hole, hold, hole, potato cellar, safety zone, shelter, storm cave, subbasement, trench, wine cellar

storm clouds

• storm clouds, Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, angry clouds, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, black cat, black clouds, breakers ahead, broken mirror, cap cloud, cardhouse, cause for alarm, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, cottony cloud, crisis, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, danger, dangerous ground, emergency, endangerment, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, halcyon bird, hazard, high fog, house of cards, imperilment, jeopardy, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, menace, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, owl, pass, peril, pinch, plight, predicament, quicksand, rain cloud, rainbow, raven, risk, rocks ahead, scud, shooting star, snail cloud, squall cloud, storm cloud, stormy petrel, strait, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, thin ice, threat, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier, woolpack

storm troops

• storm troops, Gurkhas, SS, Special Forces, Waffen-SS, armed force, armed service, army, array, career soldiers, elite corps, elite troops, fighting machine, forces, ground forces, ground troops, guardsmen, host, legions, marines, military establishment, occupation force, paratroops, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, shock troops, ski troops, soldiery, special troops, standing army, the line, the military, troops

storm

• storm, access, agitation, assail, assault, attack, ball the jack, barbarize, barrage, barrel, batter, be angry, be excitable, be livid, be pissed, bellow, beset, besiege, black squall, blast, blaze, blaze of temper, blitz, blitzkrieg, blizzard, blow, blow a gasket, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, blowup, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, board, boil, bombard, boom, bounce, bowl along, brag, breeze, breeze along, breeze up, brew, broadside, browned off, brush, brutalize, bully, burn, burst, bustle, butcher, cannonade, carry on, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, clamor, clatter, clip, cloudburst, come apart, come up, commotion, convulsion, cut along, cyclone, deluge, destroy, dirty weather, disorder, disturbance, downpour, drumfire, equinoctial, eruption, escalade, excite easily, explode, explosion, fall, fire up, fire upon, fit, flame up, flare up, flare-up, flash up, fleet, flip, flit, fly, fly low, foot, foray, foul weather, freshen, fret, fume, fusillade, gale, gasconade, gather, get excited, go fast, go into hysterics, go on, gust, hail, half a gale, hammer, harmattan, hassle, have a conniption, have a tantrum, heavy blow, hector, high words, highball, hit the ceiling, howl, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, hurricane, ill wind, inroad, intimidate, inundate, invade, irruption, khamsin, lay siege to, lay waste, line squall, line storm, loot, make a raid, make an inroad, make knots, maul, mistral, monsoon, mug, nip, out-herod Herod, outbreak, outburst, outcry, outpouring, outstrip the wind, overwhelm, paroxysm, pillage, pipe up, pissed off, pother, pour it on, puff, rage, raid, rain, rainstorm, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramp, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rape, rave, riot, rip, roar, roister, rollick, rough weather, ruction, ruin, rumpus, run a temperature, sack, salvo, samiel, sandstorm, savage, scale, scale the walls, scene, scorch, seethe, seizure, set in, shell, shower, siege, simmer, simoom, sirocco, sizzle, skim, slang, slaughter, sleet, smoke, smolder, snow, snowstorm, sow chaos, spasm, speed, splutter, sputter, squall, squall line, stew, stir, storm along, storm wind, storming, stormy weather, stormy winds, strife, strike, strong wind, swagger, swashbuckle, sweep, take by storm, take fire, take on, taking by storm, tear, tear along, tear around, tempest, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, terrorize, thick squall, throw a fit, thunder, thunder along, thundersquall, thunderstorm, to-do, tornado, tropical cyclone, turbulence, turmoil, turn a hair, typhoon, ugly wind, upheaval, vandalize, vapor, violate, violent blow, volley, waft, whiff, whiffle, whirlwind, whisk, white squall, whiz, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm, wreck, zing, zip, zoom

storming

• storming, abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying, carried away, chaotic, cloudy, cyclonic, delirious, demoniac, dirty, distracted, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard, hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, intoxicated, mad, madding, maniac, mindless, noisy, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, pandemoniac, possessed, rabid, raging, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, running mad, savage, storm, stormy, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, taking by storm, tempestuous, tornadic, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

stormy petrel

• stormy petrel, ancestor, angry clouds, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde, avifauna, baby bird, bellwether, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, black cat, black clouds, broken mirror, buccinator, bushwhacker, cage bird, chick, cygnet, danger sign, diving bird, dove, eagle, eaglet, early symptom, explorer, falling barometer, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, fowl, front runner, frontiersman, fruit-eating bird, fugleman, fulmar, game bird, gathering clouds, groundbreaker, guide, halcyon bird, harbinger, herald, high sign, innovator, insect-eating bird, lead runner, leader, messenger, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, omen, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, pathfinder, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, rainbow, ratite, raven, red flag, red light, scout, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shooting star, shore bird, skull and crossbones, songbird, squab, storm clouds, storm petrel, swan, symptom, thundercloud, thunderhead, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, wading bird, warbler, warning sign, warning signal, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl, yellow flag, yellow jack

stormy weather

• stormy weather, bad times, bust, calm weather, cat-and-dog weather, climate, clime, cold weather, cyclone, depression, dirty weather, economic stagnation, evil day, fair weather, forces of nature, foul weather, good weather, halcyon days, hard times, heavy weather, hot weather, hurricane, line squall, macroclimate, microclimate, monsoon, predominance of Aquarius, raininess, rains, rainstorm, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, recession, rough weather, sad times, slump, snowstorm, spell of rain, spring rains, squall, storm, tempest, tempestuous rage, the elements, thunderstorm, tornado, typhoon, weather, wet, wet season, wet weather, windiness, windstorm

stormy

• stormy, Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, anarchic, angry, bad, blustering, blusterous, blustery, castellatus, chaotic, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, cyclonic, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty, dusty, feverish, fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, funereal, furious, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, heavy, hellish, hotheaded, howling, ill-lighted, ill-lit, impetuous, inclement, infuriate, insensate, lenticularis, lowering, mad, mammatus, mindless, murky, nasty, nebulous, nerve-racking, nimbose, nubilous, orgasmic, orgastic, overcast, overclouded, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roaring, rough, simmering, somber, sombrous, squally, storming, stratiform, stratous, tempestuous, threatening, thunderheaded, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild

story

• story, Clio, Muse of history, account, action, adventures, alibi, allegation, allegory, anagnorisis, anecdotage, anecdote, angle, annals, architectonics, architecture, argument, article, assertion, atmosphere, autobiography, back-fence gossip, background, band, beat, bed, bedding, belly laugh, belt, biographical sketch, biography, blague, blue story, book, budget of news, case history, catastrophe, characterization, chitchat, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, clerestory, cock-and-bull story, color, complication, confabulation, confessions, contention, continuity, contrivance, copy, couche, course, curriculum vitae, deck, denouement, description, design, detective story, development, device, diary, dirty joke, dirty story, dispatch, double entendre, entresol, epic, episode, epos, ethnic joke, exaggeration, exclusive, excuse, experiences, fable, fabliau, fabrication, facts, fairy, fairy tale, falling action, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, feature, fib, fiction, first floor, fish story, flam, flat, flimflam, floor, folktale, fortunes, fun, funny story, gag, gallery, gest, ghost story, gimmick, good one, good story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, ground floor, groundless rumor, hagiography, hagiology, half-truth, historiography, history, howler, idle talk, incident, information, item, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, journal, laugh, layer, ledge, legal fiction, legend, level, lie, life, life and letters, life story, line, little white lie, local color, martyrology, measures, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, mendacity, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mood, motif, movement, mystery, myth, mythos, narration, narrative, necrology, news, news item, newsmongering, obituary, overlayer, overstory, panic, parable, peripeteia, photobiography, piece, piece of gossip, pious fiction, plan, play, plot, point, prevarication, profile, recital, recognition, record, recounting, release, report, representation, resume, rez-de-chaussee, rib tickler, riot, rising action, romance, saga, scenario, scheme, scoop, scream, seam, secondary plot, shelf, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, slant, slight stretching, sport, spot news, stage, statement, step, stratum, street floor, structure, subject, subplot, substratum, summary, superstratum, switch, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tattle, testimony, thematic development, theme, theory of history, thickness, thriller, tidings, tier, tittle-tattle, tone, topic, topsoil, trumped-up story, twist, underlayer, understory, understratum, untruth, version, visual joke, wheeze, white lie, whodunit, wow, yarn, zone

storybook

• storybook, airy, autistic, best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, definitive work, dereistic, folio, great work, hardback, idealistic, impractical, in the clouds, juvenile, juvenile book, limp-cover book, magnum opus, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, otherworldly, paperback, picture book, playbook, pocket book, poetic, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, serial, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, starry-eyed, title, tome, trade book, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary, volume, wish-fulfilling, work, writing

storyteller

• storyteller, Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, advertising writer, anecdotist, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, consummate liar, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, dirty liar, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, equivocator, essayist, fableist, fabler, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, fictionist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, habitual liar, humorist, inditer, liar, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, music critic, mythmaker, mythomaniac, mythopoet, narrator, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, palterer, pamphleteer, pathological liar, penwoman, perjurer, poet, prevaricator, prose writer, pseudologist, pseudologue, raconteur, reciter, recounter, relator, reviewer, romancer, romancist, sagaman, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, spinner of yarns, storier, taleteller, technical writer, teller of tales, word painter, wordsmith, writer, yarn spinner, yarner

stout

• stout, adamantine, adipose, athletic, beefy, big, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bold, bold-spirited, bosomy, bouncing, brave, brawny, bulky, burly, buxom, chivalric, chivalrous, chubby, chunky, corpulent, courageous, dauntless, dense, distended, doughty, dumpy, durable, enduring, fat, fattish, fearless, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fleshy, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, gallant, greathearted, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, healthy, hearty, heavy, heavyset, hefty, heroic, herolike, hippy, hulking, husky, imposing, indomitable, infrangible, intrepid, invincible, iron-hard, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, lasting, lionhearted, lusty, made of iron, manful, manly, massive, meaty, mighty, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paunchy, plenitudinous, plucky, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent, powerful, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, red-blooded, resolute, rigid, robust, robustious, robustuous, roly-poly, rotund, rude, rugged, soldierlike, soldierly, solid, sound, square, squat, squatty, stable, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stocky, stouthearted, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, substantial, swollen, tenacious, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tough, tubby, unbreakable, undaunted, unyielding, valiant, valorous, vigorous, vital, weighty, well-built, well-constructed, well-fed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made

stouthearted

• stouthearted, bestow, bold, bold-spirited, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, doughty, gallant, greathearted, hardy, heroic, herolike, intrepid, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, lionhearted, manful, manly, pack, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, store, stout, valiant, valorous, warehouse

stove

• stove, Seger cone, acid kiln, blast furnace, boiler, bottle-gas stove, brickkiln, burner, butane stove, calefactor, caliduct, cement kiln, coal furnace, coal stove, cook stove, cooker, cookery, element, enamel kiln, furnace, gas jet, gas stove, heater, heating duct, jet, kiln, kitchener, limekiln, muffle kiln, oven, pilot light, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, range, reverberatory, reverberatory kiln, salamander, salamander stove, smelter, steam pipe, tewel, tuyere, warmer

stow away

• stow away, bank, bosom, bottle up, bundle away, bury, cache, coffer, deposit, embosom, file, file and forget, hide away, hutch, keep hidden, keep secret, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lock up, lodge, pack away, plant, put away, reposit, reservoir, salt away, salt down, seal up, secrete, stash, store, store away, stow, stow down, warehouse

stow

• stow, bag, bank, barrel, bottle, box, bundle, bundle away, burden, cache, can, coffer, conceal, cram, crate, delay, deposit, file, fill, freight, heap, heap up, hide, hutch, jam, lade, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay down, lay in, lay in store, load, lodge, mass, pack, pack away, pigeonhole, pile, place, pocket, postpone, push aside, put aside, put away, put in mothballs, reposit, reservoir, sack, salt away, salt down, secrete, set aside, set by, shelve, ship, sideline, stack, stash, store, store away, stow away, stow down, stuff, table, table the motion, warehouse, wedge

stowage

• stowage, accommodation, allocation, assignment, burden, capacity, cold storage, collocation, conservation, content, cordage, custody, dead storage, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, dry storage, emplacement, guardianship, lading, limit, loading, localization, locating, location, measure, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, poundage, preservation, putting, quantity, reposition, room, safekeeping, shelf-room, situation, space, spotting, stationing, storage, storage space, tonnage, volume, warehousing

straddle

• straddle, abstain, abut on, across, amble, astraddle, astride, barge, be based on, bear on, bestraddle, bestride, bowl along, bundle, bypass, call, carry, clump, cop out, cover, cross, drag, duck the issue, encompass, environ, evade, evade the issue, extend, flounce, foot, footslog, ford, get ahead of, go, go across, go by, go out, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hold, hop, horseback, jog, jolt, jump, lean on, lie, lie on, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, on, on horseback, option, overstride, pace, paddle, pass, pass by, pass over, peg, perch, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, put, put and call, rack, ramble, range, reach, reach out, rely on, repose on, rest on, ride, right, roll, run, sashay, saunter, scramble, scuff, scuffle, shoot ahead of, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, sit it out, sit on, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, span, sprangle, spread, spread-eagle, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand neuter, stand on, step over, stock option, stomp, straddle-legged, straddleback, straggle, strap, stretch, stretch out, stride, strip, stroll, strut, stump, surround, swagger, sweep, swing, take in, thrust out, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trim, trip, trudge, waddle, wamble, wiggle, wobble

Stradivarius

• Stradivarius, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad, Stradivari, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, cello, contrabass, crowd, double bass, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, scroll, soundboard, string, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta

strafe

• strafe, aim at, air raid, barrage, blast, blitz, blitzkrieg, bombard, bombardment, cannon, cannonade, commence firing, enfilade, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, fusillade, lightning attack, lightning war, mortar, open fire, open up on, pepper, pop at, rake, shell, shoot, shoot at, snipe, snipe at, strafing, take aim at, torpedo, zero in on

straggle

• straggle, amble, barge, bat around, be lengthy, be prolonged, belong, bowl along, bum, bundle, clump, count ties, crane, dawdle, divagate, drag, drift, err, excurse, extend, extend out, fall behind, flit, flounce, foot, footslog, gad, gad about, gallivant, get behind, go about, go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, halt, hang back, hippety-hop, hit the road, hit the trail, hitch, hobble, hobo, hop, jaunt, jog, jolt, jump, knock about, knock around, lag, limp, linger, linger behind, loiter, lumber, lunge, lurch, maunder, meander, mince, mooch, mosey, nomadize, outreach, outstretch, pace, paddle, peg, peregrinate, pererrate, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, prowl, rack, ramble, range, reach out, roam, roll, rove, run about, sashay, saunter, scramble, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, snake, sprangle, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand on tiptoes, stomp, straddle, stray, stretch, stretch out, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, totter, trail, trail behind, traipse, tramp, trip, trudge, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondize, waddle, walk the tracks, wamble, wander, wayfare, wiggle, wind, wobble

straggling

• straggling, aimless, amorphous, broadcast, capricious, casual, circumforaneous, desultory, diffuse, disarticulated, discontinuous, discrete, discursive, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, dispread, disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, divagatory, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drifting, elongated, errant, erratic, extended, fitful, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, formless, frivolous, fugitive, gadding, gratuitous, gypsy-like, gypsyish, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, irregular, landloping, lengthened, meandering, meaningless, migrational, migratory, misshapen, nomad, nomadic, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, prolongated, prolonged, promiscuous, protracted, pulled, rambling, random, ranging, roaming, roving, scattered, senseless, shapeless, shifting, sparse, spasmodic, sporadic, spread, spun out, straggly, strained, straying, stretched, stretched out, strewn, strolling, strown, strung out, systemless, taut, tense, tight, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vagabond, vagrant, vague, wandering, widespread

straight face

• straight face, anesthesia, autism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, decorousness, demureness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, earnestness, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, expressionlessness, formality, frigidity, frostiness, gravity, grimness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, inexcitability, inexpressiveness, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, long face, objectivity, obtuseness, passionlessness, poker face, sedateness, self-absorption, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, somberness, soullessness, spiritlessness, staidness, thoughtfulness, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpressiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, weightiness, withdrawal

straight faced

• straight faced, decorous, demure, earnest, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, long-faced, sedate, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stone-faced, thoughtful, unsmiling, weighty

straight man

• straight man, Roscius, actor, actress, antagonist, bad guy, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, feeder, foil, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, playactor, player, protean actor, reciter, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

straight out

• straight out, absolute, admitting no exception, all-out, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, categorical, clear, complete, conclusive, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, direct, downright, entire, explicit, express, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, global, gross, heart-to-heart, implicit, inappealable, indisputable, ingenuous, open, openhearted, out-and-out, outright, outspoken, peremptory, perfect, plain, plain-spoken, positive, rank, round, sincere, straight, straightforward, thoroughgoing, total, transparent, unchecked, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconstrained, undoubting, unequivocal, unguarded, unhampered, unhesitating, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, whole, without exception, without reserve

straight shooting

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

straight

• straight, OK, aboveboard, absolute, absolutely, accordant, accurate, accurately, ace, admitting no exception, agreed, air line, all right, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, amorous, anal, angelic, arranged, arrowlike, articulated, artless, at once, authentic, away, axis, bare, beeline, best bower, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born, bourgeois, bower, broad, broad-based, brusque, button-down, candid, candidly, cards, carnal, categorical, catenated, ceaseless, chord, clarified, clean, clear, clubs, complete, composed, comprehensive, compulsive, concatenated, concentrated, conclusive, concordant, conformist, congenital, connected, constant, consummate, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, conventional, correct, correctly, corresponding, cyclical, dead, dead ahead, dead right, dead straight, decent, decided, decisive, deck, deep-dyed, definite, definitely, definitive, dependable, determinate, deuce, diagonal, diameter, diamonds, direct, direct line, directly, directrix, distilled, down the alley, downright, due, due north, dummy, dyed-in-the-wool, edge, egregious, emotionless, endless, entire, equitable, erect, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, even, exactly, exhaustive, explicit, explicitly, express, expressly, face cards, fair, fair and square, faithfully, faithworthy, faultless, faultlessly, featureless, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, flawless, flawlessly, fleshly, flush, formalistic, forthright, forthwith, foursquare, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, full, full house, gamic, gapless, genuine, global, godly, good, good-faith, great-circle course, hand, harmonious, heart-to-heart, hearts, heterosexual, honest, honestly, honorable, horizontal, immediate, immediately, impassive, implicit, in a beeline, in a line, in accord, in all respects, in every respect, in keeping, in line, in line with, in order, in step, inappealable, incessant, incorruptible, indisputable, ingenuous, instanter, instantly, intensive, interminable, inviolable, ipsissimis verbis, irreversible, jack, joined, jointless, joker, just, just right, just so, kerplunk, king, knave, kosher, left bower, legitimate, letter-perfect, level, libidinal, lineal, linear, linked, literally, literatim, meticulous, monotonous, moral, naked, neat, never-ending, no-nonsense, nonstop, normal, now, nuptial, okay, omnibus, omnipresent, on the beam, on the level, on the square, on the straight, on the up-and-up, one-way, open, open and aboveboard, openhearted, orderly, organized, orthodox, out-and-out, outright, outspoken, oversexed, pack, pair, pedantic, peremptory, perennial, perfect, perfectly, periodic, perpendicular, pervasive, picture cards, plain, plain dealing, plain-spoken, plainly, plastic, playing cards, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, positive, positively, potent, precisely, precisianistic, procreative, promptly, proper, properly, proven, pure, purified, queen, radical, radius, radius vector, rectified, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, regular, reliable, repetitive, respectable, responsible, right, right away, right line, right off, right-minded, righteous, rightly, rigidly, rigorously, round, round-the-clock, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruler-straight, running, saintlike, saintly, seamless, secant, sedate, segment, sensual, seraphic, serious, serried, settled, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, sheer, shipshape, shortcut, sic, side, simple, simply, sincere, single-hearted, singleton, smack, smack-dab, smooth, so, sober, spades, spang, spruce, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, squarely, stable, staid, steady, straight across, straight ahead, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straight up, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-shooting, straight-side, straight-up-and-down, straightaway, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, streamline, streamlined, strictly, strong, stuffy, summarily, sure, sweeping, taciturn, tangent, tested, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, through-and-through, tidy, to be trusted, to the letter, total, traditionalist, transparent, transversal, trey, trick, tried, tried and true, true, trump, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered, unambiguous, unambiguously, unbending, unbent, unblended, unbowed, unbroken, unceasing, unchecked, uncircumscribed, uncombined, uncompounded, unconditional, unconstrained, uncorrupted, uncurved, uncut, undeflected, undersexed, undeviating, undeviatingly, undifferentiated, undiluted, undistorted, undoubting, unembellished, unemotional, unending, unequivocal, unequivocally, unerringly, unfalse, unfortified, unguarded, unhampered, unhesitating, unidirectional, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unleavened, unlimited, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unmodified, unperfidious, unqualified, unquestioning, unrelieved, unremitting, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsmiling, unsophisticated, unstopped, unswerving, unswervingly, untinged, untreacherous, unturned, unveeringly, unwaivable, up-and-up, upright, upstanding, uptight, utter, vector, venereal, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, veritable, vertical, virtuous, voluptuous, whole, wholesale, without delay, without exception, without reserve, word by word, word for word

straightaway

• straightaway, PDQ, air line, all at once, all together, apace, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, away, axis, beeline, chord, decisively, diagonal, diameter, direct, direct line, directly, directrix, edge, expeditiously, first, forthwith, great-circle course, immediate, immediately, in a hurry, in no time, instanter, instantly, irreversible, normal, now, on the instant, on the spot, one-way, per saltum, perpendicular, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, radius, radius vector, right away, right line, right now, right off, secant, segment, shortcut, side, simultaneously, smartly, speedily, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightforward, straightway, streamline, subito, summarily, swiftly, tangent, then and there, this minute, this very minute, transversal, unbroken, undeviating, unidirectional, uninterrupted, uno saltu, unswerving, vector, with all speed, without delay, without further delay

straighten out

• straighten out, accommodate, acculturate, adjust, admonish, advance, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, boost, bring forward, bring to book, bring to terms, call to account, chastise, chide, civilize, close, close with, compose, conclude, correct, disentangle, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, extend, fatten, favor, fix, flatten, forward, foster, go straight, have words with, improve, improve upon, lard, lecture, lift, make an improvement, make peace, make up, meliorate, mend, nurture, objurgate, promote, put straight, raise, rate, rebuke, rectify, refine upon, reform, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, settle, settle with, sit up, smooth, socialize, spank, stand up, straighten, straighten up, take down, take to task, transfigure, transform, unbend, uncurl, unkink, unsnarl, upbraid, upgrade, uplift, work out

straighten

• straighten, adjust, arrange, clean up, clear up, correct, disentangle, neaten, organize, put in order, rearrange, rectify, reform, rehabilitate, reorganize, resolve, settle, sort out, spruce up, straighten out, tidy up, uncurl, unkink, unravel, unsnarl, untangle

straightforward

• straightforward, Attic, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, aboveboard, apparent, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barefaced, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, casual, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, common, commonplace, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead, dead ahead, defined, definite, direct, directly, distinct, downright, dry, due, due north, dull, easy, easy as pie, effortless, elegant, evident, explicit, express, facile, finished, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, glib, graceful, gracile, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest, honorable, immediate, in a beeline, in line with, inartificial, incomplex, ingenuous, irreversible, just, lean, light, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter-of-fact, native, natural, neat, nothing to it, one-way, open, openhearted, outspoken, painless, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain dealing, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polished, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, refined, restrained, right, round, rustic, severe, simple, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, sincere, smooth, sober, soft, spare, stark, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-out, straightaway, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, tasteful, terse, through, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unadorned, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial, unassuming, unbroken, unburdensome, unchecked, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconfused, unconstrained, undeviating, undeviatingly, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unequivocal, unfeigning, unguarded, unidirectional, unimaginative, uninterrupted, uninvolved, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unreserved, unrestrained, unswerving, unswervingly, unvarnished, unveeringly, upright, upstanding, well-defined

straightjacket

• straightjacket, Oregon boat, bilbo, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chains, collar, cuffs, fetter, gag, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, hobbles, hopples, irons, leading strings, leash, manacle, muzzle, pillory, reins, restraint, restraints, shackle, stocks, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, tether, trammel, trammels, yoke

straightlaced

• straightlaced, dour, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding

strain

• strain, Spenserian stanza, abrade, affectation, affiliation, agitation, aim, air, all-overs, anacrusis, ancestry, angst, animal kingdom, animus, antistrophe, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apparentation, apprehension, apprehensiveness, aptitude, aria, back down, balance, balk, bark, bass passage, be determined, belie, bent, bias, bid for, birth, bleed, blemish, blench, bloat, bloating, blood, bloodline, bloody, boggle, bolt, book, bourdon, bracket, brain fag, branch, brand, break, breaking point, breed, bridge, brood, burden, burn, cadence, camouflage, cankerworm of care, canto, cantus, care, cast, caste, category, chafe, character, check, chill, chilliness, chip, chorus, clan, clarify, class, claw, clear, coda, coldness, color, command of language, common ancestry, community, complexion, concern, concernment, consanguinity, constitution, contend for, continue, coolness, couplet, crack, crane, craze, culture, cut, damage, debate, debilitation, debility, decrassify, deliberate, demand, deme, demur, denomination, depurate, derivation, descant, descendants, descent, description, designation, determination, development, diathesis, direct line, disaffinity, discharge, disguise, disposition, disquiet, disquietude, distaff side, distension, distich, distill, distort, distress, disturbance, division, draft, drag, drag out, drain, draw, draw off, draw out, dread, dress up, drift, drive, eccentricity, edulcorate, effort, effuse, elongate, elongation, elute, embellish, embroider, emit, endeavor, enervation, enfeeblement, enmity, envoi, epode, essentialize, estate, ethnic group, evidence, exaggeration, exceed, excrete, exertion, exfiltrate, exposition, expression of ideas, extend, extension, extract, extraction, extravasate, extreme tension, exudate, exude, eyestrain, faintness, falsify, falter, family, fashion, fatigue, fear, feather, feeling for words, female line, fight shy of, figure, filiation, filter, filtrate, flinch, folderol, folk, force, foreboding, forebodingness, form, form of speech, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, frost, fudge, gag, gall, garble, gash, genre, gens, genus, gild, give off, gloss, gloss over, goneness, grace of expression, grade, grain, grandiloquence, group, grouping, hang back, hang off, harass, harm, harmonic close, haul, have qualms, head, heading, heart strain, heave, hem and haw, heptastich, heritage, hesitate, hexastich, hint, hold off, house, hover, hum and haw, humor, hurt, iciness, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impair, impression, incise, inclination, incompatibility, incompatibleness, indication, individualism, inflate, inflation, inhospitality, inimicality, injure, injury, inquietude, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, irk, jadedness, jib, kidney, kin, kind, label, labor, lacerate, languor, lassitude, lay, leach, leaning, lengthen, lengthen out, lengthening, let out, level, line, line of descent, lineage, literary style, lixiviate, lot, lug, maim, make, make an effort, make bones about, make mincemeat of, makeup, malaise, male line, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mark, mask, matriclan, maul, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, mental fatigue, mental set, mental strain, mettle, mind, mind-set, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misgiving, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misuse, mode, mode of expression, moil, mold, monostich, mood, movement, music, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutilate, nation, nationality, nature, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, note, number, obligation, octastich, octave, octet, ooze, order, ornament, ottava rima, overanxiety, overburden, overcarrying, overdevelop, overdistend, overdistension, overdoing, overdraw, overdrawing, overemphasis, overexercise, overexert, overexertion, overexpand, overexpansion, overexpenditure, overextend, overextension, overimportance, overreaching, overreaction, overstate, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretch, overstretching, overtax, overtaxing, overtiredness, overuse, overwork, pain, parentage, part, passage, patriclan, pause, peculiarity, pedigree, pentastich, people, percolate, period, personal conflict, personal style, persuasion, perturbation, pervert, phrase, phratry, phylum, pierce, pigeonhole, pins and needles, plant kingdom, ponder, position, predicament, predilection, predisposition, preference, press, pressure, proclivity, produce, production, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, propensity, protract, protraction, pucker, pull, pull back, pull for, puncture, purify, push, quail, quality, quatrain, race, rack, rank, rating, recoil, rectify, reek, refine, refrain, rend, resolution, resolve, response, retreat, rhetoric, rhyme royal, rip, ritornello, roots, rubric, run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screen, scruple, scuff, section, seed, seek, seep, sense of language, separate, sept, septet, sestet, set, sew, sextet, shape, shilly-shally, shrink, shy, shy at, side, sieve, sift, sign, skin, slant, slash, sleepiness, slit, snapping point, society, solicitude, solo, solo part, song, soprano part, sort, sound, soupcon, spear side, species, speech community, spin out, spindle side, spirit, spiritualize, sprain, stab, stamp, stance fatigue, stanza, statement, station, status, stave, stem, stew, stick, stick at, stickle, stirps, stock, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain at, strain every nerve, strain for, straining, strains, stratum, streak, stress, stress and strain, stressfulness, stretch, stretch out, stretching, string out, stringing out, stripe, strive, strive for, striving, strophe, struggle, struggle for, study, stumble, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, subdivision, subgroup, sublimate, sublime, suborder, succession, suggestion, supererogation, surpass, suspense, suspicion, sweat, sweat blood, swell, swelling, sword side, syllable, tailpiece, tauten, tautness, tax, taxing, tear, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tense, tenseness, tension, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, the grand style, the like of, the likes of, the plain style, the sublime, theme, think twice about, thread, tighten, tiredness, titivate, title, toil, tone, torture, totem, trace, trait, transpire, transude, traumatize, treble, tribe, trick, trick out, triplet, tristich, trouble, try, try for, try hard, tug, tune, turn, turn of mind, tutti, tutti passage, twist, type, unamiability, uncordiality, understate, uneasiness, unfriendliness, ungeniality, unquietness, unsociability, upset, variation, variety, varnish, vein, verse, vestige, vexation, warp, waver, way, weakness, wearifulness, weariness, weep, whitewash, wince, winnow, withdraw, work, worry, wound, wrench, yield, zeal

strained

• strained, Herculean, agitated, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, arduous, artificial, awkward, backbreaking, biased, bothered, burdensome, chill, chilly, cold, concerned, cooked, cool, crushing, difficult, disaccordant, disquieted, distant, disturbed, doctored, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, effortful, elongated, extended, farfetched, fearful, forced, foreboding, frosty, garbled, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, icy, improbable, in a pucker, in a stew, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, insincere, killing, labored, laborious, lengthened, misgiving, misquoted, misrepresented, nervous, on tenterhooks, onerous, operose, oppressive, out-of-the-way, overanxious, overapprehensive, painful, perturbed, perverted, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, punishing, put-on, quite another thing, remote, self-conscious, slanted, solicitous, something else again, spun out, stiff, straggling, strenuous, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, suspenseful, taut, tense, tight, toilsome, tortured, tough, troubled, troublesome, twisted, unamiable, unamicable, uncomfortable, uncordial, under a strain, uneasy, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unnatural, unrelaxed, unsociable, uphill, uptight, wearisome, zealous

strainer

• strainer, clarifier, colander, cradle, cribble, cribriformity, cribrosity, filter, honeycomb, lixiviator, net, percolator, porosity, porousness, purifier, refiner, refinery, riddle, rocker, screen, sieve, sievelikeness, sifter, sponge, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine

straining

• straining, bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, equivocation, essentialization, exaggeration, excretion, exfiltration, exhausting, extraction, extravasation, extreme tension, exudation, false coloring, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, faltering, fatiguesome, fatiguing, filtering, filtration, grinding, grubbing, grueling, hardworking, haul, heave, hesitant, hesitating, inflation, jibbing, killing, laboring, leaching, lixiviation, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, ooze, oozing, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, pegging, percolating, percolation, perjury, perversion, plodding, plugging, prevarication, pull, punishing, purification, rack, refinement, riddling, screening, scrupling, seep, seepage, separation, shilly-shallying, sieving, sifting, slanting, slaving, slogging, snapping point, spiritualization, sticking, stickling, strain, stress, stress and strain, stressful, stressfulness, stretch, stretching, striving, struggling, sublimation, sweating, swelling, taxing, tension, tentative, timid, tiresome, tiring, toiling, toilsome, torturing, transudation, trying, tug, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weep, weeping, winnowing, working

strait

• strait, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, boca, bottleneck, bound, bounded, box, breakers ahead, canal, cardhouse, cause for alarm, channel, circumscribed, climacteric, close, close-fitting, clutch, complication, conditioned, confined, confining, constricted, contingency, convergence of events, copyrighted, cove, cramp, cramped, creek, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crowded, crucial period, crunch, danger, dangerous ground, defile, demanding, difficult, dilemma, disciplined, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment, estuary, euripus, exacting, exigency, extremity, fine how-do-you-do, finite, fjord, frith, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, gulf, gut, harbor, hazard, hell to pay, hinge, hobble, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, imperilment, incapacious, incommodious, inlet, isthmian, isthmic, isthmus, jam, jeopardy, kyle, limited, limiting, loch, meager, menace, mess, mix, moderated, morass, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, near, neck, parlous straits, pass, patented, peril, perplexity, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, prescribed, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, proscribed, push, quagmire, qualified, quicksand, reach, restricted, restricting, rigorous, risk, road, roads, roadstead, rocks ahead, rub, scant, scanty, scrape, slender, slough, sound, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, straitened, straits, swamp, thin ice, threat, throat, tight, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, trouble, turn, turning, turning point, unholy mess

straiten

• straiten, arrest, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, bridle, cabin, casket, check, cloister, closet, coffin, condition, confine, constrain, constrict, contain, contract, control, cool, cool off, copyright, cramp, crib, curb, curtail, decelerate, diminish, discipline, dompt, draw in, draw the line, encase, enjoin, entomb, go in, govern, guard, hedge about, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, immure, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep under control, lay under restraint, limit, moderate, narrow, patent, prohibit, pull, pull in, qualify, register, rein, rein in, restrain, restrict, retard, retrench, scant, set back, slow down, snape, snub, specialize, stint, taper, withhold

straitened

• straitened, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, badly off, bound, bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, desperate, destitute, disciplined, distressed, down to bedrock, dwarfed, dwarfish, embarrassed, exiguous, feeling the pinch, finite, frugal, hard pressed, hard up, ill off, impecunious, impoverished, in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inadequate, indigent, insolvent, insufficient, jejune, land-poor, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, moderated, narrow, necessitous, needy, niggardly, on the edge, oppressed, out of pocket, paltry, parsimonious, patented, penniless, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken, prescribed, proscribed, puny, qualified, reduced, restricted, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sorely pressed, spare, sparing, squeezed, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, strapped, stunted, subsistence, thin, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprosperous, up against it, watered, watery

straitjacket

• straitjacket, Oregon boat, anchor, bilbo, bind, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chain, chains, collar, cuffs, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gyve, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuff, handcuffs, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hopple, hopples, irons, lash, leading strings, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, put in irons, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, rope, secure, shackle, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, stranglehold, strap, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, trammels, yoke

straitlaced

• straitlaced, Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding

straits

• straits, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, boca, broken fortune, clutch, complication, cove, creek, crunch, difficulties, distress, embarrassing position, embarrassment, estuary, euripus, fine how-do-you-do, fjord, frith, genteel poverty, gulf, gut, harbor, hard pinch, hardship, hell to pay, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, inlet, insolvency, jam, kyle, light purse, loch, mess, mix, morass, mouth, narrow, narrow means, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, poorness, poverty, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksand, reach, road, roads, roadstead, scrape, slender means, slough, sound, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straitened circumstances, swamp, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, unprosperousness, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty

strand

• strand, animal fiber, artificial fiber, bank, beach, berm, capillament, cast away, cilium, cirrus, coast, coastland, coastline, cobweb, denier, embankment, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, foreshore, gossamer, ground, hair, hank, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, pile up, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, run aground, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shipwreck, shore, shoreline, skein, submerged coast, suture, take the ground, tendril, thread, threadlet, tidewater, waterfront, waterside, web, wreck

stranded

• stranded, aground, anchored, beached, castaway, caught, chained, fast, fastened, fixed, foundered, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted, inextricable, jammed, marooned, moored, on the rocks, packed, run aground, set fast, shipwrecked, stuck, stuck fast, swamped, tethered, tied, transfixed, wedged, wrecked

strange

• strange, aberrant, able, abnormal, absurd, alien, amazing, anomalous, apart, astonishing, astounding, atypical, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beguiling, bereft of reason, bewildering, bizarre, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, detached, deviant, deviative, different, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disoriented, disrelated, dissociated, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, enigmatic, erratic, exceptional, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, fey, fishy, flaky, flighty, foreign, foreign-born, freaked out, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, hallucinated, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incalculable, incognizable, incommensurable, incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, independent, inexplicable, insane, insular, intrusive, irrational, irregular, irrelative, isolated, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, marvelous, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, miraculous, moon-struck, mysterious, new, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, novel, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off the wall, offbeat, original, other, out, out-of-the-way, outland, outlandish, outre, outside, passing strange, peculiar, phenomenal, prodigious, psycho, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, reasonless, remarkable, removed, romanesque, romantic, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, sealed, segregate, sensational, senseless, separate, separated, sick, singular, spectacular, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, striking, stupendous, surprising, tetched, touched, twisted, ulterior, unaccountable, unaccustomed, unaffiliated, unallied, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unassociated, unbalanced, unbeknown, uncanny, uncharted, unclassified, uncommon, unconnected, unconventional, uncouth, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unearthly, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unhinged, unidentified, unimaginable, uninvestigated, unique, unknowable, unknown, unnatural, unperceived, unplumbed, unprecedented, unrelatable, unrelated, unrevealed, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unsuspected, untouched, unusual, virgin, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical, witless, wonderful, wondrous, wondrous strange

strangeness

• strangeness, Kern, NMR, aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, alpha particle, anomaly, antibaryon, anticness, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, baryon, beta particle, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brain damage, brainsickness, brand-newness, callowness, clouded mind, conceit, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiousness, daftness, deformity, dementedness, dementia, derangement, deviancy, deviation, dewiness, differentness, disorientation, distraction, divergence, dottiness, eccentricity, electron, elementary particle, erraticism, erraticness, fantasticality, folie, freakiness, freakishness, freshness, furor, gloss of novelty, greenness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, immaturity, insaneness, insanity, intactness, irrationality, irregularity, kink, lateness, lepton, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, maidenhood, malformation, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, meson, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mint condition, monstrosity, monstrousness, neutron, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonconformity, novelness, novelty, nowness, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, oddity, oddness, originality, outlandishness, peculiarity, photon, pixilation, possession, presentness, pristineness, proton, quaintness, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, rawness, reasonlessness, recency, recentness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, singularity, strong interaction, teratism, trick, triton, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, uncommonness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unnaturalness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unusualness, valence electron, virginity, weirdness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessness

stranger

• stranger, Jim Crow, Uitlander, alien, apartheid, auslander, barbarian, color bar, deracine, displaced person, division, emigre, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exile, foreign devil, foreigner, gringo, immigrant, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, narrowness, newcomer, out-group, outcast, outlander, outlaw, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, refugee, seclusion, segregation, separation, snobbishness, the Wandering Jew, tightness, tramontane, transient, ultramontane, visitor, wanderer, xenophobia

strangle

• strangle, OD, abbreviate, asphyxiate, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, be killed, behead, block, block up, blockade, bolt, bottle up, bowstring, burke, burn, button, button up, censor, chock, choke, choke off, circumscribe, clamp down on, clap, close, close off, close tight, close up, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contain, contract, cork, cork up, cover, crack down on, cramp, crowd, crucify, crush, curtail, damp down, debar, decapitate, decollate, decrease, defenestrate, deflate, disarm, dog, draw, draw in, draw together, drown, electrocute, enchain, execute, extinguish, famish, fasten, fold, fold up, gag, garrote, guillotine, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, hold down, inflict capital punishment, jam, jump on, keep down, keep under, key, kill, knit, knock out, lapidate, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, manacle, muffle, muzzle, narrow, obstruct, occlude, pack, padlock, paralyze, plumb, pour water on, prostrate, pucker, pucker up, purse, put down, put out, put to death, quash, quell, quench, reduce, repress, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shoot, shorten, shush, shut, shut down on, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, silence, sit down on, sit on, slam, smash, smother, snap, snuff out, solidify, squash, squeeze, squeeze shut, squelch, stamp out, stanch, starve, stifle, stone, stop the breath, stop up, strangulate, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle, trample out, trample underfoot, truss up, wrinkle, zip up, zipper

strangled

• strangled, blurred, brassy, brazen, breathy, choked, choking, clamped, coarse, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cracked, cramped, croaking, croaky, drawling, drawly, dry, dysphonic, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, hoarse, husky, inarticulate, indistinct, knitted, lisping, metallic, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, quavering, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, shaking, shaky, snuffling, solidified, squawking, squawky, squeezed, stertorous, stifled, strangulated, thick, throaty, tinny, tremulous, twangy, velar, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

stranglehold

• stranglehold, Oregon boat, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bear hug, bilbo, blockage, blocking, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chains, check, clogging, closing up, closure, collar, constriction, cramp, cuffs, delay, detainment, detention, fetter, fixation, foot-dragging, full nelson, gag, gyves, half nelson, halter, hamper, hampering, handcuffs, hindering, hindrance, hobbles, holdback, holdup, hopples, impediment, inhibition, interference, interruption, irons, leading strings, leash, let, lock, manacle, muzzle, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, pillory, quarter nelson, reins, repression, resistance, restraint, restraints, restriction, retardation, retardment, scissors, setback, shackle, squeeze, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stricture, suppression, tether, toehold, trammel, trammels, yoke

strangler

• strangler, Cain, Jack Ketch, apache, assassin, assassinator, beheader, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bravo, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, chastizer, cutthroat, deathsman, desperado, discipliner, electrocutioner, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, garroter, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hangman, hatchet man, head-hunter, headsman, hit man, homicidal maniac, homicide, killer, man-eater, man-killer, manslayer, massacrer, matador, murderer, pesticide, poison, poisoner, punisher, slaughterer, slayer, thug, torpedo, trigger man

strangling

• strangling, asphyxia, asphyxiation, beheading, burking, burning, capital punishment, censorship, choke, choking, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, crackdown, crosswise, crucifixion, crushing, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, drowning, electrocution, execution, extinguishment, fusillade, garrote, gassing, hanging, hemlock, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, judicial murder, killing, lapidation, liver death, megadeath, necktie party, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, poisoning, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, repression, repressive, restrictive, serum death, shooting, smashing, smotheration, smothering, squashing, squelching, starvation, stifling, stoning, strangulation, subdual, suffocating, suffocation, suppression, suppressive, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, throttling, troublesome, violent death, watery grave

strangulated

• strangulated, blank, blind, blind-alley, cecal, choked, choked off, clamped, closed, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, dead, dead-end, knitted, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, shut, solidified, squeezed, squeezed shut, strangled, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated, wasp-waisted, wrinkled

strangulation

• strangulation, abbreviation, abolishment, abolition, annihilation, annulment, asphyxia, asphyxiation, astriction, astringency, bar, barrier, beheading, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, burking, burning, capital punishment, cecum, cervix, choke, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, congestion, consolidation, constipation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, costiveness, crucifixion, cul-de-sac, curtailment, dead end, decapitation, decollation, decrease, defenestration, deracination, diminuendo, drowning, electrocution, elimination, embolism, embolus, eradication, execution, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, fusillade, garrote, gassing, gorge, hanging, hemlock, hourglass, hourglass figure, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, isthmus, jam, judicial murder, killing, knitting, lapidation, liquidation, liver death, megadeath, narrow place, narrowing, neck, necktie party, negation, nullification, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, poisoning, puckering, purge, pursing, reduction, rooting out, sealing off, serum death, shooting, shortening, silencing, smotheration, smothering, snuffing out, solidification, starvation, stifling, stoning, stop, stoppage, stranglement, strangling, striction, stricture, suffocation, suppression, systole, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, throttling, uprooting, violent death, voiding, wasp waist, watery grave, wrinkling

strap

• strap, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, aculeate, acuminate, adhesive tape, anchor, band, bandage, barb, baste, bastinado, bathe, batten, beat, belabor, belt, bend, bind, bind up, birch, blacksnake, brace, bridle, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, bundle, call, cane, care for, cat, cellophane tape, chain, cinch, cloth tape, club, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cure, cuspidate, cut, diagnose, do up, doctor, drub, edge, enchain, entrammel, fascia, fasten, fetter, file, fillet, flagellate, flagellum, flail, flog, flux, friction tape, fustigate, gird, girdle, girt, girth, give a whipping, give care to, give the stick, grind, gyve, hamper, handcuff, heal, hobble, hog-tie, hone, hopple, horsewhip, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lath, lay on, leash, ligula, ligule, list, make fast, manacle, masking tape, massage, minister to, moor, nurse, oilstone, operate on, option, peg down, physic, picket, pin down, pinion, pistol-whip, plank, plaster, plastic tape, point, pommel, poultice, pummel, purge, put, put and call, put in irons, quirt, rawhide, razor strap, remedy, reset, restrain, ribband, ribbon, right, rope, rub, scourge, secure, set, shackle, sharpen, shred, sjambok, slat, slip, smite, spank, spiculate, spill, splice, spline, splint, spread, spur, stock option, straddle, straitjacket, strake, strip, stripe, strop, swaddle, swathe, swinge, switch, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, taper, tether, thong, thrash, thump, ticker tape, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, treat, trounce, truncheon, truss, wallop, whale, whet, whip, whiplash, whop, wire, wrap, wrap up

straphanger

• straphanger, adventurer, alpinist, astronaut, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

strapless

• strapless, clothesless, decollete, disrobed, en deshabille, garbless, garmentless, half-clothed, in dishabille, low-cut, nudish, raimentless, topless, unattired, uncased, unclad, unclothed, undraped, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented, unrobed

strapped

• strapped, badly off, beat, beggared, bound, broke, busted, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, fettered, flat, flat broke, fortuneless, hampered, handcuffed, hard up, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in bonds, in chains, in irons, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, ironbound, land-poor, manacled, narrow, on the edge, oofless, out of pocket, penurious, pinched, poor, poorly off, reduced, shackled, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, squeezed, stone-broke, stony, straitened, tethered, tied, tied down, tied up, trammeled, unmoneyed, unprosperous

strapping

• strapping, adipose, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, beefy, belting, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, buffeting, burly, buxom, caning, chubby, chunky, clubbing, corporal punishment, corpulent, cowhiding, cudgeling, distended, doughty, drubbing, dumpy, fat, fattish, flagellation, flailing, fleshy, flogging, forceful, forcible, forcy, full, full-blooded, full-strength, fustigation, gross, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hippy, horsewhipping, husky, imposing, iron-hard, lacing, lashing, lusty, meaty, mighty, nervy, obese, obstinate, overweight, paunchy, pistol-whipping, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, potent, powerful, pudgy, puffy, puissant, pursy, rawhiding, red-blooded, robust, robustious, roly-poly, rotund, rugged, scourging, spanking, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, steely, stocky, stout, stripes, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, swingeing, switching, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, thrashing, top-heavy, trouncing, truncheoning, tubby, vigorous, well-fed, whipping

stratagem

• stratagem, action, ad hoc measure, alibi, answer, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, cabal, catch, chicanery, chouse, cloak, collusion, color, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, countermove, counterplot, coup, course of action, cover, cover story, cover-up, covin, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, demarche, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, effort, engineering, excuse, expedient, facade, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, finagling, finesse, frame-up, front, gambit, game, gimmick, gloss, googly, grift, guise, handle, hocus-pocus, improvisation, intrigue, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, knavery, lame excuse, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game, locus standi, lure, machination, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, mask, means, measure, move, ostensible motive, pass, pis aller, plan, play, plot, plotting, ploy, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put-off, racket, red herring, refuge, resort, resource, rigging, ruse, scheme, schemery, scheming, screen, scurvy trick, semblance, shake-up, sham, shift, show, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, smoke screen, solution, stalking-horse, step, stopgap, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, subterfuge, tactic, temporary expedient, trick, trickery, trump, underplot, varnish, veil, web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, working hypothesis, working proposition

strategic

• strategic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, arranged, artful, astute, blueprinted, cagey, calculated, canny, cardinal, charted, clever, contrived, crafty, critical, crucial, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designed, designing, devised, diplomatic, feline, figured, foxy, guileful, in the works, ingenious, insidious, inventive, key, knowing, methodized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, pawky, planned, plotted, politic, principal, projected, rationalized, ready, resourceful, scheduled, schematized, scheming, serpentine, set, shaped, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategetic, subtile, subtle, supple, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vital, vulpine, wary, wily, worked out

strategist

• strategist, Machiavellian, a, architect, behind-the-scenes operator, calculator, contriver, designer, developer, deviser, eminence grise, enterpriser, entrepreneur, finagler, framer, gamesman, gray eminence, intriguer, kingmaker, logroller, machinator, maneuverer, manipulator, operator, organizer, planner, pork-barrel politician, projector, promoter, schemer, strategian, tactician, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

strategy

• strategy, aerial tactics, airborne tactics, applied tactics, approach, armored tactics, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, attack, barrier tactics, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, cavalry tactics, charting, chicanery, conception, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, defensive strategy, design, device, disposition, diversion, dodge, encirclement, enterprise, envisagement, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, figuring, fire tactics, foresight, forethought, gambit, game, game plan, gimmick, graphing, grift, ground plan, guidelines, idea, infantry tactics, infiltration, intention, intrigue, investment, jugglery, knavery, layout, lineup, little game, long-range plan, maneuver, mapping, master plan, method, methodology, mob tactics, mobile tactics, move, operations research, organization, pincers movement, plan, planning, planning function, plot, ploy, policy, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, project, racket, rationalization, red herring, ruse, scenario, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, shift, shock tactics, sleight, stratagem, strategic plan, subterfuge, system, systematization, tactic, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, trick, trickery, way, wile, wily device, working plan

stratification

• stratification, analysis, arrangement, cataloging, categorization, classification, codification, delamination, desquamation, division, exfoliation, filing, flakiness, foliation, furfuration, grading, grouping, indexing, lamellation, lamination, pigeonholing, placement, ranging, ranking, rating, scaliness, sorting, subdivision, tabulation, taxonomy, typology

stratified

• stratified, assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, filmy, foliaceous, foliated, graded, grouped, hierarchic, in layers, indexed, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, membranous, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranked, rated, scummy, sorted, spathic, spathose, stratiform, tabular, three-ply, two-ply

