Related Words for plain sailing

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clear sailing
//x
Phrase, Noun
smooth sailing
//x
Phrase, Noun
cruising
/x
Noun
sailing
/x
Noun
coasting
/x
Noun
lull
/
Noun
rule of the road
//x/
Phrase, Noun
sailing ship
/x/
Phrase, Noun
navigation
/x/x
Noun
reaching
/x
Verb
square sail
//
Phrase, Noun
doldrums
/x
Noun
seamanship
/xx
Noun
sloop
/
Noun
full speed ahead
//x/
Phrase, Noun, Adverb, Adjective
clean slate
//
Phrase, Noun
seafaring
/xx
Noun
course
/
Noun
canvas
/x
Noun
seaway
/x
Noun
passage
/x
Noun
road
/
Noun
shipping
/x
Noun
blanketing
/xx
Verb
mainsail
//
Noun
sea legs
//
Phrase, Noun
freedom of the seas
/x/x/
Phrase, Noun
thoroughfare
/xx
Noun
luff
/
Noun
slab
/
Noun
tacking
/x
Verb
sheet
/
Noun
fairway
/x
Noun
sheer
/
Adjective
yachting
/x
Noun
trim
/
Noun
sailing boat
/x/
Phrase, Noun
high seas
//
Phrase, Noun
snow
/
Noun
traverse
/x
Noun
boating
/x
Noun
voyaging
/xx
Noun
freedom of navigation
/x//x/x
Phrase, Noun
topsail
//
Noun
slip
/
Noun
variable
/xxx
Noun
shore leave
//
Phrase, Noun
leeway
/x
Noun
tackling
/x
Verb
spring
/
Noun
royal
/x
Name
rode
/
Verb
vessel
/x
Noun
convoy
/x
Noun
heading
/x
Verb
white hat
//
Name, Name
weather
/x
Noun
headway
/x
Noun
piracy
/xx
Noun
yards
/
Noun
pilot
/x
Noun
cruise ship
//
Phrase, Noun
underway
xx/
Adjective
schooner
/x
Noun
trip
/
Noun
mule
/
Noun
dinghy
/x
Noun
boarding
/x
Noun
skin
/
Noun
drifter
/x
Noun
well
/
Adverb
lightening
/xx
Noun
cruiser
/x
Noun
afloat
x/
Adverb, Adjective
anchored
/x
Adjective
announces
x/x
Verb
apparatus
xx/x
Noun
apparent
x/x
Adjective
apparently
x/xx
Adverb
armed
/
Adjective
armour
/x
Noun, Verb
at sea
//
Phrase, Adjective
austere
x/
Adjective
bagel
/x
Noun, Verb
baking
/x
Noun, Adjective
bald
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
banal
x/
Adjective
banked
/
Adjective
bare
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
beamed
/
Adjective
beat
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
beauty
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
beef
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bemoan
x/
Verb
bitch
/
Noun, Verb
bland
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
blatant
/x
Adjective
bloom
/
Noun, Verb
boring
/x
Adjective, Noun
bottomed
/x
Adjective
bowed
/
Adjective
bowling
/x
Noun
brown
/
Name, Adjective, Verb
browsing
/x
Noun
brush
/
Noun, Verb
campaign
x/
Noun, Verb
candid
/x
Adjective, Noun
candle
/x
Noun, Verb
canopy
/xx
Noun, Verb
carrying
/xx
Noun
champaign
x/
Name, Adjective
chaste
/
Adjective
cheer
/
Noun, Verb
cheer up
//
Phrase, Verb
chute
/
Noun, Verb
cimarron
/xx
Name
circulating
/xxx
Adjective
civil
/x
Adjective, Name
claire
/
Name
clean
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
clear
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
clearly
/x
Adverb
climbing
/x
Noun, Adjective
clipper
/x
Noun, Verb
cloak
/
Noun, Verb
common
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
commonplace
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
complain
x/
Verb
comprehensible
xx/xx
Adjective
conduct
x/
Noun, Verb
croak
/
Noun, Verb
crossing
/x
Noun, Adjective
definite
/xx
Adjective, Noun
degenerate
x/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
departure
x/x
Noun
deplore
x/
Verb
deteriorate
x/xxx
Verb
different
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
direct
x/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disc
/
Noun, Verb
docked
/
Verb
downright
/x
Adverb, Adjective
drab
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
drape
/
Noun, Verb
draw
/
Verb, Noun
driving
/x
Noun, Adjective
drop
/
Noun, Verb
dry
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
dull
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
easy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
esplanade
xx/
Noun
evident
/xx
Adjective
evidently
/xxx
Adverb
expanses
x/x
Noun
explicit
x/x
Adjective, Noun
fan
/
Noun, Verb
fancy
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
fashioned
/x
Adjective
fastest
/x
Adjective
fated
/x
Adjective
featureless
/xx
Adjective
ferry
/x
Noun, Verb
field
/
Noun, Verb
fishing
/x
Noun
flagrant
/x
Adjective
flat
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
flight
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
floodplain
/x
Noun
flying
/x
Noun, Adjective
fogging
/x
Noun
fore
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
frank
/
Name, Adjective, Verb
frankly
/x
Adverb
ganges
/x
Name
general
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
glaring
/x
Adjective, Noun
glider
/x
Noun
gliding
/x
Noun, Adjective
grassland
/x
Noun
gripe
/
Noun, Verb
grouse
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
grumble
/x
Verb, Noun
guard
/
Noun, Verb
hang gliding
//x
Phrase, Noun
headscarf
//
Noun
hijab
/x
Noun
holler
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
homely
/x
Adjective
homespun
/x
Noun, Adjective
honest
/x
Adjective, Verb, Adverb
indexing
/xx
Noun
insipid
x/x
Adjective
instrumentation
xxx/x
Noun
intelligible
x/xxx
Adjective
jane
/
Name
journey
/x
Noun, Verb
junk
/
Noun, Verb
just
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb
kick
/
Verb, Noun
kite
/
Noun, Verb
knitting
/x
Noun
lament
x/
Noun, Verb
leaving
/x
Verb
legible
/xx
Adjective
linen
/x
Noun, Adjective
lisa
/x
Name
literal
/xx
Adjective, Noun
lowland
/x
Noun
manifest
/xx
Adjective, Verb, Noun
masted
/x
Adjective
meadows
/x
Noun
merchant
/x
Noun, Verb
mere
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
ming
/
Name, Verb
modest
/x
Adjective
moor
/
Noun, Verb
moorland
/x
Noun
mundane
x/
Adjective, Noun
murmur
/x
Noun, Verb
mutter
/x
Noun, Verb
nag
/
Noun, Verb
nature
/x
Noun, Verb
nautical
/xx
Adjective
navigating
/xxx
Verb, Noun
navigator
/xxx
Noun
neutral
/x
Adjective, Noun
normal
/x
Adjective, Noun
obvious
/xx
Adjective
obviously
/xxx
Adverb
ocean
/x
Noun
olympia
x/xx
Name
operating
/xxx
Adjective
ordinary
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
outright
//
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
outset
/x
Noun, Verb
paddling
/xx
Noun
pampa
/x
Noun