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 |
enemy | any hostile group of people, he viewed lawyers as the real enemy |
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 |
enemy | an opposing military force, the enemy attacked at dawn |
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 |
enemy foe foeman opposition | an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force), a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies |
foe enemy | a personal enemy, they had been political foes for years |
mortal enemy | an enemy who wants to kill you |
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 |