Words that rhyme with blackguard

• card 2
  n 1: one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys" 2: a card certifying the identity of the bearer; "he had to show his card to get in" [syn: card, identity card] 3: a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures); "they sent us a card from Miami" 4: thin cardboard, usually rectangular 5: a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit, card] 6: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card] 7: a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited [syn: calling card, visiting card, card] 8: (golf) a record of scores (as in golf); "you have to turn in your card to get a handicap" [syn: card, scorecard] 9: a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French" [syn: menu, bill of fare, card, carte du jour, carte] 10: (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate" [syn: batting order, card, lineup] 11: a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities [syn: circuit board, circuit card, board, card, plug-in, add-in] v 1: separate the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, card] 2: ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor; "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!"
• bard 0
  n 1: a lyric poet 2: an ornamental caparison for a horse v 1: put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up]
• barred 0
  adj 1: preventing entry or exit or a course of action; "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn: barricaded, barred, blockaded] 2: marked with stripes or bands
• bodyguard 0
  n 1: someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: bodyguard, escort] 2: a group of men who escort and protect some important person
• bombard 0
  n 1: a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family [syn: bombardon, bombard] v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: pelt, bombard] 2: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb] 3: address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; "The speaker was barraged by an angry audience"; "The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer" [syn: bombard, barrage] 4: direct high energy particles or radiation against
• canard 0
  n 1: a deliberately misleading fabrication
• chard 0
  n 1: beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks [syn: chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla] 2: long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves [syn: chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet]
• coastguard 0
  n 1: a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters
• disregard 0
  n 1: lack of attention and due care [syn: disregard, neglect] 2: willful lack of care and attention [syn: disregard, neglect] v 1: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: ignore, disregard, snub, cut] 2: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore] 3: give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: neglect, ignore, disregard]
• dogged 0
  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]
• fireguard 0
  n 1: a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire [syn: firebreak, fireguard] 2: a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) [syn: fire screen, fireguard]
• haggard 0
  adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard]
• hard 0
  adv 1: with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard" 2: with firmness; "held hard to the railing" [syn: hard, firmly] 3: earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused" 4: causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" [syn: hard, severely] 5: slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard" 6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: heavily, intemperately, hard] [ant: lightly] 7: into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours" 8: very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening" 9: with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard" 10: to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left" adj 1: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: difficult, hard] [ant: easy] 2: dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; [ant: soft] 3: resisting weight or pressure [ant: soft] 4: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: hard, knockout, severe] 5: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] 6: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant, voiced] 7: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source [syn: hard, concentrated] [ant: diffuse, diffused, soft] 8: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants" [ant: soft] 9: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn: intemperate, hard, heavy] 10: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: hard, strong] 11: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" [syn: hard, tough] 12: dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
• jagged 0
  adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged, jaggy, scraggy] 2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed]
• laggard 0
  adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey] n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke]
• legged 0
  adj 1: having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged animals"; "a peg-legged man" [ant: legless]
• lifeguard 0
  n 1: an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents [syn: lifeguard, lifesaver]
• niggard 0
  n 1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
• ragged 0
  adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp" 2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged" 3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"
• regard 0
  n 1: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect" [syn: respect, regard] 2: paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" [syn: attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attention] [ant: heedlessness, inattentiveness] 3: (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes" [syn: regard, wish, compliments] 4: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn: gaze, regard] 5: the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard" [syn: esteem, regard, respect] [ant: disesteem] 6: a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect" [syn: regard, respect] 7: an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him" [syn: respect, esteem, regard] [ant: disrespect] v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 2: look at attentively [syn: regard, consider] 3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" [syn: involve, affect, regard]
• rugged 0
  adj 1: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" [ant: delicate] 2: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile" [syn: furrowed, rugged] [ant: unfurrowed] 3: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 4: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: rugged, tough]
• safeguard 0
  n 1: a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down" [syn: precaution, safeguard, guard] 2: a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war [syn: safe-conduct, safeguard] v 1: make safe 2: escort safely
• sluggard 0
  n 1: an idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug]
• vanguard 0
  n 1: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn: vanguard, van] 2: any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wave] 3: the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field; "the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy" [syn: vanguard, forefront, cutting edge]
• barelegged 0
  adj 1: having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"
• bernard 0
  n 1: French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878) [syn: Bernard, Claude Bernard]
• kierkegaard 0
  n 1: Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855) [syn: Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard]
• asgard 0
  n 1: (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
• unsugared 0
  adj 1: with no sugar added
• charred 0
• bellard 0
• benard 0
• berrard 0
• bevard 0
• billard 0
• boilard 0
• bongard 0
• borchard 0
• bossard 0
• bouchard 0
• bouffard 0
• bovard 0
• bunyard 0
• burchard 0
• burnard 0
• buzard 0
• chouinard 0
• couillard 0
• coulthard 0
• deckard 0
• ard 0
• unguard 0

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