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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "filings":
afterglow, afterimage, air pollution, attritus, balance, bones,
bran, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, cosmic dust, crumb,
crumble, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, draff, dregs,
dust, dust ball, efflorescence, end, fag end, fallout, farina,
flour, fossil, garbage, gash, grits, groats, hogwash, holdover,
husks, kittens, leavings, lees, leftovers, lint, meal,
odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds,
powder, pussies, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder,
remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins,
rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, shadow, shards,
shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, soot, straw, stubble,
stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tares, trace, vestige, wastage,
waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds