what-for Synonyms
Here are words similar to what-for:
abatement,
ablation,
abrasion,
abrasive,
abscess,
academic discipline,
academic specialty,
accommodate,
accommodate with,
accomplish,
accord,
Ace bandage,
ache,
achieve,
aching,
acquittal,
acumen,
adapt,
adapt to,
adhesive tape,
adjust,
adjust to,
administer,
administrate,
administration,
advantage,
adversity,
afflict,
affliction,
afford,
aggrieve,
agio,
agonize,
agony,
agree with,
ague,
ail,
allowance,
ambulatory plague,
amercement,
ammonia,
anality,
anathematizing,
anemia,
angel,
anguish,
ankylosis,
annoyance,
anoxia,
answer,
aplomb,
apnea,
apparel,
appetite,
apple-pie order,
application,
applied science,
appraisal,
appraisement,
apprentice,
apprenticeship,
ardent,
area,
arena,
array,
art,
asphyxiation,
ass-reaming,
assessment,
assiduousness,
assimilate to,
assumption,
asthma,
astringency,
astuteness,
ataxia,
atrophy,
attend to,
attire,
attitude,
attrition,
austerity,
authoritarianism,
avail,
back,
backache,
bait,
baking,
band,
Band-Aid,
bandage,
bandaging,
bane,
bank discount,
bankroll,
banter,
bantering,
barb the dart,
barbecuing,
base pay,
basic training,
baste,
bastinado,
basting,
bawling-out,
be exposed to,
be gainful,
be guided by,
be had,
be handy,
be master,
be of use,
be profitable,
be subjected to,
be worthwhile,
beat,
bedizenment,
belabor,
belief,
belt,
bend,
benefit,
bestead,
binder,
birch,
bite,
bitter cup,
bitter draft,
bitter draught,
bitter pill,
bitterness,
black death,
black plague,
blacksnake,
bleakness,
bleeding,
blennorhea,
blister,
blistering,
blow,
boiling,
booing,
bore,
bother,
bound,
boundary,
bounds,
brace,
braising,
break,
break in,
breakage,
breaking,
breed,
breeding,
brewing,
bribe,
bridle,
bring about,
bring in,
bring off,
bring to account,
bring to book,
bring to pass,
bring up,
broil,
broiling,
bruise,
bubonic plague,
budget,
budgeting,
buffet,
buffing,
bugbear,
bullwhack,
bullwhip,
burden,
burden of care,
burdening,
burn,
burning,
burning hot,
burnishing,
burthen,
cachexia,
cachexy,
calamity,
call to account,
cane,
canicular,
cankerworm of care,
cannibalism,
capitalize,
captain,
care,
cargo,
carnivorism,
carnivority,
carnivorousness,
carrot,
cash discount,
cast,
castigate,
castigation,
castor-bean meal,
cat,
cataplasm,
catcalling,
catering,
cellulocutaneous plague,
censure,
chafe,
chaffing,
chafing,
chain discount,
chain-smoke,
chair,
charge,
charge-off,
charging,
chasten,
chastening,
chastise,
chastisement,
check,
cheerlessness,
chewing,
chill,
chills,
chime in with,
circumspection,
circumspectness,
civil government,
classical education,
climate of opinion,
clothes,
clothing,
club,
coach,
colic,
come down on,
comfortlessness,
command,
commercial fertilizer,
commit,
common belief,
common sense,
community sentiment,
compensate,
compensation,
comply,
comply with,
compose,
compost,
composure,
compress,
conceit,
concept,
conception,
concern,
concession,
conclusion,
condemnation,
condign punishment,
condition,
conditioning,
conduct,
confine,
confinement,
conform,
consensus gentium,
consideration,
constipation,
constrain,
constraint,
consumption,
contain,
continence,
contour plowing,
contribution,
control,
conviction,
convulse,
convulsion,
cookery,
cooking,
cool judgment,
copyright,
core curriculum,
correct,
correction,
correspond,
cost,
cost out,
costing,
costing-out,
costume,
cotton,
cough up,
coughing,
course,
course of study,
court plaster,
cowhide,
cramp,
cravat,
critical discernment,
criticize,
crop,
cropping,
cross,
crown of thorns,
crucify,
crushing burden,
cud-chewing,
cudgel,
cuisine,
culinary science,
cultivate,
cultivating,
cultivation,
culture,
cumbrance,
curb,
curriculum,
curse,
cussing-out,
cut,
cut up,
cyanosis,
damnation,
deadweight,
deal with,
death,
death sentence,
death warrant,
debit,
debiting,
decision,
decorum,
deduction,
defensibility,
defervescing plague,
deficit spending,
deglutition,
demand,
demandingness,
demesne,
denouncement,
denunciation,
department,
department of knowledge,
depreciation,
depredate,
depress,
depression,
derision,
derisive,
derisory,
desecrate,
deserts,
desolate,
despair,
despoil,
destruction,
determination,
detrition,
devastate,
develop,
development,
devouring,
devourment,
diarrhea,
dieting,
difficulty,
diligence,
dining,
direct,
direction,
disadvantage,
disbursal,
disburse,
disbursement,
discernment,
disciplinary measures,
discipline,
discomfort,
discomposure,
discount,
discreetness,
discretion,
discrimination,
disease,
dismalness,
dismay,
dismissal wage,
dispensation,
disposition,
disquiet,
distress,
distressfulness,
distribution,
dizziness,
do,
do for,
do the trick,
do to,
dolor,
domain,
domestic science,
doom,
drag,
drapery,
draw the line,
drawback,
dreariness,
dress,
dressing,
dressing-down,
drill,
drilling,
dropsy,
drub,
drumhead justice,
duds,
dueness,
dung,
dysentery,
dyspepsia,
dyspnea,
earnings,
eating,
ebullient,
edema,
edify,
educate,
effect,
effectuate,
effort,
elastic bandage,
elbow grease,
elective,
emaciation,
embarrassment,
emolument,
empery,
empire,
encounter,
encouragement,
encumbrance,
endure,
enlighten,
enrichener,
epidemic,
epiphytotic,
epithem,
epizootic,
epulation,
equitableness,
equity,
erasure,
erosion,
escalator clause,
escalator plan,
estimate,
estimation,
ethos,
evaluation,
evenhandedness,
evil,
exactingness,
exaction,
excommunication,
excoriate,
excruciate,
exercise,
exertion,
expend,
expenditure,
expense,
experience,
eye,
fainting,
fall in with,
fallowing,
farce,
fashion,
fatigue,
fatigues,
feasting,
feathers,
fee,
feeding,
feel,
feeling,
fertilizer,
ferule,
fester,
fetch up,
fetching-up,
fever,
feverish,
fibrillation,
field,
field of inquiry,
field of study,
fig,
filing,
fill the bill,
fillip,
finance,
financial remuneration,
fine,
fine fettle,
fit,
fix,
flagellate,
flagellum,
flail,
flair,
flay,
fleering,
flippancy,
flippant,
flog,
flushed,
flux,
follow,
fooling,
forcemeat,
forfeit,
fork out,
form,
form of government,
foster,
fostering,
four-tailed bandage,
frail,
freight,
freighting,
fret,
fretting,
frying,
fund,
furrowing,
fustigate,
gall,
gall and wormwood,
galling,
garb,
garments,
gauze,
gear,
gear to,
general belief,
general education,
general studies,
get satisfaction,
give a whipping,
give good returns,
give it to,
give pain,
give the stick,
give-and-take,
glandular plague,
gluttony,
gnaw,
go and do,
go by,
go through,
gobbling,
going-over,
good condition,
good judgment,
good sense,
good shape,
good trim,
govern,
governance,
government,
grate,
grazing,
grief,
grievance,
grieve,
grievousness,
grilling,
grimness,
grind,
grinding,
grinning,
gripe,
groom,
grooming,
gross,
gross income,
growth,
grubstake,
guano,
guaranteed annual wage,
guerdon,
guide,
guilty verdict,
guise,
gumption,
habiliment,
habit,
habitual smoking,
hamper,
handicap,
harass,
harm,
harmonize,
harrow,
harrowing,
harshness,
have,
hazing,
head,
headache,
heated,
hedge about,
hemorrhage,
hemorrhagic plague,
herbivorism,
herbivority,
herbivorousness,
hide,
high blood pressure,
hire,
hissing,
hit,
hoeing,
hold in check,
home economics,
hooting,
horse sense,
horsewhip,
hot,
hot as fire,
hot as hell,
housebreak,
housebreaking,
humanities,
hunger,
hurt,
hurt the feelings,
hydrops,
hypertension,
hypotension,
icterus,
idea,
illation,
impediment,
impedimenta,
imposing an onus,
imposition,
impression,
imprisonment,
improve,
improvement,
in-service training,
incarceration,
incentive,
incitement,
income,
inconsiderateness,
inconvenience,
inculcate,
inculcation,
incur costs,
indemnify,
independence,
indigestion,
indoctrinate,
indoctrination,
inducement,
industry,
inflame,
inflammation,
inflict,
inflict pain,
inflict upon,
infliction,
inform,
ingestion,
inhibit,
injure,
injury,
insight,
insomnia,
instruct,
instruction,
interest,
invest,
investiture,
investment,
invitation,
irk,
irritate,
irritation,
itching,
jacking-up,
jaundice,
jeering,
jesting,
joking,
jollying,
joshing,
joylessness,
judgment,
judicatory,
judicature,
judicial process,
judicial punishment,
judiciary,
judiciousness,
justice,
justifiability,
justifiableness,
justification,
justness,
keep in check,
keep in line,
kickback,
kidding,
kill by inches,
knout,
know,
kurbash,
labor,
labor under,
labored breathing,
lace,
lacerate,
lament,
lamentability,
lamentation,
landmark decision,
larval plague,
lash,
lather,
lawfulness,
lay on,
lay out,
laying on,
lead,
leering,
legality,
lesion,
levity,
liberal arts,
lick into shape,
licking,
lights,
like a furnace,
like an oven,
limation,
limit,
limitation,
linen,
lint,
listing,
living wage,
load,
loading,
loading down,
low blood pressure,
lumbago,
lumber,
lure,
major,
make,
make amends,
make conform,
make requital,
make restitution,
make retribution,
manage,
management,
manducation,
manducatory,
manual training,
manure,
marasmus,
martyr,
martyrize,
masthead,
mastication,
masticatory,
measure for measure,
meet,
meet up with,
meet with,
meetness,
messing,
method,
methodicalness,
methodology,
meticulousness,
military training,
mind,
minimum wage,
minor,
misery,
misfortune,
mockery,
mocking,
moderate,
moderation,
mold,
mourn,
mournfulness,
muck,
mulct,
munching,
murrain,
mystique,
narrow,
nasal discharge,
nasty blow,
natural science,
nausea,
neatness,
necrosis,
nemesis,
net,
net income,
new,
nibbling,
nicotine addiction,
nicotinic,
nicotinism,
night soil,
nip,
nitrate,
nitrogen,
notion,
nuisance,
nurse,
nurture,
nurturing,
nutrition,
observation,
observe,
obtrusiveness,
officer,
ology,
omnivorism,
omnivorousness,
omophagy,
on-the-job training,
onus,
open the purse,
open wound,
opinion,
oppression,
orb,
orbit,
ordeal,
order,
orderliness,
organic fertilizer,
outlay,
overcome,
overheated,
overpay,
oversight,
