| 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 |
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 |
| secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
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 |
secret agent
intelligence officer
intelligence agent
operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
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 |