Words that rhyme with alkyne

  • piscine
    adj 1: of or relating to fish
  • resign
    v 1: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up] 2: give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave office, quit, step down, resign] [ant: take office] 3: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
  • tyrosine
    n 1: an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones
  • unforeseen
    adj 1: not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" [syn: unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]
  • unseen
    adj 1: not observed [syn: unobserved, unseen] n 1: a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit [syn: spiritual world, spiritual domain, unseen]
  • ursine
    adj 1: of or relating to or similar to bears
  • vaccine
    n 1: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies [syn: vaccine, vaccinum]
  • achene
    n 1: small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
  • alkene
    n 1: any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon [syn: alkene, olefine, olefin]
  • glycine
    n 1: the simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane 2: genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean [syn: Glycine, genus Glycine]
  • nicene
    adj 1: of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor [syn: Nicaean, Nicene]
  • racine
    n 1: French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699) [syn: Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine] 2: a city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee
  • colchicine
    n 1: an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout
  • damascene
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people; "damascene city gates" 2: (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Damascus 2: a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel v 1: inlay metal with gold and silver
  • eocene
    n 1: from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals [syn: Eocene, Eocene epoch]
  • holocene
    n 1: approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch]
  • hyoscine
    n 1: an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying" [syn: scopolamine, hyoscine]
  • miocene
    n 1: from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals [syn: Miocene, Miocene epoch]
  • pliocene
    n 1: from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals [syn: Pliocene, Pliocene epoch]
  • oligocene
    n 1: from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats [syn: Oligocene, Oligocene epoch]
  • thylacine
    n 1: rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct [syn: thylacine, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus]
  • thyroxine
    n 1: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin, tetraiodothyronine, T]
  • fascine
  • foreseen
  • glassine
  • francine
  • maxine
  • anthracene
  • neocene
  • palaeocene

See also alkyne definition