Words that rhyme with brassey

n 1: an appraisal of the state of affairs; "they made an assay of the contents"; "a check on its dependability under stress" [syn: assay, check] 2: a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components 3: a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance 4: a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc. v 1: analyze (chemical substances) 2: make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay]

adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: brassy, brasslike] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy] 3: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

n 1: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh] 2: a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device 3: the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor

adj 1: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: classy, posh, swish]

adj 1: resembling gas 2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky, flatulent, gassy]

adj 1: resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather 2: (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn: glassy, glazed] 3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]

adj 1: abounding in grass [ant: grassless]

n 1: a girl or young woman who is unmarried [syn: lass, lassie, young girl, jeune fille]

adj 1: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise]

adj 1: cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise" [syn: rubbishy, trashy] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

n 1: (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon

adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]

n 1: a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball [syn: masse, masse shot]

n 1: the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj- ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal [syn: Plassey, battle of Plassey]

n 1: tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery [syn: huisache, cassie, mimosa bush, sweet wattle, sweet acacia, scented wattle, flame tree, Acacia farnesiana]

n 1: capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida [syn: Tallahassee, capital of Florida]