Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/49

lift

• lift, Caelus, Great Leap Forward, Olympian heights, Sunday drive, a leg up, abstract, acculturate, acme, advance, advancement, aerial heights, aerosphere, aggrandize, aid, air, airing, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, amortize, and, annex, annul, apex, appropriate, arise, ascend, ascent, aspire, assist, assistance, atmosphere, azure, bag, bang, be poised, bear, better, bettering, betterment, billow, biosphere, blue sky, boost, boot, bore, borrow, break, breakers, bring forward, buoy up, burglary, caelum, cancel, canopy, canopy of heaven, caper, carry, cast up, cerulean, charge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, civilize, clear, comb, comber, comfort, conduct, confiscate, convey, cop, cope, copy, crab, crane, crash, crib, dash, defraud, deify, derrick, dignify, dirty water, disappear, discharge, discontinue, dismantle, dissipate, dizzy heights, drive, dumbwaiter, eagre, ebb and flow, ecosphere, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, elevator, embezzle, emend, eminence, empyrean, encouragement, end, enhance, enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine, erect, erector, escalate, escalator, ether, eugenics, euthenics, exalt, extort, fatten, favor, filch, firmament, flush, fly, forklift, forward, foster, freight, furtherance, gantry crane, gaseous envelope, go straight, grab, gravity wave, ground swell, hand, headway, heave, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell, heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, helping hand, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, honor, hook, hyaline, hydraulic tailgate, immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, inducement, inspiration, jack, jackscrew, jerk up, job, jollies, joyride, kick, knock up, larceny, lard, leg, leg up, lever, levitate, liberate, lift up, lifter, lifts, liquidate, lob, loft, lop, lug, magnify, make accounts square, make an improvement, make off with, manhandle, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount, moving staircase, nick, nip, noosphere, nurture, pack, palm, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, peak, perk up, pick up, pickup, pilfer, pinch, plagiarize, poach, pocket, popple, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion, purloin, purloining, quiver, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, reassurance, recall, recovery, redeem, refine upon, reform, relief, repeal, rescind, restoration, retire, reverse, revival, ride, riffle, rip-off, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rising ground, robbery, rocket, roll, roller, rough water, run away with, rush, rush of emotion, rustle, satisfy, scend, scrounge, sea, send, sensation, set up, settle, shiver, shoplift, shudder, sky, smash, snare, snatch, snitch, soar, socialize, spin, square, square accounts, starry heaven, steal, stealage, stealing, steep, stick up, stimulus, stop, straighten out, stratosphere, strike a balance, succor, support, surf, surge, surge of emotion, swell, swindle, swipe, tackle, take, take away, take up, terminate, the blue, the blue serene, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, thrill, throw up, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tingle, tingling, titillation, toss, tote, touch, tower, transfigure, transform, transport, tremor, tremor of excitement, trough, tsunami, undulate, undulation, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upgrade, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, uprise, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upward mobility, vanish, vantage ground, vantage point, vault, vault of heaven, void, waft, walk off with, water wave, wave, wavelet, welkin, whirl, whisk, white horses, whitecaps, windlass, wing, withdraw, zenith

lifter

• lifter, andiron, body snatcher, booster, chain, chicken thief, coal tongs, con man, crab, crane, crook, damper, den of thieves, derrick, embezzler, erector, filcher, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, forklift, ganef, gantry crane, ghoul, grafter, grate, grating, grave robber, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lever, lift, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, poacher, poker, pothook, prowler, purloiner, robber, salamander, scrounger, shoplifter, sneak thief, spit, stealer, swindler, tackle, thief, tongs, tripod, trivet, turnspit, white-collar thief, windlass

ligament

• ligament, bone, braid, brail, cable, cartilage, cord, knot, ligation, ligature, line, link, nexus, ossicle, rope, spun yarn, string, tendon, thong, tie, twine, twist, vinculum, wire, yarn, yoke

ligature

• ligature, accent, accent mark, ascender, back, bar, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, braid, brail, cable, cancel, cap, capital, case, character, cord, counter, custos, descender, direct, dot, em, en, expression mark, face, fat-faced type, feet, fermata, font, groove, hold, italic, key signature, knot, lead, letter, ligament, ligation, line, link, logotype, lower case, majuscule, mark, measure, metronomic mark, minuscule, nexus, nick, notation, pause, pi, pica, point, presa, print, roman, rope, sans serif, script, segno, shank, shoulder, sign, signature, slur, small cap, small capital, spun yarn, stamp, stem, string, swell, symbol, tempo mark, tendon, thong, tie, time signature, twine, twist, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, vinculum, wire, yarn, yoke

light bulb

• light bulb, candle, electric light bulb, fire, flame, glim, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent body, lamp, lantern, light, light source, luminant, luminary, match, moon, source of light, stars, sun, taper, torch

light footed

• light footed, agile, breakneck, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious, express, fast, featly, fleet, flying, galloping, graceful, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, light, light of heel, lively, mercurial, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, peart, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, running, snappy, spanking, speedy, sprightly, spry, sure-footed, swift, winged

light into

• light into, ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, dive into, draw first blood, enter on, enter upon, fall on, fall to, fall upon, gang up on, get busy, get cracking, get going, get with it, give a going-over, give what-for, go at, go for, go to it, harry, have at, hit, hit like lightning, hop to it, jump, jump to it, land on, launch into, lay about one, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay on, let have it, make war on, mug, pitch in, pitch into, plunge into, pounce upon, pound, sail into, set about, set at, set on, set to, set to work, set upon, square up, start in, strike, surprise, swoop down on, tackle, take on, take the offensive, turn to, undertake, wade into

light meter

• light meter, ASA exposure index, ASA scale, British candle, DIN number, Hefner candle, Scheiner scale, bougie decimale, candle, candle lumen, candle power, candle-foot, candle-hour, candle-meter, decimal candle, exposure, exposure meter, f-stop, film rating, film speed, flux, foot-candle, intensity, international candle, lamp-hour, lens opening, light, light quantum, lumen, lumen meter, lumen-hour, lumeter, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminous power, lux, photon, quantum, shutter speed, time exposure, unit of flux, unit of light

light opera

• light opera, Broadway musical, Singspiel, ballad opera, ballet, ballet divertissement, chorus show, comedy ballet, comic opera, dance drama, grand opera, lyric drama, minstrel, minstrel show, music drama, musical, musical comedy, musical stage, musical theater, opera, opera ballet, opera bouffe, opera buffa, operetta, song-and-dance act, song-play

light out

• light out, bear, dash off, dig out, hasten off, head, hurry away, make, nip, nip off, scamper off, set out, skin out, strike out, take off, tear off, tear out, whip off, whiz off

light show

• light show, burelage, burlesque show, carnival, circus, coochie show, cosmorama, cyclorama, dance, dancing, diorama, display, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, fantoccini, flicker, flickering, flickering light, floor show, flutter, fluttering, galanty show, georama, girly show, glancing light, hootchy-kootchy show, iridescence, iridization, irisation, lambency, leg show, magic show, moire pattern, myriorama, nacreousness, ombres chinoises, opalescence, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, pearliness, peep show, phantasmagoria, play, play of colors, play of light, pomp, presentation, psychedelic show, puppet show, quiver, quivering, raree-show, rep show, repertory show, representation, rodeo, shadow show, shifting scene, show, sideshow, sight, spectacle, stage show, tableau, tableau vivant, the big top, variety show, vaudeville show

light source

• light source, Chinese lantern, Finsen light, Moore light, arc light, battery lamp, benzine, broadside, candle, candlelight, coal oil, cresset, dark lantern, electric candle, electric lamp, electric torch, electric-arc lamp, electric-discharge lamp, electricity, filament lamp, flame lamp, flash lamp, flashbulb, flasher, flashgun, flashlight, flood lamp, floodlight, floor lamp, focus lamp, gas, gas lamp, gaslight, gasoline, head lamp, headlight, high-intensity lamp, illuminant, illuminating gas, infrared lamp, kerosene, klieg light, lampion, lamplet, lantern, light bulb, limelight, luminant, magic lantern, magnetite arc lamp, mercury lamp, mercury-arc lamp, moderator lamp, navigation light, neon light, neon tube, night light, oil, oil lamp, osmium lamp, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, photoflash lamp, pilot light, rushlight, safety lamp, searchlight, sidelight, spot, spotlight, stop light, strobe, strobotron, sun lamp, sun spot, table lamp, torch

light touch

• light touch, breath, brush, caress, contact, cutaneous sense, feel, feeling, fingertip caress, flick, glance, graze, hand-mindedness, kiss, lambency, lap, lick, rub, sense of touch, stroke, tactile sense, taction, tap, tentative poke, touch, whisper

light up

• light up, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, bank, beacon, blow the coals, blow up, brace up, brighten, brighten up, buck up, burn, call forth, call up, cheer up, chirk up, conflagrate, enkindle, enlighten, enrage, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed, feed the fire, fire, flame, flood with light, floodlight, foment, frenzy, heat, highlight, ignite, illume, illuminate, illumine, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, irradiate, key up, kindle, lather up, light, light the fuse, lighten, luminate, madden, move, overexcite, overshine, perk up, rekindle, relight, relume, relumine, revive, rouse, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, shed light upon, shine upon, spotlight, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir the fire, stir up, stoke, stoke the fire, strike a light, summon up, take heart, throw light upon, torch, touch off, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, work into, work up

light upon

• light upon, alight upon, arrive at, arrive upon, blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come among, come at, come down on, come on, come up against, come upon, confront, descend upon, discover serendipitously, drop on, encounter, fall across, fall among, fall foul of, fall in with, fall on, fall upon, get at, happen upon, hit upon, meet, meet head-on, meet up with, meet with, pitch upon, reach, run across, run into, run smack into, run up against, run upon, settle on, strike upon, stumble on, stumble upon, tumble on

light year

• light year, aesthetic distance, astronomical unit, celestial spaces, chaos, clearance, compass, cosmic space, deep space, depths of space, distance, divergence, empty space, ether space, extent, farness, infinity, interstellar space, leeway, length, light-years, margin, metagalactic space, mileage, ocean of emptiness, outer space, parsec, parsecs, perspective, piece, pressureless space, range, reach, remoteness, separation, space, span, stretch, stride, the void, the void above, way, ways

light

• light, ASA scale, Anschauung, British candle, Hefner candle, Mickey Mouse, Paphian, Scheiner scale, Very flare, abuse, accented, account, acquaintance, active, aerial, aeriform, aery, agile, airish, airlike, airy, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, alfresco, alight, allegorization, alveolar, amplitude, amusing, angle, angle of vision, ankle-deep, announcement, antelope, antinode, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, appear, arrow, articulated, asinine, aspect, assail, assault, assimilated, atmospheric, attack, attenuate, attenuated, aurora, back, balefire, bank, barytone, basis, bay, bay window, be exposed, be revealed, beacon, beacon fire, beacons, beaming, bearable, beat, belabor, berate, bilabial, birdbrained, birdwitted, blond, blue book, blue darter, blue streak, bougie decimale, bow window, boyish, brand, break, break of day, breakable, breezy, briefing, bright, brighten, brighten up, brightening, brightness, brilliant, bring to light, brittle, broad, bubbly, bulletin, bump, buoyant, burn, butane lighter, cacuminal, camp, campy, candle, candle lumen, candle power, candle-foot, candle-hour, candle-meter, candlelight, cannonball, carefree, casement, casement window, casual, catchpenny, central, cerebral, chambering, chance, changeable, chanticleer, cheap-jack, checked, cheer up, cheerful, cigarette lighter, clarification, clarify, clear, climb down, clobber, close, cloudless, cobwebby, cockcrow, cocklight, come across, come down, come in, come out, come to light, comic, communication, communique, configuration, conflagrate, considering, consonant, consonantal, continuant, coquettish, corky, counterglow, courser, crack of dawn, cracking, crash-land, cream, creamy, crest, crumbly, cursory, cushy, dainty, dart, data, datum, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, de Broglie wave, debark, debonair, decimal candle, decipherment, decoding, delicate, delicately weak, demonstration, demythologization, dental, deplane, depthless, descend, detrain, develop, diaphane, diaphanous, diffraction, diluted, dim, directory, disclose, discover, disembark, dismiss, dismount, dispatch, display case, dissimilated, ditch, diverting, dizzy, dorsal, downwind, downy, dun-white, eagle, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, editing, effect, effeminate, effortless, effulgent, eggshell, eidolon, electric light bulb, electricity, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, elucidate, elucidation, emendation, emerge, empty, empty-headed, encounter, endurable, enkindle, enlighten, enlightenment, entertaining, epidermal, eternity, ethereal, euhemerism, evanescent, evidence, evolve, exegesis, exemplification, explain, explanation, explication, expose, exposed, exposition, exposure meter, expounding, express train, eye, facet, facile, facts, factual information, faddish, faded, faint, fair, familiarization, fan the flame, fan window, fanlight, farcical, fashion, fatuous, featherbrained, featherweight, feathery, featly, feature, feed, feed the fire, fickle, figure, find, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, fire, firebrand, firelight, first brightening, flambeau, flame, flare, flare-up, flash, flashlight, flat, fleet, flighty, flimsy, flint, flint and steel, flirtatious, flood with light, floodlight, fluffy, fluorescence, fluorescent, flux, foamy, foolish, foot-candle, footing, form, fragile, frail, frame of reference, framework, frangible, free and easy, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, front, frothy, fusee, futile, gaslight, gauzy, gay, gazelle, gen, general information, gentle, gestalt, get down, get off, giddy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, glare, glass, glassware, glaucescent, glaucous, gleam, glib, glide, glim, glory, gloss, glossal, glottal, glow, go down, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gray-white, greased lightning, greyhound, grille, grow bright, grow light, guidebook, guided wave, guise, guttural, handout, happy, happy-go-lucky, harangue, hard, hard information, hare, headlight, heavy, high, highlight, hit, holiness, idle, ignite, igniter, ignition, illume, illuminant, illuminate, illumination, illuminator, illumine, illustration, image, imago, immutability, imperceptible, imponderous, impression, in consideration of, in phase, in view of, inane, incandescence, incandescent, incandescent body, incidental information, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconstant, indistinct, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinity, inflame, info, information, insight, insignificant, instruction, insubstantial, intelligence, intensity, interference, international candle, intonated, iridescent, irradiate, ivory, ivory-white, jaunty, jejune, jerry, jerry-built, jet plane, jolly, jovial, joyful, kindle, knee-deep, knowledge, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lacy, lambaste, lamp, lamp-hour, lancet window, land, lantern, lateral, lattice, lax, leger, level off, light as air, light bulb, light into, light meter, light quantum, light source, light up, light upon, light-colored, light-footed, light-headed, light-hearted, light-hued, lighten, lighter, lighter than vanity, lighthearted, lighthouse, lightish, lightning, lightship, lightsome, lightweight, likeness, limber, lineaments, lingual, lint-white, liquid, lissome, lithe, little, longitudinal wave, look, loose, loose-moraled, louver window, low, lucent, lucid, luck, luculent, lumen, lumen meter, lumen-hour, lumeter, luminant, luminary, luminate, luminescence, luminosity, luminous, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminous power, lux, magnesium flare, majesty, make a light, make known, make light of, manner, match, meager, mechanical wave, meet, meet up with, mellow, mental outlook, mention, mercurial, mercury, merry, message, mid, mild, misty, moderate, monophthongal, moon, moonlight, morn, morning, mother-of-pearl, mousse, muted, nacreous, namby-pamby, narrow, nasal, nasalized, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, node, not deep, nothing to it, notice, notification, nugacious, nugatory, obscure, occlusive, occulting light, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off-white, omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, on the surface, opalescent, open, open the light, open-air, oriel, otiose, out of phase, outlook, overshine, overshoot, oxytone, painless, palatal, palatalized, pale, pancake, pane, papery, pasteboardy, pastel, patinaed, pearl, pearly, pearly-white, peart, peep of day, pellucid, perch, period, periodic wave, perky, petty, pharos, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phase, phasis, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phosphorescence, phosphorescent, photon, picture window, pitch, pitched, place, plain, pneumatic, point of view, port, portable, portfire, porthole, position, posttonic, presentation, prime, promiscuous, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, puny, put on, quantum, quicksilver, quiet, radiance, radiation, radio wave, rare, rarefied, rationale, ray, reason, reference, reference system, reflection, regard, reinforcement, rekindle, release, relight, relucent, relume, relumine, report, resilient, resonance, resonance frequency, respect, retroflex, reveal, ridicule, rocket, roomy, roost, rose window, rounded, sad, scared rabbit, scatterbrained, scintillation, scold, seeming, seismic wave, semblance, semigloss, semivowel, serene, set down, set fire to, set on fire, settle, settle down, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-rooted, shallow-witted, shape, shattery, shed light upon, shine, shine a light, shine upon, shining, shoal, shock wave, shopwindow, shot, showcase, shrug off, side, sidelight, sight, signal beacon, signal flare, signal lamp, signal rocket, silly, simple, simple as ABC, simplification, simplify, simulacrum, sissified, sit down, situation, skin-deep, skinny, skittish, skylight, skyrocket, slack, slant, slapstick, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solution, somber, sonant, souffle, sound wave, source of light, sovereignty, sparker, sparkle, spill, spotlight, sprightly, spry, stand, standpoint, starlight, stars, statement, stemware, stir the fire, stoke, stoke the fire, stopped, straightforward, streak, streak of lightning, stressed, strike a light, striped snake, strong, stumble, stumble on, style, subdued, subtle, sun, sunlight, sunny, sunrise, sunup, superficial, supportable, surd, sure-footed, surface, surface wave, svelte, swallow, sweet, swift, switch on, syllabic, sylphlike, system, tacky, taking into account, talk down, taper, tender, tense, tenuous, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thick, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, thought, threadlike, throaty, throw light upon, thunderbolt, tidal wave, tolerable, tonal, tongue-lash, tonic, torch, torrent, total effect, touch down, touch off, toying, tragicomic, translucent, translucid, transmission, transom, transparent, transparent substance, transpire, transverse wave, trifling, trite, trivial, trivialize, tropospheric, trough, tumble, turn on, turn up, twangy, twist, ubiquity, unaccented, unburdensome, unclear, unclouded, uncomplicated, uncover, undemanding, undependable, understanding, underweight, unearth, unheavy, unhorse, unimportant, unit of flux, unit of light, unity, universe, unlocking, unobscured, unpredictable, unprofound, unreliable, unrounded, unstressed, unsubstantial, untaxing, unveil, upbraid, upwind, vacant, vacillating, vacuous, vague, vain, vapid, velar, versatile, vertiginous, vestibule of Day, view, viewpoint, vitrics, vitrine, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, volatile, vowel, vowellike, wanton, watch crystal, watch fire, watch glass, watered, watered-down, watery, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength, wayward, weak, weightless, white book, white paper, whitish, whity, whorish, wicket, wide, willowy, wind, window, window bay, window glass, windowlight, windowpane, windy, wiredrawn, wise, wispy, witty, womanish, word, write off, yeasty

lighted

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

lighten

• lighten, abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, be light, beacon, blunt, break, brighten, brighten up, chasten, cheer up, constrain, control, damp, dampen, dawn, de-emphasize, deaden, dilute, diminish, disburden, disembarrass, disencumber, downplay, dull, ease, enlighten, extenuate, flood with light, floodlight, gladden, grow bright, grow light, have little weight, highlight, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, keep within bounds, kick the beam, lay, lenify, lessen, light, light up, luminate, make light, make lighter, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, obtund, off-load, overshine, palliate, play down, reduce, reduce the temperature, reduce weight, relieve, relume, relumine, restrain, set at ease, shed light upon, shine, shine upon, slacken, slow down, smile, smother, sober, sober down, soften, spotlight, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, thin, throw light upon, tone down, tune down, unballast, unburden, underplay, unfreight, unlade, unload, weaken, weigh lightly

lightened

• lightened, ablaze, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bespangled, blanched, bleached, bleached white, brightened, candlelit, decolored, decolorized, drained, drained of color, enlightened, firelit, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lit, lit up, luminous, moonlit, spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, tinseled, whitened

lightening

• lightening, abatement, achromatization, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, assuagement, blanching, bleach, bleaching, blunting, brightening, calming, damping, deadening, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, demulsion, diminution, disburdening, discoloration, disembarrassment, disencumbering, disencumberment, disencumbrance, dulcification, dulling, easement, easing, enlightening, etiolation, fading, falling-off, hushing, illuminating, illumining, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lighting, loosening, lulling, madder bleach, market bleach, mitigation, modulation, mollification, pacification, paling, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, relieving, remission, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, unweighting, whitening

lighthearted

• lighthearted, airy, blithe, blithesome, breezy, buoyant, carefree, corky, debonair, effervescent, expansive, festive, free, free and easy, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, insouciant, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, lightsome, lively, minded, mirthful, perky, resilient, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, volatile

lighthouse

• lighthouse, Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, Texas tower, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, antenna tower, barbican, beacon, belfry, bell tower, belvedere, bench mark, bleachers, blinking light, bookmark, bridge, burglar alarm, buzzer, cairn, campanile, catstone, colossus, column, conning tower, crostarie, cupola, derrick, direction, dome, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, fire tower, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, guidance, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, landmark, lantern, lightship, lookout, loophole, mark, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, menhir, milepost, milestone, minaret, monument, note of alarm, obelisk, observation post, observation tower, observatory, occulting light, outlook, overlook, pagoda, peanut gallery, peephole, pharos, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, platform, pole, police whistle, pylon, pyramid, ringside, ringside seat, seamark, shaft, sighthole, signal of distress, siren, skyscraper, small-craft warning, spire, standpipe, steeple, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, stupa, television mast, tocsin, top gallery, tope, tour, tower, turret, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, watchtower, water tower, whistle, windmill tower

lighting

• lighting, arc lighting, black and white, brightening, chiaroscuro, contrast, decorative lighting, direct lighting, electric lighting, enkindling, enlightening, enlightenment, festoon lighting, firing, flammation, floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, gaslighting, glow lighting, highlights, ignition, illuminating, illumination, illumining, incandescent lighting, incendiary, indirect lighting, inflaming, inflammation, inflammative, inflammatory, irradiation, kindling, light and shade, lightening, lighting up, overhead lighting, radiation, spot lighting, stage lighting, strip lighting, tonality

lightly

• lightly, a bit, a little, airily, arbitrarily, barely, blithely, by a hair, by an ace, capriciously, cheerfully, cheerily, easily, effortlessly, ever so little, exiguously, facilely, faintly, fancifully, feebly, flightily, freely, frivolously, genially, gladly, hands down, happily, hardly, hopefully, idly, immaterially, imperfectly, inadvertently, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, just a bit, like clockwork, like nothing, little, meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligently, negligibly, no sweat, not hardly, on easy terms, only just, optimistically, permissively, pettily, pleasantly, readily, remissly, scampingly, scantily, scarcely, shallowly, simply, skimpingly, slightingly, slightly, slurringly, smilingly, smoothly, superficially, swimmingly, tant soit peu, triflingly, trivially, unessentially, unimportantly, unreasonably, unrigorously, weakly, well, whimsically, with good cheer, without difficulty

