Phrase Hound found 55 phrases and 29 compound words that contain secret. The most common are listed below. Open secret in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 55
- trade secretA type of intellectual property comprising confidential business information that provides a company with a competitive edge.
- top secretInformation classified at one of the highest levels of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.
- secret agentA member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential.
- secret policeA police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods …
- secret serviceA governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
- secret ballotThe voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places.
- secret societyA club, fraternal organization, or other association which admits only selected individuals as members, whose meetings and practices are often ritualistic and not public, and which often has the purpose of furthering the social or economic …
- state secretInformation which pertains to the affairs of a country, access to which is restricted by the government.
- secret SantaA Christmas tradition where a group of people give anonymous gifts to each other, with each person randomly selected to give a gift to one other person.
- secret keySynonym of private key: The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.
- best-kept secretSomething interesting or important but not well-known.
- secret weapon
- open secretInformation that is widely known, but not acknowledged openly.
- Little Secret
- secret recipeA recipe whose details are held under secrecy.
- Victoria's SecretA retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.
- secret sauceA sauce used in cooking or as a condiment, the ingredients of which are kept secret.
- Secret Intelligence ServiceMI6
- secret admirerOne who admires another romantically but purposely remains anonymous to the extent that the subject of the admiration is unaware of the admirer's identity.
- secret of PolichinelleA supposed secret known to everyone.
- secret agentsplural of secret agent: A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential.
- secret governmentSynonym of shadow government: A government that is prepared to take control in response to certain events, especially one made up of the leadership of the largest opposition party in parliament which would assume control should the ruling …
- secret historyA revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
- secret menuA collection of unofficial, unadvertised food items available at a fast food restaurant, known to customers only by word of mouth.
- secret servicesplural of secret service: A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
Compound words 29
- secretiveHaving an inclination to secrecy.
- secretistA dealer in secrets or arcana.
- pseudosecretA supposed secret that is not actually secret; open secret.
- unsecretNot secret.
- secretmongerA person who deals in secrets.
- secretnessQuality of being secret.
- subsecretA secondary or subsidiary secret.
- secretaryA person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
- secretionAny substance that is secreted by an organism.
- secretarialPertaining to a secretary.