Words that rhyme with auer

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers [syn: campanula, bellflower]

n 1: a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park" [syn: arbor, arbour, bower, pergola] v 1: enclose in a bower [syn: embower, bower]

n 1: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit]

n 1: luminous intensity measured in candelas [syn: candlepower, light intensity]

n 1: a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds [syn: cauliflower, Brassica oleracea botrytis] 2: compact head of white undeveloped flowers

n 1: any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones 2: a wildflower of the genus Ratibida 3: any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center

n 1: plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried [syn: strawflower, cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora] 2: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus]

v 1: crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain" [syn: huddle, cower] 2: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel]

n 1: a bitter cress of Europe and America [syn: lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis]

n 1: any plant of the family Commelinaceae [syn: spiderwort, dayflower]

v 1: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" [syn: deflower, ruin] 2: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate]

v 1: destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home" 2: enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels" 3: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through] 4: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour, guttle, raven, pig]

adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 2: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn: dour, forbidding, grim] 3: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion] 2: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband v 1: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: endow, dower]

v 1: enclose in a bower [syn: embower, bower]

v 1: give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers" [syn: empower, authorise, authorize] 2: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue]

n 1: (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target

n 1: fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain v 1: cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it" 2: convert grain into flour

n 1: a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms 2: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom] 3: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] v 1: produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn: bloom, blossom, flower]

n 1: stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant [syn: foamflower, coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia]

n 1: any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers [syn: stock, gillyflower] 2: Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors [syn: carnation, clove pink, gillyflower, Dianthus caryophyllus]

n 1: any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers [syn: globeflower, globe flower]

n 1: an angry stare [syn: glare, glower] v 1: look at with a fixed gaze; "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her" [syn: glower, glare] 2: look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower]

n 1: a unit of power equal to 746 watts [syn: horsepower, HP, H.P.]

n 1: a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" [syn: hour, hr, 60 minutes] 2: clock time; "the hour is getting late" [syn: hour, time of day] 3: a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" 4: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: hour, minute]

n 1: the lower of two berths [syn: lower berth, lower] v 1: move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf" [syn: lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down] [ant: bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise] 2: set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations" [syn: lower, lour] 3: make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio" [syn: turn down, lower, lour] 4: cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" [syn: lower, depress] 5: look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower]

n 1: the force of workers available [syn: work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men]

n 1: the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 2: low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers [syn: trailing arbutus, mayflower, Epigaea repens]

v 1: overcome by superior force [syn: overpower, overmaster, overwhelm] 2: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli [syn: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake]

n 1: possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" [syn: power, powerfulness] [ant: impotence, impotency, powerlessness] 2: (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) 3: possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" [syn: ability, power] [ant: inability] 4: (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president" [syn: office, power] 5: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" [syn: power, force] 6: a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself [syn: exponent, power, index] 7: physical strength [syn: might, mightiness, power] 8: a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power, major power, great power, power, superpower] 9: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon] v 1: supply the force or power for the functioning of; "The gasoline powers the engines"

n 1: thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil [syn: safflower, false saffron, Carthamus tinctorius]

n 1: a place that is scoured (especially by running water) v 1: examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive" 2: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn: scrub, scour] 3: rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops" [syn: scour, abrade] 4: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush, scour, purge]

n 1: a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you; "they installed a shower in the bathroom" 2: washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game" [syn: shower, shower bath] 3: a brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted by a brief shower" [syn: shower, rain shower] 4: a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" [syn: shower, cascade] 5: someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see [syn: exhibitor, exhibitioner, shower] 6: a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person; "her friends organized a baby shower for her when she was expecting" v 1: expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise" [syn: lavish, shower] 2: spray or sprinkle with; "The guests showered rice on the couple" 3: take a shower; wash one's body in the shower; "You should shower after vigorous exercise" 4: rain abundantly; "Meteors showered down over half of Australia" [syn: shower, shower down] 5: provide abundantly with; "He showered her with presents"

adj 1: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: sour, rancid] 2: having a sharp biting taste [ant: sweet] 3: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons 4: in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" [syn: off, sour, turned] 5: inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour] 6: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen] n 1: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar 2: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth [syn: sour, sourness, tartness] 3: the property of being acidic [syn: sourness, sour, acidity] v 1: go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: sour, turn, ferment, work] 2: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten]

n 1: common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States [syn: starflower, sleepy dick, summer snowflake, Ornithogalum umbellatum]

n 1: plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried [syn: strawflower, cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora] 2: any of various plants of the genus Helipterum 3: Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers [syn: strawflower, golden everlasting, yellow paper daisy, Helichrysum bracteatum]

n 1: any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays [syn: sunflower, helianthus]

n 1: a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power, major power, great power, power, superpower]

n 1: a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building 2: anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite" [syn: column, tower, pillar] 3: a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships [syn: tugboat, tug, towboat, tower] v 1: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk]

n 1: creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs [syn: twinflower, Linnaea borealis]

n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers 2: perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum [syn: wallflower, Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri] 3: remains on sidelines at social event

n 1: an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies

n 1: wild or uncultivated flowering plant [syn: wildflower, wild flower]

n 1: the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, will power, self-command, self-will]

n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower]

n 1: the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours) [syn: miles per hour, mph] 2: a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel [syn: miles per hour, mph]

n 1: German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967) [syn: Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer]

n 1: United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961) [syn: Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower, Ike, President Eisenhower]

n 1: Welsh chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV's rule in Wales (1359-1416) [syn: Glendower, Owen Glendower]

n 1: German physicist (born in 1929) [syn: Mossbauer, Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer]

n 1: any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone [syn: pasqueflower, pasque flower]

n 1: showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple [syn: shellflower, shell-flower, turtlehead, snakehead, snake-head, Chelone glabra] 2: cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes [syn: shellflower, shall- flower, shell ginger, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia speciosa, Languas speciosa]

n 1: perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus [syn: snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Vigna caracalla, Phaseolus caracalla]

n 1: tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock [syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea]