Words that rhyme with breslau

• allow 0
  v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 2: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 3: let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow, grant] [ant: deny, refuse] 4: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 5: make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, allow, provide] 6: allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: allow, take into account] 7: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 8: allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up, allow] 9: grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]
• are 0
  n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
• avow 0
  v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow, avouch] [ant: disavow]
• baa 0
  n 1: the cry made by sheep v 1: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]
• bar 0
  n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]
• blah 0
  n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
• bough 0
  n 1: any of the larger branches of a tree
• bow 0
  n 1: a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces [syn: bow, bowknot] 2: a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments 3: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 4: a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow 5: something curved in shape [syn: bow, arc] 6: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting [syn: bow, bowing, obeisance] 7: an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience [syn: bow, curtain call] 8: a decorative interlacing of ribbons 9: a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments v 1: bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame" [syn: bow, bow down] 2: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer, accede, give in] 3: bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting; "He bowed before the King" 4: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" [syn: crouch, stoop, bend, bow] 5: play on a string instrument with a bow
• bra 0
  n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
• brow 0
  n 1: the part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow, forehead] 2: the arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, brow, supercilium] 3: the peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" [syn: hilltop, brow]
• car 0
  n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]
• char 0
  n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
• chow 0
  n 1: the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism [syn: Zhou, Zhou dynasty, Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow, Chow dynasty] 2: informal terms for a meal [syn: chow, chuck, eats, grub] 3: breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China [syn: chow, chow chow]
• cow 0
  n 1: female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term" [syn: cow, moo-cow] 2: mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' 3: a large unpleasant woman v 1: subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) [syn: overawe, cow]
• disallow 0
  v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]
• disavow 0
  v 1: refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children" [ant: avouch, avow]
• endow 0
  v 1: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue] 2: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: endow, dower]
• far 0
  adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]
• gar 0
  n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]
• ha 0
  n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]
• jar 0
  n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"
• la 0
  n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
• lough 0
  n 1: a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland 2: Irish word for a lake
• ma 0
  n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
• mar 0
  n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]
• meow 0
  n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul] v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew]
• now 0
  adv 1: in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events; "President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard"; "Washington now decides to cross the Delaware"; "the ship is now listing to port" 2: in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television" [syn: nowadays, now, today] 3: used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention" 4: at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time now" [syn: now, at present] 5: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] 6: (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..." 7: in the immediate past; "told me just now" n 1: the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
• pa 0
  n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]
• par 0
  n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par
• pas 0
  n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
• prow 0
  n 1: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem]
• scar 0
  n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]
• schwa 0
  n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]
• scow 0
  n 1: any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends 2: a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold
• shah 0
  n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]
• snowplough 0
  n 1: a vehicle used to push snow from roads [syn: snowplow, snowplough]
• spa 0
  n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]
• spar 0
  n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
• star 0
  adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]
• tar 0
  n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
• thou 0
  n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]
• tsar 0
  n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]
• vow 0
  n 1: a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "they took vows of poverty" v 1: make a vow; promise; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again" 2: dedicate to a deity by a vow [syn: vow, consecrate]
• wow 0
  n 1: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot] v 1: impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience"
• parr 0
  n 1: Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) [syn: Parr, Catherine Parr] 2: a young salmon up to 2 years old 3: the young of various fishes
• r 0
  n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R] 2: (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole [syn: gas constant, universal gas constant, R] 3: the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: R, r] 4: the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]
• starr 0
  n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn: Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]
• ka 0
  n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
• ta 0
  n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]
• fao 0
  n 1: the United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture [syn: Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO]
• frau 0
  n 1: a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman
• hao 0
  n 1: 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam
• howe 0
  n 1: United States editor (1920-1993) [syn: Howe, Irving Howe] 2: Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928) [syn: Howe, Gordie Howe, Gordon Howe] 3: United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910) [syn: Howe, Julia Ward Howe] 4: United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867) [syn: Howe, Elias Howe]
• lao 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand n 1: a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais [syn: Lao, Laotian] 2: the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos
• mao 0
  n 1: an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin) [syn: monoamine oxidase, MAO] 2: Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) [syn: Mao, Mao Zedong, Mao Tsetung]
• pow 0
  n 1: a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war [syn: prisoner of war, POW]
• tao 0
  n 1: an adherent of any branch of Taoism [syn: Taoist, Tao] 2: the ultimate principle of the universe
• macao 0
  n 1: a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999 [syn: Macao, Macau]
• dah 0
  n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dash, dah]
• fa 0
  n 1: the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
• kwa 0
  n 1: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
• pya 0
  n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar
• shwa 0
  n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]
• moire 0
  adj 1: (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern [syn: moire, watered] n 1: silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern [syn: moire, watered-silk]
• charr 0
  n 1: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr]
• guar 0
  n 1: drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material [syn: guar, cluster bean, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, Cyamopsis psoraloides]
• maar 0
  n 1: a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water
• plow 0
  n 1: a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing [syn: plow, plough] v 1: to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring" [syn: plow, plough, turn] 2: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 3: move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water" [syn: plow, plough]
• pilau 0
  n 1: rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaf, pilaff, pilau, pilaw]
• palau 0
  n 1: a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States [syn: Palau, Republic of Palau, TT] 2: a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean [syn: Palau, Palau Islands, Belau, Pelew]
• loire 0
  n 1: the longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean [syn: Loire, Loire River]
• lah 0
  n 1: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
• aah 0
  v 1: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents" [syn: ooh, aah]
• ah 0
• bah 0
• hah 0
• how 0
• knar 0
• our 0
• qua 0
• rah 0
• yah 0
• barre 0
• barr 0
• carr 0
• haar 0
• maher 0
• marr 0
• saar 0
• thar 0
• kerr 0
• cha 0
• farr 0
• aue 0
• dow 0
• lau 0
• fra 0
• kra 0
• pah 0
• tahr 0

See also breslau definition and breslau synonyms