Words that rhyme with adiabatic

  • asymptomatic
    adj 1: having no symptoms of illness or disease [syn: asymptomatic, symptomless]
  • phreatic
    adj 1: of or relating to ground water
  • acrobatic
    adj 1: vigorously active; "an acrobatic dance"; "an athletic child"; "athletic playing"; "gymnastic exercises" [syn: acrobatic, athletic, gymnastic]
  • anabatic
    adj 1: of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope; "an anabatic wind" [ant: catabatic, katabatic]
  • aromatic
    adj 1: (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings; "an aromatic organic compound" 2: having a strong pleasant odor; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford [syn: aromatic, redolent]
  • asthmatic
    adj 1: relating to breathing with a whistling sound [syn: asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy] n 1: a person suffering from asthma; "she is a chronic asthmatic"; "the painful gasps of a dying asthmatic"
  • attic
    adj 1: of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times; "Attic Greek" n 1: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage [syn: loft, attic, garret] 2: the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia [syn: Attic, Ionic, Ionic dialect, Classical Greek] 3: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome] 4: (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
  • autocratic
    adj 1: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory] 2: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]
  • automatic
    adj 1: operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts" [ant: manual] 2: resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike, robotic] 3: without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: automatic, reflex(a), reflexive] n 1: light machine gun [syn: automatic rifle, automatic, machine rifle] 2: a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released [syn: automatic pistol, automatic]
  • diplomatic
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of diplomacy; "diplomatic immunity" 2: using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people; "the hostess averted a confrontation with a diplomatic chenage of subject" [syn: diplomatic, diplomatical] [ant: undiplomatic]
  • ecstatic
    adj 1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic]
  • emphatic
    adj 1: spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word" [syn: emphatic, emphasized, emphasised] 2: sudden and strong; "an emphatic no" [syn: emphatic, exclamatory] 3: forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty" [syn: emphatic, forceful]
  • enigmatic
    adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling] 2: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: enigmatic, oracular]
  • erratic
    adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)] 2: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering] 3: likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster [syn: erratic, temperamental]
  • fanatic
    adj 1: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid] n 1: a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill [syn: fanatic, fiend]
  • hepatic
    adj 1: pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis" n 1: any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses [syn: liverwort, hepatic]
  • hydrostatic
    adj 1: relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit; "hydrostatic pressure" [ant: hydrokinetic]
  • idiomatic
    adj 1: of or relating to or conforming to idiom; "idiomatic English" [syn: idiomatic, idiomatical]
  • melodramatic
    adj 1: having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama; "a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea" 2: characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose" [syn: histrionic, melodramatic]
  • pancreatic
    adj 1: of or involving the pancreas; "pancreatic cancer"
  • problematic
    adj 1: open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: debatable, problematic, problematical] 2: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough]
  • rheumatic
    adj 1: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy] n 1: a person suffering with rheumatism
  • schematic
    adj 1: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic] n 1: diagram of an electrical or mechanical system [syn: schematic, schematic drawing]
  • sciatic
    adj 1: relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica 2: of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it); "sciatic nerve"
  • static
    adj 1: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" [syn: inactive, motionless, static, still] 2: concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity; "an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity" [syn: electrostatic, static] 3: showing little if any change; "a static population" [syn: static, stable, unchanging] n 1: a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference [syn: static, atmospherics, atmospheric static] 2: angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial"
  • symptomatic
    adj 1: characteristic or indicative of a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: diagnostic, symptomatic] 2: relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms; "symptomatic relief"; "symptomatic treatment"; "a symptomatic classification of diseases"
  • systematic
    adj 1: characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was very systematic"; "a systematic administrator" [ant: unsystematic] 2: of or relating to taxonomy; "taxonomic relations"; "a taxonomic designation" [syn: taxonomic, taxonomical, systematic]
  • thematic
    adj 1: relating to or constituting a topic of discourse 2: of or relating to a melodic subject [ant: unthematic]
  • thermostatic
    adj 1: of or relating to a thermostat; "thermostatic control"
  • traumatic
    adj 1: of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body 2: psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";
  • undemocratic
    adj 1: not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals; "the union broke with its past undemocratic procedures" [ant: democratic]
  • prostatic
    adj 1: relating to the prostate gland [syn: prostate, prostatic]
  • adriatic
    n 1: an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west [syn: Adriatic, Adriatic Sea]
  • asiatic
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" [syn: Asian, Asiatic] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Asia [syn: Asian, Asiatic]
  • homeostatic
    adj 1: related to or characterized by homeostasis
  • astatic
    adj 1: not static or stable
  • hemostatic
    adj 1: tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels [syn: styptic, hemostatic]
  • katabatic
    adj 1: of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night [syn: katabatic, catabatic] [ant: anabatic]
  • metastatic
    adj 1: relating to or affected by metastasis; "metastatic growth"
  • aerobatic
  • gyrostatic
  • haemostatic
  • homoeostatic
  • hanseatic
  • eustatic
  • aerostatic
  • diastatic
  • eleatic
  • fungistatic
  • isostatic
  • muriatic
  • psoriatic

See also adiabatic definition