lightness

• lightness, Munsell chroma, achroma, achromasia, achromatosis, agility, airiness, airy texture, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, amiable weakness, anemia, ashiness, attenuation, big deal, blondness, bloodlessness, bounce, breakability, breeziness, brightness, brittleness, buoyancy, cadaverousness, canescence, carefreeness, chalkiness, chambering, changeableness, cheerfulness, chirpiness, chloranemia, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, collapse, color quality, colorimetric quality, cool color, coquettishness, creaminess, daintiness, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debonairness, delicacy, destructibility, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, dimness, disintegration, dullness, easy virtue, effeminacy, effervescence, elasticity, emptiness, ethereality, exiguity, exility, expansiveness, exsanguination, faddishness, faddism, fadedness, faintness, fairness, featliness, fickleness, fineness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, fluffiness, foolishness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, frivolity, frivolousness, frostiness, frothiness, futility, gaiety, gauziness, ghastliness, glaucescence, glaucousness, gossameriness, gracility, grizzliness, haggardness, hoariness, hue, human frailty, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, idleness, inanity, inconstancy, indecisiveness, infirmity of will, inherent vice, insubstantiality, irresolution, jauntiness, laciness, lack of depth, lactescence, laxity, leukoderma, levity, light heart, lightheartedness, lightsomeness, liveliness, lividness, loose morals, looseness, lucence, lucency, lucidity, luminosity, luminousness, mercuriality, mercurialness, milkiness, mistiness, moral weakness, muddiness, neutral color, nimbleness, nugacity, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, paperiness, pastiness, pearliness, perkiness, pertness, prison pallor, promiscuity, purity, rarity, resilience, resiliency, sallowness, saturation, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, sickliness, sickly hue, silliness, silver, silveriness, skittishness, sleaziness, sleeping around, slenderness, slightness, slimness, snowiness, spryness, subtility, superficiality, swinging, tenuity, thinness, tint, tone, translucence, translucency, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undependability, unpredictability, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unreliability, unsubstantiality, vacuity, vagueness, value, vanity, vapidity, velleity, vitiligo, vivacity, volatility, wanness, wantonness, warm color, wateriness, waywardness, weakness, white, white race, whiteness, whitishness, whorishness, wispiness, womanishness

lightning rod

• lightning rod, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sun helmet, umbrella, windscreen, windshield

lightning

• lightning, Jupiter Fulgur, Thor, antelope, arrow, ball lightning, blue darter, blue streak, bolt, bolt of lightning, cannonball, chain lightning, courser, dark lightning, dart, eagle, electricity, express train, fireball, firebolt, flash, flying flame, forked lightning, fulguration, fulmination, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, jet plane, levin bolt, light, mercury, oak-cleaving thunderbolts, quicksilver, rocket, scared rabbit, sheet lightning, shot, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, stroke of lightning, swallow, thought, thunderball, thunderbolt, thunderstroke, torrent, wind

lightproof

• lightproof, airtight, close, compact, dustproof, dusttight, fast, firm, gasproof, gastight, hermetic, hermetically sealed, lighttight, oilproof, oiltight, rainproof, raintight, sealed, shut fast, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, staunch, stormproof, stormtight, tight, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, windproof, windtight

lights

• lights, arc, arc light, assumption, attitude, bellows, climate of opinion, color filter, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, ctenidia, dimmer, estimate, estimation, ethos, eye, feeling, floats, flood, floodlight, footlights, foots, gelatin, general belief, gills, idea, impression, judgment, klieg light, light plot, limelight, lungs, marquee, medium, mind, mystique, notion, observation, opinion, personal judgment, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, public belief, public opinion, reaction, sentiment, sight, spot, spotlight, stance, theory, thinking, thought, view, way of thinking

lightsome

• lightsome, airy, blithe, breezy, buoyant, carefree, cheery, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy, clear, cloudless, corky, debonair, diaphanous, free and easy, insouciant, jaunty, light, lighthearted, lightish, lucent, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perky, relucent, resilient, serene, sunny, translucent, translucid, transparent, unclouded, unobscured

lightweight

• lightweight, Boeotian, Chinese boxer, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, baby, bantam, bantamweight, banty, big baby, black belt, block, boxer, breakable, brittle, brown belt, bruiser, button, catchweight, cheap-jack, chicken, chit, cipher, clod, cobwebby, cog, common man, commonality, commonalty, creature, crumbly, crybaby, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diminutive, dimwit, dolt, donkey, doormat, dope, dull tool, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, effeminate, featherweight, fighter, figurehead, fingerling, fisticuffer, flimsy, flunky, flyweight, follower, forceless, fragile, frail, frangible, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, gowk, gutless wonder, heavyweight, hoi polloi, imponderous, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inferior, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, jerry, jerry-built, jobbernowl, junior, karate expert, lackwit, lamebrain, light, light heavyweight, little fellow, little guy, looby, loon, lower class, lower orders, man of straw, masses, mediocrity, meek soul, middleweight, milksop, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, no-account, nobody one knows, noddy, nonentity, nubbin, obscurity, of no account, palooka, pansy, pantywaist, papery, pasteboardy, pawn, peewee, pip-squeak, pony, powerless, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, punk, puny, pushover, put, runt, sad sack, savate expert, scrub, second fiddle, secondary, shattery, shrimp, sissified, sissy, sleazy, slight, slip, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, snip, snippet, softling, softy, sop, sparrer, squirt, squit, stupid, subaltern, subordinate, tacky, thickwit, third stringer, tit, unauthoritative, underling, understrapper, underweight, unheavy, unsubstantial, wart, weak, weak sister, weakling, weightless, welterweight, whiffet, whippersnapper, wisp, wispy, without any weight, witling, womanish, yes-man

likable

• likable, acceptable, admirable, adorable, affable, agreeable, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, angelic, appetizing, attractive, blissful, caressable, charming, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, cuddlesome, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, enviable, exciting, exquisite, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, genial, good, good to eat, good-tasting, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, gustable, gusty, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, juicy, kissable, lovable, lovely, lovesome, luscious, lush, mellifluous, mellow, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, of gourmet quality, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, provocative, rewarding, sapid, satisfying, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seductive, seraphic, succulent, sweet, taking, tantalizing, tasty, tempting, to be desired, toothsome, unobjectionable, welcome, winning, winsome, worth having, yummy

like clockwork

• like clockwork, always, at every turn, at regular intervals, at stated times, constantly, continually, easily, effortlessly, evenly, every so often, facilely, hands down, harmoniously, intermittently, invariably, lightly, like nothing, methodically, never otherwise, no sweat, on easy terms, on wheels, orderly, punctually, readily, regularly, simply, smoothly, steadily, swimmingly, systematically, uniformly, without difficulty, without exception

like mad

• like mad, a corps perdu, all to pieces, carelessly, demonically, desperately, fanatically, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like a flash, like a shot, like a streak, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like greased lightning, like lightning, like one possessed, like sin, like sixty, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, uncontrollably, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, wildly, with a vengeance

like minded

• like minded, accordant, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amicable, answerable, at one, at one with, attuned, carried by acclamation, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, equivalent, frictionless, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in concert, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, in tune, inaccordance, inharmony, of a piece, of like mind, of one accord, of one mind, on all fours, peaceful, positive, proportionate, reconcilable, self-consistent, solid, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, together, unanimous, unchallenged, uncontested, uncontradicted, uncontroverted, understanding, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, united, unopposed, with one consent, with one voice

like

• like, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, affection, after this fashion, agape, agnate, aim at, akin, alike, all one, all the same, allied, ally, along these lines, alter ego, analogon, analogous, analogue, aped, appreciate, approve, approve of, approximate, approximating, approximative, ardency, ardor, as, as if, as though, ask, associate, at par, at what price, attachment, au pair, bask in, be desirous of, be fond of, be partial to, be pleased with, bodily love, brother, brotherly love, burn with love, by what mode, by what name, care for, caritas, charity, choose, close, close copy, close match, close to, coequal, coextensive, cognate, commensurate, companion, comparable, compeer, complement, comprehend, congenator, congener, conjugal love, consimilar, consonant, consubstantial, coordinate, copied, correlate, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, correspondingly, counterfeit, counterpart, delight in, derive pleasure from, desiderate, desire, devotion, devour, dig, disposed to, ditto, dote on, dote upon, drawn, duplicate, eat up, either, elect, endorse, enjoy, equal, equal to, equalized, equipollent, equivalent, ersatz, esteem, even, even stephen, exactly alike, faithful love, fake, fancy, favor, favoring, feast on, fellow, fervor, fifty-fifty, flame, following, fondness, for example, for instance, freak out on, free love, free-lovism, get high on, gloat over, go, go for, groove on, half-and-half, have designs on, have eyes for, have it bad, heart, hero worship, homogeneous, homologous, homoousian, how, identic, identical, identically, idolatry, idolism, idolization, image, imitated, imitation, in kind, in like manner, in other words, in such wise, in that way, in this way, in what way, indistinguishable, indulge in, just alike, kindred spirit, knotted, lasciviousness, level, libido, like that, like this, likeness, likes, likewise, liking, love, lovemaking, lust, lust after, luxuriate in, married love, match, mate, mimicked, mind, mock, namely, near, near duplicate, nearly reproduced, nip and tuck, not unlike, obverse, of that ilk, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, one, opposite number, par, parallel, partiality, passion, peer, pendant, phony, physical love, picture, please, popular regard, popularity, predilection, prefer, preference, proportionate, proximate, quits, reciprocal, regard, rejoice in, relatable, related, relish, resembling, respect, revel in, riot in, rival, same, savor, second self, select, selfsame, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, similar, similarly, similitude, simulacrum, simulated, sister, smack the lips, smacking of, so, something like, soul mate, spiritual love, square, stalemated, such, suchlike, suggestive of, swim in, synthetic, take pleasure in, take to, tally, taste, tender feeling, tender passion, the like of, the likes of, thus, thus and so, tied, to wit, truelove, twin, understand, undifferenced, undifferent, undifferentiated, uniform, uniform with, uxoriousness, wallow in, want, weakness, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, without difference, without distinction, worship, would fain do, yearning

likelihood

• likelihood, aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, best bet, chance, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, even chance, eventuality, expectation, expectations, fair expectation, favorable prospect, good chance, good opportunity, good possibility, hope, hopes, liability, liableness, likeliness, main chance, obligation, odds, odds-on, odds-on chance, off chance, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, proneness, prospect, prospects, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, remote possibility, small hope, sporting chance, sure bet, sure thing, tendency, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, verisimilitude, virtuality, weakness, well-grounded hope, what is possible, what may be, what might be

likely to

• likely to, answerable for, apt to, calculated to, capable of, dependent on, disposed to, exposed to, given to, in danger of, incident to, inclined to, liable to, minded to, naked to, obliged to, open to, predisposed to, prone to, ready for, ready to, responsible for, standing to, subject to, susceptive to, within range of

likely

• likely, Junoesque, a propos, able, acceptable, ad rem, adapted, advantageous, advisable, agreeable, amply endowed, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, apt to, assumably, becoming, befitting, bent, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, by all odds, callipygian, callipygous, cogitable, comely, conceivable, conceivably possible, congruous, contingent, convenient, couleur de rose, credible, curvaceous, curvy, decent, desirable, disposed, disposed to, dispositioned, dollars to doughnuts, doubtless, doubtlessly, dovetailing, earthly, encouraging, expected, expedient, fair, favorable, favored, favorite, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, foreseeable, fructuous, geared, given, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, happy, hopeful, humanly possible, imaginable, in all likelihood, in all probability, in the cards, in the mood, inclined, inclined to, indubitably, just right, liable, liable to, like enough, lovely to behold, meet, meshing, minded, mortal, most likely, no doubt, odds-on, on the button, opportune, pat, personable, plausible, pleasing, pneumatic, politic, possible, potential, predictable, predictable within limits, predisposed, presentable, presumable, presumably, presumptive, presumptively, probable, probably, profitable, promising, prone, proper, qualified, reasonable, recommendable, relevant, right, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, seasonable, seemly, shapely, sightly, slender, sortable, stacked, statistically probable, statuesque, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, ten to one, tenable, thinkable, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, undoubtedly, useful, verisimilar, very like, very likely, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

liken

• liken, analogize, assimilate, balance, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, confront, contrast, counterpose, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, equate, juxtapose, liken to, match, measure against, metaphorize, oppose, paragon, parallel, place against, relate, run a comparison, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off against, set over against, similize, view together, weigh, weigh against

likeness

• likeness, abstract, abstraction, accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, alliance, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogousness, analogue, analogy, angle, aping, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation, associate, balance, block print, brother, certified copy, close copy, close match, closeness, coequality, coextension, cognate, collage, color print, community, companion, comparability, comparableness, comparison, complement, configuration, conformity, congenator, congener, coordinate, copy, copying, correlate, correlative, correspondence, correspondent, counterfeit, counterpart, cyclorama, daub, dead ringer, diptych, double, drawing, duplicate, ectype, effect, effigy, eidolon, engraving, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, equivalent, evenness, exact likeness, face, facet, facsimile, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fashion, feature, fellow, figure, forgery, form, fresco, gestalt, guise, icon, identity, idol, ikon, illumination, illustration, image, imago, imitation, impression, justice, kindred spirit, levelness, light, like, likening, lineaments, living image, living picture, look, manner, match, mate, metaphor, mimicking, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mosaic, mural, near duplicate, nearness, obverse, painting, panorama, par, parallel, parallelism, parity, pasticcio, pastiche, pendant, phase, phasis, phony, photograph, picture, poise, portrait, print, proportion, reciprocal, reference, reflection, regard, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, respect, rubbing, sameness, sculpture, second self, seeming, semblance, shadow, shape, side, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, sister, slant, soul mate, spit and image, spitting image, stained glass window, statue, statuette, stencil, still life, style, such, suchlike, symmetry, tableau, tally, tapestry, the like of, the likes of, total effect, trace, tracing, triptych, twin, twist, uniformity, very image, very picture, view, viewpoint, wall painting, wise

likewise

• likewise, above, additionally, again, alike, all included, along, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, as is, as well, au reste, beside, besides, beyond, coequally, coextensively, coincidentally, congruently, correspondently, correspondingly, coterminously, ditto, either, else, en plus, equally, extra, farther, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, ibid, ibidem, identically, in addition, in kind, in like manner, in that way, inter alia, into the bargain, item, just the same, like, like that, like this, more, moreover, on the side, on top of, over, plus, same here, similarly, so, synonymously, the same way, then, therewith, thus, to boot, too, yet

liking

• liking, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, a thing for, admiration, adoration, affection, affinity, agape, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, appreciation, aptitude, aptness, ardency, ardor, attachment, bent, bias, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, cast, charity, choice, command, conation, conatus, conduciveness, conjugal love, crush, decision, delight, desire, determination, devotion, diathesis, discretion, disposition, eagerness, eye, faithful love, fancy, feeling for, fervor, flame, fondness, free choice, free love, free will, free-lovism, gust, gusto, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, inclination, infatuation, intention, lasciviousness, leaning, liability, libido, like, likes, love, lovemaking, lust, married love, mind, objective, partiality, passion, penchant, physical love, pleasure, popular regard, popularity, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, readiness, regard, relish, resolution, sensitivity to, sentiment, sex, sexual desire, sexual love, shine, soft, soft spot, spiritual love, susceptibility, taste, tendency, tender feeling, tender passion, tropism, truelove, turn, twist, uxoriousness, velleity, volition, warp, weakness, will, will power, willingness, wish, worship, yearning

Lilliputian

• Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, brownie, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elf, elfin, gnome, homunculus, incipient, manikin, meager, midge, midget, nanoid, peewee, pip-squeak, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runt, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shrimp, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, wart, wizened

lilt

• lilt, Alexandrine, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, accent, accentuation, alba, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, anthem, antispast, arsis, art song, aubade, bacchius, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bark, bawl, beam, beat, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, blues, blues song, boat song, boom, bray, breathe, bridal hymn, brindisi, buzz, cackle, cadence, caesura, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, caper, caracole, carol, catalexis, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, chirp, chirrup, chloriamb, chloriambus, choir, chorus, clap hands, colon, coo, counterpoint, cretic, croon, croon song, crow, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dance, delight, descant, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dirge, ditty, do-re-mi, dochmiac, drawl, drinking song, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epithalamium, epitrite, exclaim, exult, feminine caesura, flute, folk song, foot, frisk, frolic, gambol, gasp, glory, glow, growl, grunt, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hiss, hum, hymeneal, hymn, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, intonate, intone, ionic, jingle, joy, jubilate, keen, laugh, lay, lied, love song, love-lilt, masculine caesura, matin, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, minstrel, minstrel song, minstrelsy, molossus, mora, movement, mumble, murmur, mutter, national anthem, number, numbers, paeon, pant, pentameter, pentapody, period, pipe, proceleusmatic, prosody, prothalamium, psalm, pyrrhic, quantity, quaver, radiate cheer, rejoice, revel, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, roar, rollick, romp, roulade, rumble, scream, screech, serena, serenade, serenata, shake, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, skip, skip for joy, smile, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, song, sparkle, spondee, sprung rhythm, squall, squawk, squeal, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, theme song, thesis, thunder, torch song, tremolo, tribrach, trill, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, troll, trumpet, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, vocalize, wail, war song, warble, wedding song, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel

lily livered

• lily livered, afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, gutless, henhearted, intimidated, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, poltroonish, pusillanimous, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spunkless, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow

limb

• limb, ankle, appendage, arm, bank, bar, bayonet legs, beam, bine, board, boom, border, bordure, bough, bowlegs, branch, branchedness, branchiness, brim, brink, brow, burgeon, calf, cant hook, claw bar, cnemis, coast, crank, crow, crowbar, deadwood, devil, drumstick, edge, enfant terrible, featheredge, flagellum, flange, foreleg, fork, frame, fringe, frond, gamb, gambrel, gigot, ham, hand, handspike, hem, hind leg, hock, imp, iron crow, jamb, jimmy, joint, knee, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, leg, lever, limbus, link, lip, list, lobe, lobule, marge, margin, marlinespike, member, mischief, offshoot, organ, outrigger, peavey, pedal, pinch bar, pinion, podite, popliteal space, prize, pry, ragged edge, ramage, ramification, rapscallion, rascal, rim, ripping bar, rogue, runner, sarment, scalawag, scion, scissor-legs, selvage, shank, shin, shoot, shore, side, sideline, skirt, slip, spar, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stems, stolon, stumps, sucker, switch, tail, tarsus, tendril, thallus, treadle, trotters, twig, verge, villain, wing, wrecking bar

limber up

• limber up, cushion, ease, fluff, gentle, get ready, get set, knead, laxate, limber, loosen, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mollify, plump, pulp, relax, shake up, shoulder arms, smash, soften, soften up, squash, strip for action, subdue, supple, tenderize, tone down, tune down, warm up, whet the knife

limber

• limber, adaptable, anemic, asthenic, bendable, bending, bloodless, chicken, compliant, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, dull, effete, elastic, etiolated, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, faint, faintish, feeble, fictile, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexile, flexuous, floppy, formable, formative, giving, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, impressible, impressionable, languid, languorous, like putty, limp, lissome, listless, lithe, lithesome, lustless, malleable, marrowless, moldable, nerveless, pithless, plastic, pliable, pliant, pooped, powerless, receptive, resilient, responsive, rubbery, sapless, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, springy, strengthless, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly, whippy, willowy, yielding

limbo

• limbo, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, Naraka, Pandemonium, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, cage, coop, enclosure, hell, in abeyance, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, lower world, nether world, on the shelf, pen, penfold, perdition, pinfold, place of confinement, place of torment, pound, purgatory, shades below, suspended, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, treading water, underworld

lime

• lime, acid, acidulant, allure, bait, bait the hook, birdlime, bola, bread-and-butter pickle, burden, catch, catch out, chokecherry, cobweb, crab apple, cramp, cripple, cumber, decoy, dill pickle, dragnet, embarrass, encumber, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, enweb, fetter, fishhook, fly, gill net, gin, green apple, ground bait, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hobble, hook, hook in, impede, inveigle, involve, jig, lame, lariat, lasso, lemon, lumber, lure, mesh, meshes, net, noose, pickle, plug, pound net, press down, purse seine, saddle with, seine, shackle, snare, snarl, sniggle, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, spinner, spread the toils, springe, squid, tangle, toil, toils, trammel, trap, trawl, trip, verjuice, vinegar, weigh down, wind, wobbler, yogurt

limelight

• limelight, PR, arc, arc light, ballyhoo, blurb, bright light, celebrity, color filter, common knowledge, cry, currency, daylight, dimmer, eclat, exposure, fame, famousness, floats, flood, floodlight, footlights, foots, gelatin, glare, hoopla, hue and cry, klieg light, light plot, lights, marquee, maximum dissemination, medium, notoriety, plug, press notice, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, reclame, report, spot, spotlight, write-up

limen

• limen, affectibility, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, circumscription, compass, confine, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, determinant, division line, end, extremity, finish, floor, frontier, hedge, high-water mark, impressibility, impressionability, interface, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mete, openness to sensation, perceptibility, physical sensibility, readiness of feeling, receptiveness, receptivity, sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sentience, sentiency, start, starting line, starting point, susceptibility, susceptivity, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, threshold of sensation, time allotment, upper limit

limerick

• limerick, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

limey

• limey, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Neptune, OD, Paddy, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, dago, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, frog, greaseball, greaser, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, pirate, privateer, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tar, viking, water dog, wetback, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

limit

• limit, Thule, Ultima Thule, abate, accommodation, acme, adjust to, all, alter, apex, apogee, appoint, area, assign, assuage, bar, be into, be strong in, bitter end, border, border line, bottom dollar, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounds, bourn, box, box in, box up, break boundary, breakoff point, bridle, brim, brink, brow, burden, butt, butt end, cap, capacity, caution, ceiling, channel, check, circumscribe, circumscription, climax, cloud nine, compass, condition, confine, confinement, confines, constrict, contain, content, continence, contract, copyright, cordage, cramp, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, curb, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, define, delimit, delimitate, delimitation, determinant, determine, diminish, discipline, district, divide, division line, draw in, draw the line, edge, enclose, end, enough, environs, extent, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, fag end, farthest bound, feature, finish, fix, floor, focus, follow, frontier, go in, go in for, guide, heaven, heavens, hedge, hedge about, height, hem, hem in, high noon, high-water mark, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, hinder, hold in check, inhibit, interface, it, joke, jumping-off place, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, leaven, lessen, limen, limitation, limiting factor, limits, line, line of demarcation, localize, low-water mark, lower limit, major in, march, margin, mark, mark out, maximum, measure, meridian, mete, minor in, mitigate, moderate, moderation, modify, modulate, mountaintop, narrow, ne plus ultra, nib, no place higher, noon, nth degree, outrage, palliate, patent, peak, perimeter, periphery, pinch, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, poundage, precincts, prescribe, prescription, proscription, purlieus, pursue, qualification, qualify, quantity, quarter, reduce, region, register, regulate by, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, ridge, rim, room, scant, season, separate, set, set conditions, set limits, seventh heaven, sky, snape, soften, space, specialize, specialize in, spire, stand, start, starting line, starting point, stint, stowage, straiten, stub, stump, summit, surprise, surround, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, taper, target date, temper, term, terminal date, termination, terminus, territory, the last straw, the limit, the whole, threshold, tighten, time allotment, tip, tip-top, tonnage, too much, top, upmost, upper extremity, upper limit, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, verge, vertex, very top, volume, zenith, zone

limitation

• limitation, absolute interest, allowance, benefit, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bounds, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, ceiling, cession, circumscription, claim, closeness, common, compass, concession, confine, confinement, confines, continence, contingent interest, cramp, cramping, crowdedness, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, delimitation, determinant, discipline, division line, easement, end, equitable interest, equity, estate, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, extremity, finish, floor, frontier, grain of salt, grant, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hedge, hedging, high-water mark, holding, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, interest, interface, limen, limit, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, march, mark, mental reservation, mete, moderation, modification, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, part, percentage, prescription, proscription, qualification, reservation, restrain, restrictedness, restriction, right, right of entry, salvo, settlement, slenderness, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, stake, start, starting line, starting point, stint, straitness, strict settlement, strictness, stricture, target date, term, terminal date, terminus, threshold, tight squeeze, tightness, time allotment, title, trust, upper limit, use, vested interest, waiver

