upper
Boot's leather portion
Upper means higher in position, rank, or status.
The upper floors of a building are above the lower ones.
The upper class occupies a higher social position.
Upper management holds more authority.
As a noun, an upper is the part of a shoe above the sole, or slang for a stimulant drug that elevates mood or energy—the opposite of a downer.
Alluring seductress
- quarterOne of four parts
- collarNeck encirclement
- tongueOral muscle for taste
- eyeletSmall reinforced hole
lacing · counter · foxing · rand · cuff · stitching · leather · canvas
Measured height above reference
- heightVertical extent upward
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- peakUtmost height attained
- apexUppermost point or culmination
pinnacle · crest · zenith · acme · mountaintop · highland · plateau · ridge
Grasping body part
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- echelonLevel within hierarchy
- classGrouping by shared traits
- crustHard outer layer
ranks · tier · level · bracket · division · limit · bound · hierarchy
vamp
Alluring seductress
eyelet · lacing · counter · foxing · rand · cuff · stitching · leather · canvas · mesh
altitude
Measured height above reference
apex · pinnacle · crest · zenith · acme · mountaintop · highland · plateau · ridge · elevation
hand
Grasping body part
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- echelonLevel within hierarchy
- classGrouping by shared traits
crust · ranks · tier · level · bracket · division · limit · bound · hierarchy · elite
reaches
Extends to touch
headwaters · source · watershed · upstream · current · flow · basin · valley · stream · waters
octave
Eight-note interval
soprano · falsetto · note · frequency · timbre · harmony · resonance · scale · clef · voice
- hierarchyrank, ranked, authority, command, tiered
- spatial adjectiveslower, inner, outer, front, back
- U-wordsugly, ultimate, ultra, umbrella, unable
- levelslevel, tier, layer, floor, story
- anatomy termsanterior, posterior, dorsal, ventral, medial
- string functionsreplace, substring, concatenate, trim, strip
upperlower
Reduce or move downward
inferior · junior · subordinate · lesser · bottom-tier
upperdowner
Dispiriting experience or thing
depressant · sedative · tranquilizer · barbiturate · benzo
- upper lipMouth's northern edge
- upper handPosition of control
uppermost, upper class, upper crust, uppercut, upper-class, uppers, upper-crust, upper deck, upper case