Words that rhyme with chersonese

v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease] 3: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]

n 1: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck" [syn: breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air] 2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake] v 1: blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the shore" 2: to proceed quickly and easily

n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk 2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris] v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!" 2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"

v 1: give displeasure to [ant: delight, please]

n 1: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness, difficulty] 2: a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world" [syn: ease, comfort] 3: the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease" [syn: relief, ease] 4: freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers" [syn: ease, informality] 5: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest, ease, repose, relaxation] v 1: move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair" 2: lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs" [syn: comfort, ease] 3: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate] 4: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay, relieve, ease]

n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid [syn: freeze, freezing] 2: weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze, frost] 3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: freeze, halt] 4: fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring" v 1: stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze" [syn: freeze, stop dead] 2: change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" [ant: boil] 3: be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on" 4: cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food" 5: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze, suspend] 6: be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo" 7: change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" [syn: freeze, freeze out, freeze down] 8: prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: free, release, unblock, unfreeze] 9: anesthetize by cold 10: suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"

n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage

n 1: a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)

n 1: a swing used by circus acrobats

n 1: breathing with a husky or whistling sound 2: (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat" v 1: breathe with difficulty

adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan] n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system 2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Myanmar 2: the official language of Burma

adj 1: of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants; "Maltese customs officers" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Malta 2: the national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French [syn: Maltese, Maltese language, Malti] 3: a term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any short-haired bluish-grey cat [syn: Maltese, Maltese cat] 4: breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat [syn: Maltese dog, Maltese terrier, Maltese]

n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn: cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]

n 1: the Indonesian language of the people of Bali

n 1: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China [syn: Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; "the Japanese Emperor"; "Japanese cars" [syn: Japanese, Nipponese] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Japan [syn: Japanese, Nipponese] 2: the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language; "Javanese temples"; "Javanese dialects" [syn: Javanese, Javan] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Java [syn: Javanese, Javan] 2: the Indonesian language spoken on Java

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; "Siamese kings"; "different Thai tribes live in the north" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese] 2: of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese] 3: of or relating to Thailand; "the Thai border with Laos" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese] n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Thai, Siamese, Central Thai] 2: a native or inhabitant of Thailand [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese] 3: an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building [syn: siamese, siamese connection] 4: a slender short-haired blue-eyed breed of cat having a pale coat with dark ears paws face and tail tip [syn: Siamese cat, Siamese]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people; "the Sudanese desert" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Sudan

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Taiwan 2: any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province [syn: Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Bhutan or its people or culture or language; "Bhutanese Buddhists" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bhutan [syn: Bhutanese, Bhutani]

adj 1: of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture; "Sri Lankan beaches"; "Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels" [syn: Sri Lankan, Ceylonese]

adj 1: of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants; "Gabonese hills"; "Gabonese writers" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Gabon

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Milan or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Milan

n 1: a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle [syn: Pekinese, Pekingese, Peke]

n 1: a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle [syn: Pekinese, Pekingese, Peke]

n 1: a chain of mountains between France and Spain

n 1: the Indonesian language spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands

n 1: tortoises and turtles [syn: Chelonia, order Chelonia, Testudinata, order Testudinata, Testudines, order Testudines]

n 1: an ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC)

n 1: a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)

n 1: an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)

n 1: Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)

n 1: (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith