badge, break, buck, bump, caste, count, duke, grade, jump, last, lift, mark, meld, pawn, place, po, raise, range, rate, rise, score, stripe, stripes, suit

archa, ardent, baron, begum, black belt, bottom, brevet, bring up, captain, chevron, climb up, commons, cordon, create, demote, donna, dukedom, earldom, ensign, exalt, first class, flag rank, grandee, highly, junior, kinglike, kingly, kingship, knighthood, last-place, lower, lowest, lowly, major, margrave, marshal, marshall, mayweed, minor, order, outrank, paygrade, pivot, poorest, princedom, princely, private, queenlike, queenly, ranking, rating, reduce, royal, seigneur, senior, sergeant, serjeant, sire, striper, upper, wheeler, wormseed

archangel, archbishop, average, baroness, barony, buck private, canasta, commanding, commission, commissioned, constable, coronet, demotion, dignity, dog fennel, elevate, feudal lord, field marshal, first sergeant, general, gradable, grand duchess, group captain, high-level, high-ranking, higher-up, higher rank, investment, jamestown weed, jimsonweed, jimson weed, junior-grade, kick downstairs, left-handed, lieutenant, light colonel, low-level, midshipman, patriarch, pivot man, precedence, precession, primary, proconsul, promotion, rank and file, rank order, reinstate, relegate, second class, seignior, shoulder board, shoulder mark, shoulder patch, spanish tea, subaltern, take the cake, titular, top-level, top-ranking, viscountcy, viscountess, viscounty

ambassador, baronetcy, basilica, basket rummy, bully pulpit, capital ship, commonalty, common soldier, condescension, coordinate, embassador, field officer, flag officer, fleet admiral, full general, full professor, higher-ranking, higher status, holy order, hypernymy, hyponymy, inferior, investiture, lordolatry, lords temporal, lower-ranking, mexican tea, middle-level, morganatic, noblesse oblige, ordinary, panchen lama, paramountcy, police sergeant, precedency, quasi-royal, secondary, second estate, seniority, senior status, sergeant-at-law, sergeant first class, serjeant-at-law, stinking mayweed, subordinate, superior, upper-level, wing commander

apple of peru, commonality, common thorn apple, condescendingness, grade insignia, high commissioner, lieutenant colonel, magnificio, military rank, petty officer, police constable, second lieutenant, stinking chamomile, subordination, superordinate, warrant officer

american wormseed, anthemis cotula, assistant professor, chief petty officer, data hierarchy, general officer, governor general, lieutenant junior grade, military rating, salutatorian, superordination

associate professor, datura stramonium, military commission, salutatory speaker