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for that elusive word

You can't think of that word you really want to use. It's on the tip of your tongue but it's just not jumping onto the page. Well look through this and it may well come to you!

Wolf Anatomy

look at the body!

Head: cranium, crown, dome, noggin, pate, scalp, skull

Body: anatomy, beefcake, bod, booty, build, carcass, chassis, constitution, embodiment, figure, form, frame, make-up, mortal part, protoplasm, shaft, shape, tenement, torso, trunk

Legs: brace, column, lap, limb, member, part, pile, pole, portion, post, prop, section, segment, shank, stage, stake, stilt, stretch, stump, support, upright, appendages

Tail: appendage, behind, butt, buttocks, caudal appendage, conclusion, empennage, end, extremity, hind end, hind part, hindmost part, last part, posterior, rear, rear end, reverse, rudder, rump, stub, tag, tag end, train, wagger

Ears: Pinnae, auds, auditives

Face: air, appearance, aspect, cast, clock, countenance, dial, disguise, display, expression, exterior, features, finish, front, frontage, frontal, frontispiece, frown, glower, grimace, guise, look, makeup, map, mask, mug, obverse, paint, physiognomy, potato, pout, presentation, profile, seeming, semblance, show, showing, silhouette, simulacrum, smirk, top, visage

Mouth: maw, muzzle, aperture, box, buss, cavity, chops, clam, crevice, delta, door, embouchement, entrance, estuary, firth, fly trap, funnel, gate, gob, harbor, inlet, jaws, kisser, lips, mush, orifice, portal, rim, trap, yap

colours

look! it has all the colours of the rainbow!

Black: atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, jet, livid, melanoid, murky, nigrescent, nigrous, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, swart, swarthy

White: achromatic, achromic, alabaster, ashen, blanched, bleached, bloodless, Caucasian, chalky, clear, fair, frosted, ghastly, gray, hoary, immaculate, ivory, light, milky, neutral, pallid, pasty, pearly, pure, silver, silvery, snowy, spotless, stainless, transparent, unblemished, unsullied, wan, waxen

Brown: amber, auburn, bay, beige, bister, brick, bronze, buff, burnt sienna, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, copper, drab, dust, ecru, fawn, ginger, hazel, henna, khaki, mahogany, nut, ochre, puce, russet, rust, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, tawny, terra-cotta, toast, umber

Grey: ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone

Blue: azure, beryl, cerulean, cobalt, indigo, navy, royal, sapphire, teal, turquoise, ultramarine

Red: bittersweet, blood, bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, cerise, cherry, chestnut, claret, copper, coral, crimson, dahlia, damask, flaming, florid, flushed, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, glowing, healthy, inflamed, infrared, magenta, maroon, pink, puce, redness, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, russet, rust, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, terra cotta, titian, vermeil, vermilion

Yellow: amber, bisque, blond, buff, chrome, cream, gold, ivory, lemon, saffron, sand, tawny

Green: apple, aquamarine, beryl, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian, willow

Pink: blush, coral, flesh, flush, fuchsia, red, rose, roseate, salmon

Orange: apricot, bittersweet, coral, peach, red-yellow, salmon, tangerine, titian

Purple: amethyst, bluish red, heliotrope, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, perse, plum, pomegranate, reddish blue, violaceous, violet, wine

Shades: brilliance, cast, hue, saturation, stain, tinge, tint, tone

landscape

what can we call the land

Land: acreage, acres, area, barren, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, seigniory, shore, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract

Trees/Bushes: copse, grove, lumber, thicket, timber, timberland, trees, weald, woodland, woods, foliage, forest, backcountry, backwoods, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, thicket, vine, wild

Clearing: dell, expanse, gap, glade