limited

• limited, Amtrak, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, austere, authoritative, baggage train, borne, bound, bounded, boxed in, cable railroad, chastened, choo-choo, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, cog railroad, cog railway, conditioned, confined, constrained, constricted, controlled, copyrighted, cramp, cramped, crowded, determinate, dinky, disciplined, dwarfed, dwarfish, el, electric, electric train, elevated, exiguous, expert, express, express train, feature, featured, finite, fixed, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, frugal, funicular, geographically limited, goods train, half-pint, hedged, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, hushed, icebound, impoverished, in control, in hand, incapacious, incommodious, ineffectual, insular, interurban, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, knee-high, knowledgeable, landlocked, lean, leavened, lightning express, little, local, localized, meager, mean, metro, milk train, minimal, miserly, mitigated, moderated, modified, modulated, monorail, narrow, near, niggardly, of a place, one-horse, paltry, parliamentary, parliamentary train, parochial, parsimonious, passenger train, patented, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, precise, predetermined, prescribed, proscribed, provincial, puny, qualified, quelled, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rattler, reduced, reserved, restrained, restricted, restrictive, rolling stock, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, seasoned, set, short, shuttle, shuttle train, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smallish, snowbound, softened, spare, sparing, special, specialist, specialistic, specialized, stable, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, streamliner, stunted, subdued, subsistence, subway, technical, tempered, thin, tight, topical, train, tube, two-by-four, underground, unnourishing, unnutritious, vernacular, watered, watery, way train, windbound

limiting

• limiting, altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping, defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining, enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory, extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive, limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming, skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating, terminative, threshold, ultimate

limitless

• limitless, a hog for, absolute, acquisitive, all-comprehensive, all-devouring, all-inclusive, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, avaricious, avid, bottomless, boundless, changeless, countless, coveting, covetous, creating, creative, devouring, endless, enormous, esurient, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, exhaustless, extending everywhere, extensive, full, glorious, gluttonous, gobbling, good, grabby, grasping, greedy, hallowed, highest, hoggish, holy, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, immortal, immutable, incalculable, incessant, incomprehensible, indefinite, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, insatiable, insatiate, interminable, interminate, just, loving, luminous, majestic, making, measureless, mercenary, merciful, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, myriad, no end of, no strings, numberless, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnivorous, one, open, overgreedy, perfect, permanent, perpetual, piggish, plenary, quenchless, radiant, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sacred, shaping, shoreless, slakeless, sordid, sovereign, sumless, supreme, swinish, termless, timeless, ubiquitous, unappeasable, unappeased, unbound, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, undefined, unending, unequivocal, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unqualified, unquenchable, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, untold, vast, venal, voracious, wide-open, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number, without strings

limits

• limits, boundaries, bounds, bourns, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, coordinates, edges, fringes, limitations, marches, metes, metes and bounds, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, skirts, verges

limn

• limn, bring to life, cartoon, catch a likeness, chalk, character, characterize, charcoal, chart, color, contour, copy, crayon, crosshatch, dash off, daub, delineate, depict, describe, design, diagram, doodle, draft, draw, evoke, express, give words to, hatch, hit off, image, interpret, map, notate, outline, paint, paint a picture, pencil, picture, picturize, portray, print, profile, register, render, represent, rub, schematize, scratch, scumble, set forth, shade, silhouette, sketch, stencil, symbolize, take a rubbing, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, write

limp

• limp, amble, andante, anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barge, bloodless, bowl along, bundle, chicken, claudicate, claudication, clump, cowardly, cower, crawl, creep, dead march, debilitated, dodder, doddering, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, enervated, etiolated, exhausted, faint, faintish, falter, faltering, fatigued, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, floppy, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, frail, funeral march, gait, gallop, gimp, go dead slow, go slow, gone, gutless, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hobbling, hop, idle, imbecile, impotent, inch, inch along, ineffective, ineffectual, jog, jog trot, jog-trot, jolt, jump, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, laze, leisurely gait, limber, listless, lock step, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lukewarm, lumber, lumbering pace, lunge, lurch, lustless, marrowless, mince, mincing steps, mosey, muddle, namby-pamby, nerveless, nodding, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pithless, pliable, plod, poke, poke along, pooped, powerless, prance, quiver, rack, relaxed, roll, rubbery, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sapless, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, sinewless, single-foot, skip, slack, sleazy, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, soft, spent, spineless, spiritless, stagger, stagger along, staggering, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, strengthless, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stumble, stump, supple, swag, swagger, swing, teeter, tired, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, tottering, traipse, tread, tremble, trip, trot, trudge, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wasted, weak, weakly, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along, worn out

limpet

• limpet, Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, adherent, adhesive, barnacle, blue point, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, cement, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, decal, decalcomania, glue, gunk, langouste, leech, littleneck clam, lobster, molasses, mucilage, mussel, oyster, paste, periwinkle, plaster, prawn, prickle, quahog, remora, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamer, sticker, syrup, thorn, whelk

limpid

• limpid, Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light-pervious, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, well-defined

limping

• limping, ambling, bad, castrated, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crippled, deliberate, disabled, easy, emasculated, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, game, gentle, gradual, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hobbled, hobbling, idle, incapacitated, indolent, lame, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, lumbering, maimed, moderate, poking, poky, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, 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, spavined, staggering, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling

line up

• line up, align, allocate, allot, apportion, arrange, array, bank, bill, book, budget, calendar, collimate, collineate, collocate, compose, cool off, correspond, deal, deal out, deploy, dispose, distribute, docket, equate, equidistance, fall in, fall into line, fall into rank, fix, follow, form, form a line, get in formation, get in line, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, lay out, line, marshal, match, methodize, normalize, order, organize, pacify, parallelize, parcel out, place, place parallel to, program, queue, queue up, quiet, rally, range, rank, realign, regiment, regularize, regulate, routinize, row, schedule, set out, set up, slate, space, standardize, string out, structure, systematize, take rank, tranquilize

line

• line, DMZ, Indian file, L, MO, Spenserian stanza, WATS, WATS line, Zeitgeist, abut, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, aceldama, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquire, action, activity, adaptation, adaption, adjoin, adjustment, advance guard, affiliation, aftermath, agreement, aim, air, air lane, airhead, algorithm, align, aligned, allocate, allot, alto, anagnorisis, ancestry, angle, animal kingdom, answer, antistrophe, apparentation, apportion, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argosy, argument, aria, arrange, arrange for, arrangement, array, art, articulation, assemble, assortment, atmosphere, attack, autarky, autolithograph, avant-garde, azimuth, background, bag, balance, band, bank, bar, bar line, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, be a printmaker, beachhead, bearing, beat, befringe, belt, bent, billet, bimetallism, bind, birth, blarney, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, block in, block out, blood, bloodline, blotch, book, border, border line, borderline, bottoms, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, brace, braid, brail, branch, brand, break boundary, breakoff point, breed, bridgehead, brief, brood, brushwork, burden, burr, business, business letter, butt, buzz, cable, cable railway, calling, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caravan, card, career, career building, careerism, carve, cast, catalog goods, catastrophe, catena, catenation, cavalcade, ceil, ceiling, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chalk, chalk out, chalk up, character, characterization, check, check off, chisel, chiseling, chit, chorus, cicatrize, circuit, circumscription, clan, class, clue, co-ax, coaxial cable, cog railway, collocate, color, column, combat area, combat zone, coming after, commodities, common ancestry, communicate, communication, compass, compliance, complication, compose, composition, con, concatenation, concentric cable, conclusion, condensation trail, confine, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, consistency, consumer goods, consumer items, continuation, continuity, continuo, continuum, contour, contract for, contrail, contralto, contrivance, conventionality, coordinate, cord, correspondence, cortege, couplet, course, cover, craft, crease, creed, cribble, crinkle, crocodile, cross-hatching, crosshatch, cup of tea, current, cut, cutoff, cutoff point, cycle, dapple, dash, data, deadline, deal, deal out, define, degree, delimit, delimitation, delineate, delineation, demarcate, demarcation, deme, demitint, denomination, denouement, derivation, descant, descendant, descent, description, design, designation, determinant, develop, development, device, diagonal, dig up, direct line, direction, direction line, discolor, dispatch, dispose, distaff side, distich, distribute, division line, dot, dotted line, draft, draftsmanship, dress parade, drift, drone, dynasty, echelon, economic self-sufficiency, edge, edging, effect, effects, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, employ, employment, enchase, end, endless belt, endless round, enemy line, enframe, engage, engrave, engravement, engraving, envoi, episode, epistle, epode, etch, etching, extension, extraction, extremity, fable, face, falling action, family, farthest outpost, fashion, favor, feather, feeder, feeder line, female line, field, field of battle, field of blood, figuration, figure, figured bass, filament, file, filiation, fill, finish, firing line, first line, fix, fleck, fleet, flexibility, flight path, floor, flotilla, flyover, folk, following, forefront, form, form a line, formation, formulate, forte, frame, freckle, free enterprise, free trade, fringe, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, frontier, funeral, fur, furrow, game, gamut, gash, gem-engraving, genealogy, genre, gens, genus, get hold of, get in line, gimmick, glacial movement, glass-cutting, glyptic, goods, goods for sale, governmentalism, gradation, graft, grain, grave, graving, gravity-operated railway, groove, ground bass, grouping, guiding principles, guise, hachure, hairline, half tint, handicraft, harmony, hatch, hatching, hawser, heading, hedge, heir, helmsmanship, hem, heptastich, heritage, hexastich, high-water mark, hint, hire, horse railway, house, hum, ilk, impress, imprint, in a row, in accord, in agreement, in control, in harmony, in line, in step, incident, incise, incision, inclination, information, inlay, inscribe, inscript, inscription, interface, interline, inventory, itinerary, job, job lot, join, junction, keeping, kidney, killing ground, kin, kind, label, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, landing beach, lap, lay, lead, ledger line, letter, lie, lifework, ligament, ligation, ligature, light railroad, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line of action, line of battle, line of business, line of demarcation, line of descent, line of direction, line of goods, line of march, line of work, line up, lineage, lineation, lined up, lines, lining, list, lithograph, load, local color, localism, logical sequence, long suit, lot, low-water mark, lower limit, mail-order goods, main current, main interest, main line, mainstream, make, make a mark, make prints, male line, malleability, managed currency, manner, manner of working, march, march past, marge, margin, marginate, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marshal, matriclan, means, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, merchandise, merchant fleet, merchant navy, message, mete, method, methodology, metier, metro, mission, missive, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, mold, monorail, monostich, monotone, mood, motif, motion, motorcade, mottle, movement, mule train, mystery, mythos, nation, nature, navigation, navy, neighbor, nexus, nick, noninterference, nonintervention, notch, note, nullification, number, obedience, oblique, observance, obtain, occupation, octastich, octave, octet, offerings, offspring, orbit, order, order of succession, ordinate, organize, orientation, orthodoxy, ottava rima, outguard, outline, outpost, pack, pack train, pad, painterliness, parade, parcel out, parentage, part, party line, party principle, passage, path, patriclan, pencil, pendulum, pentastich, people, pepper, periodicity, peripeteia, perspective, persuasion, pet subject, phratry, phyle, phylum, piloting, pioneer, piste, pitch, place, plain chant, plain song, plan, plan of action, planned economy, plant kingdom, platform, plenum, pliancy, plot, plumb, point, policy, polity, pomp, position, position paper, postcard, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, practice, precursor, prepare, price supports, prick, prick song, primrose path, principles, print, private line, procedure, proceeding, process, procession, profession, profile, program, progression, prolongation, promenade, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, punch, punctuate, puncture, purfle, purl, pursuit, put in place, quarter, quatrain, queue, queue up, race, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, racket, rail, rail line, railhead, railroad, railway, rally, range, rank, ready, ready for, recognition, reconcilement, reconciliation, recurrence, refrain, regiment, reply, rescript, reticulation, review, rhyme royal, riddle, rim, rising action, road, roadbed, roadway, role, rope, rotation, rough in, rough out, round, route, routine, row, rule, run, sales pitch, scale, scar, scarify, scent, scheme, score, scoring, scotch, scout, scrape, scratch, scratching, script, sculpture, sea lane, seal, seam, seat of war, secondary plot, sectionalism, secure, seed, sell out, separatrix, sept, septet, sequel, sequence, series, sestet, set, set off, set out, set up, sextet, shading, shadow, shambles, shape, shipping, ships, shortcut, side, sideline, sides, sidetrack, siding, sign up, signs, silhouette, single file, sketch, skimmington, skirt, slant, slash, slashing, solidus, solo, solo part, song, song and dance, soprano, soprano part, sort, space, spear side, spearhead, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, species, speck, speckle, spectrum, speech, spiel, spindle side, splotch, spoor, spot, spun yarn, staff, stain, stamp, stanza, staples, start, starting line, starting point, stave, steerage, steering, stem, stigmatize, stipple, stippling, stirps, stock, stock-in-trade, story, straight, straighten, strain, strand, strategy, streak, streaking, stream, street railway, streetcar line, striate, striation, strictness, string, string out, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, strong point, strophe, structure, stuff, style, subject, subjunction, sublineation, subplot, subway, succession, successiveness, successor, suffixation, swath, swing, switch, switchback, sword side, syllable, system, tack, tactics, tailback, target date, tattoo, technicality, technique, telegraph cable, telegraph line, telephone, telephone line, tendency, tendon, tenor, tercet, term, terminal, terminal date, terminus, terza rima, tetrastich, the drill, the front, the general tendency, the how, the like of, the likes of, the main course, the way of, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, thematic development, theme, thing, thong, thorough bass, thread, threshold, tick, tick off, tier, time allotment, time spirit, tint, tone, tonnage, tool, tooling, topic, totem, touch, tour, trace, traces, track, trade, trail, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, tram, tramline, treatment, treble, trend, trestle, tribe, trim, triplet, tristich, trolley line, true, trunk, trunk line, tube, tune, turnout, twine, twist, type, type-cutting, uncover, under control, underground, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undersong, uniformity, up for, upper limit, values, van, vanguard, vapor trail, variety, vendibles, verge, verse, virgule, vocation, voice part, wad, wainscot, wake, walk, walk of life, wares, way, weakness, whaling fleet, windrow, wire, wire line, wise, word, words, work, wrinkle, yarn, zone of communications

lineage

• lineage, Indian file, affiliation, aftermath, ancestry, animal kingdom, apparentation, array, articulation, bank, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, children, clan, class, coming after, common ancestry, concatenation, conclusion, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, cycle, deme, derivation, descendant, descendants, descent, direct line, distaff side, drone, dynasty, effect, endless belt, endless round, extension, extraction, family, family tree, female line, file, filiation, folk, following, forebears, forefathers, fruit, gamut, genealogy, gens, gradation, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heir, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, hum, inheritors, issue, kids, kind, kindred, line, line of descent, little ones, logical sequence, male line, matriclan, monotone, nation, new generation, nexus, offspring, order, order of succession, origin, parentage, patriclan, pedigree, pendulum, people, periodicity, phratry, phyle, phylum, plant kingdom, plenum, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, procession, progeny, progression, prolongation, queue, race, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rising generation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seed, sept, sequel, sequence, series, side, single file, sons, spear side, species, spectrum, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, successor, suffixation, swath, sword side, thread, tier, totem, train, treasures, tribe, windrow, younglings, youngsters

lineal

• lineal, after, arrowlike, attendant, cadet, catenary, clannish, consecutive, dead straight, diphyletic, direct, ensuing, ethnic, even, family, flat, following, genealogical, genetic, gentile, gentilic, horizontal, in a line, junior, later, level, linear, national, ordinal, phyletic, phylogenetic, posterior, progressive, puisne, racial, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, ruler-straight, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, smooth, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, streamlined, subsequent, succeeding, successional, successive, totemic, tribal, true, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, upright, vertical, younger

lineaments

• lineaments, air, angle, appearance, aroma, aspect, attribute, badge, bearing, border, brand, brow, cachet, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, character, characteristic, circumference, color, complexion, configuration, contour, cortex, countenance, covering, crust, cut, delineation, demeanor, dial, differentia, differential, distinctive feature, earmark, effect, eidolon, envelope, epidermis, exterior, external, facade, face, facet, facial appearance, facies, fashion, favor, feature, features, figuration, figure, flavor, form, framework, fringe, front, garb, gestalt, guise, gust, hallmark, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, imago, impress, impression, index, individualism, integument, keynote, kisser, light, likeness, lines, look, looks, main features, manner, mannerism, map, mark, marking, mien, mold, mug, mush, nature, odor, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outside, pan, particularity, peculiarity, periphery, phase, phasis, phiz, physiognomy, port, posture, presence, profile, property, puss, quality, quirk, reference, regard, relief, respect, rind, savor, seal, seeming, semblance, shape, shapes, shell, side, silhouette, simulacrum, singularity, skeleton, skin, slant, smack, specialty, stamp, stance, style, superficies, superstratum, surface, taint, tang, taste, token, top, total effect, tournure, trait, traits, trick, turn, twist, view, viewpoint, visage, wise

linear

• linear, Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark, arrowlike, catenary, consecutive, dead straight, direct, even, flat, high-water mark, horizontal, in a line, level, lineal, load waterline, ordinal, progressive, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, ruler-straight, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, smooth, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, streamlined, successional, successive, tidemark, true, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, upright, vertical, waterline, watermark

lined up

• lined up, aligned, analogous, coextending, coextensive, collateral, concurrent, equal, equidistant, equispaced, even, nonconvergent, nondivergent, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic

lineman

• lineman, amateur athlete, archer, athlete, baggage man, bakehead, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, brakeman, brakie, butcher, catcher, center, coach, competitor, conductor, cricketer, defensive lineman, dispatcher, electrician, electrotechnician, end, fireman, footballer, footplate man, games-player, gamester, groundman, guard, infielder, jock, jumper, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, player, poloist, porter, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, radio technician, railroad man, railroader, redcap, rigger, skater, smoke agent, sport, sportsman, stationmaster, stoker, switchman, tackle, tailback, telephone mechanic, telephonic engineer, toxophilite, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, wingback, wireman, wrestler, yardman, yardmaster

linen

• linen, Skivvies, afghan, apparel, array, attire, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedizenment, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, blouse, bodice, body clothes, bodywear, buffalo robe, case, clothes, clothing, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, corsage, costume, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, dickey, drapery, dress, dressing, dry goods, duds, eiderdown, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fitted sheet, flannels, garb, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habit, investiture, investment, lap robe, leather goods, leatherware, linens, lingerie, napery, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, rags, raiment, robe, robes, rug, sheet, sheeting, shift, shirt, slip, smallclothes, soft goods, sporting goods, sportswear, spread, style, textiles, threads, togs, toilette, trim, underclothes, underclothing, undergarments, underlinen, underwear, undies, unmentionables, vestment, vesture, waist, wear, wearing apparel, white goods, yard goods

liner

• liner, bush, bushing, doubling, doublure, facing, filler, filling, floating hotel, floating palace, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, lining, ocean greyhound, ocean liner, packing, padding, passenger steamer, stuffing, wadding, wainscot

lines

• lines, Konzentrationslager, Lager, MO, actor, air, algorithm, antagonist, antihero, approach, attack, back band, backstrap, barrack, barracks, bearing, bearing rein, bellyband, bit, bit part, bivouac, blinders, blinds, book, breeching, bridle, brow, camp, campground, campsite, cantonment, caparison, carriage, casern, cast, cast of countenance, cavesson, character, checkrein, cheekpiece, chinband, cinch, collar, color, complexion, concentration camp, configuration, continuity, contour, countenance, course, crownband, crupper, cue, curb, delineation, demeanor, detention camp, encampment, face, facial appearance, fashion, fat part, favor, feature, features, feeder, figuration, figure, form, framework, gag swivel, garb, genre, gestalt, girth, guise, hackamore, halter, hames, hametugs, harness, headgear, headstall, heavy, hero, heroine, hip straps, hobo jungle, ingenue, jaquima, jerk line, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, libretto, line, line of action, lineaments, looks, main features, manner, manner of working, martingale, means, method, methodology, mien, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, movement, noseband, order, outline, part, pencil, person, personage, physiognomy, piece, playbook, pole strap, port, posture, practice, presence, procedure, proceeding, process, profile, protagonist, reins, relief, ribbons, role, routine, saddle, scenario, scene plot, school, score, script, shaft tug, shapes, shooting script, side, side check, silhouette, skeleton, snaffle, soubrette, stance, straight part, style, supporting character, supporting role, surcingle, system, tack, tackle, technique, text, the drill, the grand style, the how, the way of, title role, tone, tournure, traits, trappings, tug, turn, villain, visage, walk-on, walking part, way, winker braces, wise, yoke

lineup

• lineup, agenda, approach, arrangement, array, attack, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, blueprinting, budget, cadastre, calculation, calendar, card, carte du jour, census, census report, charting, checklist, checkroll, conception, concord, contrivance, deployment, design, device, disposal, disposition, docket, dramatis personae, enterprise, envisagement, figuring, foresight, forethought, formation, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmony, head count, honor roll, idea, intention, jury list, jury panel, layout, list of agenda, long-range plan, mapping, marshaling, master plan, menu, method, methodology, muster, muster roll, nose count, operations research, order, order of business, organization, peace, plan, planning, planning function, playbill, poll, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, program of operation, programma, property roll, proportion, prospectus, protocol, questionnaire, quiet, quietude, rationalization, regularity, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scroll, setup, slate, strategic plan, strategy, structure, symmetry, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, tax roll, the big picture, the picture, tranquillity, uniformity, way, working plan

linger

• linger, abide, amble, await, bide, bide the issue, carry on, cease not, continue, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, dither, doodle, drag, drag along, drag on, drift, dwell on, elaborate, endure, fall behind, falter, flag, get behind, go along, go on, goof off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hang on, harp on, hold everything, hold on, hold steady, hold your horses, idle, jog on, keep going, keep on, labor, lag, linger behind, linger on, loiter, lollygag, mark time, mope, mosey, muck, never cease, pause, persevere, persist, piddle, poke, procrastinate, put off, remain, run on, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, slog on, stagger on, stay, stay on, stay up, stick around, straggle, stroll, survive, take time, tarry, temporize, trail, trail behind, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waste time, wear on

lingerer

• lingerer, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lie-abed, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence

lingering

• lingering, Micawberish, backward, booming, continuation, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, drawn-out, easygoing, echoic, echoing, extended, extension, foot-dragging, goofing off, gradual, growling, idling, interminable, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, languishing, lasting, lax, lazing, lazy, lengthened, lengthening, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, lounging, marathon, mopery, overlong, persistent, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, prolongation, prolonged, protracted, protraction, reboant, rebounding, reechoing, remaining, remiss, repercussive, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, sounding, spun-out, stretched-out, tarriance, tarrying, thundering, trifling, undamped, waiting

lingo

• lingo, argot, cant, dialect, gibberish, gobbledygook, idiom, jargon, language, langue, lingua, locution, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, parlance, parole, patois, patter, personal usage, phraseology, pidgin, scatology, slang, speech, taboo language, talk, tongue, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language

