Words that rhyme with bah

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]

n 1: a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water

v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 2: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 3: let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow, grant] [ant: deny, refuse] 4: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 5: make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, allow, provide] 6: allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: allow, take into account] 7: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 8: allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up, allow] 9: grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]

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

n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" 2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence, awe, veneration] v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

n 1: the cry made by sheep v 1: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]

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]

n 1: rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey

n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]

n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

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]

n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]

n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]

n 1: the sound made by corvine birds v 1: utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

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"

n 1: basically shredded cabbage [syn: coleslaw, slaw]

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]

n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

n 1: the process of gradually becoming inferior 2: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline] 3: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay, decomposition] 4: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair" 5: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay, radioactive decay, disintegration] v 1: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose] 2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate] 3: undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"

v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]

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"

adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]

n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]

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]

n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]

n 1: the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather, gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa]

n 1: a burst of deep loud hearty laughter [syn: guffaw, belly laugh] v 1: laugh boisterously [syn: guffaw, laugh loudly]

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]

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"

n 1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plug]

n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn: hurrah, hooray] v 1: shout `hurrah!'

n 1: a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question

n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

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]

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]

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]

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]

n 1: long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots

n 1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal

n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

n 1: informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob]

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]

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]

n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par

n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn: pasha, pacha]

n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular] 2: a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard

n 1: a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped 2: the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" [syn: hand, manus, mitt, paw] v 1: scrape with the paws; "The bear pawed the door" 2: touch clumsily; "The man tried to paw her"

adj 1: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound" 3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant: cooked] 4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage" 5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power" [syn: naked, raw] 6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal" 7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: crude, raw] 8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty" 9: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive, sore, raw, tender] 10: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw] 11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a), unsanded] 12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new] 13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked] n 1: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw, altogether, birthday suit]

n 1: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: proverb, adage, saw, byword] 2: hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting 3: a power tool for cutting wood [syn: power saw, saw, sawing machine] v 1: cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"

n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]

n 1: basically shredded cabbage [syn: coleslaw, slaw]

n 1: a vehicle used to push snow from roads [syn: snowplow, snowplough]

n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]

n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

n 1: an American Indian woman

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]

adj 1: of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored n 1: plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder 2: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble] 3: a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white [syn: pale yellow, straw, wheat] 4: a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth [syn: straw, drinking straw] v 1: cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm" 2: spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet" [syn: strew, straw]

n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

n 1: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" [syn: thaw, melt, thawing, melting] 2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing, warming] 3: a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile; "the thaw between the United States and Russia has led to increased cooperation in world affairs" v 1: become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" [syn: dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt]

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]

v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: retire, withdraw] 3: release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: disengage, withdraw] [ant: engage, lock, mesh, operate] 4: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: recall, call in, call back, withdraw] 5: take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw] 6: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw] 7: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, withdraw, retire] 8: retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" [syn: bow out, withdraw] 9: 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] 10: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: retire, withdraw] 11: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw] 12: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: remove, take, take away, withdraw]

n 1: an erratic deflection from an intended course [syn: yaw, swerve] v 1: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw] 2: deviate erratically from a set course; "the yawing motion of the ship" 3: swerve off course momentarily; "the ship yawed when the huge waves hit it"

n 1: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad] v 1: chew without swallowing; "chaw tobacco"

n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty [syn: dada, dadaism]

n 1: United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004) [syn: Shaw, Artie Shaw, Arthur Jacob Arshawsky] 2: United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885) [syn: Shaw, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings] 3: United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919) [syn: Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw] 4: British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950) [syn: Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw]

n 1: Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) [syn: Parr, Catherine Parr] 2: a young salmon up to 2 years old 3: the young of various fishes

n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R] 2: (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole [syn: gas constant, universal gas constant, R] 3: the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: R, r] 4: the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]

n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn: Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]

n 1: common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: jackdaw, daw, Corvus monedula]

n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma

n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number 11]

n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra, atomic number 88] 2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re] 3: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right ascension equals fifteen degrees" [syn: right ascension, RA, celestial longitude]

n 1: Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943 [syn: SA, Sturmabteilung, Storm Troops]

n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]

n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: Washington, Evergreen State, WA]

n 1: a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)

n 1: French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870) [syn: Dumas, Alexandre Dumas]

n 1: a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s" [syn: al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa]

n 1: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul- Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul- Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors]

n 1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau [syn: Sana, Sanaa, Sana'a]

n 1: French royal house from 1328 to 1589

n 1: capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain [syn: Bogota, capital of Colombia]

n 1: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay]

n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite [syn: barium, Ba, atomic number 56] 2: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]

n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dash, dah]

n 1: the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

n 1: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria

n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs 2: a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair

n 1: Jordan's port; located in southwestern Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba [syn: Al Aqabah, Aqaba, Akaba]

n 1: a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR] 2: a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River [syn: Arkansas, Arkansas River]

n 1: a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior [syn: Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa] 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa [syn: Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa]

n 1: French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665) [syn: Fermat, Pierre de Fermat]

adj 1: (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern [syn: moire, watered] n 1: silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern [syn: moire, watered-silk]

n 1: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr]