Words that rhyme with butte

• toot 5
  n 1: a blast of a horn 2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
• brute 3
  adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]
• absolute 0
  adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" [ant: comparative, relative] 2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)] 3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch" 4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority" 5: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable] n 1: something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
• acute 0
  adj 1: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" [ant: chronic] 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense] 3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 4: of an angle; less than 90 degrees [ant: obtuse] 5: ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike] 6: of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds" n 1: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute, ague]
• arrowroot 0
  n 1: a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant 2: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch [syn: arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae] 3: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: achira, indian shot, arrowroot, Canna indica, Canna edulis]
• astute 0
  adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd]
• attribute 0
  n 1: a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" [syn: property, attribute, dimension] 2: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 2: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: assign, attribute]
• bloodroot 0
  n 1: perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant [syn: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis]
• boot 0
  n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]
• breadfruit 0
  n 1: native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread [syn: breadfruit, breadfruit tree, Artocarpus communis, Artocarpus altilis] 2: a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
• bruit 0
  v 1: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour, bruit]
• brut 0
  adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry
• chute 0
  n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]
• commute 0
  n 1: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute" v 1: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 2: travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home 3: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 4: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, convert, exchange] 5: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute, convert]
• compute 0
  v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure]
• constitute 0
  v 1: 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] 2: create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: appoint, name, nominate, constitute] 3: to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" [syn: form, constitute, make] 4: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: establish, found, plant, constitute, institute]
• contribute 0
  v 1: bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring] 2: contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office" [syn: contribute, give, chip in, kick in] 3: be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" [syn: contribute, lead, conduce] 4: provide; "The city has to put up half the required amount" [syn: put up, contribute]
• convolute 0
  adj 1: rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal" [syn: convolute, convoluted] v 1: curl, wind, or twist together [syn: convolve, convolute] 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate]
• coot 0
  n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
• cute 0
  adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]
• depute 0
  v 1: transfer power to someone [syn: delegate, depute] 2: appoint as a substitute [syn: depute, deputize, deputise] 3: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign]
• destitute 0
  adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken] 2: 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]
• dilute 0
  adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" [syn: diluted, dilute] [ant: undiluted] v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut] 2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
• dispute 0
  n 1: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict] 2: coming into conflict with [syn: dispute, contravention] v 1: take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: challenge, dispute, gainsay] 2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
• disrepute 0
  n 1: the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute" [syn: disrepute, discredit] [ant: reputation, repute]
• distribute 0
  v 1: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" [syn: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out] 2: distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" [syn: spread, distribute] [ant: collect, garner, gather, pull together] 3: make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia" 4: give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" [syn: distribute, give out, hand out, pass out] 5: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute] 6: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around] 7: spread throughout a given area; "the function distributes the values evenly" 8: be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses; "Values distribute" 9: be mathematically distributive 10: to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" [syn: stagger, distribute]
• flute 0
  n 1: a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown [syn: flute, transverse flute] 2: a tall narrow wineglass [syn: flute, flute glass, champagne flute] 3: a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) [syn: flute, fluting] v 1: form flutes in
• fruit 0
  n 1: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant 2: an amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit] 3: the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" v 1: cause to bear fruit 2: bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
• grapefruit 0
  n 1: citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp [syn: grapefruit, Citrus paradisi] 2: large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half
• hirsute 0
  adj 1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" [syn: hairy, haired, hirsute] [ant: hairless]
• hoot 0
  n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) 2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] 3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance" 2: utter the characteristic sound of owls
• impute 0
  v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
• jackboot 0
  n 1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: Hessian boot, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, Wellington boot]
• jute 0
  n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks 2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
• knout 0
  n 1: a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
• lawsuit 0
  n 1: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa]
• loot 0
  n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder] 2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
• lute 0
  n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute, luting] 2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear- shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
• minute 0
  adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" [syn: infinitesimal, minute] 2: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" [syn: minute, narrow] n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: minute, min] 2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment, mo, minute, second, bit] 3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant] 4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn: minute, arcminute, minute of arc] 5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" 6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: hour, minute]
• moot 0
  adj 1: of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) 2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, moot] n 1: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate]
• mute 0
  adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless] 2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent] n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: mute, deaf- mute, deaf-and-dumb person] 2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
• newt 0
  n 1: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia [syn: newt, triton]
• offshoot 0
  n 1: a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset]
• pantsuit 0
  n 1: a pair of pants and a matching jacket worn by women [syn: pants suit, pantsuit]
• permute 0
  v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose]
• pollute 0
  v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
• pursuit 0
  n 1: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" [syn: pursuit, chase, pursual, following] 2: a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth" [syn: pursuit, pursuance, quest] 3: an auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity] 4: a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits" [syn: pastime, interest, pursuit]
• recruit 0
  n 1: a recently enlisted soldier [syn: recruit, military recruit] 2: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: recruit, enlistee] v 1: register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit] 2: seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants" 3: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]
• redistribute 0
  v 1: distribute anew; "redistribute the troops more strategically"
• refute 0
  v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut, controvert]
• repute 0
  n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute] v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be]
• root 0
  n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 2: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number 5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root] 6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant, descendent] 7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root] 8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support [syn: root, tooth root] v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" 2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression" 3: plant by the roots 4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle] 5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down] 6: cause to take roots
• route 0
  n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] 2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route] v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations 2: send via a specific route 3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
• salute 0
  n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute, salutation] 2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute, military greeting] 3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me" 3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!" 4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils" 5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers 6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
• scoot 0
  v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot]
• shoot 0
  n 1: a new branch 2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] 2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip] 3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot] 4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take] 5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance" 6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot] 7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck] 8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" 9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot] 10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" 11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg" 12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot] 13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth" 14: throw dice, as in a crap game 15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away] 16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" 17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer" 18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star" 19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
• snakeroot 0
  n 1: a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn: sanicle, snakeroot] 2: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads [syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay- feather, snakeroot]
• snoot 0
  n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot] 2: informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz]
• spacesuit 0
  n 1: a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space
• suit 0
  n 1: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit, suit of clothes] 2: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa] 3: (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" 4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing, courting, suit] 5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank 6: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?" v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me" 3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem] 4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
• swimsuit 0
  n 1: tight fitting garment worn for swimming [syn: swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume]
• taproot 0
  n 1: (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem 2: something that provides an important central source for growth or development; "the taproot of his resentment"; "genius and insanity spring from the same taproot"
• transmute 0
  v 1: change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" [syn: transform, transmute, metamorphose] 2: change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another" [syn: transform, transmute, transubstantiate] 3: alter the nature of (elements)
• tribute 0
  n 1: something given or done as an expression of esteem [syn: tribute, testimonial] 2: payment by one nation for protection by another 3: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection" [syn: protection, tribute]
• uproot 0
  v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate] 3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]
• volute 0
  adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] n 1: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: spiral, volute] 2: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix]
• scute 0
  n 1: large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
• shute 0
  n 1: English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) [syn: Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway]
• beirut 0
  n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut, capital of Lebanon]
• cahoot 0
  n 1: collusion; "in cahoots with"
• subacute 0
  adj 1: less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it
• beaut 0
  n 1: an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut" [syn: beauty, beaut]
• ute 0
  n 1: a member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico 2: the Shoshonean language spoken by the Utes
• aleut 0
  n 1: a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska [syn: Aleut, Aleutian] 2: a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically" 3: the language spoken by the Aleut
• paiute 0
  n 1: a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States [syn: Paiute, Piute] 2: the Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute
• outshoot 0
• reroute 0
• thuot 0
• bluett 0
• bluitt 0
• boote 0
• boutte 0
• bute 0
• clute 0
• coote 0
• crute 0
• fluet 0
• groot 0
• huett 0
• huette 0
• huitt 0
• juett 0
• klute 0
• knute 0
• nute 0
• pruett 0
• puett 0
• schuett 0
• schuette 0
• smoot 0

See also butte definition