mystery story



adventure story, allegory, bedtime story, detective story, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk story, folk-tale, ghost story, horse opera, legend, love story, mystery,

   governorship - Lordship, archbishopric, aristocracy, bishopric, chancellery, consulate, custody, deanery, dictatorship, directorate, directorship, episcopacy, generalship, guardianship, hierarchy,

   old boy - chap, father, gaffer ,

   spring back - backfire, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, cannon, carom, give, kick, kick back, rebound, recoil, ricochet, snap back, spring,

   denseness - closeness, congestion, consistency, density, dimness, dullness, dumbness, hardness, hebetude, lethargy, opacity, slowness, solidity, specific gravity, stupidity,

   spread over - apply to, blanket, block, canopy, cloak, clothe, cloud, cope, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, eclipse, film, grow over,

   septic tank - bog, cesspool, drain, dump, garbage dump, marsh, mire, quagmire, sewer, sink, sump, swamp ,

   foray - air attack, air raid, air strike, banditry, board, boarding, brigandage, depredation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, fire raid, fleece, forage,

   dichotomy - abscission, ambiguity, ambivalence, amputation, bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, branching, butchering, by two, chopping, cleavage, conjugation, cutting, cutting in two,

   snub - abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted, arrest, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, bob, bobbed, boil down, bottle up,

   polysyllable - antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme, linguistic form, locution, logos, minimum free form, monosyllable,