overspend,
overwarm,
pack,
pack of troubles,
pain,
painfulness,
pains,
pains and punishments,
pan-broiling,
pandemia,
pandemic,
pang,
panning,
pantophagy,
paralysis,
parching,
pass through,
passion,
pasture,
pasturing,
patent,
pathos,
patronize,
pay,
pay and allowances,
pay back,
pay by installments,
pay dearly,
pay exorbitantly,
pay for,
pay off,
pay on,
pay out,
pay too much,
payment,
payroll,
peck of troubles,
pecking,
penal retribution,
penalize,
penalty,
penalty clause,
penance,
penetration,
penology,
percentage,
perception,
perceptiveness,
perpetrate,
personal judgment,
perspicacity,
persuasion,
persuasive,
pest,
pesthole,
pestilence,
phosphate,
pierce,
pillage,
pillory,
pinch,
piping hot,
pistol-whip,
pitiability,
pitiableness,
pitifulness,
plague,
plague spot,
plaster,
plaster cast,
pledget,
plowing,
plunk,
pneumonic plague,
poaching,
poetic justice,
poignancy,
point of view,
policy,
polishing,
political organization,
polity,
pommel,
popular belief,
portal-to-portal pay,
position,
possession,
posture,
poultice,
practice,
premium,
premonitory plague,
preparation,
prepare,
prepay,
prescription,
preside over,
presumption,
presumptuousness,
prevailing belief,
price,
price reduction,
price-cut,
prick,
produce,
profit,
prolong the agony,
properness,
propriety,
proscription,
proseminar,
provide for,
providence,
province,
provocation,
prudence,
prudentialism,
pruning,
pruritus,
public belief,
public opinion,
puff,
pull off,
pummel,
punish,
punishment,
punition,
purchasing power,
pure science,
put in tune,
put out,
put to school,
put to torture,
quadrivium,
qualification,
qualify,
quirt,
quit,
quizzical,
rack,
ragging,
rags,
railing,
raillery,
raiment,
raise,
raising,
raking-down,
rallying,
rankle,
rap,
rash,
rasp,
rasping,
ratiocination,
rawhide,
razor strap,
razzing,
reaction,
ready,
readying,
real wages,
realize,
realm,
reaming,
reaming-out,
rear,
rearing,
rebate,
rebatement,
rebuke,
recompense,
reconcile,
rectify,
red-hot,
redress,
reduce,
reduction,
refinance,
reflection,
reflectiveness,
refresher course,
refund,
regalement,
regime,
regimen,
regiment,
regimentation,
register,
regnancy,
regrettableness,
regulate,
regulation,
rehearsal,
rehearse,
reign,
relishing,
remit,
remunerate,
remuneration,
render,
repay,
reprimand,
reprove,
requite,
restrain,
restraint,
restrict,
restriction,
retribution,
retributive justice,
return,
reward,
rheum,
ribbing,
ride herd on,
ridicule,
ridiculing,
right,
rightfulness,
rightness,
rigid discipline,
roasting,
robes,
rod,
rollback,
roller,
roller bandage,
round,
routine,
rub,
rub off corners,
rubber bandage,
rubbing away,
rude justice,
ruggedness,
rule,
ruling,
ruminant,
ruminating,
rumination,
run,
run through,
run up against,
running sore,
sack,
sadden,
sadness,
sagacity,
salary,
salvage,
sandblasting,
sanding,
satisfy,
sauteing,
savoring,
scalding,
scales of justice,
scant,
scarify,
scathe,
schedule,
scheduling,
school,
schooling,
science,
scientific education,
sclerosis,
scoffing,
scorch,
scorching,
scourge,
scouring,
scrape,
scraping,
scratch,
scratching,
scrub,
scrubbing,
scuff,
sea of troubles,
searing,
sedulousness,
seething,
seizure,
self-command,
self-conquest,
self-control,
self-denial,
self-discipline,
