Words that rhyme with champleve

  • convey
    v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the message to me" 2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: transmit a title or property 5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take] 7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
  • duvet
    n 1: a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: eiderdown, duvet, continental quilt]
  • inveigh
    v 1: complain bitterly [syn: rail, inveigh] 2: speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society" [syn: declaim, inveigh]
  • levee
    n 1: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) 2: a pier that provides a landing place on a river 3: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
  • pave
    n 1: a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows v 1: cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village"
  • purvey
    v 1: supply with provisions [syn: provision, purvey]
  • repay
    v 1: pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: refund, return, repay, give back] 2: make repayment for or return something [syn: requite, repay] 3: act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions [syn: reward, repay, pay back] 4: answer back [syn: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin]
  • replay
    n 1: something (especially a game) that is played again [syn: replay, rematch] 2: the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape [syn: replay, instant replay, action replay] v 1: reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent" [syn: play back, replay] 2: play (a melody) again 3: repeat a game against the same opponent; "Princeton replayed Harvard" 4: play again; "We replayed the game"; "replay a point"
  • say
    n 1: the chance to speak; "let him have his say" v 1: express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell] 2: report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege, aver, say] 3: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" [syn: suppose, say] 4: have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: read, say] 5: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say] 6: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 7: communicate or express nonverbally; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" 8: utter aloud; "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office" 9: state as one's opinion or judgement; declare; "I say let's forget this whole business" 10: recite or repeat a fixed text; "Say grace"; "She said her `Hail Mary'" 11: indicate; "The clock says noon"
  • slay
    v 1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove]
  • sleigh
    n 1: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh] v 1: ride (on) a sled [syn: sled, sleigh]
  • soiree
    n 1: a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house)
  • spray
    n 1: a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying 2: a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets" [syn: spray, spraying] 3: flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage 4: a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist [syn: atomizer, atomiser, spray, sprayer, nebulizer, nebuliser] 5: water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall 6: a jet of vapor v 1: be discharged in sprays of liquid; "Water sprayed all over the floor" 2: scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; "spray water on someone"; "spray paint on the wall" 3: cover by spraying with a liquid; "spray the wall with paint"
  • stay
    n 1: continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four- month stay in bankruptcy court" 2: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage] 3: a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" 4: a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) 5: (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar v 1: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, remain, rest] [ant: change] 2: stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" [syn: stay, stick, stick around, stay put] [ant: move] 3: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, abide, stay] 4: continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue, remain] 5: remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" [ant: depart, quit, take leave] 6: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay] 7: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay] 8: hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" [syn: last out, stay, ride out, outride] 9: stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order" 10: fasten with stays 11: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease]
  • stray
    adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: isolated, stray] 2: (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home; "a stray calf"; "a stray dog" n 1: an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 2: wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" [syn: stray, err, drift] 3: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander]
  • survey
    n 1: a detailed critical inspection [syn: survey, study] 2: short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume] 3: the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight] v 1: consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: survey, appraise] 2: look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates" 3: keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey] 4: hold a review (of troops) [syn: review, go over, survey] 5: make a survey of; for statistical purposes 6: plot a map of (land)
  • sway
    n 1: controlling influence 2: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway, tilt] v 1: move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet" [syn: rock, sway, shake] 2: move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back" [syn: swing, sway] 3: win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters" [syn: carry, persuade, sway] 4: cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently" [syn: rock, sway]
  • today
    adv 1: 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] 2: on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" n 1: the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers" 2: the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
  • toupee
    n 1: a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness [syn: toupee, toupe]
  • tray
    n 1: an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
  • trey
    n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three]
  • underplay
    v 1: act (a role) with great restraint [syn: underact, underplay] [ant: ham, ham it up, overact, overplay] 2: play a card lower than (a held high card)
  • underway
    adj 1: currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway" [syn: afoot(p), underway]
  • valet
    n 1: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] v 1: serve as a personal attendant to
  • way
    adv 1: to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on" [syn: way, right smart] n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion] 2: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" [syn: means, agency, way] 3: a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home" [syn: direction, way] 4: the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way" 5: a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: way, path, way of life] 6: any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out" 7: a journey or passage; "they are on the way" 8: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room] 9: the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways" 10: doing as one pleases or chooses; "if I had my way" 11: a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing" 12: a portion of something divided into shares; "they split the loot three ways"
  • weigh
    v 1: have a certain weight 2: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" [syn: consider, count, weigh] 3: determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken" [syn: weigh, librate] 4: have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" [syn: count, matter, weigh] 5: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind" [syn: weigh, press]
  • whey
    n 1: the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese [syn: whey, milk whey] 2: watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"
  • yea
    adv 1: not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice" [syn: yea, yeah] n 1: an affirmative; "The yeas have it" [ant: nay]
  • ne
    n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number 10] 2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward, NE] 3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE]
  • neve
    n 1: the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
  • risque
    adj 1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
  • corvee
    n 1: unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
  • resurvey
    n 1: a new survey or study
  • solvay
    n 1: Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) [syn: Solvay, Ernest Solvay]
  • aye
  • they
  • ay
  • ae
  • beauvais
  • mcvay
  • mcvey
  • ave
  • chevet
  • cuvee
  • releve

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