lingual

• lingual, accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, descriptive, dissimilated, dorsal, enunciated, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, light, linguiform, linguistic, lingulate, liquid, low, metalinguistic, mid, monophthongal, morphological, morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phonological, pitch, pitched, posttonic, pronounced, psycholinguistic, retroflex, rounded, said, semantic, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken, stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd, syllabic, syntactic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonguelike, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, unwritten, uttered, velar, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic, vocalized, vocoid, voiced, voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

linguist

• linguist, bilingual, dialectician, diglot, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, multilingual, orthoepist, paleographer, philologaster, philologer, philologian, philologist, phonemicist, phonetician, phoneticist, phonologist, polyglot, semanticist, semasiologist

linguistic

• linguistic, answering, articulated, communicating, communicational, communional, conversational, descriptive, enunciated, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nuncupative, oral, parol, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, pronounced, psycholinguistic, questioning, responsive, said, semantic, sounded, speech, spoken, structural, syntactic, telepathic, transmissional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful

linguistics

• linguistics, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics

lining

• lining, Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, burr, bush, bushing, case, casemaking, casing-in, chiseling, collating, collating mark, cover, cross-hatching, demitint, doubling, doublure, dust cover, dust jacket, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, facing, filler, filling, folding, footband, gathering, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, gluing-off, glyptic, graving, half tint, hard binding, hatching, headband, incision, inlay, inlayer, inscript, inscription, insole, interlineation, jacket, library binding, line, liner, lining-up, marking, mechanical binding, niggerhead, packing, padding, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slash, slashing, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stamping, stapling, stipple, stippling, stuffing, tailband, tint, tipping, tooling, trimming, type-cutting, wadding, wainscot, wire stitching, wrapper

link

• link, accord, accouple, accumulate, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglutinate, alliance, ally, amass, ankle, appendage, apply, approximation, arm, articulate, articulation, assemblage, assemble, associate, association, band, be continuous, bind, bond, bough, boundary, bracket, branch, bridge, bridge over, broker, bunch, bunch up, butt, catenate, cement, cervix, chain, clap together, clinch, closeness, closure, clot, cluster, collect, combination, combine, come together, component, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, connect up, connectedness, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, connector, constituent, contiguity, continuate, continue, contrariety, converge, copulate, correlate, couple, coupling, cover, cresset, crowd, date, dealings, deduction, disjunction, distributor, dovetail, draw a parallel, elbow, element, embrace, encompass, equate, filiation, flambeau, flaming torch, flare, flock together, flow together, forgather, form a series, fuse, fusee, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gliding joint, glue, go-between, hand, herd together, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hive, homology, horde, huddle, identify, identify with, imp, include, intercourse, interdependence, interface, intermediary, intermedium, interrelate, intimacy, jobber, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, knee, knot, knuckle, lay together, league, leg, liaison, ligament, ligature, limb, link up, linkage, linking, lobe, lobule, lump together, maintain continuity, marry, marshal, mass, mediary, mediator, medium, meet, member, merge, middleman, mill, miter, mobilize, mortise, muster, mutual attraction, nearness, neck, nexus, offshoot, organ, pair, parallel, parallelize, piece together, pinion, pivot, pivot joint, propinquity, proximity, put together, rabbet, rally, rally around, ramification, rapport, relate, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relativize, rendezvous, roll into one, run on, runner, scarf, scion, seam, seethe, shoulder, signal flare, similarity, solder, span, splice, spray, sprig, spur, stick together, stitch, stream, string, string together, surge, suture, swarm, switch, sympathy, symphysis, tail, take in, tape, tendril, thread, throng, tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up, toggle, toggle joint, torch, twig, unify, union, unite, vinculum, wed, weld, wholesaler, wing, wrist, yoke

linkage

• linkage, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, alliance, approximation, articulation, assemblage, association, bond, bracketing, closeness, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copulation, coupling, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, gathering, homology, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, intimacy, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, liaison, link, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, mutual attraction, nearness, pairing, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, splice, symbiosis, sympathy, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, yoking

linked

• linked, affiliate, affiliated, allied, articulated, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, catenated, ceaseless, collateral, collected, concatenated, conjoined, conjugate, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, copulate, correlated, coupled, cyclical, direct, endless, featureless, gapless, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, immediate, implicated, incessant, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interminable, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, jointless, knotted, leagued, matched, mated, merged, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, of that ilk, of that kind, paired, parallel, perennial, periodic, recurrent, related, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, serried, smooth, spliced, stable, steady, straight, tied, twenty-four-hour, twinned, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undivided, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, united, unrelieved, unremitting, unseparated, unstopped, wed, wedded, yoked

Linotype

• Linotype, Intertype, Monotype, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, dummy, furniture, galley chase, hot-metal typesetting, imposition, justification, layout, line of type, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, quoin, setting, slug, typesetting, typesetting machine

lint

• lint, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, air pollution, application, attritus, band, bandage, bandaging, binder, brace, bran, cast, cataplasm, clue, compress, cosmic dust, cotton, court plaster, cravat, crumb, crumble, down, dressing, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, eiderdown, elastic bandage, epithem, fallout, farina, filings, floss, flour, flue, fluff, four-tailed bandage, fur, fuzz, gauze, grits, groats, kittens, meal, pile, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, powder, pussies, raspings, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, sawdust, sling, smut, soot, splint, sponge, stupe, swansdown, tampon, tape, tent, thistledown, tourniquet, triangular bandage

lintel

• lintel, French door, archway, back door, barway, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, porch, portal, porte cochere, postern, propylaeum, pylon, scuttle, side door, stile, storm door, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile

lion

• lion, Achilles, David, Establishment, Gibraltar, Hector, Leo, Roland, Samson, Siberian tiger, VIP, a man, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baron, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, big boy, big gun, big man, big name, big-timer, bigwig, billet, blazon, blazonry, bobcat, bordure, brass, brass hat, brave, broad arrow, bulldog, cadency mark, canton, cat-a-mountain, catamount, celebrity, chaplet, charge, cheetah, chevron, chief, chutzpanik, coat of arms, cockatrice, constellation, coronet, cougar, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cynosure, decorated hero, demigod, demigoddess, device, difference, differencing, dignitary, dignity, eagle, elder, eminence, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, father, fess, fess point, field, fighting cock, figure, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, folk hero, fret, fur, fusil, galaxy, gallant, gamecock, garland, good soldier, great man, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, heart of oak, helmet, heraldic device, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, honor point, horse, idol, immortal, impalement, impaling, important person, inescutcheon, interests, iron, jaguar, label, leader, leopard, lords of creation, lozenge, luminaries, luminary, lynx, magnate, man of courage, man of mark, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master spirit, metal, mogul, motto, mountain lion, mullet, nabob, nails, name, nombril point, notability, notable, oak, ocelot, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, ox, painter, paladin, pale, paly, panjandrum, panther, pean, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pheon, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, puma, purpure, quarter, quartering, rock, rose, ruling circle, sable, sachem, saltire, scutcheon, shield, simba, social lion, somebody, something, spread eagle, stalwart, star, steel, subordinary, superstar, tenne, the brave, the great, the top, tiger, tincture, top brass, top people, torse, tressure, tycoon, unicorn, vair, valiant, valiant knight, vert, very important person, wildcat, worthy, wreath, yale

lionhearted

• lionhearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, hardy, heroic, herolike, intrepid, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, manful, manly, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous

lionize

• lionize, adulate, aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, boast of, brag about, canonize, celebrate, crown, cry up, deify, elevate, emblazon, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, eulogize, exalt, extol, flatter, glamorize, glorify, go slumming, hero-worship, idolize, immortalize, laud, magnify, make legendary, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, raise, rubberneck, saint, salute, sanctify, see the lions, see the sights, set up, sight-see, throne, trumpet, uplift

lip service

• lip service, BOMFOG, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, cant, empty gesture, false piety, formalism, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip worship, mealymouthedness, mouth honor, mouthing, mummery, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pharisaism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, snuffling, soft soap, solemn mockery, sweet talk, tokenism, unctuousness

lip

• lip, aerophone, answer back, articulate, back talk, backchat, bagpipe, bank, bell, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blow, blow a horn, board, border, bordure, boss, bow, breathe, brim, brink, brow, bubble, bugle, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, buss, button, cahot, carillon, chime, chine, chorus, clarion, clump, coast, come out with, communicate, condyle, convex, convey, deliver, disclose, doodle, double reed, double-tongue, dowel, ear, edge, embouchure, emit, enunciate, express, featheredge, fife, flange, flap, fling off, flute, formulate, frame, fringe, gall, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, gnarl, handle, hem, hill, horn, hump, hunch, impart, jaw, jog, joggle, key, knob, knot, knur, knurl, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lave, ledge, let out, limb, limbus, list, loop, lump, marge, margin, mole, mountain, mouth, mouthpiece, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, osculate, out with, papilloma, peck, peg, phonate, phrase, pipe, pour forth, present, pronounce, provoke, put forth, put in words, ragged edge, raise, reed, rib, ridge, rim, ring, sass, sassiness, sauce, sauciness, say, selvage, set forth, shore, shoulder, side, sideline, skirt, slide, smack, smooch, sound, spine, stud, style, tab, talk back, tell, throw off, tongue, toot, tooter, tootle, triple-tongue, trumpet, tubercle, tubercule, tweedle, utter, valve, verbalize, verge, verruca, vesicle, vocalize, voice, wale, wart, wash, welt, whisper, whistle, wind, wind instrument, wind the horn, word

lipid

• lipid, animal oil, cerate, cholesterol, drying oil, essential oil, ester, fat, fatty oil, fixed oil, glyceride, grease, hydrogenated fat, lipin, lipoid, mineral oil, oil, oleum, polyunsaturated fat, sebum, steroid, tallow, unsaturated fat, vegetable oil, volatile oil

lips

• lips, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, back, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, bazoo, beard, blade, breasts, cervix, chaps, chops, clitoris, cod, cods, cullions, dorsum, embouchure, family jewels, female organs, gab, genitalia, genitals, gob, gonads, hard palate, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, labia, labia majora, labia minora, larynx, lingam, male organs, mandibles, maw, maxilla, meat, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, nasal cavity, nuts, nymphae, oral cavity, ovary, palate, penis, phallus, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, premaxilla, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, soft palate, speech organ, spermary, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, testes, testicles, tip, tongue, trap, uterus, vagina, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box, vulva, womb, yap, yoni

lipstick

• lipstick, base, carmine, clown white, cold cream, compact, cosmetics, crimson, drugstore complexion, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, foundation, foundation cream, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, henna, incarnadine, inflame, lip rouge, madder, makeup, mascara, miniate, mudpack, nail polish, paint, powder, powder puff, puff, red-ink, redden, rouge, rubify, rubric, ruddle, rust, talcum, talcum powder, vanishing cream, vanity case, vermilion, war paint, warm

liquefaction

• liquefaction, chylifaction, chylification, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquidness, milkiness, moisture, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity, succulence, suppuration, wateriness

liquefy

• liquefy, colliquate, cut, decoagulate, decoct, deliquesce, dissolve, fluidify, fluidize, flux, fuse, hold in solution, infuse, leach, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, melt, melt down, percolate, run, soften, solubilize, solve, thaw, thin, unclot

liquid assets

• liquid assets, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, available funds, available means, balance, balance in hand, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cash, cash in hand, cash supply, circumstances, current assets, deferred assets, fixed assets, frozen assets, fund, funds, grist, holdings, immediate resources, intangible assets, intangibles, material assets, means, money in hand, net assets, net worth, property, quick assets, ready money, resource, resources, stock, stock-in-trade, supply, tangible assets, tangibles, the ready, treasury, wealth

liquid oxygen

• liquid oxygen, Dry Ice, Freon, ammonia, carbon dioxide, charge, coolant, ether, ethyl chloride, exhaust, freezing mixture, fuel, ice, ice cubes, jet propulsion, liquid air, liquid helium, propellant, propulsion charge, reaction propulsion, refrigerant, rocket propulsion, thrust

liquid

• liquid, accented, alcoholic drink, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, aquatic, aqueous, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, beverage, bilabial, blood, bright, brilliant, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, clear, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, convertible, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, drink, drinkable, epenthetic vowel, explosive, flat, flowing, fluent, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, front, frosted, frosted shake, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, golden, guttural, hard, heavy, high, honeyed, hydrated, hydraulic, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hydrous, intonated, juice, juicy, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, latex, lax, light, limpid, lingual, liquefied, liquid extract, liquidy, liquor, low, malt, manner of articulation, mellifluent, mellow, melted, mid, milk, modification, molten, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negotiable, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plashy, plosive, pop, posttonic, potable, potation, profitable, prothetic vowel, retroflex, rounded, running, runny, sap, sappy, segmental phoneme, semiliquid, semivowel, shake, shining, sloppy, soda, soda pop, soda water, soft, soft drink, solution, solvent, sonant, sonority, speech sound, splashy, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, succulent, surd, swashy, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, translucent, transparent, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, water, waterish, watery, weak, whey, wide

liquidate

• liquidate, abstract, amortize, annihilate, assassinate, bereave of life, break, bump off, bust, carry away, carry off, cash, cash in, cashier, cast off, cast out, chloroform, chuck, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cool, cut down, cut off, cut out, deconsecrate, defrock, deport, depose, deprive of life, deracinate, destroy, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown, disenthrone, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, displace, dispose of, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, drum out, dump, dust off, eject, elide, eliminate, end, eradicate, excommunicate, execute, exile, expatriate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, finish, finish off, fling off, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give the gate, honor, immolate, kick upstairs, kill, knock off, launch into eternity, lift, lynch, make accounts square, make away with, martyr, martyrize, murder, oust, outlaw, overthrow, pay, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, pension, pension off, pick out, poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quit, read out of, redeem, remove, remove from life, remove from office, retire, root out, root up, sacrifice, satisfy, sell, sell out, sell short, settle, shake off, shoo, slay, square, square accounts, starve, strike a balance, strike off, strike out, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, sweep away, take life, take off, take up, terminate the account, throw away, throw off, throw over, throw overboard, unchurch, unfrock, unload, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, uproot, weed out, wipe out

liquidated

• liquidated, acquitted, banned, barred, debarred, deported, discharged, ejected, excluded, exiled, expelled, expended, hired, left out, not in it, not included, paid, paid in full, postpaid, precluded, prepaid, prohibited, purged, receipted, remitted, salaried, settled, shut out, spent, tabooed, waged

liquidation

• liquidation, abolishment, abolition, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, agiotage, amortization, amortizement, annihilation, annulment, arbitrage, assassination, binder, bloody murder, bumping-off, buying in, cash, cash payment, cashiering, choking, choking off, clearance, debt service, deconsecration, defrayal, defrayment, defrocking, deportation, deposal, deposit, deposition, deprivation, deracination, detachment, dethronement, disbarment, disbarring, disbursal, discard, discharge, discrownment, disenthronement, disjunction, dismissal, displacement, disposal, disposition, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, ejection, elimination, equity capital, eradication, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, firing, flier, flutter, forced resignation, foul play, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, homicide, impeachment, installment, installment plan, interest payment, kicking upstairs, manslaughter, monthly payments, murder, negation, never-never, nullification, ostracism, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pensioning off, plunge, prepayment, profit taking, purge, purging, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, removal, retirement, riddance, rooting out, round trade, satisfaction, scalping, settlement, severance, silencing, sinking-fund payment, snuffing out, speculation, spot cash, spot sale, stifling, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, strangulation, suffocation, superannuation, suppression, suspension, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, turn, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, uprooting, venture, venture capital, voiding, weekly payments, withdrawal

liquidator

• liquidator, accountant, auditor, bookkeeper, bursar, cashier, cashkeeper, chamberlain, compensator, comptroller, controller, curator, defrayer, depositary, depository, financial officer, payer, paymaster, purse bearer, purser, ratepayer, receiver, recompenser, remunerator, steward, taxpayer, treasurer, trustee

liquor

• liquor, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, John Barleycorn, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, beverage, black stuff, blood, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, booze, brew, broth, budge, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, concentrate, depressant, depressor, distillate, dolly, downer, drink, drinkable, extract, firewater, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, frosted, frosted shake, goofball, grog, hard liquor, hard stuff, heroin, hooch, hop, horse, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hypnotic, inebriant, infusion, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, juice, junk, knockout drops, latex, laudanum, liquid, liquid extract, little brown jug, lotus, lush, malt, meperidine, methadone, milk, moonshine, morphia, morphine, mountain dew, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pick-me-up, pop, potable, potation, punch bowl, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, rum, sap, sauce, scag, schnapps, secobarbital sodium, sedative, semiliquid, shake, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, social lubricant, soda, soda pop, soda water, sodium thiopental, soft drink, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spirits, stock, strong drink, strong waters, tar, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tipple, tonic, toxicant, tranquilizer, turps, water, water of life, whey, white lightning, white mule, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

lisp

• lisp, aphonia, artificial voice, assibilate, assibilation, broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, buzz, childish treble, choked voice, cracked voice, croak, crow, drawl, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphasia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, falsetto, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, harshness, hawking voice, hiss, hissing, hoarseness, hush, hushing, idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, lisping, loss of voice, mince, muzzy speech, nasal tone, nasalization, quaver, rhonchus, shake, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, speech defect, speech impediment, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, talk incoherently, tremor, twang, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip

lisping

• lisping, blurred, breathy, choked, choking, croaking, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, guttural, harsh, hawking, hoarse, inarticulate, indistinct, mispronounced, muzzy, nasal, quavering, shaking, shaky, snuffling, stifled, strangled, thick, throaty, tremulous, twangy, velar

lissome

• lissome, adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding

list price

• list price, asking price, bargain price, bid, bid price, cash price, controlled price, current price, current quotation, cut price, fixed price, flat rate, going price, market price, neat price, net, package price, piece price, price list, prices current, quotation, quoted price, recommended price, selling price, stock market quotations, trade price, unit price, wholesale price

list

• list, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, account, adhesive tape, adjoin, alphabetize, analyze, angularity, annals, arena, arrange, ascend, assort, backset, band, bandage, bank, bar, batten, beading, beadroll, befringe, belt, bibliography, bind, binding, board, book, border, bordering, bordure, bound, break down, brim, brink, brow, calendar, call up, cant, capsize, careen, carve, catalog, catalogue, catalogue raisonne, categorize, cellophane tape, census, chalk, chalk up, check in, checklist, chronicle, cincture, class, classify, climb, close, cloth tape, coast, codify, come a cropper, commandeer, composition, confine, conscript, constituents, container, content, contents, coop, correspondence, court, courtyard, crack, craze, cultivate, culture, curtilage, cut, decline, delimited field, delve, descend, detach, detach for service, dig, digest, dip, directory, divide, divisions, docket, documentation, draft, dress, drop, edge, edging, elements, enclave, enclosure, enframe, engrave, enlist, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, fall, fall away, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall off, fall over, fall prostrate, fallow, fascia, featheredge, fertilize, field, file, fill out, fillet, fimbria, fimbriation, flange, flounce, flounder, fold, force, frame, friction tape, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, get a cropper, girdle, go downhill, go uphill, grade, grave, ground, group, guts, handlist, harrow, heel, hem, history, hoe, impanel, impress, incise, inclination, incline, index, induct, ingredients, innards, inscribe, insert, insides, inventory, itemize, items, join, jot down, keel, keep score, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lath, lay down, lean, lean over, leaning, leaning tower, ledge, letters, levy, lie along, ligula, ligule, limb, limbus, line, lip, listing, log, lurch, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, march, marge, margin, marginate, mark down, masking tape, matriculate, memorial, minute, mobilize, motif, mulch, muster, muster in, note, note down, numerate, order, pale, paling, park, part, particularize, parts, pen, pigeonhole, pipe roll, pitch, place, place upon record, plank, plastic tape, plow, poll, post, post up, press, program, prune, purfle, purl, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quad, quadrangle, ragged edge, raise, rake, range, rank, rate, recline, record, recording, recruit, reduce to writing, register, registry, relic, remains, retreat, ribband, ribbon, rim, rise, roll, roll call, rolls, roster, rota, ruffle, schedule, score, scroll, selvage, set down, set off, shelve, shore, shred, side, sideline, sidle, sign on, sign up, skirt, skirting, slant, slat, slate, slip, slope, sort, spade, specialize, specify, spill, spline, sprawl, spread-eagle, square, stagger, strake, strap, streak, streaking, stria, striation, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, strop, stumble, subdivide, summon, swag, sway, table, tabulate, tabulation, taenia, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take down, tally, tape, tape measure, tape-record, tapeline, theater, thin, thin out, tick off, ticker tape, till, till the soil, tilt, tip, toft, token, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, tower of Pisa, trace, trim, trimming, trip, tumble, turn turtle, type, uprise, valance, verge, vestige, videotape, weed, weed out, welt, whole, work, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, yard

listen in

• listen in, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, buzz, call, call up, cock the ears, dial, eavesdrop, examine by ear, give a ring, give attention, give audience to, give ear, hang up, hark, hear, hear out, hearken, heed, hold the phone, intercept, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen to, make a call, phone, ring, ring off, ring up, sit in on, tap, telephone, tune down, tune in, tune up, wiretap

listen

• listen, NB, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, cock the ears, eavesdrop, examine by ear, give attention, give audience to, give ear, give ear to, hark, hear, hear out, hearken, hearken to, heed, intercept, lend an ear, listen at, listen in, listen to, mind, obey, pay attention to, sit in on, straitened circumstances, tap, wiretap

listener

• listener, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, audient, audiophile, auditor, beholder, consignee, eavesdropper, getter, hearer, hearkener, hi-fi fan, holder, listenership, looker, obtainer, overhearer, payee, procurer, receiver, recipient, snoop, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer

listening

• listening, all ears, attention, attentive, audibility, audience, audition, aural examination, aural sense, auscultation, bugging, conference, eager attention, ear, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, examination by ear, favorable attention, hearing, heeding, hushed attention, interview, listening in, open-eared, rapt attention, sense of hearing, tryout, wiretapping

listing

• listing, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, booking, canted, canting, careening, cataloging, chronicling, contour plowing, cultivating, cultivation, culture, dressing, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, fallowing, filing, furrowing, harrowing, heeling, hoeing, ill-balanced, impanelment, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, itemization, leaning, logging, lopsided, matriculation, off-balance, out of plumb, out of square, overbalanced, pitched, plowing, posting, pruning, raking, record keeping, recordation, recording, recumbent, register, registration, registry, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, tabulation, thinning, tilling, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, top-heavy, unbalanced, unstable, unsteady, weeding, working

listless

• listless, Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, bored, careless, casual, chicken, comatose, cool, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, easygoing, effete, enervated, etiolated, exanimate, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gone, gutless, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, imbecile, impassive, impotent, in a stupor, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, lukewarm, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, mindless, moribund, negligent, nerveless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pithless, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, powerless, reckless, regardless, resigned, rubbery, sapless, sated, sinewless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soft, somnolent, soporific, spent, spineless, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stolid, strengthless, stultified, stupefied, supine, tepid, thoughtless, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unhardened, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unnerved, unsolicitous, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weak, weakly, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

listlessness

• listlessness, accidia, acedia, adynamia, aloofness, anemia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, atony, benumbedness, blah, blah feeling, blahs, bloodlessness, boredom, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, cowardice, debilitation, debility, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, enervation, ennui, etiolation, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, impassiveness, impassivity, impotence, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, mindlessness, negligence, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, prostration, recklessness, regardlessness, resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, softness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stolidity, strengthlessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, unanxiousness, unconcern, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unsolicitousness, weakliness, weakness, weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness

lit

• lit, ablaze, afflicted, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bent, bespangled, boiled, bombed, boozy, brightened, candlelit, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, elevated, enlightened, firelit, fried, fuddled, gaslit, half-seas over, high, illuminated, in a blaze, inebriated, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit up, loaded, lubricated, luminous, lushy, moonlit, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, spangled, squiffy, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, stewed, stinko, studded, sunlit, swacked, tanked, tight, tinseled

litany

• litany, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, Sefer Torah, Torah, Torah scroll, Virginal, agape, aid prayer, appeal, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, canon, catalogue, cataloguing, celebration, chaplet, church book, circumcision, collect, communion, confession, confirmation, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, enumeration, euchologion, euchology, farse, formulary, grace, high celebration, impetration, imploration, incense, intercession, inventory, inventorying, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lectionary, lesser litany, list, listing, love feast, lustration, machzor, manual, meditation, missal, obsecration, obtestation, ordinal, orison, pax, petition, pontifical, prayer, prayer book, prayer wheel, processional, recital, recitation, reciting the rosary, ritual, rituale, rogation, rosary, rubric, service book, siddur, silent prayer, suit, supplication, telling of beads, thanks, thanksgiving, the confessional, the confessionary

literacy

• literacy, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, eruditeness, erudition, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, pedantism, pedantry, reading, scholarship

literal meaning

• literal meaning, affective meaning, bearing, coloring, connotation, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, lexical meaning, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undertone, value

literal minded

• literal minded, arid, barren, dry, dull, earthbound, infecund, infertile, literal, mundane, prosaic, prosing, prosy, staid, stolid, stuffy, unfanciful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized

literal

• literal, Christian, abecedarian, accepted, allographic, alphabetic, approved, arid, authentic, authoritative, barren, basic, bona fide, boring, candid, canonical, capital, card-carrying, colorless, conventional, correct, customary, denotative, dictionary, dinkum, down-to-earth, dry, dull, earthbound, essential, etymological, evangelical, exact, faithful, firm, following the letter, genuine, good, graphemic, honest, honest-to-God, humdrum, ideographic, inartificial, infecund, infertile, lawful, legitimate, lettered, lexical, lexigraphic, lifelike, literatim, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, matter-of-fact, minuscular, minuscule, mundane, natural, naturalistic, objective, of the faith, original, orthodox, orthodoxical, pictographic, precise, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, real, realistic, received, right, rightful, scriptural, semantic, simon-pure, simple, simplistic, sincere, sound, staid, standard, sterling, stolid, strict, stuffy, sure-enough, tedious, textual, traditional, traditionalistic, transliterated, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true-blue, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbiased, uncial, uncolored, uncomplicated, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unideal, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninspired, uninvented, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unprejudiced, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unromanticized, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, upper-case, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word

literally

• literally, absolutely, actually, closely, dead, definitely, direct, directly, even, exactly, expressly, faithfully, in all respects, in every respect, in fact, ipsissimis verbis, just, literatim, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, really, right, rigidly, rigorously, square, squarely, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word

literary style

• literary style, affectation, command of language, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling for words, form of speech, grace of expression, grandiloquence, inflation, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mode, mode of expression, peculiarity, personal style, rhetoric, sense of language, strain, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, trick, vein, way

literary

• literary, academic, belletristic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, classical, cultivated, cultured, donnish, educated, erudite, formal, inkhorn, learned, lettered, literate, pedantic, refined, scholarly, scholastic, well-read, written

literate

• literate, Brahmin, abstruse, brainworker, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, egghead, encyclopedic, erudite, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, learned, lettered, mandarin, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, thinker, white-collar intellectual, wise, wise man

literature

• literature, French literature, Renaissance literature, ancient literature, article, autograph, belles lettres, belles-lettres, bibliography, body of knowledge, body of learning, brainchild, brochures, circulars, classics, composition, computer printout, contemporary literature, copy, cyclopedia, data, document, draft, edited version, encyclopedia, engrossment, erotic literature, erotica, essay, facts, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, folk literature, holograph, humane letters, information, kitsch, leaflets, letter, letters, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, lore, lucubration, manuscript, materials, matter, medieval literature, national literature, nonfiction, obscene literature, opus, original, pamphlets, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, pornographic literature, pornography, printed matter, printout, production, propaganda, pseudonymous literature, publications, publicity, reading matter, recension, republic of letters, scatological literature, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, serious literature, store of knowledge, system of knowledge, the written word, transcript, transcription, travel literature, treasury of information, typescript, underground literature, version, wisdom literature, work, writing, writings

lithe

• lithe, adaptable, bendable, bending, compliant, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, lean, like putty, limber, lissome, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, slender, slight, slim, spare, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, thin, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding

lithograph

• lithograph, aquatint, autolithograph, be a printmaker, block, block print, carve, character, chisel, chromolithograph, color print, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon engraving, crease, cribble, crosshatch, cut, enchase, engrave, engravement, engraving, etching, furrow, graphotype, grave, groove, hatch, impress, impression, imprint, incise, inscribe, line, linoleum-block print, make prints, mark, mezzotint, negative, print, rubber-block print, score, scrape, scratch, sculpture, stipple, tool, vignette, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

lithographer

• lithographer, burinist, carver, cerographer, chalcographer, engraver, etcher, gem engraver, graphic artist, graver, inscriber, lapidary, line engraver, printmaker, pyrographer, serigrapher, silk-screen artist, wood engraver, xylopyrographer

lithography

• lithography, albertype, artist lithography, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, coloration, coloring, dyeing, electronography, electrostatic printing, emblazonry, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, illumination, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, pigmentation, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sheetwork, staining, stencil, three-color printing, tinction, tinging, tinting, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

litigant

• litigant, accessory, accused, actionable, appellant, appellee, bitter-ender, brawler, causidical, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigable, litigationist, litigator, litigatory, litigious, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, panel, parties litigant, party, petitioner, plaintiff, protester, quarreler, resister, scrapper, suitor, witness, wrangler

litigate

• litigate, bring action against, bring into court, bring suit, bring to justice, bring to trial, drag into court, go into litigation, go to law, implead, law, prosecute, prosecute at law, put in suit, put on trial, seek in law, seek justice, sue, take to court

litigation

• litigation, Kilkenny cats, action, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, case, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, cause, cause in court, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation, dispute, enmity, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, judicial process, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, logomachy, paper war, passage of arms, polemic, polemics, proceedings, prosecution, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, squabbling, strife, struggle, suit, suit at law, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangling

litigious

• litigious, actionable, aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, causidical, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, litigable, litigant, litigatory, logomachic, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, polemical, pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, shrewish, wrangling

litter

• litter, air mattress, arsy-varsiness, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, bed, bed down, bedding, bedstead, bier, bolster, brancard, break, bridle, brood, brush, bunk, cacolet, calve, camel litter, cast, clamjamfry, clutch, clutter, collateral, couch, curry, currycomb, cushion, dandy, debris, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, dolly, doolie, doss, drench, drop, dust, farrago, farrow, fawn, feed, foal, fodder, fragments, fry, garbage, gentle, get, give birth, gocart, groom, gurney, handbarrow, handle, harness, hash, hatch, have, have a baby, have young, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hitch, hodgepodge, hysteron proteron, innerspring mattress, issue, jampan, jumble, jungle, junk, kelter, kip, kitten, labor, lamb, lie in, lumber, manage, mat, mattress, mess, mess up, milk, misarrange, mishmash, muddle, muss, muss up, nest, odds and ends, offal, offspring, pad, pallet, pillow, pup, raff, refuse, riffraff, rub down, rubbish, rubble, ruffle, rug, rummage, rumple, saddle, scatter, scramble, scrap, sedan, sedan chair, shoddy, sleeping bag, sofa, spat, spawn, springs, stretcher, strew, tame, tend, the hay, the sack, throw, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, train, trash, travail, truck, tumble, turmoil, underbed, underbedding, unholy mess, waste, water, welter, whelp, yean, yoke, young

litterateur

• litterateur, academician, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, bookman, classicist, clerk, coauthor, collaborator, colossus of knowledge, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, genius, ghost, ghostwriter, giant of learning, humanist, humorist, inditer, learned clerk, learned man, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, logographer, lover of learning, magazine writer, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, poet, polyhistor, polymath, prose writer, pundit, reviewer, savant, scenario writer, scenarist, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, student, technical writer, walking encyclopedia, word painter, wordsmith, writer

little by little

• little by little, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, by snatches, degreewise, drop by drop, foot by foot, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, inch by inch, inchmeal, part by part, piece by piece, piecemeal, slowly, step by step

little fellow

• little fellow, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, a nobody, a nothing, average man, bairn, bourgeois, cherub, child, chit, cipher, common man, commoner, darling, dummy, figurehead, innocent, insignificancy, jackstraw, kid, kitten, lamb, lambkin, lightweight, little bugger, little guy, little innocent, little man, little one, little tad, little tot, man of straw, mediocrity, mite, nebbish, nipper, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, offspring, peewee, pip-squeak, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, punk, roturier, runt, scrub, shaver, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, tad, tot, wee tot, whiffet, whippersnapper

little known

• little known, ignotus, inglorious, nameless, no credit to, obscure, renownless, uncelebrated, undistinguished, unfamed, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored, unknown, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticed, unpopular, unremarked, unrenowned, unsung

little minded

• little minded, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, parochial, petty, provincial, purblind, shortsighted, small, small-minded, straitlaced, stuffy, uncatholic, uncharitable, ungenerous, unliberal

little

• little, Lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace, arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, barely, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, bit, borne, bowshot, brief, brief span, by a hair, by an ace, casual, cheap, cheesy, close quarters, close range, closed, collateral, compact, compendious, concise, constricted, contemptible, crack, cramped, creedbound, crumb, crummy, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, dab, deaf, deaf to reason, debased, decurtate, deficient, degraded, depraved, depthless, despicable, diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earreach, earshot, elfin, ever so little, execrable, exiguous, exiguously, faintly, fanatical, farthing, feebly, few, flagrant, fleck, flyspeck, footling, fortuitous, foul, fragment, fulsome, gobbet, grain, granule, grave, groat, gross, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half-pint, handful, hardly, hardly any, hardly ever, heinous, hidebound, illiberal, immaterial, imperfect, imperfectly, in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, inappreciably, inch, incidental, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsequentially, inconsiderable, ineffectual, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal, infrequently, insignificant, insignificantly, instant, instantaneous, insufficient, insular, iota, irrelevant, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, jot, just a bit, knee-high, light, lightly, limited, little bit, little ways, little while, little-minded, low, low-down, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, meager, meagerly, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, microscopic, midget, mingy, mini, miniature, minim, minimally, minimum, minor, minuscule, minute, minutely, minutiae, miserable, mite, modicum, molecule, moment, monkey, monstrous, mote, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible, negligibly, niggard, niggardly, no, no great shakes, no time, nonessential, not any, not comparable, not enough, not hardly, not in it, not much, not vital, nutshell, obnoxious, odious, one-horse, only just, ounce, out of it, pair of winks, paltry, parochial, particle, pebble, petit, petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pinch, pindling, pint-sized, pistol shot, pittance, point, poky, poor, potty, provincial, puny, purblind, pygmy, rank, rarely, reptilian, scabby, scant, scantily, scanty, scarcely, scrap, scrubby, scruffy, scruple, scummy, scurvy, secondary, seldom, self-centered, selfish, set, shabby, shallow, shoddy, shoestring, short, short and sweet, short distance, short piece, short spell, short time, short way, shortsighted, skimpy, skin-deep, slight, slightly, small, small space, small-beer, small-minded, smallish, smally, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, span, sparse, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot, spurt, squalid, step, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy, subordinate, subsidiary, succinct, summary, superficial, synoptic, tant soit peu, taste, technical, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, thimbleful, tiny, tiny bit, tittle, toy, transient, trifling, trifling amount, triflingly, trivia, trivial, two shakes, two-by-four, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, unessential, unfrequently, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unoften, unskillful, vile, weakly, wee, whit, wretched, young, youthful

littleness

• littleness, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism, baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, brevity, briefness, closed mind, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas, crumminess, curtness, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, delicacy, depravity, despicableness, diminutiveness, enormity, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure, fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, heinousness, hideboundness, illiberality, immateriality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, instantaneousness, insufficiency, insularism, insularity, irrelevance, little-mindedness, low priority, lowness, maladroitness, marginality, meagerness, mean mind, meanness, mediocrity, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, moderateness, monstrousness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, nefariousness, negligibility, niggardliness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, paltriness, parochialism, pettiness, petty mind, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, scabbiness, scantiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, secondariness, shabbiness, shoddiness, short time, shortness, shortsightedness, shut mind, slightness, smallness, squalor, stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, subnormality, succinctness, summariness, tininess, transience, triviality, uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unmagnanimousness, unnoteworthiness, unskillfulness, vileness, vulgarity, wretchedness

littoral

• littoral, aquatic, balneal, bank, beach, benthic zone, berm, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, coast, coastal, coastland, coastline, deep-sea, determinant, determinative, determining, embankment, estuarine, estuarine area, extreme, foreshore, fringing, frontier, grallatorial, intertidal zone, ironbound coast, lido, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, marginal, natant, natatorial, natatory, pelagic zone, plage, playa, rimming, riparial, riparian, riparious, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, shoreside, shoreward, skirting, splash zone, strand, sublittoral, submerged coast, supralittoral, swimming, terminal, threshold, tidal, tidewater, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving, waterfront, waterside

liturgic

• liturgic, High-Church, alto, baptismal, baritone, bass, bravura, ceremonial, ceremonious, choral, choric, coloratura, conventional, decorous, dramatic, eucharistic, falsetto, formal, formular, formulary, heroic, hieratic, hymnal, liturgical, liturgistic, lyric, operatic, paschal, pompous, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacramentarian, sacred, singing, solemn, soprano, stately, tenor, treble, vocal, well-mannered

liturgical

• liturgical, High-Church, alto, baptismal, baritone, bass, bravura, ceremonial, ceremonious, choral, choric, coloratura, conventional, decorous, dramatic, eucharistic, falsetto, formal, formular, formulary, heroic, hieratic, hymnal, liturgic, liturgistic, lyric, operatic, paschal, pompous, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, sacramental, sacramentarian, sacred, singing, solemn, soprano, stately, tenor, treble, vocal, well-mannered

liturgy

• liturgy, Mass, baccalaureate service, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, church, church service, commencement, compline, convocation, devotions, divine service, duty, empty formality, evening devotions, evensong, exercise, exercises, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formula, formulary, function, graduation, graduation exercises, holy rite, inaugural, inauguration, initiation, institution, lauds, matins, meeting, mode of worship, morning devotions, mummery, mystery, night song, none, nones, novena, observance, office, order of worship, ordinance, performance, practice, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prescribed form, prime, prime song, public worship, religious ceremony, revival, revival meeting, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, sacrament, sacramental, service, sext, solemnity, solemnization, tent meeting, tierce, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

live and let live

• live and let live, abide with, accept, be big, be content with, be easy with, blink at, brook, butt out, condone, disregard, hold aloof, ignore, judge not, keep hands off, lean over backwards, leave, leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, listen to reason, live with, not butt in, not get involved, not interfere, not make waves, not meddle, not tamper, not write off, overlook, see both sides, stand aloof, suspend judgment, tolerate, view with indulgence, wink at

live down

• live down, atone, atone for, compensate, expiate, give satisfaction, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make right, make up for, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, propitiate, recompense, redeem, redress, repair, satisfy, square it, square things

live on

• live on, abide, batten upon, bide, browse, carry on, continue, continue to be, continue to exist, crop, defeat time, defy time, dwell, endure, exist, extend, fatten on, fatten upon, feast on, feast upon, feed on, go on, graze, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live through, maintain, pasture on, perdure, perennate, persist, prevail, prey on, remain, run, run on, stand, stay, stay on, subsist, survive, sustain, tarry, tide over, wear, wear well

live through

• live through, abide, bear up, beat the game, beat the system, bide, carry on, come through, come up fighting, come up smiling, continue, continue to be, defeat time, defy time, dwell, endure, exist, extend, go on, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, keep, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live on, live through it, live with it, maintain, never say die, not give up, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, remain, run, run on, stand, stand up, stay, stay it out, stay on, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, subsist, survive, sustain, tarry, tide over, tough it out, triumph, wear, wear well, weather out, weather the storm, win out, win through

live up to

• live up to, abide by, act up to, adhere to, attend to, be faithful to, comply with, conform to, do justice to, fill, follow, fulfill, heed, hold by, keep, keep faith with, make good, meet, observe, regard, respect, satisfy

live wire

• live wire, activist, ball of fire, beaver, big-time operator, bustler, busy bee, charge, doer, dynamo, eager beaver, electric charge, enthusiast, go-getter, human dynamo, hustler, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, peeler, political activist, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter, take-charge guy, unit quantity, wheeler-dealer, winner

live with

• live with, abide with, accede, accept, acquiesce, assent, be agreeable, be big, be content with, be easy with, bear up, blink at, brook, come up fighting, comply, condone, consent, disregard, face the music, go along with, hang in, hang in there, hang on, hang tough, hold fast, hold on, hold out, hold up, ignore, judge not, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, lean over backwards, listen to reason, live through it, live with it, never say die, not give up, not resist, not write off, obey, overlook, relent, resign, see both sides, stand up, stay it out, stay the distance, stay with it, stick, stick it, stick it out, stick out, stick to it, stick with it, submit, succumb, suspend judgment, swallow it, swallow the pill, take, take it, tolerate, tough it out, view with indulgence, wink at

live

• live, Be, abide, ablaze, aboveground, active, activist, activistic, actual, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animate, animated, ardent, be, be alive, be animate, be extant, be found, be in existence, be met with, be present, be somebody, be something, be the case, be there, berth, bide, blazing, bouncing, bouncy, breathe, breathing, breezy, brisk, bubbly, bunk, burning, busy, candent, candescent, capable of life, carry on, charged, chipper, cohabit, comburent, combustible, complete, conclude, conflagrant, conscious, contemporary, continue, continue to be, current, cut a dash, cut a figure, defeat time, defy time, dig, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, draw breath, dwell, dynamic, ebullient, effective, effectual, effervescent, efficacious, efficient, electrified, end, endowed with life, endure, energetic, enlivened, exist, existent, explosive, extend, fare, fetch breath, figure, finish, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flourish, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, fuming, function, functioning, get along, gleam, glitter, glow, glowing, go on, guttering, hang out, happen to be, have being, have life, have place, high-tension, hold, hold on, hold out, hot, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, in the flesh, incandescent, inflamed, inhabit, inspirited, instinct with life, keep, keep on, kindled, last, last long, last out, live and breathe, live on, live through, lively, living, loaded, lodge, long-lived, maintain, make a figure, make a splash, material, mercurial, militant, move, nest, obtain, occupy, occur, on fire, operative, palpable, peppy, perch, perdure, perennate, perky, persevere, persist, pert, physical, prevail, quick, quicksilver, real, red-hot, reeking, remain, reside, respire, room, roost, run, run on, running, scintillant, scintillating, shine, smacking, smoking, smoldering, snappy, spanking, sparking, spend, spirited, sprightly, spry, squat, stand, stay, stay on, subsist, survive, sustain, tangible, tarry, tenacious of life, tenant, tide over, unextinguished, unquenched, very much alive, viable, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivified, walk the earth, wear, wear well, white-hot, working, zingy, zoetic

lived in

• lived in, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, easeful, easy, friendly, homelike, homely, homey, luxurious, peaceful, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, snug, soft, warm

livelihood

• livelihood, TLC, alimentation, alimony, art, bread, bread and butter, care, craft, daily bread, economic support, emolument, endowment, fee, handicraft, keep, living, maintenance, manna, meat, mothering, nourishment, nurture, pay, price support, profession, provision, salary, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, trade, upkeep, wage

liveliness

• liveliness, activity, adaptability, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, bite, bounce, bounciness, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, buoyance, buoyancy, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, eagerness, ebullience, ecstasy, effervescence, elan, elasticity, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, existence, extensibility, exuberance, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, flexibility, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, ginger, give, glow, gust, gusto, guts, having life, heart, heartiness, heat, hotness, immortality, impassionedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, kick, life, lifetime, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, moxie, nip, nippiness, passion, passionateness, pep, pepperiness, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, promptness, punch, pungency, quickness, raciness, readiness, rebound, relish, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, savor, skittishness, snap, snappiness, soul, sparkle, spice, spiciness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, springiness, spriteliness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, tang, tanginess, tone, tonicity, tonus, vehemence, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, vividness, warmth, warmth of feeling, zeal, zest, zestfulness, zip

lively

• lively, ablaze, active, actively, activist, activistic, acute, adaptable, adaptive, afire, aggressive, agile, agog, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, all out, allegretto, allegro, animate, animated, animatedly, antic, anxious, ardent, astir, avid, blithe, boiling over, bouncing, bouncy, breakneck, breathless, breezily, breezy, bright, brilliant, brisk, briskly, bubbly, buoyant, burning, bursting to, bustling, busy, cant, capersome, catty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy, cock-a-hoop, coltish, cordial, curried, dashing, delirious, desirous, double-quick, drunk, dynamic, eager, eagle-winged, ebullient, effervescent, elastic, energetic, energetically, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, excited, exciting, expansive, expeditious, express, extensile, exuberant, fast, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, fleet, flexible, flexile, flushed, flying, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, full tilt, galloping, gamesome, gay, gleeful, glowing, go-go, gorgeous, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hearty, heated, high-seasoned, hilarious, hot, hot as pepper, hustling, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, in full swing, incisive, intense, interesting, intoxicated, inviting, jocund, jolly, juicy, keen, kinetic, light of heel, light-footed, live, living, lusty, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, militant, mirthful, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, on fire, panting, passionate, peart, peppery, peppy, perky, pert, piquant, playful, poignant, pointed, popping, precipitate, prompt, provocative, provoking, pungent, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quicksilver, racy, rapid, raring to, readable, ready, ready and willing, reckless, red-hot, resilient, responsive, rich, robust, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rousing, running, seasoned, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, sparkling, speedy, spiced, spicy, spirited, spiritedly, sportive, sprightly, springy, spry, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring, strenuous, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, strong, succulent, swarming, swift, take-charge, take-over, tangy, tantalizing, teeming, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, tickling, titillating, trenchant, unrestrained, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivaciously, vivid, volatile, warm, winged, with a kick, zealous, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

liven

• liven, activate, animate, arouse, boost, brighten, buoy up, cheer, dynamize, electrify, encourage, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fire, galvanize, give a lift, gladden, hearten, inflame, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jazz up, kindle, pep up, perk up, pick up, quicken, rejoice, rejoice the heart, rouse, snap up, stimulate, stir up, vitalize, vivify, warm, zip up

liver

• liver, abatis, abdomen, absorption, anus, appendix, assimilation, bile, blind gut, bowels, brain, brains, cecum, chitterlings, cholangitis, cholecystitis, cirrhosis, cockscomb, colon, denizen, digestion, digestive system, duodenum, dweller, endocardium, entrails, foregut, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, giblets, gizzard, guts, haslet, heart, hepatitis, hepatoma, hindgut, icterus, infectious hepatitis, ingestion, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestinal juice, intestine, inwards, jaundice, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver and lights, lung, marrow, midgut, occupant, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, perineum, predigestion, pump, pylorus, rectum, resident, resider, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, secondary digestion, serum hepatitis, small intestine, spleen, stomach, sweetbread, ticker, tongue, tripe, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

liveried

• liveried, appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dressed, endued, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hooded, invested, mantled, pantalooned, raimented, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented

livery

• livery, accouterments, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, baton, blazonry, brassard, button, cap and gown, caparison, chain, chain of office, class ring, cockade, collar, cross, decoration, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, fasces, figurehead, fleur-de-lis, furnishings, getup, hammer and sickle, harness, heraldry, insignia, lapel pin, mace, mantle, markings, medal, mortarboard, old school tie, outfit, pin, regalia, rig, ring, rose, school ring, shamrock, sigillography, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, swastika, tartan, things, thistle, tie, trappings, trousseau, turnout, uniform, verge, wand, wardrobe

livestock

• livestock, Animalia, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, big game, birds, brute creation, cattle, domestic animals, fauna, furry creatures, game, small game, stock, wild animals, wildlife

livid

• livid, Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, amethystine, anemic, angered, angry, ashen, ashy, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, black and blue, blanched, bled white, bloodless, blue, bluish, browned-off, cadaverous, canescent, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, corpselike, cross, cyanean, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark-blue, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deep-blue, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, eerie, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grisly, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gruesome, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, iron-gray, lackluster, lavender, lead-gray, leaden, light-blue, lightish-blue, lilac, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, magenta, mat, mauve, mealy, mortuary, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, mulberry, murky, neutral, orchid, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pansy-purple, pasty, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pissed, pissed-off, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, raisin-colored, riled up, sad, sallow, sapphire, sapphirine, sensationalistic, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, sore, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sultry, tabloid, tallow-faced, taupe, ticked off, toneless, turquoise, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, violaceous, violet, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

living being

• living being, aerobic organism, anaerobic organism, animal, autotrophic organism, beast, being, brute, creature, creeping thing, critter, dumb animal, dumb friend, genetic individual, heterotrophic organism, individual, living thing, microbe, microorganism, morphological individual, ont, organic being, organism, organization, physiological individual, varmint, virus, zooid, zoon

living quarters

• living quarters, accommodations, assembly-line housing, berth, billeting, diggings, digs, domiciliation, doss, hospitality, housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, lower-income housing, quartering, quarters, rooms, roost, shelter, sleeping place, slum clearance, subdivision, tract, transient lodging, urban renewal

living

• living, TLC, abiding, ablaze, abode, aboveground, active, acute, advowson, afire, aflame, aflicker, aggressive, aglow, alight, alimony, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animal spirits, animate, animate existence, animated, animation, ardent, around, being, being alive, benefice, biological, biotic, birth, blazing, bread, bread and butter, breathing, brisk, burning, candent, candescent, capable of life, care, care of souls, charge, cohabitation, comburent, commorancy, commorant, conflagrant, conscious, curacy, cure, current, daily bread, dwelling, dynamic, economic support, endowed with life, endowment, energetic, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, existence, existent, existing, extant, faithful, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, forceful, forcible, full of pep, fuming, glebe, glowing, go-go, guttering, habitancy, habitation, having life, hearty, ignescent, ignited, immortality, impetuous, in a blaze, in a glow, in being, in effect, in existence, in flames, in force, in residence, in the flesh, incandescent, incisive, incumbency, inflamed, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, inspirited, instinct with life, intense, keen, keep, kindled, kinetic, life, lifelike, lifetime, live, livelihood, liveliness, lively, living in, lodging, long life, long-lived, longevity, lusty, maintenance, manna, meat, mettlesome, mothering, natural, nesting, nourishment, nurture, occupancy, occupation, on fire, on foot, operative, organic, organized, peppy, physiological, prelacy, present, prevalent, price support, provision, quick, realistic, rectory, reeking, remaining, residence, residency, resident, residentiary, residing, robust, salt, scintillant, scintillating, smacking, smoking, smoldering, snappy, sojourning, spanking, sparking, speaking, spirited, spriteliness, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, strenuous, strong, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subsistent, subsisting, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, take-charge, take-over, tenacious of life, tenancy, tender loving care, to the life, trenchant, true to life, true to nature, under the sun, unextinguished, unquenched, upkeep, very much alive, viability, viable, vibrant, vicarage, vigorous, vital, vitality, vivacious, vivacity, vivid, vivified, zestful, zesty, zippy, zoetic

llano

• llano, alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

load

• load, abundance, acres, adulterate, affliction, albatross, anxiety, bag, baggage, bags, bale, barrel, barrels, bear, bear hard upon, bellyful, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blast, bottle, box, brim, bumper, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, bushel, can, cankerworm of care, capacity, care, cargo, carload, carry, cartload, ceil, charge, charging, chock, choke, cock, complement, congest, consignment, convey, cook, copiousness, countlessness, cram, crate, cross, crowd, crown of thorns, crush, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, debase, detonate, difficulty, disadvantage, discharge, distress, doctor, drag, drain, drop, duty, eject, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, face, fake, feather, fell, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, fire, fire off, flood, freight, freightage, full house, full load, full measure, fur, gall, gall and wormwood, get up steam, glut, go hard with, go ill with, gobs, goods, gorge, grievance, gun, gun for, hamper, handicap, haul, heap, heap up, hit, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, infliction, inlay, interline, jam, jam up, jam-pack, juggle, lade, lading, let fly, let off, liability, lie on, line, loading, luggage, lumber, manipulate, mass, millstone, mountain, mouthful, much, multitude, numerousness, obligation, ocean, oceans, onus, oodles, oppress, oppression, overburden, overfill, overload, oversupply, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, overwhelm, pack, pack away, pack of troubles, pad, parcel, payload, peck, peck of troubles, pelt, penalty, pepper, pick off, pile, pistol, plant, plenitude, plenty, plug, pocket, pot, potshoot, potshot, press hard upon, pressure, prime, profusion, quantities, quantity, ram in, responsibility, rest hard upon, retouch, riddle, rig, sack, saddle, saddle with, saddling, salt, satiate, saturate, sea, sea of troubles, set, ship, shipload, shipment, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, skinful, slew, snipe, snootful, sophisticate, sorrow, spate, squeeze, stack, steam up, store, stow, strike, stuff, superabundance, supercharge, superfluity, superincumbency, surcharge, surfeit, swamp, take a potshot, tamper with, task, tax, taxing, thorn, tons, top off, torpedo, trailerload, trainload, transport, trouble, truckload, try one, vanload, volume, wad, wads, wainscot, warhead, warm up, waters of bitterness, weigh, weigh down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, white elephant, wind, wind up, woe, world, worlds, worry

loaded

• loaded, abounding in riches, afflicted, affluent, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, bent, big-rich, boiled, bombed, booted and spurred, boozy, briefed, brimful, brimming, burdened, canned, charged, chock-full, climacteric, coached, cocked, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, comfortable, crammed, critical, crocked, crocko, crowded, crucial, cumbered, decisive, devious, disguised, disgustingly rich, drunk, elevated, emergent, encumbered, equipped, exigent, familiarized, fat, flush, fraught, freighted, fried, frightfully rich, fuddled, full-charged, full-fraught, good and ready, groomed, half-seas over, hampered, heavy-laden, high, illuminated, in arms, in battle array, in funds, in readiness, in the money, in the saddle, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, inebriated, informed, insidious, jam-packed, jammed, kairotic, laden, lit, lit up, loaded for bear, lubricated, lushy, luxurious, made of money, manipulative, mature, mobilized, moneyed, muddled, muzzy, oiled, on the mark, oofy, oppressed, opulent, organized, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, overwhelmed, packed, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pivotal, pixilated, planned, plastered, polluted, potted, prearranged, pregnant, prejudiced, prejudicial, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, prosperous, provided, provided for, psyched up, raddled, ready, ready for anything, rich, rich as Croesus, ripe, rolling in money, saddled, set, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, stuffed, supercharged, swacked, tanked, taxed, tight, trap, tricky, up in arms, vigilant, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, weighted, weighted down, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-prepared, well-to-do

loading

• loading, allocation, assignment, bale, bother, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, collocation, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, drag, emplacement, encumbrance, exaction, freight, freighting, handicap, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, infliction, lading, laying on, load, loading down, localization, locating, location, millstone, obtrusiveness, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, pressure, presumptuousness, putting, reposition, saddling, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, superincumbency, surcharge, tasking, taxing, trouble, unwarranted demand, weighting

loaf

• loaf, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, batch, bean, block, brains, bread, bread and wine, brick, bulk, bum, bum around, cake, chump, chunk, clod, clump, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, cube, do nothing, elements, fritter away, gob, goldbrick, goof off, hang around, head, hunk, idle, idle away, impanation, intinction, lallygag, laze, lazy, lie around, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lollygag, lounge, lounge around, lump, mass, mooch around, moon, moon around, noddle, noggin, noodle, nugget, pat, quantity, real presence, sense, sit around, skive, slouch, slouch around, stand around, subpanation, take it easy, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, vegetate, wad, wafer, waste

loafer

• loafer, Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, cadger, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dogie, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, gamin, gamine, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, laggard, landloper, lazybones, lazzarone, lingerer, loiterer, loller, losel, lotus-eater, lounge lizard, lounger, lubber, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mope, moper, mudlark, panhandler, piker, potterer, putterer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, schnorrer, scrounger, shirker, ski bum, slouch, sloucher, slug, slugabed, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, time killer, time waster, tramp, trifler, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, waiter on Providence, wastrel

loan shark

• loan shark, Shylock, accommodate with, advance, banker, float a loan, lease-lend, lend, lend-lease, lender, loan, loan officer, loaner, money broker, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgagee, negotiate a loan, pawnbroker, shark, usurer

loan sharking

• loan sharking, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, advance, advancement, advancing, black market, bootlegging, exploitation, extortion, gambling, gray market, highway robbery, holdup, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, lend-lease, lending, lending at interest, loaning, moneylending, moonshining, narcotics traffic, organized crime, overassessment, overcharge, prostitution, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, shylocking, surcharge, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, usury, white slavery

loan

• loan, Wall Street loan, accommodate with, accommodation, advance, allow, allowance, call loan, call money, collateral loan, credit, demand loan, external loan, float a loan, foreign loan, lease-lend, lend, lend-lease, loan-shark, long-term loan, negotiate a loan, policy loan, secured loan, short-term loan, time loan, unsecured loan

loath

• loath, afraid, apathetic, averse, backward, balking, balky, dilatory, disinclined, grudging, hesitant, indifferent, indisposed, laggard, perfunctory, reluctant, renitent, restive, slow, slow to, uneager, unenthusiastic, unwilling, unzealous

loathe

• loathe, abhor, abominate, be hostile to, decline, despise, detest, disapprove of, disfavor, dislike, disrelish, execrate, hate, hold in abomination, mislike, not care for, refuse, reject, repudiate, shrink from, shudder at, spurn, utterly detest

loathing

• loathing, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abhorrent, abomination, allergy, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, averse to, aversion, bigotry, cold sweat, creeping flesh, despitefulness, detestation, disgust, disgusted, dislike, enmity, execration, hate, hating, hatred, horror, hostility, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, nausea, odium, race hatred, racism, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, shuddering, spite, spitefulness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, xenophobia

loathsome

• loathsome, abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, invidious, lamentable, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

lob

• lob, boost, bowl, buoy up, cast, cast up, catapult, chuck, chunk, dart, dash, elevate, erect, escalate, fire, fling, flip, fork, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, hurl, hurtle, jerk, jerk up, knock up, lance, launch, let fly, levitate, lift, lift up, loft, pass, peg, pelt, perk up, pitch, pitchfork, put, put the shot, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, serve, set up, shy, sky, sling, snap, stick up, throw, throw up, tilt, toss, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow

lobby

• lobby, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, act on, advocate, approach, bad influence, bear upon, big wheel, blandish, cajole, call on, call upon, coax, constitute, corridor, court, decree, draw, draw on, eminence grise, enact, enact laws, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, exert influence, exhort, filibuster, five-percenter, foyer, friend at court, galilee, get cozy with, get the floor, good influence, gray eminence, hall, hallway, have the floor, heavyweight, hidden hand, high-pressure, importune, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, insist, insist upon, jawbone, key, kill, kingmaker, lead on, legislate, legislative lobby, lobby through, lobbyer, lobbyist, logroll, lords of creation, magnetize, make advances, make overtures, make up to, man of influence, manipulator, nag, narthex, open sesame, ordain, parliamentary agent, pass, persuade, pigeonhole, plead with, pocket, portal, portico, powers that be, press, pressure, pressure group, promote, propylaeum, pull strings, push, put in force, put through, railroad through, reception room, recommend, registered lobbyist, roll logs, sinister influence, soft-soap, special interests, special-interest group, special-interest lobby, stoa, sway, sweet-talk, table, take the floor, the Establishment, threshold, urge, very important person, vestibule, veto, wheedle, wheeler-dealer, wire-pull, wire-puller, work on, yield the floor

lobbying

• lobbying, Byzantine intrigues, allurement, backscratching, backstairs influence, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, connections, conning, deals, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, games, hortation, inducement, influence peddling, intrigues, jawboning, lobbyism, logrolling, persuasion, ploys, political influence, preaching, preachment, public opinion, ropes, sales talk, salesmanship, schemes, selling, snow job, social pressure, soft soap, solicitation, special-interest pressure, strings, suasion, sweet talk, wheedling, wire-pulling, wires, working on

lobbyist

• lobbyist, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big wheel, court, eminence grise, five-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, legislative lobby, lobby, lobbyer, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, parliamentary agent, powers that be, pressure group, registered lobbyist, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, special-interest lobby, the Establishment, very important person, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

lobe

• lobe, Eustachian tube, anvil, appendage, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, arm, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, between brain, bony labyrinth, bough, brain stem, branch, cauliflower ear, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, cochlea, conch, concha, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, diencephalon, drape, drumhead, dura mater, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endbrain, endolymph, external ear, fissure, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, glial cells, globus pallidus, gray matter, gyrus, hammer, hand, hanger, hanging, hindbrain, hippocampus, hypothalamus, imp, incus, inner ear, joint, lappet, leg, lenticular nucleus, limb, limbic lobe, link, little brain, lobation, lobule, lug, malleus, mantle, mastoid process, medulla oblongata, member, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, middle ear, myelencephalon, neopallium, occipital lobe, offshoot, optic chiasm, organ, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, pallium, parietal lobe, pendant, perilymph, pia mater, pineal body, pinion, pinna, pituitary body, pons, ramification, reticular system, rhombencephalon, round window, runner, scion, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, spray, sprig, spur, stapes, stirrup, subthalamus, switch, tail, telencephalon, temporal lobe, tendril, thalamus, twig, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, uvula, ventricle, vermis, vestibule, white matter, wing

lobotomy

• lobotomy, amygdalotomy, ankylotomy, arteriotomy, blepharotomy, caesarean, cardiotomy, celiotomy, cholecystotomy, cirsotomy, coccygotomy, colpotomy, craniotomy, cystotomy, embryotomy, enterotomy, gastroenterotomy, gastrotomy, glossotomy, hebotomy, herniotomy, hysterotomy, laparotomy, lithotomy, mastotomy, nephrotomy, neurotomy, ovariotomy, pancreatotomy, phrenicotomy, pneumonotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prostatotomy, psychosurgery, salpingotomy, sclerotomy, thoracotomy, thyrotomy, tonsillotomy, ureterotomy, urethrotomy

lobster

• lobster, Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, blue point, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, gawk, klutz, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam, looby, lout, lubber, lug, lummox, lump, mussel, oaf, oyster, palooka, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, steamer, whelk

local color

• local color, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, catastrophe, characterization, color, complication, continuity, contrivance, denouement, design, development, device, episode, fable, falling action, gimmick, incident, line, mood, motif, movement, mythos, peripeteia, plan, plot, recognition, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, slant, story, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, twist

local

• local, Amtrak, Pullman, Pullman car, aboriginal, aborigine, adjoining, affiliate, alehouse, arm, autochthon, baggage car, baggage train, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, boxcar, branch, branch office, cabaret, cable railroad, caboose, cafe, car, carriage, chair car, chapter, choo-choo, city, close by, coach, coal car, cocktail lounge, cog railroad, cog railway, collective bargaining, company union, confined, county, covered waggon, craft union, day coach, dialect, dialectal, diner, dinghy, dining car, district, dive, division, dramshop, drawing room, drinking saloon, earliest inhabitant, el, electric, electric train, elevated, express, express train, first comer, flat, flatcar, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, geographically limited, gin mill, gondola, goods train, groggery, grogshop, honky-tonk, horizontal union, idiomatic, indigene, industrial union, insular, interurban, labor union, lightning express, limited, local union, local yokel, localized, lodge, luggage van, mail car, mail van, metro, milk train, monorail, municipal, native, nearby, nightclub, of a place, offshoot, organ, organized labor, palace car, parliamentary, parliamentary train, parlor car, parochial, particular, passenger car, passenger train, peculiar, post, pothouse, primitive, primitive settler, provincial, pub, public, public house, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, railway car, rathskeller, rattler, reefer, refrigerator car, regional, resident, restricted, rolling stock, roomette, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, sectarian, shire, shuttle, shuttle train, sleeper, small-town, smoker, smoking car, speakeasy, special, specific, state, stockcar, streamliner, subway, tank, taproom, tavern, tender, topical, town, townsman, townswoman, trade guild, trade union, train, truck, tube, underground, union local, van, vernacular, vertical union, village, waggon, way train, wine shop, wing

locale

• locale, abode, agora, amphitheater, area, arena, athletic field, auditorium, back, backdrop, background, bear garden, bearings, bench mark, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, distance, district, emplacement, field, floor, forum, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hinterland, hippodrome, hole, latitude and longitude, lieu, lists, locality, location, locus, marketplace, mat, milieu, mise-en-scene, neighborhood, open forum, palaestra, parade ground, pinpoint, pit, place, placement, platform, point, position, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, rear, region, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, situation, situs, sphere, spot, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stead, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, venue, vicinage, vicinity, walk, whereabout, whereabouts, wrestling ring

localism

• localism, Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, autarky, barbarism, bimetallism, bundle of isoglosses, class dialect, colloquialism, corruption, dialect, dialect atlas, dialect dictionary, economic self-sufficiency, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, idiom, impropriety, isogloss, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, linguistic atlas, linguistic community, linguistic island, local dialect, managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, party line, party principle, patois, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, provincialism, public policy, pump-priming, regional accent, regionalism, sectionalism, slang, speech community, subdialect, taboo word, vulgarism

locality

• locality, abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district, domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus, native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed, placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region, section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity, whereabout, whereabouts, zone

localize

• localize, allocate, assign, box, box in, box up, circumscribe, collocate, confine, cramp, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, hem, hem in, home in on, install, keep from spreading, keep within bounds, limit, locate, narrow, navigate, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put in place, qualify, restrict, situate, spot, stint, tighten, triangulate, zero in on

locate

• locate, allocate, anchor, assign, base, billet at, bivouac, burrow, camp, chance upon, collocate, colonize, come across, come to anchor, deploy, determine, discover, dispose, domesticate, drop anchor, emplace, ensconce, establish, establish residence, find, find out, fix, get, get a fix, hit, hit upon, hive, home in on, hunt down, inhabit, install, invent, keep house, live at, localize, moor, move, navigate, nest, park, people, perch, pin down, pinpoint, place, populate, position, put in place, rediscover, relocate, reside, roost, run down, run to earth, set up, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down, site, situate, spot, squat, stand, stay at, strike, strike root, take residence at, take root, take up residence, trace, trace down, track down, triangulate, turn up, unearth, zero in on

located

• located, assigned, deployed, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established, fixed, installed, placed, planted, positioned, posted, seated, set, settled, situate, situated, spotted, stationed

locating

• locating, allocation, assignment, bringing to light, casual discovery, catching, chance discovery, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, detection, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, disposition, distinguishment, emplacement, espial, excavation, exhumation, exposure, find, finding, finding out, invention, lading, loading, localization, location, lucky strike, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, putting, recognition, rediscovery, reposition, revelation, serendipity, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, strike, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing

location

• location, allocation, arable land, assignment, barnyard, barton, bearings, bringing to light, case, casual discovery, catching, cattle ranch, chance discovery, chicken farm, circumstance, collective farm, collocation, condition, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, deployment, deposit, deposition, detection, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, disposition, distinguishment, dry farm, dude ranch, emplacement, espial, estate, excavation, exhumation, exposure, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, find, finding, finding out, fix, footing, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, invention, jam, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lading, loading, locale, localization, locating, locus, lot, lucky strike, mains, manor farm, modality, mode, orchard, packing, pass, pasture, pen, pickle, pinpointing, place, placement, placing, plantation, plight, point, position, positioning, posting, posture, poultry farm, predicament, putting, ranch, rancheria, rancho, rank, recognition, rediscovery, reposition, revelation, serendipity, setting, sheep farm, site, situation, spot, spotting, standing, state, station, stationing, status, steading, stock farm, storage, stowage, strike, toft, tracking down, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, truck farm, uncovering, unearthing, where

