Words that rhyme with backslid

adj 1: relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida [syn: annelid, annelidan] n 1: worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally [syn: annelid, annelid worm, segmented worm]

n 1: an authoritative direction or instruction to do something [syn: command, bid, bidding, dictation] 2: an attempt to get something; "they made a futile play for power"; "he made a bid to gain attention" [syn: bid, play] 3: a formal proposal to buy at a specified price [syn: bid, tender] 4: (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make [syn: bid, bidding] v 1: propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" [syn: offer, bid, tender] 2: invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell" [syn: wish, bid] 3: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure] 4: make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump" [syn: bid, call] 5: make a serious effort to attain something; "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population" 6: ask someone in a friendly way to do something [syn: invite, bid]

n 1: either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; "his lids would stay open no longer" [syn: eyelid, lid, palpebra]

adj 1: having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" [ant: valid] 2: no longer valid; "the license is invalid" n 1: someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury [syn: invalid, shut-in] v 1: force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen 2: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap]

adj 1: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan] 2: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 3: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [syn: pale, pallid]

adj 1: characterized by good substantial quality; "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit" 2: of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state" [ant: gaseous, liquid] 3: entirely of one substance with no holes inside; "a solid block of wood" [ant: hollow] 4: of one substance or character throughout; "solid gold"; "carved out of solid rock" 5: uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water" 6: providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day" [syn: hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial] 7: of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn: solid, strong, substantial] 8: not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" [syn: firm, solid] 9: having three dimensions; "a solid object" 10: impenetrable for the eye; "solid blackness" 11: financially sound; "the bank is solid and will survive this attack" 12: of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial; "work of solid scholarship"; "based on solid facts" 13: meriting respect or esteem; "an upstanding member of the community" [syn: upstanding, solid] 14: of the same color throughout; "solid color" [syn: solid, self-colored, self-coloured] 15: acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc" [syn: solid, unanimous, whole] n 1: matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure 2: the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape [syn: solid, solidness, solid state] 3: a three-dimensional shape

adj 1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid] 2: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid]

adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid]

adj 1: well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract" [ant: invalid] 2: still legally acceptable; "the license is still valid"

n 1: an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn: bolide, fireball]