| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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| (noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shrinkable | (adjective) capable of being shrunk | - |
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| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| trinket | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty |
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| trinketry | (noun) trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively | - |
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| undrinkable | (adjective) unsuitable for drinking | - |
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| unshrinkable | (adjective) incapable of being shrunk or diminished or reduced | - |
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| unshrinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unintimidated |
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| unwrinkled | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: wrinkleless |
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| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |
| wrinkled | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkly |
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| (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: unironed |
| wrinkleless | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: unwrinkled |
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| wrinkleproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, creaseproof, wrinkle-resistant |
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| wrinkly | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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