Words that rhyme with awe

• cure 4
  n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic] v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal] 2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" 3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" 4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
• brouhaha 2
  n 1: loud confused noise from many sources [syn: hubbub, uproar, brouhaha, katzenjammer] 2: a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
• pacha 1
  n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn: pasha, pacha]
• ahimsa 0
  n 1: a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence
• aikido 0
  n 1: a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo
• ala 0
  n 1: a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism; "the alae of the nose"; "the alae of a maple seed"; "the flat petals of a pea blossom are alae" 2: a wing of an insect
• aloha 0
  n 1: an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) [syn: aloha, ciao]
• baccarat 0
  n 1: a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine [syn: baccarat, chemin de fer]
• backsaw 0
  n 1: a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge [syn: backsaw, back saw]
• baklava 0
  n 1: rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey
• barrio 0
  n 1: a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) 2: an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
• bedstraw 0
  n 1: any of several plants of the genus Galium
• blah 0
  n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
• boar 0
  n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa] 2: an uncastrated male hog
• bodega 0
  n 1: a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries
• boor 0
  n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike]
• bore 0
  n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard] 2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager] 3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] 4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole] v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest] 2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
• bourgeois 0
  adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property- owning class and exploitive of the working class 2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic] 3: belonging to the middle class n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois] 2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
• bra 0
  n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
• braw 0
  adj 1: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage" [syn: brave, braw, gay]
• brio 0
  n 1: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous [syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification]
• bucksaw 0
  n 1: a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck
• bursa 0
  n 1: a city in northwestern Turkey [syn: Bursa, Brusa] 2: a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints
• bushido 0
  n 1: traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
• bylaw 0
  n 1: a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members
• cabana 0
  n 1: a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool
• cadenza 0
  n 1: a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music
• caw 0
  n 1: the sound made by corvine birds v 1: utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens
• chore 0
  n 1: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores" [syn: job, task, chore]
• chutzpah 0
  n 1: (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity [syn: chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah]
• ciao 0
  n 1: an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) [syn: aloha, ciao]
• claw 0
  n 1: sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles 2: a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something [syn: hook, claw] 3: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer] 4: a bird's foot v 1: move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging; "They clawed their way to the top of the mountain" 2: clutch as if in panic; "She clawed the doorknob" 3: scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails 4: attack as if with claws; "The politician clawed his rival"
• coleslaw 0
  n 1: basically shredded cabbage [syn: coleslaw, slaw]
• coo 0
  n 1: the sound made by a pigeon v 1: speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly" 2: cry softly, as of pigeons
• core 0
  n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group] 2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" 3: the central part of the Earth 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill 6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE] 7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core] 9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place 10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
• corps 0
  n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
• craw 0
  n 1: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop]
• degas 0
  n 1: French impressionist painter (1834-1917) [syn: Degas, Edgar Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas] v 1: remove gas from
• diva 0
  n 1: a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star [syn: prima donna, diva]
• door 0
  n 1: a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle; "he knocked on the door"; "he slammed the door as he left" 2: the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: doorway, door, room access, threshold] 3: anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success" 4: a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road); "the office next door"; "they live two doors up the street from us" 5: a room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"
• draw 0
  n 1: a gully that is shallower than a ravine 2: an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had" [syn: drawing card, draw, attraction, attractor, attracter] 3: the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie" [syn: draw, standoff, tie] 4: anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it" [syn: draw, lot] 5: a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack; "he got a pair of kings in the draw" 6: a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking" [syn: hook, draw, hooking] 7: (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage [syn: draw, draw play] 8: poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer; "he played only draw and stud" [syn: draw, draw poker] 9: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haul, haulage] v 1: cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" [syn: pull, draw, force] [ant: force, push] 2: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" [syn: reap, draw] 3: make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate] 4: make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" [syn: draw, make] 5: bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim" [syn: draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out] 6: represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" 7: take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel" [syn: draw, take out] 8: give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" [syn: describe, depict, draw] 9: select or take in from a given group or region; "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population" 10: elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" 11: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: puff, drag, draw] 12: move or go steadily or gradually; "The ship drew near the shore" 13: remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" [syn: withdraw, draw, take out, draw off] [ant: bank, deposit] 14: choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots" [syn: draw, cast] 15: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: draw, get] 16: bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition; "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"; "The session was drawn to a close" 17: cause to flow; "The nurse drew blood" 18: write a legal document or paper; "The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office" 19: engage in drawing; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" 20: move or pull so as to cover or uncover something; "draw the shades"; "draw the curtains" 21: allow a draft; "This chimney draws very well" 22: require a specified depth for floating; "This boat draws 70 inches" 23: pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" [syn: draw, quarter, draw and quarter] 24: cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense; "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter" [syn: pull, draw] 25: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up] 26: direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers" [syn: attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in] [ant: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel, repulse] 27: thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" [syn: string, thread, draw] 28: stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow); "The archers were drawing their bows" [syn: pull back, draw] 29: pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, run, draw, pass] 30: finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.; "The teams drew a tie" [syn: tie, draw] 31: contract; "The material drew after it was washed in hot water" 32: reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die; "draw wire" 33: steep; pass through a strainer; "draw pulp from the fruit" 34: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw] 35: flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching; "draw steel" 36: cause to localize at one point; "Draw blood and pus"
• drawer 0
  n 1: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out 2: the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else 3: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer]
• flaw 0
  n 1: an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw] 2: defect or weakness in a person's character; "he had his flaws, but he was great nonetheless" 3: an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness v 1: add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective [syn: flaw, blemish]
• floor 0
  n 1: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring] 2: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story] 3: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" [syn: floor, base] 4: the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor" 5: the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water 6: the lower inside surface of any hollow structure; "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave" 7: the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat" 8: the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor" 9: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor" 10: a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader" [syn: floor, trading floor] v 1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback] 2: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floor]
• fore 0
  adv 1: near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments" [syn: fore, forward] [ant: abaft, aft, astern] adj 1: situated at or toward the bow of a vessel [ant: aft(a)] n 1: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem]
• forepaw 0
  n 1: front paw; analogous to the human hand
• four 0
  adj 1: being one more than three [syn: four, 4, iv] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe] 2: a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips [syn: four-spot, four]
• gaga 0
  adj 1: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" [syn: doddering, doddery, gaga, senile] 2: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn: crazy, wild, dotty, gaga]
• gewgaw 0
  n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
• gnaw 0
  v 1: bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker" 2: become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded" [syn: erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away]
• gore 0
  n 1: Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) [syn: Gore, Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.] 2: coagulated blood from a wound 3: a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails [syn: gore, panel] 4: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen" [syn: bloodshed, gore] v 1: wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument 2: cut into gores; "gore a skirt"
• grandma 0
  n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
• grandpa 0
  n 1: the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather, gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa]
• grappa 0
  n 1: Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing
• guffaw 0
  n 1: a burst of deep loud hearty laughter [syn: guffaw, belly laugh] v 1: laugh boisterously [syn: guffaw, laugh loudly]
• ha 0
  n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]
• hacksaw 0
  n 1: saw used with one hand for cutting metal [syn: hacksaw, hack saw, metal saw]
• handsaw 0
  n 1: a saw used with one hand for cutting wood [syn: handsaw, hand saw, carpenter's saw]
• haw 0
  n 1: a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus [syn: hawthorn, haw] 2: the nictitating membrane of a horse v 1: utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"
• hoar 0
  adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime]
• hoopla 0
  n 1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plug]
• hurrah 0
  n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn: hurrah, hooray] v 1: shout `hurrah!'
• indaba 0
  n 1: a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question
• jackdaw 0
  n 1: common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: jackdaw, daw, Corvus monedula]
• jaw 0
  n 1: the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth 2: the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth 3: holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit] 2: talk incessantly and tiresomely [syn: yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away] 3: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw] 4: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
• jigsaw 0
  n 1: a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut [syn: saber saw, jigsaw, reciprocating saw] 2: fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines [syn: jigsaw, scroll saw, fretsaw]
• kakemono 0
  n 1: a Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging; usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom
• kea 0
  n 1: large brownish-green New Zealand parrot [syn: kea, Nestor notabilis]
• kickshaw 0
  n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]
• kola 0
  n 1: tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract [syn: kola, kola nut, kola nut tree, goora nut, Cola acuminata] 2: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad [syn: Daba, Kola, Musgoi]
• la 0
  n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
• landau 0
  n 1: Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968) [syn: Landau, Lev Davidovich Landau] 2: a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately
• law 0
  n 1: the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" [syn: law, jurisprudence] 2: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping" 3: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society [syn: law, natural law] 4: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law, law of nature] 5: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do [syn: jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy] 6: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" [syn: law, practice of law] 7: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary, law]
• lockjaw 0
  n 1: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages [syn: tetanus, lockjaw]
• lore 0
  n 1: knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend" [syn: lore, traditional knowledge]
• lure 0
  n 1: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward [syn: lure, enticement, come-on] 2: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 3: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation" [syn: entice, lure, tempt]
• ma 0
  n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
• macaw 0
  n 1: long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots
• mackinaw 0
  n 1: a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material [syn: mackinaw, Mackinaw coat] 2: a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States [syn: mackinaw, Mackinaw blanket] 3: a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes [syn: mackinaw, Mackinaw boat] 4: a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design
• mamba 0
  n 1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal
• maw 0
  n 1: informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob]
• mitzvah 0
  n 1: (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law [syn: mitzvah, mitsvah] 2: (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty [syn: mitzvah, mitsvah]
• moor 0
  n 1: one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century 2: open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss [syn: moor, moorland] v 1: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat" [syn: moor, berth, tie up] 2: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening" [syn: moor, berth, wharf] 3: secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat"
• more 0
  adv 1: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly" [syn: more, to a greater extent] [ant: less, to a lesser extent] 2: comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should" [ant: less] adj 1: (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon" [syn: more(a), more than] [ant: less(a)] 2: (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number; "a hall with more seats"; "we have no more bananas"; "more than one" [ant: fewer] n 1: English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state [syn: More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More]
• nougat 0
  n 1: nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
• novella 0
  n 1: a short novel [syn: novelette, novella]
• oar 0
  n 1: an implement used to propel or steer a boat
• olla 0
  n 1: leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper [syn: ola, olla]
• or 0
  n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: Oregon, Beaver State, OR] 2: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre, surgery]
• ore 0
  n 1: a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined 2: a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
• outdraw 0
  v 1: draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight
• outlaw 0
  adj 1: contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful] 2: disobedient to or defiant of law; "lawless bands roaming the plains" [syn: lawless, outlaw(a)] n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor] v 1: declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." [syn: outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise] [ant: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize]
• overawe 0
  v 1: subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) [syn: overawe, cow]
• overdraw 0
  v 1: draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her account" 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate]
• pa 0
  n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]
• panama 0
  n 1: a republic on the Isthmus of Panama; achieved independence from Colombia in 1903 [syn: Panama, Republic of Panama] 2: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat]
• papa 0
  n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop]
• papaw 0
  n 1: small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit [syn: pawpaw, papaw, papaw tree, Asimina triloba] 2: fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples [syn: papaw, pawpaw]
• pas 0
  n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
• pasha 0
  n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn: pasha, pacha]

See also awe definition and awe synonyms