Words that rhyme with asta

n 1: the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

n 1: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]

n 1: United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) [syn: Carver, George Washington Carver] 2: makes decorative wooden panels [syn: woodcarver, carver] 3: an artist who creates sculptures [syn: sculptor, sculpturer, carver, statue maker] 4: someone who carves the meat [syn: cutter, carver]

n 1: a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics [syn: cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca] 2: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca [syn: cassava, manioc] 3: any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch [syn: cassava, casava]

n 1: a pass between mountain peaks [syn: col, gap]

n 1: a small replica of a person; used as a toy [syn: doll, dolly] 2: informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird]

n 1: small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit [syn: guava, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava, Psidium littorale] 2: small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit [syn: guava, true guava, guava bush, Psidium guajava] 3: tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

n 1: an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions 2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: coffee, java] 3: a platform-independent object-oriented programming language

n 1: an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub [syn: kava, kavakava]

n 1: a small natural hill [syn: knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammock]

n 1: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

n 1: rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface

v 1: hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" [syn: droop, loll] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]

n 1: flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver] 2: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 2: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle] 3: have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds

n 1: a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient 2: shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg [syn: pasta, alimentary paste]

n 1: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

n 1: a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) 2: any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) [syn: rib, costa]

n 1: a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border

n 1: capital and largest city of Slovakia [syn: Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, Pressburg, Pozsony]

n 1: robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in family Hostaceae [syn: Hosta, genus Hosta, Funka, genus Funka]

n 1: a port city on the Pacific in northern Chile