Loch Ness monster

• Loch Ness monster, Argus, Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclops, Echidna, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Typhon, alevin, benthon, benthos, centaur, cetacean, chimera, cockatrice, dolphin, dragon, drake, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, griffin, grilse, hippocampus, kipper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, mermaid, merman, minnow, minny, nekton, nixie, ogre, ogress, panfish, plankton, porpoise, roc, salamander, salmon, satyr, sea horse, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shark, siren, smolt, sponge, troll, tropical fish, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, whale, windigo, xiphopagus, zombie

loch

• loch, arm, armlet, artificial lake, bay, bayou, bayou lake, belt, bight, boca, cistern, cove, creek, dam, dead water, dike, estuary, etang, euripus, farm pond, fishpond, fjord, freshwater lake, frith, glacial lake, gulf, gut, harbor, inland sea, inlet, kyle, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, linn, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nyanza, oxbow lake, plash, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reach, reservoir, road, roads, roadstead, salina, salt pond, sound, stagnant water, standing water, still water, strait, straits, sump, tank, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water hole, water pocket, well

lock in

• lock in, bolt in, bottle up, cast in prison, clap in jail, clap up, cork up, gaol, hold captive, hold in, hold in captivity, hold prisoner, immure, imprison, incarcerate, inhibit, intern, jail, jug, keep, keep in, lock up, maintain, preserve, repress, retain, save, save up, suppress, throw into jail

lock out

• lock out, ban, bang, bar, bar out, barricade, batten, batten down, blockade, bolt, boycott, button, button up, choke, choke off, clap, close, close up, constrict, contain, contract, count out, cover, cut off, debar, embargo, exclude, fasten, fold, fold up, freeze out, go on strike, go out, hold out, ignore, keep out, key, latch, leave out, lock, lock up, occlude, omit, ostracize, padlock, pass over, picket, plumb, preclude, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, revolt, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, send to Coventry, shut, shut it down, shut out, shut the door, shut up, sit down, slam, slow down, snap, squeeze shut, strangle, strike, taboo, walk out, zip up, zipper

lock up

• lock up, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bolt, bolt in, bosom, bottle up, bury, button, button up, cache, cast in prison, choke, choke off, clap, clap in jail, clap up, close, close up, constrict, contain, contract, cover, deposit, embosom, fasten, file and forget, fold, fold up, gaol, hide away, hold captive, hold in captivity, hold prisoner, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, jug, keep hidden, keep secret, key, latch, lock, lock in, lock out, occlude, padlock, plant, plumb, put away, seal, seal off, seal up, secrete, secure, shut, shut the door, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze shut, stash, store away, stow away, strangle, throw into jail, zip up, zipper

lock

• lock, aboideau, accord, agree, air lock, answer to, articulate, assent, assort with, authority, bang, bar, barricade, barrier, batten, batten down, be consistent, be of one, be uniform with, bear hug, bind, block, block up, blockade, bolt, buckle, butt, button, button up, cage, catch, cessation, check, chime, chock, choke, choke off, clap, clasp, cleat, clip, close, close off, close out, close tight, close up, clutch, cohere, coincide, command, commit, concur, confine, conform, conform with, consist with, constrain, constrict, contain, contract, control, coop up, cooperate, correspond, cover, crimp, crowd, curl, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, debar, detain, dock gate, dog, dovetail, dying down, ebb, ebbing, engage, entangle, entwine, exclude, fall in together, fasten, fit together, fix, fix on, fix upon, flood-hatch, floodgate, fold, fold up, follow, frizz, frizzle, full nelson, full stop, gate, go together, go with, grapple, grasp, half nelson, halt, hang together, harmonize, hasp, head gate, hinge, hit, hitch, hold, hold together, hook, implant, impound, imprison, incarcerate, interlock, intersect, jam, jibe, join, joint, keep out, keep track of, key, latch, lock gate, lock in, lock out, lock up, match, miter, mortise, nail, oblige, obstruct, occlude, overlap, pack, padlock, parallel, peg, penstock, pin, plant, plumb, ponytail, power, pursue, quarter nelson, rabbet, register, register with, respond to, restrain, restrict, retain, ringlet, rivet, scarf, scissors, screw, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, sew, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, sing in chorus, skewer, slam, sluice, sluice gate, snap, sort with, square, square with, squeeze, squeeze shut, stabilize, stand, stand together, standstill, staple, stick, stifle, stillstand, stitch, stop, stop up, strangle, stranglehold, strangulate, subsidence, suffocate, supervision, sway, tack, tally, tide gate, toehold, toggle, track, tress, wane, waning, water gate, wedge, weir, zip up, zipper

locker

• locker, 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, cold storage, conservatory, coolerman, coolhouse, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, fisc, freezer locker, frigidarium, frozen-food locker, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, library, locker plant, 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, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, till, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

locket

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

lockjaw

• lockjaw, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute articular rheumatism, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, blockage, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cardiac epilepsy, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, clonic spasm, clonus, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cowpox, cramp, cursive epilepsy, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, diurnal epilepsy, dumdum fever, dysentery, eclampsia, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, erysipelas, falling sickness, famine fever, fit, five-day fever, flu, focal epilepsy, frambesia, frenzy, glandular fever, grand mal, grippe, hansenosis, haute mal, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, matutinal epilepsy, measles, meningitis, menstrual epilepsy, milzbrand, mumps, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, paroxysm, parrot fever, pertussis, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, reflex epilepsy, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rotatoria, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, seizure, sensory epilepsy, septic sore throat, serial epilepsy, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, spasm, splenic fever, spotted fever, stoppage, strep throat, stroke, swamp fever, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, thrush, tinea, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trench fever, trench mouth, trismus, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, ucinate epilepsy, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, visitation, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

lockout

• lockout, arrest, ban, bar, barring, bell, blockade, boycott, boycottage, check, checkmate, circumscription, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, debarment, debarring, demarcation, embargo, end, endgame, ending, exception, exclusion, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, inadmissibility, injunction, job action, narrowing, nonadmission, omission, outlaw strike, preclusion, prohibition, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restriction, revolt, rulebook slowdown, sick-in, sit-down, sit-down strike, slowdown, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, sympathy strike, taboo, tie-up, turnout, walkout, wildcat strike, work stoppage

lockup

• lockup, POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, caging, calaboose, can, cell, check, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confinement, constraint, cooler, coop, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, impoundment, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, penning, pokey, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, restraint, restriction, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

loco

• loco, abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, fruity, hallucinated, insane, irrational, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless

locomotion

• locomotion, commutation, course, crossing, globe-trotting, going, journeying, mobility, motility, motion, motive power, motivity, movableness, movement, moving, passage, progress, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transit, travel, traveling

locomotive

• locomotive, aeromechanical, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, automechanical, automobile, automotive, biomechanical, circuit-riding, expeditionary, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, horseless, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, locomotor, mechanical, mechanistic, moving, mundivagant, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, progressing, self-drive, self-moved, self-moving, self-propelled, strolling, touring, touristic, touristy, transportational, traveling, trekking, vehicular, walking, wayfaring, zoomechanical

locus

• locus, abode, area, bearings, bench mark, district, emplacement, hole, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, locality, location, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, region, site, situation, situs, spot, station, stead, where, whereabout, whereabouts

locution

• locution, adjectival phrase, antonym, articulation, choice of words, clause, composition, construction, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, free form, grammar, headed group, homograph, homonym, homophone, idiom, idiotism, language, langue, lexeme, lingo, lingua, linguistic act, linguistic form, logos, manner of speaking, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, noun phrase, paragraph, parlance, parol, parole, peculiar expression, period, personal usage, phonation, phrasal idiom, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, polysyllable, rhetoric, sentence, sequence of phonemes, set phrase, speaking, speech, speech act, standard phrase, string, syllable, synonym, syntactic structure, talk, term, the spoken word, tongue, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, utterance, utterance string, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbiage, verbum, vocable, voice, way of speaking, word, word of mouth, word-group, wordage, wording

lode

• lode, Eldorado, Golconda, bonanza, chimney, chute, cornucopia, country rock, deposit, dike, font, fount, fountain, gangue, gold mine, gravy train, lodestuff, matrix, mine, mine of wealth, mineral deposit, mother lode, ore bed, pay dirt, quarry, resource, rich lode, rich uncle, shoot, source, source of supply, spring, staple, stock, vein, well, wellspring

lodestar

• lodestar, Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, ambition, artificial magnet, aspiration, bar magnet, basis, calling, cause, celestial body, center of attraction, center of consciousness, center of interest, comet, consideration, cynosure, daystar, electromagnetic lifting magnet, evening star, field magnet, fixed stars, focal point, focus, focus of attention, goal, ground, guiding light, guiding star, heavenly body, horseshoe magnet, ideal, inspiration, intention, living sapphires, lodestone, magnet, magnetic needle, magnetite, mainspring, matter, morning star, motive, orb, paramagnet, point of convergence, polar star, polestar, prime focus, principle, reason, sake, score, solenoid, source, sphere, spring, starry host, stars, ulterior motive, vocation

lodestone

• lodestone, ambition, artificial magnet, bar magnet, catch, dearest wish, desideration, desideratum, desire, electromagnetic lifting magnet, field magnet, forbidden fruit, glimmering goal, golden vision, hope, horseshoe magnet, lodestar, magnet, magnetic needle, magnetite, paramagnet, plum, polestar, prize, solenoid, temptation, trophy, wish

lodge

• lodge, Dymaxion house, White House, abide, accept, accommodate, admit, adobe house, affiliate, arm, bank, bed, berth, bestow, billet, blockhouse, board, box, branch, branch office, bring forward, building, bundle away, bungalow, bunk, burrow, cabin, caboose, cache, camp, casa, catch, cave, chalet, chapter, cliff dwelling, coffer, cohabit, confirm, consulate, contain, cot, cote, cottage, couch, country house, country seat, covert, dacha, deanery, deep-dye, define, den, deposit, division, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, dwell, dwelling house, earth, edifice, embassy, embed, engraft, engrave, enter, entertain, entrench, erection, establish, etch, fabric, farm, farmhouse, file, fix, form, found, furnish accommodations, gatehouse, ground, hall, hang out, harbor, hold, hole, hospice, hostel, hostelry, house, houseboat, hut, hutch, impact, implant, impress, imprint, infix, ingrain, inhabit, inn, inscribe, jam, lair, lake dwelling, lay, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, live, living machine, local, log cabin, love nest, manor house, manse, mew, nest, occupy, offshoot, organ, pack, pack away, parsonage, penthouse, perch, pied-a-terre, plant, post, prefabricated house, presidential palace, print, public house, put away, put down, put up, quarter, ranch house, receive, record, rectory, register, remain, repose, reposit, reservoir, reside, rest, roadhouse, roof, room, roost, root, run, salt away, salt down, seat, set, set down, set forth, set in, set out, settle, shack, shanty, shelter, skyscraper, snuggery, sod house, split-level, squat, stable, stamp, stash, stay, stereotype, stick, stick fast, stop, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, strike root, structure, submit, take, take in, take root, tavern, tenant, town house, tunnel, vicarage, warehouse, wedge, wing

lodger

• lodger, board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, leaseholder, lessee, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlessee

lodging

• lodging, abiding, abiding place, abode, accommodations, address, apartment, assembly-line housing, berth, billeting, cantonment, cohabitation, commorancy, commorant, crash pad, crib, diggings, digs, domicile, domiciliation, domus, doss, dwelling, dwelling place, habitancy, habitation, hospitality, house, housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem, in residence, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, living, living in, living quarters, lodging place, lodgings, lodgment, lower-income housing, nest, nesting, occupancy, occupation, pad, place, place to live, quartering, quarters, remaining, residence, residency, resident, residentiary, residing, roof, room, rooms, roost, seat, shelter, sleeping place, slum clearance, sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, subdivision, tenancy, tenement, tract, transient lodging, urban renewal

loess

• loess, alluvion, alluvium, ash, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate

loft

• loft, agency, atelier, attic, attic room, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, cockloft, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, garret, hayloft, house, installation, institution, junk room, library, lumber room, office, organization, parlor, sail loft, shop, sky parlor, stacks, storeroom, studio, study, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

loftily

• loftily, Olympianly, aloofly, arrogantly, bombastically, condescendingly, contemptuously, contumeliously, disdainfully, flatulently, grandiloquently, grandiosely, grandly, gravely, haughtily, imperiously, imposingly, magisterially, magniloquently, majestically, nobly, ostentatiously, patronizingly, pompously, pretentiously, proudly, regally, royally, sedately, showily, soberly, solemnly, stately, stiltedly, superciliously, toploftily, tumidly, turgidly, venerably, windily, with arms akimbo, with dignity, with flying colors, worthily

lofty

• lofty, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized, aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, august, awesome, beatified, bedizened, benevolent, big, big-sounding, bighearted, blue-blooded, brand, candid, canonized, cavalier, celebrated, chivalrous, classy, clear, cogent, colossal, compelling, condescending, consequent, considerate, contemptuous, contumelious, convincing, convoluted, declamatory, deified, detached, dignified, discriminating, disdainful, disinterested, dispassionate, distinguished, dominating, domineering, elevated, eloquent, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect, ethereal, euphuistic, exalted, excellent, famous, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, fulsome, garish, gaudy, generous, glorified, glorious, godlike, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, haughty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding, high-toned, high-up, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, honorable, honored, idealistic, illustrious, immortal, immortalized, impartial, imperial, impersonal, imposing, inkhorn, insolent, inspiring, intelligent, knightly, labyrinthine, largehearted, lauded, leading, lexiphanic, liberal, lifted, logical, logo, logotype, lucid, lurid, magisterial, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magniloquent, majestic, meretricious, mighty, monumental, mounting, moving, neutral, noble, noble-minded, notable, on stilts, openhanded, orotund, ostentatious, outtopping, overbearing, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overlooking, overtopping, overweening, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, perspicuous, pompous, pretentious, princely, prominent, proud, purse-proud, raised, rampant, ratiocinative, rational, reasonable, regal, renowned, respected, rhetorical, sainted, sanctified, scornful, selfless, sensational, sensationalistic, sensible, sententious, serious, showy, shrined, skyscraping, snobbish, snooty, snotty, soaring, solemn, sonorous, sound, spiring, stately, steep, stilted, stuck-up, sublime, subtle, superb, supercilious, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, tall, telling, thoroughbred, throned, tony, topless, toplofty, topping, tortuous, towering, towery, trademark, unbiased, uninfluenced, unselfish, unswayed, upcast, upflung, uplifted, uppish, uppity, upraised, upreared, upright, upstage, upthrown, utopian, vainglorious, valid, vaunting, venerable, visionary, weighty

log

• log, Domesday Book, Mach meter, accelerometer, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book, adversaria, album, anemometer, annals, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, backlog, balance, balance sheet, balance the books, bank ledger, bankbook, bavin, beam, billet, blankbook, blotter, board, boarding, book, books, boom, brush, brushwood, calendar, capitalize, card ledger, carry, carry over, carve, cashbook, cast loose, cast up accounts, catalog, chalk, chalk up, charge off, check in, check sheet, chronicle, chronology, clap on ratlines, clapboard, classified catalog, clear hawse, clock card, close out, close the books, commonplace book, cord, cordwood, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, court calendar, credit, cut, cut loose, date slip, datebook, daybook, deal, debit, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, driftwood, engagement book, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, factory ledger, fagot, file, fill out, firewood, grave, ground log, hardwood, harpoon log, haul, haul down, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, inventory, jot down, journal, journalize, kedge, keep books, kindling, kindlings, lath, lathing, lathwork, lay, lay aloft, ledger, list, log line, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, lumber, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, minute, note, note down, notebook, pad, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, passbook, patent log, petty cashbook, place upon record, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pocket notebook, pocketbook, pole, police blotter, poll, post, post up, puncheon, purchase ledger, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, ratline down, record, record book, reduce to writing, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, scrapbook, scratch pad, set down, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, slab, slat, softwood, spar down, speedometer, spiral notebook, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stock ledger, stores ledger, stovewood, stream the log, strike a balance, suspense ledger, table, tablet, tabulate, tachometer, taffrail log, take down, tape, tape-record, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, traverse a yard, triptych, two-by-four, unlash, videotape, warp, weatherboard, wind gauge, wood, workbook, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, writing tablet, yearbook, yule clog, yule log

logarithmic

• logarithmic, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, cardinal, decimal, differential, digital, even, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, logometric, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prime, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, transcendental

loge

• loge, auditorium, balcony, box, box seat, dress circle, fauteuil, gallery, nigger heaven, orchestra, orchestra circle, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, peanut gallery, pit, proscenium boxes, stall, standing room, theatre stall

logged

• logged, booked, documented, down, enrolled, entered, filed, indexed, inscribed, legal, minuted, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, posted, recorded, registered, written down

logging

• logging, Christmas tree farming, afforestation, arboriculture, booking, cataloging, chronicling, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, forest management, forestation, forestry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, lumbering, matriculation, posting, record keeping, recordation, recording, reforestation, register, registration, registry, silviculture, tabulation, tree farming, woodcraft

logic chopping

• logic chopping, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial

logic

• logic, Aristotelian logic, Boolean algebra, Ramistic logic, admissibility, aesthetics, algebra of classes, algebra of relations, axiology, casuistry, common sense, cosmology, deduction, dialectic, dialectics, doctrine of inference, doctrine of terms, epistemological logic, epistemology, ethics, experimental logic, first philosophy, formal logic, gnosiology, good sense, intelligence, judiciousness, justifiability, justness, logicality, logicalness, logics, logistic, material logic, mathematical logic, mental philosophy, metaphysics, moral philosophy, ontology, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, plausibility, practicality, presence of mind, propositional calculus, psychological logic, psychologism, ratiocination, rationality, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reasoning, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, sense, sensibleness, set theory, sophistry, sound sense, soundness, sweet reason, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory, wisdom

logical

• logical, admissible, authoritative, balanced, binding, cogent, coherent, commonsense, consistent, cool, coolheaded, credible, deductive, good, inductive, inferential, intelligent, judicious, just, justifiable, lawful, legal, legitimate, levelheaded, philosophical, plausible, practical, pragmatic, proper, rational, reasonable, sane, self-consistent, sensible, sober, sober-minded, sound, substantial, sufficient, syllogistical, valid, weighty, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, wholesome, wise

logistics

• logistics, accouterment, action, amphibious operations, armament, catering, chandlery, combined operations, dry run, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, fluid operations, furnishing, furnishment, investment, maneuver, maneuvers, military operations, minor operations, mission, movement, operation, operations, outfitting, overseas operations, preparation, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, selling, staff work, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, victualing, war game, war plans

logjam

• logjam, afterthought, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, bind, block, blockage, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bureaucratic delay, cofferdam, dam, defense, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, dike, ditch, double take, dragging, earthwork, embankment, fence, gate, gravity dam, groin, halt, hang-up, hindrance, holdup, hydraulic-fill dam, interim, iron curtain, jam, jetty, lag, lagging, leaping weir, levee, milldam, moat, mole, moratorium, mound, obstruction, paperasserie, parapet, pause, portcullis, rampart, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, roadblock, rock-fill dam, seawall, shutter dam, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, stay, stay of execution, stone wall, stop, stoppage, suspension, tie-up, time lag, wait, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

logogram

• logogram, abuse of terms, acrostic, allegory, alphabet, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, arrowhead, art, blueprint, calembour, character, charactering, characterization, charactery, chart, choreography, cipher, conventional representation, conventional symbol, corruption, cuneiform, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, demotic character, depiction, depictment, determinative, diagram, drama, drawing, emblem, equivocality, equivoque, exemplification, figuration, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, iconography, iconology, ideogram, ideograph, illustration, imagery, imaging, jeu de mots, kana, katakana, letter, limning, logograph, logogriph, logotype, love knot, malapropism, map, metagram, missaying, musical notation, notation, ogham, palindrome, paronomasia, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, picturization, plan, play on words, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, pun, punning, radical, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rune, schema, score, script, shorthand, spoonerism, syllabary, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, tablature, token, totem, totem pole, type, wedge, word letter, wordplay, writing

logomachy

• logomachy, Kilkenny cats, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fighting, fliting, flyting, fracas, fuss, hassle, hostility, hubbub, imbroglio, litigation, open quarrel, paper war, passage of arms, polemic, polemics, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, squabble, squabbling, strife, struggle, tiff, tussle, vendetta, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangling

logorrhea

• logorrhea, abundance, amplitude, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, effusion, effusiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flow of words, fluency, flux of words, formlessness, gush, gushing, logomania, long-windedness, longiloquence, macrology, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pleonasm, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tirade, verbal diarrhea, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness

logotype

• logotype, allegory, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, billhead, black letter, body, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cachet, cap, capital, case, charactery, check, cipher, colophon, conventional symbol, counter, counterfoil, countermark, descender, docket, em, emblem, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, government mark, government stamp, groove, hallmark, iconology, ideogram, imprint, italic, label, letter, letterhead, ligature, logo, logogram, love knot, lower case, majuscule, masthead, minuscule, nick, pi, pica, pictogram, plate, point, price tag, print, registered trademark, roman, running head, running title, sans serif, script, seal, shank, shoulder, sigil, signet, small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, sticker, stub, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, tag, tally, ticket, title page, token, totem, totem pole, trade name, trademark, trademark name, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case

logroller

• logroller, Machiavellian, behind-the-scenes operator, eminence grise, finagler, five-percenter, fixer, four-percenter, gamesman, gray eminence, influence peddler, kingmaker, machinator, operator, pork-barrel politician, power broker, strategist, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

logrolling

• logrolling, backscratching, barter, cloture, committee consideration, debate, deliberation, division, even trade, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, influence peddling, introduction, lobbying, lobbyism, political influence, pork barrel, public opinion, roll call, second reading, social pressure, special-interest pressure, steamroller methods, swap, swapping, switch, tabling, talkathon, third reading, trade, trading, vote, wire-pulling

logy

• logy, abeyant, apathetic, cataleptic, catatonic, dead, dopey, dormant, dull, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, passive, phlegmatic, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, stagnant, standing, static, suspended, tame, torpid, unaroused

loin

• loin, Chateaubriand, back, blade roast, breast, brisket, chuck, chuck roast, clod, cold cuts, dorsal region, dorsum, filet mignon, flank, knuckle, plate, plate piece, pot roast, rack, rib roast, ribs, ridge, roast, rolled roast, round, rump, rump roast, saddle, shank, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod, sirloin, tenderloin

loiter

• loiter, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, bum, bum around, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, do nothing, doodle, drag, fall behind, falter, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flag, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, get behind, goof off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, lag, laze, lazy, lie around, linger, linger behind, loaf, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lollygag, lounge, lounge around, mark time, mess around, monkey, monkey around, mooch around, moon, moon around, piddle, play, play around, play with, poke, potter, procrastinate, put off, putter, shilly-shally, sit around, sit tight, sit up, slouch, slouch around, smatter, stand around, stay, stay up, stick around, straggle, take time, tarry, tinker, toy, toy with, trail, trail behind, trifle, twiddle, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waste time

loiterer

• loiterer, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loafer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence

loitering

• loitering, Micawberish, backward, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, easygoing, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foot-dragging, goofing off, idling, jerking off, kidding around, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, lax, lazing, lazy, lingering, loafing, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, puttering, remiss, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, smattering, tarrying, tinkering, toying, trifling

Loki

• Loki, Aesir, Aides, Aidoneus, Balder, Bor, Bori, Bragi, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Donar, Erebus, Forseti, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyr, Frigg, Frigga, Hades, Heimdall, Hel, Hertha, Hoenir, Idun, Ing, Ithunn, Kore, Minos, Nanna, Nemesis, Nerthus, Njord, Njorth, Odin, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Reimthursen, Rhadamanthus, Satan, Set, Sif, Sigyn, Thor, Tiu, Typhon, Tyr, Ull, Ullr, Vali, Vanir, Vidar, Vitharr, Wayland, Weland, Woden, Wotan, Wyrd

loll

• loll, bed, bed down, bum, bum around, couch, crawl, curl up, diddle, do nothing, droop, go to bed, go to rest, goof off, grovel, hang around, idle, lay, laze, lazy, lie, lie around, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loll around, lollop, lollop around, lop, lounge, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, recline, repose, rest, settle to rest, sit around, slouch, slouch around, slump, snug down, sprawl, stand around, take it easy, take life easy, trollop

lollapaloosa

• lollapaloosa, ace, beaut, corker, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, darb, dilly, dream, honey, humdinger, killer-diller, knockout, lulu, peach, pip, pippin, sweetheart, the nuts, whiz

lolling

• lolling, accumbent, couchant, couche, crawling, dallying, dawdling, decumbent, dillydallying, dolce far niente, draped, flat, goofing off, groveling, idling, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lounging, lying, mopery, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, sprawled, sprawling, spread, supine, tarrying, trifling

lollygag

• lollygag, bill and coo, copulate, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, doodle, drag, falter, flag, goof off, halt, lag, linger, loiter, make love, make out, neck, pet, piddle, poke, shilly-shally, smooch, spoon, sweet-talk, tarry, toy, trail, trifle, wanton, waste time, whisper sweet nothings

lollygagging

• lollygagging, amorous dalliance, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, cuddling, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, fondling, hugging, kissing, lag, lagging, lingering, loitering, lovemaking, necking, nestling, nuzzling, petting, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, sexual intercourse, shilly-shallying, snuggling, spooning, tarrying

lone wolf

• lone wolf, alien, careerist, case, character, crackpot, crank, eccentric, egotist, fanatic, fortune hunter, hermit, hobo, hog, individualist, kook, loner, maverick, meshuggenah, monopolist, narcissist, natural, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, pariah, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, road hog, screwball, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, solitary, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, tramp, tufthunter, type, zealot

lone

• lone, a certain, abandoned, absolute, alienated, all alone, alone, aloof, an, any, any one, apart, atomic, azygous, celibate, companionless, deserted, detached, either, exclusive, first and last, forsaken, friendless, homeless, impair, in solitude, individual, indivisible, insular, integral, irreducible, isolated, kithless, lonely, lonesome, monadic, monistic, odd, one, one and only, only, only-begotten, particular, removed, rootless, secluded, separate, separated, simple, single, single-handed, singular, sole, solid, solitary, solo, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unanalyzable, unassisted, unattended, undivided, unescorted, unexampled, uniform, unique, unitary, unpaired, unrepeatable, unrepeated, unseconded, unsupported, whole, withdrawn

loneliness

• loneliness, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, celibacy, detachment, isolation, keeping apart, loneness, lonesomeness, moving apart, privacy, seclusion, separateness, sequestration, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, withdrawal

lonely

• lonely, abandoned, alienated, all alone, alone, aloof, apart, barren, companionless, deserted, desolate, detached, forsaken, friendless, homeless, in solitude, insular, isolated, kithless, lone, lonesome, one, outcast, reclusive, removed, retiring, rootless, secluded, separate, separated, single, single-handed, sole, solitary, solo, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, unescorted, uninhabited, unseconded, unsocial, unsupported, withdrawn

loner

• loner, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, alien, anchoress, anchorite, ascetic, bedridden invalid, careerist, case, character, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, eccentric, egotist, eremite, fanatic, fortune hunter, hermit, hermitess, hobo, hog, homebody, individualist, invalid, isolationist, kook, lone wolf, marabout, maverick, meshuggenah, monopolist, narcissist, natural, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outcast, outsider, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, recluse, road hog, screwball, seclusionist, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, tramp, tufthunter, type, zealot

lonesome

• lonesome, abandoned, alienated, all alone, alone, aloof, apart, companionless, deserted, detached, devious, estranged, forsaken, friendless, homeless, in solitude, insular, isolated, kithless, lone, lonely, out-of-the-way, outcast, rejected, remote, removed, retired, rootless, secret, separate, separated, single-handed, solitary, solo, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, unescorted, unpopular, unseconded, unsupported, unwelcome, withdrawn

lonesomeness

• lonesomeness, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, celibacy, detachment, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, moving apart, privacy, seclusion, separateness, sequestration, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, withdrawal

long ago

• long ago, ages ago, anciently, and night, auld lang syne, away back, day after day, days beyond recall, days of old, days of yore, early, early times, eld, enduringly, for an age, for life, for long, good old times, hour after hour, in ancient times, in olden times, in times past, interminably, lang syne, long, long since, month after month, morning, noon, of old, of yore, old days, old story, old times, olden times, persistently, protractedly, same old story, since time began, some time ago, some time back, the livelong day, the olden time, till doomsday, time immemorial, times of old, times of yore, undyingly, unendingly, way back, year after year, years ago, yore, yoretime

long distance

• long distance, DDD, PBX operator, apart, asunder, at a distance, away, busy signal, buzz, call, central, dial tone, direct distance dialing, distal, distant, exotic, far, far off, faraway, local call, long-distance call, long-range, mobile call, operator, person-to-person call, phone call, remote, removed, ring, separated, station-to-station call, switchboard operator, telephone call, telephone operator, telephonist, toll call

long established

• long established, acknowledged, admitted, chronic, confirmed, conventional, customary, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, fast, firmly established, fixed, folk, graven, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implanted, impressed, imprinted, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, oral, prescriptive, received, recognized, rooted, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized, thorough, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, worshipful

long face

• long face, decorousness, demureness, earnestness, formality, frown, glower, gravity, grimace, grimness, lower, moue, mow, pout, scowl, sedateness, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, somberness, staidness, straight face, thoughtfulness, weightiness, wry face

long faced

• long faced, brooding, broody, chapfallen, crestfallen, decorous, demure, dumpish, earnest, formal, frowning, glum, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, grum, heavy, heavyhearted, laden with sorrow, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, oppressed, sad, sad of heart, sad-eyed, sad-faced, saddened, sadhearted, sedate, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stone-faced, straight-faced, sulky, sullen, thoughtful, unsmiling, weighed upon, weighted down, weighty

long lasting

• long lasting, abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, constant, continuing, diuturnal, durable, enduring, evergreen, hardy, immutable, intransient, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, old, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, tough, unfading, vital

long lived

• long lived, abiding, aboveground, age-long, aged, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, ancient, animate, animated, antique, breathing, capable of life, chronic, conscious, constant, continuing, diuturnal, durable, endowed with life, enduring, enlivened, evergreen, existent, hardy, immutable, in the flesh, inspirited, instinct with life, intransient, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, live, living, long-lasting, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, old, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quick, remaining, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, tenacious of life, tough, unfading, very much alive, viable, vital, vivified, zoetic

long range

• long range, apart, aphelion, apogee, asunder, at a distance, away, distal, distant, exotic, far, far cry, far off, far piece, faraway, giant step, good ways, great distance, long chalk, long haul, long road, long run, long step, long way, long-distance, remote, removed, separated, tidy step

long shot

• long shot, accident, adventure, bare possibility, boom shot, casualty, chance hit, close-up, contingency, contingent, dark horse, deuce shot, equivalent odds, even break, even chance, fighting chance, fluke, follow-focus shot, fortuity, freak accident, full shot, gambling chance, good chance, group shot, hap, happening, happenstance, hardly a chance, hazard, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, kinescope, little chance, little opportunity, long odds, lucky shot, matte shot, medium shot, motion picture, no chance, odds, off chance, outside chance, pan shot, panoramic shot, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, price, process shot, rap shot, remote possibility, retake, short odds, shot, slim chance, small chance, square odds, take, travel shot, trucking shot, unlikelihood, zoom shot

long since

• long since, aeons ago, ages ago, anciently, and night, away back, day after day, early, enduringly, ever since, for an age, for life, for long, from away back, from time immemorial, hour after hour, in ancient times, in olden times, in times past, interminably, long, long ago, month after month, morning, noon, of old, of yore, persistently, protractedly, since, since long ago, since time began, some time ago, some time back, the livelong day, till doomsday, time immemorial, undyingly, unendingly, until now, year after year, years ago

long standing

• long standing, abiding, acknowledged, admitted, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, constant, continuing, conventional, customary, diuturnal, durable, enduring, established, evergreen, fixed, folk, hallowed, handed down, hardy, heroic, hoary, immemorial, immutable, intransient, inveterate, lasting, legendary, long-established, long-lasting, long-lived, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, mythological, of long duration, of long standing, of the folk, oral, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, prescriptive, received, recognized, remaining, rooted, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, time-honored, tough, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unfading, unwritten, venerable, vital, worshipful

long suffering

• long suffering, Spartan, acceptance, accepting, armed with patience, benevolence, benevolent, charitable, charitableness, charity, conciliatory, condonation, disciplined, disregard, easiness, endurance, endurant, enduring, forbearance, forbearant, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, forgiving, forgivingness, fortitude, generous, generousness, humility, indulgence, indulgent, kind, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenient, lenity, long-sufferance, longanimity, longanimous, lowliness, magnanimity, magnanimous, meekness, overlooking, patience, patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, persevering, philosophical, placable, resignation, self-control, self-controlled, sparing, stoic, stoicism, subduedness, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, tolerant, tolerating, toleration, tolerative, uncomplainingness, understanding, unresentful, unrevengeful, unrevengefulness, waiting game, waiting it out

long suit

• long suit, ability, area, bag, bump, caliber, capability, capacity, cup of tea, dower, dowry, endowment, equipment, faculty, field, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, line, main interest, makings, manner, medium, metier, natural endowment, natural gift, oyster, parts, pet subject, potential, power, powers, pursuit, qualification, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, strong flair, strong point, style, talent, talents, technicality, the goods, the stuff, thing, type, vocation, way, weakness, what it takes

long term

• long term, abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, constant, continuing, diuturnal, durable, enduring, evergreen, hardy, immutable, intransient, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, tough, unfading, vital

long time

• long time, aeon, age, ages, century, distance, eternity, extension, extent, infinity, length, lengthiness, linear measures, long, long while, longitude, longness, measure, mileage, month of Sundays, overall length, perpetuity, reach, right smart spell, span, stretch, yardage, years, years on end

long winded

• long winded, all jaw, blah, broken-record, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, drawn-out, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effusive, endless, everlasting, expansive, extended, filled out, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, harping, humdrum, interminable, invariable, jog-trot, languishing, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-spun, longiloquent, loquacious, marathon, monotonous, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overlong, overtalkative, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, singsong, smooth, sociable, spun-out, stretched-out, talkative, talky, tedious, treadmill, uneventful, unrelenting, unvarying, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy

long

• long, a mile long, ache, ache for, ache to, aeon, age, ages, aim, and night, aspire, be dying for, be dying to, be hurting for, big, blue moon, bull, bull account, burn to, century, choose to, clamor for, colossal, covet, crave, cry for, day after day, de longue haleine, dearly love to, desire, diffuse, diffusive, dragging, drawn-out, dream, dream of, elongate, elongated, endless, enduringly, eternity, extended, extensive, fancy, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, filled out, flatulent, for an age, for life, for long, gangling, gangly, gape for, giant, gigantic, great, hanker, hone for, hope for, hour after hour, hunger, interminable, interminably, itch, itch for, itch to, languish for, languishing, lank, lanky, large, lasting, leggy, lengthened, lengthy, like to, lingering, long account, long ago, long for, long interest, long side, long since, long time, long to, long while, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-legged, long-pending, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, longish, longs, longsome, love to, lust, lust for, marathon, miss, month after month, month of Sundays, morning, no end of, noon, out, outstretched, overlong, padded, pant for, persistently, pine, pine for, prolix, prolonged, protracted, protractedly, rangy, right smart spell, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sigh, sigh for, since time began, spoil for, spun-out, statuesque, stretched-out, sustained, talkative, tall, the livelong day, thirst, thirst for, till doomsday, time immemorial, undyingly, unendingly, unrelenting, verbose, want, want to, weary for, windy, wish, wish for, wish to, without end, wordy, year after year, yearn, yearn for, years, years on end, yen, yen for

longanimity

• longanimity, acceptance, benevolence, condonation, disregard, endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, indulgence, kindness, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, magnanimity, overlooking, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, resignation, self-control, stoicism, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, uncomplainingness, unrevengefulness, waiting game, waiting it out

longevity

• longevity, abidingness, advanced age, advanced years, age, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, antiquity, being alive, birth, caducity, constancy, continuance, debility, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, dotage, durability, durableness, duration, eld, elderliness, endurance, existence, feebleness, green old age, hale old age, haleness, hardiness, having life, heartiness, hoary age, immortality, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, lastingness, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, lustiness, maintenance, old age, oldness, pensionable age, perdurability, perennation, permanence, perpetuity, persistence, ricketiness, ripe old age, robustness, ruggedness, second childhood, senectitude, senility, senior citizenship, spriteliness, stability, standing, steadfastness, strength, superannuation, survival, survivance, the downward slope, the golden years, vale of years, viability, vigor, vigorousness, vitality, vivacity, white hairs

longhair

• longhair, Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, traditionalist

longhand

• longhand, Italian hand, Spencerian writing, autograph, autographic, block letter, bold hand, book hand, calligraphic, chancery hand, chirographic, copperplate hand, cursive, cursive hand, engrossed, flowing, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, law hand, lettering, majuscule script, manuscript, minuscule script, on paper, penciled, penned, printed, printing, round hand, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, stylographic, text hand, uncial, written

longing

• longing, Heimweh, aching, craving, desiderium, desire, fancy, hankering, homesick, homesickness, honing, hunger, languishing, languishment, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wish, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning, yen

longitude

• longitude, Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Cartesian coordinates, Frigid Zones, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, abscissa, aeronautical chart, altitude, aphelion, apogee, astronomical chart, astronomical longitude, atlas, autumnal equinox, azimuth, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, cartographer, cartography, celestial chart, celestial equator, celestial globe, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, chart, chorographer, chorography, circle, climate, climatic chart, clime, colures, conic projection, contour line, contour map, coordinates, cylindrical coordinates, cylindrical projection, declination, distance, ecliptic, equator, equator coordinates, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, extension, extent, galactic longitude, general reference map, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, globe, gnomonic projection, graphic scale, great circle, grid line, hachure, heliocentric longitude, heliographic chart, horse latitudes, hydrographic chart, index, infinity, isoline, latitude, layer tint, legend, length, lengthiness, linear measures, long time, longitude in arc, longness, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, measure, meridian, mileage, orbit, ordinate, overall length, parallel, perigee, perihelion, period, perpetuity, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, polar coordinates, political map, polyconic projection, prime meridian, projection, reach, relief map, representative fraction, right ascension, road map, roaring forties, scale, sinusoidal projection, small circle, solstitial colure, span, special map, stretch, subtropics, terrain map, terrestrial globe, the line, thematic map, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trajectory, transportation map, tropic, tropics, vernal equinox, weather chart, weather map, yardage, zodiac, zone

longsighted

• longsighted, acute, anticipant, anticipatory, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, asquint, astigmatic, astute, blink-eyed, blinking, blinky, clairvoyant, cogent, discerning, divinatory, farseeing, farsighted, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, incisive, intuitive, longheaded, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, poor-sighted, precognitive, precognizant, prepared, presbyopic, prescient, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, shortsighted, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, trenchant, understanding, winking

loo

• loo, WC, backhouse, basement, bathroom, can, closet, comfort station, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, necessary, outhouse, pot, potty, powder room, privy, rest room, throne, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom, water closet

looby

• looby, Babbitt, Boeotian, Philistine, arriviste, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country bumpkin, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, epicier, farmer, fumbler, gawk, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, jobbernowl, klutz, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, lobster, loon, lout, low fellow, lubber, lug, lummox, lump, mucker, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, palooka, parvenu, peasant, put, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, slouch, slubberer, stupid, thickwit, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, witling, yokel

look after

• look after, administer to, attend, attend on, attend to, baby-sit, be vigilant, be watchful, care for, chaperon, cherish, chore, conserve, dance attendance upon, do for, do service to, drudge, eye, eyeball, follow, foster, gaze at, have a looksee, help, hold in view, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, keep watch over, lackey, look at, look on, look out for, look to, look upon, maid, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nurse, nurture, observe, pander to, preserve, protege, provide for, reconnoiter, regard, ride herd on, scout, see after, see to, serve, shepherd, spy upon, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, upon, valet, view, wait, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, work for

look around

• look around, beat the bushes, burrow, delve, dig, explore, forage, frisk, go through, hunt, look round, look through, nose around, poke, poke around, pry, research, root, search, search through, smell around

look at

• look at, attend, autopsy, be disposed to, be vigilant, be watchful, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, consider, contemplate, examine, eye, eyeball, feel about it, follow, gape, gaze at, give an examination, go over, have a looksee, hold in view, incline toward, inspect, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, lean toward, look after, look at it, look on, look over, look upon, monitor, observe, ogle, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, pore over, postmortem, prefer, reconnoiter, regard, review, run over, scan, scout, scrutinize, set an examination, size, size up, spy upon, study, survey, take in, take stock of, take the measure, tend toward, view, watch

look back

• look back, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, conjure up, evoke, hark back, mind, recall, recall to mind, recapture, recollect, reevoke, reflect, remember, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, see in retrospect, summon up, think back, think of, use hindsight

look down upon

• look down upon, be above, be contemptuous of, bestraddle, bestride, care nothing for, clear, command, contemn, deride, despise, disdain, disparage, disprize, dominate, dump on, feel contempt for, feel superior to, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, insult, misprize, outtop, overarch, overlook, overshadow, overtop, put down, rank low, ridicule, rise above, scorn, set at naught, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, surmount, think nothing of, top, tower above, tower over

look for

• look for, address, angle for, anticipate, approach, ask for, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, beat about for, bid for, calculate on, canvass, come, come on, count on, court, delve for, dig for, draw near, draw on, expect, fish for, follow, foresee, forestall, foretell, go gunning for, gun for, hope, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, lie ahead, look, look forward to, look out for, look to, look up, loom, near, plan, plot, pop the question, predict, project, prophesy, prowl after, pursue, quest, reckon on, search for, see to, seek, seek for, solicit, still-hunt, sue, sue for, threaten, try to find, watch out for, woo

look forward to

• look forward to, anticipate, approach, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, calculate on, come, come on, contemplate, count on, draw near, draw on, envisage, envision, expect, foreglimpse, foresee, forestall, foretaste, foretell, hope, lie ahead, look ahead, look beyond, look for, look out for, look to, loom, near, plan, plot, predict, project, prophesy, reckon on, see ahead, see beforehand, threaten, watch out for

look in

• look in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, call, call on, call upon, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come by, come in, come over, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drop, drop in, edge in, enter, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, insert, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, pack in, pay a visit, pop in, press in, push in, put in, run in, see, set foot in, slip in, squeeze in, step in, stop by, stop off, stop over, take in, thrust in, visit, wedge in, work in

look like

• look like, ape, appear, appear like, approach, approximate, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, copy, correspond, counterfeit, evoke, favor, feel, follow, imitate, look, match, mimic, mirror, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, remind one of, resemble, savor of, seem, seem like, seem to be, simulate, smack of, sound, sound like, stack up with, suggest, take after

look on

• look on, appear, assister, attend, be at, be present at, be vigilant, be watchful, behold, catch, catch sight of, clap eyes on, come to, descry, discern, discover, distinguish, do, espy, eye, eyeball, follow, gape, gaze at, glimpse, go to, have a looksee, have in sight, hold in view, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, ken, lay eyes on, look after, look at, look upon, make out, notice, observe, ogle, perceive, pick out, recognize, reconnoiter, regard, scout, see, show up, sight, sit in, spot, spy, spy upon, take in, turn up, twig, view, visit, watch, witness

look out

• look out, and listen, attend to business, be alert, be obsessed with, be vigilant, be watchful, beware, concentrate on, fix on, focus on, give heed, have a care, keep alert, keep in sight, keep in view, keep vigil, keep watch, lie low, look, look about one, look lively, look sharp, mind, miss nothing, never nod, pay attention, pay heed, qui vive, scrutinize, stop, study, take care, take heed, watch, watch out

look over

• look over, autopsy, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, contemplate, examine, eye, face upon, front on, give an examination, give the eye, give the once-over, give upon, go over, hard look, inspect, leer, leer at, look at, look out upon, look toward, monitor, observe, ogle, ogle at, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, pore, pore over, postmortem, review, run over, scan, scrutinize, set an examination, size, size up, study, survey, take a long, take stock of, take the measure, vet

look the other way

• look the other way, abide with, accept, be big, be blind, be blind to, be caught out, be content with, be easy with, be inattentive, be unwary, blink at, brook, condone, connive at, disregard, give no heed, go blind, hear nothing, ignore, judge not, lean over backwards, let pass, listen to reason, live with, make light of, miss, not attend, not heed, not listen, not notice, not see, not write off, overlook, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, pay no mind, see both sides, see nothing, slight, suspend judgment, think little of, tolerate, view with indulgence, walk in darkness, wear blinkers, wink at

look through

• look through, beat the bushes, burrow, delve, dig, examination, explore, forage, frisk, go through, hunt, inspection, look around, look round, nose around, overhaul, overhauling, perlustration, perusal, poke, poke around, pry, quality control, research, review, root, run-through, scan, scrutiny, search, search through, smell around, study, survey, visitation

look to

• look to, advert to, attend to, baby-sit, be aware of, be engrossed in, bend to, bias, bring into play, calculate on, care for, chaperon, cherish, conduce, conserve, contribute, convert to use, count on, dispose, drink in, enlist into service, fall back upon, forestall, foster, give heed to, give mind to, give thought to, go, have a tendency, have recourse to, head, impress, incline, keep watch over, lead, lean, look after, look for, look forward to, look out for, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, not forget, nurse, nurture, pay attention to, pay regard to, point, point to, preserve, protege, provide for, put in requisition, reckon on, recur to, redound to, refer to, resort to, revert to, ride herd on, see after, see to, serve, set, set toward, shepherd, show a tendency, support, take care of, take charge of, take to, tend, trend, turn, turn to, turn to use, verge, warp, watch, watch out for, watch over, work toward

look up to

• look up to, accord respect to, admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, defer to, deify, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, favor, hero-worship, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idolize, prize, regard, respect, revere, reverence, think highly of, think much of, think well of, value, venerate, worship

look up

• look up, advance, ameliorate, amend, angle for, ask for, beat about for, call, come along, come by, come on, come over, convalesce, delve for, develop, dig for, drop in, fish for, follow, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, go ahead, go forward, go gunning for, graduate, grow better, gun for, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, improve, look, look for, look in, make headway, make progress, make strides, meliorate, mend, perk up, pick up, pop in, progress, prowl after, pursue, quest, recuperate, run in, search for, see, see to, seek, seek for, shape up, show improvement, skyrocket, step in, still-hunt, take off, try to find

look

• look, NB, admire, air, angle, angle for, animadvert, anticipate, appear, appear like, appearance, ask for, aspect, attend, await, be alert, be careful, be responsible for, be vigilant, be watchful, bearing, beat about for, behold, bend the eyes, beware, break, broad hint, call on, call up, care for, cast, chance, check out, check over, clue, configuration, consider, contemn, contemplate, count, count on, countenance, crane, crane the neck, cue, dash, dekko, delve for, delve into, demand, demeanor, derogate, despise, dig for, dig into, direct the eyes, disdain, disparage, display, divine, drop in on, effect, eidolon, esteem, examine, exhibit, expect, explore, express, expression, extol, eye, eyeball, eyeful, face, facet, fashion, feature, feel, figure, fish for, follow, forecast, foretell, form, front, front on, gain, gander, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, gentle hint, gestalt, gesture, get better, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, gloat, glower, go gunning for, go into, goggle, guise, gun for, heed, hint, honor, hope, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, idea, idolize, image, imago, implication, impression, improve, incline, index, indicate, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, inspect, intimation, investigate, kick, lean, leer, leering look, lick, light, likeness, lineaments, look after, look at, look for, look forward to, look into, look like, look out, look over, look up, look up to, look-in, looks, lustful leer, make headway, make progress, manifest, manner, mark, mien, mind, misprize, mug, nod, note, notice, nudge, nurse, observe, occasion, ogle, opening, overlook, pay attention, peek, peep, peer, phase, phasis, physiognomy, pick up, play peekaboo, preview, probe, progress, prompt, prospect, protect, prowl after, pry, pursue, puss, quest, read, reckon on, reference, regard, remark, require, research, respect, revere, ring up, rubberneck, run down, scan, scene, scent, scintilla, scorn, scrutinize, search for, see, see to, seek, seek for, seem, seem like, seem to be, seeming, semblance, serve, shade, shadow, shape, shot, show, show improvement, side, sidelong look, sight, sign, signal, simulacrum, sip, slant, sly look, smack, smattering, smell, sneer, sound, sound like, soupcon, spark, spoor, spot, sprinkling, spurn, squeak, squint, stand on tiptoe, stare, stare at, stare down, stare hard, still-hunt, study, style, suggestion, sup, survey, suspicion, symptom, take a peep, take care of, take note, take notice, taste, telephone, telltale, tend, thought, time, tincture, tinge, total effect, touch, trace, track, track down, try to find, twist, venerate, view, viewpoint, visage, visit, wait for, wait on, watch, watch out, whisper, wink, wise, witness, worship

looker

• looker, Miss America, TV-viewer, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, beholder, belle, bird-watcher, bunny, bystander, charmer, consignee, cover girl, dazzler, dream, drugstore cowboy, enchantress, eyeful, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, getter, girl-watcher, goggler, great beauty, hearer, holder, kibitzer, knockout, lady fair, listener, looker-on, lovely, model, observer, obtainer, ogler, onlooker, paragon, payee, peach, perceiver, percipient, pinup, pinup girl, procurer, pussycat, raving beauty, receiver, recipient, reigning beauty, seer, sex kitten, sidewalk superintendent, slick chick, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, stunner, taker, televiewer, television-viewer, trustee, video-gazer, viewer, watcher, witness