balloon
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balloon |
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Graf Zeppelin, accrue, accumulate, advance, aeroplane, aerostat, air bubble, airlift, airplane, airship, appreciate, bag, ball, ballonet, be airborne, bead, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bladder, bleb, blimp,
blister, bloat, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, boom, bouge, breed, broaden, bubble, bug, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulk, bulla, captive balloon, conglobulate, crescendo,
cruise, develop, dilate, dirigible, dirigible balloon, distend, drift, ellipsoid, enlarge, expand, extend, ferry, fever blister, fill out, flit, fly, fob,
gain, gain strength, gasbag,
geoid, get ahead, glide,
globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, go up, gob, gobbet, goggle, greaten, grow, hop, hover, hydroplane, increase,
intensify, jet, knob, knot, lighter-than-air craft, mount, multiply, mushroom, navigate, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pilot balloon, pocket, poke, pooch, pop, pouch,
pout, prolate spheroid, proliferate,
puff up, rigid airship, rise,
rondure, round out, run up, sac, sack, sail,
sailplane, sausage, seaplane, semirigid airship, ship, shoot up, snowball, soap bubble, soar, sphere, spherify, spheroid,
spherule, spread, strengthen,
stretch, swell, swell out,
take the air, take wing, tumefy, vesicle, volplane, wax, weather balloon, widen, wing, zeppelin
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trial balloon |
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barometer, bone of contention, catechism, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, debating point, demand, feeler, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, issue, leader, leading question, moot point,
pilot balloon, point at issue, point in question, probe, problem, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, random sample, sample, sound, sounder, straw
vote, topic, trial, vexed question,
weather vane, weathercock
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Main entries similar to: balloon
accrue, accumulate, advance, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, airship, appreciate, bag, ball, bead, belly, billow, bladder, bleb, blimp,
blister, bloat, blob, boll, bolus, boom, breed, broaden,
bubble, bug, bulb, bulge, bulk, crescendo, cruise, develop,
dilate, distend, drift, ellipsoid, enlarge, expand, extend, ferry,
fill out, flit, fly, fob, gain, gasbag, get ahead, glide,
globe, globule, go up, gob, gobbet, goggle, grow, hop, hover, hydroplane, increase, inflate, intensify, knob, knot, mount,
multiply, mushroom, navigate, orb, orbit, pellet, pocket, poke,
pop, pouch, pout, proliferate, protrude, puff, puff up, rise,
round out, sack, sail, sailplane, seaplane, ship, shoot up, snowball, soar, sphere, spread, strengthen, stretch, swell, vesicle, volplane, wax, widen,
wing
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