self-government,
self-mastery,
self-possession,
self-restraint,
seminar,
send to school,
sentence,
sentiment,
septicemic plague,
sequitur,
serve,
serve one out,
serve the purpose,
set up,
setdown,
setoff,
settle,
settle the score,
settle with,
severance pay,
severity,
shape,
sharpness,
shell out,
shining,
shirring,
shock,
shrewdness,
siderating plague,
sight,
simmering,
sink money in,
sizzling hot,
sjambok,
skin eruption,
slash,
sliding scale,
sling,
sloyd,
smart,
smart-aleckiness,
smart-alecky,
smart-ass,
smarting,
smartness,
smirking,
smite,
smoke,
smoking,
smoking habit,
smoking hot,
smoothing,
sneering,
sneezing,
snickering,
sniggering,
snorting,
snuffy,
social science,
sore,
sore spot,
soreness,
sorrow,
sorrowfulness,
sound judgment,
soundness of judgment,
sovereignty,
spank,
Spartanism,
spasm,
speaking-to,
specialize,
specialty,
spend,
spending,
sphere,
splint,
splurge,
spoliate,
sponge,
sponsor,
sportswear,
squander,
square accounts,
stab,
stake,
stance,
stand over,
stand under,
steeping,
sternness,
stewing,
stimulation,
stimulative,
stimulus,
sting,
stint,
stipend,
stitch,
stock,
straighten,
strain,
straiten,
strap,
stress,
stress of life,
strictness,
stringency,
stripe,
stroke,
study,
stuffing,
stupe,
style,
subdiscipline,
subdue,
subject,
subjection,
subjugate,
subsidize,
sudorific,
suffer,
suffering,
suffice,
suit,
summary justice,
superphosphate,
supervise,
supervision,
support,
sustain,
sway,
sweating,
sweaty,
sweetener,
sweetening,
sweltering,
sweltry,
swinge,
switch,
system,
system of government,
systematicness,
tabacism,
tabacosis,
tabagism,
tabes,
tachycardia,
take and do,
take care of,
take in hand,
take to task,
take-home,
take-home pay,
talking-to,
tally with,
tampon,
tape,
tare,
tasking,
taste,
tasting,
taunting,
taxable income,
taxing,
teach,
teasing,
technical education,
technicology,
technics,
technology,
tender,
tender spot,
tent,
the courts,
theory,
thinking,
thinning,
thong,
thorn,
thought,
thoughtfulness,
thrash,
threads,
throes,
throw money around,
thump,
tidiness,
tilling,
time discount,
toasting,
tobacco,
tobaccoism,
tobaccolike,
tobaccoy,
togs,
toil,
toilette,
torment,
torrid,
torture,
total compensation,
toughness,
tourniquet,
trade discount,
train,
training,
travail,
tret,
trial,
triangular bandage,
tribulation,
trim,
trimness,
trivium,
trouble,
trounce,
truncheon,
try,
tuberculosis,
tumor,
tweak,
twinge,
twist,
twist the knife,
twitting,
undergo,
underselling,
unwarranted demand,
up and do,
upbringing,
upset,
upset stomach,
vegetarianism,
verdict,
verdict of guilty,
vertigo,
vestment,
vesture,
vexation,
view,
visit upon,
visitation,
vocational education,
vocational training,
vomiting,
wage,
wage control,
wage freeze,
wage reduction,
wage rollback,
wage scale,
wages,
wages after deductions,
wages after taxes,
walk,
wallop,
warrantability,
warrantedness,
waste,
wasting,
waters of bitterness,
way of thinking,
wear,
wear out,
wearing apparel,
wearing away,
weeding,
weighing,
weight,
weighting,
well-deserved punishment,
whale,
what is right,
what-for,
while,
whip,
whiplash,
white elephant,
white plague,
whop,
wield authority,
willpower,
woe,
woebegoneness,
woefulness,
wound,
wreak,
wrench,
wretchedness,
yield,
