Words that rhyme with assists

n 1: a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) [syn: abyss, abysm]

adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss] 2: in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly" 3: in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen [syn: imperfectly, amiss] [ant: perfectly] adj 1: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]

n 1: the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)

n 1: mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned

n 1: a state of extreme happiness [syn: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air]

v 1: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore] 2: cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; "This case is dismissed!" [syn: dismiss, throw out] 3: stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop] 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 5: end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave; "I was dismissed after I gave my report" [syn: dismiss, usher out] 6: declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" [syn: dissolve, dismiss]

n 1: special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" [syn: emphasis, accent] 2: intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights" [syn: vehemence, emphasis] 3: special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. 4: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: stress, emphasis, accent]

n 1: surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) [syn: hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia]

n 1: a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience" [syn: hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation] 2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] v 1: make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval [syn: hiss, siss, sizz, sibilate] 2: move with a whooshing sound [syn: hiss, whoosh] 3: express or utter with a hiss [syn: hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate] 4: show displeasure, as after a performance or speech [syn: boo, hiss] [ant: acclaim, applaud, clap, spat]

n 1: the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) [syn: kiss, buss, osculation] 2: a cookie made of egg whites and sugar 3: any of several bite-sized candies [syn: kiss, candy kiss] 4: a light glancing touch; "there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing" v 1: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn: snog, kiss, buss, osculate] 2: touch lightly or gently; "the blossoms were kissed by the soft rain"

n 1: the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

n 1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille] 2: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: miss, misfire] 3: a form of address for an unmarried woman v 1: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" [syn: miss, lose] 2: feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother" 3: fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" [ant: attend, go to] 4: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart] 5: fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train" 6: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant: feature, have] 7: fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" [ant: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike] 8: be absent; "The child had been missing for a week" 9: fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" [syn: miss, escape]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance 2: something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life" [syn: bane, curse, scourge, nemesis]

n 1: too much emphasis

n 1: either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material 2: a message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis]

n 1: a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things [syn: circumlocution, periphrasis, ambage]

n 1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water] 2: informal terms for urination; "he took a pee" [syn: peeing, pee, pissing, piss] v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]

n 1: a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and the skin over bony prominences

v 1: recall the past; "The grandparents sat there, reminiscing all afternoon"

adj 1: failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" [syn: derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss]

n 1: abnormally intense sexual desire in men

n 1: a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician" [syn: sister, sis] [ant: blood brother, brother]

n 1: (medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis) [syn: urinalysis, uranalysis]

n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn: Dis, Orcus]

v 1: treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: diss, insult, affront]

n 1: a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade [syn: kris, creese, crease]

n 1: a landlocked federal republic in central Europe [syn: Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Suisse, Schweiz, Svizzera]

adj 1: of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture; "the Swiss army" n 1: the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland [syn: Swiss, Swiss people]

n 1: the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes [syn: anamorphosis, anamorphism] 2: a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner [syn: anamorphosis, anamorphism]

n 1: a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight

n 1: (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis]

n 1: dilatation or distension of a hollow organ [syn: ectasia, ectasis]

n 1: infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation

n 1: a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]

n 1: nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body

n 1: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth

n 1: separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone

n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis]

n 1: surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) [syn: hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia]

n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis] 2: the accumulation of blood in an organ 3: any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united [syn: hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ] 4: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality

n 1: the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ

n 1: reflex pupillary dilation as a muscle pulls the iris outward; occurs in response to a decrease in light or certain drugs

n 1: rewording for the purpose of clarification [syn: paraphrase, paraphrasis]

n 1: sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat [syn: sunstroke, insolation, thermic fever, siriasis]

n 1: an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans [syn: zoonosis, zoonotic disease]

n 1: infestation with itch mites [syn: acariasis, acariosis, acaridiasis]

n 1: infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms

n 1: an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected [syn: schistosomiasis, bilharzia, bilharziasis]

n 1: a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels

n 1: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn: teething, dentition, odontiasis]

n 1: treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone

n 1: any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin

n 1: infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted [syn: trichinosis, trichiniasis, myositis trichinosa]

n 1: an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children

n 1: infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot [syn: fascioliasis, fasciolosis]