secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
cryptography coding secret writing steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
mystery enigma secret closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
plot secret plan game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
cryptogram cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
society | an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
Tammany Hall Tammany Society Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
Hare Krishna International Society for Krishna Consciousness ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Society of Jesus Jesuit order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen, it is strongly committed to education and scholarship |
Religious Society of Friends Society of Friends Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Shakers United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
club social club society guild gild lodge order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
Fabian Society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism |
academy honorary society | an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature |
Royal Society Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
tribal society | a society with the social organization of a tribe |
hunting and gathering tribe hunting and gathering society | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables, usually nomadic |
Secret Intelligence Service MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service US Secret Service USSS Secret Service SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
society high society beau monde smart set bon ton | the fashionable elite |
building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
secret agent intelligence officer intelligence agent operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
company companionship fellowship society | the state of being with someone, he missed their company, he enjoyed the society of his friends |
unavowed secret | not openly made known, a secret marriage, a secret bride |
secret | the next to highest level of official classification for documents |
top-secret | the highest official level of classification of documents |
mysterious mystic mystical occult secret orphic | having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence, beyond ordinary understanding, mysterious symbols, the mystical style of Blake, occult lore, the secret learning of the ancients |
secret private | not expressed, secret (or private) thoughts |
clandestine cloak-and-dagger hole-and-corner(a) hugger-mugger hush-hush secret surreptitious undercover underground | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods, clandestine intelligence operations, cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines, hole-and-corner intrigue, secret missions, a secret agent, secret sales of arms, surreptitious mobilization of troops, an undercover investigation, underground resistance |
secret | indulging only covertly, a secret alcoholic |
secret | communicated covertly, their secret signal was a wink, secret messages |
confidential secret | (of information) given in confidence or in secret, this arrangement must be kept confidential, their secret communications |
privy secluded secret | hidden from general view or use, a privy place to rest and think, a secluded romantic spot, a secret garden |
hidden secret | designed to elude detection, a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole, a secret passage, the secret compartment in the desk |
secret | not open or public, kept private or not revealed, a secret formula, secret ingredients, secret talks |
secretly in secret on the Q.T. on the QT | in secrecy, not openly, met secretly to discuss the invasion plans, the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library, they arranged to meet in secret |