Words that rhyme with bostic

adj 1: of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism 2: uncertain of all claims to knowledge [syn: agnostic, agnostical] [ant: gnostic] n 1: someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something [syn: agnostic, doubter] 2: a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)

n 1: the handle of a broom [syn: broomstick, broom handle]

adj 1: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic] 2: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant] n 1: any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue

n 1: one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with

adj 1: concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; "a diagnostic reading test" 2: characteristic or indicative of a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: diagnostic, symptomatic]

n 1: a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level

adj 1: forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"

n 1: the lower joint of the leg of a fowl 2: a stick used for playing a drum

adj 1: of or relating to Gnosticism; "Gnostic writings" 2: possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things [ant: agnostic, agnostical] n 1: an advocate of Gnosticism

n 1: makeup that is used to color the lips [syn: lipstick, lip rouge] v 1: form by tracing with lipstick; "The clown had lipsticked circles on his cheeks" 2: apply lipstick to; "She lipsticked her mouth"

n 1: an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes 2: a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler 3: an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin [syn: mastic, mastic tree, lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus]

n 1: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club]

adj 1: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay" [syn: fictile, moldable, plastic] 2: capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature" [syn: plastic, pliant] 3: forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience" [syn: formative, shaping, plastic] n 1: generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives 2: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, charge card, charge plate, plastic]

adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied, rustic] 2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated] 3: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic, rustic] n 1: an unsophisticated country person

adj 1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year" 2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy" n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic] 2: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian

n 1: a stick used instead of a sword for fencing [syn: singlestick, fencing stick, backsword]

adj 1: characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor" n 1: a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes 2: acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone

adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy" 2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child" 3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive, spasmodic, spastic] n 1: a person suffering from spastic paralysis

adj 1: being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes"

n 1: a measure or standard used for comparison; "on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?" 2: a ruler or tape that is three feet long [syn: yardstick, yard measure]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages 2: of or near or on the Baltic Sea; "The Baltic republics" n 1: a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy [syn: Baltic, Baltic Sea] 2: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto- Indo European [syn: Baltic, Baltic language]

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the Celts [syn: Celtic, Gaelic] n 1: a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era [syn: Celtic, Celtic language]

adj 1: of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) 2: capable of being taken apart; "the professor had a clastic model of the human brain"

adj 1: relating to or evidencing dysplasia

adj 1: formally expressing praise [syn: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical]