Words that rhyme with asa

n 1: one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things [syn: appraiser, valuator] 2: one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity [syn: appraiser, authenticator]

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"

n 1: lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school [syn: blazer, sport jacket, sport coat, sports jacket, sports coat]

n 1: a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports [syn: bracer, armguard] 2: a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) [syn: bracer, pick-me-up]

n 1: a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" [syn: pursuer, chaser] 2: a drink to follow immediately after another drink

n 1: a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) [syn: debaser, degrader]

n 1: (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced

n 1: an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light [syn: laser, optical maser]

n 1: an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation

n 1: flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: mesa, table] 2: a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix

n 1: a horse used to set the pace in racing [syn: pacer, pacemaker, pacesetter] 2: a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together

n 1: a person who passes by casually or by chance [syn: passerby, passer-by, passer] 2: a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group 3: a student who passes an examination 4: (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass [syn: passer, forward passer] 5: type genus of the Passeridae [syn: Passer, genus Passer]

n 1: an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

n 1: someone who drives racing cars at high speeds [syn: racer, race driver, automobile driver] 2: a fast car that competes in races [syn: racer, race car, racing car] 3: an animal that races 4: slender fast-moving North American snakes

n 1: edge tool used in shaving v 1: shave with a razor

n 1: a horse trained to run in steeplechases

n 1: an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods 2: an instrument used to make tracings 3: (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes 4: ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke [syn: tracer, tracer bullet]

n 1: someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees 2: someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art [syn: pioneer, innovator, trailblazer, groundbreaker]

n 1: type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit [syn: Acer, genus Acer]

n 1: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight [syn: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA]

n 1: English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941) [syn: Frazer, James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer]

n 1: United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926) [syn: Glaser, Donald Glaser, Donald Arthur Glaser]

n 1: a large hardwood drinking bowl

n 1: basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined 2: one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell

n 1: a city in northwestern Somalia

n 1: the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville [syn: Kinshasa, Leopoldville]

n 1: Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) [syn: Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu]

n 1: Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) [syn: Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu]

n 1: a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) [syn: pit, fossa] 2: monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets [syn: Fossa, genus Fossa] 3: largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets [syn: fossa, fossa cat, Cryptoprocta ferox]

n 1: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper]

n 1: the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers [syn: Lhasa, Lassa, capital of Tibet, Forbidden City]

n 1: the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers [syn: Lhasa, Lassa, capital of Tibet, Forbidden City] 2: a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs [syn: Lhasa, Lhasa apso]

n 1: an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages

n 1: a port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean

n 1: Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190) [syn: Frederick I, Frederick Barbarossa, Barbarossa] 2: Barbary pirate (died in 1546) [syn: Barbarossa, Khayr ad- Din]

n 1: an ancient city on the Ebro River in northeastern Spain; formerly the capital of Aragon [syn: Zaragoza, Saragossa]

n 1: an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq [syn: Assur, Asur, Ashur]

n 1: an official who carries a mace of office [syn: macebearer, mace, macer]