Words that rhyme with blea

  • ab
    n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB] 2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August) [syn: Ab, Av] 3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab] 4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
  • ably
    adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently]
  • absentee
    n 1: one that is absent or not in residence
  • addressee
    n 1: one to whom something is addressed
  • admirably
    adv 1: in an admirable manner; "the children's responses were admirably normal" [syn: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily, commendable]
  • adoptee
    n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
  • agree
    v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord] [ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue] 2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone" 3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree] 5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English" 6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me" 7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
  • alee
    adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
  • amiably
    adv 1: in an affable manner; "`Come and visit me,' he said amiably" [syn: affably, amiably, genially]
  • amicably
    adv 1: in an amicable manner; "they separated amicably"
  • amputee
    n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
  • appointee
    n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment]
  • appreciably
    adv 1: to a noticeable degree; "they weather was appreciably colder"
  • arguably
    adv 1: as can be shown by argument; "she is arguably the best"
  • assembly
    n 1: a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self- contained unit 2: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) [syn: fabrication, assembly] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling] 3: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: forum, assembly, meeting place] 4: a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose 5: a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together 6: the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: assembly, assemblage, gathering] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling]
  • audibly
    adv 1: in an audible manner; "he spoke audibly" [ant: inaudibly]
  • banshee
    n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
  • be
    n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
  • bee
    n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
  • bourgeoisie
    n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn: middle class, bourgeoisie]
  • brambly
    adj 1: covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth [syn: braky, brambly]
  • brie
    n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
  • bubbly
    adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy] 2: full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a bubbly personality" n 1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there [syn: champagne, bubbly]
  • cay
    n 1: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key, cay, Florida key]
  • cc
    adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two hundred, 200, cc] n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
  • charitably
    adv 1: in a charitable manner; "she treated him charitably"
  • chickadee
    n 1: any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America
  • cod
    adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery] adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: collect, cod] n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase] 2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish] v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across] 2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
  • comfortably
    adv 1: in mental comfort; without stress; "he works comfortably on three continents" 2: in physical comfort; "she could have been lying comfortably in bed getting the same relief" [ant: uncomfortably] 3: in financial comfort; "They live well"; "she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died" [syn: well, comfortably]
  • comparably
    adv 1: in a comparable manner or to a comparable degree; "you will have to work comparably harder" [ant: incomparably, uncomparably]
  • conceivably
    adv 1: within the realm of possibility; "the weather may conceivably change"
  • conferee
    n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..." 2: a member of a conference
  • considerably
    adv 1: to a great extent or degree; "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially" [syn: well, considerably, substantially]
  • credibly
    adv 1: easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" [syn: credibly, believably, plausibly, probably] [ant: implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably]
  • creditably
    adv 1: to a tolerably worthy extent; "he did respectably well for his age" [syn: respectably, creditably]
  • crumbly
    adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies" [syn: crumbly, friable]
  • curie
    n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
  • de
    n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
  • debris
    n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
  • decree
    n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript] v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree" 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
  • degree
    n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree, grade, level] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn: academic degree, degree] 4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree] 5: the highest power of a term or variable 6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" 7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
  • demonstrably
    adv 1: in an obvious and provable manner; "his documentary sources are demonstrably wrong" [syn: demonstrably, provably, incontrovertibly]
  • deportee
    n 1: a person who is expelled from home or country by authority [syn: exile, deportee]
  • detainee
    n 1: some held in custody [syn: detainee, political detainee]
  • devotee
    n 1: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee, lover]
  • disagree
    v 1: be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions" [syn: disagree, differ, dissent, take issue] [ant: agree, concord, concur, hold] 2: be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord, discord] [ant: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally]
  • disassembly
    n 1: the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" [syn: dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly] [ant: assemblage, assembly, fabrication, gathering]
  • doubly
    adv 1: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice] 2: in a twofold manner; "he was doubly wrong" [syn: doubly, in two ways]
  • drably
    adv 1: in a drab manner; "she dresses drably"
  • draftee
    n 1: someone who is drafted into military service [syn: draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
  • emcee
    n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies, emcee, host] v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
  • employee
    n 1: a worker who is hired to perform a job [ant: employer]
  • enlistee
    n 1: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: recruit, enlistee]
  • equitably
    adv 1: in an equitable manner; "the inheritance was equitably divided among the sisters" [ant: inequitably]
  • escapee
    n 1: someone who escapes
  • esprit
    n 1: liveliness of mind or spirit
  • evacuee
    n 1: a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place
  • fashionably
    adv 1: in a fashionable manner; "his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man" [ant: unfashionably]
  • feasibly
    adv 1: in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible [syn: practicably, feasibly]
  • fee
    n 1: a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services 2: an interest in land capable of being inherited v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung]
  • feebly
    adv 1: in a faint and feeble manner; "the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway" 2: in a halting and feeble manner; "reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win"
  • flea
    n 1: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
  • flee
    v 1: run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee, fly, take flight]
  • flexibly
    adv 1: with flexibility; "`Come whenever you are free,' he said flexibly" [ant: inflexibly]
  • fop
    n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
  • forcibly
    adv 1: in a forcible manner; "keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly"
  • foresee
    v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee] 2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee] 3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
  • formidably
    adv 1: in a formidable manner; "the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed"
  • free
    adv 1: without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: loose, free] adj 1: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" [ant: unfree] 2: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" [ant: bound] 3: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" [syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous] 4: not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane" 5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: detached, free] 6: not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" [ant: unfree] 7: not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" [syn: spare, free] 8: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent] 9: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal] n 1: people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave" [syn: free, free people] v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain] 2: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass] 3: remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" [syn: dislodge, free] [ant: deposit, lodge, stick, wedge] 4: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, relieve, free] [ant: apply, enforce, implement] 5: make (information) available for publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners" [syn: free, release] 6: free from obligations or duties [syn: free, discharge] 7: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude] 8: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" [syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault] 9: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 10: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate] 11: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze, free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise, immobilize]
  • gee
    n 1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force] v 1: turn to the right side; "the horse geed" 2: give a command to a horse to turn to the right side
  • ghee
    n 1: clarified butter used in Indian cookery
  • glee
    n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness] 2: malicious satisfaction [syn: gloat, gloating, glee]
  • glibly
    adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
  • goatee
    n 1: a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
  • guarantee
    n 1: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty] 2: an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true; "there is no guarantee that they are not lying" 3: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty] v 1: give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products" [syn: guarantee, vouch] 2: make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure] 3: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners" [syn: undertake, guarantee] 4: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
  • guaranty
    n 1: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty]
  • gutsy
    adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant: gutless]
  • he
    n 1: a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) [syn: helium, He, atomic number 2] 2: the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • herb
    n 1: a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests [syn: herb, herbaceous plant] 2: aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities
  • horribly
    adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully, horribly]
  • humbly
    adv 1: in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head" [syn: humbly, meekly] 2: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: meanly, humbly]
  • id
    n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State, ID] 2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.] 3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity
  • ie
    adv 1: that is to say; in other words [syn: i.e., ie, id est] n 1: a commercial browser [syn: Internet Explorer, Explorer, IE]
  • immeasurably
    adv 1: to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; "the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man" [ant: measurably] 2: without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: boundlessly, immeasurably, infinitely]
  • impeccably
    adv 1: flawlessly; "the film was impeccably authentic"
  • implausibly
    adv 1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably]
  • impossibly
    adv 1: to a degree impossible of achievement; "long thought to be an impossibly difficult operation"; "impossibly far from sources of supply" [ant: possibly]
  • improbably
    adv 1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably]
  • incomparably
    adv 1: in an incomparable manner or to an incomparable degree; "she is incomparably gifted" [syn: incomparably, uncomparably] [ant: comparably]
  • incredibly
    adv 1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably] 2: exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly]
  • indelibly
    adv 1: in an indelible manner; "this tradition has left its mark indelibly upon the social, political, educational and industrial fabric of this country"
  • inductee
    n 1: a person inducted into an organization or social group; "Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth were 1936 inductees in the National Baseball Hall of Fame" 2: someone who is drafted into military service [syn: draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
  • inevitably
    adv 1: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 2: by necessity; "the situation slid inescapably toward disaster " [syn: inescapably, ineluctably, inevitably, unavoidably]
  • inexorably
    adv 1: in an inexorable manner; "time marches on inexorably"
  • inextricably
    adv 1: in an inextricable manner; "motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God"
  • inseparably
    adv 1: without possibility of separation; "these two are inseparably linked" [ant: separably]
  • interminably
    adv 1: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly" [syn: interminably, endlessly]
  • internee
    n 1: a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"
  • interviewee
    n 1: a person who is interviewed
  • intolerably
    adv 1: to an unacceptable degree; "The percentage of lead in our drinking water is unacceptably high" [syn: unacceptably, intolerably] [ant: acceptably, so- so, tolerably]