Words that rhyme with blauch

adj 1: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells [syn: baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco] 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 [syn: baroque, Baroque] n 1: the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe [syn: Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period] 2: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century [syn: baroque, baroqueness]

n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]

n 1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo] v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

adj 1: lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" [syn: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke]

n 1: a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current [syn: choke, choke coil, choking coil] 2: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine v 1: breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" 2: be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke, gag, fret] 3: wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn: choke, scrag] 4: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing [syn: choke, strangle] 5: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate] 6: fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience" 7: check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger" 8: become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul] [ant: unclog] 9: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke] 10: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" [syn: suffocate, choke] 11: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" [syn: suffocate, choke] 12: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born] 13: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle] 14: cause to retch or choke [syn: gag, choke]

n 1: anything that covers or conceals 2: a loose outer garment v 1: hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment" [syn: dissemble, cloak, mask] 2: cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees" [syn: clothe, cloak, drape, robe] 3: cover with or as if with a cloak; "cloaked monks"

n 1: carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal 2: Coca Cola is a trademarked cola [syn: Coca Cola, Coke] 3: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C] v 1: become coke; "petroleum oils coke after distillation"

n 1: a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croak, croaking] v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born] 2: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: croak, cronk] 3: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl]

n 1: the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree" [syn: fork, crotch] 2: the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk [syn: crotch, fork] 3: external sex organ [syn: genitalia, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates, crotch]

n 1: people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" [syn: folk, folks, common people] 2: a social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe, folk] 3: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry] 4: the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community [syn: folk music, ethnic music, folk]

n 1: a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape] 2: activity characterized by good humor [syn: jest, joke, jocularity] 3: a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on] 4: a triviality not to be taken seriously; "I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke" v 1: tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious" [syn: joke, jest] 2: act in a funny or teasing way [syn: joke, jest]

n 1: a V-shaped indentation; "mandibular notch" 2: the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow" [syn: pass, mountain pass, notch] 3: a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface; "there were four notches in the handle of his revolver" 4: a small cut [syn: notch, nick, snick] v 1: cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope" 2: notch a surface to record something

n 1: the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring 2: a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns" [syn: oak, oak tree]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; "Scots Gaelic"; "the Scots community in New York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'" [syn: Scots, Scottish, Scotch] 2: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting] n 1: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) [syn: score, scotch] 2: whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still [syn: Scotch, Scotch whiskey, Scotch whisky, malt whiskey, malt whisky, Scotch malt whiskey, Scotch malt whisky] v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 2: make a small cut or score into

n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke, fume] 2: a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles" [syn: smoke, smoking] 3: an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere" 4: something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors" 5: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder [syn: roll of tobacco, smoke] 6: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] 7: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: smoke, smoking] 8: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet] v 1: inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" 2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: fume, smoke]

n 1: the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); "a good soak put life back in the wagon" [syn: soak, soakage, soaking] 2: washing something by allowing it to soak [syn: soak, soaking] v 1: submerge in a liquid; "I soaked in the hot tub for an hour" 2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 3: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse] 4: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock] 5: beat severely 6: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: intoxicate, soak, inebriate] 7: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up] 8: fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with disinfectant" [syn: soak, imbue] 9: heat a metal prior to working it

n 1: support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim [syn: spoke, wheel spoke, radius] 2: one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn: rundle, spoke, rung]

v 1: stir up or tend; of a fire

n 1: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot" [syn: stroke, shot] 2: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam [syn: throw, stroke, cam stroke] 3: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain [syn: stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA] 4: a light touch 5: a light touch with the hands [syn: stroke, stroking] 6: (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club; "Nicklaus won by three strokes" 7: the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew 8: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event] 9: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix] 10: a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush; "she applied the paint in careful strokes" 11: any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing 12: a single complete movement v 1: touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard" 2: strike a ball with a smooth blow 3: row at a particular rate 4: treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss"

n 1: a sample piece of cloth

n 1: a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: cough drop, troche, pastille, pastil]

n 1: a small portable timepiece [syn: watch, ticker] 2: a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty 3: a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe [syn: watch, vigil] 4: the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty 5: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket] 6: the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) [syn: vigil, watch] v 1: look attentively; "watch a basketball game" 2: follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars" [syn: watch, observe, follow, watch over, keep an eye on] 3: see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie" [syn: watch, view, see, catch, take in] 4: observe with attention; "They watched as the murderer was executed" [syn: watch, look on] 5: be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful; "Watch out for pickpockets!" [syn: watch, look out, watch out] 6: observe or determine by looking; "Watch how the dog chases the cats away" 7: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn]

n 1: fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment 2: an oppressive power; "under the yoke of a tyrant"; "they threw off the yoke of domination" 3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 4: a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; "pulled by a yoke of oxen" 5: support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end 6: a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together [syn: yoke, coupling] 7: stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team v 1: become joined or linked together 2: link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together" [syn: yoke, link] 3: put a yoke on or join with a yoke; "Yoke the draft horses together" [ant: unyoke]

n 1: the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen [syn: egg yolk, yolk] 2: nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) [syn: yolk, vitellus]

n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]

n 1: German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910) [syn: Koch, Robert Koch]

n 1: British informal for donkey

n 1: an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls [syn: nautch, nauch, nautch dance]