SNAKES Synonyms

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

• to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly

• the act of winding or twisting

• air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

• a tendency or force that influences events

• breath

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

• a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• catch the scent of; get wind of

• extend in curves and turns

• arrange or coil around

• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

• form into a wreath

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

• trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality

• (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones

• small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a deceitful or treacherous person

• a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition