Words that rhyme with abaca

• hanukkah 5
  n 1: (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC [syn: Hanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Channukah, Channukkah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedication]
• arnica 0
  n 1: used especially in treating bruises 2: any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica 3: an ointment used in treating bruises
• awe 0
  n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" 2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence, awe, veneration] v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
• basilica 0
  n 1: an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges; "the church was raised to the rank of basilica" 2: a Roman building used for public administration [syn: basilica, Roman basilica]
• blah 0
  n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
• bourgeois 0
  adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property- owning class and exploitive of the working class 2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic] 3: belonging to the middle class n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois] 2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
• bra 0
  n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
• caw 0
  n 1: the sound made by corvine birds v 1: utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens
• claw 0
  n 1: sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles 2: a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something [syn: hook, claw] 3: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer] 4: a bird's foot v 1: move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging; "They clawed their way to the top of the mountain" 2: clutch as if in panic; "She clawed the doorknob" 3: scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails 4: attack as if with claws; "The politician clawed his rival"
• craw 0
  n 1: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop]
• erotica 0
  n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]
• harmonica 0
  n 1: a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole [syn: harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harp]
• japonica 0
  n 1: greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties [syn: japonica, Camellia japonica] 2: deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms [syn: japonica, maule's quince, Chaenomeles japonica]
• macaw 0
  n 1: long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots
• majolica 0
  n 1: highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: majolica, maiolica]
• massacre 0
  n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery] v 1: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, slaughter, mow down]
• moniker 0
  n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
• paprika 0
  n 1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper, bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum] 2: a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos
• picnicker 0
  n 1: a person who is picnicking [syn: picnicker, picknicker]
• replica 0
  n 1: copy that is not the original; something that has been copied [syn: replica, replication, reproduction]
• sciatica 0
  n 1: neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
• silica 0
  n 1: a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite [syn: silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide]
• spinnaker 0
  n 1: a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind
• stomacher 0
  n 1: garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century
• swastika 0
  n 1: the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction [syn: swastika, Hakenkreuz]
• trafficker 0
  n 1: someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker]
• tunica 0
  n 1: an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue [syn: tunic, tunica, adventitia]
• chaw 0
  n 1: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad] v 1: chew without swallowing; "chaw tobacco"
• ca 0
  n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals [syn: calcium, Ca, atomic number 20] 2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California, Golden State, CA, Calif.]
• da 0
  n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn: district attorney, DA]
• daw 0
  n 1: common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: jackdaw, daw, Corvus monedula]
• artois 0
  n 1: a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
• attica 0
  n 1: the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
• africa 0
  n 1: the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
• america 0
  n 1: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 [syn: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.] 2: North America and South America and Central America
• angelica 0
  n 1: any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels [syn: angelica, angelique] 2: candied stalks of the angelica plant 3: aromatic stems or leaves or roots of Angelica Archangelica
• antarctica 0
  n 1: an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia" [syn: Antarctica, Antarctic continent]
• dominica 0
  n 1: a country on the island of Dominica [syn: Dominica, Commonwealth of Dominica] 2: a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians
• erica 0
  n 1: any plant of the genus Erica [syn: erica, true heath]
• baedeker 0
  n 1: German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859) [syn: Baedeker, Karl Baedeker] 2: any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker
• gurkha 0
  n 1: a member of the Nepalese force that has been part of the British army for 200 years; known for fierceness in combat 2: a member of Hindu people descended from brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal
• mazurka 0
  n 1: music composed for dancing the mazurka 2: a Polish national dance in triple time
• vesica 0
  n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder, vesica]
• veronica 0
  n 1: any plant of the genus Veronica [syn: veronica, speedwell]
• corsica 0
  n 1: an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France [syn: Corse, Corsica] 2: a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte [syn: Corse, Corsica]
• areca 0
  n 1: any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
• perestroika 0
  n 1: an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
• ithaca 0
  n 1: a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga 2: a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king [syn: Ithaca, Ithaki]
• seneca 0
  n 1: Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) [syn: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca] 2: a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario 3: the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca
• brassica 0
  n 1: mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc. [syn: Brassica, genus Brassica]
• maiolica 0
  n 1: highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: majolica, maiolica]
• ah 0
• aha 0
• bah 0
• exotica 0
• aw 0
• baugh 0
• bois 0
• cha 0
• craugh 0
• dawe 0
• albaugh 0
• allbaugh 0
• alpaugh 0
• alspaugh 0
• alvah 0
• anspaugh 0
• ashbaugh 0
• bashaw 0
• czeslaw 0
• bandaranaike 0
• boudicca 0
• monica 0
• santonica 0
• manuka 0
• eroica 0
• jessica 0
• guernica 0
• jataka 0
• tripitaka 0
• areopagitica 0
• whittaker 0
• honecker 0
• linacre 0

See also abaca definition and abaca synonyms