Words that rhyme with cherenkov

n 1: the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) [syn: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif] 2: a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law v 1: cover with a coif 2: arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn: dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure]

n 1: a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis [syn: cough, coughing] v 1: exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; "The smoker coughs all day"

v 1: remove; "He doffed his hat"

adv 1: of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic"

adv 1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth] 2: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century" [syn: off, away] 3: no longer on or in contact or attached; "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache" adj 1: not in operation or operational; "the oven is off"; "the lights are off" [ant: on] 2: below a satisfactory level; "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off" 3: (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; "the wedding is definitely off" [syn: off, cancelled] [ant: on] 4: in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" [syn: off, sour, turned] 5: not performing or scheduled for duties; "He's off every Tuesday" 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]

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]

n 1: a hearty draft v 1: to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers" [syn: gulp, quaff, swig]

n 1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing] v 1: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe] 2: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" [syn: scoff, flout]

n 1: a departure; especially of airplanes 2: the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne 3: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on] 4: humorous or satirical mimicry [syn: parody, mockery, takeoff]

adv 1: of or concerning this or that; "a problem and the solution thereof" 2: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom, thereof]

n 1: informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person [syn: toff, nob]

n 1: a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) 2: a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater [syn: gutter, trough] 3: a concave shape with an open top [syn: bowl, trough] 4: a treasury for government funds [syn: public treasury, trough, till] 5: a long narrow shallow receptacle 6: a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed [syn: manger, trough]

n 1: an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula [syn: Cracow, Krakow, Krakau]

n 1: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992) [syn: Asimov, Isaac Asimov]

n 1: Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948) [syn: Baryshnikov, Mikhail Baryshnikov]

n 1: Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904) [syn: Chekhov, Chekov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov]

n 1: Soviet statesman (1890-1986) [syn: Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov] 2: a city in the European part of Russia [syn: Perm, Molotov]

n 1: Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951) [syn: Karpov, Anatoli Karpov, Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov]

n 1: Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963) [syn: Kasparov, Gary Kasparov, Gary Weinstein]

n 1: United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977) [syn: Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir vladimirovich Nabokov]

n 1: a type of submachine gun made in Russia

n 1: (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score 2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle] 3: a start given to contestants; "I was there with my parents at the kickoff" [syn: kickoff, send-off, start-off]

n 1: a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia [syn: Romanov, Romanoff] 2: the Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917 [syn: Romanov, Romanoff]

n 1: Russian writer (1814-1841) [syn: Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov]

n 1: German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887) [syn: Kirchhoff, G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff]

n 1: Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936) [syn: Pavlov, Ivan Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov]

n 1: Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989) [syn: Sakharov, Andrei Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov]

n 1: British actor and playwright (1921-2004) [syn: Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov]

n 1: a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine [syn: Kharkov, Kharkiv]

n 1: Soviet general who during World Warr II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974) [syn: Zhukov, Georgi Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov]