Words that rhyme with alit

adj 1: related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts

n 1: a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease [syn: amulet, talisman]

n 1: (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle; "a hollow roundel" [syn: annulet, roundel] 2: molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column [syn: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet] 3: a small ring

adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate, unarticulate] 2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated] v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate] 2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate] 3: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" 5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise]

n 1: a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot [syn: cocoa, chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate] 2: a food made from roasted ground cacao beans 3: a medium brown to dark-brown color [syn: chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber]

adj 1: transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous, grumose] v 1: change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" [syn: clot, coagulate] 2: cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state [syn: clot, coagulate]

n 1: diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul

v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]

adj 1: having a very finely toothed margin

adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark] 2: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon, forsake, desolate, desert] 2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate] 3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge]

adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable] 2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]

n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] v 1: utter impulsively; "He blurted out the secret"; "He blundered his stupid ideas" [syn: blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate] 2: eject semen

adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise]

v 1: strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister" 2: imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software 3: compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"

n 1: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet]

adj 1: completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick- and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and- span, spic, spick, spotless] 2: free from stain or blemish [syn: immaculate, undefiled] 3: without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record" [syn: faultless, immaculate, impeccable]

adj 1: without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" [syn: inarticulate, unarticulate] [ant: articulate]

adj 1: (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" [syn: intact, inviolate] 2: must be kept sacred [syn: inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct]

v 1: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" [syn: isolate, insulate] 2: obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound" 3: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate] 4: separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

adj 1: morally blemished; stained or impure [syn: defiled, maculate] 2: spotted or blotched v 1: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile] 2: spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: foul, befoul, defile, maculate]

n 1: someone who has been admitted to a college or university v 1: enroll as a student

n 1: highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet] 2: freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet] 3: bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

adj 1: composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate] n 1: a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: particulate, particulate matter]

n 1: the product of percolation v 1: permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: leach, percolate] 2: spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning" 3: prepare in a percolator; "percolate coffee" 4: cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent 5: pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter] 6: gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" [syn: perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor]

adj 1: resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system" [syn: reticulate, reticular] [ant: nonreticulate] v 1: form a net or a network 2: distribute by a network, as of water or electricity 3: divide so as to form a network

n 1: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet]

v 1: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate] 2: create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" [syn: model, simulate] 3: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign]

v 1: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate] 2: shape or cut with a flat surface

v 1: fit together exactly, of identical shapes; "triangles tessellate" 2: tile with tesserae; "tessellate the kitchen floor"

adj 1: composed of or marked with triangles v 1: divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" 2: measure by using trigonometry; "triangulate the angle" 3: survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot"

adj 1: having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; "ultraviolet radiation"; "an ultraviolet lamp" n 1: radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays [syn: ultraviolet, ultraviolet radiation, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet illumination, UV]

adj 1: bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels [syn: umbellate, umbellar] 2: resembling an umbel in form [syn: umbellate, umbel-like]

adj 1: having a wavy margin and rippled surface v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past" [syn: roll, undulate] 3: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" [syn: roll, undulate, flap, wave] 4: increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"

adj 1: having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals" [syn: ungulate, ungulated, hoofed, hooved] [ant: unguiculate, unguiculated] n 1: any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically [syn: ungulate, hoofed mammal]

adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy] 2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated] v 1: decorate with wavy or winding lines

adj 1: of a color intermediate between red and blue [syn: purple, violet, purplish] n 1: any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers 2: a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum [syn: violet, reddish blue]

n 1: beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly [syn: omelet, omelette]

adj 1: having angles or an angular shape [syn: angular, angulate] [ant: rounded] v 1: make or become angular

adj 1: (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate]

v 1: become vesicular or full of air cells; "The organs vesiculated" 2: cause to become vesicular or full of air cells; "vesiculate an organ"

adj 1: (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip

adj 1: having auricles [syn: auriculate, auriculated]

adj 1: bent at a sharp angle

adj 1: circular or nearly circular [syn: orbiculate, orbicular]

adj 1: pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear [syn: ossicular, ossiculate]

adj 1: having mandibles

adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]

adj 1: minutely serrated

n 1: brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels [syn: goatfish, red mullet, surmullet, Mullus surmuletus]

adj 1: pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted]

adj 1: divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule" [syn: bilocular, biloculate]

adj 1: having bracteoles

adj 1: shaped like a bell or campana; "campanulate flowers of the genus Campanula" [syn: campanulate, campanular, campanulated]

adj 1: having a caruncle [syn: carunculate, carunculated]

adj 1: having an operculum [syn: operculate, operculated]

n 1: the position of proconsul [syn: proconsulship, proconsulate]

adj 1: of or relating to trabeculae [syn: trabecular, trabeculate]

adj 1: covered with tubercles

adj 1: urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth

adj 1: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) [syn: verticillate, verticillated, whorled]