stratosphere

• stratosphere, Appleton layer, CAT, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Olympian heights, Van Allen belt, acme, aerial heights, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, apex, belt, bump, ceiling, chemosphere, crosswind, dizzy heights, elevation, eminence, empty space, ether, favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high-pressure area, hole, ionosphere, isothermal region, jetstream, layer, lift, low-pressure area, lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere, overcast, photosphere, pocket, raise, rise, rising ground, roughness, sky, soup, space, steep, stratum, substratosphere, tail wind, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, upper atmosphere, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point, visibility, visibility zero, zenith

stratum

• stratum, Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, band, bed, bedding, belt, blood, bracket, branch, caste, category, chemosphere, clan, class, couche, course, deck, division, estate, floor, gallery, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, ionosphere, isothermal region, kin, label, layer, ledge, level, lower atmosphere, measures, order, outer atmosphere, overlayer, overstory, photosphere, pigeonhole, plane, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, rubric, seam, section, sept, set, shelf, stage, standing, station, status, step, story, strain, stratification, stratosphere, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, substratosphere, substratum, superstratum, table, thickness, tier, title, topsoil, tropopause, troposphere, underlayer, understory, understratum, upper atmosphere, vein, zone

stratus

• stratus, Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, high fog, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus cloud, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier, woolpack

straw boss

• straw boss, Big Brother, auditor, boatswain, boss, chief, comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sirdar, slave driver, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, visitor

straw in the wind

• straw in the wind, catchword, clue, cue, cue word, danger sign, early symptom, evidence, falling barometer, gathering clouds, high sign, hint, hot lead, intimation, key, key word, lead, omen, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, scent, skull and crossbones, spoor, storm petrel, stormy petrel, suggestion, symptom, telltale, thundercloud, thunderhead, tip-off, trace, vestige, warning sign, warning signal, whiff, yellow flag, yellow jack

straw vote

• straw vote, Australian ballot, Hare system, aye, ballot, barometer, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement, fagot vote, feeler, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system, nay, no, nontransferable vote, pilot balloon, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, probe, proportional representation, proxy, random sample, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, sample, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, sound, sounder, suffrage, transferable vote, trial balloon, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, weather vane, weathercock, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

straw

• straw, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, adjutage, afterglow, afterimage, air, anthrophore, aureate, auric, axis, bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bestrew, bibelot, bird seed, bit, bole, bran, brass farthing, broadcast, bubble, buff, buff-yellow, butt, butt end, button, canary, canary-yellow, candle ends, cane, carpophore, cat food, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cent, chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, citron, citron-yellow, cobweb, cork, corn, cream, creamy, culm, curio, debris, detritus, disseminate, dog food, down, drainpipe, dust, eatage, ecru, efflux tube, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy, fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed, fig, filings, fire hose, flaxen, fleabite, flue, flue pipe, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol, footstalk, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funicule, funiculus, funnel, fuzz, garden hose, gas pipe, gaud, gewgaw, gilded, gilt, gimcrack, gold, gold-colored, golden, gossamer, grain, hair, halfpenny, haulm, hay, hill of beans, holdover, hose, hosepipe, husks, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, leafstalk, leavings, leftovers, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, mash, meal, minikin, mockery, molehill, mote, nipple, oats, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, odds and ends, offscourings, or, organ pipe, orts, parings, pasturage, pasture, pedicel, peduncle, peppercorn, pet food, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, provender, rags, rap, red cent, reed, reed pipe, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, row of pins, rubbish, ruins, rump, rush, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sawdust, scatter, scourings, scraps, scratch, scratch feed, seedstalk, shadow, shavings, shit, siamese, siamese connection, silage, siphon, slops, snap, sneeshing, snorkel, soil pipe, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw-colored, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tap, thistledown, tigella, toy, trace, trifle, trinket, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestige, waste, waste pipe, water pipe, wheat, whim-wham, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish

strawberry mark

• strawberry mark, birthmark, blackhead, blaze, bleb, blemish, blister, blotch, brand, bulla, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, cut, dapple, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dot, earmark, engraving, fault, flaw, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, hemangioma, hickey, jot, keloid, kink, lentigo, macula, mark, marking, milium, mole, mottle, needle scar, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, puncture, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sebaceous cyst, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, sty, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, watermark, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

strawhat

• strawhat, Broadway, burlesque, carnival, circus, drama, entertainment industry, legit, legitimate stage, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, playland, repertory drama, show biz, show business, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat circuit, summer stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, variety, vaudeville

stray

• stray, Arab, abandoned, aberrant, aberrative, abnormal, accidental, aimless, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, bat around, be absent, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, casual, causeless, chance, circuitous, count ties, daydream, depart, departing, derelict, designless, desultory, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, digress, digressive, discursive, divagate, diverge, divergent, dogie, dream, drift, driftless, dysteleological, eccentric, err, errant, erratic, excurse, excursive, fall into error, fantasy, flit, formless, freak, gad, gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, get sidetracked, go about, go adrift, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go the rounds, go woolgathering, go wrong, guttersnipe, haphazard, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, homeless, homeless waif, idler, indirect, indiscriminate, inexplicable, intimation, irregular, isolated, jaunt, knock about, knock around, labyrinthine, landloper, lapse, lazzarone, loafer, lone, losel, lost, maunder, mazy, meander, meandering, mindless, misbelieve, miscalculate, mooch, moon, mudlark, muse, nomadize, odd, out-of-the-way, peregrinate, pererrate, piker, pipe-dream, planetary, promiscuous, prowl, purposeless, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, rambling, random, range, roam, roaming, rounder, rove, roving, run about, saunter, separated, serpentine, serve Mammon, shade, shapeless, shifting, single, singular, ski bum, slip, slip up, snake, snaky, sporadic, stargaze, stiff, stochastic, straggle, straggler, strain, straying, streak, street Arab, street urchin, stroll, stumble, subnormal, suggestion, sundowner, surf bum, suspicion, swagman, swagsman, swerving, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, traipse, tramp, trip, turn aside, turning, turnpiker, twist, twist and turn, twisting, unaccountable, undirected, unexpected, unmotivated, unnatural, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant, veering, waif, waifs and strays, walk the tracks, wander, wandering, wastrel, wayfare, wind, winding, zigzag

straying

• straying, Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, abnormal, abroad, adrift, afoot and lighthearted, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bend, beside the mark, bias, branching off, bumming, circuitousness, circumforaneous, corner, corrupt, crook, curve, deceptive, declination, defective, delusive, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviation, deviational, deviative, deviousness, different, digression, discursion, discursive, distorted, divagation, divagatory, divarication, divergence, divergent, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentric, errant, errantry, erratic, erring, erroneous, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, formless, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hairpin, heretical, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, hoboism, illogical, illusory, indirection, irregular, itineracy, itinerancy, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, not right, not true, obliquity, off, off the track, out, peccant, peregrination, pererration, perverse, perverted, ramble, rambling, ranging, roam, roaming, rove, roving, self-contradictory, shapeless, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, straggling, stray, strolling, subnormal, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twist, unfactual, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, variation, veer, wandering, wanderlust, warp, wayfaring, wide, wrong, yaw, zigzag

streak

• streak, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, animus, antelope, aptitude, arrow, atomic beam, atomic ray, band, bar, beam, beam of light, belt, bent, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bezel, bias, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blue darter, blue streak, body-build, bolt, brand, canal, canalize, cannonball, carve, cast, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, character, characteristic, characteristics, chase, check, check off, checker, chink, chisel, cicatrize, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, corrugate, corrugation, courser, crack, cranny, crasis, craze, crimp, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dapple, dart, dash, daub, define, delimit, delineation, demarcate, dharma, diagonal, diathesis, dike, discolor, disposition, ditch, dot, dotted line, eagle, eccentricity, electricity, engrave, engraving, ethos, express train, fiber, flake, flash, fleck, flute, fluting, fly, frame, freckle, furrow, gamma ray, gash, gazelle, genius, gleam, goffer, gouge, grain, greased lightning, greyhound, groove, gruel, gully, habit, hachure, hairline, hare, harlequin, hasten, hatch, hatching, hue, humor, humors, hurry, hurtle, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, imprint, incise, incision, inclination, individualism, infrared ray, invisible radiation, iris, jet plane, kidney, kind, lath, layer, leam, leaning, light, lightning, line, lineation, list, maculate, make, make a mark, makeup, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, mental set, mercury, mere shadow, mettle, microgroove, mind, mind-set, mold, motley, mottle, nature, nick, notch, paper, patch, pencil, pepper, period, photon, physique, pleat, plow, point, polychrome, polychromize, predilection, predisposition, preference, prick, print, proclivity, propensity, property, punch, punctuate, puncture, quality, quicksilver, rabbet, race, radiation, radiorays, rail, rainbow, rake, ray, ray of light, ribbon, ribbon of light, riddle, rifle, rifling, rocket, ruck, run, rush, rut, scar, scared rabbit, scarify, scoot, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, set, shadow, shaving, shot, skeleton, slant, slash, slat, slip, slit, smear, solar rays, somatotype, sort, soup, spangle, spate, speck, speckle, speed, spell, spirit, splinter, splotch, spot, sprinkle, sprint, stain, stamp, stigmatize, stipple, strain, strake, stratum, streak of lightning, streaking, stream, stream of light, streamer, stretch, stria, striate, striation, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striped snake, striping, stroke, stud, sublineation, suchness, sulcation, sulcus, swallow, system, tattoo, tear, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, thought, thunderbolt, tick, tick off, tone, torrent, touch, trace, trench, trough, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, ultraviolet ray, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, variegate, vein, violet ray, virgule, wafer, warp, way, well-worn groove, whistle, whiz, wind, wrinkle, zip, zoom

streaked

• streaked, banded, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, cancellated, crossbarred, filigreed, grated, gridded, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, listed, marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, plexiform, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered

streaking

• streaking, band, bar, belt, crack, craze, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, hachure, hairline, lineation, list, score, slash, streak, stria, striation, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule

stream of consciousness

• stream of consciousness, association, association by contiguity, association of ideas, chain of thought, clang association, controlled association, current of thought, flow of thought, free association, identification, inmost thoughts, mental linking, negative transference, positive transference, secret thoughts, synesthesia, thoughts, train of thought, transference

stream

• stream, Brownian movement, X ray, Zeitgeist, abound, abundance, actinic ray, actinism, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appear, arise, ascend, ascending, ascent, assemble, atomic beam, atomic ray, avalanche, axial motion, back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, backwash, barrage, beam, beam of light, bearing, beck, become manifest, become visible, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, branch, bristle with, brook, brooklet, budge, bumper crop, bunch, bunch up, burn, caravan, career, cascade, cataract, cavalcade, chain, change, change place, channel, circle, climb, climbing, clot, cluster, collect, column, come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come out, come to hand, come to light, come together, commute, concourse, condensation trail, confluence, conflux, congregate, contrail, converge, copiousness, copulate, cortege, couple, course, cover ground, crawl with, creek, creep with, crop out, crosscurrent, crowd, current, current of air, date, defluxion, deluge, descend, descending, descent, direction, downdraft, downflow, downpour, downward motion, draft, dress parade, drift, driftage, drizzle, drum, ebb, ebbing, effluence, efflux, effusion, emanate, emerge, enter, exhaust, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fade in, fall, fall wind, fare, fare forth, fertility, fetch, file, flight, flit, flock together, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow of air, flow out, flow together, flowing, fluency, flush, flux, flyover, foison, following wind, forgather, forward motion, fountain, freshet, full measure, fullness, funeral, fuse, gamma ray, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, generosity, generousness, get over, geyser, gill, glacial movement, gleam, glide, go, go along, go around, go round, go sideways, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gyrate, head wind, heave in sight, herd together, hie, hive, horde, huddle, indraft, inflow, infrared ray, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, invisible radiation, issue, issue forth, jet, jetstream, katabatic wind, kill, landslide, lavishness, league, leam, liberality, liberalness, line, link, look forth, loom, lots, luxuriance, main current, mainstream, make, march, march past, mass, materialize, maximum, meet, merge, mill, mill run, millrace, mizzle, monsoon, more than enough, motion, motorcade, mount, mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, movement, movement of air, much, mule train, muster, myriad, myriads, numerousness, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course, opulence, opulency, outcrop, outflow, outpouring, overflow, pack train, parade, pass, passage, patch, patter, peep out, pelt, pencil, photon, pitter-patter, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plunge, plunging, pomp, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, prevalence, proceed, procession, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, progress, proliferate, promenade, quantities, queue, race, radial motion, radiation, radiorays, rain, rain tadpoles, rally, rally around, random motion, ray, ray of light, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, regurgitate, rendezvous, repleteness, repletion, retrogress, retrogression, review, ribbon, ribbon of light, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rill, riot, riotousness, rise, rising, river, rivulet, roll, roll on, rotate, row, run, run over, runnel, rush, sashay, scads, see the light, seethe, series, set, shift, shoot, show, show up, shower, shower down, sideward motion, sink, sinking, skimmington, slide, slip, soar, soaring, solar rays, spate, spatter, spin, spit, spout, sprinkle, spurt, squirt, sternway, stir, streak, stream forth, stream of air, stream of light, streamer, streamlet, strike the eye, string, subside, subsiding, substantiality, substantialness, succession, superabundance, surge, surge back, swarm, swarm with, swing, tail wind, tattoo, teem, teem with, teemingness, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, throng, tide, time spirit, tone, torrent, train, traject, trajet, travel, trend, tributary, turn up, ultraviolet ray, undercurrent, undertow, unite, updraft, upward motion, vapor trail, violet ray, vortex, wake, walk, wane, wash, water flow, watercourse, waterway, wayfare, wealth, weep, wend, whirl, wind

streamer

• streamer, Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, and blue, atomic beam, atomic ray, banderole, banner, banner head, banneret, beam, beam of light, black flag, blue ensign, bunting, burgee, caption, coachwhip, color, colors, drop head, dropline, ensign, epigraph, flag, gamma ray, gleam, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, hanger, head, heading, headline, house flag, infrared ray, invisible radiation, jack, jump head, leam, legend, long pennant, merchant flag, motto, national flag, oriflamme, overline, patch, pencil, pendant, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, photon, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, red, red ensign, ribbon, ribbon of light, royal standard, rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, signal flag, solar rays, spread, spreadhead, standard, streak, stream, stream of light, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, swallowtail, title, title page, tricolor, ultraviolet ray, vexillum, violet ray, white

streaming

• streaming, affluent, aglow, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bagging, baggy, beaming, beamy, blinding, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, cat-and-doggish, confluent, coursing, dangling, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drooping, drumming, easy, flapping, flowing, fluent, flushing, fluxional, fluxive, flying, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, going, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, lax, light as day, loose, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mazy, meandering, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, mounting, orient, passing, pelting, plunging, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, profluent, progressive, racing, radiant, rainy, reflowing, refluent, regressive, relaxed, retrogressive, rickety, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, rutilant, rutilous, serpentine, shaky, shining, shiny, showery, sideward, sinking, slack, sloppy, sluggish, soaring, starbright, starlike, starry, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, surging, surgy, tidal, up-trending, upward, vortical

streamline

• streamline, air line, axis, beeline, boil down, chord, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, distill, edge, great-circle course, modernize, narrow, normal, oversimplify, perpendicular, purify, radius, radius vector, reduce, reduce to elements, refine, right line, secant, segment, shortcut, side, simplify, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, strip down, tangent, transversal, update, vector

streamlined

• streamlined, a la mode, advanced, aerodynamic, arrowlike, automated, avant-garde, compact, contemporary, curved, curvilinear, dead straight, direct, efficient, even, far out, fashionable, flat, flowing, forward-looking, horizontal, hydrodynamic, in, in a line, labor-saving, level, lineal, linear, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, productive, profitable, progressive, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, ruler-straight, simplified, smooth, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, stripped down, time-saving, true, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, upright, vertical, way out

streamliner

• streamliner, Amtrak, baggage train, cable railroad, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, el, electric, electric train, elevated, express, express train, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, interurban, lightning express, limited, local, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, rattler, rolling stock, shuttle, shuttle train, special, subway, train, tube, underground, way train

streamlining

• streamlining, clarification, disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillation, easing, expediting, expedition, facilitation, hastening, narrowing, purification, quickening, refinement, simplification, simplifying, smoothing, speeding, stripping, stripping down, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling

street Arab

• street Arab, Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, dogie, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, losel, mudlark, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, ski bum, stiff, stray, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel

street fight

• street fight, action, aerial combat, affray, armored combat, battle, battle royal, brush, bullfight, clash, clash of arms, cockfight, combat, conflict, dogfight, embroilment, exchange of blows, fight, fire fight, fray, ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, house-to-house combat, naval combat, passage of arms, pitched battle, quarrel, rumble, running fight, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, shoving match, skirmish, stand-up fight, struggle, tauromachy, tug-of-war, tussle

street

• street, Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circle, circumferential, close, concourse, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drag, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, passage, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, turnpike, way, wynd

streetcar line

• streetcar line, L, branch, cable railway, cog railway, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, feeder, feeder line, gravity-operated railway, horse railway, junction, light railroad, line, main line, metro, monorail, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, roadbed, roadway, sidetrack, siding, street railway, subway, switchback, terminal, terminus, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground

streetfighter

• streetfighter, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, enforcer, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, militant, plug-ugly, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, wrangler

streetwalker

• streetwalker, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, bawd, call girl, cruiser, daughter of joy, erring sister, fallen woman, fille de joie, harlot, hooker, hustler, meretrix, moll, nightwalker, painted woman, poule, prostitute, scarlet woman, stew, tomato, unfortunate woman, white slave, whore

streetwise

• streetwise, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, cognizant of, conscious of, hep to, in the know, in the secret, informed of, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, on to, privy to, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, undeceived, wise to

strength

• strength, ability, amount, amperage, ampleness, amplitude, aptitude, arm, armipotence, asset, authoritativeness, authority, backbone, beef, bite, bitingness, black power, body, boundlessness, brawn, brawniness, brute force, bulk, burden, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, cohesiveness, compulsion, concentration, concreteness, core, cuttingness, demonic energy, density, determination, dint, drive, durability, duress, dynamism, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, endurance, energy, enormity, enormousness, ergal, expanse, extent, firmness, fixity of purpose, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, formidableness, fortitude, full blast, full force, fullness, gameness, gaminess, gift, gigantism, gist, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, grit, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardiness, hardness, healthiness, heartiness, high flavor, highness, hugeness, immensity, impressiveness, incisiveness, infinity, influence, infrangibility, intensity, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, iron will, kinetic energy, largeness, lastingness, leatherlikeness, longevity, lustiness, magisterialness, magnitude, main force, main strength, mana, mass, materiality, matter, measure, measurement, meat, might, might and main, mightiness, moral courage, moral fiber, mordancy, moxie, muchness, muscle, muscle power, nerve, nervosity, nervousness, numbers, palpability, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pith, pizzazz, plenitude, pluck, poignancy, ponderability, poop, potence, potency, potential energy, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prodigiousness, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, purport, push, quantity, quantum, rankness, reliability, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, security, sense, sinew, sinewiness, solidity, soundness, spunk, stability, stableness, stamina, steadiness, steam, stiffness, stoutness, strength of mind, strength of purpose, strenuousness, stringiness, strong arm, strong language, strong point, strongness, stubbornness, stupendousness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, sum, sum and substance, superiority, superpower, talent, tangibility, tenaciousness, tenacity, toughness, tremendousness, trenchancy, unbreakability, unbreakableness, validity, vastness, vehemence, vigor, vigorousness, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, viscidity, vitality, wattage, weight, whole, will, will of iron, will power

strengthen

• strengthen, accelerate, accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, affirm, aggravate, animate, anneal, appreciate, attest, augment, authenticate, back, back up, balloon, be tough, bear out, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, boom, boost, brace, brace up, breed, broaden, buttress, case harden, certify, cheer, chirk up, circumstantiate, complicate, concentrate, condense, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, crescendo, deepen, develop, document, double, embolden, encourage, endure, energize, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, fortify, gain, gain strength, gelt, get ahead, gird, go up, grow, hang tough, harden, hearten, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, increase, inspirit, intensify, invigorate, jazz up, key up, magnify, make complex, mount, multiply, nerve, nourish, nutrify, prepare, probate, proliferate, prop, prove, ramify, ratify, ready, recruit, redouble, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, renew, restrengthen, rigidify, rise, run up, screw up, sharpen, shoot up, shore up, sinew, snowball, soup up, spread, steel, step up, stiffen, substantiate, supplement, support, sustain, swell, temper, tense, tighten, tone up, toughen, trice up, triple, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, vitalize, warrant, wax, whet, widen

strengthened

• strengthened, accelerated, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, backed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fossilized, granulated, hardened, heightened, hiked, hornified, increased, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, lapidified, magnified, multiplied, ossified, petrified, proliferated, raised, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, spread, steeled, stiffened, swollen, tightened, toughened, vitrified, widened

strengthener

• strengthener, advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bandeau, bearer, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, corset, crook, crutch, foundation garment, fulcrum, girdle, guy, guywire, jock, jockstrap, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, prop, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder, walking stick

strengthening

• strengthening, accelerando, acceleration, affirmation, aggravation, analeptic, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, bearing out, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, case hardening, certification, circumstantiation, concentration, condensation, confirmation, consolidation, corroborant, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, deepening, documentation, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, fortification, hardening, heating-up, heightening, information explosion, intensification, invigorating, invigoration, magnification, pickup, population explosion, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, redoubling, refreshing, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restorative, restrengthening, revivification, reviving, roborant, speedup, step-up, stimulating, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tightening, tonic, undergirding, validation, verification

strengthless

• strengthless, anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pooped, powerless, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly

strenuous

• strenuous, Herculean, active, arduous, breathless, burdensome, demanding, determined, difficult, dogged, dynamic, eager, earnest, effortful, energetic, enthusiastic, exhausting, hard, indefatigable, intense, laborious, lusty, mean, operose, persistent, pertinacious, red-blooded, resolute, sincere, taxing, tenacious, tireless, tiring, toilsome, tough, uphill, vigorous, vital, wicked, zealous

strenuously

• strenuously, actively, animatedly, ardently, arduously, assiduously, bec et ongles, briskly, con brio, difficultly, diligently, effortfully, energetically, fervently, forcefully, forcibly, hammer and tongs, hard, hardly, heart and soul, heartily, indefatigably, industriously, intensely, keenly, laboriously, lustily, manfully, operosely, painfully, relentlessly, sedulously, spiritedly, the hard way, tirelessly, toilsomely, tooth and nail, unsparingly, vehemently, vigorously, vivaciously, with a will, with difficulty, with effort, with much ado, with pep, zealously, zestfully

strep throat

• strep throat, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

streptococcus

• streptococcus, 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, staphylococcus, trypanosome, vibrio, virus

stress

• stress, Alexandrine, accent, accentuate, accentuation, ache, aching, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, anguish, annoyance, antispast, anxiety, arsis, assault, bacchius, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat, belabor, blight, blow, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bummer, bump, bump against, bunt, burden, butt, butt against, cadence, caesura, care, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, clutch, colon, compulsion, concern, concernment, conflict, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, constraint, counterpoint, cram, cramp, cretic, crisis, cross, crowd, crunch, curse, cut, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, decompensation, diaeresis, difficulties, difficulty, dig, dimeter, dipody, distress, disturb, dochmiac, dolor, downer, drive, dwell on, elbow, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emergency, emotional shock, emphasis, emphasize, epitrite, excellence, exigency, external frustration, feature, feminine caesura, focus on, foot, force, forcefulness, frustration, give emphasis to, goad, grief, harass, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harp on, haul, head, heave, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, high order, high pressure, high rank, highlight, hurt, hurtle, hustle, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, imperativeness, import, importance, impulse, impulsion, injury, insistence, interest, ionic, irk, irritation, italicize, jab, jam, jingle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, lesion, level of stress, lilt, mark, masculine caesura, materiality, measure, mental shock, mental strain, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, moment, mora, movement, nasty blow, nervous strain, nervous tension, note, nudge, numbers, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overexert, overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress, overtax, overtaxing, paeon, pain, pang, paramountcy, passion, pentameter, pentapody, period, pile drive, pinch, place emphasis on, play up, plight, point up, poke, precedence, predicament, preeminence, press, pressure, primacy, primary stress, priority, proceleusmatic, prod, prominence, prosodics, prosody, psychological stress, pull, punch, punctuate, push, pyrrhic, quantity, rack, ram, ram down, rash impulse, rattle, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, rigor, rub in, run, run against, sea of troubles, secondary stress, self-importance, shake, shock, shoulder, shove, significance, sore, sore spot, spasm, spondee, spotlight, sprung rhythm, star, strain, strain every nerve, straining, stress accent, stress and strain, stress of life, stress pattern, stressfulness, stretch, stroke, suffering, superiority, supremacy, sweat blood, swing, syzygy, tamp, tautness, tax, taxing, tender spot, tense, tenseness, tension, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, throes, thrust, torque, torsion, trauma, traumatism, trial, tribrach, tribulation, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, trouble, troubles, try, tug, underline, underscore, upset, urge, urgency, vale of tears, value, vicissitude, weak stress, weight, worry, worth, wound, wrench

stressed

• stressed, accented, accentuated, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, decided, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, emphasized, emphatic, flat, forceful, forcible, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, in red letters, intonated, italicized, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pointed, positive, posttonic, punctuated, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, starred, stopped, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, underlined, underscored, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

stressful

• stressful, adverse, antagonistic, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, detrimental, difficult, draining, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grueling, hard, harmful, hostile, in opposition, inimical, killing, miserable, not easy, opposed, opposing, opposite, punishing, rigorous, sinister, straining, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, unfavorable, untoward, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wretched

stretch of the imagination

• stretch of the imagination, apparition, brainchild, bubble, chimera, delirium, eidolon, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot, make-believe, myth, phantasm, phantom, romance, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, trip, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams

stretch out

• stretch out, adjourn, be lengthy, be prolonged, belong, carry, carry out, chatter, continue, cover, crane, dawdle, defer, delay, drag out, draw, draw out, dwell on, elongate, encompass, environ, extend, extend out, fill out, go, go out, hang fire, hang up, hold, hold off, hold over, hold up, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, lie, lie down, linger on, never finish, outdistance, outlie, outrange, outreach, outstretch, pad, perorate, pigeonhole, postpone, procrastinate, produce, prolong, prolongate, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, range, range out, reach, reach out, recess, recline, repose, reserve, run, run out, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, span, speak at length, spin out, sprawl, spread, stand on tiptoes, stand over, stave off, stay, straddle, straggle, strain, stretch, string out, surround, suspend, sweep, table, take a recess, take in, tauten, temporize, tense, thrust out, tighten, waive

stretch the truth

• stretch the truth, aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, fib, go to extremes, hyperbolize, lay it on, lie, lie flatly, magnify, make much of, mislead, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, pile it on, prevaricate, puff, speak falsely, story, stretch, talk big, talk in superlatives, tell a lie, tout, travesty

stretch

• stretch, adaptability, adaptable, adaptive, add to, aesthetic distance, aggrandize, airing, amble, amplify, amplitude, and quarter, answer, archery ground, area, athletic field, athletics, augment, avail, badminton court, balloon, ballyhoo, baseball field, basketball court, be equal to, be lengthy, be prolonged, bear, belong, bend, billiard parlor, bit, bloat, bloating, blow up, bounce, bounciness, bouncy, bowling alley, bowling green, breadth, break, breaking point, breather, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, buoyance, buoyancy, buoyant, burlesque, calisthenics, caricature, carry, carry too far, clearance, compass, constitutional, continue, continuous tenure, course, court, cover, crane, crescendo, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, daily dozen, day, deep space, depths of space, develop, diamond, diapason, dilate, dimensions, distance, distend, distension, distort, divergence, do, do it, drag out, draw, draw out, draw the longbow, drill, elastic, elasticity, elongate, elongation, embellish, encompass, enlarge, enlistment, environ, exaggerate, exercise, exercising, expand, expanse, expansion, extend, extend out, extensibility, extensile, extension, extent, extreme tension, fairway, farness, fateful moment, field, fill out, fill the bill, fit, flexibility, flexible, flexile, football field, forced march, fudge, fulfill, gamut, get by, gibbet, give, glaciarium, go, go around, go out, go to extremes, golf course, golf links, greaten, gridiron, gym, gymnasium, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, hack it, hang, haul, heave, hike, hike up, hitch, hold, hour, hyperbolize, ice rink, increase, infield, infinity, inflate, inflation, instant, interval, isometrics, jaunt, juncture, just do, kairos, lay it on, leeway, length, lengthen, lengthen out, lengthening, lengthiness, let out, lie, light-years, linear measures, links, liveliness, lively, long time, longitude, longness, lynch, magnify, make, make much of, make the grade, march, margin, measure, meet, meet requirements, mileage, minute, moment, moment of truth, mush, neck, noose, orbit, outfield, outreach, outstretch, oval, overall length, overcharge, overdevelop, overdistend, overdistension, overdo, overdraw, overdrawing, overestimate, overexert, overexertion, overexpand, overexpansion, overextend, overextension, overpaint, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretch, overstretching, overtax, overtaxing, pad, parade, parsecs, pass, pass muster, period, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, perpetuity, perspective, physical education, physical jerks, piece, pile it on, playground, playing field, playroom, point, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, practice, pregnant moment, press, prison term, produce, production, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, promenade, protract, protraction, psychological moment, puff, puff up, pull, pull out, pump, pump up, purview, putting green, qualify, racecourse, rack, racket court, radius, raise, ramble, range, rarefy, reach, reach out, rebound, region, register, remoteness, resilience, resiliency, resilient, responsive, responsiveness, rink, roll, run, satisfy, saunter, scale, schlep, scop, scope, scrag, season, section, separation, serve, serve the purpose, setting-up exercises, skating rink, snap, snapping point, snowball, soccer field, space, span, spectrum, spell, spin out, sprawl, spread, spring, springiness, springy, squash court, stage, stand, stand on tiptoes, stand up, stint, straddle, straggle, strain, strain every nerve, straining, stress, stress and strain, stressfulness, stretch out, stretch the truth, stretchability, stretchable, stretchiness, stretching, stretchy, stride, string out, string up, stringing out, stroll, suffice, sufflate, supple, surround, sweat blood, sweep, swell, swelling, take in, take it, talk big, talk in superlatives, tauten, tax, taxing, tennis court, tense, tension, tenure, term, thrust out, tighten, time, time lag, tone, tonicity, tonus, tour, tour of duty, tout, track, tract, traipse, tramp, travesty, trudge, tug, tumefy, turf, turn, up, walk, walking tour, warp, way, ways, whet, while, whippy, widen, work, workout, yardage, yoga

stretched out

• stretched out, deltoid, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elongated, extended, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, interminable, languishing, lasting, lengthened, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, marathon, open, outspread, outstretched, overlong, patulous, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, spun out, spun-out, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, strung out, taut, tense, tight, unfolded, wide-open, widespread

stretched

• stretched, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, disproportionate, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extended, extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, high-flown, hyperbolic, inflated, inordinate, lengthened, magnified, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, puffed, pulled, spun out, straggling, strained, stretched out, strung out, superlative, taut, tense, tight, touted

stretcher bearer

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

stretching

• stretching, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, breaking point, burlesque, caricature, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, doziness, dropsy, drowsiness, edema, elongation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extension, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, grandiloquence, heaviness, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, languor, lengthening, lethargy, magnification, meteorism, oscitancy, oscitation, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pandiculation, prodigality, production, profuseness, prolongation, protraction, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, sensationalism, sleepiness, snapping point, somnolence, somnolency, strain, straining, stretch, stringing out, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, tension, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, windiness, yawning

stretchy

• stretchy, adaptable, adaptive, anesthetized, bouncy, buoyant, cataleptic, comatose, doped, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, elastic, extensile, flexible, flexile, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a stupor, languid, lethargic, lively, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, oscitant, out of it, resilient, responsive, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, springy, stretch, stretchable, stuporose, stuporous, supple, whippy, yawning, yawny

strew

• strew, bestrew, broadcast, circulate, circumfuse, cover, deal out, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, diverge, dust, fan out, issue, litter, overscatter, oversow, overspread, propagate, publish, radiate, retail, scatter, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, sprinkle, straw, toss, utter

striate

• striate, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, canal, canalize, carve, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, check, check off, checker, chisel, cicatrize, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, dapple, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, dike, discolor, ditch, dot, engrave, flake, fleck, flute, freckle, furrow, gash, goffer, gouge, groove, gully, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, incise, iris, line, maculate, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, motley, mottle, nick, notch, pencil, pepper, pleat, plow, point, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rabbet, rainbow, riddle, rifle, rut, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, slit, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigmatize, stipple, strake, streak, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tick, tick off, trace, trench, trough, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, wrinkle

striated

• striated, banded, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, crimped, cut, dadoed, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, listed, marbled, marbleized, pleated, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, slit, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, strigate, strigose, striolate, striped, stripy, sulcate, sulcated, tabby, troughed, veined, watered, wrinkled

striation

• striation, band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack, cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash, gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line, lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation, sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, well-worn groove, wrinkle

stricken

• stricken, affected, agonized, broken, broken-down, brokenhearted, crushed, cut up, dashed, deep-troubled, demoralized, desolate, desolated, devoured by, disconsolate, grief-stricken, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, imbued with, impressed, impressed with, inundated, miserable, moved, neurasthenic, obsessed, obsessed by, overcome, overwhelmed, penetrated with, prostrate, prostrated, racked, reduced to jelly, seized with, shaken, shot, shot to pieces, suicidal, torn, tortured, touched, undone, unglued, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, upset, woebegone, woeful, wracked, wretched

strict

• strict, Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumscription, close, cold-blooded, complete, compulsive, confining, conscientious, constant, constrictive, correct, cramp, creedbound, critical, defined, delicate, demanding, despotic, detailed, dictatorial, direct, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, domineering, dour, draconian, evangelical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, feudal, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, forbidding, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, grinding, hard, hard-boiled, harsh, hidebound, high-handed, hyperorthodox, imperative, imperial, imperious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inflexible, ironhanded, just, limitation, literalist, literalistic, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, mathematical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, monocratic, narrow, nice, obloquy, oppressive, overbearing, overconscientious, overruling, overscrupulous, particular, peremptory, perfectionistic, picky, pinpoint, pitiless, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, prudish, punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, refined, reflection, religious, religiously exact, repressive, right, rigid, rigorist, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, slam, slur, square, staunch, stern, stint, straitlaced, stricture, stringent, subtle, suppressive, tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, tyrannical, tyrannous, uncompromising, undeviating, undistorted, unerring, unsparing, unsympathetic, veracious, veridical

strictly

• strictly, absolutely, accurately, austerely, conscientiously, dead, definitely, directly, even, exactingly, exactly, expressly, exquisitely, faithfully, fussily, grimly, harshly, in all respects, in detail, in every respect, ipsissimis verbis, just, literally, literatim, meticulously, minutely, nicely, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, right, rigidly, rigorously, ruggedly, scrupulously, severely, square, squarely, sternly, straight, stringently, to the letter, toughly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision, word by word, word for word

strictness

• strictness, Sabbatarianism, absoluteness, accommodation, accord, accordance, accuracy, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, attention to detail, attention to fact, bibliolatry, bigotry, care for truth, censoriousness, choosiness, circumstantiality, closeness, compliance, confinement, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, conscientiousness, consistency, conventionality, correctness, correspondence, criticality, criticalness, crowdedness, delicacy, detail, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, dogmatism, evangelicalism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, flexibility, fundamentalism, fussiness, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, harmony, hideboundness, hyperorthodoxy, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, keeping, limitation, line, literalism, literality, literalness, malleability, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niceness, nicety, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection, perfectionism, pliancy, preciseness, precisianism, precision, priggishness, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism, reconcilement, reconciliation, refinement, restrictedness, restriction, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, sabbatism, scripturalism, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, selectiveness, selectivity, sensitivity, severity, slenderness, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, straitness, strict interpretation, subtlety, taste, textualism, the letter, tight squeeze, tightness, traditionalism, uniformity

stricture

• stricture, abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion, arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion, astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, captiousness, carping, castigation, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cervix, check, circumscription, clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condemnation, condensation, consolidation, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, criticism, curtailment, damnation, decrease, decrial, delay, denouncement, denunciation, detainment, detention, deterrent, diminuendo, exception, excoriation, faultfinding, fixation, flak, flaying, foot-dragging, fulmination, fustigation, hairsplitting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hit, holdback, holdup, home thrust, hostile criticism, hourglass, hourglass figure, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, impediment, imputation, indictment, inhibition, interdiction, interference, interruption, isthmus, knitting, knock, let, nagging, narrow place, narrowing, neck, negativism, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuisance value, obloquy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, priggishness, puckering, pursing, quibble, quibbling, rap, reduction, reflection, reprehension, repression, reproachfulness, reprobation, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, shortening, skinning alive, slam, solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation, striction, suppression, swipe, systole, taking exception, taper, tapering, trichoschistism, wasp waist, wrinkling

stride

• stride, abut on, aesthetic distance, amble, ambulate, ankle, barge, be based on, bear on, bestraddle, bestride, bowl along, bundle, career, circumambulate, clearance, clip, clop, clump, compass, deep space, depths of space, distance, divergence, drag, droop, extent, farness, flounce, foot, foot it, footfall, footslog, footstep, gait, gallop, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof it, hoofbeat, hop, infinity, jaywalk, jog, jog on, jolt, jump, lean on, leeway, leg, leg it, length, lick, lie on, light-years, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, march, margin, mileage, mince, mincing steps, pace, pad, paddle, parsecs, pedestrianize, peg, perambulate, perch, peripateticate, perspective, piaffe, piaffer, piece, plod, prance, progress, rack, range, rate, reach, rely on, remoteness, repose on, rest on, ride, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, separation, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, sit on, skip, sling, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, space, span, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand on, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stretch, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, stump it, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, tramp, travel, tread, trip, trot, trudge, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, way, ways, wiggle, wobble

stridency

• stridency, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, arguteness, astringency, bite, bitterness, causticity, creakiness, edge, fierceness, grip, harshness, highness, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, pipingness, poignancy, point, reediness, rigor, roughness, screechiness, severity, sharpness, shrillness, sting, stridence, stridor, stridulousness, stringency, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, violence, virulence

strident

• strident, absonant, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, atonal, biting, bitter, blatant, boisterous, cacophonous, caustic, clamorous, cracked, creaking, croaking, cutting, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, double-edged, edged, escharotic, fierce, flat, grating, gravelly, grinding, guttural, harsh, hoarse, husky, immelodious, incisive, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, keen, loud, loudmouthed, mordacious, mordant, multivocal, musicless, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, openmouthed, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, penetrating, piercing, poignant, rasping, raucous, rigorous, rough, scathing, scraping, scratching, scratchy, severe, sharp, shrill, sour, squawky, stabbing, stentorian, stertorous, stinging, strident-voiced, stridulant, stridulous, stringent, tart, trenchant, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, vociferant

stridor

• stridor, acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness, screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness, stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf

stridulation

• stridulation, animal noise, bark, barking, birdcall, call, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, clang, creak, crick, cry, grunt, howl, howling, mating call, note, ululation, woodnote

strife

• strife, Kilkenny cats, altercation, animosity, antagonism, arguing, argument, bad blood, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, cat-and-dog life, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, difference, disagreement, discord, disharmony, disputation, dispute, dissension, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fighting, fliting, fracas, friction, fuss, hard feelings, hatred, hostility, ill will, imbroglio, litigation, logomachy, open quarrel, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rivalry, scrapping, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, squabble, squabbling, struggle, tiff, tussle, unfriendliness, vendetta, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangling

strigose

• strigose, banded, barbellate, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, bristled, bristling, bristly, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, listed, marbled, marbleized, setaceous, setose, setous, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigal, strigate, striolate, striped, stripy, stubbled, stubbly, studded, tabby, veined, watered

strike a balance

• strike a balance, accommodate, adjust, amortize, average, average out, avoid extremes, balance, balance the books, be conservative, be heavy, be moderate, be pacifistic, book, cancel, capitalize, carry, carry over, carry weight, cast up accounts, charge off, clear, close out, close the books, compensate, compose, compound, compromise, coordinate, cop out, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, credit, debit, discharge, docket, duck responsibility, enter, equalize, equate, evade responsibility, even, even up, fit, give and take, give way, go fifty-fifty, have weight, heft, hold the scales, honor, integrate, journalize, keep books, keep the peace, keep within bounds, keep within compass, level, lie heavy, lift, liquidate, live temperately, log, make a deal, make accounts square, make an adjustment, make an entry, make concessions, meet halfway, minute, not make waves, not resist, note, pair off, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, play politics, poise, post, post up, practice nonviolence, practice self-control, preserve a balance, proportion, reach a compromise, redeem, relent, remit, retire, satisfy, settle, settle down, sober down, split the difference, square, square accounts, strike a bargain, surrender, take in sail, take the average, take the mean, take up, tip the scales, via media, weigh, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight, yield

strike a bargain

• strike a bargain, accommodate, adjust, agree, agree on, agree on terms, agree to, agree with, bargain for, be a bargain, be a deal, be a go, be on, come around to, come to terms, compose, compound, compromise, cop out, covenant, duck responsibility, evade responsibility, formalize, get together, give and take, give way, go fifty-fifty, make a bargain, make a deal, make a dicker, make an adjustment, make concessions, meet halfway, play politics, reach a compromise, seal, settle, shake hands, shake hands on, shake on it, sign, split the difference, strike a balance, surrender, take the mean, yield

strike home

• strike home, affect, come home to, evoke a response, get a reaction, get a response, hit, hit a nerve, hit home, hit the mark, impress, impress forcibly, make an impression, ring a bell, rock, sink in, smite, strike, strike fire, strike hard, tell, traumatize

strike off

• strike off, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, ad-lib, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, bowdlerize, cancel, cast off, cast out, censor, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, cook up, crop, cross out, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, dash off, delete, deport, dispose of, do offhand, dock, edit, edit out, eject, elide, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, erase, except, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, expunge, expurgate, extemporize, extinguish, extirpate, fake, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, improvisate, improvise, isolate, jury-rig, kill, knock off, lash up, liquidate, lop, make up, mutilate, nip, omit, outlaw, pare, peel, pick out, play by ear, prune, purge, remove, rescind, root out, root up, rub out, rule out, scrap the plan, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, stamp out, strike, strike out, strip, strip off, take off, take out, throw off, throw over, throw overboard, throw together, toss off, toss out, truncate, vamp, void, weed out, whip up, whomp up, wing it, wipe out

strike out

• strike out, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, be off, bear, bear for, bear up for, bear up to, beget, blot, blot out, blue-pencil, bomb, bowdlerize, break for, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, cancel, cast off, cast out, censor, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, crap out, cross out, cut, cut and thrust, cut out, dash for, dele, delete, deport, design, develop, devise, discover, dispose of, draw a blank, dream up, drop a bomb, drop the ball, edit, edit out, efface, eject, elide, eliminate, engender, eradicate, erase, evolve, exile, expatriate, expel, expunge, expurgate, fabricate, fan, feint, flail at, flail away at, flop, flummox, fold, fold up, frame, generate, get left, get off, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give being to, give rise to, go for, go forth, hatch, head, hit at, hit for, improvise, invent, issue, issue forth, kill, lash out at, lay an egg, lay for, let drive at, let fly at, light out, liquidate, lose out, lunge at, make, make do with, make for, make up, make up to, mature, mint, not hack it, not make it, obliterate, omit, originate, outlaw, outset, outstart, pick out, plan, poke at, procreate, purge, put forth, raze, remove, rescind, root out, root up, rub out, rule out, run for, sail for, sally, sally forth, scratch, scratch out, set, set forth, set forward, set off, set out, set out for, spawn, sponge, sponge out, start, start off, start out, steer for, strike, strike at, strike off, strike out at, swing at, swing on, take off, take the count, think out, think up, throw over, throw overboard, thrust at, void, weed out, whiff, wipe out

strike

• strike, abbreviate, abridge, administer, adopt, advance against, advance upon, affect, afflict, aggravated assault, aggression, agree on, aim, ambush, amphibious attack, arise, armed assault, arrest, arrest the thoughts, arrive at, assail, assailing, assailment, assault, assume, attack, attain, bang, bang into, banzai attack, bash, bat, batter, bear down upon, beat, beef, belabor, bell, belt, beset, biff, birch, bitch, blitz, blitzkrieg, blot out, blow it, bludgeon, blue-pencil, boggle, bonk, bop, bowdlerize, box, box the ears, boycott, boycottage, breakthrough, bring out, bringing to light, buffet, bump, bump into, bushwhack, call a strike, call in question, call it quits, cancel, cane, cannon, carom, carom into, carry, casual discovery, catch, catch the thoughts, catching, censor, challenge, chance discovery, chance upon, charge, check, checkmate, clap, clash, clip, clobber, close down, close shop, clout, club, clump, cock, coldcock, collide, come a cropper, come across, come at, come down on, come home to, come into collision, come to, come to mind, come up with, complain, complaint, compunction, conclude, concuss, confirm, confront each other, conjure up, conk, contrive, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crack, crack down on, crack up, crash, crash into, cripple, crippling attack, cross out, crown, crump, crunch, cry out against, cudgel, cuff, cut, cutoff, dash, dash into, dawn on, dawn upon one, dead set at, dead stop, deadlock, deal, deal a blow, deck, delete, deliver, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, descend on, descend upon, descent on, detection, determination, determine, determining, detonate, devise, ding, direct, disable, discharge, disclosure, discover, discovery, dismantle, display, dispute, distinguishment, diversion, diversionary attack, dream up, drive, drop, edit, edit out, eject, eliminate, encounter, end, endgame, ending, engrave, enter a protest, eradicate, erase, espial, excavation, exception, excruciate, exhumation, expostulate, expostulation, exposure, expunge, expurgate, fail, fall, fall foul of, fall on, fall upon, feign, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, final whistle, find, find out, finding, finding out, fire, fire off, flank, flank attack, flog, flop, foul, frontal attack, full stop, gang up on, gas, gas attack, get, get nowhere, get out, go at, go for, go into, go on strike, go out, goal, grab, grab one, grand slam, grievance, grievance committee, grinding halt, gun, gun for, halt, hammer, harrow, harry, have at, head-on attack, hectograph, hit, hit a clip, hit against, hit like lightning, hit the mark, hit upon, hold out, hole, hole in one, holler, home run, homer, horsewhip, howl, hunt down, hurt, hurtle, ignite, impact, impinge, implant, impress, impress forcibly, imprint, improvise, incapacitate, indignation meeting, indispose, induce, infiltrate, infiltration, inflict, influence, inspire, insurge, insurrect, invalid, invent, invention, issue, jab, job action, jump, kick, kill, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, lambaste, land on, lash, launch an attack, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay off, let fly, let have it, let off, light, light into, lightning attack, lightning war, load, locate, locating, location, lock out, lockout, lucky strike, mace, make, make an impression, march, march against, march upon, martyr, mass attack, meet, megadeath, mimeograph, mint, miss the boat, mount an attack, mount the barricades, move, mug, mugging, multigraph, mutineer, mutiny, nail, nonviolent protest, object, objection, obliterate, occur, occur to, offense, offensive, offer itself, omit, onset, onslaught, open an offensive, outlaw strike, overkill, overprint, overthrow, panzer warfare, paste, pelt, pepper, percuss, pick off, picket, picketing, pistol, pitch into, plug, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pot, potshoot, potshot, pounce upon, pound, present itself, press objections, prime, print, proof, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, prove, publish, puck, pull, pull a proof, pummel, punch, push, put on, put out, put to bed, put to press, qualm, rack, raise a howl, rally, ratify, reach, rebel, recognition, rediscover, rediscovery, register with, reissue, reluct, reluctate, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, remove, reprint, rescind, revelation, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, riddle, riot, rise, rise to mind, rise up, rock, rub out, rulebook slowdown, run, run against, run at, run down, run into, run off, run riot, run to earth, rush, sail into, sally, score, scourge, scratch, scruple, secure, serendipity, set on, set upon, settle on, shock tactics, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shut down, shut it down, shut up shop, sick-in, sideswipe, sink in, sit down, sit in, sit-down, sit-down strike, sit-in, slam, slam into, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slosh, slow down, slowdown, slug, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, snipe, soak, sock, sortie, spotting, squawk, stalemate, stamp, stand, standoff, standstill, state a grievance, stay, stick out, stop, stoppage, storm, strike against, strike at, strike hard, strike home, strike off, strike out, strike the mind, strike up, stumble on, subvert, suggest itself, surprise, swap, swat, sway, swipe, swoop down on, sympathy strike, take, take a potshot, take apart, take away, take on, take the offensive, teach in, teach-in, tell, thrash, thrust, thump, thwack, tie-up, torment, torpedo, torture, touch, touchdown, trace, trace down, track down, traumatize, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, try, turnout, uncovering, unearthing, unprovoked assault, void, wade into, walk out, walkout, wallop, whack, wham, whip, whomp, whop, wildcat strike, wipe out, work out, work stoppage, wring, yell bloody murder, yerk

strikebreaker

• strikebreaker, apostate, backslider, blackleg, bolter, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, fifth columnist, fink, mugwump, proselyte, quisling, rat, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, scab, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail

striking

• striking, abbreviation, abridgment, acid, agitating, amazing, appalling, armipotent, arrant, arresting, astonishing, astounding, authoritative, awe-inspiring, awesome, beguiling, bewildering, biting, blatant, blue-penciling, bold, bowdlerization, breathtaking, cancellation, celebrated, censoring, censorship, charged, cliff-hanging, cogent, coinage, coining, compelling, conspicuous, corrosive, counterfeiting, cutting, deletion, disquieting, distinguished, distracting, disturbing, driving, dynamic, editing, effective, egregious, electric, eminent, energetic, enigmatic, erasure, esteemed, estimable, exceptional, exciting, exhilarating, expurgation, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, flagrant, forceful, forcible, forgery, formidable, galvanic, glaring, great, gutsy, hanging out, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, imperative, imposing, impressive, in force, in power, in relief, in the foreground, incisive, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, inflammatory, intoxicating, irresistible, jarring, jolting, maddening, magnificent, marked, marvelous, memorable, mighty, mighty in battle, mind-blowing, mintage, miraculous, mordant, moving, nervous, noble, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, of mark, omission, operative, ostensible, outlandish, outstanding, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passing strange, penetrating, perturbing, phenomenal, piercing, piquant, poignant, potent, powerful, prepotent, prestigious, prodigious, prominent, pronounced, provocative, provoking, puissant, punchy, puzzling, rare, ravishing, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, ripping, ruling, salient, sensational, showy, signal, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, smashing, soul-stirring, special, spirit-stirring, splendid, stamping, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, strange, strong, stunning, stupendous, superb, superior, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, top-hole, topping, trenchant, troubling, uncommon, unforgettable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, unsettling, unusual, upsetting, valid, vigorous, vital, wonderful, wondrous

string along

• string along, act with, align with, bamboozle, bedog, beguile, betray, blarney, bluff, butter, butter up, cajole, chase, cheat on, circumvent, come after, come behind, conjure, coquet, dally, deceive, delude, diddle, dog, double-cross, dupe, flirt, flock to, follow, fool, forestall, gammon, get around, get together with, go after, go along with, go behind, go in with, gull, heel, hoax, hocus-pocus, honey, hornswaggle, hound, humbug, join, join hands with, join up with, join with, jolly, juggle, kid along, lay it on, lead on, let down, line up with, mock, move behind, oil, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overdo it, overreach, pigeon, play one false, play up to, pursue, put something over, rally round, range with, shadow, side with, snow, soap, soft-soap, soften up, stand in with, strike in with, string along with, stroke, swing in with, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, tailgate, take in, take part with, take sides with, team up with, throw in with, toy, trail, trail after, tread close upon, trick, two-time, unite with, wanton

string out

• string out, align, array, bank, chatter, continue, drag out, draw, draw out, elongate, extend, fill out, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, line, line up, never finish, pad, perorate, produce, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull, range, rank, row, run out, speak at length, spin out, strain, stretch, stretch out, tauten, tense, tighten

string quartet

• string quartet, German band, Nachtmusik, Philharmonic, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, arrangement, band, big band, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, callithumpian band, chamber music, chamber orchestra, combo, composition, concert band, descant, desks, dixieland band, electronic music, ensemble, etude, exercise, gamelan orchestra, group, harmonization, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, jazz band, jug band, military band, nocturne, opus, orchestra, orchestration, piece, production, program music, quartet, quintet, ragtime band, ricercar, rock-and-roll group, score, sextet, skiffle band, sonata, sonatina, steel band, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, strings, study, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, theme and variations, trio, variation, waits, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds, work

string

• string, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Indian file, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, age group, agree, array, articulation, atone, attune, authority, band, bank, bar, bass, bass viol, battalion, be continuous, bevy, bluff, body, boundary condition, bow, braid, brail, bridge, brigade, bull fiddle, bunch, buzz, cabal, cable, caravan, cast, catch, catches, catena, catenate, catenation, catgut, cavalcade, cello, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chaplet, cheat, choker, chord, clause, clique, cohort, collaborate, column, command, company, complement, concatenate, concatenation, concur, condition, conditions, connect, connect up, connection, consecution, contingent, continuate, continue, continuum, contrabass, control, cord, corps, cortege, coterie, course, covey, crew, crowd, cycle, deceive, delay, dernier ressort, descent, detachment, detail, division, dominate, domination, donnee, doorstep, double bass, drag out, drape, dress parade, drone, dupe, echelon, eight, eleven, endless belt, endless round, entry, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, exception, exert influence, expedient, extend, faction, favorite, festoon, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fiddlestring, filament, file, filiation, fine print, fingerboard, first string, first team, five, fleet, flyover, follow, fool, footrest, footstep, form a series, funeral, gamut, gang, given, go along with, gradation, grounds, group, grouping, groupment, hang, hoax, hold the reins, horsehair, hum, in-group, join, joker, junta, jurisdiction, kicker, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, lead, leader, leash, ligament, ligation, ligature, limitations, limiting condition, line, lineage, linguistic act, link, locution, loop, lynch, maintain continuity, makeshift, manipulate, march past, mastery, might, mob, monotone, motorcade, movement, mudder, mule train, necklace, nexus, nine, nylon string, obligation, operate, order, out-group, outfit, pack, pack train, parade, parameter, parol, parole, party, peer group, pendulum, periodicity, phalanx, phonation, plate horse, plater, platoon, plenum, pole horse, pomp, pony, posse, postpone, powder train, prerequisite, procession, progression, promenade, protract, provision, provisions, proviso, pull the strings, put in tune, qualification, queue, race horse, racer, range, rank, reach, recourse, recurrence, refuge, regiment, requisite, reservation, reserves, resort, rest, reticulation, review, riser, rope, rotation, round, routine, row, rowing crew, run, run on, rundle, rung, salon, saving clause, scale, scroll, second string, second team, sequel, sequence, sequence of phonemes, series, set, shift, sine qua non, single file, skimmington, sling, small print, soundboard, speaking, specification, spectrum, speech act, spin out, spoke, spun yarn, squad, stable, stair, stake horse, staker, starter, stave, steel string, steeplechaser, step, step stool, stepping-stone, stipulation, stipulations, stopgap, strand, stream, stretch, string along, string out, string together, string up, strings, strip, stripe, substitute, succession, suspend, swath, sway, team, tendon, tenor violin, term, terms, the spoken word, third string, thong, thread, tier, tone down, tone up, tongue, train, tread, tribe, trick, troop, troupe, tune, tune up, tuning peg, twine, twist, ultimatum, utterance, utterance string, varsity, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, vocable, voice, whereas, windrow, wing, wire, word, word of mouth, wound string, wreath, yarn

stringency

• stringency, Spartanism, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, bite, bitterness, causticity, chinchiness, chintziness, demandingness, discipline, edge, exactingness, exiguity, fewness, fierceness, grimness, grip, hardness, harshness, inclemency, infrequency, keenness, meagerness, meticulousness, miserliness, mordacity, mordancy, niggardliness, paucity, poignancy, point, rarity, regimentation, restrictedness, rigid discipline, rigor, roughness, ruggedness, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, severity, sharpness, skimpiness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, sternness, sting, stinginess, strictness, stridency, tartness, teeth, thinness, tightness, toughness, trenchancy, ungentleness, vehemence, violence, virulence

stringent

• stringent, Spartan, Spartanic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, austere, authoritarian, binding, biting, bitter, bleak, caustic, confining, cutting, demanding, double-edged, dour, draconian, drawing, edged, escharotic, exacting, exigent, fierce, grim, hard, harsh, incisive, inclement, ironhanded, keen, meticulous, mordacious, mordant, penetrating, piercing, poignant, rigorist, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, sharp, stabbing, stern, stinging, strict, strident, tart, tough, trenchant, ungentle, unsparing, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic

strings

• strings, Byzantine intrigues, German band, Philharmonic, backstairs influence, band, big band, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, callithumpian band, chamber orchestra, chordophone, combo, concert band, connections, deals, desks, dixieland band, ensemble, gamelan orchestra, games, group, influence peddling, intrigues, jazz band, jug band, lobbying, lobbyism, military band, orchestra, ploys, provision, proviso, quartet, quintet, ragtime band, reservation, rock-and-roll group, ropes, schemes, sextet, skiffle band, steel band, stipulation, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, stringed instrument, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, terms, trio, waits, wire-pulling, wires, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds

stringy

• stringy, adhesive, amylaceous, besprinkle, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, coriaceous, curdled, doughy, durable, dust, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gossamery, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, mucilaginous, pasty, powder, resistant, ropy, silky, sinewy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, strong, stubborn, syrupy, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thick, thickened, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, untiring, vigorous, viscid, viscose, viscous, wiry

strip

• strip, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, abscind, adhesive tape, airstrip, amputate, annihilate, apron, ban, band, bandage, bandeau, bankrupt, bar, bare, bark, batten, belt, bereave, billet, bleed, bleed white, bob, bolt, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, call, can, cashier, cellophane tape, clearway, clip, cloth tape, coil, confiscate, crop, cross-hatching, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, dash, decorticate, defoliate, defrock, degrade, delineation, demote, denudate, denude, deplume, depose, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, diagonal, disarray, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismantle, dismember, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease, dock, doff, dotted line, drain, draw and quarter, drum out, dry, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, excoriate, exhaust, expel, expose, expropriate, extinguish, extirpate, fairway, fascia, fillet, fire, flay, fleece, flight deck, friction tape, furlough, girdle, give the ax, give the gate, hachure, hairline, hatching, impoverish, ingot, isolate, kick, kick upstairs, knock off, lacerate, landing deck, landing strip, lath, lay bare, lay off, lay open, let go, let out, ligula, ligule, line, lineation, list, loot, lop, maim, make redundant, mangle, masking tape, milk, mutilate, nip, option, pare, part, peel, pension off, pick clean, pick out, pick to pieces, piece, pillage, plank, plastic tape, pluck, plunder, portion, prune, pull apart, put, put and call, ransack, read out of, release, remove, replace, retire, ribband, ribbon, right, rip off, rob, rod, roll, root out, rule out, run, runway, sack, scale, scalp, score, section, segment, seize, separate forcibly, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shred, skin, slab, slash, slat, slip, spill, spline, spoliate, spread, stamp out, stick, stock option, straddle, strake, strap, streak, streaking, striation, strike off, string, strip bare, strip off, stripe, striping, stripping, stroke, strop, sublineation, suck dry, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swath, swathe, taenia, take apart, take away, take off, take out, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, ticker tape, truncate, turn off, turn out, unarray, uncase, uncloak, unclothe, uncover, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undrape, undress, unfrock, unsheathe, unveil, virgule, waste, wipe out

stripe

• stripe, Hershey bar, animus, aptitude, aviation badge, badge, band, bandeau, bar, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, bent, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bias, birch, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blood, blotch, body-build, box, brand, breed, buffet, cane, cast, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, characteristics, check, check off, checker, chevron, chicken, cicatrize, clan, class, club, color, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cowhide, crack, crasis, craze, cross-hatching, cudgel, cuff, cut, dapple, dash, define, delimit, delineation, demarcate, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diagonal, diathesis, discolor, disposition, dot, dotted line, drub, eagle, eccentricity, engrave, epaulet, ethos, feather, fiber, fillet, flagellate, flail, flake, flap, fleck, flog, form, frame, freckle, fustigate, gash, genius, genre, genus, give a whipping, give the stick, grain, habit, hachure, hairline, harlequin, hash mark, hatch, hatching, hide, horsewhip, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, imprint, inclination, individualism, insignia of branch, iris, kidney, kin, kind, knout, label, lace, lash, lather, lay on, leaning, length, line, lineation, list, lot, maculate, make, make a mark, makeup, manner, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, motley, mottle, nature, nick, notch, number, oak leaf, order, organization insignia, overseas bar, parachute badge, patch, pencil, pepper, persuasion, phylum, physique, pip, pistol-whip, point, polychrome, polychromize, pommel, predilection, predisposition, preference, prick, print, proclivity, propensity, property, pummel, punch, punctuate, puncture, quality, race, rainbow, rawhide, ribbon, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scourge, scratch, seal, seam, service stripe, set, shape, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, slant, slap, slash, smack, smite, somatotype, sort, spangle, spank, species, speck, speckle, spirit, splotch, spot, spread eagle, sprinkle, stain, stamp, star, stigmatize, stipple, strain, strake, strap, streak, streaking, stria, striate, striation, striature, striga, string, striola, strip, striping, stroke, stud, style, sublineation, submarine badge, suchness, swinge, switch, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the like of, the likes of, thrash, thump, tick, tick off, tone, trace, tribe, trounce, truncheon, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, variegate, variety, vein, virgule, wallop, warp, way, whale, whip, whop, yerk

striped

• striped, banded, barred, brinded, brindle, brindled, cancellated, crossbarred, filigreed, grated, gridded, laced, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, lined, listed, marbled, marbleized, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, plexiform, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, streaky, striatal, striate, striated, strigate, strigose, striolate, stripy, tabby, veined, watered

stripling

• stripling, Young Turk, adolescent, arriviste, baby, boy, bright young man, comer, fledgling, hobbledehoy, hopeful, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, lad, laddie, minor, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, pubescent, rising generation, sapling, schoolboy, slip, son, sprig, tad, teenager, teener, teenybopper, upstart, young hopeful, young man, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

stripped

• stripped, bared, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denudated, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, divested, exposed, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lacking, laid bare, mendicant, minus, naked, necessitous, needy, nude, on relief, out at elbows, out of, parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, raw, robbed of, shorn of, showing, stark-naked, starveling, stripped of, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, underprivileged, undressed, unveiled, wanting

stripper

• stripper, analyzer, artist, artiste, bareness, belly dancer, birthday suit, breaker, burlesque queen, centrifuge, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, cutter, dancer, dancing girl, decollete, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nakedness, naturism, naturist, nautch girl, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, separator, show girl, sieve, singer, state of nature, stripteaser, stripteuse, teaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

striptease

• striptease, act, afterpiece, bit, chaser, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, disrobement, disrobing, divertimento, divertissement, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, finale, hoke act, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, molting, number, peeling, prologue, routine, scene, shedding, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, strip, stripping, turn, undressing

stripteaser

• stripteaser, artist, artiste, bareness, belly dancer, birthday suit, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, decollete, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nakedness, naturism, naturist, nautch girl, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, state of nature, stripper, stripteuse, teaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

strive against

• strive against, antagonize, battle, beat against, beat up against, breast the wave, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, challenge, close with, combat, compete with, complain, complain loudly, confront, contend against, contend with, contest, dispute, dissent, face down, face out, face up to, fight, fight against, front, grapple with, join battle with, kick against, labor against, make a stand, meet head-on, militate against, object, offer resistance, oppose, protest, recalcitrate, reluct, reluctate, remonstrate, revolt, rival, show fight, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, stem the tide, struggle against, take on, vie with, withstand

strive

• strive, agonize, aim, aim to, assay, attempt, attempt to, battle, be determined, box, brawl, broil, buffet, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, compete, contend, contest, cut and thrust, dare to, drive, duel, endeavor, essay, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, go all out, grapple, grapple with, grunt and sweat, hassle, huff and puff, jostle, joust, labor, make every effort, mix it up, moil, offer, pretend to, quarrel, rassle, resolve, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scuffle, seek, seek to, skirmish, spar, strain, strive to, struggle, study, study to, sweat, sweat blood, thrust and parry, tilt, toil, tourney, travail, try, try and, try hard, try to, tug, tussle, undertake, venture to, wage war, war, work, work at, wrestle

striving

• striving, aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, battling, combat, competition, conflict, contending, contestant, contesting, counsel, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, disputant, drudging, effect, effort, emulation, endeavor, essay, exertion, fight, fighting, fixed purpose, function, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, hassle, idea, intendment, intent, intention, labor, laboring, meaning, mind, motive, nisus, pegging, plan, plodding, plugging, point, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, quarrelsome, resolution, resolve, rivalry, sake, slaving, slogging, strain, straining, strife, struggle, struggling, study, sweating, toil, toiling, travail, trial, try, tug-of-war, undertaking, view, warfare, warlike, warring, will, work, working

stroke

• stroke, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abuse, access, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ache, achievement, aching, act, acta, action, activated epilepsy, ad hoc measure, adventure, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, aneurysm, angina, angina pectoris, answer, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, approach, arrest, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, artifice, assay, atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, attack, attempt, auricular fibrillation, autonomic epilepsy, band, bang, bar, bash, bat, beat, beating, belt, beriberi heart, bid, biff, bit, blarney, bleed, bleed white, blockage, blow, bonk, breakup, breath, brush, butter, butter up, cardiac arrest, cardiac epilepsy, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, caress, cataclysm, catalepsy, cataplexy, chop, climax, clip, clonic spasm, clonus, clout, clump, congenital heart disease, contact, contrivance, convulsion, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, cortical epilepsy, countermove, coup, course of action, crack, cramp, cross-hatching, cursive epilepsy, cut, cutaneous sense, dash, dealings, deed, delineation, demarche, device, diagonal, diastolic hypertension, diastrophism, dig, dint, diplegia, dirty work, disaster, distress, diurnal epilepsy, dodge, doing, doings, dolor, donkeywork, dotted line, drain, drub, drubbing, drudgery, drumming, eclampsia, effort, embolism, employment, encased heart, endeavor, endocarditis, enterprise, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, essay, example, expedient, experiment, exploit, extrasystole, fag, fait accompli, falling sickness, fatigue, fatty heart, feat, feel, feel up, feeling, fibroid heart, fingertip caress, fit, flash, flask-shaped heart, flick, fling, flourish, focal epilepsy, fondle, frenzy, frictionize, frosted heart, fusillade, gambit, gest, gesture, get around, gimmick, glance, go, grand mal, graze, grief, grind, grip, hachure, hairline, hairy heart, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, hand, hand-mindedness, handiwork, handwork, happening, hatching, haute mal, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, hemiplegia, high blood pressure, hint, hit, honey, hurt, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, ill-use, impose upon, improvisation, industry, infantile paralysis, injury, instant, iota, ischemic heart disease, jab, jiff, jiffy, job, jolly, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kid along, kiss, knead, knock, labor, lambency, lap, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, last expedient, last resort, last shift, latent epilepsy, lay it on, lesion, lick, lick of work, light touch, line, lineation, lockjaw, make use of, makeshift, maneuver, manipulate, manual labor, mark, massage, matter, matutinal epilepsy, means, measure, menstrual epilepsy, microsecond, milk, millisecond, minute, misuse, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, moil, moment, motion, move, movement, musicogenic epilepsy, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myoclonous epilepsy, myovascular insufficiency, nasty blow, nocturnal epilepsy, nose, nuzzle, occlusion, occurrence, offer, oil, operation, orgasm, overdo it, overt act, overthrow, ox heart, pain, palpitation, palsy, pang, paralysis, paralytic stroke, paraplegia, paresis, paroxysm, paroxysmal tachycardia, passage, passion, pat, pelt, performance, pericarditis, pet, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pile, pis aller, play on, play up to, plunk, poke, polio, poliomyelitis, pound, premature beat, presume upon, proceeding, production, pseudoaortic insufficiency, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pulsation, pulse, punch, quake, rap, rat race, reflex epilepsy, res gestae, resort, resource, rheumatic heart disease, rotatoria, round heart, rub, rub against, rub down, rub noses, sclerosis, score, scrap, scut work, sec, second, seizure, sense of touch, sensory epilepsy, sensory paralysis, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, shake, shake-up, shift, shock, shot, slam, slash, slavery, slog, slug, smack, smash, soap, sock, soft-soap, soften up, solution, soothe, sore, sore spot, spadework, spasm, splash, split second, stab, step, stitch, stony heart, stopgap, stoppage, stratagem, streak, streaking, stress, stress of life, striation, strike, string along, strip, stripe, striping, stroke of policy, stroke of work, strong bid, stunt, sublineation, suck dry, suffering, suggestion, swat, sweat, swing, swipe, tachycardia, tactic, tactile sense, taction, take advantage of, tap, tardy epilepsy, task, tattoo, temblor, temporary expedient, tender spot, tentative, tentative poke, tetanus, tetany, thing, thing done, throb, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, thump, thwack, tick, tidal wave, tiresome work, toil, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, touch, tour de force, transaction, traumatic epilepsy, travail, treadmill, trial, trial and error, trice, trick, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, trismus, trump, try, tsunami, turn, turtle heart, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, ucinate epilepsy, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undertaking, upheaval, use, use ill, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, virgule, visitation, wallop, whack, whisper, whop, wink, work, work on, work upon, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, wound, wrench, yerk

stroll

• stroll, airing, amble, andante, barge, bat around, bowl along, bum, bundle, claudicate, claudication, clump, constitutional, count ties, crawl, creep, dead march, divagate, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, drift, droop, flit, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, forced march, funeral march, gad, gad about, gait, gallivant, gallop, go about, go dead slow, go slow, go the rounds, halt, hike, hippety-hop, hit the road, hit the trail, hitch, hobble, hobo, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jaunt, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, knock about, knock around, laze, leisurely gait, limp, linger, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, march, meander, mince, mincing steps, mooch, mope, mosey, muck, mush, nomadize, pace, paddle, parade, peg, peregrinate, pererrate, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, piaffe, piaffer, plod, poke, poke along, prance, promenade, prowl, rack, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, run about, sashay, saunter, schlep, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stray, stretch, stride, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, traipse, tramp, tread, trip, trot, trudge, turn, vagabond, vagabondize, velocity, waddle, walk, walk the tracks, walking tour, wamble, wander, wayfare, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along

stroller

• stroller, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Roscius, Ulysses, actor, actress, antagonist, baby buggy, baby carriage, bad guy, barnstormer, bird of passage, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, drifter, feeder, floater, foil, gad, gadabout, go-about, gocart, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, itinerant, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mover, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, perambulator, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, playactor, player, pram, protean actor, rambler, reciter, roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straggler, straight man, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, troubadour, trouper, utility man, villain, visitant, walker, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

strolling player

• strolling player, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Roscius, Ulysses, actor, actress, antagonist, bad guy, barnstormer, bird of passage, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, drifter, feeder, floater, foil, gad, gadabout, go-about, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, itinerant, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mover, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, playactor, player, protean actor, rambler, reciter, roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straggler, straight man, stroller, theatrical, thespian, troubadour, trouper, utility man, villain, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar

strolling

• strolling, ambling, ambulant, ambulation, ambulative, ambulatory, backpacking, cautious, circuit-riding, circumforaneous, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, discursive, divagatory, drifting, easy, errant, expeditionary, faltering, flagging, flitting, floating, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, footwork, fugitive, gadding, gentle, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, going on foot, gradual, gypsy-like, gypsyish, halting, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, landloping, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, locomotive, lumbering, marching, meandering, migrational, migratory, moderate, moving, mundivagant, nomad, nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, pedestrianism, perambulating, perambulation, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, poking, poky, progressing, rambling, ranging, relaxed, reluctant, roaming, roving, sauntering, shifting, 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, staggering, straggling, straying, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, touring, touristic, touristy, traipsing, tramping, transient, transitory, transmigratory, traveling, treading, trekking, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, vagabond, vagrant, waddling, walking, wandering, wayfaring

strong arm

• strong arm, amperage, argumentum baculinum, arm, armipotence, authority, battler, beef, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, black power, blackjack, blade, bludgeon, bravo, brawler, brute force, bulldoze, bulldozer, bully, bullyboy, charge, charisma, clout, coerce, coercion, coercive, cogence, cogency, combatant, competitor, compulsion, contender, contestant, dint, disputant, dragoon, drive, duelist, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, enforcer, exert strength, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, flower power, foilsman, force, force majeure, forcefulness, forcible, full blast, full force, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, high pressure, hijack, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, influence, intimidate, intimidation, jouster, knight, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, militant, moxie, muscle, muscle power, pizzazz, plug-ugly, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, pressure, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, quarreler, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, shanghai, sinew, sledgehammer, squabbler, steam, steamroller, strength, strong-arm man, strong-arm tactics, strong-armer, struggler, superiority, superpower, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, use force, use violence, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, violence, violent, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, wrangler

strong in

• strong in, acquainted with, adept in, at home in, at home with, conversant with, expert at, familiar with, good at, handy at, informed in, intimate with, master of, proficient in, skilled in, up on, versed in, well up on, well-read in, well-versed

strong language

• strong language, bad language, billingsgate, bite, bitingness, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, cuttingness, dirty language, dirty talk, drive, dysphemism, effectiveness, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, force, forcefulness, foul language, guts, impressiveness, incisiveness, mordancy, nervosity, nervousness, obscenity, poignancy, power, profane swearing, profanity, punch, ribaldry, scatology, sinew, sinewiness, strength, swearing, trenchancy, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vigor, vigorousness, vile language, vitality, vulgar language

strong man

• strong man, Antaeus, Atlas, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Charles Atlas, Cyclops, Goliath, Hercules, Polyphemus, Samson, Superman, Tarzan, Titan, bully, bullyboy, colossus, despot, dictator, duce, giant, gorilla, muscle man, oppressor, powerhouse, stalwart, strong-arm man, the mighty, the strong, tough, tough guy, tower of strength

strong minded

• strong minded, bright, conceptive, conceptual, controlled, discursive, firm-minded, forward, ideational, importunate, independent, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, noetic, not so dumb, pushy, rational, reasonable, sane, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, sensible, sophic, strong-willed, understanding

strong point

• strong point, ability, acropolis, area, bag, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bridgehead, bump, bunker, caliber, capability, capacity, castle, citadel, cogency, cup of tea, donjon, dower, dowry, endowment, equipment, faculty, fasthold, fastness, field, flair, fort, forte, fortress, garrison, garrison house, genius, gift, good reason, good reasoning, hold, instinct, ironclad reasoning, keep, knockdown argument, line, long suit, main interest, makings, manner, martello, martello tower, metier, mote, motte, natural endowment, natural gift, parts, peel, peel tower, pet subject, pillbox, post, potential, power, powers, pursuit, qualification, rath, right thinking, safehold, sound evidence, sound reasoning, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, strong argument, strong flair, stronghold, style, talent, talents, technicality, the goods, the stuff, thing, tower, tower of strength, type, vocation, ward, way, weakness, what it takes

strong room

• strong room, Fort Knox, bank, bursary, cash register, cashbox, chest, coffer, coin box, depository, exchequer, fisc, gold depository, locker, money chest, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, storehouse, strongbox, subtreasury, till, treasure-house, treasury, vault

strong willed

• strong willed, balking, balky, beefy, bigoted, bouncing, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, controlled, dogged, dogmatic, doughty, fanatic, firm-minded, forceful, forcible, forcy, forward, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardheaded, hardy, headstrong, hearty, hefty, husky, importunate, independent, intolerant, iron-hard, lusty, mighty, mulish, nervy, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, potent, powerful, puissant, pushy, red-blooded, restive, robust, robustious, rugged, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, self-willed, set, stalwart, steely, stiff-necked, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-minded, strongheaded, stubborn, sturdy, sulky, sullen, tenacious, uncooperative, unregenerate, vigorous, willful

strong

• strong, Draconian, able, able-bodied, accented, acid, acrid, active, acute, adamantine, affluent, aggressive, aggressively, alcoholic, alveolar, animated, antagonistically, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, ardent, armipotent, aromatic, articulated, assertive, assiduous, assimilated, athletic, authoritative, back, bad, bad-smelling, balanced, barytone, basic, beefy, bilabial, biting, blinding, blown, bold, bouncing, brawny, bright, brilliant, brisk, broad, bulky, burly, cacuminal, capable, cartilaginous, central, cerebral, charismatic, charming, checked, chewy, clear, clear-cut, close, cogent, cohesive, combative, compelling, competent, comprehensive, concentrated, conclusive, consequential, considerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, convincing, coriaceous, corrosive, craggy, cutting, dazzling, dedicated, deep, deep-felt, deep-rooted, defensive, definite, dense, dental, determined, difficult, diligent, dissimilated, distinct, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dorsal, doughty, drastic, driving, durable, dynamic, eager, earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, emotional, emphatic, enchanting, enduring, energetic, engraved, enterprising, enthusiastic, estimable, etched, exhaustive, experienced, extreme, fast, fecal, fervent, fervid, fetid, fibrous, firm, flat, flourishing, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, formidable, foul, fragrant, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, full, full of pep, full-blooded, full-bodied, full-strength, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, garish, glaring, glide, glossal, glottal, go-go, good, grand, graphic, grave, graveolent, great, gristly, gutsy, guttural, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hard-nosed, hard-working, hardy, harsh, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, heroic, high, high-handed, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tasted, high-tension, hot, husky, ill-smelling, imperative, impetuous, important, impressed, impressive, imprinted, in force, in power, incisive, indefatigable, influential, intense, intensified, intonated, iron-hard, irrefutable, irresistible, keen, kinetic, knowledgeable, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large, lasting, lateral, lax, leatherlike, leathery, light, likely, lingual, liquid, lively, living, low, lusty, magnetic, main, malodorous, marked, massive, maximum, mephitic, mettlesome, miasmal, miasmic, mid, mighty, mighty in battle, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, momentous, monophthongal, mordant, muscular, musty, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nervous, nervy, nidorous, noisome, numerous, obstinate, occlusive, odoriferous, odorous, off, offensive, offensively, olid, open, operative, opinionated, overbearingly, overenthusiastically, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, passionate, penetrating, peppy, persistent, personable, persuasive, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, piercing, piquant, pitch, pitched, plenary, poignant, posttonic, potent, powerful, prepotent, prestigious, profound, pronounced, prosperous, puissant, punchy, pungent, pushy, putrescent, putrid, qualified, rabid, rancid, rank, reasonable, reasty, reasy, recalcitrant, red-blooded, redoubtable, reechy, reeking, reeky, regular, reinforced, repulsive, reputable, resistant, resolute, retroflex, rich, rigorous, robust, robustious, robustuous, ropy, rotten, rough, rounded, rude, rugged, ruling, secure, sedulous, self-willed, semivowel, sensational, serious, severe, sharp, sinewed, sinewy, sizeable, skilled, slashing, smacking, smellful, smelling, smelly, snappy, soft, solid, solvent, sonant, sound, sour, soured, spanking, spicy, spirited, spirituous, stable, stale, stalwart, stark, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stenchy, stiff, stinking, stopped, stout, straight, strapping, strenuous, stressed, striking, stringent, stringy, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-flavored, strong-minded, strong-scented, strong-smelling, strong-tasting, strong-willed, stubborn, stuffy, sturdy, suasive, substantial, suffocating, sulfurous, surd, syllabic, tainted, take-charge, take-over, talented, telling, tenacious, tense, the same, thick, thriving, throaty, tireless, tonal, tonic, total, tough, tough as leather, trained, trenchant, truculently, true-blue, turned, twangy, two-handed, unaccented, uncompromising, undiluted, unfailing, unflagging, unmistakable, unmixed, unmoving, unrounded, unstressed, unswerving, untiring, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, urgent, valid, vehement, velar, vibrant, vigorous, vile, vinous, viscid, vital, vivacious, vivid, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, weather-beaten, weighty, well-built, well-constructed, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, well-versed, wide, wieldy, winning, winy, wiry, with a kick, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy

strongbox

• strongbox, Fort Knox, bank, bursary, cash register, cashbox, chest, coffer, coin box, depository, exchequer, fisc, gold depository, locker, money chest, penny bank, piggy bank, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, repository, safe, safe-deposit box, storehouse, strong room, subtreasury, till, treasure-house, treasury, vault

stronghold

• stronghold, acropolis, asylum, bastion, beachhead, bird sanctuary, blockhouse, bridgehead, bulwark, bunker, castle, citadel, donjon, fasthold, fastness, forest preserve, fort, fortification, fortress, game preserve, game sanctuary, garrison, garrison house, harbor, harbor of refuge, harborage, haven, hold, keep, martello, martello tower, mote, motte, peel, peel tower, pillbox, port, post, preserve, rath, redoubt, refuge, safe haven, safehold, sanctuary, snug harbor, strong point, tower, tower of strength, ward

strop

• strop, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, aculeate, acuminate, adhesive tape, band, bandage, barb, batten, belt, cellophane tape, cloth tape, cuspidate, edge, fascia, file, fillet, friction tape, girdle, grind, hone, lath, ligula, ligule, list, masking tape, oilstone, plank, plastic tape, point, reset, ribband, ribbon, set, sharpen, shred, slat, slip, spiculate, spill, spline, spur, strake, strap, strip, taenia, tape, tape measure, tapeline, taper, ticker tape, whet

strophe

• strophe, Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, book, burden, canto, chorus, couplet, distich, envoi, epode, heptastich, hexastich, line, measure, monostich, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima, pentastich, quatrain, refrain, rhyme royal, septet, sestet, sextet, stanza, stave, strain, syllable, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, triplet, tristich, verse

structural

• structural, adjectival, adverbial, anatomic, architectonic, architectural, attributive, building, conjunctive, constructional, copulative, correct, descriptive, edificial, formal, functional, glossematic, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, housing, intransitive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, linking, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nominal, organic, organismal, participial, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, psycholinguistic, semantic, substantive, substructural, superstructural, syntactic, tagmemic, tectonic, textural, transitive, verbal

structure

• structure, Dymaxion house, IC analysis, Platonic form, Platonic idea, White House, action, adobe house, aesthetic form, anagnorisis, anatomy, angle, appositive, archetype, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrange, arrangement, array, art form, assemblage, assemble, assembly, atmosphere, attribute, attributive, background, build, build up, building, buildup, casa, cast, catastrophe, character, characterization, clarity, clear-cutness, clearness, cliff dwelling, coherence, color, combination, combine, complement, complex, complication, compose, composition, compound, concord, configuration, conformation, connectedness, consist of, consistency, constitute, constitution, construct, construction, construction modifier, consulate, continuity, contrivance, cool off, country house, country seat, crystallinity, cut, cutting, dacha, deanery, deep structure, definition, denouement, deploy, deployment, design, development, device, direct object, directness, disposal, dispose, disposition, distinctness, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, embodiment, embody, enter into, episode, erection, establishment, explicitness, fable, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, falling action, farm, farmhouse, fashion, fashioning, feel, figuration, figure, filler, finish, form, form-function unit, format, formation, frame, framework, function, genre, getup, gimmick, go into, grade, grain, granular texture, hall, harmonize, harmony, hierarchize, house, houseboat, immediate constituent analysis, impression, incident, incorporate, incorporation, indentation, indirect object, inner form, join, junction, knub, lake dwelling, lay out, layout, levels, limpidity, line, line up, lineup, living machine, local color, lodge, lucidity, make, make up, makeup, manor house, manse, marshal, marshaling, matrix, merge in, methodize, mix, mixture, modality, mode, model, modifier, mold, mood, morphology, motif, movement, mythos, nap, nature, network, normalize, nub, object, order, organization, organize, pacify, packaged house, parsonage, pattern, peace, pellucidity, penthouse, peripeteia, perspicuity, phrase structure, piece together, piecing together, pile, pit, plain English, plain speech, plain style, plainness, plan, plot, pock, predicate, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, presidential palace, proportion, prototype, protuberance, put together, putting together, pyramid, qualifier, quiet, quietude, ranch house, rank, ranks, recognition, rectory, regularity, regularize, regulate, rising action, roof, routine, routinize, scheme, secondary plot, set, set up, setup, shag, shallow structure, shape, shaping, significant form, simplicity, skeleton, skyscraper, slant, slot, slot and filler, sod house, split-level, stamp, standardize, story, straightforwardness, strata, structuring, style, subject, subplot, superstructure, surface, surface structure, surface texture, switch, symmetry, syneresis, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, synthesis, synthesize, system, systematize, tagmeme, texture, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, tower, town house, tranquilize, tranquillity, transparency, transpicuity, turn, twist, type, unadorned style, unambiguousness, underlying structure, unequivocalness, uniformity, unite in, unmistakableness, vicarage, wale, weave, woof, word arrangement, word order